Having fun with Assassin’s Creed Origins and Mario Odyssey

Drew and Chella talk about Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Origins and discuss the latest violent trailers for The Last of Us II and Detroit: Become Human.

The moons have aligned once more, and this week’s Argue The Toss is about videogames. And not just any videogames – newly released, popular videogames which you might not even have played, and maybe you haven’t decided whether you’re going to buy them or not yet. This videogame podcast might actually be of help to you, on that score.

Drew finally gets his hands on the game he bought his Switch for: Super Mario Origins, an emotionally-charged narrative adventure in which a teenage Mario struggles to make ends meet while juggling the stresses of attending plumber school and trying to grow out his wispy little adolescent moustache. Meanwhile, Chella climbs into the brand-new Ultra-Animus and quantum leaps all the way back to the 8th century BC and into Homer himself, and must battle ancient monsters then write about them in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.

Then it’s on to a nice cheerful postscript in which the pair discuss the new trailers for The Last of Us: Part II and Detroit: Become Human, and their common theme of horrible hard-to-watch misogynist violence. Just the pick-me-up you need during your commute. Ah well. As the old saying goes, “time spent shit-talking David Cage is fun time well spent.”

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Chella Ramanan
Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.

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