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The MinnMax Show - GOTY Debate Prologue, Castlevania, Over The Hill (Patreon)

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2026-10-15 02:16:22
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, Janet Garcia, and Leo Vader convene to unofficially kick off MinnMax's Game of the Year debate for 2026 by letting folks know the games they need more people to play. What's on your list of must-players before GOTY season begins? Then we descend into Metroidvania season with early thoughts on Konami's Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, Well Dweller, Silver Pines, and Echo Weaver. JeffM and Ben also talk about the open-world off-world driving game called Over The Hill. Then we answer your wonderful questions submitted on Patreon.

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below... 

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:58 - Give To The Max Charity Stream on 11/6/26

00:07:24 - Leo and the haunted cabin

00:11:59 - GOTY Debate Prologue

00:12:29 - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

00:14:26 - GOTY Debate Prologue

00:16:06 - Blood Dungeon

00:17:53 - Cairn

00:21:15 - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

00:22:48 - Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse

00:26:12 - Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

00:30:27 - The Blood of Dawnwalker

00:31:15 - Esoteric Ebb

00:33:08 - The Incident at Galley House

00:34:20 - The Mermaid Mask

00:35:52 - Dogpile

00:38:30 - Titanium Court

00:41:38 - Moldrise

00:42:31 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station

00:47:04 - Deadlock

00:48:44 - Welcome to Elderfield

00:49:30 - Orbitals

00:51:12 - Normal Golf Game

00:52:32 - Star Fox and Ocarina of Time

00:55:25 - Phonopolis

00:55:36 - Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream

00:57:33 - Star Wars: Zero Company

00:58:03 - Pokemon Pokopia

00:58:40 - Debating incremental games

01:00:35 - 007 First Light

01:01:37 - Gears of War: E-Day

01:03:22 - Saros

01:04:34 - Control Resonant

01:07:26 - Creature Kitchen

01:09:34 - Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

01:19:56 - Well Dweller

01:23:04 - Silver Pines

01:24:58 - Echo Weaver

01:31:09 - Over The Hill

01:36:28 - Beat Weaver

01:42:21 - Community questions

02:17:23 - Get A Load Of This

JeffM’s GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYMbF7VH350

Janet's GALOT - https://www.timeshifter.com/

Ben's GALOT - https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/tobyfox.undertale.com/post/3mvnweyco7223

Community GALOT - https://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/comments/b3kw6t/ben_affleck_loses_at_starcraft_too_according_to/

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Harry Branch

tomodachi life mentioned 🥹

Amy J

Leo survived Ben's Haunted Cabin, good to know. Phew. I hadn't gotten to finish the video yet!

Treethan

is there a video version?

Feign

It'll go up tomorrow although there's an unedited version that's available on the discord for Backstage Pass patrons.

Kapsilon

Janet killed it this whole episode. Loved her rapid fire check-ins with cohort games from earlier in the year. And calling metroidvanias "the soup of videogames"! I'll remember that forever, esp as a huge fan of Fall, soup, and MVs.

Aaron

Glad to hear more Galactic Racer and Fire Em talk! I love when you guys just talk in depth about what you're playing regardless of what's brand brand new that week :D

Stanley Cheng

More people should try Sovereign Tower, it's really good

Rockey Liles

Control Resonant should be an upper ten lock and I’m tired of the crew pretending it’s not. Being bad at the combat shouldn’t qualify for complaints come official goty time.

Zorlok_theDefiler

Suggestion for Ben, there's a fantastic rhythm game I've put hundreds of hours into called Spin Rhythm XD. I am a drummer myself, and this game really scratches the itch for me of *feeling like I'm playing/learning a real instrument,* which I think this game does better than most rhythm games and this one has flown under the radar. It uses an interesting spinning mechanic that makes it super fun to get into the flow state, and in my mind I might actually like it *better* than guitar hero just for how fun the mechanics are. Highly recommend it

Patrick Larmon

Stinks that no one here got into it, but Marathon really was fantastic. There's been some rocky developments since season 2 regarding balance and stability, but the game's in a good spot now content wise, and I think the core game they released at launch and how that first season rolled out was incredible. Would recommend people try it out (if you've got a group) long enough to experience the endgame map.

Aaron

Totally with Kyle on bummed-outedly wondering if the future of games is going in a direction I don't want to engage with :(

Justin K.

Control Resonant takes so many big, creative swings and is my goty currently. Feel like it’s being a bit dismissed by the crew, unfortunate that it’s not clicking with them. So, so much to love — in addition to wildly cool art direction, stellar sound design, strong and unpredictable narrative, I personally found the combat and build flexibility to be a highlight.

Cole kreider

He might be possessed. Who can really say?

Fyp

Gears E-day has 4 player campaign co-op. Would be cool to see Kyle, Janet and Ben take down the horde. Great show btw.

Computers Care

Shout out to JeffM recreating Karl Marx's explanations of capitalism from capital volume 1. He absolutely nailed it that epic games making Gen AI extraction shooter doesn't make sense when the AI tool is more expensive than the human labor. Human labor is variable capital and its cost can be surpressed down, but constant capital (tools, machinery, Claude tokens) are a cost they don't control the same way. Typically automation makes the remaining humans more productive and more exploited while they are not compensated relative to the increase in productivity the automation creates. GenAI tokens costing as much as they do create an environment where games made with high token usage would have to be even more financially successful than the current unreasonable expectations. It's not that genAI couldn't possibly be financially feasible at some point, but it's not likely, and not by any US models, maybe one of the less expensive open Chinese models down the line though. Mostly genAI is just a source for capital destruction and fictitious capital, and labor discipling with no real benefit of productivity.

Mark M

Came to say the same, Janet was so hilarious this episode, especially the whole George Bush joke. She was on fire and made me laugh so many times.

Josh Lambert

What was the title of the new GBA-inspired game mentioned somewhere in the episode? I forgot to write it down 🥲