1 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,920 Hello, and welcome to sign Quest. This is our weekly video game show 2 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,039 here at Geekers. I'm your host Dyl Musk, and I have with me 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,320 Showtime kirklem Patzer. How you doing? My friend feeling very pink today? 4 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:34,439 And that's that's not a Barbie reason, that's a Princess Peach reason. I'm 5 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,000 very excited to talk to you about this game. I've been I've been quiet 6 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:40,439 on the coms all weekend about it, but yeah, I know I'm excited. 7 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:43,359 I didn't know if I was going to get that Monday message of it. 8 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,079 Hey, I didn't actually end up buying this game, like can we 9 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,079 pivot on side quest? But glad to hear that you that you said that 10 00:00:50,119 --> 00:00:52,399 because part of me that today I'm like, I wonder if it should just 11 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:55,200 troll Dylan since I haven't talked to him about it, like at all this 12 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,039 weekend. I was like, oh, wait, when's that Peach coming game 13 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:00,039 coming out? I was thinking about saying, yeah, my heart healed. 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,359 Yeah, yeah, So what we're talking about Princess Peach Showtime of course the 15 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:10,680 latest Nintendo game also Marvel nineteen forty three. We're talking about this trailer that 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,560 came up for that and then the games we've been playing as well. So 17 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:18,599 just a nice classic side quest episode here, not a whole lot of plugs. 18 00:01:18,599 --> 00:01:22,120 You know. Make sure join the patroon episodes early in ad free can 19 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:26,799 leave a review to help the show grow. Halo we just finished that second 20 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,280 season, so you can go check out all those episodes now if you want 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,959 to hear our thoughts on that whole show. And for my game that I've 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,280 been talking about, Potion Problem, I finally have the trailer ready and it 23 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,280 is up there on YouTube, so you can go check it out and see 24 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,319 what the game actually looks like when you're playing it, or if you go 25 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,840 on the Steam page, the video is up there as well, so either 26 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:52,280 or trailer. Thanks checking it out. I was checking it out yesterday, 27 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,480 Yeah, yesterday, and yeah, I know you did such a great job 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,159 of just showcasing like the key elements of it and kind of what you can 29 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,040 do with the game, and greet music to go along with it. Yeah, 30 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,319 it was really pressed. Yeah, shout outs to Amanda who made just 31 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,960 absolutely killer soundtrack for the game. So of course I used a good classic 32 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,520 song in there for the trailer as well. You know, when I was 33 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,479 making it I thought it would be like, I'm gonna do like a forty 34 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,039 five second long trailer, and then when I was actually making it then it 35 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,960 was like two like over two minutes. I'm like that's too much, and 36 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:23,919 so I ended up cutting it down to like a minute forty five, which 37 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,280 feels good. I feel like it does yeah, a good job of showing 38 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,639 off all the different stuff, and uh yeah, I'm I haven't edited like 39 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:35,120 a video in a while, and I'm using this like new software. So 40 00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:38,520 it took me a few days there to get that sorted out, but overall, 41 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,039 I'm pretty happy with it. Gets a job done. It felt like 42 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:44,439 a video game trailer, so you're you're doing it real. I definitely like 43 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,240 watch this Splunky two trailer and I was like, I'm gonna call be this 44 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:53,159 like pacing beat for beat. Yeah, to get some inspiration there. So 45 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:57,120 that's good. That's good that it fit the genre. So yeah, you 46 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,560 can go check out that trailer, and then if you would like, you 47 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,280 can wish the game on Steam. Helps me helps like boost the game up 48 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:06,639 when people are searching. There's all sorts of potion games out there these days, 49 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,719 so get me up that list. So when people search for potions on 50 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:14,599 Steam they find my game before others. Uh and uh yeah, any any 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,319 shout outs from you, Kirklem shout outs? I don't think so nothing really 52 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,560 well, I mean, we got our retros and full swing on the on 53 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:29,240 the main feeds there we got mad Max planning of the apes you already mentioned 54 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,960 Halo. That's that mission's over. We'll see if we got another season that 55 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,000 but that was a journey and a half. But yeah, I don't know. 56 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,439 Go check out the feeds. Yeah, it's the season of X We're 57 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:43,919 doing the X Men and his show. The first two episodes we reviewed last 58 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:46,520 week. We have a newscast happening this week where there's some other juicy news 59 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,360 and trailers and whatnot. So yeah, just subscribe and then you can see 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,960 all that stuff easily. Okay, Kirklam. Before we get into the main 61 00:03:55,039 --> 00:04:00,759 topic, you want to hear about my latest gaming rabbit hole here. Yes, 62 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,319 I recently learned about this game, and I'm gonna screenshaw this for the 63 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,479 YouTube audience and you guys should google this if you are not on YouTube. 64 00:04:08,639 --> 00:04:12,680 I learned about this game I came out in the eighties called Rings of Power 65 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:18,519 check the things of Power like Rings on series Rings of Power. So look 66 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,920 at this. This is like kind of a Lord of the Rings looking thing, 67 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,160 you know, it's kind of like, I don't know, tactics strategy. 68 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,079 Look at this, like Hobbit looking character. This is not a Lord 69 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,959 of the Rings game though. Really, this is not not associated with Lord 70 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:39,600 of the Rings in any way. This is just a clear knockoff of the 71 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,720 brand, which I find absolutely hilarious. Even this Aragon looking guy over here. 72 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,600 There was an image I saw at one point that like spitting image for 73 00:04:46,639 --> 00:04:49,120 Gandalf. I mean, I guess it's a generic gray sort of wizard, 74 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:55,920 but yeah, still crazy right, such a weird oddity from the eighties. 75 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:02,480 Kirkland, take a guess who do you think developed this game? Ah, 76 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,560 say, like Sega. I don't know. It wouldn't be Sega if it 77 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,920 was just the Rings of Power ripoff. I have no idea. This game 78 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,199 was developed by Naughty Dog. Really yeah, like a way different Naughty Dog 79 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,639 than we than we see, the one that had this as their logo apparently, 80 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:26,959 which I didn't even realize putting the naughty and Naughty Dog just like presumably 81 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,360 Naked Lady as their logo, Like just right out of the eighties for sure. 82 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,920 Wow, Yeah, it seems like a fake, uh you know, 83 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 like a spoof type thing. Yeah, I wonder if this would fly nowadays 84 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:43,839 or just back in the eighties. Is a different time on these early video 85 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:48,279 so anyway, that's part of this rabbit hole is like, I, I, 86 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:50,839 what the hell is this game? I can't believe this exists. But 87 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,879 because of that, I wanted to, uh see if you could like play 88 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,000 it or buy it anywhere, And so I went on Steam and I certain 89 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:02,839 for it, and it's not on Steam. It's probably not playable in any 90 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:08,000 sort of hardware these days. But in my search I found another game called 91 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:14,120 Rings of Powder, which is very much once again borrowing the Lord of the 92 00:06:14,199 --> 00:06:17,079 Rings kind of vision and stuff, like it's got the same logo here or 93 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:20,120 the same font I should say, it's got the ring in the title. 94 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,480 And then you know, just watching this trailer here, like it's essentially looks 95 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:30,160 like a like the Minds of Moria, like dungeon simulator sort of game. 96 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:33,160 Yeah, this came out last year, though this is like a more recent 97 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,839 thing, and you know, it looks pretty janky, but it also looks 98 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:41,040 like kind of fun and obviously it has like very much the Minds of Maria 99 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,120 sort of esthetic to it. But there you go. There's another game, 100 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,920 Rings of Power and Rings of Powder. If you're looking for some cheap Lord 101 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,480 of the Rings knockoffs. It makes me wonder what other games out there that 102 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,759 I just don't know the titles of that are knocking off Lord of the Rings 103 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,399 or just keep searching rings and then you know, leave like the last blank 104 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:03,519 and you'll get more and more searches. M that's so funny. I've not 105 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,279 heard of any of those titles. Yeah, I put Rings of Powder on 106 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,120 my wish list, and when it goes like five dollars or less, I 107 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,160 will I will pick it up and I will check it out. Uh. 108 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:15,920 And they in the descriptions and stuff that make a big point about being it 109 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:19,560 being very ironic, and I'm like, I don't know if like just blatant 110 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,279 ip theft is not irony, but sure, man, whenever you say, 111 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,240 but yeah, it looks like a good time. So there you go. 112 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:31,079 There's two games. That was my latest rabbit hole. But enough of that, 113 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:34,600 Enough of that, let's talk about this so Nintendo, uh, you 114 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:39,120 know, more more specifically, Peach, she's had a couple of games. 115 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,480 She had a DS game back and I think theyre maybe gone a SEQL for 116 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:44,959 that, which we've talked about here on side Quest before, because say really 117 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,319 enjoyed that game or had as a kid. And here we are, all 118 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:50,319 these years later and there's finally a new Princess Peach game. This is not 119 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,560 a sequel to UH. I think it was just called Super Princess Peach. 120 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:59,199 This is a new situation where Peach is going to the theater UH and then 121 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:01,759 all these hygiene occur. So, yeah, you've been playing this thing over 122 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,079 the weekend. I checked out the demo, so I've played like the first 123 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,680 half an hour of the game, which is not that meaningful, but yeah, 124 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,199 tell me about your your time with Princess Peach Showtime. How much how 125 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,240 much have you played and what are you thinking so far? Yeah, So 126 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,439 for Princess Peach Showtime, I think I've played about five or six hours into 127 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,720 it, so pretty pretty lengthy amount of time. I did backtrack because it's 128 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,480 been it's it's got a classic marioism where there's like star or like collectibles on 129 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,360 the missions that if you don't necessarily have to get them all but there's like 130 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:35,039 a lot because normally there's like maybe three in tomorrow level, but it seems 131 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,720 like there's sometimes ten or something. Yeah, so each level has ten. 132 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,000 So there's been times I've just been like, Wow, let's go back and 133 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,080 collect all those before I keep moving on. But yeah, I know, 134 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,679 five or six hours and I've been I guess I should preface with saying like 135 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:54,080 the lead up to this game got me extremely hype because I wasn't always the 136 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,679 biggest like specifically Princess Peach fan, but just through recent years, I've definitely 137 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,679 grown to have her in my my s tier catalog when it comes to Mario 138 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:05,759 characters. I absolutely love Peach. She's my go to whenever I play a 139 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:09,240 Mario game these days, and just like the announcement of this game just got 140 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,519 me so excited because obviously now she's like one of my favorite characters in Mario 141 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:18,600 and to just have her own like standalone. I did play the one way 142 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,720 back in the day on the DS. I thought it was all right, 143 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:24,480 but like nothing too spectacular, but just a new modern version of Peach. 