Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show
here at gie Versus. I'm your host Dyl Musknef with me, the Big
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The little game, you know, a little game to play they leave a
review. Mean, Kirkle, we're just talking about this, but my game
Potion Problem is coming out in two weeks. Two weeks, which is crazy.
It should be scary, but I'm not scared. I'm excited. I'm
just excited to get here some people aroundom people in the world playing it and
be done with it and move on to the next game, you know that
kind of thing. But yeah, everyone to go go wishless that and then
check it out. Sounds like me and Kirkle were just talking. He might
be the first person ever beat the game other than me doing my test.
That's a crazy stat That's that's more motivation actually to really power through. I'm
just gonna get no sleep tonight and just finish it. Not often you get
the opportunity to be the first person to beat a game before. That's very
true. Actually, you have a couple of weeks and then then you know,
the crazy people in the wild will like you beat it in you know,
two hours probably and start speaking already be up there, h yeah,
So go check that out. And then I mentioned this last week, but
me and Travis we're gonna be doing a retrospective of hell Blade, so make
sure to if you want to join along for that. If you haven't played
it before, go check it out. It's on game Pass, short game,
easy game to go check out. So I'm probably gonna be playing that.
Probably this week is when I'm gonna start playing that. Actually maybe tonight,
who knows. We'll see. Do you have do you have a good
set of headphones? I heard it's like really important. It's funny that I
thought about that because my headphones that my normal podcasting ones, as we talked
about a few months ago, broke and I kind of fixed them, it
kind of didn't. They just don't really work, and I haven't gotten new
ones, and so yeah, that maybe is an issue because that is a
very auditory based game. Maybe I should at least get the headphones before the
new game comes out, because it seems like that one's uh doing even crazier
stuff with the audio. But yeah, I definitely need to get some quality
headphones again. I've been using these crappy little phone ones, and you know,
they get the job done. But for a game like that, you
know I want to be blasting it and I don't want to poor ear drums.
Right, I'm really overdue for a new set of of headphones as well.
I've been, as you've seen, for the last years, I've just
been using these little crappy airpot or Apple not Airpot Apple earbuds that it just
came with an iPhone or whatever years ago, and man, they are starting
to like completely fall apart, Like this part is like separating right here.
So sometimes it just like I rip it off and it just like splits part
of it. I don't want to I don't want to glue it either,
because I feel like it'll just be like too big and my ear won't fit
nicely. I really got to just bite the bowl and get some new new
headphones because I have an old pair of Logitechs that I used to use,
but just the cord throughout, like you know, improper use is just starting
to fray a little bit. And it's to the point that like if you
have like the little the little input device like slightly rotated, you won't get
any audio on the ear. So you have to like it's like I'm playing
like Skyrim or something trying to like pick a lock to like get the perfect
audio level. But yeah, I'm overdue, and it's important, especially in
a game like that, and get some great audio. Yeah, well if
you do, whichever one of us picks up the headphones first, I'll have
to throw the recommendation over there. I was doing a little research, but
I didn't decide on when yet. When we're dropping into the war zone playing
Call Duty or Outlast, what's your audio set up late for that? Are
you do you have headphones for that? Or are you rocking those or nothing
at all? I use like my crappy ones that I was just mentioning,
where like they have to be like kind of perfectly in the middle. However,
we also, you know, when we play Bringing the Fourth Wall,
we go discords, right, So I have Discord on my phone and I
use these earbuds underneath my headphones. Right, Okay, so I'm I'm doubled
double earbud headphoned up. But sometimes if like Shay's on home, she's at
work or whatever, I'll just have the audio through the TV, right,
just because it can be a little strenuous of having the double Yeah. I
was doing that for a while too, with the double headphones, and since
mine broke, I've stopped doing that. And now I'm just full lazy mode.
I just I don't even put headphones in. I just have discord on
my phone like on a pillow, just like sitting on my chest essentially.
And the TV is is the you know this game audience coming to the TV.
But it's like at three volume. It is so quiet because I don't
want to wake MUDs up. It's allowed gunfiring all this. Yeah, so
I I like I used to be just like I found all the footsteps and
I could say, oh, Travis, like up the stairs are behind you,
this guy there, But now I can't hear anything. I'm like so
useless. I'm all about the visual experience in terms of in terms of that,
which maybe for l last that would probably be too much too too freaky
in the headphone. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, don't do that setup
with hell Blade. Yeah, just three volume phone on the lap, barely
engaged. Good any other plugs or I don't even know what's dropping this week.
I'm very out of the loop in the last couple of days here lots
of retros. We got the new plan of the Apes movie coming out on
Wednesday. Very much looking forward to that, but all those retros are there,
men, max retros. Furiosa did a review of Guy. Oh,
I want to mention this. You and Taylor reviewed Knuckles. I did not
almost thought about that actual Knuckles, and I never will, but I love
that review was so fucking funny. If anyone needs a good laugh, whether
or not you're watching the show or not, just just listen to that review,
because I don't. I don't want to spoil it, but I'll just
say it was so freaking good. I was cracking up in the car ride
listening to that. So thank you guys for doing that. And I'll say
taking one for the team by by Gordon to check out that show. I'm
really glad that you check that out, because yeah, I feel like I
just was battling some demons while watching that show, and I let the here
you guys break down, like what the plot of that show actually is is
insane to me that those were the choices that they decided to make. Definitely
a worthwhile listen for. Like I said, even if you're not watching that
show, go go listen to that review, at least the non spoiler section.
Absolutely, Taylor, I also just dropped Tales of the Empire of You
last night, so that's that's on the feeds. Remind me what that is.
I can't keep up with all these. So, like they did Tales
of the Jedi, which is different than Star Wars Visions, it's basically just
filling in some some cracks between certain characters that are already established in the universe.
This is only six part series, fifty minute episodes, so like Super
Short, but this one was following two characters that new characters or is this
one also following like new to me? Because I haven't seen a Soca and
like a lot of Clone war stuff and rebels and stuff like that, so
it was like all new to me. And then Taylor was of course the
oh yeah, it's it's it's the same thing with Halo where he just like
references like a chapter from a book like Book four. He just he just
knows it like the Bible, Like he's just so well versed in it.
So he was a great resource to have on that review because I was just
like asking questions and he of course had all the answers to everything. But
no, it was fun. It was fun to break it down. Awesome,
good stuff. Okay, let's let's get into it. I'm gonna throw
to you first. What have you been playing lately? Any any new game
or revisited games that you want to shout out today? Nothing new? I
mentioned you off cast. I've been putting in some work on Potion problem.
But you know, I feel like I got a what do they called like
reviewer gate can't can't say anything on on air, But here's the nda.
You can say anything positive, you know you can. You can you say
a quick piece for it if you want help, maybe you get a wishlist
or a few for me. That would be good. Yeah, No,
absolutely, I mean I I don't have anything negative to say, so that's
that's a good thing. And No, this has been the first time that
I've really put time in, like with the version that has music and stuff,
added to it, and man, it is just such a nice wholesome
game. Like I feel like, also, you did such a great job
at like it is a smaller scale game, but you still were able to
achieve some really good world building with like certain ingredients or me or maybe certain
things in there that I'm like, where did this guy come from? Like
like like where do we pull this little critter that I'm uh, you know,
maybe ripping his tongue out or finding some things in his belly buttons.
So I really love just your your detail of that stuff, and I feel
like I was able to see some inspiration that you maybe had pulled from just
previous games that you've talked about, whether it's something like like Coffee Talk or
like just those like little wholesome games that just have really unique world building in
the sense of like you're not going out there and like experiencing the world on
your own, but just in this little area you're able to kind of tell
a story in that sense. So definitely tip my hat to you in that
aspect, And just the gameplay cycles is really really fun for me. So
yeah, definitely wishless and check out Postion Problem when that drops in two weeks,
but I've been having lots of fun with that. I was up a
little bit too late last night doing it, and I'm like, maybe,
just maybe there's one more of these levels I'll do. Then it's like,
ah, no, I got I got to see what the next potions are.
And I felt like I was dreaming about the ingredients last night and myect
for potion problems. Yeah, exactly. I'm guessing you're going through the campaign.
Have you jumped into any of the bonus levels yet? Or is that
more of a I mean most of them don't really unlock until very later on
in the campaign anyway. But how's that? Have you checked any of those
out? No? I haven't done any of the bonus levels yet, so
uh does that count? If I if I beat the main campaign and then
I still beat the game? If you roll, if you do the campaign,
there's like it's like any complete thing. Yeah, but yeah, I'm
curious to hear what you think of those once you get to them, because
they're a bit weirder off the cuff. Some of them are more puzzanly,
some of them are more like challenge based. But I've had very little if
any play testing on those though, who knows how that they might not be
maybe as polished as some of the campaign is, but I think because their
bonus stuff anyway, you can kind of connect with it as much or as
little as you want. And I'm okay with that. I'll definitely let you
know how that goes, and hopefully they can complete them. And I'm on
a journey now. But yeah, what else was I gonna say? No?
I think I think that's it. I had something else to say on
it, but it's it's eluding me right now. Let's think about the bonus
levels. That's fine. What else I've been playing? Warhammer three just dropped
a really nice big patch five point zero. I feel like whenever you have
like a solid patch like that, whether it's like two point zero five point
zero as opposed to like one point seven one point six, you know,
like, I just feel like it's a big milestone and huge. I I
haven't really had time to like fully jump into a campaign there, but I
was checking out some things in there, and it's got me very excited to
do a certain Empire campaign just because with this patch, they've of course released
like a new DLC that has I think it's four new legendary lords, so
like four new leaders to lead a faction or whatnot, and whenever they do
that, it usually shifts the starting locations around for certain heroes and one empirical
type characters name's Balthasar Gelt. He's got one of the coolest names ever.
Like I've used that name in like D and D campaigns and like other role
playing aspects, just like such a sweet sounding name. But he's the Supreme
Patriarch of the Empire and the College of Magic, and he's just a really
interesting character because his magic that he uses is low of metal and it's it's
all about like alchemical properties of like turning things into gold. And I think
some really brief lore on him is like he had like a big explosion go
off, so he wears this like golden mask and he's just like he just
seems kind of like an automaton type character, but he is human, has
a very powerful gravitas of a voice, and he's just a really cool character.
However, in previous versions, I've hated his starting location like so much.
I've done like one of his campaigns and just not a fan of it,
just because the early the early portion of the campaign is such a slog
to get through and just not very fun. But with this patch, they've
completely removed him from the Empire starting area and he's kind of in the far
East and he just has like a lot of new threats on his border and
brand new campaign mechanics, which is really really cool. Does this his metal
Metal Nancy, his master magnetism whatever you call it, Like, what is
the gameplay implication of that? Or is that more of a lore thing?
So? Yeah, the when I said lore, the lore, what's the
best way to say, it's like the way that magic works in Total war
Warhammer or just Warhammer in general is they're called like lores, so lores of
magic. So there's like low of fire, lower of life, law of
metal. So yeah, his his lore is basically his his spell book that
he uses is for the low of metal, but there is obviously lower like
implications as well with that. Like he's also the Empire. They have like
a lot of gunnery type units, like really heavy artillery, big cannon's,
big health storm rocket batteries which are just so satisfying to the decimate units with
and he gets like boosts and buffs to I think he adds armor to all
of his units, but also just like he's got the best artillery in the
game, Like he's just really really powerful at boof boofing bus. I try,
I try to say both of those in in yeah. So yeah,
no, like he like he's really good at patting the stats of those types
really strong uh units, which is really satisfying. Usually takes a while to
get there, just because they're very expensive units, and that's why his previous
starting location was just such a annoyance, because you're just trying to get to
that point that you're like really rich and just like feeling all these massive artilleries
to just like have the super satisfaction of just destroying these units, but I
feel like you never get there because you're just always so broke and always like
just getting destroyed by other vampire accounts or whoever's just raiding your lands. It's
it's super frustrating that sense. But no, no longer, he's a completely
different area, which is fantastic. I love his new campaign mechanics. They've
also changed up a couple other factions, like kind of minor ones. That
was that was like the biggest upgrade to him. So yeah, that's a
long winded way of saying that I haven't jumped super far into this, but
I was just scratching the surface. And I'm curious because I feel like it
seems like Warhammer three came out and you know, you liked it, but
there's changes in La Da Da, and then I feel like you kind of
went back to Warhammer two, and this is the first time I feel like
I'm hearing you go back to Warhammer three. Is that an accurate the events?
Not entirely. I did take a break from Warhammer three, like,
because when the game came out, it was just like the set Realm of
Chaos campaign, which only includes the factions that were included in Warhammer three.
Now, the big, the big campaign that everybody loves is Mortal Empires from
Warhammer two, which combined the factions of both games. But now they have
Immortal Empires, which is the combination of all three games. Oh okay,
I like the hit Man effect where they just didn't take the three games and
bundle them. Okay, okay, no exactly. And but the big thing
there is that the maps, like Warhammer three had like a map that you
know, that's that's what everyone plays on Warhammer two. Had a map.
