Saros Review, Tomodachi Life, Vampire Crawlers

4/24/20262 hr 22 min

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This week on The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava rave about Housemarque's new action roguelikes for PlayStation called Saros and discuss how the game compares to Returnal. This is a spoiler-free discussion and codes were provided by PlayStation. Then we talk about the excellent Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and share the first hands-on preview impressions for Virtue and a Sledgehammer. Then Haley MacLean and special guest Deven McClure join the show to unpack Nintendo's strangest game in years: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream and the IGF grand prize winning release of Titanium Court. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:05 - Saros

00:26:12 - Hello Fresh

00:28:10 - Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

00:40:44 - Virtue and a Sledgehammer

00:48:15 - Welcome Deven McClure/celebrities and red carpet events

00:55:52- Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream

01:13:15 - Square

01:15:12 - Titanium Court

01:25:44 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:28:31 - Community questions

02:10:29 - Get A Load Of This

Haley’s GALOT - https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-are-scientology-runs-and-why-is-gen-z-so-obsessed-with-them/

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/best-free-restaurant-bread-america/686582/

Hanson's GALOT - https://archive.org/details/pixars-scrapped-be-fri-movie-storyboard

Deven's GALOT - https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Bodies-Life-Death-Middle/dp/1324002166

JeffM's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwagg5wYY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubYGdMCQTA

Community GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IviltVZb9OA

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First 90 seconds

Ben Hanson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of the MidMax Show, a place about games, friends, getting better. I'm Ben Hanson, joined by Jeff Marchiafava.
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:26
That's me.
Ben Hanson· Host0:28
Choo-choo. We're joined by Kyle Hilliard.
Kyle Hilliard· Panelist0:30
Heyo.
Ben Hanson· Host0:32
Joined by Jacob Geller.
Jacob Geller· Panelist0:34
Is this the companion podcast to the Leo Win show?
Ben Hanson· Host0:37
[laughs] That's right. Check out New Show Plus if you're confused. Uh, we got a hell of an episode for y'all. Uh, we are talking about Saros, the new PlayStation game from Housemarque. We're gonna be unpacking that in a big way. We're talking vampire crawlers, the true follow-up successor to Vampire Survivors. Uh, talking a little bit about a game that Jacob and I got to go see in Spain. We're like, "Oh, we should probably talk about the game itself," and so just the MidMax spotlight that's gonna be coming out, uh, next week or, uh, early May. But Virtue and a Sledgehammer, gonna be talking a little bit about that. And then, uh, Devin McClure is gonna be joining us, and we're talking Tomodachi Life: Livin' the Dream, the first of, I hope, several discussions about that weirdo Nintendo game. We're talking Titanium Court from the co-director of Consume Me. And then back half of the show, some wonderful community questions people submitted over there in Patreon world. This is, this is fun. Um, I

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