Living La Vita Loca

How 'theft' is your 'auto'? Is it 'Big' Theft Auto? Is it 'Large' Theft Auto?! Perhaps you might even describe it as 'Grand' Theft Auto?!Well not us! We like 'Petite enough to fit in your hand' Theft Auto. Whilst most gamers are counting down the hours until they can get their grubby, filthy, dirty, mucky hobbit-like mitts on GTA VI, we've got ours gripped firmly on our handheld gaming devices once again...All eyes are on Vice City right now and it looks like the LLVL boys may have missed the train as they are still lolligagging about in Liberty City in their review section.Prior to those reviews, we spend some layover time discussing 'What does GTA mean to us in 2026'? Are we excited? Are we over it? Are we both?!? What does the series mean to us and why are we so conflicted about it?(Time stamp: 00:00 - 22:00)Now about those game reviews...While poor Rich is left languishing around in 1999's Grand Theft Auto (Game Boy Colour), Fazz is fully engaged in some Chinatown Wars (2009, PSP). (GTA GBC Time stamp: 22:00 - 41:00(GTA CW Time stamp: 41:00 - End)Will we make it down to Leonida in time for next week's GRAND reveal? All we had to do was follow the damn train!

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are!The games we've picked out for random review this week are:• Avenging Spirit (1991, Arcade via Evercade)• Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 acre wood (2000, Game Boy Colour)Important questions posed this week are:- Possession consent? Who needs to provide it?!- Why is a 38 year old man struggling to catch acorns?- Won't somebody please think of the children?!? (and get them off these 'infinite runner' trash games!)- Where is Link's grandmother? We're still looking...All this and more on this week's Living La Vita Loca podcast. Enjoy.

Ahhh 'Castle Chat'... Is there any better building based banter?! We assume that 500 years ago, people loved a bit of castle joshing about who has the best turrets in town and times haven't changed! We're all over such important topics on this week's episode.Maybe you love the idea of a trip to central Romania to visit 'Bran Castle' with the Belmonts? Rich has chosen this exploratory route through Europe with a 'Castlevania: The Adventure' package. (1989, Nintendo Game Boy) He'd best be careful though, those local merch salesmen will suck you dry...Review Timestamp 05:25-23:05If thats not for you, how about a sojourn to rural Spain to explore 'Salazar Castle'? Fazz opts for the popular 'Resident Evil 4 Remake' excursion bundle (2023, PS5). It's his first time on this particular tour so let's hope he realises 'Las Plagas' isn't some sort of local delicacy before it's too late...Review Timestamp 23:05-EndEnjoy this weeks episode of 'Dying la Mortuus Loca'. Muhahahaha!

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are!The games we've picked out for random review this week are:• Metal Wolf Chaos XD (2004/2019, Steam)Timestamp: (03:15 - 21:00)• Limbo (2010, XBLA)Timestamp: (21:00 - 42:35)• Inside (2016, Xbox One)Timestamp: (42:35 - End)As far as we're concerned, ALL of the above video games are artistic masterpieces in one form or another but can you work out which one we think was drawn up by a 7 year old?!Prepare to be pleasantly surprised... Enjoy the pod.

Last week was 'Obscure October' on LLVL podcast. This week it's 'Handheld Halloween' as we take our PSP/PS Vita's for a scary spin around the neighbourhood. Will our review pairing be a trick or treat?Firstly, we chat about our favourite Halloween memories decide we don't really have any! We also briefly check in on the state of the PlayStation TV in 2026.(Timestamp: 00:00 - 08:00)As for reviews, Rich heads over to one of FromSoftware's scariest video game entries EVER... Armored Core 3 (2009, PSP). The game may not be set in Lordran, Dranglec or Lotrhic but what could be more frightening than a poorly realised handheld port where AI rules a post-apocalyptic world?!(Timestamp: 08:00 - 29:30)After we just about escape the previous haunting critique, we take a trip down to the pumpkin patch which just so happens to be the much more jovial setting of Halloween Forever (2016, PS Vita). Part 'Ghosts & Goblins', part 'Zombies Ate my Neighbours', does this homemade indie fill Fazz full of spooky spirit? (Timestamp: 29:30 - End)Don't ghost this one... Enjoy the pod!

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are!The games we've picked out for random review this week are:• Water Margin: A Tale of Clouds & Wind (1996, Sega Mega Drive via Evercade)• Ghosthunter (2003, PS2)We've hit spooky season guys and we all know what that means when it comes to video game reviews right? That's right... it's #obscureoctober!How obscure do you like your video games? How about an unlicensed Sega Mega Drive game that was only initially released in Far Eastern markets and has finally found a home on Steam & Evercade? Enter Water Margin: A Tale of Cloud & Winds (1996, Sega Mega Drive), a side scrolling beat 'em up with magic elements that Debbie McGee would be proud of. Timestamp (04:30-17:00)If that doesn't tickle your fancy, how about Ghosthunter (2003, PS2), one of the best looking PS2 games you've probably never played. Is it still pretty in 2026? Yes. Is it still pretty crappy in 2026? Ahem... Timestamp (17:00-End)Why not find out on this week's episode of the most obscure video games podcast sat in your podfeed?Living la what now??? Enjoy the pod.