144 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:28,759 I feel like she's even more relevant now because of of course Anya Taylor Joy 145 00:09:28,759 --> 00:09:31,600 playing her in the Mario movie, like she'd a big role in that movie, 146 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,919 definitely boost the stock of that character, I think overall, and just 147 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,080 what this game was kind of marketed as was really interesting that it's it is 148 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:48,039 like a play that you know that you're doing different plays and along that comes 149 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,440 different to tire and like different stories I guess that you're going on. And 150 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,600 just the fact that it was a Princess Peach game and the aesthetic just totally 151 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,679 had me sold. I showed Shaye the trailer, She's like, oh my 152 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,559 god, we're getting that. We're getting that day one, so she was 153 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,559 super stoked. She was working like over the weekends, so she doesn't fully 154 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,200 got the chance to dive into it. She played a little bit, but 155 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:09,440 I think she was saying tomorrow because she's at work right now, so tomorrow 156 00:10:09,519 --> 00:10:13,159 she's gonna be jumping into this pretty hardcore and there's no co op in it, 157 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,320 right it is. Yeah, we're a little bit bummed by that because 158 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,080 lately, like her and I had been going through these Mario games together, 159 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,279 like Mario Wonder, like just co op in that sense, it has been 160 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,639 lots of fun. It would have been cool Daisy was in there as that 161 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,919 we were talking about Daisy never really gets the time to shine either, and 162 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,960 we talked about how in wonder she finally got like the playable slot on the 163 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,639 roster there. Yeah, it would have been a cool update, but I 164 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,799 don't know they could do it in the future. I guess with this gameplay 165 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:41,559 wise too, Like it totally would have been fine to have her in there. 166 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,559 Doesn't seem like it would have been too challenging to work her in there, 167 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,799 but whatever, maybe the next one. But no, anyways, get 168 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:56,960 getting onto the me playing this game now. I I've honestly it's surpassed my 169 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,519 expectations of this. I really liked what was shown there, but some of 170 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:05,279 the gameplay it just seemed like it was gonna be like very kitty and like 171 00:11:05,639 --> 00:11:09,519 not really a challenge. I don't know, Like there was different plays that 172 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:15,080 were shown in the trailer, but it just didn't have too much pizazz over 173 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,000 the fact that it was just like a standalone Peach game with some cool costumes. 174 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:22,639 But I absolutely love this game so much and I highly recommend it to 175 00:11:22,879 --> 00:11:26,279 Peach fans, but also just like Mario fans in general, I think that 176 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:31,799 this very much fits in that same well it is a Mario game, but 177 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:33,799 like it feels like a Mario game in the sense of difficulty, where I 178 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:37,720 feel like Mario games, like they are family oriented, so they're never really 179 00:11:37,759 --> 00:11:41,879 going to be too challenging. But it's a little bit more than just like 180 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,360 a super super easy sky side scroller where there's nothing more to it. There's 181 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:50,639 certain just challenges that you kind of have to come across depending on which play 182 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:56,120 you're on. Like there's a it's called like Detective Peach or like like that's 183 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,200 that transformation, but it's kind of like a Sherlock Holmes inspired world, and 184 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,720 I was getting so like just totally puzzled on like some of these puzzles. 185 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:09,320 There's a couple other ones that I was not necessarily like bashing my head against 186 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,639 the wall, but I kind of had to scratch my head and figure out 187 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:13,559 how to tackle the situation. So that was kind of surprising. I think 188 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,120 the first world that I did, it was super easy, so I was 189 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,200 a little bit worried of like, Okay, this is gonna be just kind 190 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,039 of turned my brain off and just advanced through this game. But it's a 191 00:12:24,039 --> 00:12:26,519 lot more to that, and I think the key reason being like these different 192 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,240 plays that you do, and there's only ten transformations across the board. I 193 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,799 haven't experienced all of them. There's a couple, like I think big like 194 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:41,200 story ones that come near the end. Just by googling, that's how that's 195 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,200 kind of how it seems it's gonna be. But but yeah, no, 196 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,080 just just the different costumes that you get. I think it's seriously a highlight 197 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,960 of mine in this game, just the different attire and the different abilities that 198 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,879 you have on Peach. Just just like, man, when you go like 199 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,879 Ninja Peach, I'm just like, I want to stand alone Ninja Peach game, 200 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,080 Like this is so sick, and like just the aesthetic to it, 201 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,080 as well as how it feels like the little new mechanics that you get on 202 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:09,960 Peach is just it's it's so fun. It's it's so awesome. And I 203 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,440 think that was the biggest surprise for me, because I knew it was gonna 204 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,679 be cool to kind of see Peach in these different outfits and just these different 205 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,559 worlds that you go in through these plays, but to actually be playing it 206 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,320 and just doing these like stealth attacks as Peach like in a Mario game, 207 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,120 it's just oh wow, I never I never really thought that this would be, 208 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,279 you know, a game that I'm playing, But here we are, 209 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:33,120 and No, I think they did a really good job with just the whole 210 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,799 esthetic that it is a play. It kind of reminds me of I think 211 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,360 it's called Battle Block Theater. Have you ever played that game. It's like 212 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,720 a platformer. No, I haven't played it co op, but like same 213 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:45,840 sort of thing that there's a theater going on, so like there's there's viewers 214 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:50,000 and they just like I don't know, there's certain little quality of uh not 215 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,879 quit life, little just little things that I guess like just boost the immersion 216 00:13:54,879 --> 00:13:56,440 that it is a play, and this game has that littered throughout, like 217 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:01,840 whether there's like you're riding a horror when you're in like the the Western world, 218 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:03,559 but like it's on like strings as if it's just like a play going 219 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,279 on. Right, all of that stuff I think is really really fun. 220 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:09,919 That's that's kind of like a fun throwback too, because like Super Mario Bros. 221 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:15,440 Three is like framed as a play essentially, Like the opening title card 222 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,039 of that game, right, is like them pulling back the curtain and you're 223 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:20,080 like going behind the scene and with the white blocks and stuff. So it's 224 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:24,279 kind of interesting that I don't I can't recall time that Mario's ever gone back 225 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:28,039 to that sort of setting. Ye, it's fun that this is kind of 226 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,879 a fun reprisal of that. I guess the difference that would be like that 227 00:14:31,919 --> 00:14:33,600 whole game is like based to be a play. Where is this one like 228 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,559 she's going to the theater? Yeah, of course something happens and this game 229 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,480 actually is meaningful with that, whereas Mario three it's like I guess when you 230 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,960 get to the end of the level, like you go off stage and that's 231 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,200 like about about as much as it goes, like connects to that theme other 232 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:50,240 than the opening. Yeah. But but yeah, so back to this one, 233 00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:54,240 I think that just like the synopsis, like the plot like it's nothing 234 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:58,840 too it's like game. But it's kind of funny how Mario games usually go 235 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,840 trend where like our characters are at somewhere and they're like having a good time 236 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:07,720 and then like a big bad comes in and then just like just like corrupts 237 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:09,919 it a little bit, and then that's like the challenge of the game. 238 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,080 I've noticed that just throughout the years, it seems like they kind of follow 239 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,600 that theme, but it works, you know, it's definitely the Mario thing 240 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:16,840 to it. You get a new companion in this game. Her name is 241 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:24,120 Stella. That's the the little star thing that floats with you. She's really 242 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,600 cute. I really like that character to be the little tag along Mario. 243 00:15:28,679 --> 00:15:33,039 Wonder you had the Prince I forget his name, but Florian I think Florian, 244 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,279 that's right. I like Stell a lot more than Florian. Florian was 245 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,799 a little obnoxious, I agree, but but yeah, I know, I 246 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:45,559 think gameplay wise, like again, it's it's not going to be like super 247 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,679 super challenging. Maybe one day we'll be getting a difficulty selector in a Mario 248 00:15:48,759 --> 00:15:54,840 game. Today is not that day. But I think it's it's a good 249 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:56,639 enough challenge where there has been a couple of times that I've had to like 250 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,720 redo a level, not just because I missed one of the double stars, 251 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,919 but because I actually just like failed it. Whereas there is certain missions that 252 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,960 maybe they feel super easy, but I think the fact that there is so 253 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:14,600 many different ones and you have very different mechanics depending on what the uh the 254 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,159 play is that you're doing, I think it doesn't feel repetitive in that way 255 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,240 at all, which is which is really nice because it's it's really just motivated 256 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:26,519 me to keep wanting to go. So yeah, I mentioned the theater that 257 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:32,840 you're at how you progress through the game is there's different floors of the theater. 258 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,480 There's a basement level as well, but I think those are like the 259 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,759 later stages, like maybe even postgame stuff like some like even Mario Wonder it 260 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:44,679 had like the tricky level area. Yeah, the hidden areas. I think 261 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:45,919 it's gonna be something similar to that. I haven't done any of the basement 262 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,080 levels yet, but I'm on the third floor and just through googling, I 263 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,240 found out that there's there's five floors total, and each one has like five 264 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:57,519 stages to it, and then of course there's like the ten collectible stars on 265 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:02,200 each one. So yeah, that's kind of like your frame of reference for 266 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,559 how long the game is each level. I was asking Shaye about this as 267 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:08,160 we're going along with it. It's like, how would you compare these level 268 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,000 lengths to like some of the Mario Wonder levels for example, And I think 269 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,119 some of them are like significantly longer than the Mario Wonder levels. But there 270 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,160 has also been someone that I've like really breezed through and it seems shorter than 271 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,680 certain Mario Wonder levels, So I think all, like overall, it's pretty 272 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,240 similar in length, maybe a little bit longer than the Mario Wonder levels, 273 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:30,400 which is just like kind of your standard Mario you know, platform or type 274 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,880 type level lengths. They all kind of feel like a similar It's not like 275 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,960 one that's two minutes once, it's like fifteen minutes. It's not out less 276 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,799 trials, you know, where you could be going for an hour plus or 277 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,039 forty minutes or whatever it is. Yeah, well, considering there are ten 278 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,759 is it stars are the collecktable in this? Yeah, considering there's ten in 279 00:17:48,799 --> 00:17:52,119 every level, Like, I don't know if you're trying to get all those 280 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:55,839 would that put you in a level for like fifteen twenty minutes if you're trying 281 00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:59,160 to find them or is it not so complicated to get them? Not so 282 00:17:59,319 --> 00:18:03,480 complicated? Like for me, there's been a few times where I'm just going 283 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,359 through the levels and then it's the same thing in like the other Marder games 284 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,839 where there's three coins for example, and let's say you get one and then 285 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,000 it gives you the second coin. You're like oh, I missed the first 286 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,519 one. I'm gonna for that. There's there's only been a few times where 287 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:17,759 I get to a point I'm like, oh, I just missed two stars, 288 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:21,039 like I don't even know where I miss them or anything like that. 289 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,720 There has been instances where you have to do a certain like sequence of things 290 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,359 to get that one extra star and I just like missed it or something, 291 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,839 and it doesn't come back until you like read the level. So it's like, 292 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:33,839 oh, okay, well, well that kind of sucks. But at 293 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,359 least I know what to look out for for next time. But you know, 294 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,119 like like the game is still pretty well. It is very linear. 