Warhammer one had a map, but Warhammer three with the Mortal Empire, it
just combines all of the maps, so you just it's basically just a globe
that you're just like concering. It's so satisfying. That's where it takes like
weeks to get through a campaign, whereas maybe the campaign just for the single
game, you could probably beat them, honestly in one sitting, and one
sitting is probably four hours like around there. But like, still it is
possible. Immortal Empires absolutely not. There's no way that you can beat those,
Like I don't even think you could get the short victories in like one
city. And does SIEV have like short and long victories as well? I
can't quite remember. I haven't played too much Sieve, not really, I
mean I guess the short Like there are win conditions that like once you reach
a certain amount of culture where you are going to get the culture victory,
like that could happen before the game would end in terms of like the timeline
of it, but very rarely, like usually you're going to be like at
least in the modern era or like the Info era before that kind of thing
happens. Yeah, I guess it would just be like the war based one,
like if you kill the other nations, you could get a win much
earlier on. But it's like, you know, maybe if you had a
game with like at most six countries and you were playing as like the Huns
or something like that, it's going on a killing rampage. But yeah,
most of the time that's not really Uh, that wouldn't really happen at least
five I'm talking here. I'm sure the other games have different situations that could
arise. Yeah, I think the CIV game I played the most was Beyond
Earth, which is kind of regarded as one of the lesser ones. But
I remember there was like different victory conditions, not necessarily like how long,
Like I feel like they all kind of take the same amount of time to
get there, kind of what you're laying out like some of the later eras.
But no, in Warhammer, there's unless I'm mistaken, I think there's
three victory conditions. There's the short victory, which has like you know,
take out your main enemy, usually have this amount of settlements, and then
you'll get the short victory. Long victory is usually like double that or whatever.
It might be, like you might have take out more enemies or control
certain areas that are kind of like more accurate to what your faction would be
trying to go for. And then there's just the domination victory, which is
literally just paint the map like destroy every single well not necessarily destroy everyone,
but it's like have control of all the territories through military alliances or just own
them. And I've never done that before. That is ah, that is
a venture and a half. But uh, just because it's like timing like
how long that would take her, because it's just really hard, like to
do mechanics. I think. I think it's mostly the time thing. Like
there's there's been certain campaigns where I've just really popped off. I've taken out
like my main threats, and it's like I'm kinda kind of done with this
campaign, like I want to do something else. I love the early early
face. Oh yeah, I love the first half, and then once I
get yeah to some point in history, I'm like, I'm out. I
have carved by my path here. My my my actually most favorite campaign that
I've ever done in any Warhammer game was my most recent one that I've done
with the character's name is Malice Dark Blade, and he's by far my favorite
character and in Warhammer he's just so interesting. He's he's a dark Elf,
which is very like tyrannical, think like Souron's Army like like that sort of
like level, like they just they take slaves and just freaking torture people to
death, like like it is just pure evil type faction but that but like
their units are really sick. They have these hydras and just really like great
monster type characters. But for him, he's like possessed by a demon,
so you can also like turn into this just like super powerful demon on the
battlefield and he's just he's a god. Like it's just so fun to play,
so satisfying. And normally the Dark Elves they start in a certain area,
which, like the running meme is just Canada because because because the Warhammer
map is like loosely attached or like compared to like Earth like like sluicely like
like they just have like North America then like South America types, like that's
what it looks like at least, and that's where the Dark Elves are is
in Canada, basically where we are right now, just more north. But
so yeah, that's normally where the Dark Heuves start, but for Malice,
he starts like way over to the east, like way in the Chaos Waste,
like super North. And on this campaign, I just like I'm like
I'm gonna take out the races of men and just like just completely raid and
pillage them, and like they're basically in Europe, like like think of that
on the on the globe map. So I just went like straight south and
just started like murdering people. And it was so satisfying because like the settlements
are a lot closer together than where the Dark Heus usually are, and the
main source of income for the Dark Heals is just going to war and rating
and pillaging, so like if you are constantly in war, you're just gonna
be so rich so fast. And that's basically what I did in that campaign.
It was so fun to just be constantly at war with so many different
people and kind of playing like the political games to kind of like get two
factions to somewhat be at war with with each other. Then like whoever wins,
you just like surround there like all their while they're still having their exactly.
I love to kind of like role play too, while I play those
games. So I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll shake your hand here.
Then like meanwhile, I'm moving all like my my army one hundred percent
undred percent. So uh. That that was my most recent campaign, and
that one I haven't quite hit the point where I'm like, I feel like
I'm satisfied with this because I I feel like I really just want to destroy
all of the forces of good that there. There was a campaign though,
like a long time ago, where I I think it was one of my
earlier Dark Health campaigns where the main enemies of the Dark Elves are of course
the High Elves, the good the Good Elves, and I just kind of
destroyed all of their lands. They they come from this aisle it's almost like
Somerset isles actually think of like Elder Scrolls type situation, but it's called oath
Wan, just a big island for the High Elves. I just completely took
it over, and I just like I conquered all my enemies and I'm just
sitting there on my island. This is like the main goal with the Dark
Elves want and I'm like this is this This feels fucked up. I feel
like I'm really the bad guy here, like there's no life left on old
one, Like this is just not satisfying. So that was the end of
that campaign. But sometimes I'll also just start up a campaign to kind of
have like a set goal in mind, like let's just try and get to
this location or take out this enemy, or try and ally a certain character
that's usually an enemy. So sometimes I kind of have like a narrative goal
in that sense. But yeah, I don't even know how I got that
topic. I just i'd love talking about Warhammer. And no, if you
start on Warhammer this patch, man, I am super super pumped about.
So yeah, big release five point oh I think it's five point zero point
one now because they had a hot fix because of course one faction was just
like incredibly buster or something. They needed to fix something really quick. But
yeah, no, I'm super jazzed on Warhammer. Just you know, every
handful of months or something, you know, like quarterly, I'll just get
the bug. The bug will just bite me and I just got to get
back in there and start a campaign. But I wanted to ask you about
a few games that you brought up in the last few months that I haven't
heard you talk about since and so I'm just curious what the status of them
are they come back to them, are they officially abandoned? A couple of
them. I care about a couple that's like, I don't care what he
does here. Okay, with balders Gate three, you jump back into that
yet with Shay Shane and I have not jumped back in in a while.
Yeah, No, it's it's been a hot minute. There, I'm with
you. There, It's been a couple of months for me. I I
it's so weird that so much of the motivation for me playing the game was
God, damn, I just want to get to the freaking city of Balder's
Gate. It takes so freaking long. You got to all this stuff,
got to this underworld. It's annoying all this stuff. I mean, it
was not It was fun, but there was also parts a long way where
I'm like, I just want to go to the city. And then I
got to the city and then I just like all my motivation fell away and
I just kind of stopped. So I'm I still on you know, backlogged,
where I keep track of all the games I'm playing. I still have
that in the playing section. I haven't I haven't officially abandoned it or put
it down, but yeah, for some reason, it's been like two months
now. I feel like that it's gotten away from me somehow. But I
definitely need to get in there because I think I'm pretty close to finishing at
least one play through, which I think will be good for me for the
next I don't know. I don't know if I'll ever do another play through.
I think one will be good for me. Honestly, you had one
going with a friend, didn't you. Yeah that was very short lived.
That was like, okay, maybe six to eight hours of game time and
then he was playing with his partner and like they finished the game, and
then I kind of was focused on my single player one. So yeah,
that was kind of short lived. He's he mostly just he's grinding that counter
Strike game, so you know, yeah, there to pull him away respectable.
Yeah, no, yeah, that that one. It. I feel
like it's been like two months as well for us, at least on that
playthrough, I was talking to the notorious Patreon Tyler and he was telling me
that he recently got back into it as well, Like, like he said,
it was challenging though, because I mean as you know, like you're
pretty far in the game. Some of the combat sequences are very long and
very hard, like very challenging, especially if you don't maybe know like a
certain trick to defeat it. And then like you get in some bad roles
back to back, and like there's been many times where we start combat and
like I don't even get a play because the enemy goes and they just destroy
my characters. They get like just a perfect role or something, or maybe
I wasn't quite full health or I kind of put my characters in a disadvantaged
location that just really screwed me over. It was one of the things that
bummed me out a few times is in D and D in general, and
like an RPG like this, I'd love to steal in my consequences, and
if I fuck up an a counter or I do the wrong speech option and
all this bad stuff happens, it's like cool, that's I want to make
that the can and ending. But then but then I just like die at
some point in the fight, and then I have to restart over and over
again, and it's like I don't know, I feel like the stakes kind
of get taken away because it's like too hard at times, and they do
take a very long time, some of these battles do. When there's like
thirty you know NPCs that are part of this battle, it's like they can
take forever. But yeah, they are very satisfying whenever it is finally done.
But sometimes it's been like, man, I wish this fight wasn't quite
so savage. Yeah, no, one hundred percent, Or you think you're
doing good and all of a sudden, like five more people just like come
around the corner, and then like you see those new like those new icons
pop up at the top. But yeah, yeah, no, Yeah.
Tyler was telling me that he got back into it, and he said there
was one battle that he was kind of like I don't know if it was
like he was stuck on it or like he just jumped into the battle and
he just kind of forgot about like like kind of where he was at,
and he he struggled to jump back into it. But I think since then
he's gotten past that point and carried on. And I'm curious if he's I
mean, he'll he's probably don't listen to this episode, So I hope I'm
not miss miss saying anything about his campaign. There but as far as I
knew, I he did jump back into it, and that's that's kind of
just what put in my ear and I was like, oh yeah, like,
don't shit, what's going on. Let's let's jump back in there.
And our schedules had been very disorgan these last couple of weeks, but I
definitely want to jump back in there. Peach showtime still playing to that I
beat the game. Actually I forgot to bring that up. Actually, I
was not even gonna mention it today because I just kind of forgot about it.
But no, I have world credits on that. And it was really
second half because you were about halfway through, I think on the review.
Yeah, I think that there's like there's only so many costumes and stuff that
you do, so there is like repetition levels. I can't remember if I
had mentioned that on the on the review. I was kind of early on.
I think like maybe two or three. I think you had done a
couple of repeat levels at that point, or costume levels. But yeah,
yeah, so there you go. So I like, I really love the
ones that I still liked, and I feel like the costumes that I didn't
love from the beginning, I still didn't quite love them on like the repeats,
which is understandable, I guess, but no, I I had a
really fun time with it. Actually. I think it was a really cute,
whimsical little adventure with Peach. Just a great title card game to have
under to his Peach. And I really like the ending as well. You
kind of get like a newer costume, a newer outfit, and there's like
two versions of it, sort of thing I attribute it to, like basically
Super Saiyan Peach. You don't get crazy hair or anything, but it's just
like the outfit change. It's just like, fuck, she feels like Super
Sonic here or Super Sayan. So yeah, I really did like the overall
journey and I thought it was a satisfying ending, and yeah, the boss
battle wasn't too crazy difficult, but yeah, I had lots of fun with
it. I am glad that I stuck through it. It was kind of
like easy enough and not too hard of a grind that I feel like.
Honestly, I feel like my one session after we did the review, I
was able to just power through it. Maybe took like an hour or two,
but yeah, I know it. It was really good and Shay still
hasn't had the chance to play on her on her own, so we'll probably
well she'll she'll play through it, but I'll be there and see what her
thoughts are on certain like the fucking Sherlock Holmes outfit one, Like I'm not
a fan of that at all. Those levels were just so slow paced and
you're like trying to find clues and maybe I'm just bad, but it wasn't
like the most clear to and what I'm supposed to do, So like that
was the only one that I well up until that point. That was the
first one that I actually like failed to level on just because I like kept
making these false accusations and then you just keep losing health bars when you make
these false accusations. That's funny. I don't get it. She's not ace
attorney man, like like they keep this away from a different game. Yeah
yeah. Health divers too, which had a lot of controversy over the weekend,
which has already kind of like gone and resolved where PlayStation Yeah wanted to
establish this like you have to have a PSN account, and this was an
issue where a lot of countries don't have that ability to do that. So
then like people weren't able to play the game, they're getting all these refunds.
It became I think the third most negatively reviewed game over the course of
like three or four days, which is the insane. And then PSN like
already on like Sunday they like revote or I guess undid that change? And
so now I think peace is coming back to the Kingdom, but it's not
gonna be without like I think, a ton of pain, a ton of
lost customers along the way. So not a good look for them. I
mean, I don't think it's the hell Ever's team. It was not their
choice, it was PlayStation. But yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Have you have you jumped in there in the last few weeks. I think
it's been like a few weeks. Actually, well whenever whenever Umi and Travis
did our episode, like I had played that weekend, I think those two
three weeks ago, So there you go. Yeah, it was like two
weeks. I didn't really know anything about this controversy until I just popped in
the discord. I think it was yesterday and I'm like, WHOA, that's
really bad. Like I'm fortunate enough to be on PlayStation, so it didn't
really affect me in that sense, but still just a really terrible business decision
and just from going to like probably one of the most positive like game releases
and just like the Word of Mouse, just really blowing that game up,
just being as you just laid out like one of the most negatively reviewed,
like just down voted thing. It was just wow, what a what a
what a stumble? But uh, I mean, I'm glad that they kind
of opened their eye. I don't know what the point of the decision would
have been in the first place, but yeah, no, I'm glad they
undid that change. But uh no, for for democracy they made that change.
Yeah, the joke of the game. What about what about? What
about returnal? How's that going? Oh? Yeah, no I haven't.
I haven' dabbled unfinished games. But genuinely, for all these I just really
want to hear your thoughts as you get deeper in them. So yeah,
that was another one. Actually, Patron Tower was telling me that he had
jumped back into and he said that he was he felt like he was pretty
close. Did he co operate? It has co op, but they added
co op at some point. Yeah, you're one hundred percent right, actually
with the tower. Yeah, no, we really should. I don't know
why we haven't linked up in that sense, but uh, there you go.
