The Casual Hour
Welcome to The Casual Hour, a podcast ostensibly about video games. Hosted by Bobby Pease and Chase Koeneke, The Casual Hour is a gaming channel where we chill out, mess around and, sometimes, even talk about games!
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Episode 483 - Deep Dive: Zelda Items Tier List Pt.1 (opens the original)
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Episode #483 – Zelda turns 40, so Bobby made Chase rank 40 items with him (and only got through 23) Did you forget it’s Zelda’s 40th birthday this year? So did Nintendo! But Bobby didn’t, which is why we’re putting 40 classic Zelda items on a tier list. Bottles, bombs, boots and more. And this is just part 1 on this edition of The Casual Hour! ⏱ TIMESTAMPS THE SETUP 00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome 00:00:28 – Is the Master Sword Actually an Item? 00:03:47 – The Pitch: 40 Items for Zelda's 40th Anniver
Episode 482 - Little Deb Takes The Cake (opens the original)
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[Episode #482] — Little Debbie tournament brackets, Tears of Metal, and Bobby's Fire Emblem intervention for Chase After a little snack talk, the Causal Crew gets to the gaming in this whatcha been playin’ episode. Bobby’s fixing things up in ReStory, defending them in Omen and ripping them apart in Tears of Metal, all while Chase revisits an old friend in Fire Emblem: Awakening. It’s all here on this edition of The Casual Hour! ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:28 – Intro & Little Debbie snack nostalgia 00:04
Episode 481 - Big Walkin’ (opens the original)
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00:00:28 – Intro 00:04:26 – ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs 00:19:01 – Pokémon Gen1Recomp 00:33:48 – Big Walk 01:07:28 – Wrap-Up & Socials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The Casual Crew’s got Big Walk fever, and we just gotta let it out. See why we think this game has real GOTY potential. Plus, Bobby’s tinkering away on virtual devices in ReStory while tinkering on real devices with Pokemon’s Gen1Recomp. All t
Episode 480 - A Factory of Furries (opens the original)
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00:00:28 – Intro: new retro handhelds & show outline 00:03:25 – Kicking off the July games recap 00:03:57 – Chase's July picks 00:07:10 – Bobby's July picks 00:14:08 – PlayStation Plus freebies 00:18:52 – August releases begin: Beast of Reincarnation (Aug 4) 00:23:47 – Big Walk (Aug 4) 00:29:47 – D-Hopper and Zero Racers hit Virtual Boy service (Aug 4) 00:32:28 – Super Robot Wars Y Anniversary Expansion Pack (Aug 5) 00:34:14 – Fields of Mistria (Aug 5) 00:36:39 – Echo Breaker (Aug 6) 00:38:50 –
Episode 479 - We Are Not A Cool Community (opens the original)
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00:00:28 – Intro 00:01:27 – Bobby's Android handheld obsession 00:04:41 – Show Rundown 00:06:11 – Decompiled and recompiled games explained 00:13:15 – Pokemon Red and Blue decompile plus the Dramatic Shapes voxel mod 00:18:10 – Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remastered impressions 00:19:17 – Palworld hits 1.0 00:21:37 – Super Mario RPG remake 00:30:24 – The Diofield Chronicle 00:38:02 – Splatoon Raiders 01:00:32 – Wrapping up: why Splatoon Raiders has them both hooked 01:01:46 – Plugs 01:06:02 – Ou
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