295 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,000 It is still kind of like a side scroller for the most part, with 296 00:18:45,079 --> 00:18:47,759 a little bit more I don't know what, deman, it's kind of like 297 00:18:47,799 --> 00:18:52,079 a crash pandiculet really yeah, yeah, exactly, which is kind of a 298 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:55,799 surprise to me. I really thought it was going to be mostly just like 299 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:57,599 a side scroller with a little bit of you know, depth to it, 300 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:00,240 like you can go backwards a little bit, which there is a lot of 301 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,839 levels that Dove that does have that. But there's there's also, like you 302 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,960 mentioned the crash crash Bandicoot reference, I think is is definitely uh right on. 303 00:19:10,839 --> 00:19:12,839 So yeah, I know, so I'm like I said, I'm on 304 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:17,920 the third floor. There's ten transformations total. I think two of those are 305 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,480 like the big Story ones. But obviously if there's only ten transformations, like 306 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:26,680 certain theaters, they come up multiple times, which which is great because, 307 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,880 like I said, like the new Jitch my gosh, the Ninjitsu one where 308 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,599 where you're Ninja Peach, that that one's just so fun, and those levels 309 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:40,079 I really look forward to. Surprisingly, I think my favorite transformation though well 310 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,079 or like maybe maybe I maybe it'd be hard for me to choose one favorite, 311 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,400 but like the s tier of the transformations for me is actually figure Skater 312 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,400 Peach. Those levels are so fun to me, just the movement that she 313 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:55,559 does and the animation that they have, Like it's not like she's just doing 314 00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:57,519 like one skating animation. Like sometimes if she's going around a corner, she'll 315 00:19:57,559 --> 00:20:02,319 like switch to going backwards and she's like looking backwards as she's skating backwards, 316 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:06,920 and then she'll be like a little spin. The big like air quote challenge 317 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,920 in that level is like you kind of have to do like a it's not 318 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,759 a recital is it, but like like a figure skating dance, I guess, 319 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:15,640 and like you have to do certain spins or jumps and then you you're 320 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,920 kind of like in sync with these other like NPC characters that are kind of 321 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,400 your allies, and it just I don't know, like the animations to it, 322 00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:29,079 the music, just how it feels to like hit those those those dead 323 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,000 on like little tricks that you have to do and just just peaches outfit and 324 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:37,440 it is so Phenomenal's very much like Elsa from Frozen, Like it seems the 325 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,000 overall aesthetic is like that. But I mean, as I was mentioning earlier, 326 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,319 I think all of the suits are just or transformations I guess, are 327 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:47,640 just phenomenal. I think they they did such a good job with the uniqueness 328 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,000 of it. It really just makes me like, obviously you want more of 329 00:20:51,039 --> 00:20:53,000 it, but for like Mario or Luigi, you know, like I want 330 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,960 to see Luigi as the as the Ninja version, and like just just the 331 00:20:57,559 --> 00:21:00,720 I don't know, the stories that you could tell from these different things. 332 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,480 Like I was mentioned earlier, I would just take like a full on Ninja 333 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,559 Peach game. And I thought about that with like the Detective Peach sequence. 334 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,880 Like I it's I just think it's really fun like putting these characters that we 335 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,079 know and love in these different environments and give them like these different mechanics. 336 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,400 Like for the Ninja one, for example, she is like a stealth mechanic. 337 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,960 She can like jump out like off walls to like scale just just things, 338 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:27,200 and she's got her coon eye, so she's like dangerous. There's Kung 339 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:30,440 Fu Peach in there as well. There's like a superhero one. I forget 340 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,400 what that one's called. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I know. 341 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,640 All of the different transformations are so phenomenal. I oh the sword for any 342 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:42,039 one that that one's phenomenal too. I love it. It gave like a 343 00:21:42,079 --> 00:21:47,640 dodge mechanic to the game. This one, Like it's not too challenging. 344 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,720 It's not like you're playing elden Ring or like near Automata where you have like 345 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:53,599 really time those like the dodge button with it. It's kind of just like 346 00:21:53,799 --> 00:21:57,000 your attack button, so as you're just like button smashing everyone small, you 347 00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:03,039 do this like really awesome likedgibility. Esthetically it's super pleasing, but it's not 348 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:08,440 the most like obviously gameplay challenging and funny you say that when I was playing 349 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,839 through, because that's one of the the two transformations that are in the demo, 350 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,400 or sword Fighter and Patisserie or I don't know how you pronounced that exactly, 351 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,000 but yeah, like the first guy, like Mini Boss, you have 352 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,359 to fight with the sword Fighter and you have to like Dodge has hit like 353 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,680 right at the right time, and then she'll like jump on his head or 354 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,000 something, and that's how you win the fight. I I took me like 355 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:30,880 two three minutes like figure that out, because I just like I was buton 356 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,119 meashing when I'm hitting him all the time, I'm like, I don't know 357 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,480 what I have to do here. I was like surprised at how unintuitive that 358 00:22:37,599 --> 00:22:40,559 was for me. So I can definitely see where some challenges could come in, 359 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,359 even if it's maybe not how they intended it to be. Just once 360 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,079 I figured that out though, that I like through the rest of the game, 361 00:22:47,079 --> 00:22:51,160 I wouldn't have that issue again with that particular mode exactly, like the 362 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,680 mini enemies that you just like kind of one shot, like they'll just come 363 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,279 at you and if you're already attacking, like if they eventually attack, I'll 364 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,160 just do like the Dodge but for bosses, I guess they do. You 365 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,680 kind of have like a dodge window, but it is super forgiving, like 366 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,039 they kind of like wind up and then pause for like a second, and 367 00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:07,680 then as long as you kind of hit it in that timeframe, you'll do 368 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:11,720 the little war pability. But you know, it's still still visually pleasing. 369 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:15,240 But but yeah, I think, uh, I mean, I guess I 370 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,039 should reference my notes. Well, yeah I can. I can bring a 371 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:22,519 couple of questions at yeah too, so absolutely so. Yeah. The other 372 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,880 thing that surprised me when I was playing it is when I got into that 373 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,640 Petissier section when you have like a decorate a bunch of cakes. Yeah, 374 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,200 and I think I was like on my phone for like ten seconds or something. 375 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,400 Then I didn't realize that the whole thing was like on a timer, 376 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:38,000 and I was like, ohh and then and then I was freaking out and 377 00:23:38,039 --> 00:23:42,000 I didn't end up finishing it. I mean, if you just I think 378 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,519 if the time runs out at all, you could probably progress. But if 379 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:47,480 you want to get like all the Stars, you had to complete it like 380 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:48,759 in a certain amount of time, So I don't know how hard that would 381 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:52,720 be. I didn't like restart the level to try it again. But I 382 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:56,000 was I thought that was cool like thing to throw in there, because that 383 00:23:56,039 --> 00:24:00,000 could add some difficulty to where they can put some time some more tricky challenges 384 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,640 because once again, you have ten stars. So even if like a kid's 385 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,880 playing this game, they're gonna be happy because they got five or six or 386 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,119 something like, they're like, oh, look at all the stars I got. 387 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:11,160 But then for someone like people like us who are maybe looking for a 388 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,279 little bit more challenge at times, it seems like with ten stars, it 389 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:15,880 gives them a lot of room to do that. So I found that for 390 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,799 sure. With the that baking section, which was really cute. That was 391 00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:22,519 like it reminded me of like cooking Mama and decorating the cakes you do the 392 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:26,720 puzzle, it was really fun. When it's stressful and you have the timeframe, 393 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,839 it's more like overcooked. I feel like I was totally stressing and like 394 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,720 going back and forth. But yeah, I know, just to your point, 395 00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:36,279 with like the collectibles throughout the level, I feel like a big part 396 00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:40,680 of it too. I mean, the fact that they have ten stars there 397 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,759 and like if like some of them, if you miss, like you just 398 00:24:42,799 --> 00:24:47,960 can't backtrack, So it's almost like you have to like like really think about 399 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,279 them as you're going along the level, because they are pretty evenly spaced out. 400 00:24:51,319 --> 00:24:52,519 I feel like just as you go along, like you will pick them 401 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:56,359 up, you know, as long as you find them and you hit all 402 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,000 the markers when you should. But there has been times when, especially that 403 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:02,559 baking what you mentioned, like I don't know if it was the same mission 404 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:06,160 or if it was on like one of the other floors, but like the 405 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,640 baking one where you have to do the challenge, I had to redo it 406 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,119 like three different times because the first time I did it and then I like 407 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,759 just screwed up. And then I realized it's like, okay, well I'm 408 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:17,160 not gonna get the start, so I'm just gonna restart here now that I 409 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,039 know how to do it. And then I did that, and I was 410 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:25,680 still just getting totally screwed up on certain parts. And and but like as 411 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,720 you mentioned, like it it it does kind of feel like a different game, 412 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,240 like Cooking Mama or or I mean I brought up overcook but it's just 413 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:34,119 like a it's like a Mario Party mini game too, Like, yeah, 414 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,240 some of these levels, and I think that that probably is a Mario Party 415 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:41,920 mini game in one of the games, Yeah, I would imagine, oh 416 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:45,000 for sure. And all of that kind of leads into the fact that, 417 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:48,400 like, this game is just fun to kind of progress on because although maybe 418 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,480 you don't like like one of the themes, like you don't really have to 419 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:56,559 do them in a certain order. Well, I guess by the end of 420 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,680 the floor you have to finish all five. But it's not like you and 421 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:00,880 lock the first one and then go to the second one. I like it. 422 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,880 You go to the floor and they're just kind of all open. So 423 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,519 for me, if I see like a transformation that I really like playing, 424 00:26:06,759 --> 00:26:11,160 I'll probably go to that one first, for example. And yeah, it 425 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:14,839 just you kind of know what mechanics to expect depending on if you had played 426 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,599 