I got something to do now. But no, it was funny.
He was telling me that he he felt like he was pretty much at the
end of the game and then he finished what he was doing and it said
like act one, like he was like hours in and he's just like,
oh my god, Like I felt like I was really getting close to the
other there. But no, that it was a funny moment. He had
told me that. And when he was telling me about like he's enjoying me
of the game, that's where I was like, oh, that game is
so good. I got to jump back in there. And I you know,
we had played some Call of Duty these last couple of weekends, and
h I was just kind of wanting like another shooter to just like just jump
into. I mean, of course I got hell Divers, but also just
maybe more single player one. I think I had uninstalled Maternal to make room
for Call of Duty, So that's probably why it wasn't on like my Duty.
I'm taking him too much room on that hard drive. Yeah, but
I had popped on to my like my PlayStation catalog thing, just just to
see games that maybe I've been on the the wish list or something that I
haven't touched, and one on there that I kinda I don't know. I've
never really played any of them. It's it's one of the I want to
say, bigger franchises, but it's got history to it and all of the
titles are actually on PlayStation catalog. Is the Wolfenstein series, and I have
never played a Wolfenstein game, Like I know, they kind of date back
to almost the Doom like era, Like I know, the earlier game kind
of looks. This looks and feels the same sort of way of the early
Doom or Quake even kind of feels. And I've heard good things about the
newer ones, so I was like, hmm, that could be one that
also isn't too much of a time commitment. I imagine those games are pretty
short and fast paced to kind of fire through. So that was one kind
of thing I was doing one of them in leading up to Indiana Jones because
it's the same studio, So doing like a one episode retro of one of
the wolf Stegin games leading into that. So I'll keep you updated on you
should definitely join us. That'd be fun. Fun one. That's cool that
it's on playstage. I'm surprised that it's all there because that's like a owned
by Microsoft situation. They're all on game Pass too, so I guess they're
just widely available across the boarder. Yeah, that's awesome. No, I
uh, it's funny too because I when I went to the PlayStation store area,
of course, because Fallout just completely popped off. The one show I
just decided to skip, ends up being like one of the better video game
shows. But and like Fallouts, like I used to see on like my
steam list. I have like six friends right now playing Fallout, which is
great. You know, Fallout's great. But there was actually a category that
said like post apocalyptic, and like the first game was Fallout, so it's
like if you want to get that vibe, and Wolfenstein was in that category,
which is interesting. Okay. I don't know much about the series myself
other than that Briggs is always kind of praised the game, so I didn't
know about that aspect of the setting. I always thought it was more just
like Nazi Germany sort of setting, but I'm sure it gets deeper and more
interesting than that, right, Yeah, Like, I don't know. I
thought it was strange of like I guess just because it's kind of maybe Nazi
Germany controlled. It feels like an apocalypse happened, which would make sense.
But no, there's a lot of cool titles in there too, and like
Days Gone that's another one too that have just always eluded me. And just
talking about that last week, how we never got around to it but still
want to. Yeah, and the last one. And I want you to
feel bad about this if you haven't gone back to it. I already know
you're gonna say, acking, what's it call? Now? Oh no,
you don't tell me. I don't remember the name of it. I ends
with a description. Okay, that's not You're gonna go see the Stars?
Actually, Oh I was. I was going inscription. I was going going
inscription. Okay, No, yeah, there's another one. Yeah, you
do need to finish the Stars. I feel bad about both of those,
but no, I have not jumped down inscription since we last talked. Unfortunately,
inscription shorter uh than See the Stars. So I think I just got
like my ass handed to me by a certain boss battle, and I'm like,
I gotta recoup, make a snack, and yeah, the snack ended
up being a month long hiatus. But yeah, okay, well there you
go. In case you forgot about any of these games, you know how,
they're back on your U. You need to do this, like I
think every time I'm on here to like really like motivate me because it's like,
oh my god, the teacher's gonna ask for my homework, so I'd
better do my homework. You're you're gonna be asking. I will say you
nailed the assignment for Peach, like, oh yeah, I've beat the game.
That that's the I'd love to hear that answer more often, but I
mean I'll take it. Still. That's great. Absolutely. I mean,
relative to Travis and and Taylor, you do play a lot more games than
they do on a week to week basis, so that's apreciate it. Yeah,
and last year probably the most games I've ever finished in my life,
all thanks to the Arcane Retro. Yes, great times and arcs Man.
That's like one of the longest games to like. Yeah, and hard as
fun so so difficult to a game. Yeah, good stuff. There you
go. There's there's Kirkland's games. When we we're gonna go do quick an
ad break, and when we'll get back, I'll share two games that I've
been playing. We'll be right back. Okay, we are back. First
up, this is gonna be an update from last week. By a chance,
did you listen to last week's side quest once a gonna put you on
the spot here? No, I messed that episode well. Last week I
shared with Travis that I picked up on sale and started playing the first Outlast
ooh yeah, and I've since complete Outlast. I beat it and then I
went through and I also beat the DLC the Whistleblow whistl Yeah. Did you
play that as well? But I did it? Yeah? Oh yeah,
nice, I love that DLC. I'm gonna open up the spoiler gigates he
because I want to talk to you about some of the crazy stuff that happens
at the end of this game. So if anyone, if anyone cares about
spoilers for what twenty fifteen, you know, ten year old game, maybe
even longer. I guess he was twenty thirteen actually, because yeah, if
you guys were talking about back in the Target days, it must have come
out. I was in high school when I played Crazy. Okay, yeah,
Wow, so well over a decade ago at this point. So yeah,
if you don't want to hear spoilers for Outlast, there's time stamps in
the episodes, so you can skip forward a bit here. But uh man,
the fucking end of Outlast is insane. I don't know how much how
vividly you remember it, Oh, very okay, good, because I was
holding in one city and on our when I used to do my Sunday stress,
I guess that was more recently than that you played it. But when
I was talking to Travis about it, he's like, I told Hi,
I beat the game. He's like, oh, yeah, you got out
of the asylum there. I'm like, no, that does not happen at
the end of the game. I did not get out of the asylum until
I went into the DLC, and then you do get to go to this
islum, which is kind of a fun happy ending there. But yeah,
it was. It was funny. It was like both it felt almost like
cliche, but then also like it was just a huge mind fuck. Like
the end of the game where you're going down that elevator you got the last
key and then you're about to leave, and then the elevator just keeps going
down and down and you go into the underground hidden ice base and why that
feels a bit cliches just I've been playing so much Resident Evil in the last
couple of years, and Resident Evil does that like all the time. There's
always some underground hidden bass and it's always icy and like, so, you
know, I don't know when that trend started in a Resident Evil relative to
Outlast doing it here, but that was that was a crazy moment for sure,
not one that I expected. And yeah, like everything that happens in
the last twenty thirty minutes is just like freaking crazy stuff and visually like such
a distinct difference too, which I really enjoyed. No, yeah, one
hundred percent. I feel like the first time I play that game, when
you get to the point that, like you just said, like you're in
like for the most of the game, you're in like a very fucked up,
like broken down asylum, and then you go to this like area that's
just like very clean and like yeah blood spots, yeah, no, Like
it's just such a different esthetic than what like the mental asylum is up top,
like it's it's like the science y laboratory and when you like really learn
kind of what the wall Rider is, it's just like, man, this
game was already so fucked up. Like yeah, like the first time they
first jump scare when there was like an actual ghost, Like it's just like
a random moment. It's not even like the ghost is like throwing some body.
It's just like, yeah, you're just outside and you just walk into
like some shed sort of thing and then it just like pops up right in
front of you. Oh man, that was yeah. Like I feel like
there's quite a few jump scares in the game, but that was one that
like legitimate, like made me, made me jump, It got me.
Oh yeah, I know. I remember that very vivid outdoors when you're running
away from the wall Rider and like you can't really see it, like even
with like the vision that you can kind of see the silhoul head. But
it's just so terrifying because also up until that point you don't really even know
what it is, Like you see the smoke or whatnot. But like like
I don't know, the big guy with a fucked up face, I understand
he's gonna fuck me up, but the ghosts, I don't know what's gonna
happen with that, I know, and it leaves you alone like multiple times,
so you're like, I don't know, is this thing friendly? And
then it's not. And of course you know lasi, you know, not
actually fighting back. There's no combat in that way, so you don't really
know how you're gonna interact with these things. But yeah, I think interesting,
like I guess parts of the game, Like I felt like the AI
and Trials is like so much better on the enemies. Plus there's the element
of you're being like thrown sometimes upwards of like seven or eight enemies are like
in the level at a certain time, right, So it's even though you
know we're playing three or four of us and there's a lot of us to
spread around, it's still like a lot of enemies. So going back to
last one, it's interesting that like at most you're only fighting like maybe one
guy, and by fighting, I mean running away, and then like at
that one point there's like those two brother kind of dudes and they will like
gang up on you. So it felt not quite as freaky as an experience
to go back to just after playing Trials, and even though Trials, like
you know, we're doing it with friends, so you're kind of laughing.
You have each other to keep, you know, the company. This is
much more just like that intimate experience, but still like the couple of moments
that really stood out to me were, uh, one, I don't know
the name of the guy. I'm tree. He has the name, but
it's like the experimenter guy, and he's like he seems like he like saves
the day for you. And then he like puts you in a wheelchair,
locks you up, and there's like that whole sequence and you're trying to escape
from him. And that was one of the sequences too, where like it
was really like most of the game was pretty linear and obvious, and I
actually moved through like really fast because it just like I kind of just knew
where to go instinctively, Like they do good job with the lighting and making
obvious where to go. But that section was really hard to figure out,
Like where are the key? Was how I was supposed to get out of
here? Certain rooms are looking very similar, so I was getting lost a
lot. And yeah, very like tight narrow corridors and stuff. So that
was one and then the other section that like because for the most part,
you know, playing Trials that game is so grotesque and disgusting and nasty that
this game felt like PG compared to the Trials. But then the sequence with
like the creepy guy who's like talking about marrying you and he's doing all these
experiences. Do you remember him from Whistleblower? Like that creepy like very small
bay guy. That section is disgusting and like, I don't know, I
feel like it probably eclipses any particular thing in Trials in terms of how nasty
and weird and creepy and uncomfortable feeling it is. So yeah, and that
he has a very similar kind of mechanics where he's following you around during that
sequence, you like break your ankle so you're moving super slow even with full
sprint. So yeah, those two sections like were the most intense for sure
of the experience. I feel like they really like turn up the grotesque level
like as they go on, because I remember even seeing some moments in out
Last two. I played it briefly, but also like watched a friend play.
I got that one on sale too, so I'm I don't know when
I'm gonna jump into it, but I'm excited for just the kind of different
setting for it after playing the first and third game. Now, yeah,
no absolutely, but yeah no Tregger. That was that guy's name with the
scissors that cuts your fingers off, Okay from the first game there, and
yeah, that section I remember kind of struggling at it for a little while
too, just just as you mentioned, like trying to see what you have
to find. And I also just kind of found the area that you're running
around in like it is kind of a loop, like it's it's kind of
a circle area. There's like a guy just like strapped to the bed that's
kind of just like squirming and making noise. It's just like such a disturbing
sequence. And when he takes you like to the to the door to escape,
and then he's like, oh, let's not go there, and then
he goes down the elevator and it's just like I'm never getting out of the
semi mm hmm. Yeah. And then I liked I thought Whistleblower was a
really fun way to expect on the story because you get like a little bit
more of a prequel, but then also you get more at the actual ending
instead of the kind of very cliffhangary situation. So I wonder if that's something
that they had planned in advance, or if the game was just successful enough
that they were able to go ahead and make that DLC because of the success
of the game. I'm not too sure. But I liked the playing as
a different character, and I liked seeing parts of the lab and the asylum
like before it's completely gone to shit, and you're kind of seeing it go
to shit. You're seeing like the church burned down at one point, just
being in the lab there doing that section and having this other character to play
as. And then yeah, like for a game like this, like I
don't need a happy ending, but I will say that it was. It
was a cathartic feeling at the end of the game to finally exit the asylum,
have like a nice music playing, and like the Wallwrider almost gets you
as you like take you jump in the jeep from like the first character's perspective.
But then to get out of there and like have that ending again where
you send the email to like, you know, tell authorities about this all
the crazy shit going on at this facility. It was. It was.
It was a nice ending. So I liked that as a kind of extension
kind of before and after the events of the main game. I thought it
was a good deal scene and it was like, yeah, less than two
hours long. I blazed there it pretty quick. So was it yeah worthy
add on for sure? No, Yeah, that was that was one that
going into the DLC. Like I think the DLC came out probably within the
year actually that it kept that it had come out, but like I just
assumed it was going to be more levels or whatnot, but actually getting like
the setup of you are the whistleblower, You're the one that's trying to like
release these things, and then they throw you into the asylum. Like it's
just such a fucked up scenario. It was six or seven months after the
game came out, Okay, Yeah, I'm pretty sure I picked it up
like as soon as it dropped, just because I jumped into the game a
little bit a little bit after it had actually released, and then of course
powered through it and just loved it and was terrified of it. And I
think, up until that point is just the scariest game I'd ever played.
