WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.079 Welcome every one. Another episode of The Jays began to cast. I'm your 2 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.719 host, Rob Okay, then Jonny's Day are two of my favorite people in 3 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.280 the world. We have Ryan making sure this ship doesn't explode. How are 4 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.359 you h hasn't exploded? So far? Things are going good and you know 5 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:50.920 we're granted we're ten seconds in, but yeah, I mean things are okay. 6 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:58.320 Everything's good. Just been busy with some stuff, Rob. I know 7 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.880 you're privy to some of it, some of the things that's potentially going to 8 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:08.599 be happening soon. So I can't really announce anything yet, but I can 9 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:15.040 just say, uh, stay tuned, there's gonna be some new stuff happening. 10 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:21.280 Hell yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to two people getting to see 11 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:26.920 all of the new stuff that is going down exciting times. Yeah. Sure, 12 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:32.680 also joining us, Drew. I understand you are barely alive. Can 13 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.480 you give me an update or your situation. I'm here, he's here, 14 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.920 I'm here, he is he is here. Do you think he will be 15 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:52.640 here for a good minute? I don't think I have a choice. Wow, 16 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.680 I didn't know we were holding them a hostage. I mean, you 17 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.400 know, the days the contracts are kind of hyah, we won't talk about 18 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:08.479 that life binding something like that, you know, soul binding more likely that 19 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:13.719 checks out too. Yeah, that's how we do things over here. Well, 20 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:19.639 I'm glad you were able to join us. I look forward to talking 21 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:25.960 video games with you in a little bit. I will try I'm low energy 22 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:32.639 now trying to I'm just conserving energy, got it, got it? So 23 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:39.319 while while you are charging in the background, it's been a minute, I 24 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.199 feel like we haven't recorded in a little while. Yeah, it's been a 25 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.879 little bit. So I was kind of like trying to remember, like, 26 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.240 what have I done since last time we recorded, because last last year we 27 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.479 did was with Cats in Chase, Right I believe, Yeah, yeah, 28 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:02.280 I believe. Yes, Okay, so right, you got to think back 29 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.159 like three weeks, like what have I done? Have I done anything? 30 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:15.080 And FM my case is actually yes I have. So this is gonna be 31 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.000 a rare episode where I will vo go first, nice, I'm about it. 32 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:25.280 Yeah, yeah, So some things that I have been doing. I 33 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.759 can't remember if I brought up cocoon on this show. Have I brought that 34 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.319 up? Does that sound familiar to anybody? I don't recall. Okay, 35 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.960 I don't think so great. So I started and finished a game called Cocoon. 36 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.360 This is a game that is it was created by one of the the 37 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:54.919 gameplay designers of Braid and Limbo. It is a new puzzle game that just 38 00:03:54.960 --> 00:04:01.599 came out a couple of weeks ago, and it is one of my favorite 39 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:06.759 games I've played this year. Like it is very very high on my list. 40 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:14.199 I can't in good faith give it like my Game of the Year award, 41 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.399 right, but I think if we was to say games of the year 42 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:24.040 like plural, it is definitely like in that discussion, it's a pretty tight 43 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:29.759 experience. It's only like three hours long, like four hours at most, 44 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:36.839 and essentially what you're doing is you're this little like beatle guy, right, 45 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.319 who just happens to like awaken from a cocoon. And then you're just like 46 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:46.319 in this strange world. You don't know what's going on. It's it's very 47 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.160 bright and colorful, and you're like, this is some weird desert place. 48 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.319 It just throws you in, just like no narrative, no setup or anything. 49 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:58.480 It's most this game is mostly like environmental storytelling. I hear there are 50 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:02.079 some fun like YouTube essays on like what the actual lore of this game is 51 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.439 that I want to check out later. But it is a very like interesting 52 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:11.519 world to walk through. And what you're essentially doing is you're you're picking up 53 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.240 these these orbs, right, Uh. In every ORB that you pick up 54 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.000 has like a different ability associated with it. So I believe the first ORB 55 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:24.560 you find is like this orange orb, right that can like show hidden things 56 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:29.959 in the area. Right. So, now, like you you you feel 57 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.480 like you're trapped, and you pick up this ORB and you start walking around 58 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.680 some of like the edges, and then you see like a path you can 59 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.759 go down. You're like, oh, clearly I'm supposed to go down here, 60 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:43.560 So you navigate yourself to like another area where uh there's some some puzzles 61 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.759 involving like hey, I need to place the ORB on this machine to trigger 62 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.000 this thing, and uh make my way over here to trigger another thing to 63 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:54.399 go get the ORB so I can bring it back with me. A lot 64 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.399 of just playing around with like orb setting and in other little things in the 65 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.920 background. It's nothing too like difficult or challenging, right. This is not 66 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:05.399 like The Witness where it's going to drive you insane trying to solve these puzzles. 67 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:11.800 But there's definitely like there's moments where I'll spend like maybe like five minutes 68 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.079 on something. I'm like I get the solution. I'm like, oh, 69 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:19.639 I'm stupid, Like I'm overthinking the puzzles, but they're they're good. Then 70 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.079 you get to a point where you set this ORB down, and this is 71 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.759 where like the magic of this game like really starts to open up. You 72 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.399 set this ORB down and you realize you get the ability to jump inside the 73 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:36.040 ORB and now it's a completely new world. Right. So now there's layers, 74 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.519 right. So now I'm like in this orb world that I'm finding things 75 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.600 that I'll like take out of this ORB back into the main hub to like 76 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.480 progress further. Uh, And I'll find like another ORB that has a different 77 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:53.920 ability and I could take that ORB inside the other ORB to solve puzzles. 