WEBVTT 1 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.439 If you meant a beer, I drink when I do those, it's but 2 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.280 it all has a reverse No, it has a reverse effects. For sure, 3 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.039 I gain weight when I like Forrisbeak, are we live? Hey everyone, 4 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.399 and welcome to GameSpot After Dark, Episode two hundred and thirty seven. 5 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.399 I'm your host, John Lukesaike joined on the couch the professional as always, 6 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:02.679 Jacob Deckers a couch couch about I'm manifested into a couch because I just don't 7 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.480 want this destiny here anymore, also joining me across from the table for the 8 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:15.840 last time ever. Okay, relax and damn Michael Hyam, Hey, what 9 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.439 a do baby? Sure? Hardware editor for I g m oh my god, 10 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.000 don't say you gotta say it like that? How should I say it? 11 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.920 I'm a tech Reviews editor. Sorry, tech reviews tech Reviews editor. 12 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.120 Uh, that is me starting next week. So this is the last time 13 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:34.400 that you know, a lot of people are probably gonna be like, fucking 14 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.840 finally get rid of this motherfucker, you know what I'm saying. So that 15 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.280 weeded them out by now. Yeah, they don't listen, it's gone. 16 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.799 They left, They left their two star review and they last ideally haha. 17 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:51.120 Jokes on, y'all. This is probably it'll be a while till I come 18 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:55.760 back because I'll have business take care of. So enjoy this while you motherfuckers 19 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:00.040 can. So, yeah, I'm moving on to Ichan is crazy, but 20 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.359 that's for another time. You know, I'm saying because right now, I'm 21 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.680 still free. I'm still a free man. I'm still still single in the 22 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:12.000 professional world, so enjoying me. Well, that's really weird to say. 23 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.039 All Right, I'm gonna relax, you'll have a show. Okay. Well, 24 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.680 uh, fucking video games, man, Am I right? Dude? 25 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.400 Fucking video games? Let me tell you about Canojo Simulator. What what you 26 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.280 said? I never mind? It's a game o br Okay, Okay, 27 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.719 I've played that. I don't know anything about that. I just saw it 28 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:39.879 on a website just speaking of the anti simulators Stellar But I've been playing a 29 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.759 lot of that. Yeah. Uh, should we just get going looking, 30 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.520 I've been been doing a lot of both. Okay, got to see the 31 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.800 game. It's I think it's very good. There are some issues I have 32 00:02:53.919 --> 00:03:00.719 with it, but generally to me, it very much feels like a competent, 33 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:07.080 flashy souls like style game with some securo elements, and then some character 34 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.719 action stuff. The way it's structured is kind of like there are some open 35 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.039 world sections, but there's also some more like corridor focused, sort of Soul 36 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:23.560 style levels. But I would say generally I really like it. I think 37 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.120 the combat is really good. I think the combat in fact is probably the 38 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.960 only thing that really keeps this game together for me, and the boss fights 39 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:37.680 that kind of ties into combat. But the bosses themselves are interesting. But 40 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:43.520 yeah, it is a fun tactile video game where like they slow every action 41 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.039 down, Like every time you do something impressive or cool, the game knows 42 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:51.879 it and it slows it down and you get like this cool slow mo animation, 43 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.319 or like if you block an attack at the right time, sparks fly 44 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:02.080 and it just it just feels very tactile and eve and like it just it 45 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.960 it knows how to like hit all the right notes when it comes to I 46 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.680 remember what we talked about the demo. We described it as like that mid 47 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:13.719 two thousands era like video game, ass sure video game where like it looks 48 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:16.680 nice and action. Maybe the story is kind of whatever, you know, 49 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.240 the story is very what to me, the common sentiment Imron reviewed it for 50 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:26.959 us out of ten out of ten, it seems to I think he shared 51 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.800 a lot of the similar sentiments you had, or like combat School, except 52 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.360 he didn't see the souls like resemblance. Interesting. I even like commented on 53 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:39.600 it, and I was like, because because he talked about Near, which 54 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:44.160 obviously is a huge inspiration. Oh yeah, and has said that much to 55 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.639 its like, I love Near, I'm going to make my own ship just 56 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:48.560 like it, all right, and then called out Bandettit, which I think 57 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:54.199 the developer also referenced, and Deliver also referenced Secular at one point. But 58 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:59.279 yeah, Inron was like, I don't really see the