And yeah, so got that DALC. And yeah, as you mentioned,
I feel like I was expecting it to be a very dour ending just how
like the original game does, and you feel like you're multiple times in the
game you feel like you're finally gonna get out, and then you can get
to the point that you you kind of shut down the program. Like the
big main beefy guy that's been chasing you, like he's been taken out by
the wall Rider, like like most of your enemies are done. And then
when those doors open up and those soldiers are right there with the guy,
like with the professor type guys, just like oh no, and then they
light you up, and then of course the fucking wall Rider just comes out
of you. Like It's such an intriguing game, and it's one that like
I think I've played through it maybe three or four times total now, and
I've just really appreciated maybe like the story on the second or third playing of
it, because I think the first time, like I really did not care,
like I probably skipped all the cut scenes, like didn't read any of
the blueprints, just was trying to run for my life. But when you
actually like read some of the blueprints and some of them are like case files
on like the enemies that are chasing you, like it's just I don't know,
it's it's really fucked up story, like all these Outlass games are.
But I did like reading not I read every single one of them, which
I don't do in many games, and there's not too too many of them,
but yeah, even some of my favorite games. At some point,
I'm like, Okay, I'm just gonna pick this up, put it in
my glossary, and I'll I'll tell myself I'm gonna read it in the future,
but I never will. But I yeah, I actually took the time
to read every every single one in this game. So that's a testament to
the world building of it. Mm hmm, yeah, no, it's it's
it's something interesting about these horror games in general that I feel like they're just
the surface is they're just trying to scare you and get you sweaty and get
the adrenaline pumping, but like, I feel like there's just such really interesting
stories that they could tell. And that's where I'm I'm I'm really compelled now
to go check out the second one, because you know, I heard you
guys talk about it on our Outlast Trials review, but neither you or Taylor
really got too far in it, and especially now after playing this game and
like being invested in the setup of it, and then like Trials, which
you know, less of a single player narrative game on more of like a
multiplayer fun game, but there's still lots of like, Wow, what's going
on here? Who is setting this up? How is this related to the
first game, which I still don't even really have an idea of how that
is connected in the grander sense of things. But yeah, like I am
very curious to go to the second one after I just went on like the
Steam synopsis. It was just reading through, like Okay, what is the
story set up here? And it seems like it's almost like an anthology sort
of thing, but I'm sure it still is established in this greater world and
there's gonna be some ways that's connected to the first one. Otherwise they would
have just named it some other new game instead of out Last too, So
I am I am excited to jump into that one and see how it all
connects, even though I played these games in a weird order three, one,
two, and then yeah, I also I didn't mention this I don't
think with Travis last week, but yeah, like the I think the movement
of the game is a big part of why I really enjoyed it. Like
it's parkour E. It's like very linear and was like, if you're gonna
climb on this thing, it's like that's a story moment where you're supposed to
climb on this thing. Usually if you're climbing up somewhere shimming on a ledge.
But I just felt like it moved really nicely. I know it sounds
like kind of stupid, but it just like for a game that doesn't have
combat, I think you need, yeah, the movement to feel really good,
and they definitely nailed that part of it. And obviously like the hiding
in different corners or lockers or underbeds, all that stuff works really well too.
So yeah, I just it's just a fun game to play through and
like it. It does feel very fast. I'm like sprinting so much of
the time, and I don't know, you just get like this momentum to
it that I do feel like it would be a really fun game to speed
run, which I don't think I'll ever do, but it was it just
even a certain moments felt like I was kind of doing that anyway. So
yeah, and like just a nice clean pace, not too long, not
too short. DLC like I mentioned like nice and breezy, so I had
a really really good time finding playing through it, and it maybe want to
ask you, like because you always talk about this game, this is like
I feel like one of your favorite games, like probably in your top twenty
five or something would be my guess. And then I feel like you haven't
really ever talked about like other horror games, like I know you've talked about
co Lot, the Great co Lot, which I did pick up and I
do own it. I have it, I don't loaded, and I still
just haven't actually jumped into it, but like, what's up with that?
I feel like this game is so special to you and you jumped in the
second a little bit, jumped into Trials of course, But I don't know,
is there other series I'm missing of your gaming history that I just don't
know about or is it really just like for whatever reason, Outlast called to
you, you played it and that was like you were good, you were
satisfied. Yeah, No, that's a It's a really good observation that you
make, because I feel like even with like horror movies, like I I
love them, but they also scared me and like right, like if I'm
home alone, Like, like you're being bold these days, You're powering through
these resideval games. You're getting into the horror game mood. If I'm home
alone, it's like Friday night. No, Like inch of me wants to
just boot up like a horror game, put on put on the immersive headphones,
and just turn off the lights and just be fucking terrified, like nothing
is calling to me for that. My my love of Outlast definitely came from
the era of it was around the time like when Slenderman was kind of popping
off. Yeah, you know, find the eight Pages and I think mentioned
him already twice tonight, might as well make it three times. Patroon Tyler
he was the one that showed me Slenderman and like he was like, oh,
you heard a Slenderman game? Like, no, what is that?
He's like, I can't tell you anything about it. We're gonna download and
yeah, you're just gonna play it. And I feel like it kind of
evolved from that, like we maybe played that together, and then I think,
I like again with Outlast, like I never played it alone at the
beginning, like I always had him with me every time that thought I was
playing through the game I know that you're actually you're multiple playthroughs. Now it's
like, okay, well I'm familiar with it. I kind of know where
the jump scares are. That makes sense. How it's like you're it's almost
like a comfort game weirdly. Yeah, no, yeahsting comfort game all the
time, very much so, and like nostalgia effect too. But like I
mean, I was just mentioning my my interest in the story. I was
gonna say love. It's not so much a love for the story because it's
so fucked up, but just interest overall for the world building that they're able
to kind of accomplish here and like the whole Murkoff industries and what's going on
with that. Like it's just I feel like it's just really rich with with
with material there, Like you could make so many movies just like surrounded about
that idea of the Mrkoff Institute and really what's yeah, as we talked about,
like Trials is pretty much just saw like turned into the game. So
yeah, So I think like my attachment to that specific title, like it
very much comes from just that era of where I was in my life,
and it's a nostalgic thing to kind of look back on. But other like
horror titles like it's funny you played an Amber game right, the first one,
the Darkest Scent again the same situation, like playing it with friends around
that Slenderman era, and uh just I don't know, it was fun to
get freaked out with friends. I think we had like especially with Slenderman.
I think it was one thing where like one person was on the mouse,
the other person was on the w a SD and like it is so terrible,
there's no way of winning, but it just makes it a little bit
of a co op experience. But for games like I've played a little bit
of The Resident Evils, like some of the early ones on like early PlayStation,
but didn't get far at all. I think I just got too scared,
and then when it got to a scary part, I would just like
turn it off, not not even pause the game, just like hit the
PlayStation turn off button. You go from there. I think the other like
franchise that I've been really interested in and have somewhat been especially now like later
in life, I've always been a little bit remiss, remiss, a little
remiss. I think it's a word that I didn't really get the chance to
fully jump into is the Silent Hill series. That's another one too where I've
just I don't know if YouTube algorithm or something just popped up, but it
was just like a whole breakdown of like a c like Pyramidhead, like that
one character, and it's just such a fucked up and like weird type of
character. And I was watching like a video on the guy that like like
the artist for it, and he was breaking down like the shapes of the
pyramid Head and how like the fact that it's like sharp on all sides just
like emphasizes agony because like it can't be comfortable to wear, and it's just
like adding to that grotesqueness of it and just something about it. It's probably
the same thing with with the whole Mrkoff floor, or like when I watch
a horror movie like The Hereditary. I love that movie so much, and
I've loved it so much more the more times I watch it because I'm just
catching little details, yeah, or like just like like the whole thing with
the Pagan Demon and like like just the things that tie together. Like I
think there's just so much more than what's on the surface, and I think
it's it's like an intrigue thing where I want to know more, not so
much for the gameplay or getting spooked, just just an intrigue about it.
So for horror franchises, yeah, like I really haven't fully dove it,
like the one I've probably played the most, just because of there's so many
different games. Might be Resident Evil because you played some of seven as well,
Yeah, yeah, exactly, So yeah, it's a it is a
funny one now now I'm playing through it because it's like, yeah, a
lot of these games really are action games, and they might have like a
scary moment or two, but yeah, a lot of them are just like
more kind of cheesy action movies. So it's kind of it's but then yeah,
go to something like seven and that's like straight up a horror movie with
very little action to it. So I think they they kind of come and
go uh in that way. But yeah, I don't know. It's it's
been fun time trying to get more of these games with Yeah, all the
Resident Evil games recently. Amnesia the Bunker last year was like such a cool
game. I love the mechanics of that game. Alan Wake two last year
was obviously a big deal, so Yeah, it's it's been fun, fun
jumping back into this space and excited to uh play through the third out Last
game here or I guess the second, which will be then my third one.
So when you're playing these, are you doing the setup of three volume
you know, like the speakers or you got the crappy headphones on. Yeah,
I definitely don't. Like. Yeah, I have the distinct memory.
I've shared this before on the podcast of the original Alum, and that was
when I played in high school. I'd only play it, yeah at night
when it's dark alone, headphones on, loud as fuck, and scare the
hell out of myself. I don't really do that anymore, Like I I
because I want to play these games and I want to enjoy them. I
just I don't know, I get I get too like freaked out if I
cut myself too much in those spaces. So when I'm playing out Last,
like, I'm just playing out whatever time of day, I just want to
play video games. So sometimes it might be in the afternoon when it's light
out, might be at night too, volumes not too loud, don't have
the headphones on, MUDs might be in the background in the room. She
might not be It's it's really just if it's in my gaming time, whichever
time that ends up being, I might jump into it. So it really
kind of depends on the games. But I feel like I'm not intentionally trying
to spook myself too much these days. I think maybe with Amnesia, I
did try and play it at more freaky hours alone with the louder music and
stuff, but I'm not necessarily doing that with every game these days. Yeah,
that's what I got to pick and choose my battles, you know,
absolutely, there you go, There's there's Outlast. The game I wanted to
provide an update. Four is Blotro, which I have over sixty hours.
Ind I've been That's a solitary game, right, This is the poker game.
This is the po poker game or the poker roguelike. Yeah, no,
I mean this has like been my game for the last I guess like
a month at this point since I picked it up, and then like,
yeah, I played like throughout Last, been like dabbling other things the Odd
Call of Duty or Outlast Trials with you guys, but other eys, it's
just like I just want to play Blotro, Blochro all day long unlocking all
this stuff. It's just one for me where it's like you know, you
have all You're unlocking all these different decks, which is like the different kind
of starting presets for your run, so to speak. And so I'm like
unlocking all those and getting up the difficulty levels for them is just a satisfying
like check box of like, oh, I just got a new run and
got this new unlocked. Here. The achievement list on Steam is really fun.
So I've been just going through trying to knock out certain things which make
you kind of force you to play in weird and interesting ways and try different
builds. But I finally now I've unlocked all the base or all the decks
that you can get. I think there's fifteen of them on and then there's
like eight levels of difficulty that you can beat with each deck, which that's
like too much. I'm not gonna do that with every single deck. But
on the one deck that has been like the one that I've found the most
satisfying, I've now beat that on the highest difficulty. So I got that
Steam achievement, which feels good. And so now I think I'm I'm almost
like I feel like I'm about to wind down on it because there's there's also
these challenge runs as well, which is just crazy. There's so much content
in this game. So I think I'm gonna go through do the challenge runs,
and then at that point, I guess I just unlocked the last few
cards I haven't used yet, which I think I only have like three or
four more jokers, and then I think I've seen like almost everything else.
So I'm almost that at the end of it, there'll be two Steam achievements
I won't have because two of them are like completionists Completeness plus and then Completeness
plus plus, which just what the Completeness plus plus is like you have to
get. You have to win with every single joker on the highest difficulty,
which would just take like at least twenty to thirty successful runs. And that's
assuming that's like with that's assuming you're not getting duplicates jokers, which is not
gonna happen some of themself, you're not gonna use them. It's like that
that just seems like ridiculously oppressive to try and complete that achievement. So maybe
in a few years, like I'll just do a run every once in a
while and eventually get that achievement, but I'm more so I'm gonna leave those
last two achievements behind it, just do the rest of the challenge runs,
get a win or two with each of the decks, and I think I'll
be good on it. But yeah, it's like so much variety, so
fun. They there was a big new patch that came out for it,
like last week. I think that did a bunch of balanced changes, made
some other cards kind of almost give them like new effects in a way.
So there's a little bit more of a random kind of content drop there,
and I don't really know what other sort of content is planned for it,
but just such a fun game, such a great roguelike in which it's hard
for me to find a roguelike usually, but when I do find one that
I love, it's like, you know, like a splunkie buying Isaac into
the breach, like when they hit, they hit for me. It's one
of my favorite genres. But yeah, they don't all have that same effect
for me, So I'm glad that it landed with Blotros been a It's my
game of the year so far, and I honestly might be surprised if anything
beats it at this point, just because sixty hours of like loving this game,
I don't know, it's gonna be hard to beat that at this point.
I hope to see some other games try. But yeah, it's been
just a great time. So big recommendation on that twenty bucks well spent.
I'll tell you that you definitely got your money's worth with the amount of hours
you got into it. I can't imagine the game was too expensive. Yeah,
yeah, I think twenty bucks or so. Yeah. I think it's
taught me a lot about different poker hands. I feel like I know forever.
It's like I played poker so infrequently we did recently on Afronin, which
is fun. I played so infrequently that I just can't remember, Like what's
a full house? I don't know. Now I feel like the values of
them and what cards they take and all this stuff, I feel like I'm
proficient in now. So this game has taught me a little bit about that,
hopefully. So you're gonna be highest you'd be like, can't we putting
money on this now? No. I've literally never been to a casino.