78 00:06:54.079 --> 00:07:00.519 So it's like this it's almost matrixy, like hopping in worlds inside of worlds, 79 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.879 and the way they start layering that stuff on top of each other is 80 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.519 like brilliant. The puzzles by the end of that game, again, it 81 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:15.680 is not like super difficult, but like it is truly like mind bending things 82 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.959 that they're doing that I was like the last fifteen minutes of this game, 83 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.279 I'm like, my mind is blown. I'm like, these are some of 84 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:26.920 the coolest, most like interestingly designed puzzles I've ever seen in the video game, 85 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.560 and I wish there was more of that, right, because it's really 86 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:34.040 like the last fifteen minutes that they just like pull out all the stops and 87 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.639 I'm like, damn, I couldn't used like another hour on like these concepts 88 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:44.279 that you have just created here. And it's cool because it's the puzzles by 89 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.240 the end of the game are things that they could have done in the in 90 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:51.040 the beginning hours, right. It's not like the orbs power up and get 91 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:58.360 new abilities or anything like that. It's just they play around a bit more 92 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:03.800 with like what you can do with them. It's fascinating. It's one of 93 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.920 the coolest games. I highly recommend people go check it out, even if 94 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:13.279 you like not the biggest puzzle fan. I think like just the the aesthetics 95 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.360 alone, I think will will kind of like push people to like see it 96 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.120 through because it is some of like really cool environments that you're walking through. 97 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.839 It's on game Pass, so you don't have to really like commit to any 98 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.959 like buying. You don't commit to a full price game or anything like that. 99 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.440 If you're if you have game pass, it's on there. I think 100 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.480 by itself, it's like twenty bucks, so it's not even like that that 101 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:41.919 expensive. But definitely, uh, definitely go check that game out. Super 102 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:48.879 super cool Cocoon as well, right, yeah, Cocoon all right. I 103 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:56.559 have also in the in this three week time span, I finally finished Live 104 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:03.120 a Live, Live Alive, Live Alive, Live a Live. That's a 105 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.240 cool game. That's a really cool game. I take it. This is 106 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.960 gonna be a game we can't really talk about unto Drew finishes it. Drew, 107 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.799 Drew finished it already. He's been waiting for me to finish it. 108 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.720 Yeah, so we might do a fun episode sometime about that. But uh, 109 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.360 it's you know, it's Drew's talked about it a lot before and so 110 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.480 that lewis like last year when it came out. But it is a remake 111 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:35.440 of of an old, uh best classic where it's it's like, you know, 112 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.879 you have like these these seven character stories that are going through that are 113 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.039 all kind of independent of each other. Their very short experiences, like at 114 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:50.519 most it's a couple of hours and you unlock like a final route that like 115 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:56.279 ties everything together. It's really cool game. I understand why this is a 116 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.080 classic. It's definitely one of my favorite games that I've played recently. There's 117 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.279 not much more I can say on it that hasn't been said already. Like, 118 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.960 if you haven't experienced Live Alive, go check that game out. It's 119 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.159 pretty fascinating like what they were thinking about doing back in back in this Neests 120 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:22.159 era, right like even though like this this, Oh no, I just 121 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.840 lost my train of thought. Go for it. I'm sorry. I was 122 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.080 just gonna say, for a thirty year old game, surprising it like how 123 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:37.240 fresh it feels? Yeah, right it it's really cool. I wish that 124 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:43.919 this remake had some more quality of life stuff attached to it, right, 125 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.440 So, I do wish it had like some of the more modern like fast 126 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.360 forward, but you know what I mean, Yeah, that game would benefit 127 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.960 from that for sure. Yeah, because I definitely think the battle like I 128 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.080 feel like I wish that they like remixed the battle a little bit more, 129 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.879 made them more like interesting and engaging too, because I do think it is 130 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:13.879 very like basic kind of tile space battle system that like I kind of was 131 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:22.039 over very quickly because every like no character felt really unique or different. I 132 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.240 was like, every fight kind of feels the same, and I'm just using 133 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.960 whatever my strongest ability is every turn, and I'm like, all right, 134 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:35.720 let me just get through this. But I do think like they could have 135 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.639 done something super interesting. It's just you know, you you want to you 136 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.879 want to stick to the original game, you know. I'm sure that they 137 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.320 wanted to make it more one for one than anything. And that's cool. 138 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:52.200 You preserve this this game in its original state. But I would have personally 139 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:56.840 would have liked to have seen more remix. Yeah, but it's it's great. 140 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:03.080 Go go check out living it definitely everything. Yeah, it literally is 141 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.919 on everything. I think it's coming the game past too pretty soon. I'm 142 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.279 pretty sure I sat announcement about that. So like you get at some point 143 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.879 you won't have an excuse, you know, like go play that game. 144 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.320 You can get through it all in like twenty ish hours. I think I 145 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:30.440 put in twenty three hours. Yeah, so it's very like non committal game. 146 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.799 Yeah, because like you can have about in and out of each character 147 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:39.080 story right in each character story only being like that most a couple hours. 148 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:46.519 So I'm being like literally only like an hour. So it's it's it's easy 149 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.000 to just like pick up and play and put down and come back to it 150 00:12:50.039 --> 00:13:03.399 again. So yeah, Ryan Rob, I finally did it. I finally 151 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:09.039 started it. I played mus Dash. Oh okay, gotcha? Yeah, 152 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.879 yeah, yeah, I played mus Dash. That's that's a good rhythm game. 153 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.120 It is cool. It's a very fun rhythm game. Like I said, 154 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.960 probably it's trying my favorite rhythm game to play. I can understand why. 155 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:26.039 I can definitely see why. It's it's very simple and it's gameplay, 156 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.879 but it's like it's very effective, like it feels like a good like I'm 157 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.360 just going to play this for a couple of minutes or one or two rounds 158 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.200 and then go go about my business to do something else, right, pick 159 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.600 them A play factor is very strong there, yep. And the music is 160 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.720 great, like all all of the music in the game is like really really 161 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:52.559 good. Yeah, it's it's got a nice variety of like different genres of 162 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.240 tracks and everything. So and it's like, yeah, you got a lot 163 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.759 of good collab tracks too. And like I said, through news Dash, 164 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:07.039 I found out about the game needy streamer Overload that I talked about too. 165 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:13.519 And there's a couple of tracks from that game that are in Muse Dash and 166 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.159 they're all they're really really good tracks. Yeah, Like this track list runs 167 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:24.360 super deep. Yeah, almost intimidatingly, so like like coming into it at 168 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.960 this point and getting like, you know, I got The Justice playing DLC 169 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.879 before they took that off the market and changed to this new style that they 170 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.200 have here. But it's like when you first turn the game on, you 171 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.799 just look at the track lists, you just like, oh my god, 172 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.519 I'm going to be here for a minute. Yeah, especially when you consider 173 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.080 like all the Toho tracks that sent it too. Yeah yeah, yeah, 174 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:50.240 yeah, there's a lot of like it almost it almost feels like it could 175 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.840 be like in a like an arcade game that you would see at like a 176 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.200 you know, like leading board for example, or so like that. With 177 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.840 all the other an them games that's there. I'm really surprised they don't have 178 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.720 an arcade version yet, Like I feel like that would happen at some point, 179 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.559 m because I think this game would be perfect for an arcade setting. 