Wallace Wells: "Hey, Jimmy do these guys rock or suck?"Jimmy: "They have not started [podcasting] yet..."Wallace Wells: "That was a test Jimmy, and you passed"---Side scrolling 'Beat 'em ups' kick ass. We're in lesbians with them. First up, Fazz enters the subspace highway between your ears to plant a review of 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - Complete Edition' (2021, Nintendo Switch). Does the movie tie-in video game do a great job of rounding out the Scott Pilgrim media empire or does it simply deserve a roundhouse kick to the face?Timestamp (02:10 - 36:20)Next, Rich returns to River City after resolving a difficult ransom situation previously. This time, he's dealing with something far more dangerous... the relationship travails of a pair of teenage girls! Fortunately, the 'River City Girls' (2019, Xbox One) are out to kick some serious butt of their own. Timestamp (36:20 - 58:15)Finally, Rich gives us a punchy rundown of some of the best 'Beat 'em Up' video games that are kicking about out there. Timestamp (58:15 - End)Enjoy the pod!

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are!The games we've picked out for random review this week are:• Ridge Racer V (2000, PS2)• Heading Out (2024, PS5)What?! Ridge racer? Again?? Literally 3 episodes later?!?Look, we've told you guys a dozen of times, this is just a place where we record our thoughts on video games and it's actually your own fault if you happen to listen to us. Read the small print people!Whilst you do that, why not listen to Rich help Fazz tackle some 25 year old suppressed memories locked away in 'Ridge Racer V'?(03:05-27:30)Okay, okay... if you're truly done with Ridge Racer now, how about a completely different type of racing game where you actually spend most of your time engaged in a fantastical narrative adventure with roguelite elements? Good, we have your attention once more!Jump in the passenger seat as we out run our fears/weird accidental wrestling bouts together in the intriguing indie 'Heading Out'.(27:30-End)Enjoy the pod!Small print: Never promise to be any good at anything EVER. You'll only disappoint people as much as we disappoint you on a weekly basis.

Dear listener... we really need your help...​It’s pretty hard to link a marginalised 2004 PSP launch title with a massive 2017 PS4 flagship adventure. The good ship 'Podblurb' is heading straight through choppy seas and taking on water fast!​Think... think... Ooh, wait. Seas? Ships?? PORTS?!? It’s tenuous, but grab a lifejacket, it’ll have to do!​Rich takes us back to 'Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower' (2004, PSP), a port of the Japan-exclusive Dreamcast fighter 'Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service' (snappy name). Never heard of it? Rich is about to right that wrong for you. He’s kind like that.​Then, Fazz dives into a port you’ve definitely heard of... Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (2024, PS5). Okay, fine, it’s a port/remaster hybrid thingy, but these segue seas are rough! You gotta let us off. You’re kind like that.​Fazz has several burning questions: Why did this game need an overhaul just seven years after launch? Does Sony really view 'Horizon' as a primary pillar of Playstation brand? And why is a best-selling newer original IP actually divisive amongst modern gamers?​Now... how do we sink this doomed port promo once and for all? ​Erm... Cheeky Vimto anyone?!

"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone boldly gone before"That 5 year mission has actually lasted 60 years Kirky boy. Let's hope someone has emptied the septic tank in the toilet by now...To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the airing of Star Trek: The Original Series (8th Sept 1966), we have seconded a far more competent leader to our crew deck this week.Captain Fiona has boarded USS La Vita to provide a Star Trek 101 (1701? Apparently that's cool) lesson to the usual waster crew members who just hang out on the poop deck playing video games. To help facilitate the boot camp, Fiona has chosen to review Star Trek Resurgence (2023, Steam) which is rarer than a collectible Star Trek Astrotank due to being delisted from most digital storefronts recently. Is it still worth seeking out this oddity to play?Chief Engineer Rich does at least have a general understanding of Star Trek media. As such, he has chosen to engage with several video game entries to a "minimal" extent.He dips his toes into some timey wimey travel heading back to Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992, PC) and Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002, PC) for a 'wee' bit as Scotty would say.As for Fazz? Well he's a true 'Holodeck Filter Cleaner'. Absolutely zero idea what is going on. We're not sure he even knows what a 'trek' is? Further studies of his idiocy are underway as we speak..Interested in listening to this episode of Living La Vita Loca? Click the play button and make it bloody so...