The First Great Game of 2026
1/23/202649 min
MIO: Memories in Orbit is competing in one of the most crowded genres in video games: the Metroidvania. Sorry, "Search Action Game." But trust us, this one's worth pulling from the pack. It blends the aesthetics of Nier, Citizen Sleeper, and oil paintings into something surprising and beautiful. Plus, the boys return to their Animal Crossing islands for the big Switch 2 update.
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First 90 secondsGriffin McElroy· Host0:00
Oh, time to be real!
Justin McElroy· Host0:01
Too late, I already was. [laughing] Shit. Shit, I meant for the app. I got too real with you guys. You guys got anything real you wanna say?
Russ Frushtick· Host0:13
Yeah, I got something real to say. I, um, I know we went through a time, and certainly that's still the case, that Good Russ makes very good handheld gaming content, things like that- Yeah ... but I found a new source- The fact that you're calling him Good Russ now makes me, like, very happy ... a new source for content, and it's a guy on YouTube who just tells me how my bidet seat works, and man, this guy knows his stuff.
Justin McElroy· Host0:37
Yeah?
Russ Frushtick· Host0:38
We will drop a link in the newsletter post.
Justin McElroy· Host0:41
We will.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:41
But if you're looking for chief pro bidet content- Who are you talking to?
Justin McElroy· Host0:46
[laughing] 'Cause this is in the cold- like, we're not... This isn't in the show, so I don't know who you're talking to. [laughing] Like- Is this not the cold open? This is a cold open, but it's not the show.
Russ Frushtick· Host0:53
It's actually... Let me just say, it's a really- The cold open is just stuff we recorded randomly before the show started. Yeah, I understand.
Justin McElroy· Host0:59
You know what I'm saying?
Russ Frushtick· Host0:59
I do wanna say, it's actually not a cold open, it's a very warm and misting open.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:03
Yeah.
Justin McElroy· Host1:04
Oh.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:05
Sometimes my little son makes us unplug the bidet seat, uh, on our toilet downstairs, 'cause it makes a noise that freaks him out a little bit sometimes.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:13
Mm.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:13
And then I'll forget to plug it back in, and I'll come in, you know, for a middle-of-the-night sesh, and I'll sit down, and the seat is icy cold instead of wonderful warm, 'cause I forgot to plug it in! It gives me a jump scare every time.
Russ Frushtick· Host1:25
And it's like you're a caveman at that point.
Griffin McElroy· Host1:27
It is- That's rough ... like, yeah, on a cold seat. It's- It's like