

Into the Aether - A Low Key Video Game Podcast
Stephen Hilger + Brendon Bigley
A low key video game podcast by Stephen Hilger and Brendon Bigley. Produced by AJ Fillari!
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Apr 3, 2019 • 1h 21min
Game Over, Dad Rock
Games Discussed: Final Fantasy VII (Nintendo Switch), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
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Mar 27, 2019 • 1h 32min
Sekiro: Love and Daunt
The moonlight casts vines of a pale white downwards through low hanging clouds of the night sky. Reeds sway eastward with the wind. In a nearby structure, bystanders peer through gaps in shutters at the two figures standing on opposite ends of the plateau. All is silent, save for a slight babbling stream nearby. The two figures used to play there, together, as children. Back then, war was just a story told by grandfathers, a warning to future generations to avoid passing to the realm of their ancestors carrying with them the weight of the same regrets.
The two figures are cold and tempered. They wait for one slight twitch before springing into action, eyeing one another in anticipation for their inevitable clash. Only one will survive, and the winner is obvious to all who stand idly by:
The one-armed wolf is here, and he's slathered in barbecue sauce.
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Games Discussed: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
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Mar 20, 2019 • 1h 4min
It's Warmer Today, Alright
Ganon's done a lot of harm in this world. He's ripped families apart, decimated the homes of the Hylian people, eradicated those who stood for peace and hope and prosperity. Zelda has been in a calamitous and ongoing battle against him for a century, and I mean that quite literally. I'm doing everything I can on my own to build up the strength to help, but first I need to go out in the desert and flex a bit in my boxers. It's warmer today, alright?
Games Discussed: Baba Is You, Destiny 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Mar 13, 2019 • 59min
Tom Clancy's Pro Skater
He's back for one last 900.
Games Discussed: Ape Out, The Division 2, Xbox Game Pass
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Mar 6, 2019 • 1h 19min
Third Grade PikaBlues
I arrive on the playground every day carrying my tomes of Prima Strategy Guides and printouts from GameFaqs. I sit atop the slide like a mad king as peasants bring their GameBoy Colors and crowd around the rungs, eager to climb up and allow me to bless them with my wisdom. I tell them "Nay, you must climb the slide to speak to me. The ladder's rungs are for I alone to climb." They only make it halfway up before the slide takes hold of them; and like a bowling ball they careen down into the masses of other third graders hoping to glimpse into my stack of parchment. I often whisper rumors, like deleting your save file will allow you to capture Mew, like speaking to the phone one million times will bring Ness' father back. They listen to me, because I am the keeper of knowledge, and nobody else has enough room in their backpack to challenge me.
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Games Discussed: Apex Legends, Pokemon Sword & Shield, Final Fantasy IX
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Things Discussed: Stephen thought Crash Bandicoot was real, Third Grade, possible Apex Legends characters, every Pokemon starter, what Pokemon could we feel okay about eating, Pokemon Sword & Shield, Gex, Crash Bandicoot Returns), Fangamer dot com is not a pyramid scheme, Final Fantasy IX, cheat codes are okay, card games
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Feb 27, 2019 • 49min
The 9th Final Fantasy
Game Discussed: Final Fantasy IX (Switch Release)
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Feb 20, 2019 • 1h 25min
80s Synth Hell
It is 198X and Mountain Dew drips from every surface, clinging like a parasite to its host. It is a green haze that looms wide over this city, and citizens cover their mouths with masks to filter the Dew from the clean air trapped underneath its disgusting weight. This is the future Caustic always dreamed of, growing up. It is what he has been working towards. This is his twisted utopia, his 80s Synth Hell.
Games Discussed: Apex Legends, February 2019 Nintendo Direct
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Feb 13, 2019 • 1h 27min
I am the Jumpmaster, I am 300 Crabs
Have you ever felt like you weren't yourself? You look in the mirror and the passage of time has presented you with a face that feels like an Other? Maybe it's what's inside that's different. Maybe the things you've experienced have changed you. Maybe you've become 300 crabs inhabiting the corporeal form of Captain Jack Sparrow. It happens to everyone, eventually.
Games Discussed: Apex Legends, Anthem (Beta), Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
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Feb 6, 2019 • 1h 30min
Kingdom Hearts 3, and II.9 Too
Stephen & Brendon,
Sorry to rush off without sayin' goodbye, but there's big trouble brewin'. Not sure why, but the stars have been blinkin' out, one by one. And that means disaster can't be far behind. I hate to leave you all but I've gotta go check into it. There's someone with a "key"—the key to our survival. So I need you and Goofy to find him, and stick with him. Got it? We need that key or we're doomed! So go to Traverse Town and find Leon. He'll point you in the right direction.
P.S. Would ya apologize to Minnie for me?
Thanks, pals.
Gamed Discussed: Kingdom Hearts 3, Wargroove, Downwell, Steep
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Jan 28, 2019 • 1h 21min
Kingdom Hearts and 2, Too
Games Discussed: Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts 3, other Kingdoms's Hearts''s'
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