Welcome to this super-synthetic episode of The Last Standee Podcast!
So, after the shortest Standee Catch-up you ever listened to, be ready to be (quickly) informed by Fen's recollection of Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Audrey's recollection of Marvel United and Alessio's fastest speech ever about Shamans!

The Last Standee

53: A very Marvely Episode (Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Marvel United, Shamans)

Welcome to episode 73 of The Last Standee podcast!
Yes, there will be space, aliens and ancient Egypt, and no, it's not a Stargate Episode. But we are getting ahead of ourselves now. As usual, we begin with our Standee Catch-up among Alexis, Fen and Alessio.

With that done, it's time to go through a couple news items that are floating around these days.

After that, it's time to finally talk about boardgames! Alessio got Amun-Re: 20th Anniversary Edition and is eager to tell us how it aged since the 2003 classic, then Fen brings us into deep space with the alienest spinoff of Legendary Encounters!

73: Not-a-stargate (News, Amun-Re, Legendary Encounters: Aliens)

Boardgamers ahoy!

...or not quite, because we got exactly ONE game not fitting the sailing theme! Oh well, as they say: sometimes you eat the bear...

This episode, after a Standee Catch-up which doubles as a PSA for animal care, Cara sets sail to distant shores into EOS: Island of Angels (which was called once... nah, listen to the review :) ). Then, Fen starts what could very well be a series of articles with the very beginning of the Pathfinder LCG series: Rise of the Runelords. Last, Alessio is here once again to somehow talk about another trick-taking game - Sail!

74: Rough sailing ahead (EOS: Island of Angels, Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords, Sail)

There were five or six speakers, a few more listeners, a lot of monsters, some designers in the darkness. Everybody knew nothing.

Welcome to Episode 75 of The Last Standee Podcast!
For this episode, we are back doing what we do best, and that's idly chatting about boss battlers (yeah, we could have done a bit earlier, but we wanted the entire crowd of speakers to be on the same page).
In this episode, we begin discussing the Gambler's Chest Expansion of Kingdom Death: Monster!
Yeah, thankfully this one will have content for a few episodes more, but here we are, to begin with - a "first and somewhat curated impressions" of the GCE overall and (almost) the first 12 Lantern Years of a People of the Dream Keeper campaign.

Nuh uh, won't spoil anything here (and if you listen without skipping, the spoilers will be clearly marked!) - so I'll just leave you with the episode, with an almost full crowd (congratulations David)!

75: Gambler's Chest Expansion

Welcome to Episode 76 of The Last Standee Podcast!
In this episode we trade common sense and decency for a hearty laugh - and that shows right away from the Catch-ups! This episode will probably be remembered as "the one with the best transitions ever" - we feel so sure of it that we account even for future episodes.

Cara begins the -no, not serious. Not even "more structured" - let's say the chat about crowdfunding - what has been, where we're at and future plans, for what are worth. After that, Audrey brings us Shadow Hunters, aka japanese design twists applied to hidden role/social deduction games reminiscing Bang! just a little. Finally, Alessio closes with Combo Fighter - Plotmaker Edition, the short fighting game filler you didn't know you needed!
Really, these recaps are useless - just don't take us too seriously and embrace the chaos with us!

76: Embrace the Chaos (Crowdfunding roundup, Shadow Hunters, Combo Fighter)

Welcome to Episode 77 of The Last Standee Podcast!
This time, the content of the episode is a mystery. No, not because this is a mystery-themed episode (one day!), but because the francophones took over the episode!

What will they be talking about? Are there even three people in the staff speaking French? Is THIS the way we spend Patrons' money?

The answer to these questions, and maybe many others that will probably arise, lies within this very special track!

Yes, with the end of the year we always get a little crazy and we like to be original, why'd you ask?

77: The French episode

Three steps, as it has always been.
First, a welcome: Welcome to Episode 78 of the Last Standee Podcast, and our first episode of 2024! How are the smoldering remains of society treating you at the beginning of the new calendar?

Second, an intro: after long debate, we decided to kick off the year with an episode with the regular formula: three games, three speakers, some fil rouge to connect everything. Yet, this episode is special? Is it maybe because one speaker was recording from a van parked in an undisclosed location, a location which we can only hope isn't deeply unsettling? Maybe. Or maybe because our good sound engineer and entertainment scientist Alexis found the audio quality of that recording to be among the best ones? Your guess is as good as mine.