that transformation before and if you haven't, it's something new. So yeah, 427 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,920 that's yeah question for you here because you know, so I guess for me 428 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:26,799 my perspective, you're like going to this scene the trailers as like, I 429 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,880 don't know, this game looks a bit too simple, Like I don't think 430 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,839 gameplay wise, I personally am gonna enjoy it. So that's where I liked 431 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:37,440 that they had a demo so I could check it out for myself. And 432 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:41,319 I mean, I from what you're saying, it sounds like it gets more 433 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,960 interesting like pretty quickly after those first couple levels, so I'm sure I would 434 00:26:45,039 --> 00:26:48,640 enjoy my time more. It was like just okay from what I played of 435 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,680 it, But I also like had very low expectations for it, and I 436 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,519 think it's just for like eighty bucks, you know, ninety whatever with tax 437 00:26:56,519 --> 00:26:59,640 It's like it's hard for me to justify that when I like played the demos, 438 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,000 like, ah, this is so so. But one thing that really 439 00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:07,440 bothered me was a frame rate, Like it was really choppy run it was 440 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:10,880 like thirty but feels more like twenty a lot of the time, and for 441 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,839 how little detail there is, and like the visuals and how much how little 442 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,960 there is on screen an even time, even the like the basic lobby and 443 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,680 stuff. That was really surprising to me and kind of a bummer. Now 444 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,880 for a game that you know you're talking about, how like how forgiving the 445 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,559 Perry window is like sword fighter mode, so it's not going to really affect 446 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:32,279 the game play in a huge way, but it was like it was surprising 447 00:27:32,279 --> 00:27:33,440 for me. I don't think I've played a switch game with that bad of 448 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,759 performance in a while, so I'm surprised this from a first party game like 449 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,920 Zelda chops at times, but this was even more hose boll than that. 450 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,680 No. It it definitely was like one of the first things I even noticed 451 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,319 on It's like because you boot it up and then it plays like the little 452 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,640 entry video right away. I wasn't sure if it was just like a design 453 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:56,480 choice for it to be like certain, and then I realized it was just 454 00:27:56,519 --> 00:27:59,839 the frames and you know, of course, just spent like eighty bucks a 455 00:27:59,839 --> 00:28:03,119 lof this. You're gonna come into this brand new game and you're like, 456 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,039 really, this is what I'm getting. I will say, I don't know 457 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,319 if I'm just used to it or if it gets or if it like stabled 458 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:11,920 out at one point for me, but I really don't notice it like at 459 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,279 all anymore, which is good because, like, like you mentioned, like 460 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:18,039 that was the first thing I did notice. Even just moving through like the 461 00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:22,640 first level, it felt really bad. I just like rate like you kind 462 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,799 of you kind of get used to it, but I I think it was 463 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:27,960 like when I was playing Red Fall last year, I'm like, man, 464 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,319 this game is choppy, but like you eventually get used. I'm like, 465 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,920 it doesn't feel too bad. Then I go play hit Man and it was 466 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,440 so smooth. Eve when she's a sixty, I'm like, oh god, 467 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:38,799 it becomes so noticeable once again. But yeah, if that's all you're playing, 468 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,480 you do kind of adjust to it over time. And like, I 469 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:48,680 think another thing that helps too is that the facts that this game isn't It's 470 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,640 not like a like a Dark Souls or something where like every little frame could 471 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,000 matter, like depending on like if you're getting hit. Like like it is 472 00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:57,799 a simple game. And I mean I was mentioning earlier with hip box and 473 00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:02,559 help forgiving and that stuff. Is like this game can't be very forgiving because 474 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:07,640 it is for just families in general, maybe younger audiences, and that helps, 475 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,920 but still that that that shouldn't be an excuse by any means, Like 476 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,400 this game should feel, especially that it's a Nintendo game, it should feel 477 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,599 really refined on their own system and even just like the low times. I 478 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,119 know you mentioned this on like previous episodes, but like, man, I'm 479 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,920 just such a glutton for my my SSDs now like in my in my systems. 480 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,319 That switch to thought we needed to switch to for Princess Peach showtime. 481 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:34,799 Yeah, that's pretty laughable. But I'm just so used to like these past 482 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:37,640 load times now that if anytime it isn't, it's like, oh man, 483 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:41,200 this is this is rough and it feels dated. So unfortunately I kind of 484 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,279 had that thought, which is definitely a bummer. But uh, I guess 485 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:48,519 that would be my biggest negative on this game, Soule, That's something that's 486 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:52,559 good. I man, hearing you talk about all these transformations in the ninja 487 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:55,599 on and stuff, like, even when I was seeing the trailer for this 488 00:29:55,599 --> 00:29:59,920 game, I'm like, man, I hope the next Smash game like revitalizes 489 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:02,759 Peaches move set, cause she's had the same move set since Melee, like 490 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,119 minor tiny little differences, but yeah, man, I hope they take a 491 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,359 bunch of these crazy forms or even just like us one move like throwing the 492 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:14,680 the shuracan or whatever, and just incorporate the her move set and then like 493 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,640 you know, Daisy can keep that that traditional Peach move set and still you 494 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,119 know, people who like that can still have that that move set. But 495 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:23,920 man, I really hope they incorporate some of these crazy new films into her 496 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,759 her move set going forward. I want like an agile fighter Peach. I'd 497 00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:30,640 be sweet man like, take the dress up not and not like a nude 498 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,880 way, but you know, put her like her action suit on that she 499 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,400 has in the Mario movie, and yeah, get some of these more agile 500 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,200 moves would be really cool. That'd be really sweet on it, or like 501 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,119 even just make it more of kind of a transformy type character that can have 502 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,000 different too, just I guess play styles as you go along. I don't 503 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,960 know how you balance that. Obviously smashes a competitive game, that might be 504 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,160 tricky, but I mean, I guess they already have multiple forms like they 505 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,200 have POKEMONA they do. I mean for characters like they usually just yeah, 506 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:02,599 I wouldn't change the costume necessarily, but they would just like have the different 507 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:04,759 moves from the different games and they kind of blend them nicely. And then 508 00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:08,359 I guess you could just make it like her separate costumes at the character select 509 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,240 screen, like you could pick Ninja Peach and that would be a different variation 510 00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:15,279 you could have, which would be a cool way to do it. But 511 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,880 yeah, I hope you see something like that. And then on the transformations, 512 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,680 so the way your describe it sounds like each So there's five levels per 513 00:31:22,759 --> 00:31:25,799 floor. So when you any one of those five levels, like you're kind 514 00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:27,960 of going in there and you're Detective Peach for that level, there isn't much 515 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,200 of like Detective Peach for one little section and the switch to Patisserie Peach and 516 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,039 then maybe do Ninja Peach for like a jumping sequence. It's kind of like 517 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,079 confined. Each level is one theme. Yeah, you got it. So 518 00:31:41,079 --> 00:31:42,119 I don't know how it was in the demo for you, Like did you 519 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,839 have the main hub in the demo where just the main lobby area, which 520 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,000 yeah, did have I think five levels and it like the staircase going up. 521 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,480 Okay, yeah, so it's basically that like going up. They have 522 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,599 like different themes, so it's different colors or whatnot. But like at the 523 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:01,480 door before you enter, like I guess the theater, I guess it would 524 00:32:01,519 --> 00:32:05,359 be, it has like a little emblem so you know like which one it 525 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,519 is going into it. Okay, like the figure skate, Uh, it'll 526 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:10,400 just have a figure skate on there, so you know that you're getting the 527 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,119 figure skate level. And it's usually like a snow or ice theme obviously to 528 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,559 go hand in hand with it, which but like again I just I really 529 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:21,440 like it because you kind of know what you're jumping into and then and then 530 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,279 it's just the theme of that play is you know X For example, like 531 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,480 if you're doing the Cowgirl Beach, it's it's Western times and no I like 532 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:35,119 it. Like it's got different music depending on what level you're on. I 533 00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,839 feel like Mario games, they just have some phenomenal music sometimes. Yeah, 534 00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:43,759 what is the Cowboy peach? Like? Because because for each form it's like 535 00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:45,559 you're always just moving, You've a jump button, then like an action button, 536 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:49,119 Like it's pretty simple, right, what is the Cowboy one? What 537 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,559 is the action button for? So you got you got a whip or not? 538 00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:54,119 I guess it's not a lasso, Yeah, exactly. So so you're 539 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:59,480 you're last sewing uh an object and then tossing it. So it's most of 540 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,920 the time it's it's either enemies or like barrels or something that you'll grab. 541 00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,839 And then like a big part of that level is you jump on a horse 542 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,039 and then you're you're kind of doing like a pursuit in that sense, you 543 00:33:09,119 --> 00:33:14,880 got to jump over things kind of like it's a moving stage kind of situation, 544 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,160 so you're like avoiding obstacles and then your your last sewing objects, and 545 00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:22,799 yeah, well I think it's I think it's fun. It's not my favorite 546 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,599 by any mean, but uh, you know, it's no figure skating, 547 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,079 but that's for sure, but uh yeah, I know it's still really fun. 548 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,480 What else was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, just on the 549 00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:37,720 topic of like the transformations. Obviously you get different outfits and and such, 550 00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:40,680 and something that I think is new to a Mario game. Maybe maybe you 551 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,599 can correct me. You played a lot of more games in your day, 552 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,160 but you can like customize your outfit, like not necessarily the transformation, but 553 00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:52,079 like just Princess Peaches dress like as as you go on. If you beat 554 00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:58,200 like one of the one of the bosses of the first level, it's it's 555 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,920 called like disco wing, so it's like a disco et like boss battle that 556 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,079 you do, and then after that you get like the disco version of like 557 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,559 Peach's dress, So it just kind of changes the pattern. It doesn't it 558 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,480 doesn't change anything too much. But I was still just like shocked at the 559 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,559 fact that I'm like, I don't think I've ever played a game that you 560 00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:17,079 can just like customize the outfit of a character. Like it's not super It's 561 00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:21,480 no red Dead Redemption by any means where you're like selecting what kind of like 562 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:23,480 armband you want to wear, or no Bawler's Gate where you can pick what 563 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:28,639 penis you want. Yeah, there's no penis sliders in the Peach Show time 564 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,679 by any means. But still it was just kind of like a shock because 565 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:34,800 you're right, most like Mario games. It's like if it's a two D 566 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,719 platformer, you're not gonna have that because you know, you grab a mushroom 567 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,000 term bag, you grab fire YouTube to like fire Mario. But yeah, 568 00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:43,159 the only one I can think of is like Mario Odyssey off the top of 569 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,320 my head, because you're going to the shop and buying all sorts of different 570 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,840 costumes there and you can just wear them at any given time. But yeah, 571 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,159 I don't I don't know if I can recall another one off the top 572 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,920 of my house, and then like, uh, I guess Mario Kart, 573 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:59,239 like some characters can change their color or something, and like Mario Golf, 574 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,679 the one on the switch has like one costume per characters, Like, I 575 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,880 don't know, it's it is pretty minimal, So that's that's a fun element 576 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,639 of customization. I think. Yeah, I think I was just kind of 577 00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:12,039 shocked that I went to this one store and the only thing was like costumes. 