180 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:16.480 Yes, I think one thing I was kind of taken aback by and this 181 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:22.840 is like ultimately whatever, but the costumes in this game are kind of wild. 182 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.159 Yes they are. Uh huh. This game is a little more horny 183 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.720 than I thought it was gonna be. There's some fan service. There's some 184 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.480 absolute fan service in here, and it's like that's that's cool. Uh, 185 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.720 it is not what I'm here for. Uh So, like the costumes I 186 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.840 liked is few and far between, which is kind of disappointing. But I 187 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.480 was like I was skimming through and I'm just like, I see, I 188 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:54.320 understand. But it's also funny too, because like whenever I mentioned muse Dash 189 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.600 and people don't know what it is, I'll show them one of the costumes 190 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.519 that is is uh in mus Dash and Nember Like, oh yeah, I've 191 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:10.519 seen that meme before, which one, oh it's what's her name? It 192 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.759 starts at the M but she's like in the all black like all black outfit, 193 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.440 like the skin tight outfit. Oh yeah, yes, yeah yeah, 194 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:26.080 Like have you seen the memes, Like you've definitely seen uh seen that outfit 195 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:34.240 and yeah, that's very much from mus Dash. So yeah. So yeah, 196 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:40.080 that was something I wasn't super expecting, especially like unlock some of the 197 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.960 art illustrations too, Like there's one like, oh, I didn't expect to 198 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.679 see that art illustration in there. Yeah. Yeah, there's there's some illustrations 199 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.879 in here, and some of them are are animated and stuff too, right, 200 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:56.639 And it's just like y'all are leaning into a thing. I see. 201 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.399 They know their market, they know actly, they know their market, they 202 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:11.160 know the audience getting some of the costumes correct. Yeah, It's it's kind 203 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.119 of sad in some ways because like all the costumes do have like minor effects 204 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.480 to them as well, that kind of cage of things, right, So 205 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.920 you could use some costumes if you want to like min max yourself to like 206 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.759 high scores or that. There are some that are for like accessibility options, 207 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:32.039 right where it's like okay, you get a couple of freebies if you miss 208 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.920 certain certain notes, right. Yeah. So so it kind of sucks with 209 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.240 like the costume that like I like the effect here, but I really don't 210 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.960 want to stare at the costume. But it's it's it's really whatever at the 211 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.359 end of the day, Like I'm really just here for for the music and 212 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.519 the gameplay, and and there are like like a couple that I do like, 213 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.759 so I'm like, okay, this this is fine. Yeah. And 214 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.480 then then there's also keep in mind. You got the uh you know, 215 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.359 special guest characters too, where you got like some of the to characters that 216 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:06.799 you can play as in it. Of course it doesn't. Of course mek 217 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.119 you know plays and h the girl from DJ Max Clear you can play with 218 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:17.680 her as well. Yes, there's not many rhythm game there's not many rhythm 219 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.000 games out there to have hot in Meku and DJ Max also in the game 220 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.880 with it. That just means, you know, Miku and DJ Max are 221 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:33.880 now canon to each other. Yes, yes, in Muse Dash exactly exactly. 222 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:38.960 But uh but yeah, cool game. I'm going to keep playing more 223 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.240 of it. That that's probably going to be that that game that like I 224 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:48.680 played before I go to sleep, do a couple a couple of tracks and 225 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.640 make my way down the track lists. Yep. But it's also it's also 226 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:59.119 cool because some of the collab tracks will also kind of fit like the like 227 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:06.079 the actual like like a MV like video of the of the music track mate 228 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.440 certain for example bad Apple, which is like probably the most Toho popular Toho 229 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:15.039 track there is all like that whole stage is the black and white just like 230 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:19.680 the bad Apple video. Yes, whatever, the theming on the stages are 231 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:26.519 are pretty a plus. Yeah, even the Rhythm Doctor track that's in it 232 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:33.319 is very much Rhythm Doctor. Yes, yes exactly, so like presentation, 233 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:38.240 it's it's on point. It's really really awesome what they do here. I 234 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.599 cannot take anything away from this game. Uh, it's it's great. I 235 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:45.759 recommend everybody pick it up if you like rhythm games, like for sure, 236 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:52.240 this is one of the best ones that are out there. Super simplistic, 237 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.319 but very effective. And there is even with the simplistic aspect of it, 238 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:04.559 there is definitely a challenge level to it. Mm hmm exactly. I have 239 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:12.640 also started, uh lives of pH the Dark Pinocchio game. Yeah, Pinocchio 240 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:19.920 Bloodborne. That game is very good. It's very very good. It's probably 241 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:26.359 like the best Souls game that's not from from Soft. They took a lot 242 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:33.079 of feedback from the demo and and implemented that stuff in the game to where 243 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:40.160 like they fixed like the dodge rolling and that feels good. They added more. 244 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:47.759 It seems like they added more like checkpoints as well, right like areas, 245 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.000 uh bonfires as it were, right, I forget, I forget what 246 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.839 they call it in this game, but they added more of those and more 247 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:59.440 convenient areas to like reduce the run back to bosses that I think was was 248 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:04.359 needed, and like aesthetically, like I mean, it's y'all, y'all have 249 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.240 seen this game. It looks really good if if you care for like that 250 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:14.279 blood born aesthetic like this nail this nails it and still is like very much 251 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.240 its own thing. Like this, this world of puppets that they have created 252 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.720 is actually quite interesting. And when you find like different characters like Geppetto and 253 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.319 and some of the other characters that are that are in the game, it's 254 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.440 like, oh, y'all are telling a very uh a very interesting story here. 255 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:36.680 There there is a a a lying mechanic in the game where like you 256 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.920 can talk to NPCs and you can you know, prop the question to you 257 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.200 and you can either lie to them or tell them the truth, and that 258 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.559 might give you different things depending on your answer. I hear there is like 259 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:56.599 an ending that is associated with something around that mechanic. Of course, there's 260 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.359 there's a skill tree in the game as well that I find pretty fascinating. 