Well, I have been a couple of casinos, but not to actually play
games just because like I was going through a casino to somewhere else. So
I don't think. I don't think I have any issues there, but yeah,
there you go. Botro great games, super fun and yeah, like
I said, I think I'm winding down on it, which feels feels good
because I need to do some other stuff, you know, I need to
play some other games. Man, you reminded me when you're talking about achievements.
There is a game that I know we both played that I booted up
very briefly on Saturday. I think it was because I just saw it it
randomly on my library and then I just peered over at the achievements list.
There's achievement on there that says don't play the game for five years, and
that game is Stanley Parable. I saw it. I'm like, what was
the last time I played that game? It was like twenty thirteen. I
think, I'm like, man, let's boot this up and then the achie.
Of course, right away, I got that achievement and just did like
like a quick little run, you know, to the role credits. There's
many different ways to achieve that any game, but just going through it and
have the narrator veer me in different directions. It's just like, what a
special game this was? Actually? Yeah, did you hear about the like
super Mega Deluxe version that they released like last year or two years ago.
I saw it like just on the page, like when I went to my
library there, but no, I didn't know exactly what that was. And
he just added like a bunch of new endings and new content and stuff to
it, and uh, and I think a big part of it. So
I didn't play it, but I just heard that it was very on the
nose in terms of kind of making fun of like parodying games and DLC and
doing updates for things. That's funny. So that makes sense that, you
know, Like I think at some point it's just a big sign that's like
new content through this door, isn't he just like walking through a door to
go access some of the new stuff. So I think that would be pretty
cool at some point. I'll check that out when I have the itching to
go back to that game. Yeah, I think that's that's the way to
do it, through that new version, which I don't know how much it
adds, but I think probably a decent amount to go back and get your
fix for it? Yeah? And was it? Uh? Was it super
super limital super liminal? Yeah? Is that the one that you mentioned was
somewhat similar to that sort of idea? Or am I totally in the wrong
wheel? Yeah? I mean I guess it's a fourth wall the sort of
game. It's more of a puzzle game. I guess Stanley Parable is,
But I don't even know Stanley Parable. What a genre would you call that?
Would you call it a puzzle game? Walking sim, narration sim something?
Yeah, just a joke. It's just a joke, joke generator,
I don't it's a joke. Yeah. Super Leminal is much more of a
puzzle ass puzzle game. Okay, yeah, it's okay. It's no Stanley
Parable. Okay mm hmm uh Okay, there you go. How about we
take our next break and we'll get back and talk about some Marvel Snap pull
right back. Okay, we are back. Uh So, another game that
both of us have been playing is Marvel Snap. What is your ritual for
this game? Do you play every day? Do you play a few times
a week? Do you jump in a couple times a month? What's your
current status with it? I had taken a little bit of a hiatus.
I think at the start of the last battle pass, like the one that
just ended. I can't remember if it was the Thunderbolts one or before that.
Which one was before that its versus x Men, I think, or
it had Hope Summers that had they added war Machine, they added Pixie.
See I don't even really remember that one actually, Okay, so that was
what I might have just jumped out for. I might have just missed that
whole era of that battle pass. But no, I was playing I think
last week, maybe two weeks ago. I jumped in again, not really
like daily, but like I would boot up and just kind of do I'm
happy for you that you aren't addicted to the Daily Crid like some other unnamed
people. Absolutely, I feel like it goes in waves though, like maybe
if I get a new card and then I make a new deck, like
with it, I just can't put the game down, like yeah, I'm
like cooking and doing it, and then I'm like, oh, I can
totally multitask with this game, and maybe I'm watching something that I haven't looked
at in forever because I'm really focused on my current my current hand that I'm
doing, but uh no, this last week, I feel like I haven't
been addicted to it, but I've definitely played every day a couple of hands
here and there. And I mentioned you off cast that I feel like I
gotta I didn't mention this offcast. I feel like I have to change my
Spotlight key cash strategy. Whereas I you know, I'm I'm a player that's
pretty new to it, Like there's still a lot of cards that I haven't
come across in it, So it's like anytime I get it, I kind
of just open it right away because I pretty much don't have any of the
cards in the cash anyways. But man, there's been a couple of times
where I've cashed in my my key and then like the next Spotlight cash that
comes out is like a car, you know, and it's not guarantee I'm
gonna get the card that I see that I want. But it's like I
wish I had like two keys right now to just spam on this one,
like like this is some good stuff or maybe even like a cool variant of
a card that I do use in there, and it's just like, ah,
I think I got to hold back a little bit on my key usage.
And I've realized that on the most recent one, because I of course
told you this offcast, but no I had I think it was Noll.
Blob Valentina maybe was the third one. Yeah, So I was really hoping
for Nol just because I've been wanting to get him because I really like those.
I guess just the decks that he can synergize with really well, like
a destroyed deck or something that's probably been my most played destroy or a move
deck has been probably my most played that I've ever done, not necessarily just
the one deck, but like variations of that sort of style. And I've
always been wanting to add Nol to my list. And I saw him on
there, I'm like, I'm fucking grinding for this. I'm totally gonna get
him. I did it as soon as I hit the button. This is
probably not true, but in my mind, the second I hit the button,
Blob just like popped in my brain. And then that was the one
that I got. And I'm like, fucking kidding me. I knew it
as soon as I hit the button. I knew it was gonna be Blob
and that's who I got. Yeah, I was so mad at myself.
So I'm still on the search for NOL. And of course the cash just
reset. I don't know what it was right now. Yeah, no,
I mean the Spotlight cash system, it's good and it's bad. I think
it's it's one of those things where like since they added it, like the
rate at which you get new cards is vastly improved. That is like,
that is true unless you necessary unless you kind of maybe play it like you
a little bit and just kind of take a chance on a gamble. It
sounds like in this case, no matter what, you would have got a
new card. So that's great. That's the case every time that I've used
it. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's good. I think for
some people where they maybe have the two other kind of older cards and they
just want the new one and they only have one key and they drop their
key on it, like, do not do that. That is not like
that is just gambler's fallacy right there. That's not worth it. Ultimately,
the best way to work with the system is build up four keys and then
when there's a week where there's in your case, I would say like wait
until there's a week where there's three cards. You don't have and then there's
always that kind of random slot too, which for you is probably gonna be
a lot of them right now. And so for you, it's like it's
good valley if you say, what with those four keys, If you're aiming
for NOL, you have four keys, at some point you will get null
and maybe maybe hopefully you get them on your first pull, and then you've
saved the three keys and you can save those for a week that you actually
care about more. But let's say it does take you all four to get
null, Well, at least you've got two other new cards along the way,
plus maybe that that fourth hidden slot, which is can be tokens or
it could be a new card, depaining on where you're at with it.
So for me, at this point, like I have so many cards that
very rarely do does a week have three cards that I don't have? It
just doesn't really happen that often. This coming week is two cards I don't
have, like the new card, and then Kara, I think is her
name's like the the whole actually have her so fine, right, It's funny
how it works out, Like I think that's kind of their intention, is
that people will have different collections I think that's something they want in terms of
balance of like people will have different decks because they have different compositions they can
make. So yeah, I don't have that card that you have, even
though I have, you know, like fifty more cards than you do or
something like that. But that's just how the system works. So I think
I will be I have four or five saved up right now in terms of
keys, and I think I'll use them this week because it's pretty efficient for
me to do so on this week, and we'll see what that mystery slot
gives me. But then, like the rate at which it like if you're
playing every single if you're doing your dailies every single day for an entire month,
you'll get essentially one key every week is how it works. So essentially
that system I just mentioned, you'll only build up four keys over the course
of an entire month, which is like it becomes a lot, and then
you know, you will get lucky sometimes maybe you'll get that first pull null
and then you can save those three keys for you you've kind of almost like
I don't know, gained the efficiency of multiple weeks because of that. But
then other weeks it's not going to be that way because it is a gamble
at the end of the day. So it's it's not a great system in
that way, where for me it usually ends up being that I don't get
a new card for like a month, but then in the course of a
week or two, I'll get like five new cards or something. So I
wish it was a bit more drip feed where I could get a card every
week, but because of the randomness of the system, it doesn't really make
any sense for me to drop one key every week that I'd be getting every
week to try and get like the new card or a card I don't have.
It just doesn't really work like that. So yeah, it's not a
great system. And I feel bad for you with NOL because that's a character.
I think that might be the most common card that's popped up in the
spotlights since they added that system. For whatever reason, they just have all
these noull variants that they want to give out, so they just keep having
them in there. The other thing too, that like because of the system
as just mentioned, where it takes like a month, like you can look
up like on the website here there is this is like data mine, So
it's not one hundre percent confirmed content, but like there's data mind content here
up until the spotlight of the first week of August, so you can really
plan ahead, oh, in terms of like what the spotlights are going to
be for I mean in the in the weekly or I guess every month when
the update for the new season, they'll show you what the spotlights are going
to be for that month. But yeah, this goes like out sometimes three
months in advance. Wow, so you can really plan it. You can
be like, Okay, I'm gonna hold my keys for the week of like
June third, you know. And for some people that's gonna completely tearing off
from playing the game because like I don't want to have to wait a whole
month and I have to play this time level up to get the cards I
want. But that's just kind of how it is. You kind of got
to play the game if you want to be the most efficient with how you
get cards. Now, if you don't care as much and you just want
to mess around, then do whatever the hell you want. But that's kinda
that's kind of how it works. So it's it's I don't know, there's
pros and cons to this system. Then there is tokens on the side where
you can just buy cards outright, but like, it takes so long to
get six thousand tokens to bet get a new card, and very rarely are
they dropping cards from like the tiers, so most of them are gonna be
six thousand tokens. Eventually they do drop them down a three thousand each,
but they do that so infrequently that it's like not really something you can count
on, which is unfortunate, and then that's it, or just buying the
season pass then you get that one new card every month. So that's that's
kind of the three ways to get cards. I guess. Once you're series
three complete, which I think you are now right or not, actually there's
your store is still there's still quait, so you get you also get your
monthly free card. Yeah, which obviously Noel would not pop in there because
he's not a series three hours remaining fifteen hours remaining until I get it,
so tomorrow I can jump into that, but right now I'm pretty like religious
with that, even when I'm not playing, like I'll pop in there just
to make sure that I am like min Max in my collection on there.
There's been there's been some really great cards that I've gotten throughout it, and
it's it's funny. There's certain like cards that maybe like months ago, I'm
like I want that card so bad, like like please give me that card.
I think Spider Man twenty ninety nine like that that was one of them.
Got it, had it on like one deck. I really liked it,
and then I was just like, I'm not really feeling like this this
deck right now. Have you used him since they changed him, changed his
stats? I don't think so. No, because originally he was a four
six I think, and now he's a five to nine, so he costs
one more but he has nine power now Okay, No, I actually have
not added try again because he's a card that the community still insists is really
bad. And I think that the unfortunate part about him, because I when
I read the card description, was like, oh, that's a cool ability,
but I thought it meant that like every time he moves to a location,
just like the first time he moves out, he would get a kill.
But it's only the first time he moves at all, so you only
get one proc of it. But now that he's a five to nine,
it's like even if you're hitting a bad card that only has like two power.
That's still like a five eleven if you think about it, like that's
a that's pretty damn good stats for a card. And since he's less than
ten, he can't get hit by shung chi, which is really great.
So I actually think he's really good. I think he's very underrated. I
think Move as an archetype is like one of the weaker ones, So in
that way, it's like his ceiling is going to be a bit lower.
But since you're a move it sounds like you're a move fan. Uh,
you should definitely check him out again, because I have him in almost every
move deck I use. I think he's really fun and he's a surprise.
No one expects him, no one sees him common either, So sometimes if
someone has a solo like character in a lane, you can just get a
guaranteed kill on the potentially a really good card. So yeah, out No,
I'll definitely try it out. I feel like I do really like the
move arctypes, but it's I think I just kind of overdid it too much,
Like I just I didn't love the whole planning of like where I'm going
to be putting my my cloak character, like it's a harder archetype than almost
any other type and really really location dependent. Oh absolutely, and especially like
certain locations can just destroy your whole strategy. That's when you just retreat,
like right at the start of the match. It's think there are a lot
of good like I feel like destroy and move have like the most locations that
are relevant to them specifically. But yeah, with a move as well,
like sometimes you just really need all that extra space to make your combos happen,
and it just you'll just get screwed over by all sorts of things.
So yeah, yeah, it's always so it was. Yeah, and like
just like the other Spider cards too, Like those are ones that I'm I'm
still in the pursuit for. I mentioned, well, I guess Nol's kind
of a Spider character, not not so much, but I guess like like
go Spider, you know, Spider Gwen, Like I really want that card.
I still don't have her. Silk is another one, just because I've
I've learned a little bit more about that character Dove into the comics, So
I really want to get Silk just for just the just the I don't even
know what her card is, but I just want to have her to my
collection. Uh, Spider Man, I have miles now, I think that's
one that I got. I might have used my tokens actually for that one.