578 00:35:12,119 --> 00:35:14,320 I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting. You can even change 579 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,719 like Stella has a ribbon, you can kind of change the color of a 580 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:21,440 ribbon. Nice. I mean I even unlocked anything for Stella. But I'm 581 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,039 sure if you can unlock like more things for Peach, there's no reason why 582 00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:27,519 you wouldn't be able to do it for Stella as well. And yeah, 583 00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:30,320 I don't know, it's just it's super minor, Like, it's not gameplay 584 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,280 changing by any means, but it's it's a nice little addition to to the 585 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,719 Mario universe. Maybee maybe a little bit behind, but still, I I 586 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:44,519 it was a nice addition for sure. And yeah, anything else on this 587 00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:49,760 game, what will I say? Oh, one really minor thing, little 588 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,480 like quality of life improvement. I don't know if you notice this in the 589 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,000 demo, but you can like slide down ratings. Now, there's a lot 590 00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:58,360 of stairs in this game, so it'll be like you can run down the 591 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,000 stairs. I just accidentally went to the railing and she just like hopped on 592 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:04,840 and slid down super minor like again, but I think I did that like 593 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,639 twice the first time I realized is that more in the fun in the lobby 594 00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:09,840 area, like going down those stairs, you mean, or like just any 595 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,320 staircase, any staircase. Yeah, so it's mostly in like the theater that 596 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,119 you encountered those things, but there has been a couple levels that I've I've 597 00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:20,960 seen them, and yeah, she just hops right on there slides down. 598 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,039 I'm like, this is sweet, another like little minor thing. I don't 599 00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:28,000 know if they've done this in previous Mario or Princess Peach games, but she 600 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,079 like lifts her dress up when she runs. Now, I noticed that a 601 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:34,000 lot. I really like that up in front of her. Yeah, it 602 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,400 was exactly like just those little details. Mario Wonder added a few like things 603 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,920 like that with a little great animation details, and it's just like I like 604 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,760 when the ad when they add these things the staircase. That's smart because I 605 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:51,760 feel like that's a classic thing in games. It's so hard to get characters 606 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,960 like walk downstairs accurately like UK four did it, and it was like it's 607 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,840 so slow because it's so accurate. I just end up jumping on the stairs 608 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,159 anyway and take a bit of damage. So I think that's like a that's 609 00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:02,639 a clever solution to like, you know what, it's gonna look bad, 610 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,440 Let's just have them slide down the railing because that will always look good. 611 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:08,559 So I like that. It's kind of a two and one solution there. 612 00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:13,480 It's faster, more convenient, but also probably from the animation perspective, makes 613 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,480 it look a bit better too. Yeah, no, absolutely agree. The 614 00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:22,719 little it's like, you know, every Mario game has just like like the 615 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,000 what would I call them, just the civilians I guess of the world. 616 00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:34,599 Like in Wonder they had the flower, yeah what else? So in this 617 00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:38,199 one, at least they're called teeths I think, or maybe I should pull 618 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:43,239 that up, so I don't. It was something weird that does feats, 619 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,559 That's what it is. Yeah, kind of h E E T. And 620 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:50,360 to me, they just look like the head of those like caterpillar type things 621 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,960 that you encounter, the yellow ones, but like it's just the head, 622 00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:57,119 so it's just like a ball with like the big nose. The nose glows 623 00:37:57,119 --> 00:38:00,440 a lot of the time like their world pretty much. Yeah, Peaches visiting 624 00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:02,400 right, Yeah, exactly, So they're they're littered throughout the world. They're 625 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,880 like the the good guys that you'll rescue throughout. You're saving a lot of 626 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,280 them throughout the game as well. And uh like I recognize the character just 627 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,480 because of what I reference, like the little caterpillars that you encounter in Mario 628 00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:19,400 games. Wiggler, Yeah, the Wiggler. But like they've been lots of 629 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,880 fun too. I feel like the fact that they are pretty animated, Like 630 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,239 their noses will glow and flash and do different things if you don't have your 631 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:30,719 transformation. Like Peach is just kind of who she is. She has this 632 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,519 little ribbon that that gives her, like the Sparkle power to just kind of 633 00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:37,159 interact with objects in the world. You kind of just bring light to some 634 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,599 certain darkness thing. It's how you interact with a lot of objects, is 635 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,199 you know, you just hit B and you'll kind of spin your ribbon around 636 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,679 and yeah, like they'll just react through that. But they've been I feel 637 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,920 like one of my one of my more liked little nvcs in the Mario world. 638 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,800 A lot of them are just kind of knowing, you know, like 639 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,599 we've seen a lot of toads. I'm glad that we're kind of spreading out 640 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,400 into into the universe and and experiencing some other creatures out there. It's not 641 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:07,599 like there's feats and then like a bunch of different like just different species pofo 642 00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,320 the Mario world here. But I like them for their inclusion in this game. 643 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,719 I think they I don't know, they're just kind of colorful and unique 644 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,880 and super vibrant obviously with their noses always flashing, kind of a rude alph 645 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:24,199 effect there. Nice, cool, awesome. Should we move on for today? 646 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,039 Oh last thing I'll say, Actually, I'm glad I caught this, 647 00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:32,960 but when you do your transformation do you have any experience with Sailor Moon at 648 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:38,599 all? Very little? I love the aesthetic though, Should you point this 649 00:39:38,639 --> 00:39:40,880 out to me? And I did, and like as soon as she pointed 650 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,360 out to me, it just like blew my mind. There is there is 651 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,079 so many Sailor Moon type like references in this game. And I don't know 652 00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:52,199 if that's just like across the board and like previous Princess Peach adaptations, but 653 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,960 the font like for the game Princess Peach is basically like the exact same font 654 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:01,199 of Sailor Moon when like when you do your transformation, she she kind of 655 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:07,000 like grabs uh Stella's ribbon and then like spins around and turns like this like 656 00:40:07,119 --> 00:40:09,960 bright blue color, and it kind of does her transformation. It's the exact 657 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:14,880 same way that Sailor Moon and the other sailors like turn into their outfit. 658 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:16,880 They have a ribbon and they just kind of like spin around and then glob 659 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:22,119 blue and then they turn into their costume. Oh there was something else too. 660 00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,679 I'm so by my normal I should I should have wrote down these little 661 00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:30,760 details like the similarities there, and like obviously it could just be like heavily 662 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,199 inspired by by that. But as soon as she she told it to me, 663 00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:36,039 I'm like, oh my gosh, this game is just Sailor Moon. 664 00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:39,920 This is hilarious. The dress that you wear and like the figure skating one 665 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,480 and it kind of feels like a Sailor Moon outfit as well. But yeah, 666 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,559 I know, I I mean, Shay loves Sailor Moon. I've seen 667 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,599 quite a bit of the first show, and it's just another thing that I 668 00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:52,400 guess I like about about this game, the little Sailor Muon references there. 669 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,559 But yeah, yeah, nice. Yeah, it sounds like you're getting close 670 00:40:57,599 --> 00:41:00,440 to the end of this game. I don't know, seems like you still 671 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,400 have like another four or five hours ago, and then who knows what the 672 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,559 heck's going on in the basement there. Yeah, so yeah, hopefully next 673 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:07,960 time you're on side Quest you can share the rest of your journey with it. 674 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,760 Absolutely, And like, I think I was kind of surprised too, 675 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,119 like how much content there was. I think initially when I was doing the 676 00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:16,719 levels, I thought maybe there'd be like three floors or something, and then 677 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:21,039 I got there and then there were like still more staircases going up. And 678 00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:22,599 then obviously I knew about the basement. I kind of explored it, but 679 00:41:24,199 --> 00:41:29,440 they're just kind of these paintings that are glowing purple. More is gonna happen. 680 00:41:29,519 --> 00:41:30,920 Yeah, So I'm like, okay, there must be levels of unlock 681 00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:35,920 later on, curious what that is to or what's in there. But yeah, 682 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,800 and then I just googled and there's like five floors plus like the boss 683 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,719 battles that happened. It's like, oh wow, that's like there's some good 684 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,400 content here. I'm definitely definitely glad that I'm getting my money's worth out of 685 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,159 it, nonetheless, And I mean I've already enjoyed it so much that I 686 00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:50,840 feel like I have gotten the money's worth out of it in that sense. 687 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,360 But yeah, a lot more content still to explore. And definitely glad that 688 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,719 I picked this up. And I think anyone out there that you know is 689 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,719 a little bit on the fence, but they are a Princess Beach fan. 690 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,679 I think this is a great entry to carry on with the legacy that is 691 00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:08,320 the OG Princess. And yeah, nice, Yeah, I know. I'm 692 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,880 excited to see, hopefully this becomes a series or at least gets a sequel, 693 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,079 and see some other ideas with it in the future. But how about 694 00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:22,639 that we take an intermission here and we'll be right back. Okay, we 695 00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:24,880 are back, so let's talk about some news and then we'll get back to 696 00:42:25,039 --> 00:42:30,840 other games we've been playing. So Marvel nineteen forty three, Rise of Hydra. 697 00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:35,679 Don't you dare forget the name that title, because it's so memorable. 