261 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:06.519 You find like these little quarts items that you can you can use to upgrade 262 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.799 Pinocchio, and they have a bunch of different effects to them. One will 263 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:18.480 let you cancel dodge into another dodge like actual gameplay tweaks in there that will 264 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:23.279 definitely like shake up the game. It is a very offensive heavy game. 265 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:27.279 We we know how I feel about offensive heavy games. I am. I 266 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:36.160 am bad at these games off I am offended. I am bad at staying 267 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.240 on offense. I like shields. I like blocking. Uh this this game, 268 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:42.960 if you block, you take chip damage, and then if you attack 269 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.839 the enemy you can regain the gray life as it were. Oh there's a 270 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:55.400 yes. Yes. Mechanically this game is is pretty much just blood Borne. 271 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:02.319 Yeah, so I'm like, cool, but can I just get a shield? 272 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:10.720 No? Okay, fine, I'll try my best. I am I 273 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.279 am, I do I die a lot so, but it's it's fun. 274 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.119 Enemies do have these moves where like they'll start blowing red and it's an unblockable 275 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.400 attack. Your only option is to either parry or get the hell out of 276 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:32.319 the way. I am very bad at parrying, so my reaction is be 277 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.440 to be on point to get the hell out of the way for all of 278 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:38.759 these bosses. But it's it's great. I highly recommend people check that out. 279 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.480 That is also on game Pass, so like you know, every everything 280 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.519 is on gay Pass. I'm gonna try to finish that game out over the 281 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:52.440 next week or two. I don't think it's very long. So it's kind 282 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.039 of been that thing where every day I try to like get to a boss 283 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.480 right or at least make some meaningful progress, like hopefully in a couple of 284 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:07.279 weeks I could have that game knocked out, Papa. I think that's about 285 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:12.079 it. I'm still going through a play through a Fatal Frame made in the 286 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:19.599 Black Water for my October Spooky game game. It's it's very cool. I 287 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:23.319 started it last year and then I think I liked I got like the chapter 288 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:29.000 eight or nine or stuff like that, and then I just kind of stopped 289 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:34.720 playing. Dang, you were like getting there, Yeah, to go back 290 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:40.119 and play should finish it? I should? I should, Yeah, I 291 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:42.759 should. But yeah, that that play through has been fun. Every year 292 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:48.400 I try to play through like a Fatal Frame game for October, and I 293 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:56.319 would like to get the the newer remake of Faddle Frame four, but I 294 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:59.480 just haven't pulled the trigger yet on it. But I hear that that's also 295 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:02.480 very good, the remake for it. I played the original, but I 296 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:06.359 heard the Master or whatever. It's good, so maybe next year that would 297 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:11.400 be my fatal Frame game. I also picked up The Walking Dead, so 298 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.039 I'm going to play through that for the first time. So yeah, I 299 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.759 was. I was told to play that game by a friend of the show, 300 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:25.799 Asher because that game makes him ugly cry. I was gonna say that 301 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:30.119 sounded like an Asher recommendation. It absolutely is. He streamed it not too 302 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:34.799 long ago. Apparently he had like a big, like crying breakdown at the 303 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:41.799 ending of the game that absolutely destroyed him again because it destroyed him the first 304 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.279 time he played it. So he was like, Rob, I need you 305 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.480 to play this game, and I was like, all right, I'll do 306 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.839 it. So that is on the list. I'm going to try to have 307 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:59.279 that done before October is over because Bookie season, so stay tuned for that. 308 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:04.680 But outside that, I think that's about everything I have been up to 309 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:12.319 that I feel comfortable talking about. So with that being said, let's uh 310 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:18.440 pass the baton over to Ryan oh Man. What have I been doing. 311 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:27.079 I have been replenishing all of my resources in Nick because the one year anniversary 312 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:33.279 presentation is going to be later this week and we're going to be seeing all 313 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:38.359 the stuff that's going to be happening with that, so I'm pretty excited about 314 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:42.599 that. Like this current banner right now, I am not spending a single 315 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:48.480 resource on it because I am saving it all for the one year anniversary same 316 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.640 which despite me liking this character, like this character is actually very cute. 317 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:57.000 Yeah, and apparently she's pretty decent too, but I'm just like, nope, 318 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:02.240 ow wait until she hits the regular banner. Exactly. I was spending 319 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:06.799 resources on one character and one character only, and that's I already got her, 320 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.599 and that was Naga. Yep, so I got her, and I'm 321 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.799 like, all right, cool, that's all I needed. Now back to 322 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.200 saving up resources. So I'm going through like all this stuff, Like I'm 323 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:23.279 even going back through like the order maps to try and find like relics that 324 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:27.079 I wasn't able to find the first time around. Yeah, and then and 325 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:30.799 when you complete like a certain collection of relics, you get more gems with 326 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:36.839 it. So I'm going through and doing all that again. And like I 327 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:42.119 said, I'm just stockpiling all the gems to try to make sure I am 328 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:48.839 fully ready to get the banner character, which I it's already I think it's 329 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.680 already been leaked, but it's going to be uh red Hood, who's the 330 00:27:52.839 --> 00:28:00.200 SSR version of Rappie. So like, I'm yeah, I'm just stockpiling. 331 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:07.440 Basically. I got the I got the advanced tickets, I got I think 332 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:14.519 ten thousand gems now with the stockpiling, so yeah, I'm like I said, 333 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:18.200 it's just stockpile city for me. Which, by the way, if 334 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.839 you are watching the Nick one year presentation that they're going to do later this 335 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:26.759 year, you also get drops and stuff like that and everything too on their 336 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.599 presentation on their YouTube channel, which I have retweeted from my account, so 337 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.039 be ready for that. Get those drops, get those funds, those funds. 