That one like popped up and right away I snagged him. I haven't
used them too much since, like even like his what's it called his like
level like it's still gray or whatever, Like I haven't really leveled at at
all, like the what's that called the booster Bordle? I guess, yeah,
the boarder. So yeah, I'm kind of just wanting to collect my
Spider characters, not necessarily use them, but I feel like if I have
just all of them, I would probably just use the Spider deck and go
that route I have kind of I usually have a couple move decks that I
like to jump between, like one more but like moving my own cards,
and then I do like a deck based around like moving my opponent's cards as
well. Who do I have in my current Like I do have Spider Man
ninety nine, Go Spider, I mean iron Fist is going to be like
in every move deck pretty much. Craven Kingpin, Well, you do use
Kingpin a I've never used them before. I I guess he really goes for
him at one point two, so he he might be different than what you
remember his ability to be when an enemy card moves here afflicted with minus two
power and he's a two three. So they did change his ability at something
to kill cards on turn six, That's what I thought. Yeah, so
here's a bit more. He's kind of like the opposite of Craven now okay,
yeah, but it can you can and it only hits enemy cards,
which is nice, so even if you're moving into your own you're not going
to get deep buff there. So so yeah, I like, uh,
I like using different ones like that. And then I like Phoenix Force,
which I'm guessing you don't have, but that's a very fun I too have
Phoenix for sell you do. That was one that I had got like right
away because I was super pumped on it, and I'm like, this doesn't
fit any deck, like any cards that I have. I don't know how
to best utilize this. I don't know what would you do for Phoenix Force.
So Phoenix Forces is a fun card because it is kind of a hybrid
between like a destroyed deck and a move deck, which is a fun hybrid
to have. But the thing with Phoenix Force is you get you revive a
card and then you can move every turn. So there's kind of three cards
that really benefit from that. One is Human Torch because every time Human Torch
moves, yeah, doubles his power plus with Phoenix Force. When he revives
Human Torch, you'll be at seven power, so you start with seven,
and then you if it's in theory, if you do that on turn four
because Phoenix Force costs four, next time you'll move that will be aut fourteen
power, and then after that up to twenty eight, so that can be
really really good if you pull that off. The other one would be Multiple
Men. If you move him every turn and he has eight power from the
Phoenix Force, that's just eight power you move in once you've moved it once.
Then you have two of them on the map too, so you can
move them and just get all sorts of power. And then I don't know
if you notice, but they change Dagger at some point too, where she's
now two zero, but she gained three power every time she moves, so
if you put her with the Phoenix Force or she gets yeah, three power
for each enemy card at a location so she can get if there's four enemy
cards somewhere, you just get twelve power and you can just move her multiple
times as well. So the deck is pretty much I have those three in
there. I have Ghost, Spider and Human Tors just to or sorry go
Spider and Iron Fish just to get cards moving. I have Carnage and Venom.
So the idea is on turn one or two you're gonna play Dagger multiple
men or Human Torch and then kill them on turn two or three with Venom
or Carnage, whatever one you draw, and then turn four Phoenix Force and
then just start popping off. And then in that one I do have Spider
Man twenty ninety nine as well, just as another backup option. You're never
gonna revive him with Phoenix Force, but more maybe I can get a kill
off with them on turn six. Then I also really like having Do you
have task Master? Yes? I do, because he works really well too.
Where Phoenix Force spawn that in, get that twenty eight power of Human
Torch and then just copy that twenty eight powers. Now I have twenty eight
two. I'm really good Taskmaster before. Yeah, you're inspiring me here.
I feel like I'll send you this deck. Listen, you don't have Ghost
Spider and you don't have Nico either, right, No, Nico's another one
I really want to get. But then you have the rest of this deck,
so you can you can do a couple of weeks. You could probably
throw like Vulture in there, hey, because Vulture doesn't he get like plus
five when he moves. I think, yeah, so he'd probably have a
bit of a lower ceiling than than Dagger, multiple Man or human Torch.
But worst case scenario, I got that plus. Even if you like use
the Phoenix force on someone else, you're still gonna be playing cards five,
turns five and six, and so Vulture could be a good one there.
And I guess you could throw Home Doll in there if you want, as
a turn six finisher. That's been like my, that's been my crem to
the cram on my. He's the classic go to, and I think there's
kind of better plays usually for a move deck, but he's still just he's
so uncommon now. He was like very popular early on, but now there's
so many other move cards that I feel like people moved away from him,
So now he kind of like becomes kind of an Underdog pick again. So
I'll send you this deckless, but you should use it because nix Force is
a really fun kind of move sub archetype there that I've I've found a lot
of success with and people it's pretty uncommon, like people don't really see it
coming either. Yeah. The only thing you really have to be careful of
is when you play Human Torch if your enemy, if your opponent plays kill
Monger, that can just ruin your day because obviously you do want human tors
to die once and then get revived. But if they play like a late
a game kill Monger, that's like retreat territory. So that's the only risky
thing. But then then again you have Dagger and multiple men as like the
other potential ones you can play, and those ones will not get hit by
kill longer. So yeah, really really fun deck. Really like that one.
Oh that's awesome. Yeah, You're You're definitely inspiring me. Here they're
here. I got a couple of cards that i've When I first saw them,
I was like, I can't wait to get those cards, And now
that I've had them, I feel like I've never used them at all,
and they just don't fit and like maybe I just have certain cards that I
need to like acquire, like really make them worth it. Like Thanos is
one I've been wanting to get ever since I got that Caira type character because
she makes it so one synergy, Yeah, one and six are like immortal,
but yeah, you know, utilize all those Infinity stones. But I
don't have Panels unfortunately, so I haven't used her too much. I had
her kind of an experimental deck. I think I was talking to you guys
about it on the discord where I had like Nick Fury with her because he
could just call in these six costs that and that's where I'm getting, like
like she Hulk and and almost call him scroll scar the other six costs that
you don't. Yeah, yeah, exactly, And like it's kind of like
a gamble deck because I'm like really depending or it's really dependent on who I
acquire, but it makes it pretty fun in that sense. Yeah, that
one I think with her too. Another deck is just like a they call
it like a Zoo deck, which is essentially like a bunch of one cost
cards and then like have Kazar and Blue Marble in there because they buff.
I mean, yeah, Kazar Buff's the one cost blue Marvel gives everyone plus
one power. Yeah, and it's kind of just about like you want to
have twelve cards on the field by the end of the game. You just
want to have a ton of people out and then she helps keep them alive.
So that's kind of a nice, uh potential synergy there. Yeah,
no, absolutely, Oh yeah, that's what I was so running the Accuser,
that's one that I really wanted to get. I think it was like
the twenty four hour stream or something when I had asked you, I'm like,
what's the point of master Mold? Like why would anyone want master Mold?
And then you had told me of running the Accuser, and yeah,
I really want to try that. I have master Mold and run the Accuser.
And I'm still just like, ah, I don't know, I don't
know if I'm gonna make a deck with those characters. I feel like I
don't have a lot of other like supplemental characters that go well with them.
But do you have? You have Maximus? No, Okay, So every
time i've I've looked up and he's a really good one. I think Maximus
is like on the recommended and yeah, because he's like, you know,
giving two cards to your opponent really good. But he also has six power
and he's a two cost, especially if you can play that on the last
turn, that's really good. And then what's his name? Who's the doctor
Strange guy who's like in Multiverse Madness any like drugs, Doctor Strange? Baron
Mordo? Yeah, yeah, Baron Morto. Do you have him in your
collection? I do, I've never really used them. Yeah, So he
works well in that kind of deck as well. He makes your opponent draw
a card, but then it changes the cost to six, so can make
can It's it's one of those ones where like you're never really gonna see when
it works well, right because your opponent's just not going to play that card.
So it's like it's one of those ones like Iceman as well. Like
Iceman, I imagine in my mind, is like one of the best cards
because it just screws over your opponent's ability to like conveniently get cards out,
messes up their plans. But like you'll very rarely see the card that you
actually hit, so you don't really know for sure, like if you screwed
them over. But yeah, he works well in that kind of deck.
But yeah, master Mold is like essential with thrown in, So if you
have him, yeah, that's good. And then I guess I would just
recommend like like if you can do master Mold and then hit master Mold again
with absorbing man who copies like on reveals or like doubles and on reveal or
like even an odin or something like that like makes that effect hit multiple times.
That can be really strong Ronan as well, like Ronan turned five into
a what's his name? Task master once again turned six if like your Ronan
just has a ship ton of power can be a really nice combo as well.
So not the potential there, Yeah, I know, great, great
advice. I'm gonna keep going down these cards that I've just never touched.
Super Scroll, Yeah. I mean that one's really luck dependent on like if
your opponent has good I usually avoid those cards, the ones that are like
really dependent on something like even like I just unlocked Rogue, which I was
thought was gonna be really exciting, and like what she just copies beyond she
steals a she steals an ongoing from the opponent idea, and like like super
like like hard counter decks too, that like really focus on countering maybe an
on reveal or an ongoing deck. Like I'm just like, I don't know,
I I don't really want to run that gamble. Usually it's like,
okay, you have a deck that maybe only requires like ten cards, and
you have a couple extra like kind of quote unquote flex spots, and that's
where you put in those what are kind of called like tech cards that are
kind of just good all arounders. But yeah, I've I very rarely used
super Scroll. But you know, if your opponent plays ah iron Man or
something like, it can it can be super powerful. But yeah, if
your plays none and then you just are sitting there twiddling your thumbs the whole
time, I mean really good actually against an opponent playing and null, if
you can copy that effect and just get a ton of power on him,
that can be pretty nice. So yeah, because it removes the effect right
from the other. No, he just copies it. Rogue steals it.
Okay, rogues, he copies it, and Enchantress kills all all the effects.
Yeah, mister negative, I've tried to dabble into making a negative deck,
but that's another one. I'm like, I need null, I need
null in there for the Uh, he's very specific. Yeah, like you
kind of need you need like Zabu and like I Lock and Ravona in my
opinion, because they all have Yeah, they'll all let you get him out
on turn three, which just makes it like so much more efficient to get
an extra draw of like the really powerful cards. So yeah, if you
don't have, like, yeah, you're gonna have all three of those cards.
You're not even you're only ever gonna play one, but you just need
all three just to increase your chances so that one's more finnicky. And they've
changed some cards recently that worked well with him, so he's uh, yeah,
he always kind of comes and goes. It's a fun archetype though.
Yeah, when I was really excited to get X twenty three added her,
and I feel like most of the time, like I don't, I kind
of kind of substitute her for like different cards. I don't know if it's
just because I get more value out of the other ones, like to me,
like like the best version of those cards, whether it's like saber Tooth
Wolverine, her is Wolverine. In my opinion, I just feel like he's
just the most effective. I feel like a lot of the time when I
get that extra energy from her, like it's just I don't know, it's
it's I don't really feel the be put anywhere exactly. But like Wolverine,
you know, if if he gets destroyed, it dis carded like multiple times,
like right away, like you're starting to rack up pretty quickly. So
really liked him, And yeah, I think with with X twenty three,
I think one of the main like I mean just generally having extra power in
general can be uh useful in all situations. But I think the primary like
really strong interaction is if you can use it on I guess like get her
hit on turn four so that on turn five you could play Noll the six
cost and then I'll turn six hit Nol with Arnamzola and duplicate two nools out
on the board. That's like the ideal situation. So I feel like that's
where one thing that can be really great for her is the ability to kind
of play two six cost cards in a game, But that also is very
dependent on like getting the right draws and the turn order and stuff. So
I usually would throw her in there, but I have not played much Destroyer
in the last few months. It's been not necessarily my my top archetype.
So but yeah, she's she's cool, it's fun. A couple more I
wanted to ask you about was Arrow. That was another card I was really
looking forward to getting. I think she was like one of like the first
like icons that you just have unlocked like in the game, and I'm like,
what character is this? This looks cool, and then I just never
had the card, got the card. She's like a five to nine I
think five to nine and moves the last played enemy card to her location.
Yeah, kind of like a magneto effect a little bit, A little bit.
Yeah, She's just she's very underwhelming. I yeah, Like the idea
is if you have like you know, you have a craving out there,
you have a kingpin out there, you can drag a card into your lane,
you can screw someone over. I just I think there's just better cards
at this point, Like she's kind of an older one, and someone like
Cannonball, who came out recently, has like a similar effect that's just like
better in almost every situation her. It's like, I don't know, it
needs to do something like a guarantees a movement on a card, because sometimes
you just play it, and I don't know, someone will play this card
at the same location as her, and so like her ability just does nothing,
So she's kind of underwhelming. I think she could use an update or
change personally, so I wouldn't worry too much about her in your in your
move decks, i'd try and make if you're looking at five nine, I'd
go for twenty ninety nine over her for sure. Okay, good to know.
I think that was old. I had to double check because he just
sick Cannonball, I thought for a second eight on long. He's very new.
He came out like three weeks ago or okay, something like that,
so you probably he was in that X Men Avengers season so you probably did
not see Okay, yeah, unfortunately missed him. What was the last two?
Oh? Yeah, for like the Goblin debt, Like the Goblin cards,
I've always wanted to, like try with them, but I don't know,
I've never never really attempted. Have you had any success with those ones?