698 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,239 This game was announced, oh man, it could have been last year, 699 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:43,239 it might have been two years ago at this point. This is Amy Hennig's 700 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,280 studio, so previously have uncharted. She worked on some of those games in 701 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,320 this game previously didn't have a title. We just kind of called it King 702 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,719 Captain, Soldier, Spy because that's what like the stinger at the end of 703 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:59,159 the initial trailer what it it just said that, and I love that name, 704 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,159 and I knew it was never for the actual title, but I was 705 00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:04,480 hoping that they would keep it because I love that, and I think this 706 00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:07,559 new title does not roll off the tongue, but that's not super important here. 707 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:13,719 But yeah, do you remember seeing this game previously or is this series 708 00:43:13,679 --> 00:43:16,639 is kind of your first time seeing it here? At like while I was 709 00:43:16,679 --> 00:43:20,280 watching the trailer, I do remember, like seeing some of the imagery, 710 00:43:20,639 --> 00:43:23,840 I guess of the characters, but no, like I completely had forgotten about 711 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,400 that until I was watching the trailer. So just seeing like the actual name 712 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,880 there was was a big shocker because obviously, you know, like we had 713 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:36,559 just done that the what if review and the what if in that season has 714 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,960 is it nineteen forty three as well? Is at that same date? I 715 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,920 can't remember? Oh man, h no, sorry, never mind, it 716 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,320 was like eighteen something. When they're like in the medieval ages. I don't 717 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,960 know why those teams, Well, maybe you're thinking of like X Men, 718 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,599 because X Men had like that that episode where Wolverine goes back in time with 719 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,679 it must have been splicing in my brain, honestly, the thing. Yeah, 720 00:43:55,719 --> 00:44:00,360 so never mind scratch everything I just said there. But uh, yeah, 721 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,519 no, I did not really know what to expect into this one. 722 00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,760 I mean, it's been very quiet since then, and like I said, 723 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,320 that's been a while ago now, So this was a very specifically a story 724 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:13,960 trailer. There was no gameplay in here whatsoever. Now there's a couple shots 725 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,000 that maybe can give us some a clue of what the gameplay could be like 726 00:44:17,079 --> 00:44:21,119 here, But yeah, we kind of got a bigger show into this. 727 00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:22,840 We have the title now and they've said it's coming out twenty twenty five, 728 00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:25,079 so I imagine we're going to get a lot more of it soon. Like 729 00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:29,000 I think a summer game fest seems kind of imminent to get like a gameplay 730 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,840 trailer or game wards at the latest, unless maybe they're targeting like a fall 731 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,480 twenty twenty five, in which case could be next year at a summer game 732 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:38,920 fester or something like that that we would get more info on this. But 733 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,880 yeah, what did you what did you think of the story trailer. Did 734 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,480 this grab you? Does this pull you in? Are you excited for this 735 00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:50,119 game? You know? I was. I was going through a little bit 736 00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:52,400 of a roller coaster ride. I think on this one like a super like 737 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,679 easy one, kind of like a Disney coaster, not like a six flag 738 00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,800 type experience where it's like, what's going on kind of when they can pull 739 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,559 into a parking lot. Whe Yeah, like it's that easy exactly, And 740 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,039 that's how I was feeling this trailer. First off, I think just it 741 00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:13,960 looked beautiful. I think the Unreal engine looked really really superb, and they 742 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,760 did a great job just with all like the characters faces and just all those 743 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,639 like cinematics that their showcase. It's like, man, this looks beautiful, 744 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,199 and I'm excited for just games of the future. Just the fact that this 745 00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:27,519 looks like this. We've seen beautiful games in the past, so I'm not 746 00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:30,079 gonna say this looked like like the next thing that I you know, just 747 00:45:30,119 --> 00:45:34,840 blew my mind. It's not gameplay. You never know like how it translate. 748 00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:37,559 Yeah, no, exactly. It's it's funny, not not in the 749 00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:39,760 story trailer, but I think it's like the state of play or like talk 750 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:45,239 that they did. They brought Amy Amy Hnning is that her name? Hen 751 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,480 hennig uh. She was just saying like, oh, just so you know, 752 00:45:50,639 --> 00:45:52,320 like like that wasn't like a demo that we polished for this, that 753 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,880 was our game. And I'm like, well, it was a cinematic as 754 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,519 well. It's not like it's gameplay, we haven't seen that yet, but 755 00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:01,320 just the way they market that. But anyways, I'm going off tangent here, 756 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:06,880 but yeah, I just thought it looked phenomenal. I really did like 757 00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:12,079 the story that was kind of showing just the fact that you have it's not 758 00:46:12,119 --> 00:46:14,760 To'challa, right, it would be his father. I think it's to Chaka. 759 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,280 Yeah, yeah, okay, so King Tachaka as well as like Cap 760 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,519 and them just kind of doing this like almost cat and mouse thing at the 761 00:46:21,559 --> 00:46:23,840 start in this, like you know, kind of well, I guess it's 762 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,599 Hydra, but just like World War two, like occupied France type setting, 763 00:46:29,639 --> 00:46:32,679 it just is a really really cool setting for a game like this with cool 764 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:37,360 characters. But as it was going on and by the time it got to 765 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,360 the end, I was just kind of like, I don't know if I 766 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,440 would pick this game up. Actually, Like I I don't know. Obviously, 767 00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:45,920 I really need to see gameplay before I really make that determination. But 768 00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,519 this was a beautiful trailer, but it still wasn't quite enough to really win 769 00:46:51,599 --> 00:46:53,559 me over. And I don't know if I'm just evolving as I'm getting older 770 00:46:53,599 --> 00:46:58,039 and just like right away being like, I know this looks pretty, but 771 00:46:58,079 --> 00:47:00,840 like I'm not gonna put all my chips. You gotta finish Night Sunds first, 772 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,079 that's the that's the problem. Oh my gosh, I have one hundred 773 00:47:04,079 --> 00:47:07,800 games before I would even consider that. But or like this not not Midnight 774 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:13,320 Sounds. But I think maybe the lack of other superheroes might have been another 775 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,360 thing too, Like I do like Tap and the Chaka. But but yeah, 776 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,880 even then, like and I think we knew this before that I don't 777 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,320 think the Soldier is Bucky, Like I think the Soldier part of this King 778 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,679 Captain Soldier Spy is just not just gonna say some other guy like I'm sure 779 00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:31,199 he's relative, he's important to some compook run or something, but I don't 780 00:47:31,199 --> 00:47:35,800 know much about him. And then also like I believe when they were confirming 781 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,000 the characters before they said that, like and there's a door milage here that's 782 00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:44,000 a sustine black Panther, but I don't I don't think it's like a I 783 00:47:44,039 --> 00:47:45,400 mean timeline wise again, so it makes sense for it to be in Ni 784 00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,440 Kia or Koy or someone that we know. So yeah, I guess that's 785 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,920 also like a character that I'm not really familiar with. So I think that's 786 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,840 interesting to me, Like, Okay, cool an opportunity to get introduced to 787 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,920 some new characters here, and also to choca a black panther I'm not really 788 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,000 too familiar with myself. Cap, of course we've seen him a million times 789 00:48:01,039 --> 00:48:05,639 before, but yeah, I'm I'm excited for it in that way. But 790 00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:08,679 you're right, it does seem pretty light on the rest of the superhero part 791 00:48:08,679 --> 00:48:12,360 of it. And even then, like you know, the setup of this 792 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,119 trailer is really showing like Cap and Black Panther going at it. They're battling 793 00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:21,480 that The ending like sizzle thing at the end of the trailer is them fighting 794 00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:23,920 on a bridge, a very classic kind of Marvel battle thing to do. 795 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:29,039 But yeah, it's like, Okay, that's not against a Red Skull or 796 00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:31,760 some other big Marvel villain, it's against each other there, So I mean, 797 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:36,519 I guarantee this game is gonna pull the uh you know, Batman vs. 798 00:48:36,519 --> 00:48:38,639 Superman thing where they end up teaming up to fight the big guy big 799 00:48:38,679 --> 00:48:42,480 bad like a Red Skull or whoever. I mean, red Skull does make 800 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,119 the most sense. I don't know who else it would be. I'm sure 801 00:48:45,119 --> 00:48:46,840 that's where we're going with it, but I so but I think this is 802 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,079 like a cool place to start of establishing this part of the game that there 803 00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:53,199 is at least gonna be a section of the game where these kind of characters 804 00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:58,519 are battling against each other. And I believe we have confirmation that you're like 805 00:48:58,519 --> 00:49:00,719 you're gonna play as all four of these character at different points in the game, 806 00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,599 and it's gonna be very guided, like Okay, this section, you're 807 00:49:04,599 --> 00:49:07,320 playing as cap this section you're playing as the Dormlage character, rather than like, 808 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,800 Okay, this next I'm on level three and I can pick whatever the 809 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,639 four characters I want. Like it's more guided in that way. So when 810 00:49:14,639 --> 00:49:16,159 you come down to a moment like that, I'm curious how that's gonna play 811 00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:19,719 of, Like who am I playing in that battle? If these are both 812 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,880 kind of protagonists for this game. So I don't know. There's definitely still 813 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,639 a lot of answers that we need, and I'm I'm kind of with you, 814 00:49:25,679 --> 00:49:30,199 like I'm I'm lukewarm on this at the moment. I'm I'm interested for 815 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,400 sure because I love Marvel stuff. This time period in setting is not necessarily 816 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,599 my favorite, but I do want to play as Black Panther in a game 817 00:49:37,679 --> 00:49:43,000 because super fun and ultimate line, super fun Marvel's Avengers, and I mean 818 00:49:43,039 --> 00:49:45,360 there is a Black Panther game coming as well, so maybe I just wait 819 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,039 and get that one instead. CAP is always fun in these kind of games 820 00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:52,800 too, So yeah, I also imagine this game is gonna be very uncharted 821 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,760 e and that's you know, basing it off Amy Hanaig and whatnot, but 822 00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:00,079 just very cinematic focus, like big set piece sort of things, really the 823 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,559 character driven and whatnot. And so I hope that means that the combat and 824 00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:07,880 gameplay is fun, because I don't really like the gameplay much in the uncharted 825 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,840 games, but I don't know, this is definitely a setting and I enjoy 826 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:15,159 more so I've definitely got my eyes open here, but definitely need to see 827 00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,519 gameplay before I make any sort of decision. Of course, It's it's funny 828 00:50:19,519 --> 00:50:23,000 that you meant like just the clash I guess of Cap and and Black Panther, 829 00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:27,360 Like that's that's like the whole kind of I guess mini story in this 830 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,400 trailer, right is the fact that like Cap knows that there's another super out 831 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:35,920 there and then he's chasing this one down and then uh, Black Panther are 832 00:50:36,599 --> 00:50:38,400 I guess it's the normalage character to the Black Panther. It's like, oh, 833 00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:42,559 like the you know, the American is on your tail, and like 834 00:50:42,639 --> 00:50:45,719 while I'm watching this lead up to like the bridge, you know, clash 835 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:46,960 that they have, I'm just like, you know, you like, why 836 00:50:47,039 --> 00:50:50,679 is this game called Rise of the Hydra. Like it's just just be like 837 00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:57,000 basically Batman, sorry, Superman. Like this whole trailer is just they're in 838 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,679 France, but they're just like after each other. Like it's kind of seems 839 00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,679 strange and in that in that way, but uh, that's a very good 840 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,760 point. I guess the beauty of the trailer, you know, it kind 841 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,679 of masked what was going on, but the more I stowed on it, 842 00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:14,159 it was just like that's a really strange trailer to show off, especially the 843 00:51:14,199 --> 00:51:16,599 story, right, Like Yeah, if it's called Rise of Hydra and the 844 00:51:16,639 --> 00:51:21,320 big end off is like them almost like a Civil War type event, right, 845 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,679 it's it is kind of strange their decision. Yeah, I hope they're 846 00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:29,679 just trying to pace their announcements and make sure that you know, like red 847 00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:30,880 Skull on screen is gonna be a big hype moment, so they want to 848 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:36,159 save that for some other showcase. When this gives us a lot to chew 849 00:51:36,199 --> 00:51:37,320 on or a decent amount of chow on for the time being, that makes 850 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:42,519 sense. I will say, Black Panther at the Cape no good. I 851 00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:45,840 don't like it. I agree, it's weird, especially it's like very short, 852 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,960 it goes to like middle of his back. Yeah, don't like it. 853 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,760 Don't like it. Hopefully I can customize my character and take that off. 854 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,199 I would like expect that, honestly, in this day and age, 855 00:51:57,199 --> 00:52:00,000 with how many like superhero games there are that you can just change your outfits, 856 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,320 Spider Man obviously being a big one. But uh, yeah, it 857 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:07,400 made me think of the Prowler sort of from uh a little bit, yeah, 858 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,840 and like I love it on the Prowler. There, I maybe your 859 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:14,199 assisment of like it being a little bit shorter looks strange also, just when 860 00:52:14,199 --> 00:52:15,800 he was kind of jumping from rooftop and then kind of entering a bit of 861 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,800 a stealth sequence, it just seems strange. It seems like something that you 862 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,760 would wear in the throne room, you know, but then like once you're 863 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,360 going kick assure, you take off the cloak not to be warned during battle. 