338 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:42.680 So outside that, I've been focused on like a bunch of other things 339 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:49.200 outside of things outside of gaming, with some new things that's kind of coming 340 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:56.440 up. I am going to be doing another art table December second and third 341 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:00.920 at Bold citycon which is gonna be my first time actually one like a convention 342 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:08.519 convention type thing. Yeah, so Jackson's here in Jack's first weekend of December 343 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:17.720 December second and third, so I'll be yeah, I'll be uh, I'll 344 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.759 be doing my first ever art table with that, let me know, I'll 345 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:26.279 just try to get you a pass maybe because I can get like, yeah, 346 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:27.440 I mean I could get like an actual pass for like ten bucks or 347 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:30.880 something like that. So let me know, I'll and I'll try to secure 348 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:40.000 one for you. So, but there was a game that I have hot 349 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:45.799 back into, even though it was against my better judgment, uh for hopping 350 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:52.119 back into said game, and that's a Street Fighter six. Playing that game. 351 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.279 Yeah, I've been playing that game again. I've been back on Cami 352 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.319 though, just because I'm like, yeah, I I kind of just want 353 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:04.079 to try to get better with that and everything. And it's been better. 354 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:15.079 But the same gripes that I have still exist with the game and everything stuff 355 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:19.400 like that, as far as like mechanically and just the input stuff and everything 356 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:25.000 just still bothers me a lot. But I've kind of learned over time just 357 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.640 to kind of let it go and just be like it is what it is 358 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:33.240 at this point until like something actually does happen and it's just like I'm not 359 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.720 going to compete or anything. There's no real no reason for me to take 360 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.200 it seriously at this point. Just it's just something that just kind of if 361 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:42.480 I get a little bit of a fighting game. Itch, I'm just gonna 362 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.200 play it for a little bit and then you know, pack it up a 363 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.440 call today afterwards, after I get to like a certain point and stuff like 364 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:55.359 that. So plus, uh, I think honestly, the next fighting game, 365 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.759 next two fighting games I'm kind of waiting the hot back into are going 366 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:03.240 to be the new Undernight and Tech and Eight, which both happen to drop 367 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.640 at like the same freaking time. Like I think it's alertally like either the 368 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:14.200 same day or like days apart from each other that they're dropping definitely the same 369 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.680 week. I don't know, I think they're the same day, but yeah, 370 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:21.599 they're right right back to back. Yeah, So I'm kind of more 371 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:26.160 or less just kind of you know, passing the time until those games kind 372 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.720 of released as far as finding games go, and there is a game I 373 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.119 am going to dive into. In fact, I just downloaded the demo because 374 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.319 I forgot there was a demo for it. But Star Ocean Second Story are 375 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:47.400 which actually is releasing pretty soon if I'm not saying I think it's like remember 376 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.160 week, yeah, so two weeks then, yeah, So I'm I'm gonna 377 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.359 go through that demo and see what that's all about and everything and just kind 378 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.119 of you know, get a feel if that might be something I might be 379 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.599 interested in or not. So you know, we'll see. But yeah, 380 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:06.000 I mean there's a free demo, especially on Steam and stuff like that, 381 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:07.519 so it's be like, yeah, sure, keep it a try. So 382 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:15.519 next time I am, well, actually the next time I'm on the podcast, 383 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:22.200 the game will already be out. So so outside of that, that's 384 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:27.759 really been pretty much it as far as gaming goes. I said, I 385 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.839 just kind of, you know, just been focused on like a bunch of 386 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:32.799 other things going on and stuff like that and everything. So but you know, 387 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:37.200 that's kind of like my little tid did as far as like games I 388 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:44.160 have been doing, at least for right now. Cool sounds good. I 389 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:50.039 looking forward to trying uh Stars, and I'd like to I like to know 390 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:52.960 if that that'll be something to stick with. I think that that game is 391 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:58.039 very cool, and that that the remake is gorgeous like it before. Well, 392 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.680 and that's and that's kind of what that's kind of caught my eye. 393 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.440 I was like the kind of like the mix of like different things they have 394 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.960 going, especially like the sprite working stuff, and I'm like, yeah, 395 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.079 sure, let me let me take a look at it. Mm hmmm, 396 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:17.039 good deal. Uh, Drew stepher, Hello, I feel like I heard 397 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.720 Mario in the background. What's going on? Such a thing? I saying, 398 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:28.160 what have you been up there? U? I got I got a 399 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:34.559 few games off of my list recently to start, I finished the Legend of 400 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:42.640 the Yutah Boundless Trail. Hey they did? I like that game as far 401 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:45.200 as far as like it is, it is game from you know, twenty 402 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:53.920 twelve. Uh, it's just a really fun of an action or REGI it 403 00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:01.400 has a very similar sort of so I guess the best way to describe it 404 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:07.440 is like it's an action RPG that almost plays like like has the same formula 405 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:13.159 as like a Mario game, because it's a stage based action RPG, which 406 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.760 something I didn't expect. And in each stage, like there's like collectibles. 407 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.199 There's even like you know in most Mario games, these states there's like three 408 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:27.840 like star coins or Purple coins or whatever that you have to collect in the 409 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.360 form of these crystals, and like you want to get one for each or 410 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.559 either there's three for each state, and there's like a charger test you have 411 00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:39.559 to find and all that and like it's just a really fun, like tight 412 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:46.079 feeling action RPG. That's just it's not gonna it's not like rewriting the book 413 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:51.519 or anything on action RPG platformers, but like what's there is cool. I 414 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:55.920 think the level design is really neat, especially since it takes levels and it 415 00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:02.519 remixes them based on season in the game, which is really cool. So 416 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.360 if you're looking for like an action RPG that's like not a huge commitment, 417 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:14.159 that's like a really fun ROMB and you know, doesn't eat up too much 418 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.360 of your time with like a pretty solid story, I think the need is 419 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:22.000 what you're looking for. Yeah, yeah, it's the game is is pretty 420 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:28.079 short, right, like twenty if hours. Yeah. I think my final 421 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:32.599 play of time was like thirty five because I like looked for everything. I 422 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:36.920 also got sick on a couple of things because I was doing a no potion 423 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.480 run, so there were a couple like a couple of the last few boss 424 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:43.559 fights gave me some trouble. Which the last few boss fights were also really 425 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:47.079 cool. Like I remember initially saying, like the first boss fight that we 426 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.440 did, because I think the last time we talked about it, we had 427 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:55.000 just finished