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This week, at least.

• 5:17 – Lorelai caps off an enjoyable indie adventure game trilogy
• 11:16 – River City Girls is gorgeous and fun but sports some REALLY odd design decisions
• 27:21 – Murder By Numbers is kinda like Professor Layton with Picross puzzles

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:59 PMScrungle Humingsworth​hello

6:59 PMCollin Asmus​Hey just in time

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​hi

6:59 PMotritzu​Good Evening.

6:59 PMScrungle Humingsworth​hey I needed this, good morale booost

7:00 PMScrungle Humingsworth​corona is in my town now

7:00 PMCollin Asmus​When will Zachary come back?

7:00 PMScrungle Humingsworth​lets

7:00 PMSusanne Christ​other dude still isn’t back?!

7:00 PMScrungle Humingsworth​talk

7:00 PMScrungle Humingsworth​VIDYA

7:00 PMSusanne Christ​Corona virus!!

7:01 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I still think discord could still work for a podcast

7:01 PMScrungle Humingsworth​or go back to skype

7:02 PMotritzu​The best of vices

7:02 PMScrungle Humingsworth​only games I’ve bought was the entire alone in the dark franchise

7:02 PMotritzu​…healthiest, maybe, but it’s definitely not cheap.

7:02 PMaddictedtochaos​likewise, buying games is my therapy

7:03 PMCollin Asmus​A game that is worth your time is hotline Miami, it’s on the Nintendo switch along with the second one.

7:03 PMScrungle Humingsworth​it can be cheap, steam sales exist

7:03 PMCollin Asmus​It’s insane, fast paced and you die in one hit.

7:04 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I would suggest the alone in the dark anthology andrew

7:04 PMScrungle Humingsworth​3 of them are DOS games

7:04 PMScrungle Humingsworth​but they’re worth it

7:05 PMSusanne Christ​sue em,!! I can help ^-^

7:05 PMotritzu​One week in business is five days, they don’t do weekends if they can help it.

7:06 PMScrungle Humingsworth​Texas? where exactly?

7:07 PMSusanne Christ​I played switch during my jury duty to!! lol

7:07 PMScrungle Humingsworth​oh you’re safe then

7:07 PMScrungle Humingsworth​current infected cities are Houston and san antonio

7:10 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I got a game called gogo Nippon my first trip to japan

7:10 PMjordan thompson​I’ve been falling back in love with the ps2 and been buying anything cheap or recognizable. been playing a winnie the pooh game that has the atmosphere like silent hill, its pretty trippy.

7:10 PMScrungle Humingsworth​my friend has 3k hours on it

7:10 PMScrungle Humingsworth​so I gotta pump my numbers

7:12 PMSusanne Christ​bendy and the ink machine!

7:13 PMjordan thompson​I’m also playing Superman : Shadow of Apokolips, I’m having Superman 64 flashbacks save me Andrew.

7:16 PMjordan thompson​is it a spiritual successor to river city ransom

7:17 PMjordan thompson​ha you said duty

7:19 PMotritzu​They set up the controls to work with a joycon.

7:20 PMotritzu​Six-ish buttons and a stick.

7:20 PMjordan thompson​does the game not have custom button mapping opinons

7:20 PMotritzu​You do get him when you finish the game the first time.

7:22 PMjordan thompson​double dragon was my favorite beat em up, who owns that I.P. anyway these days

7:24 PMotritzu​It is a staple of the beat-em-up RPG. to keep item descriptions hidden unless you buy one.

7:25 PMjordan thompson​did you hear about the EA FIFA qualifiers glitched out and they finished the game with rock paper scissors.

7:26 PMaddictedtochaos​streets of rage 2 is best beat em up

7:36 PMjordan thompson​id be funny if the character name was Hez Gea

7:40 PMScrungle Humingsworth​on the topic of world burning

7:40 PMScrungle Humingsworth​some dude who was infected was told to self quarantine, but instead went partying

7:40 PMjordan thompson​tacos

7:40 PMSean Hockenbury​have you seen the movie Doctor Sleep?

7:40 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I’m stocked up on food water and ammo

7:41 PMScrungle Humingsworth​ammo just in case I have to left 4 dead some coofers

7:43 PMScrungle Humingsworth​yeah I asked you that

7:43 PMjordan thompson​if it hits the fan just imagine being one of the only heathly humans left …. thats a scary idea

7:43 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I’ve been following the virus since week 1, been a wild ride

7:44 PMjordan thompson​I wanna say I was a boy scout but these days that title doesnt have the credibility it used to

7:45 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I think so far Cali has like 56 infected?

7:45 PMScrungle Humingsworth​also living in Texas I learned how to skin and cook snakes and other wild gane

7:46 PMSean Hockenbury​what happened to zachary?

7:48 PMScrungle Humingsworth​I’m gonna go full China and set up a check point

7:49 PMScrungle Humingsworth​WHOA HOLD ON SIR, WE GOTTA TEST YOUR TEMPERATURE, ALL HIGH FEVERS YOU WILL BE SHOT

7:50 PMScrungle Humingsworth​so far the kill rate is only 3%, so I’m still hopeful

7:50 PMjordan thompson​I had a record for clean in weightlifting in high school but in not into weights anymore I most just run

7:50 PMScrungle Humingsworth​the whole covid19 is making people mass buy toilet paper, so toilet paper currency when?

7:51 PMjordan thompson​ive been told clean isnt used anymore since its potentially dangerous positioning

7:51 PMScrungle Humingsworth​there are alot of body building forums, but /fit/ from 4chan is the funniest fitness forum ever

7:52 PMScrungle Humingsworth​imagine a bunch of depressed really fit guys just complimenting each other on a forum

7:53 PMScrungle Humingsworth​their main motto on /fit/ is “what if the heaviest thing we lift, isnt the weights, but our feels?”

7:54 PMScrungle Humingsworth​i gotta send you the SiR memes

7:54 PMScrungle Humingsworth​hes a artist who draws comics for /fit/

7:54 PMjordan thompson​if I ever cave in on a gym membership im totally attaching at stick to my head with a twinkie at the end as i run on the tredmil

7:55 PMScrungle Humingsworth​dude so I’m playing alone in the dark from 2008

7:55 PMScrungle Humingsworth​and the physics engine is so god damn broken, another prop hit a bus on a road sequence and the bus clipped into the ground and got flung across the map

7:56 PMScrungle Humingsworth​yeah

7:56 PMjordan thompson​so andrew admit it are you a narcissist and wanna look good for yourself *wink*

7:57 PMScrungle Humingsworth​playing the original alone in the dark and playing the 2008 one

7:57 PMScrungle Humingsworth​just where did they wanna go for the 2008 one? some of the mechanics are cool but the game is just

7:57 PMScrungle Humingsworth​ehhhh

8:00 PMjordan thompson​I’m 6’2 and 250, good health is a life choice I dont have the will power with my current system in probaby never gonna have a six pack but whateve

8:00 PMScrungle Humingsworth​try out alone in the dark

8:01 PMjordan thompson​yeah of puddin

8:01 PMScrungle Humingsworth​the ORIGINAL alone in the dark games, play the 2008 one for laffs

8:02 PMjordan thompson​well andrew go enjoy yourself