Frightening Frank Cifaldi, Terrifying Tim Rogers, and Bone-chilling Brandon Sheffield rank every Resident Evil game after facing a gauntlet of qreepy questions by Affable Alex Jaffe. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:

How many different subgenres exist under the umbrella of “horror game?” (04:31)
What are the scariest things in non-horror games? (14:58)
What is the best kind of zombie? (20:19)
Insert Credit Quick Break: See You, Space Cowboy… Cybernetics Catalogue Kickstarter (32:03)
Adapt Bobby Boris Pickett’s “Monster Mash” into a video game. (26:11)
ThatsSoRevan asks: What are the best ways to do combat in a horror game? (33:33)
What is the “My costume is I came as myself” of video games? (40:01)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranking the Resident Evil series (45:52)
Recommendations and Outro (57:52)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:


ThorHighHeels


K. Thor Jensen


Candy corn


Hanafuda


Sour Patch Kids


Resident Evil series


Lost in Blue


Don’t Starve


Dorf Goes Fishing


Dredge


Doom


Corpse Party


Desolate Roads


The Path


Sweet Home


Choo-Choo Charles


Yume Nikki


Corpse Killer


The House of the Dead


Death Crimson OX


Castlevania series


TurboGrafx-16


Splatterhouse


Red Screen of Death


Winners Don’t Use Drugs


Phantasy Star


Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge


Wallmaster


Legend of Zelda series


Zombie


The Smoker


Left 4 Dead


28 Days Later (2002)


White Zombie (1932)


Night of the Living Dead (1968)


The Night Eats the World (2018)


Wyrmwood (2014)


Oppenheimer (2023)


28 Day Slater


Mario Lopez


Tony Hawk series


Simple 2000 series


Monster Mash


Rampage


Frankenstein


Shaun of the Dead (2004)


Call of Duty series


Dance Dance Revolution


Moonwalker


Alan Wake series


Silent Hill 3


The Last of Us series


Sonic: Generations


Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)


David Cage


Sonic the Hedgehog 4


Lemmy


Recommendations:
Brandon: Siege (1983), The Night Eats the World (2018), Wyrmwood (2014), Cargo (2017), The Horde (2009), Republic Z (2018), Blood Quantum (2019), 6/45 (2022), Dorohedoro, Octopus Girl
Tim: The short stories of Edogawa Ranpo
Jaffe: Rain Jerks
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