the first chapter, right, The first boss fight I did was 428 00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:00.599 pretty you know, it's pretty easy. It wasn't really engaging and all that, 429 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.519 but like the game sort of fixed that, and then like the last 430 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.000 six boss fights I did in that game were really really cool. Mh. 431 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.639 Same with the stages, honestly, like the back probably half of that game, 432 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:19.599 Like the stage design, just like they turn it, they turn it 433 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.760 up to like a nine or ten. It's just like, this is some 434 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:28.679 really cool stages, some cool platforming that's happening here. Like, yeah, 435 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.519 I kind of wish they didn't take so long to get there, you know. 436 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.679 Yeah, yeah, Like I wish some of that stuff was more upfront, 437 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.239 but it's it's it's cool though, it's a cool game. Yeah. 438 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:43.320 I enjoyed my time with that a lot. I did too. Strangely gives 439 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:47.360 you like that the the nostalgia for like a very specific era of games very 440 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:50.840 much so, very much. So it's like, all right, this is 441 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.039 this is this is scratching an itch that I've been wanting to scratch for a 442 00:36:53.079 --> 00:37:00.159 little while. Yeah, I agree. Solid soundtrack all around. Like I 443 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:06.840 think the story is a little like straightforward and predictable. That's fine because like 444 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.239 it's still a good, feel good story. Again, Nauta is not going 445 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.119 to like reinvent the wheel, but it's what I would consider comfort food. 446 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:19.679 Yeah. Absolutely, it's comfy, and you know, sometimes that's all you 447 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:23.719 need. Hey, that's fair. Minimum of what I want out of a 448 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:32.159 game is company. So after beating Nauta, I moved on to Miles Morales. 449 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.559 Spider Man Miles Morales. That was a really good game, a really 450 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:42.639 short game. So in preparation for Spider Man two, which just released this 451 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:49.119 Beast Friday, I needed to get caught up because in the three years that 452 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.679 Miles Morales has been out, I decided to just not play it, despite 453 00:37:52.760 --> 00:38:00.119 it literally taking me two days to beat. I really like those Spider Man 454 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.840 games. I think they are really good, Like they're very well narrative driven 455 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.239 games, Like the characters are really well written and they feel real. And 456 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:10.719 then on top of that, like the game player is just incredibly solid money. 457 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:16.159 There is no better game for movement I feel than the Spider Man games. 458 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:23.199 Swinging around New York feels so good accurate. I co signed that that 459 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:29.159 it's that game, that that series. At this point, Insomniac has like 460 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.880 mastered that it's one of the coolest feeling games to swing through the city. 461 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.039 For sure. It's it's it's the only open world game where I don't do 462 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.840 fast travel. Like, think about that, Think about me. I don't 463 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:49.719 do fast travel inside man, that's insane. But it's there if you want 464 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:53.119 it. It's there, if you want it, It's absolutely there. But 465 00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:58.480 why would you do so far? Yeah, it is fun to just swing 466 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:05.440 around New York. I really like Miles of Venom powers. I think they're 467 00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:10.519 really cool. They kind of make Spider Man one's Peter Parker like by comparison, 468 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:17.760 not as cool to play because just like the Venom powers just feel so 469 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:24.440 good to use it, this feels like a dangerous comparison, But it makes 470 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:30.960 the action combat feel a bit more dynamic. I'm not going to say like 471 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:38.320 a certain cap calum series, but it's just you get like this, this 472 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:43.440 this vast array of like different abilities that you can use with Miles of Venom 473 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:50.159 abilities, and they just let you do like really cool stuff, like you 474 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:53.239 have the Venom Punch, which it just feels really rewarding to hit because Miles 475 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:59.079 just turned around and duffs the fuck out of somebody, and it like the 476 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:04.239 dynamic camera really helps in that instance, because like you'll just be like jacking 477 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.199 a dude up and then you'll do a venom punch of Miles just turns around 478 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.760 and like like the sucker punches the person behind him. It's great, great 479 00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:15.360 duff. Yeah, oh no, it's fantastic. Yeah. But then you 480 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:20.760 also have like the Venom slam, which is like a giant ground pound that 481 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.079 can be used as like an AoE, and he has like a launcher off 482 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:28.920 of it, and it's a wide variety of tools. I think it's really 483 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.800 cool that just sort of adds to the Spider Man in combat. Yeah, 484 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.760 it's a wide variety of tools, and it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel 485 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.880 like they're doing too much right right, Like, like I never feel like 486 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:43.760 overwhelmed by like how many how much he can do right Like, it feels 487 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:50.440 like a perfect amount of like abilities to play around with. I agree, 488 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.159 And while I don't think that the game's climax hit me as hard as the 489 00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:01.039 first Spider Man, I still think it's really really good good. I really 490 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:06.320 like the villain that they had for this Chinkerer. I think it was a 491 00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:12.480 really strong villain and like having a good like narrative focus on Miles is really 492 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.119 cool. Yeah, and I think that's a good setup for Spider Man too, 493 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:19.719 so like now we can kind of see where Peter and Miles the story 494 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:27.000 goes from there. The game also has like a twenty five minute credit sequence. 495 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:35.079 There's so many people that worked on that game. Like I literally went 496 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:42.000 and made a sandwich and came back and the credits were still going dank, 497 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.679 gotta credit everybody, leave no man behind on the credit screen, all the 498 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:52.159 credits, all the credits. Everybody gets credited. I want everybody to get 499 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.440 their credit, including their dogs and their pets. Yeah, like we're crediting 500 00:41:54.519 --> 00:42:01.199 everybody. It was. It was crazy, But that game's cool. Oh 501 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.400 go ahead. Oh I was gonna say that cat that walked across one program 502 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:14.199 is keyboard. Yes, hid understandable, understandable, but uh, now that 503 00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.159 game is cool. If you haven't played it yet, uh you should. 