relation to to Souls 59 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.319 games, and I think even when I talk to some other people playing on 60 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.279 the staff there like I don't see it either. But to be fair, 61 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.439 that's weird because that's how I immediately felt. That's how I felt, too, 62 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.879 is just like this feels like a Soul's game where I'm going from camp 63 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.560 to camp, I have a s this flask essentially like the camera angle, 64 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.480 the lock on system, just the flow of it felt very souls like. 65 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:25.759 Obviously, the combat is considerably more stylized, and it kind of depends like 66 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:31.399 what you're into I think, like with the combat. The thing that kept 67 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:35.639 coming to mind is that Sakarai did this video because he's got that game development 68 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:39.839 YouTube channel where he did this video where he talked about how like you want 69 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:44.800 to highlight important gameplay moments any way you can, and like he referenced in 70 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.120 Super Smash Bros. How like when you get like a critical hit on someone, 71 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:53.639 the camera zooms in and like there's this explosion that happens and there's this 72 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:59.759 crunchy sound effect like this and split second pause before and I feel like they 73 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.000 saw that and they were like, oh, we're doing that with everything. 74 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.199 So like every deflect, every dodge, it's just not every dodge, but 75 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:10.959 like when you hit them properly, it just feels so good. But that 76 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:15.160 said, yeah, the story is pretty whatever, and it's you can't skip 77 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:21.160 cut scenes until you've actually seen them really respect. It makes you sit through. 78 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:25.519 You can skip through dialogue kind of like like once they get through most 79 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:30.360 of the dialogue, you can skip. So it's interesting you're not really seeing 80 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:31.480 it. But like, yeah, I would have loved to have skipped every 81 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.480 single cut scene in that. I mean, like I will say, like 82 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.000 there was a point like I would say, like the first couple of hours, 83 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:41.560 I was like, I'll give it a shot, and then it just 84 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:43.560 got to a point where it's like I just want to hit thing. I 85 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.240 just want to like I want to fight bosses, I want to fight enemies, 86 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.560 I want to explore this world. The story is kind of whatever. 87 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:54.399 But but I think, honestly, like my biggest problem is that it just 88 00:06:55.439 --> 00:07:00.560 it takes from so many inspirations and it doesn't really feel like it's doing much 89 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:05.120 with any of those. Like I mean, the Near inspiration is obviously a 90 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.800 huge one. That's what so many people have called to. I think like 91 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.680 the world reminds me a lot of Near. And I'm someone who didn't even 92 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:17.000 care a lot for Near. Like I played the first run I tried it, 93 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.680 didn't even really play the game. I know, I talked about it. 94 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:26.519 I talked about it on the podcast editorial, Like in twenty twenty, 95 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.000 I was like, I'm going back to play Near because everyone says it's the 96 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.040 best game. And I made it through two and a half runs or one 97 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.639 and a half runs, and I was like, it's not for me to 98 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:40.360 jump all that to say, like, even as someone who didn't enjoy Near. 99 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.360 I loved the vibe of that game, and like the setting and the 100 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.600 style and seeing it here. Even though like gameplay wise, I much prefer 101 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.480 Stellar Blade, it still feels like not cheap. It just feels kind of 102 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:57.879 derivative. Yeah, derivatives. It's very like it feels like a shallow interpretation 103 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.079 of just like look at it at a surface level, like oh, let's 104 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.319 let's just do that, without really understanding what makes all of that stuff special, 105 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.680 because like service level with Near, it's like okay, post apocalypse sexy 106 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.959 robots, and then that I feel like that's as far as it is implemented 107 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.120 in like music, sure, you know, but like it it does not 108 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.360 hit those depths. And even though like I wasn't super wild about Near while 109 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.480 I was playing it, I was really fascinated by like the story it was 110 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.439 telling and and the way it was trying to like twist expectations and kind of 111 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.080 change things in it like half ass, not half assed, but it like 112 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:35.799 kind of tries to do that, but it's very clear that like that's not 113 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:41.039 really the point. Yeah, so yeah, I mean overall, like I 114 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.120 played through it, honestly, one of my biggest complaints was that when during 115 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.159 the during the pre release period. There's no New Game Plus. And