The Wii U really wants you to know about Nintendo Direct. It’s really important to it that you watch it in action and give it your warm encouragement. In fact it won’t shut up about it. Beeping and dinging and jingling in the corner of the room. Frustratingly needy thing. You know sometings it makes you feel like you could just…. oh shh shh, it’s coming over.

Hey Wii U how’s it going? What you got there? A suspiciously heavy looking lead pipe with Mario Tennis written on it? Better cut to the SaladCast before I listen to everything you could possibly say you wonderful console you.

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Prison Architect has made it out of Early Access so Zac had to show Rob what it’s all about. Inmates, Plans, Budgets! Do Introversion combine these into something charming or hard labour?

Aaaaaand in the blue corner; The current console champion of the world, weighing in at over 25 million units sold despite only a few great games and looking to fight dirty; Sony Playstation!
This would be the honest introduction in the current generation fight and it’s Sony’s time to come out swinging as they dominate Paris Games Week. French it up!

Oh and there was a small release on XBONE called Halo 5. You might have heard of it.

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In the last of the main character stories we figure out just what E102 has been trundling around for. Zac and Rob play some more Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast (emulated via Demul as usual).

Did you miss last week’s super special limited edition SaladCast? If so then you missed the best show we’ve ever done. It had celebrity guests, hot new musical acts, exclusive game reveals and even some “fan fiction”. But don’t worry, you can still get your normal edition podcast goodies right here. We’ve brought a pheasant.

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Here we go then. Time to get stuck into Rob’s favourite FF game with Zac and as an added bonus Dan. The salad crew get schooled by the first hour of the 2013 Steam Version of FFVIII.

Zac tries to teach Dan and Rob just how this game really works and show that the unofficial “fix patch” is kinda OK.

To all those who went to EGX 2015, I have to clap my hands. Finally a show where the crowd isn’t composed of annoying idiots who barge their way through to get anywhere, treading on toes as they do. You make music concerts look thoroughly uncivilised… which is probably the point in a lot of cases but I’m still impressed. See you next year my people.

Needless to say there’s a lot of EGX coverage this week but there’s just enough time for Zac to cover his tabletop adventures too.

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This is our jam! We’ve harped on about this game for years on the SaladCast and now it’s time to show you why. Bizarre Creations may no longer be with us but they went out on a high. Zac and Rob dedicate this happysalad GP to them.

Indie games can be a bit “meta”, so here’s a video game about indie game developers rescuing themselves with fake science. Zac gives Rob a degree in block drilling via puzzle platforming.

Unbeknownst to us, it turns out it has been “totally average game week” here at happysalad. Nothing too terrible, nothing mind-blowing, just good-old “B-tier” games being in the same room offering a lukewarm, vaguely honest handshake of mediocrity. The middle of the road is mildly comfortable… and beige.

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Kick, Punch, it’s all in the mind… or at least two of your fingers. Zac and Rob commit mass stick figure homicide, albeit in self defence playing One Finger Death Punch.

Circumstances entirely of Rob’s creation haver lead to a one week delay in the SaladCast delivery schedule and typically, a major event occurred. Gamescom carries a heavy Microsoft slant giving us a press conference to cover in our usual style and 3 weeks of gap gives us quite a few games to chat about. Do we cover everything? “Who knows?”.

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Big the Cat shuns the public to such an extent that every part of recording his episode of Sonic Adventure was influenced by his spirit. Recording was dodgy, audio out of sync, encoding process doing whatever it wanted… you’re lucky you get to see this at all.

Rob may have been stag party levels of hungover when we recorded this (his may still be a bit hungover as this is written) but there are gaming discussions that must burst forth like liquidated stomach lining! Discussions of food challenges, press-ups, not having Windows 10, Keiji Inafune and maybe a videogame or two lie within.

And no, we didn’t talk about Pixels. Go wallow in your own misery.

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So I know we wrapped up Season 4 of the SaladCast well over a year ago (we’re on Season 6 right now) but it’s never too late to catch up on all the pieces you couldn’t have caught up on. Here are some our dumber off-air moments, conversations and noises captured during Season 4 because we left a mic or two on. As always we haven’t cleaned these up so it can sound a bit raw but that’s what outtakes are supposed to sound like. Unintentional.

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Noises, Outtakes, Raw Audio, and more!

In a move that screams “5 years ago” the happysalad team provide a SaladCast of a length more in keeping with our former restrictions. We don’t even get a cameo from Dan’s alarm to ignore.

In this episode we play some new stuff and keep playing the stuff we were playing and of course mourn the loss of gaming’s most charming man.

BANANAS!

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I think you already know what this is. It’s one of those “shoot stuff to survive but it’s kinda random and the theme is really messed up” games. You know the ones. Zac and Rob discover the benefits of gambling in The Binding of Isaac.

The “Fallout” from E3 doesn’t leave us too much to “Unravel” and there isn’t much “Uncharted” news to cover. So while there are plenty of new games are on the “Horizon”, there are even more for us to “Maker” our way through right now. So let’s “Siege” the day, party all “Knight” and deliver “SOMA” Saladcast. It’s just how we “DOOM”.

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