504 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:22.480 I'm probably the last person to have played that game, to be honest, 505 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:27.960 But I mean there's just so many games coming out me and it's it's harder 506 00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.800 to keep up. And like, because I just played Miles, I'm not 507 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:36.599 like incentivized to jump immediately into Spider Man. Two because it's gonna be more 508 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:38.960 and like, I really enjoy that combat in that system, but I don't 509 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:43.360 want to like wear myself out on it. So I'll probably gonna wait a 510 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:45.880 little before I jump into Spider Man two, which is fine because I'm gonna 511 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:51.800 go and sale like really fast. You know, every game drops in price 512 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.000 after a couple of weeks. Yeah, so I'm probably just wait for like 513 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.360 a decent sale and then I'll scoop it up because I don't want to spend 514 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:05.559 seventy dollars Spider Man two. I don't want to spend seventy dollars on video 515 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:10.679 games in general, but I understand, well what I did instead is, 516 00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.280 after being Miles Morales, I bought Super Mario Wonder because that game sixty dollars 517 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.719 and Nintendo never drops the prices. So here we are. I like this 518 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:27.559 game a lot. It's good. It's for a Mario game. For someone 519 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:31.159 who's been playing Mario games for the entirety of his life and like has played 520 00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:37.199 every two D Mario game. I don't harp on the new Super Mario Brothers 521 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:43.519 games a lot like other people do. I understand people's scripes where they feel 522 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:49.199 like a sort of mass produced like cookie cutter. You know, if if 523 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.119 you had a cookbook that said how to make a Mario game and you fold 524 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.480 it step by step by step. That's what the new Super Mario Brothers games 525 00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:05.480 are. And some would argue that it's a sort of lifeless or soulless sort 526 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:09.320 of game. And I feel like Wonder is not that there's so much like 527 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:15.320 I'm going to say this now, Super Mario Wonder is a Super Mario Brothers 528 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:20.559 game. If you don't know what that is, I don't know what to 529 00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.719 tell you. I don't know what games you've been playing for the past forty 530 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:31.519 some odd years. But it's Mario. It feels like Mario. It looks 531 00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:39.039 like Mario. But where Wonder really shines is like the game feels like it 532 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:44.719 has so much life. All the little animations are really good that it just 533 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:50.000 gives me a really stupid smile on my face as I'm playing, Like I'm 534 00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:54.760 just playing and you see stuff like like even though on the enemies, like 535 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.719 you'll see animations on the enemies, like when you get close, they're like 536 00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:02.199 idole animations turn into like an angry animation because they want to like get Mario 537 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:07.039 or whatnot. Uh, there was a goomba that was trapped in between like 538 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.000 two bricks and he just had a I hate it here expression on his face. 539 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:15.920 It was great, ud, Like did you see the clip Like right 540 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.400 before you're gonna jump on a goomba, they have like this horrifying look on 541 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:24.679 their face. Yes, because they also have that look on that face when 542 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:31.480 you throw like a fireflower fireball at him or fantastic just makes me feel bad, 543 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:37.079 okay. And then like the characters themselves have like really cool animations, 544 00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.639 Like it reminds me of the animations from like Super My Brothers Three. Like 545 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:46.360 when they run, they do like the arms out sort of deal and they 546 00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:52.079 I don't know it just it feels like it has so much character. That 547 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:57.519 being said, Uh, the elephant power up to me is kind of whatever. 548 00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:00.679 Like I think it's pretty. I don't. Yeah, I don't find 549 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:05.880 it super amazing. It's convenient because it essentially what it is, it's a 550 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.840 raccoon tail that can't fly because instead of a raccoon tail, you just use 551 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:15.639 a trunk, and like the trunk can hit things. But like it's not 552 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:21.679 as cool looking as like the raccoon tail and I don't know, it just 553 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:27.440 doesn't really do anything new, So like it's fine, it's an offensive, 554 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:36.360 it's just it doesn't wow me. Yeah, I kinda. And I'd argue 555 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.280 that a lot of Mario power ups having been like super interesting. I thought 556 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.480 the Boomerang Flower in the three D Games was really cool. I would have 557 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:51.239 liked to see as something like that. The Bubble Flower is the other power 558 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.960 up that I've gotten. There's apparently one more that I haven't gotten, but 559 00:46:53.519 --> 00:47:00.079 the Bubble power Flower up. That's how tired I am. The Bubble Flower 560 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:07.400 power up is really cool. It's it's essentially if you played Yoshi's Island, 561 00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:12.800 there were certain enemies that spat bubbles, and if Yoshi swallowed the bubbles, 562 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.599 he could spit the bubbles back out of them and then like you could jump 563 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:17.119 on the bubbles and dual. That's basically where the Bubble Flower it is really 564 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:22.960 cool and like you can capture enemies and the bubbles and like it just defeats 565 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.519 them. And we was talking about it earlier, but it's like the I'm 566 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:29.760 sure there's gonna be some fun speed run tech with that that ability. Oh 567 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:37.400 sure forward seeing people go a hand with that, like, I can already 568 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:43.440 tell that that power up is built for people with far greater skill than myself. 569 00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:51.719 And like the level the levels so far pretty cool. Uh. The 570 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:58.000 Wonder effect is trippy. I like it. It doesn't like really like wow 571 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:02.639 me or anything. I think it's fine, but I have like hit go 572 00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:07.440 ahead, I say, I really like how trippy it is. I like, 573 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.960 you get it. It just reminds me of like touch fuzzy, get 574 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.920 dizzy like it is. It's just that, like the pipes start moving in 575 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.320 like a wormlike fashionate just like bro, I just ate a fucking edible? 576 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:23.239 What is going on here? Yeah? Sure it's cool. And then it 577 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:27.760 just like it unlocks like a second style of the stage, right, because 578 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:31.880 sometimes they'll things behind where you get that that's that one to see or whatever. 579 00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:38.599 So it adds more to the stages and it's more like it's more expression, 580 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:44.360 right, it's more of this goofiness of this world that I really appreciate. 581 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:51.920 Yeah, I agree with that. I really liked the badge system that 582 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:57.239 the game incorporates, so like basically they normalized all the characters so like they 583 00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:00.119 didn't have to. They couldn't use the excuse of everybody plays the same, 584 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:07.760 so we don't have to like like you won't have people like fighting over characters 585 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.039 or anything like that, and we don't have to design different mechanics for different 586 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:13.760 characters. And what they did is they took a lot of the abilities and 587 00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:16.360 put those in the badge. The badges, Right, I got a badge 588 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:22.400 that is essentially like Luigi's jump, where it's like a super high floaty jump, 589 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:27.360 but like his traction is less. And I got another one that's essentially 590 00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.320 like the frog suit badge where you're constant, like if you move, you 591 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.760 can't run, you only hop, but you get like a super high jump 592 00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:40.519 because of it. And so like that's called an expert badge, And I 593 00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:44.719 think what that's designed for is like, if you really wanted to challenge yourself, 594 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:45.760 you go through the whole game with that badge and see if you can 595 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.280 beat the game of that match. And that's a cool like sort of sense 596 00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:53.079 of playability. Yeah, yeah, I think that's pretty cool. And they 597 00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:58.440 could design like levels around that stuff too, Right. For sure, you 598 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:01.280 can tackle stages slightly differently depending on the badges you have, So it's it's 599 00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.079 like you're tailoring this character to how you want to play the game exactly. 