Third, some details about the episode: we have the shortest long Standee Catch-up ever, then we merrily follow the macabre titular three steps: first step, Alessio talks us about Kiri-ai: The Duel, an elegant two-player card game about a samurai duel which, you bet, can only end with the creation of a fresh body. Second step, Alexis follows up with the bureaucracy regarding a freshly created body with Body of Evidence, a high-end mystery game with a cool gimmick where investigators try to solve what you could define a "cold" case surrounding an autopsy. Third step, Fen recounts what happens when all these corpses get inevitably reanimated in Dawn of the Zeds: Third Edition, a very versatile game which is only arguably a tower defense, or we can say, a tower defense and much more!

So, without further ado, let's get it on with the episode!

78: Three Steps (Kiri-ai: the Duel, Body of Evidence, Dawn of the Zeds)

Welcome to episode 79 of The Last Standee Podcast!
In our endless pursuit for aesthetical perfection, always striving for novelty, we bring you a... special? Is it the right word? Would it be better "weird"? Oh, it's yours to judge (definitely weird) episode, because that's a two-people recording, dedicated to two games, which are two-player games (not one, not three)!

After all, it takes two to tango!

...And now that I wrote that, I can retire with a smile.
Anyho, after the Standee Catch-up, we have Alessio talking about Sky Team, last Essen fair's sensation, then Alexis bring us a pearl from Level 99 Studio, Pixel Tactics!

Stay tuned for more weirdness, er, novelty!
(and I'm sure we didn't remove all the tags from the public domain tango audio track we used to mix with the base)

79: It takes Two (Sky Team, Pixel Tactics)

At long last, episode 80!
It always feels nice when we get to complete tens of episodes, doesn't it?

Anyway (anyho), this episode begins with the usual catch-up, then we have Fen presenting The Plum Island Horror. Unsettling mysteries continue with Alexis talking about Pop-up Mystery Manor, until we can finally rest and relax with Cara, presenting us her list of relaxing games - Namiji, Tranquility and In Dreams (Cara reviews woo-hoo!)

80: The Peculiar Plum Peninsula Puzzle (Plum Island Horror, Doomensions, Cara's Relaxing games)

Argh, we're late! Again!
Welcome to Episode 81 of The Last Standee Podcast!

In this episode, our three chatty hosts/speakers have a long, winded Standee Catchup, then Fen leads the talk to the main course of the episode, ISS Vanguard - one of the latest fatigues from Awaken Realms, with the ambition to narrate an epic spacefaring campaign which starts and ends (or ends and starts?) with a mystery encoded in the DNA of all lifeforms. Was this ambition successful?

Well, you'll have to listen to the episode to find out!

(Just sayin', a game about space rangers sworn to protect vans across the galaxy would be an instant buy...)

81: Battling Vans (ISS Vanguard)

Am I the only one feeling sleepy in Spring?
Welcome to episode 82 of The Last Standee Podcast - early Spring edition!

In this episode in the sign of egregiousness (I swear, this is not AI-generated!) we start egregiously drifting aimlessly in lazy recollections with the Standee Catch-up, at the end of which Alexis gives us an update on what is the current situation with Golden Bell Studio crowdfunding projects. Then it's time to start the Edventures with Audrey presenting Cartaventura games (that must be misspelled, it's evidently CartEventura). We finish with a lot of Dalmatians and Dalmatians-contingent (but sans Ms. De Vil, sadly) with Spots!

82: Egregious Edventure (Golden Bell Studio news, Cartaventura, Spots)

The Last Standee is a podcast which deals with boardgames, tabletop RPGs, tabletop gaming and everything else ancillary to the hobby, with a focus on Complex AI Boss Battler (CABB) games. The base formula is: passionate boardgamers talking about games they like. Hosted by Fen and featuring fortnightly episodes, it collects quips and opinions from six speakers and five countries across the European Union.

53: A very Marvely Episode (Marvel Champions: Mutant Genesis, Marvel United, Shamans)

The Last Standee Podcast

Related tracks