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Games narrated at troubleshooting speed.
TroytlePower Presents: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast follows a solo player through video games as they happen, from Game Boy Advance Terminator missions to Steam Deck typing action. It is less polished review and more live troubleshooting with jokes, detours, and constant scene-setting.
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TroytlePower Presents: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast treats video games as something to be narrated while the wheels are still wobbling. It is a solo playthrough format, but the focus is not clean performance or polished critique. The show follows the player thinking aloud through each objective, wrong turn, button remap, and sudden enemy rush. Recent episodes lean heavily into Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines for Game Boy Advance. Those sessions turn simple mission text into a running investigation of what the game thinks is happening. A robot factory throws wires, wall rockets, and bouncing gears into the path. Future Los Angeles becomes a search for Santa Monica Boulevard, a scrambler, a hatch, and whatever the Terminator view was supposed to reveal. The graveyard level becomes a long corridor full of cops, health packs, laser shots, and questions about whether any of this resembles the movie. The show is at its best when a tiny mechanical detail becomes the whole drama. A compass has no arrow. A wall survives grenades but falls to one more shot. A SWAT team somehow outruns a Terminator. A crane stops moving but still causes damage when touched. Outside the Terminator run, the feed also includes Secret Santa episodes and first impressions of Keys of Fury, where typing speed, Japanese words, Steam Deck controls, and a vegetable dealer all enter the same breathless stream. The voice is chatty and observant, with dry jokes tucked into constant navigation. It can drift into guilt about delayed gifts, library movie plans, audio levels, or dogs barking, then snap back to the next door, enemy, or score screen. That looseness is the format. The episodes feel like sitting beside someone who insists on describing every screen while also arguing with the game under their breath. For listeners who like lets-plays without video, it offers the texture of live play: uncertainty first, explanation second, judgment third.
Made for: For listeners who like audio lets-plays, retro curiosities, handheld oddities, and play sessions where confusion is part of the fun. It especially fits people who enjoy hearing mechanics reasoned through moment by moment.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by preserving the messy middle of play: missed prompts, wrong assumptions, controller fixes, repeated mission text, and sudden little victories. It feels closer to a real-time game diary than a review show.
TPPTPPTPWTP is the podcast where I, your host, TroytlePower, play through games in a powerful way!See the video version of some episodes at tiny.cc/tpptpwv
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TroytlePower turns live play, control mishaps, and odd game logic into a candid record of discovering games from the inside.
TroytlePower plays games aloud with every discovery, wrong turn, and control mishap left visible. The result is part playthrough and part running first impression: objectives are read, systems are tested, and confusion becomes material rather than something edited away.
A stubborn wall needs one more shot, and you get every beat of TroytlePower realizing it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A scrambler hunt that turns on forgotten vision modes and a very patient robot.
The episode threads I Loved LA through a scrambler, a nuclear crater, and Santa Monica Boulevard, and much of its appeal comes from the host catching his own mistakes in real time.
A delayed Secret Santa gift kicks off a loose, funny first look at Valky 64.
Turtle Power Presents opens with a delayed Secret Santa gift and turns that into a lively first look at Valky 64. The host moves quickly from missed lore to controls, sticky notes, and the awkward question of what to do next, which gives the episode a loose,…
A typing game where a kung fu run lives or dies on spelling under pressure.
Keys of Fury: Typing Action turns a typing game into a kung fu run, and Turtle Power keeps the motion legible as it moves from a train station in Lower District into a steady rush of combat prompts and spelling traps.
A chaotic Terminator factory run where every objective turns into a fresh dispute with strange machinery.
The Terminator mission turns a robot factory run into a steady argument with anything that can get in the way. What begins as a grab for time-machine access codes keeps being broken up by live wires, wall launchers, bouncing gears, T-900 units, SWAT, vans, and a crane.
A strange cooking game turns into a dry, chaotic fight with the blender.
A bizarre eShop cooking experiment becomes an obstacle course in patience, as Captain Koolimbus tries to feed a kitchen that seems determined to reject its own ingredients.
Three comedians riff on new releases and revisit terrible old games on Get Played Remastered.
Giant Bomb's weekly panel on new releases, industry news, and Game of the Year debates.
Rob Zacny and Patrick interview indie game developers and unpack the industry's rough patches.
Game Informer's editors review new releases and debrief hands-on previews from events like Summer Game Fest.
Panel and interview deep dives on video game history, from Shiny Entertainment to Sonic hacks.
The host Turtle Power introduces and begins playing Rack and Slay, a pool-based dungeon-crawling roguelite where you control a billiard ball, sharing initial gameplay mechanics and difficulty selection.
This episode features a first impressions gameplay session of the tactical stealth game Stone of Madness on Steam Deck, exploring its art style and initial settings.
The host plays and reviews Dread Delusion, an indie RPG described as 'messed up Morrowind', starting with character creation and initial gameplay.
The host shares first impressions of the cozy game 'Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game' played on Steam Deck, discussing personal conflicted feelings about cozy games and hopes for this title.
The host plays Blade Chimera on Steam Deck, sharing initial thoughts on its Metroidvania style, pixel art, and gameplay mechanics.
TroytlePower continues his playthrough of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines for the Game Boy Advance.
TroytlePower plays 'A Time Traveler's Guide to Past Delicacies' on Nintendo Switch, a bizarre cooking game featuring time-traveling sock puppets and dark historical recipes.
Turtle Power tests Isle of Reveries on Steam while troubleshooting controller mappings, Steam notifications, and inconsistent button glyphs.
Troitle reviews Mina the Hollower on Switch 2, describing its Yacht Club Games opening, Tentenebrous Isle setting, and mission to restore failing spark generators in Ossix.
This episode is a gameplay commentary of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on GBA, focusing on navigating a graveyard level to find a weapon cache and protect characters from enemies.
This episode follows gameplay of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on Game Boy Advance as the player infiltrates a robot factory to retrieve access codes for a time machine while battling T-900 units and navigating hazards.
Terminator 3 on GBA keeps moving.
The host plays Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on Game Boy Advance for the first time, sharing initial gameplay experiences and thoughts while spoiling the movie plot.
The host opens a Secret Santa gift package, revealing a brown leather wallet with blue details from Evan, expressing surprise and gratitude.
Turtle Power starts with an apology.
Keys of Fury opens with a spelling mistake and treats it like a fight scene.