600 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:08.760 My only complaint, I think what that is. I kind of wish if 601 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.360 we were playing multiplayer, like different characters to quit the badges that they want. 602 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.760 Yeah, that would be very cool. Yeah, I'm sure that would 603 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.440 probably be a programming nightmare, but that would be very cool. Yeah. 604 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:28.239 So, but like, other than that, I think the bad system is 605 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:35.000 like a cool evolution of the Mario Power Up system as it were. I 606 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:39.559 hit my first like five five star difficulty level, which was really cool. 607 00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:46.679 I enjoyed it. I hope that there are more of those. Yeah, 608 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:54.000 I hear there are some later levels that are very very very good, nice, 609 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.159 very talenting. So I'm looking forward to see what that stuff is. 610 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:05.599 Oh but uh, I think the Mario Wonder is really good. At the 611 00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:09.480 end of the day, it's it's Mario mant me. I don't know what 612 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:15.400 I tell you it. It feels like a natural extension of going from my 613 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.760 Mario Brothers three to Mario World too, Like I would be comfortable calling this 614 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:25.840 game my brother starts. Yeah, like over like any of the new games, 615 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:32.519 I agree. But other than that that, that's all I've been playing. 616 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.480 Once I'm done with Super Mario one day, I intend to hop on 617 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:43.079 c it Star uh, and then after Cstars, I don't exactly know where 618 00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:51.320 I'm going, and thinking I'm wanting to go to Velda, but I'm not 619 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:55.800 sure. He's not sure. I probably told if I want to beat him 620 00:51:55.840 --> 00:52:00.400 before the end of the year, probably you might want to want to do 621 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:06.880 that. Yeah, but you know, live, live your life, play 622 00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:10.760 play whatever it is you feel like playing. Yeah, I just what I 623 00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:15.920 plan to do. Make that decision when the time comes. Indeed, indeed, 624 00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:21.920 speaking of Zelda, thanks to Drew. Actually, I'll be starting Skyward 625 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.360 Sword very soon. I'm very excited for you to play the game. One 626 00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:29.599 of the few other games I haven't really played, so it's been on my 627 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:35.119 list for a very long time. I do own the original version of it 628 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:39.159 and just never played it. So yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited. 629 00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:44.960 Just don't don't give in to the haters. I mean, I'm do I 630 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:52.760 ever, h Yeah, I mean at the base level, I'm sure I 631 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:54.639 will love the game, because I do like all the games, so like 632 00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:00.079 that's it's already a point in my book. But yeah, I'm excited to 633 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:08.079 check it out. Nice nice cool, We we bang through this one pretty 634 00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:15.719 quick, guys, pretty quick little episode. Yeah I'm saying, I'm saying, 635 00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:22.239 can I stall with anything? I don't think so that's cool because I'm 636 00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:31.280 tired anyway tonight even yeah night, absolutely absolutely so I can. I can 637 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:34.679 wake up at three o'clock in the morning and be like, what am I 638 00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:40.719 doing? Yeah? Actually that might work out because I've been watching the League 639 00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:46.519 of Legends Worlds stuff. They're in their finals or whatever, and since that 640 00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:52.239 takes place in Korea, the time zone that they'll start is like at three 641 00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.000 am, So maybe taking a nap but actually help me and I'll just wake 642 00:53:55.079 --> 00:54:00.480 up and watch that that call that you're planning. I like it. Yeah, 643 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:07.000 yeah, planning may maybe start Zelda while I watch something that I don't 644 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:10.960 know we'll see. But uh cool beans. Well then let's uh let's get 645 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:19.760 out of here and get back to our normal lives. Ryan Sign. Let's 646 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:25.960 see where can I direct you guys? Uh me my Twitter account rcib draws. 647 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.880 It's where I post a lot of my artwork, including uh my latest 648 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:35.679 artwork I did. With you know it being spooky season and it being Halloween. 649 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.840 I brought back my oc that I haven't drawn in a while and did 650 00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:46.119 like a Sucky Bis variant of her which was received very well. A lot 651 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:52.679 of people liked it, and uh, there might be some things happening with 652 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:55.480 that, so stay tuned. But yeah, that's pretty much where you can 653 00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:00.280 find me. RCIB Draws. Oh. I don't know if I mentioned it 654 00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.440 before the last one was on, but uh, I do have an online 655 00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:10.119 store up now, uh RCB Draws dot com. My prints and my stickers 656 00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:15.239 are all available on that store, so check it out. If you want 657 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:20.199 anything, please buy something, you know, especially since you know the Nick 658 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.400 one year anniversary things coming up. I need gotcha funds, So I do 659 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:29.480 need gotcha funds, so uh, please buy something on my store RCB Draws 660 00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:36.760 dot com. And yeah, that's where you can primarily find me. Sounds 661 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:43.119 good, Drew, how about you? You can find me on Twitter at 662 00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:51.480 j SB totally Drew a retweeting for your in Beyond the Journey pan art and 663 00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:57.599 we're here at oil pan art. Hell yeah, I love that. You 664 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:02.199 can find me browsing our B draws dot com. Uh, you can find 665 00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:12.280 me on that website, uh purchasing uh OKAYU stickers uh, and I invite 666 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.679 you all to join me in purchasing sticks. It is my most popular rine. 667 00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:21.840 We we need we need to show the world Mogu Mogu supremacy. Yes. 668 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:28.480 Uh so this way we can get Ryan to to draw more Okaya we 669 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:32.599 have we have to show him and maybe get him to draw Krone so we 670 00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:37.480 can have Okayu and Corona stickers. Stay tuned. Coron might be next. 671 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:44.440 Well you heard it here, folks. Hell yeah, but yeah, go 672 00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:46.119 check out that website. Don't worry about my other socials, go do that 673 00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:52.519 instead. With that, thank you guys for listening. Thank y'all for being 674 00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:57.320 here. I know this was a tough one considering two of us are are 675 00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:01.360 almost dead. Uh you give me let me in there. Two Okay, 676 00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:07.400 all three of us are almost dead. But it was fun chatting with y'all 677 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:13.440 doing this. So with that, we'll be back in a couple of weeks. 678 00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:15.360 Ryan, I think you're off on the next one, so I'll probably 679 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:20.519 pull in somebody. Yeah, we'll see who, so stay tuned for that. 680 00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:22.280 Bye later,