Yeah? Give them a negative card? Yeah, I think they have
their uses for sure. I really like I really like them. I mean
they're really great with galactis, that's like their primary thing. But I feel
like that kind of became a bit too obvious whenever you would be going for
that sort of strategy. And I feel like there's very risky now because whenever
a NYE Nihilis I think is his name, whenever he came out a few
months ago, he sends all cards with zero or less power from your side
of the board of the opposite. So if you spent turn three and five
sending over a green Goblin, Hobgoblin, if your opponent plays an Nihilis,
they just send him right back, so that that card is just common enough
that like, I don't really think they have much of a place right now
until there's like some other sort of counter to that. And Nihilis is like
a very strong and in my opinion, quite annoying card. Maybe I just
don't have him some salty when he gets played against me, But yeah,
I think there are some potential uses for him. Usually it's just like some
some decks really want to fill up the whole board. They just need space,
and so if you can throw cards over there that are getting in your
opponent's face, that can be uh, pretty annoying at times. So yeah,
they're they're they're decent, But I think they're maybe a little bit weaker
right now just because of the popularity of an Nihilis. Yeah, that's fair
that you got too, Sorry, go ahead, go ahead. Last two
really quickly. One of the most recent when I got was Silver Samurai,
which I thought was great because I was gonna I was just about to ask
you do you discard? I really love discard decks. Actually, my my
current one that I'm running right now is is a discard deck? Who's God
in it? I actually just realized Silver isn't in here. I don't know,
maybe I was experimenting. I had there's a weird this is a weird
deck. Maybe I just made this one. Uh, I Blade Morbius,
Wolverine, Swarm, Gambit, Lady Sif, Lady c sword Master, uh,
Jubilee, ghost Rider, Apocalypse, Magneto, and the infanat I think
the Infanut pick is for Jubilee, probably yeah, or discard it and then
pull it back with ghost Writer. I guess, yeah, yeah, no
exactly. And this one I've actually I think I just tweaked this last night
because I was I was trying to just really optimize the discard. I find
it just a little bit more consistent than what I was trying before. But
uh, you know, I I really like discard decks, but I got
to throw Samurai back in here. Yeah, Samurai Samurai because it sounds like
with that deck he'll very consistently hit Swarm, which is great. Also,
I mean X twenty three could be a good addition to that one because she'll
very often get hit by Samurai, and that's like a nice consistent effect to
be able to hit like that would be once again that kind of synergy of
turn four, play Samurai hit her, and then turn five you could play
six cost card if you I don't think what you had in finn On and
what are the other six costs? Did you have any other ones in there?
Magneto and Apocalypse, right, So yeah, I guess Magneto would be
a good potential turn, but you probably want a more discard to him and
then spawn him back, right yeah ghost Rider, Yeah, yeah, that's
the ideal. Yeah. I really like Silver Samara. Plus he screws over
your opponent too, so I think it's a it's a good two for one
in that way. So yeah, I really I like him. I like
him more than Moon Night, who he's you know, very similar to moon
Night's ability, but just a bit more consistent. So he's definitely my main
discard deck for sure. Would you take out Morbius out of this more strong
of a character really good? Yeah, Morbius, what is it? Two
power for each discard that you've done, so, yeah, he's he's a
two zero but plus two for each each time you discarded a card. Yeah,
you don't have Modoc. Eh No, I don't have Modoc. Yeah.
I For me, that was like, I don't know that that felt
like the moment I was looking for in discard. I did not really play
that archetype like at all in the first few months of me playing, But
then when I got Modoc, it like unlocked all these different possibilities. He's
so he's just so good. Be able to hit like a apocalypse and swarm
on turn five and get a bunch of stuff for a big turn six is
really satisfying. So yeah, that's that's what I'd recommend when you get him,
to put him in there. But no, I think I think Morbius
is a really really good one to have in there for you. If anyone,
I would maybe take out Gamba, maybe just I would maybe, Yeah,
maybe Magneto actually because you're I don't know, you're almost if you want
those like high power cards that you're gonna try and discard and then revive,
that make me works more better with like a Hella deck sort of style.
I don't Yeah, that's that's a missing piece as well. But I'd maybe
take him out, but I don't know who I place him with right now.
I thinking about who you have unlocked right now. You mentioned Gambit.
Why would you take him out just just because the consistency, You don't know
who he's going to discard, and that can sometimes be unfortunate. I mean,
once again, you do have ghost Rider in your deck, so maybe
it's actually not much of a problem because if you discard someone that you wanted,
then you can just play ghost Rider next turn. So maybe, uh
yeah, maybe if you've got Ghostwrider, you could leave him in there.
I guess for me, it's just Gambit, like the randomness of it that
if you're only going to get one hit, it's like, ah, it's
usually a pathetic takeout too, like maybe I'm taking a fucking squirrel or something,
right, Yeah, exactly, you might hit a rock or a squirrel
and that can be unfortunate, and then they wanted him in there because X
min ninety seven, and I think I was just like, oh, yeah,
I've never had Gambit on a deck. We got to get him in
here. But yeah, with the prominence, Like I don't, I feel
like at least half the games I play right now or against Destroy decks,
they're just everywhere in this like last month or so. So I feel like
that's also one of those things where you just oftentimes you might just be helping
your opponent if you smack right, yeah, yeah, smack a Wolverine or
a I don't know, X twenty three or something like that. I mean,
you could hit a venom after he's been juiced up too, so that
could be pretty useful. But just that's a good potential risk there, So
I don't know. I mean, that's one of the situations if you're playing
against a destroy player, you just not play him in that game, you
know, keep him in hand, play someone else. So yeah, I
hope he gets discarded instead. Lady Desk Strike that's another pretty recent character that
I am added to my to my Destroy deck. I found her really effective
because there's quite a few times when because what is it it's minus yeah three
three or lass is who she takes out. And there's been times when,
especially like I'm usually running death in that deck. That was I think a
series three that I was able to acquire and great addition, great addition might
destroy decks. I really enjoy that card. But I was, yeah,
I was. I was bummed that they they changed her recently. I think
her new effect probably is maybe a bit more consistent, but before it was
just like, I think she was a five four five five. I forget
what her exact statline was, but it was like she'll she'll kill anyone who
has less power than her. So it was similar to the effect that is
now. But with that one is like I would often boost her power up
to be some higher number. Oh wow, I could get it up to
eight or nine and then just destroy all these people. And that was so
satisfying and it worked really well for me. Where now I just feel like
she's maybe a bit too niche. But I also haven't really tried the new
version of her, so maybe maybe I gotta try her out again. I'm
just still salty that they changed her. I hate when they change a card
like they did this with Crystal too. We're very under used card, like
no one's using them, but I have like a very niche used for it
where it works really well for me. But then because no one's using the
card, that change it. But then they changed into some other ability that
like no one really cares about her uses anyway. So I'm like, what
are you even doing here? Just let me, let me live, let
me use the card that I'm excited to use, even if I'm maybe in
the my small minority of card people actually having use with it. Man,
that was like me with America Chavis. I feel like I haven't used her
once since the change. She Yeah, she was like the lynchpin of my
discard deck. I would never play her, but she just made it so
consistent. Yeah, she was so good, But I understand why they made
that change to her. Yeah. I like her new ability, but yeah,
her old ability was just the consistency special. It was great. No,
absolutely, I wanted one last question for you. Yes, this this
card. I remember you talking about him on a previous Marvel snap talk that
was just incredibly overbuffed or just overused. But I just got the blob as
my my spotlight. Spotlight cash does he have any use right now? Would
you fit in any cards that I have? Is it worth it? Yeah?
He got a nerve, which was well deserved because he's overpowered as hell.
When he first came out, it was insane. That was like the
most overtuned card I think I've ever seen in the time that I've been playing.
They've nerved him, but he's still really good. He's still really consistent
because what he has zoo he has six zero now right, yeah, six
zero and then so he actually has until he gets to fifteen and then that's
right, that was they put that cap on him there. Yeah. Yeah,
he's actually potentially has a good potential in a Mister Negative deck potentially because
he when you flip him around, he'll cause zero. But I think generally
where you want to play him is in a deck with big cards like Gigante
and infinn Nott and Magneto, Red Skull Destroyer, like those kind of cards,
and ideally he just eats a whole bunch of them, and then the
kind of go to combo is once again the card that you've overlooked, his
task Master, where if you can if you know obviously you're gonna need some
sort of energy manipulation to be able to play Blob on turn five. But
if you do that with you don't have silock, you said, right,
I don't know, so maybe electro. You have electro in your cluction,
Yeah, I got electro, so maybe electro turn five Blob ideally, I
mean he'll get to fifteen or whatever anyway, and then turn six you can
hit him with task Master to copy that somewhere else because sometimes, like because
of how BLOB's card works is like, let's say he got built up to
fourteen power from different cards in your deck, but then in finn out was
the next card he'd eat, he'd still be at like whatever whatever that equals
thirty four, right, Yeah, he'd still equal that amount because of how
the math of it works, right, So he can still be insane on
the value. And if you haven't a deck about that, actually yeah,
and if you have a deck that has exclusively really big cards, that can
work out. So the only downside is that task master situation. Well,
I guess it's actually different nowkud too, because before he would eat your deck
and it would be gone. But now since he only eats a certain amount,
you can still get a draw on if you play after him, you
know, okay, so yeah, but that's the thing. You'd want to
make sure you have task Master in your hand before you drop him down,
So that would be one situation, but also just like, yeah, why
not drop him on turn six get a huge amount of power. He's kind
of like Red a Hulk. I don't know if you've bumped into Red Hulk
at all, but just I have just a six cost card that has a
way too much power and no reason to have that much power. It's like
it's crazy, very overpowered card as well, So yeah, I think I
Blob is still good. I don't think he's overpowered anymore. That's good.
He also would be great to have with kr Kr. I don't know how
to pronounce her name. Put her in that deck as well, player on
turn three, because that way he's no, he's probably always gonna have enough
power to get hit by shunk Chi and then she can help prevent that.
So that'd be a good compo as well. Yeah. Nice, Yeah,
thanks for the tips. That's awesome. I'm I just got a bunch of
ideas now. I think I'm gonna make like three or four decks as man.
Yeah, yeah, very exciting stuff like that is what really just like
gets the itch again, and I'm like, that's where I'm just hooked.
Like I'm just playing the game like constantly. I'm like, I really have
to go to bed right now. But yeah, I mean that's like I
was joking about the addiction to it. It's like it is. It is
a great game, is really fun. There's so much variety. There's so
many cards, and they add a new card every single week, new locations
every month, so like it the it's always keeping it fresh, and the
meta is always changing and they're always balancing changing cards and yeah, in some
cases they'll take away a Lady Desk Strike from me, even though I loved
her ability, and in other times they buff a card and it gets a
really cool new ability, like when they change Spider Man back in the day
and he was a really annoying card, but now he's like a really fun
move card, so they do that too, So it's just very fresh for
me. I was gonna show it a couple of decks, but I feel
like we kind of got some good convo there. Really. I think the
one thing I want to shout out is my like MVP favorite card of the
last couple of months, kind of two cards is a Quake and Legion.
You probably have Quake in your collection, but probably not Legion. Don't have
either of those actually come across Legion. But yeah, she's a she's a
series three, so you should you know, be getting her soon enough here,
but yeah, they changed her at some point. So now wherever you
play her on reveal, she flips the other two locations and then lead in
have you bumped into Legion? Do you know what he does? Is he
the one that he'll he'll turn the other locations into his location? Exactly?
Okay, I used him yesterday, my Nick Fury, So there you go.
Oh perfect, Sorry, yeah, nice good stuff. Yeah, no,
he he's just so fun And both those cards have won me so many
games just on their own. Where you know, there's the location that like,
whoever has the least power here, uh wins the location and be able
to flip that with Quake on someone's bar, satisfying the bar that goes to
nowhere, whatever the fuck it's called location. But as soon as I see
that in the first location retreat, I'm out of there. Screw this and
the amount of games I won because like Limba or magic rather playing limbo a
really really common play. And when my opponent drops that limbo down and I
come in there, I save Legion till turn six, play him somewhere else,
take away that limbo, and there they've been, you know, waiting
for that turn seven play. But now the game just over the amount of
games I've won with that alone every time. It's so satisfying. So though,
yeah, the deck I've been using is really just like kind of based
on a lot of info, like I have Howard the Duck in there,
who shows your next draw. I have Daredevil in there, who shows you
what your opponent's gonna do on turn five. Mixed with those the ability to
morph and change locations, not morph the character, but changing locations has been
like really really fun. It really kind of fluid deck, doesn't really have
much of an archetype to it. It's really just like good cards mixed with
specifically Legion and Quake, and that has given me a lot of wins.
So that's been super super fun. But yeah, I've just been having a
great time playing the game. I got Valentino last week, who's fun,
fun new card to play with, And yeah, so what I just wanted
to do a quick quick preview, I guess of this month of new cards
that are coming out here, which is something I want to do more.
Hopefully we can maybe kind of the start of every month, we can reconvene
on a side quest and just kind of do a breakdown of the new cards
that aren't gonna come out. I think it'd be a fun thing to do.
But yeah, have you check out have you looked into these new cards
that are coming out here in the next few weeks. You check out that
I watched the video that you sent. Yeah, we got she's going off
my memory here. We've got Blink, Yes, Blink's the season's past card.
Okay. So I don't know how I feel about her because she's she's
an on reveal your player. She's just five five seven I think. And
then whatever the last card you played swaps with the higher cost card in your
deck. So in theory, you could, you know, get a cheap
six cost card out, but it's one that doesn't actually inspire a lot of
like immediate deck ideas for me. So I don't know, I don't know
how I feel about that one. Does that one intrigue you at all,
I like the character. That's one thing I I do want to use your
show No blank uh not too long ago. I can't remember what it was.