I 116 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.720 did actually want to go back and play early Bosses with a build that I'd 117 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.159 been working on, but they added it like yesterday, so new Game Plus 118 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.759 is there. But yeah, I had a good time. I think I'd 119 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.919 be really curious to see what they do next. I think because because I 120 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.000 think there's something here. I just think I think the developer just needs to 121 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.720 like take a step back from mostly the near influence and like figure out, 122 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:20.000 like what's original about this world and how can how can how can a world 123 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.639 be created around that? Because because there are there are a lot of cool 124 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.240 things to it. But yeah, I would say, like, I think 125 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.919 it's pretty good. Eight out of ten. Seven out of ten is kind 126 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.320 of like as I was playing it, where I was kind of landing. 127 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.120 Yeah, I'd read Mron's review. He summed that up in a much better 128 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.519 way than I just tried to. Yeah. Emron is Uh. Em Ron's 129 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.399 a good friend. He's also really fucking good writer. Uh. It is 130 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:48.279 really dope to see him on GameSpot for the first time. Yeah, so 131 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.960 it's really dope to see so shouts out to you dog. His review is 132 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.000 really well, well written off like, oh ship, yeah I miss I 133 00:09:54.039 --> 00:10:01.120 miss reading because he went to Other Adventures after post fan bite in Post Game 134 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.000 Informer. But yeah, I was like, oh shit, this motherfuckers, 135 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.279 he's this fools spitting fire. So definitely check out the review. You cut 136 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.200 it too, right, Max cut it Max? Yeah. Yes, So 137 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:16.360 the gameplay is fun, pretty good old Man Max Maximum bluementhal Joint. I 138 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.399 want to stay tuned for that or check it out. One thing Iron did 139 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:22.120 point out that I do want to touch on a little bit was the pacing 140 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:26.879 is really weird. Like the game is forty hours long, which I think 141 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:28.279 it took me like thirty thirty five hours, and I try to do most 142 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.799 of the side stuff and like that itself is fine, Like I don't mind 143 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.639 thirty five hour game felt pretty good, but like a lot of the levels 144 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.039 do feel kind of strange, where it's like, Okay, you got to 145 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.679 a new area and this area is going to take a very long time, 146 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.399 and a lot of that is you're just going to be like rerouting power or 147 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.120 you're going to be like going to a button and pressing it and then you 148 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.720 sure somewhere else, So that's a bit weird. And then I think the 149 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.240 other very weird thing is there is like a point of no return in the 150 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.759 game where it's like classic NPC's like make sure you've done everything you want to 151 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.399 do before you leave. Uh, And I figured I was close to the 152 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.200 end, but it was like another six or seven hours and I was like 153 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.799 yeah, Like I was like, I want to go back. Like like 154 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.919 the way it's said too is it sounds like, oh, you'll come back 155 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.720 here, you just it won't be for a while. So I was like, 156 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.639 okay, well just wrap up this stuff. Later was not able to 157 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.600 do that because it's just like it just it's just roller coasters, like the 158 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.559 last six hours, which I mean it's a good six hours. It's just 159 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.480 like it's like what's happening? Yeah? Man, that's cool to see though, 160 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.080 Like yeah, like you said, this is the this developer's first like 161 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.559 full on Triple A style game. Yeah, and I think what's an impressive 162 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.960 first game. Yeah. Yeah. They they've done some mobile stuff before the 163 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.440 Korean studio, but like for this being there, Like so a couple of 164 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.080 things that you said are very interesting because like it does feel like they looked 165 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.480 at five six different inspirations and just said yeah, fuck it, let's just 166 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.720 try and do all this And I think that's okay, like to draw from 167 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.519 yours, even if it's like a shallow interpretation of it, you know, 168 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:05.840 try it, see what happens. And I think they've as you said, 169 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.639 they've they've hit really nailed it, nailed it on certain aspects and then didn't 170 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:13.879 on others. So then for them to if they give it a second try 171 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.200 with if with it's a celebraty too, or if it's a different ip, 172 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.759 whatever the case might be, I hope that they look at what they did 173 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.120 right and it's like, let's double down on that and like maybe we don't 174 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.480 