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Jul 2022
1h 23m

Retronauts Episode 467: Boktai

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Jeremy Parish, Stuart Gipp, and Shane Bettenhausen emerge from their caves, blinking and frightened, to face the ferocious fury of the sun as they lift their GBA solar sensors skyward and discuss the Metal Gear offshoot that gave nerds suntans: Boktai.

Edits by Greg Leahy. Art by John Pading.

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