I don't know what the Yeah, probably I don't know what the context
was, but just a I've always I haven't really much exposure to it,
but just from what days of future passed or whatever that scene is, I
just thought she's so cool. So yeah, I don't know, I don't
know I feel about that ability though it doesn't excite me as much. Yeah,
it didn't really do too much for I feel like most the ones actually
that were shown here, they didn't do too much. I feel like I'm
just still so bitter of my no no null, my no null acquisition is
no less just kicking dust today. I don't I actually agree with you.
I think this is maybe for the first month this year is the first like
really underwhelming season for me, and I think I'll probably try and take a
step back for a little bit here, but also coming out. I guess
the day of this episode drops is knockt hern Which is cool. Is this
character which I looked into is like the child of night Crowler and Scarlet Witch
from like a certain comic book series, which is really cool. So her
ability is she's a three five, she can move, she can move once,
and then every time she moves even beyond that once, she will change
the location that she moves to. So obviously she gets that one free move,
so you could change whatever location you want. But then you could pull
her with Gwen or move her again with iron Fist I guess something like that,
or Heimdahl and get her change multiple locations. So I kind of like
the chaos of this. You know, you don't know what you're gonna get.
But like I said, a lot of locations in the game are good
for move players, so that could be kind of a fun strategy as well.
But yeah, I think she seems like a lot of fun. I
think I'm gonna use my keys this week because I don't have KR as I
mentioned, so that's a pretty efficient week for me to get those two cards
for my four keys here. So I think I'm gonna pick her up.
And I think she seems like a good fun edition. I don't know how
like good or meta shall be. But also the idea to just like move
once on command, which only Nightcrawler and Jeff currently have, Like that's a
nice kind of convenient ability to have. And like I said, move decks
really depend on having good locations, so I think that'll be I think that'll
be a nice kind of fun niche combo to have. And like Vision can
move on command, right too, Vision can move yeah on command. Yeah,
you're right once every turn? Yeah, yeah, no, yeah,
absolutely, I I'm scared to come across that. It's I won't be getting
this card right away, not at my rate. Yeah. And then next
up after the week after that is Sage, who's a character I've never heard
of on Reveal two plus two power for each different power amongst all other cards
here, So that one's like almost a riddle on the way it's written.
But I think that the part that I didn't think about it originally is like
it means any card on either side, so your opponent or your side,
So there's a really good chance for them to just be like, I don't
know, a two power card of three power, maybe four or five,
Like you could really stack up the power on her. And so in that
way, she seems pretty good, and she's only she only costs three.
She also has yeah, zero power as a default, so she actually worked
pretty well with like a mister Negative deck as we were just talking about.
So I don't think I'll be picking this one up immediately, but it seems
like it has this potential, especially with like a Wong or an Oden,
to like activate those effects again, I think could be pretty interesting, So
I might check her out in the future. You just reminded me I don't
have Wong, and that's, uh, that's hard. I really wanted to
make a really wanted to make a deck around him. I think it was
when I unlocked Black Panther. I really wanted to get him, and then
of course I was just like forcing it out there. I'm like, they're
gonna give me Wong. They're gonna give me Wong and no long indeed.
Yeah, man, but you can try and get him with your uh your
next month's card if you want to save them, try and wait for that
rotation. Is it rotates every eight hours or is it once a day for
that for which was that free monthly card that you get. Yeah, it's
it's based on hours. It's not twenty four hour period, but it's OK.
I don't know eight hours. Got to check in a lot though a
specific Yeah, there was there was one month where like, I don't think
I was really playing too much, but I was just checking every day for
a cool card. And then I was actually getting close to like the end
of it, like Okay, I gotta I gotta take someone here. I
think that's when I ended up taking Phoenix Force, which I was like,
that's a cool card that I don't have. I don't know how it would
work with what I have. Usually usually I will I'll like take the card
Google, like you know decks that work that synergize well with that one.
And then like, depending on how many cards I have already, usually there'll
be quite a few that I don't have because they're usually more meta cards,
more like Series five or four or something. But like as long as I
can kind of swap them out for someone close to someone that I have,
that's usually what I go with. But that one I was just like,
I don't know, it was a cool card, I'm gonna take it.
And then and then I looked up decks afterwards, I'm like, so,
don't work with anyone. I guess I'm just mentioning this guy. Yeah,
that's too bad. The week after that is Nomora Nay More, you know,
Namore Genrel give plus five power to each of your cards alone at another
location. So obviously she pairs well with nay More and Orca, so it
makes sense. There's kind of the Atlantias Lantin's Atlanteans. Yeah, have you
ever pronounced that? Those kind of cards she works well with. She Also
one thing I thought it seemed kind of interesting about this is I feel like
this is the first time where I think there's actually a synergy here with venom,
but a venom outside of a destroyed deck. Just the idea of venom
to eat a bunch of cards, get a bunch of power, and then
being the single guy in that lane. It seems like actually a really fun
sort of strategy there as well. So I think the week Shi comes out,
I don't have another card in that spotlight, so I might I might
pick her up as well. I think initially maybe not the most exciting card
for me, just because like naym War and Orc aren't really that great or
it's just it just doesn't sound that fun honestly, just like don't play anything
and then turn four play nay More turn I guess you couldn't even do that.
You couldn't even play her after Orca, so I don't even know that
synergy doesn't work super well together, so I don't know. Kind of kind
of a weird card, not super exciting. I don't think she'll be very
good, but I do think her with a Venom sort of strategy could actually
be pretty interesting and cool and unique. So it might might try for that.
But then again, it's like you're only giving venom an extra five power.
It's like it's not but it's not a ton I still don't have venom
rest in peace. Oh my god, I forget that. Like these feel
like the most basic card is guess this is how it works. You're gonna
get looting random cards before other ones. That was one too that I remember,
like early on my journey, like when I was really early on,
like still getting like the set cards that like you're you're guaranteed to get in
the beginning, I thought he was gonna be one of those because I thought
he was seen him. Yeah, I was seeing him quite early on.
And then no, I still haven't gotten a human torch. So we talked
about him really right. That's because that's that's funny to me. That was
that was the very last series three card I needed. So I just go
to show how random the system is that I always I wanted him for so
so long. It took forever, But that's one that you got interesting enough.
Human Torch. I feel like I kind of got in a cheat way
because I got him through like a gift. I got a variant of the
human torch I don't even have. I don't even have the base of the
human Torch. I got that variant. So and it works great because as
I was mentioning, like a big user of the move deck, and he
was like a pinnacle piece of that cool variant too. Yeah. Nice,
Yeah, I remember that the more right I'm guessing doesn't inspire much us or
like like solo laners. Yeah. And then the last one here is Sasquatch.
Yeah, so goot Taylor involved in here. I was telling him to
get in here when Scar was added, but hopefully for Sasquatch and Sasquatch is
a six' ten and costs one less for each card you played last turn.
So not super exciting, but I think it seems decent. This would
actually obviously work pretty well with like a bounce style deck like cards or a
deck that's playing like a bunch of low cost cards. I'm guessing this would
work really go well with Mysterio because Mysterio you play him these two costs,
but put three cards on the board, so that would take three cost off
Sasquatch. That could be a really really good combo. And usually like those
kind of decks don't have a big six cost card in them, so I
think that actually is kind of a fun I turn off for that, like
archetype, kind of something a little bit different there. So it seems interesting,
but once again not super exciting. So overall this month's cards are a
little underwhelming for me, but uh that's just how it goes, right,
They've been flow overed all. Yeah. Absolutely. I think the Sasquatch one
was the most intriguing to me, mostly just for the character being in there.
But yeah, and then I wanted to throw a couple other cards at
you that are supposed to come out afterwards. So if anyone doesn't want to
hear I guess spoilers for data mind stuff, turn your ear away. But
they are adding at some point a card called Arisham, who's like the big
villain guy or the big guy from uh oh the Church, right, Yeah,
yeah, Eternals. Sorry to say, Kirk, that's like next month
Season Pass is going to be the Eternals month. There. Hey, there's
probably some cool cards. I didn't like the movie, but I think there's
potential with the characters. Well check this out. Arisham is a seven seven
ooh interesting seven seven cost. At the start of the game, you get
plus one maximum energy and shuffle twelve random cards into your tech. Wow,
that's really weird. It just sounds like total chaos. The first seven cost
card. You know, we currently have Death in there, who's like a
nine costs, but you you know, with each kill that happens she gets,
she's never gonna be that high of cost obviously. But yeah, the
first seven cost card, which is interesting, makes me curious what other ones
don't add in the future. And obviously, because he gives you max energy,
you can play him on turn six. But yeah, shuffle twelve round
cards in your deck, so and twice as many cards. So yeah,
I think it sounds like a lot of fun. I'm definitely gonna try and
get this car because it just seems like a good time. But yeah,
that is a weird ability. I really like it. Just throw Agatha on
there and call it a day. Yeah, Agatha and Aershom. I've heard
people say that's gonna be really funny. Yeah, hands off, let's not
even play the game. Yeah. So yeah, good times for that one.
And then the month after that is like for Deadpool, They're gonna be
doing a Deadpool Month, which I think is fun. I don't know what
it's actually gonna be themed like, but they're gonna be adding Sandra Nova,
They're gonna be adding Spider Gwen think is gonna be the seat or not?
Gwen Poole is what I was looking for there cool and some other characters like
Ajax I guess from the first Deadpool movie there in the villain. So that
should be a fun month as well to check out some of those cards.
But yeah, looking forward to some of those stuff in the other coming months.
But yeah, this one I think might be a bit of a lull
for me. Pick up a couple of cards, but that might be it.
Yeah, any other Marvel Snap thoughts, my friend, I feel like
a big mind blow moment that I got out of this video that you sent
on the Marvel snap ism is the artist I believe she does the the cheapy
versions of the characters, one of the cute ones and stuff. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. Always thought that was a dude every time I've read the
name, because it's like Ryan Hachi Mora or I think it's n yeah,
rih N, and then that that's what she said. She's like, it's
Rihann, not Ryan. I'm like, oh my god. Every time I've
seen him, like, because I just love that name. It's really fun
to say. Every time, I'm like, oh, yeah, Ryan Hachimura.
You know, I got educated today. It is it is h Enn.
Yeah, it's hilarious. It's cool that she's going to get this kind
of the spotlight this month her. I love her designs. They're very cute,
which is, you know, a fun kind of variation on what the
other kind of styles in the game are so pretty cool. I like that
they've been doing that for the last like maybe two or three months in these
monthly spotlights. Is kind of highlighting a certain artist, which is which is
great. That's a big part of the game, that big part of the
wanting to unlock things and get cool variants. That's a big part of it.
So totally, it's nice. Yeah, Like I love the gameplay of
Marvel Snap. But I feel like if it wasn't Marvel and like the collection
aspect to it, I don't think I really would have been too attached.
But it is really fun to not only get new characters that maybe I didn't
know of before or like right now, I'm on the pursuit, Like I
have my wish list of cards that I really want, obviously, you know,
Null Silk, like Ghost Spider, like those types of characters I do
really want. But man, they got some beautiful variants in the game,
and I'm never I haven't gotten a battle pass yet. I feel like that
day might come depending on what happens with their But I go in the shop
and like just see like the token costs for like a certain variant that I
see. It's like, fuck, don't tempt me frout now, I never
use your tokens on this Is it worth it? Yeah, And like some
of them are so expensive. I think it was like a five thousand token
for a variant or something like that. Yeah, the premium ones I've called
them, Yeah, something like that. I've never never spent that. Yeah,
I kind of come and go. I get maybe like half the season
passes these days. I did get the Thunderbolts one because I like burn z
Emo. I thought he was a fun addition. That variant is gorgeous too
that they have for him. Coolah yeah, like the Highlight one that they
had. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know about the Like I'm on
the fence, as I mentioned with Blinks, I don't know if I'll pick
up this one, So we'll see how it goes. You're kind of like,
if you're gonna get the Seasons Pass, you're gonna have to like kind
of incentivize a play a lot to hit that least that level fifty so you
can get all the unlocked with it, which who knows if I'll do that
this month, but the last show up, make sure you do this so
if you've ever tuned, but like every once in a while they have twitch
drops, so if you like spend hours on a Twitch stream for Marvel Snap,
you get just some credits or some boosters or a variant or something like
that. But coming up, they have some to get a couple X men
ninety seven variants, a Bishop one and a Mister Sinister one. Is the
Bishop money he's just invisible because he's never there. It really should be Invisible
Man from Deadpool. But yeah, so make sure you tune in. I
mean what I do is I just open it on a tab and go do
other stuff. When I come back hours later and I've got my my stuff,
I cash it in. Didn't really have to watch the streams. But
uh yeah, that's that's make sure you go go connect your account and do
that. Get some exclusive variants. Where do those get announced? When do
they announce them? Yeah? Like and where where do you see these announcements
for it? Is it on the app? Like I usually I just kind
of check out the reddit every once in a while. It's usually where I
see it. They do. Uh, usually they'll put them in the road,
like on the main screen on your phone, and usually they do last
for a while. But yeah, I don't they don't advertise them very well.
So yeah, maybe I'll start posting them in the discord and ping you
or something like that. Yeah, that'd be great, But I feel like
I might have seen them too, and I'm just like, I'm not going
on there. That's not worth it. That's amazing. Yeah, No,
I want to get some free variants. You know about that free stuff,
So I'll do it. Yeah, yeah, Okay, this is this is
a fun eppsode, longer than I expected, but that that's what happens with
me and you on side question often. So thank you everyone for listening.
We'll be back again next week for more side quest goodness. We'll see then, Bye bye