864 00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:30,199 In The Incredibles they explain why capes are such a bad idea, and 865 00:52:30,199 --> 00:52:34,960 like, I just picture that happened to chocolate here. At least his is 866 00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:37,079 short, so he's not gonna like trip on it or hopefully that's and he's 867 00:52:37,119 --> 00:52:40,280 not flying your airplanes like that one girl, and incredibly he should be safe. 868 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,920 But yeah, I also got the vibe that there's gonna be a lot 869 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,119 of stealth in this game, which would once again makes sense for that kind 870 00:52:46,119 --> 00:52:51,000 of uncharted thing where you're sneaking around these areas and then once you tack someone 871 00:52:51,039 --> 00:52:53,360 then it goes into all out warfare. But just the way Black Panthers jumping 872 00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:58,639 around around rooftops and sneaking up on people, that is exciting for me. 873 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,400 That prospect. I just think like Black Panther as a stealth based character seems 874 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,880 like a really cool idea, especially on these like the yeah rooftops in this 875 00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:08,760 kind of nineteen forty three France, Like, it seems like a really fun 876 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,760 setting to kind of jump round, very kind of dishonored esk in that way. 877 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,079 So there's definitely some things I'm excited for here. But uh yeah, 878 00:53:17,159 --> 00:53:20,840 hopefully hopefully we get more at Summer Gamefest. I think that'd be a good, 879 00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:24,079 good pacing. So yeah, there you go. There's Marvel nineteen forty 880 00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:27,039 three. Any final thoughts on that or do you want to move on? 881 00:53:28,159 --> 00:53:30,679 No, I'm ready to go. Okay, so let's talk about some other 882 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,039 games we've been playing. Sounds like you went pretty hard on Peach over the 883 00:53:35,039 --> 00:53:37,000 weekend, but anything anything else you've been playing you want to shout out here? 884 00:53:40,639 --> 00:53:44,760 I don't. Yeah, I don't think so I'm a shout out. 885 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,679 I was gonna shout out. I finally dabbled into this is gonna be very 886 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:52,679 niche audience out there. But you know on the podcast, that's running joke 887 00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:53,800 that I'm a big F one fan, which I am, you know, 888 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,280 to defend myself, and I recently had gotten I think it was like the 889 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,440 holiday sale I picked up F one Manager twenty three. It's kind of like 890 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:05,119 the FIFA Managers. Like there's so many of these these manager type games out 891 00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:07,639 there, and this one, like I'm not even gonna dive into it because 892 00:54:07,639 --> 00:54:09,920 I'm just gonna sound like such a nerd here, but like I finally just 893 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,159 took the time to kind of learn. I watched a couple of YouTube videos 894 00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:15,679 while I was cooking dinner, you know, and like just slowly build up 895 00:54:15,679 --> 00:54:17,199 my knowledge before I could like jump into a game like this, and it 896 00:54:17,519 --> 00:54:21,119 it is so great. I've only played like a couple hours in it, 897 00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:27,400 but it's it's super super fun and it's super strategic and I just really really 898 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,000 digging it. But yeah, I just want to shout that out. Other 899 00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:32,920 than Peach, that's kind of all I'd really played I Unfortunately I didn't join 900 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,239 the boys for out Last Trials this last weekend, I decided to jump back 901 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,320 in there. But yeah, it's kind of just been my yeah it on 902 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:45,280 games. I this there's this racing game I've had my wishless for years and 903 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,679 years that looks really fun and I don't for some reason, I've never picked 904 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,840 it up, but I saw that that team's new game is like an F 905 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,400 one game, So I'll send you a link to that, because absolutely, 906 00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,440 if it's anything like their their previous game, I think it will be a 907 00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:01,559 cool aesthetic for F one, a little more cartoony, but still like good 908 00:55:01,599 --> 00:55:06,199 mechanics and went on. So I'll look into that. Yeah, I I, 909 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:07,960 as you said, out Last Trials, did play that over the weekend 910 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:14,440 a couple of nights there. Last night was a real, a real situation 911 00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:17,760 because we were playing, you know, as we are where Travis and Taylor 912 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:22,639 have kids and we're busy adults and all of jobs. Like our gaming time 913 00:55:22,679 --> 00:55:25,639 as a group always happens on the weekends, always Friday and Saturday night. 914 00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,719 You know, it's just free and yeah, always like the hour ten sometimes 915 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:35,039 if we're lucky, but usually eleven or later, so you know, not 916 00:55:35,119 --> 00:55:37,800 the best for my sleep schedule sometimes when it's you know, two am kind 917 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,639 of night there. But we were like, you know what, we didn't 918 00:55:40,639 --> 00:55:45,039 get to play on Saturday, Well, we're going to And then I was 919 00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:46,519 like I'm tired, guys, I'm sorry, I'm bailing. You were like 920 00:55:46,599 --> 00:55:49,760 yeah, maybe, and then just who knows where you went? I saw 921 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,679 the couch again, just like Friday night, Travis disappeared and then Taylor the 922 00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,320 next day was like, you guys bailed on me. I was all alone. 923 00:55:54,599 --> 00:55:58,119 Then he went and completed one of the single player trial things. But 924 00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:00,320 but yeah, so we played a little bit on Sunday, and you know, 925 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,400 it was like I in my head, I had like a heart out 926 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,920 of like I'm gonna go ten thirties. That's like a good time. I 927 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,880 gotta go to sleep so I can work. The next day we had finished 928 00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,679 one. It was like ten ten, I'm like, okay, let's let's 929 00:56:13,679 --> 00:56:15,960 see. And we did another one and it was really quick. It's like 930 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,119 ten twelve minutes. I'm like, perfect, So I'll do I'll do one. 931 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:22,280 One last game here. This freaking mission took one whole hour. It's 932 00:56:22,639 --> 00:56:25,360 an entire freaking hour. Is that when we've gone to the police station, 933 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,719 you go to a court room, you go to collect some acid, and 934 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,079 then you have to get those scanners. You got to kill the witness, 935 00:56:31,159 --> 00:56:36,199 remember that one with the scanner, And then there's a thing past that, 936 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,800 and yeah, I gotta go crank these wheels. And you know the saddest 937 00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:42,559 part of this, Kirkland, we died at the very end. No, 938 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,599 and so we didn't complete the mission and we gotta do it again. So 939 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:51,199 hopefully next weekend you can join us and help us beat this freaking mission. 940 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,599 Yeah, it's it was. It was brutal. I mean we still got 941 00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:58,800 experience and I did get love look from that, so I got a new 942 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:00,239 perk from it, so it was worth it in the end. But it 943 00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,599 was especially man, it was like, oh man, now I'm going to 944 00:57:02,639 --> 00:57:06,559 be so late. I didn't even beat the mission. It's just like double 945 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,800 Salt in the Moon. There. Great to start of the week. Yeah, 946 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,880 no, truly not, but no, it is I don't think I 947 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,039 have too much to add since last time. We did kind of confirm that 948 00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:19,079 once you do that once again. I guess Ford who didn't listen last week. 949 00:57:19,079 --> 00:57:21,440 We did a review for out Last Trials, so you can go check 950 00:57:21,519 --> 00:57:22,559 that out for the deeper discussion. So yeah, like I said, I 951 00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:25,800 don't have too much new to share here, but we did go through. 952 00:57:27,719 --> 00:57:30,360 Travis and Taylor both beat that single player mission which rolls into the next difficulty 953 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:34,320 level, and we did, unfortunately confirm that it is the same levels, 954 00:57:34,639 --> 00:57:37,039 so there isn't any new levels past what we played. They of course remixed 955 00:57:37,039 --> 00:57:42,199 stuff. Things are in different places, enemies are different, like doors, 956 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,599 more doors, a trap. There's other mechanics that kind of get introduced, 957 00:57:45,639 --> 00:57:49,599 but it's not a ton But really it's just like having the higher difficulty does 958 00:57:49,679 --> 00:57:52,079 make the game a lot more intense and differing. You have to play a 959 00:57:52,119 --> 00:57:55,039 lot smarter, so that's been fun to get into and just getting more deeper 960 00:57:55,079 --> 00:57:59,039 in the weeds of like the RPG mechanics of it, the different ways you 961 00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:01,960 can level up and power up your character. We discovered that the healing rig 962 00:58:02,119 --> 00:58:06,519 that Travis had at the time and now I have ant Taylor has, it's 963 00:58:06,559 --> 00:58:08,320 actually an AOI, so it heals, like you can heal the whole team 964 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,719 with it. Oh wow. On top of that, if you upgrade that 965 00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,840 rig a bunch of times, you can get the it's called detox and it 966 00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:21,639 it replicates the antidotes, so you can cure yourself to psychosis. And that 967 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,519 too is an AOI, so you can like heal your whole squad of psychosis 968 00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:28,760 with that. So yeah, that was like a huge thing to discover. 969 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,840 We all put points into that, which has made it a lot easier. 970 00:58:31,159 --> 00:58:34,760 But then also like we don't have much variety because we all have the same 971 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,079 rig on, so we need to maybe spread the wealth of it because I'm 972 00:58:37,079 --> 00:58:40,119 sure the other ones have good upgrades just like that as well. So yeah, 973 00:58:40,159 --> 00:58:44,400 it's been fun getting deeper into the into the mechanics of it. It's 974 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,000 a really fun game. I think we'll probably keep playing it for a few 975 00:58:46,079 --> 00:58:50,719 weeks here. Like it's even though it's the same levels, it's still fun 976 00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,480 to go through there and try and master some of these things. Yeah, 977 00:58:52,599 --> 00:58:54,559 that's I mean, it's a little bit of a bummer that there's not more 978 00:58:54,639 --> 00:58:58,880 variety on the levels, but I don't know, I mean, it's not 979 00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,440 a full price game, right, So yeah, I feel like already I've 980 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:06,519 gotten my value out of it and just enjoyment. But as you mentioned, 981 00:59:06,639 --> 00:59:09,480 just because like we only did the one like super challenging one when I was 982 00:59:09,519 --> 00:59:14,800 playing and the weekly challenging that one was difficult, it was how did it 983 00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:16,880 how did that compare to like this next level for you guys? Was it 984 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:22,360 kind of similar difficulty wise, harder, easier? I yeah, I guess 985 00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,119 I would say it's about similar. That might maybe it was a bit harder 986 00:59:25,239 --> 00:59:30,159 just in terms of like the damage enemies are doing like they are doing a 987 00:59:30,199 --> 00:59:32,320 lot more damage now, but it's not like that. That weekly challenge was 988 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,679 freaking brutal. But there has been a couple levels real, Yeah, like 989 00:59:35,719 --> 00:59:39,239 enemies are respawned immediately. There's a lot more this. Yeah, this mission 990 00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,960 was so freaking hard and we're barely getting through it and we're like abusing this 991 00:59:44,039 --> 00:59:46,679 healing mechanic now and we're still kind of getting wreck So yeah, it's it's 992 00:59:46,719 --> 00:59:51,440 definitely And there's like another whole difficulty above this. I don't I don't think 993 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,559 there's one above that. I think there is three levels, but I could 994 00:59:53,559 --> 00:59:55,920 see them adding something like that down the line too. But yeah, it's 995 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,320 it's pretty crazy stuff. So it's fun, it's good ability to it nice. 996 01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:04,920 And then yeah, two other games I wanted to shout out here. 997 01:00:05,719 --> 01:00:07,719 This is probably a quick show here, but this game I was on game 998 01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,079 Pass. It's called You Suck at Parking. I don't know if you've seen 999 01:00:10,119 --> 01:00:14,119 this one before. It came out like I think two or three years ago. 1000 01:00:14,119 --> 01:00:17,599 It's a number of radar and this is just like a janky, fun 1001 01:00:17,679 --> 01:00:22,400 like puzzle physics game. And I love a good physics game, like Trials 1002 01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:28,280 or like lonely mountain downhill or like you know, like that bridge Builder portal 1003 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,360 game. I was telling you, just like bridge building games in general, 1004 01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:34,199 I just I just love a good physics game, and this is definitely that. 1005 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,800 Where you're set up in this level and you have to park your car 1006 01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:43,559 into these different parking spots, and it starts out pretty simple. You know, 1007 01:00:43,639 --> 01:00:45,599 you're just going through like this, like a pretty simple obstacle course, 1008 01:00:46,199 --> 01:00:50,800 dodging some codes, bounce and off some tires trying to get there. But 1009 01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:52,639 then as you play more and more of it, it's getting a bit harder 1010 01:00:52,679 --> 01:00:57,840 as that are layering on the mechanics of it, but just like really fun 1011 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,960 combination of mechanics where there's essentially like a gas meter you have for each of 1012 01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,599 these levels, and so some of these parking spots are really far away, 1013 01:01:05,679 --> 01:01:08,119 so you have to like be really precise in your movements and try and avoid 1014 01:01:08,159 --> 01:01:12,440 that janky bouncing off walls and whatnot, but then also like trying to find 1015 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,159 different shortcuts. But then also like the best feeling ever is when you're like 1016 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:20,199 you run out of gas so you can't hit the accelerate anymore, but you 1017 01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:24,079 maybe just have enough speed to just slowly slide into that parking spot and get 1018 01:01:24,159 --> 01:01:27,239 in there, and then you still get like full marks for that doesn't matter 1019 01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,039 if you run out of gas, as long as you made it there. 