"It's one encounter, Michael. How many levels can it give, 5?" - the Super Mario RPG developers setting the difficulty curve of their game

Tune in to hear the Fall Damage crew discuss:

• RPG grinding, the many ways it can fail you, and the many ways you can fail it
• How fast people have beaten the games central to the podcast's canon thus far... and how wrong we are when we guess their times
• Why the Switch 2 feels like such a strange console
• What we think about a newly unveiled game genre, the "book"

References in this episode:

• Mina the Hollower, releasing on May 29: https://apple.news/At76cbbMaRdGXcYt7MFSvZQ
• username_equals_pants' new Slay the Spire 2 video:  ...