need to do all this other stuff, because yeah, there's there's so much. 175 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.000 There is a lot too, like about celebrating that I think is incredible 176 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:31.480 too. And so I mean even like the combat I think is a good 177 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:37.039 example of like the difference between being derivative and like taking your inspirations and doing 178 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.840 something new with them, because a lot of what the combat is other games 179 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:43.960 have done, you know, like like like we're saying it's very similar to 180 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.559 Soul's game Securo, you know, all these different inspirations, but I feel 181 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.840 like what they ended up with feels pretty not unique, but but it feels 182 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.080 like it draws just the right things from all these games to make something that 183 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.519 feels like its own. But then you zoom out and you see the world 184 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.879 and you hear the music and you start exploring the world and you start seeing 185 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.919 what the themes are and it's just like, Okay, this is very similar 186 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.120 to Near So so I think they have the potential and I'm excited for what 187 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.919 they do next. And to be honest, I'll probably play more of it 188 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.799 now that new Game Plus is there, because because like I said, like 189 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.679 I think the combat is so much fun. So yeah, it's yeah, 190 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:28.559 cool game. Yeah, so I'm I. I haven't finished it, obviously, 191 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.320 I played the demo, I got the full game, put a few 192 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.799 hours into it, and yeah, I'm in. I'm enjoying it. It. 193 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.639 It reminds me like not in my experience, reminds me of Lies of 194 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.720 p where it's kind of like you jump into this thing, you know what 195 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.519 it's trying to do. I could see right through this, but it's good. 196 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:46.799 And the same thing with is like, oh I see what you're doing, 197 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.639 but oh it's shit. It's it's good. And if I had to 198 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.519 choose between Lines of P and Stellar Blade, I think the fuck I'll probably 199 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.120 lean towards Stellar Blade in that regard. It's really funny to get these two. 200 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:00.480 Like a lot of people say it's not souls like, but let's be 201 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.159 real, there's it's it draws like a foundation only has a lot of similar 202 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:07.879 stuff there, and I feel like I'm I'm exercising the same muscles as I 203 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.679 play this and then I play lies P and she's like that. Plus like 204 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:15.039 the the the the aggress, the way those games are made for you to 205 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.759 be aggressive and is definitely like the second row influence, which I think lies 206 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.679 P leans more on, like pairing and Lines of fucking feels that shit is 207 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.200 so sick, dude, And it's the same thing in Celibrat. But I 208 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.759 don't know, I just I do like the uh just like, yeah, 209 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.279 a lot of the lot of us the flair that they put add on combat 210 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.279 just like does a lot to just make it stand out, make it feel 211 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.799 right. Don't get me wrong. Lives of P's combat is great and I 212 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.240 love what they do with like the arm system. There's there's so many more 213 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.279 RPG elements within Lies of P. I think there's a little bit more depth 214 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.639 there. But when it comes to like satisfying, like my brain when I'm 215 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:54.960 like, yo, that's satisfycing, like crnchiness of just like the momentum that 216 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.399 you even though combos are pretty short and it's not like super huge thing in 217 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:00.759 the game, but like the momentum you start to build with those combos, 218 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:01.879 then you chain it with a beta attack, and then you chain it with 219 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.360 like I forget, there's another type of skill that you unlock that like you 220 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.159 can create some cool chains. And speaking of that, like Max is putting 221 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:16.840 up two high level gameplay clips. Every one might already be up or it's 222 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:18.919 coming up later today, and then another one's coming up to going up tomorrow, 223 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.600 but like, if you want to see not necessarily what that game can 224 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.799 do, because they're both early boss fights, you don't have unlocked, you 225 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.879 haven't unlocked everything, but if you want to see, like how sick that 226 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.639 game can look. Max has got you covered Max Bloom with ball this moll 227 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.600 the fuck is unstoppable. Yeah, that's cool. I definitely want to see 228 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.919 that. It's every time I play a game and then like, oh I've 229 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:41.840 watched Max play, I'm like oh fuck, I guess I was playing the 230 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:45.679 same thing with the rebirth A. Yeah. When I was here, I 231 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.639 was revealing rebirth. I'm