1020 01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:31,800 So that's that's a great feeling. And then yeah, I just think that 1021 01:01:32,239 --> 01:01:36,039 there's like a just this level of mastery to it, of trying to figure 1022 01:01:36,039 --> 01:01:39,079 out the most optimal roots and be able to nail them each time. It's 1023 01:01:39,199 --> 01:01:42,559 just really fun. I don't think I have much more to say in that. 1024 01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:45,800 It's just like it's just a video game at its core. So highly 1025 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,599 recommend that one. It's been a lot of fun. There's a lot to 1026 01:01:47,639 --> 01:01:51,480 it, a lot of mechanics that you get in there, cop cars eventually 1027 01:01:51,519 --> 01:01:54,760 smashing India and land mines and all this crazy stuff. It gets wild pretty 1028 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:59,400 quick, that's funny. I just pulled it up and it kind of reminds 1029 01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,239 me of like over Cooked or like Moving Out like that. Definitely. Yeah. 1030 01:02:02,239 --> 01:02:05,559 I had to double check to make sure it wasn't the same developer, 1031 01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:08,280 which it's not. But uh yeah, though this this looks wild as you're 1032 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:14,039 describing of just like different parking it it reminded me of a game way back 1033 01:02:14,079 --> 01:02:17,119 in the Flash Days, So maybe you've played it, but I think it 1034 01:02:17,199 --> 01:02:22,039 was just called Driver's Ed and you'd basically just do like different challenges, like 1035 01:02:22,079 --> 01:02:25,039 you'd parallel park one of them, you'd reverse park, and like there's different 1036 01:02:25,119 --> 01:02:30,840 driving. I do remember this man that was like me and my sister like 1037 01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:35,280 always playing on like whatever. It was maybe like addicting games dot com like 1038 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,760 like something like that. And yeah, I know, just as you were 1039 01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:42,400 describing this game, it just took me back to that world and there was 1040 01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,039 the yeah, the like the teacher guy. Yeah exactly, and like if 1041 01:02:45,079 --> 01:02:50,000 you got close look at that one, if you got close to like the 1042 01:02:50,159 --> 01:02:52,639 edge, he would start like mumbling his mouth and like obviously he would give 1043 01:02:52,639 --> 01:02:57,039 out different demerits. That's yeah, that's exactly the game. That's so yeah, 1044 01:02:57,039 --> 01:03:00,519 I definitely remember this game. No, I definitely I love like a 1045 01:03:01,519 --> 01:03:05,840 because you know, there's like racing games, but I feel like driving games 1046 01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:10,920 are kind of underrated where it's just about like either precision or like a little 1047 01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,760 puzzle. This is very much like a puzzle game mixed with like a janky 1048 01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,480 physics game at the same time. So I think it's kind of like an 1049 01:03:16,519 --> 01:03:21,599 underrated like subgenre. There that I really enjoy, so once again on game 1050 01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:23,280 Pass, go check it out. And then lastly, I you know, 1051 01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,400 as I said, I played the Princess Peach demo. The other demo I 1052 01:03:27,559 --> 01:03:30,400 checked out is for Sandland, which is coming out next month. I think 1053 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:34,679 I've talked to you about Sandlin on like a I forget if it's a Nintendo 1054 01:03:34,719 --> 01:03:37,559 director with some showcase. I feel like we talked about it. But Sandlin 1055 01:03:37,719 --> 01:03:44,719 is an old Akira Toriami like manga I believe, and yeah, rest in 1056 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,119 peace, and so I don't know if they I think this developer actually put 1057 01:03:47,159 --> 01:03:51,119 this demo out early, because they put it out like a couple of days 1058 01:03:51,159 --> 01:03:53,360 after he had passed, probably just you know, honoring, we got some 1059 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,440 people, Hey, you want to just love something that he may like, 1060 01:03:55,519 --> 01:03:59,760 go check out this demo right now kind of thing, which is pretty cool. 1061 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,920 Maybe it was just convenient because the game is coming out like in a 1062 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,519 month, so maybe that's I don't it seemed early for a demo, so 1063 01:04:04,599 --> 01:04:08,039 to me, it seemed like a cool little just a little gift they were 1064 01:04:08,079 --> 01:04:12,079 doing for the community almost. But yeah, sand Land once again has that 1065 01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:15,119 kind of dragon Ball sort of esthetic to it. Totally but yeah, I've 1066 01:04:15,119 --> 01:04:17,639 had this game on my radar. I would I would just you you mentioned 1067 01:04:17,639 --> 01:04:20,480 Mad Max earlier that were doing the retro for that, or you guys rather 1068 01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,639 are doing the retro for that, And this game reminds me a lot of 1069 01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,639 a Mad Max sort of thing where you're just in these sand dunes and you 1070 01:04:26,719 --> 01:04:30,960 have all these crazy different vehicles that you're using. You're just cruising around destroying 1071 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,880 people. And at least in this demo, like, what's interesting about this 1072 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,800 demo because a lot of demos, like the Peach one for example, it's 1073 01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,840 like, here's just the first thirty minutes of the game, a totally fine 1074 01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:41,920 way to do a demo. Of course, this feels like it just throws 1075 01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,440 you, like ten hours in and just throws you at a section randomly in 1076 01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:46,239 the open world, and it's like, yeah, just screw around for a 1077 01:04:46,239 --> 01:04:49,320 few hours and see if you're into this kind of gameplay. So yeah, 1078 01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:53,679 it doesn't mess around by like Okay, here's the first vehicle and like here's 1079 01:04:53,679 --> 01:04:56,519 some tutorials. It just there's no toatorial just drops you in there. It 1080 01:04:56,519 --> 01:04:58,559 says, you know, go have fun with this, go check it out, 1081 01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:02,360 which is it is super fun it's really great. Like you have your 1082 01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,800 kind in the demo, you start with three vehicles, and so you have 1083 01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:10,000 like a speeder bike that's like gets you across the ground pretty quickly. Of 1084 01:05:10,079 --> 01:05:13,280 course it has guns and bombs on it and stuff too. And then you 1085 01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:15,840 have like a tank that you can use, which is pretty straightforward, it's 1086 01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,840 really fun. And then you have like sort of like a battle bot sort 1087 01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,159 of thing, like it's a more standing up sort of robot, has like 1088 01:05:21,199 --> 01:05:26,719 a big uppercut and you can kind of quickly switch between these vehicles. I 1089 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,000 don't even know what the overarching theme or story or like progression of the game 1090 01:05:30,119 --> 01:05:32,159 is. It just seems like kind of like an open world these sort of 1091 01:05:32,199 --> 01:05:34,559 things. So I'm sure you're just doing quest, doing side quest, doing 1092 01:05:34,639 --> 01:05:39,760 fetch quests. And like I said, the demo doesn't really introduce really what 1093 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,559 the format of the game is. It just lets you play around in this 1094 01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:45,960 sandbox so to speak. Pun intended there, but yeah, it's like the 1095 01:05:46,039 --> 01:05:49,360 gameplay is super fun. The gameplay is like it's super snappy, even when 1096 01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:53,760 you're just outside of your vehicle, like the run, the double jump, 1097 01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:57,440 the dash, like all that feels really really solid. The vehicles are super 1098 01:05:57,519 --> 01:06:00,840 fun. There's like different upgrades, so many differ and upgrades you can get 1099 01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:04,000 for them, Like the enemy type is really fun, good variety in there, 1100 01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:10,119 and just like just amazing vibes of course that that Toriyama art like done 1101 01:06:10,199 --> 01:06:14,360 in like beautiful kind of like four K sort of textures, really good looking 1102 01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,079 game. The music is really great, so huge shout out to Sandline. 1103 01:06:17,119 --> 01:06:20,679 I like once again eighty bucks, so it's like, ah, every game 1104 01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:24,280 is so expensive. Really, I got got to side if it's worth it. 1105 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:28,760 But I really really enjoyed my you know, hour or two mess around 1106 01:06:29,199 --> 01:06:31,000 in this game. It is. It is a super fun, just great 1107 01:06:31,079 --> 01:06:35,880 game feel so big shout at to sand Land there. Yeah, I completely 1108 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:40,760 forgot about this that we that we had talked about this before, but just 1109 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:45,719 seeing like Yakira Toriami like artwork to go with it, it's it's just it 1110 01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,440 looks so beautiful. And the fact that they have like the three D models, 1111 01:06:48,679 --> 01:06:53,000 yeah, they're just auto racus essentially, like yeah, like like like 1112 01:06:53,079 --> 01:06:55,760 the dune that they're on. It's just it looks beautiful even though it is 1113 01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:59,519 just like a baron land, and I just I love the style of his 1114 01:06:59,639 --> 01:07:02,559 character they're all so unique and like colorful in their own sense. And just 1115 01:07:02,639 --> 01:07:05,519 like the way that he had done vehicles. I remember there was so much 1116 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,519 like little side art that he had done, like just kind of well, 1117 01:07:10,639 --> 01:07:13,239 it probably wasn't side art. It's probably things for like dragon quests and just 1118 01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,960 other projects that he had done, but I had seen like a lot of 1119 01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:18,719 splices amongst like dragon Ball characters with those with those objects, I'm like, 1120 01:07:19,159 --> 01:07:23,679 I just want more like vehicles and and like architecture from this guy, the 1121 01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:27,000 way that he that he would do, like those types of buildings, they're 1122 01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,000 they're very bubbly and and kind of like hmmm, I don't know, they 1123 01:07:30,199 --> 01:07:33,400 look alien sort of thing, and uh yeah, just it's beautiful and yeah, 1124 01:07:33,519 --> 01:07:38,119 yeah, they're they're they're they're kind of given like this cute sort of 1125 01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:41,639 esthetic over top of it because of those shapes. But yeah, even like 1126 01:07:41,719 --> 01:07:45,280 watching a trailer afterwards and just seeing like all the other vehicles, because that's 1127 01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:46,840 kind of what the focus of the game is, getting these different vehicles, 1128 01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:50,480 powering them up. So rather than like your character progression necessarily, it's more 1129 01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:55,519 about finding and getting new vehicles, and it's like it's essentially like Pokemon, 1130 01:07:55,639 --> 01:07:59,280 like you just throw out this ball and then like in that same Pokemon animation 1131 01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:00,800 in the car like out of it, and then you can just hop in. 1132 01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,960 So it's like really quick to switch between them, which is cool. 1133 01:08:05,199 --> 01:08:08,960 Yeah, it's it's really interesting. And then you know, when I was 1134 01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:13,800 playing it too, I'm like, I love this sand aesthetic, but that's 1135 01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,680 like kind of bold to have a big open world game that's like just sand 1136 01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:20,239 and like different rock formations. But then like a couple of days after I 1137 01:08:20,279 --> 01:08:24,399 saw that they posted like a new trailer that was like a forest trailer, 1138 01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,920 and so there's like this whole forested section that you can go to which looks 1139 01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:31,039 very dragon questy obviously, like very bright greens, lush forests and whatnot. 1140 01:08:31,079 --> 01:08:33,760 So it seems like there is gonna be other biomes. I could see a 1141 01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,319 snow biome making a lot of sense as well for this kind of game, 1142 01:08:38,039 --> 01:08:40,279 So I'm excited to see what other sort of things there is. So this 1143 01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:42,720 is a game that I'm definitely gonna pick up at some point. Yeah, 1144 01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,319 day one might be hard to justify, but I think like, even I 1145 01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:48,119 don't know, twenty five fifty percent off, I could see myself picking it 1146 01:08:48,199 --> 01:08:50,439 up hopefully later this year and I can play it before the year ends. 1147 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,079 But yeah, like, don't sleep on this one. It's really interesting. 1148 01:08:55,039 --> 01:08:57,279 Like I said, the demo was really good, so go go check it 1149 01:08:57,319 --> 01:09:00,640 out, go play it for yourself, and you'll see just how mooth and 1150 01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,680 fun the gameplay is of it. It's a it's a really really good time. 1151 01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,600 So there you go. And I think that's I think that's gonna be 1152 01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,560 it for this episode of side Quest. You're a little short and sweet sort 1153 01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,079 of episode. I think next week I'll be joined by Taylor Field and who 1154 01:09:17,159 --> 01:09:19,279 knows what the heck we're gonna talk about, so you just got to tune 1155 01:09:19,319 --> 01:09:24,359 in to find out. But thank you Kirkland for joining me, thank you 1156 01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:27,880 everyone for listening, and we'll see you again next time. Bye bye,