like, yo, I think I got the comeback 232 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.360 right, And I look at his shit. It was like I looked on 233 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.559 his fee and I was like, oh, this will melt Melton the ps 234 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:02.120 playing Checkers over here. Yeah. Yeah, definitely, absolutely cool. Yeah, 235 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.240 stell blade Man and runs review on GameSpot dot com. Yeah, and 236 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.759 runs review and then Max's videos. Make sure to check those out. Also 237 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.279 already up there all the well almost all the outfits in the game. You 238 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:17.159 got a video up for that. Yea, all you sick motherfucker I watch 239 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.360 that. It don't give fuck. I mean to be fair, as like 240 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.679 controversial as a lot of those costumes are, I do think they're pretty fun 241 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.960 to collect and see what they are. Some of them are like, Okay, 242 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:32.720 you really went for it. Here, see what you're trying. And 243 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:37.879 then tips video is going up on tomorrow probably so you know, if you're 244 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.039 picking it up and you want some early game tips, you kind of want 245 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.240 to see what you're getting into. We have a lot of coverage for this 246 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:48.120 game going up. Cool, that's what's up exclusive. Yeah, Another game 247 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:52.840 came out this week. You can go check out the review for on GameSpot 248 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:59.039 dot com is Tales of Canzera. Zal Oh Right Jordan review that one gave 249 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.679 an eight out of ten uh and I uh played that as well the video 250 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.920 review and I agree eight out of ten. Pretty good games. Speaking of 251 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.839 somebody a great yeah game like that's a debut. It is, it is. 252 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:17.519 It's a debut for my polled up because Yeah, Surgeon Studios, Abu 253 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:22.240 Bakhar Salem, I hope I'm saying your name right is the director. He 254 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.799 voiced Biack and Assassin's Creed Origins and he's in the new season game. It's 255 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.359 in the new season A Game of Thrones. It was like, damn, 256 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:30.279 damn, damn. I was like, dude, just like my age. 257 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.039 I was like, what the fuck? No, I didn't want to hear 258 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.319 that. No, it made it made me feel like really I met him. 259 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.839 I met him at Game Awards and he's just like a very like impot 260 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.759 like he has a very like big presence, like physical presence. He's just 261 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.359 like a really nice Yeah. I went to him, I tapped him up. 262 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.359 I was like, yo, congrats on the announcement. I'm really looking 263 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.599 forward to this, And I was like, oh, this is like a 264 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:56.200 grown ass man, and I was just like, I am man. I 265 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.920 am older than him by three months. No, I'm older about you, 266 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:07.880 like three years. God damn it. Anyway, Uh, pretty damn good 267 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.319 turns out. Now he's a good actor. He's a pretty good game developer 268 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:15.400 too, because this game is great. It's a metroid vania that is inspired 269 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:22.000 by I believe it's uh like a uh bought to African culture, if I'm 270 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.160 getting that right. Apologies, I'm a white person trying to I got your 271 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.200 notes. You got your notes, So I'm trying. I'm trying to do 272 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:34.279 my best. But it is essentially a story about well it's it's like there's 273 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:40.319 like two elements to it. So the the opening frame is is about a 274 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:45.519 character name like Zubaru who is lives in like a futuristic city and their father 275 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:52.200 just passed and finds a book that their father wrote for them, uh, 276 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.200 and they're reading the book and then that book is the game where it like 277 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.839 it kind of cuts back to like, uh this p called Kenzerah where he 278 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.160 plays a character named Zao who also just lost their father. Uh, and 279 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.119 they make a deal with the god of Death to be like if I go 280 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.480 find these three spirits for you, will you bring my father back to life? 281 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.000 Yeah, And then like that is like the catalyst for this journey where 282 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.640 you know you kind of like get to explore Kenzera and and kind of like 283 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.240 essentially like the whole game is just kind of like going through the process of 284 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.759 like grief and Selim like said was heavily inspired by, you know, the 285 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:33.839 passing of their father, and it's it's like genuinely like really fucking good. 286 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.240 Like that part of the game is is I think fantastic. I heard the 287 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.559 voice acting and like writing is all like superb. It's superb. It's interesting 288 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:47.119 because you compare this to Prince of Persia because they're both metro Venas. Prince 289 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:49.000 Persia came out this year, and Prince of Persia I think is the better 290 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:52.839 playing game as far as like a metro Vania. I think that game like 291 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.200 you know, like like it's platforming, it's combat, it's like super tight. 292 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:00.000 It also like it's map it has all the things you want from like 293 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.440 a Metroid Venia where you're like going back and forth, you're collecting all these 294 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.799 abilities this is a lot more of a uh simpler Metroid Vinia. You know, 295 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:12.119 like it's it's actually very straightforward and it's pathing. You know, there's 296 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.160 not much like backtracking. You're really doing like you'll be going on a fairly 297 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.920 straight path and then it'll be like, oh, if you just like pivot 298 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:21.640 here for like a second, you'll find a little collectible or you'll find a 299 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:23.279 little challenge. But I don't think that's a bad thing because I actually think 300 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.640 it keeps the game moving at like a very brisk pace in a way that 301 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.119 you want, because it feels like it isn't dragging out. It's only ten 302 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.960 hours, so because of that, you're constantly getting more story. And that's 303 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:38.039 where it is leagues better than Prince of Persia. I thought Prince of Persia's 304 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:45.640 story was like okay, but like didn't really deliver anything like it goes in 305 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.440 depth on its characters in the way I wanted. And I was just like, 306 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.720 yeah, it's just like okay, where this it's like the whole it's 307 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.640 like the opposite. Yeah, It's like this is like, you know, 308 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.599 you're playing a zoo, but in then you have Kalunga, the god of 309 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:02.000 death, with you the whole time, So they're constantly like talking and bantering, 310 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:07.480 they're meeting people, and so you're really getting to like know Zoo as 311 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.039 a character and like understand who he is and like the grief he's going through 312 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:14.799 and like watching him kind of like process it throughout the game, and like 313 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.680 that's that's the good shit, that's the powerful stuff. And like it absolutely 314 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:25.319 nails that and and I would really like recommend it for just that alone, 315 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:29.079 like you know, but on top of that, it is a very fun 316 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:30.920 and like you know, well made game. Like I do think the platforming 317 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.079 is is like you know again, it's like serviceable, it's well made. 318 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.240 It's nothing like mind blowing, but it's like yeah, this is like it 319 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.960 works. You know, it works, and you're giving me all the staples 320 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.440 you know that I want, you know, my double jumps, my uh 321 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:45.839 oh, hey, I got a power that lets me grapple here now, 322 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.599 or I can I can like freeze water and then I can use that to 323 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.160 like jump on platform. So like it has all those satisfying elements, as 324 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:59.680 I think the combat is pretty inventive as well. It is, uh, 325 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.480 the whole thing is you have like these two different shaman masks one of the 326 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.200 moon in the sun and the moon mask has ranged based attacks, where the 327 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:14.480 sun mask has more melee focused, and so you'll be like in combat swapping 328 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:18.720 between the two masks as you're fighting based on like what enemies you have, 329 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:21.680 and then they introduce things like shielded enemies where it's like, Okay, this 330 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.279 guy have to break the shield using the moon mask and then maybe I'll switch 331 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:29.799 to the melee masks to do like a big finisher. It can it gets 332 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.400 pretty like tough in the later half. I would say, like they really 333 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:36.799 throw a lot at you. Sometimes it gets like a little too messy, 334 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:42.599 where like the enemies like they don't really like stun that easily, so I 335 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:47.240 would get in times where like I would almost get like stun locked by them, 336 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:51.079 or I'm just getting like absolutely walloped by these guys. So like it 337 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:53.880 can. It can fuck you up if you're not on your toes. But 338 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:56.759 other than that, like that was just kind of like, ah, this 339 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.160 is like kind of frustrating in spots, and it didn't feels like tight is 340 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.599 I wanted to again in the way like Prince of Persia did. But it's 341 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.000 by no means like a bad combete system. I think it's a pretty good 342 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:08.599 one still. It's a good foundation for sure. Yeah. And I think 343 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:14.640 if like they were to build off of this with like a sequel or like 344 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:17.759 take those ideas and like expand them further, I think they could like you 345 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:21.759 know, really like take it and go somewhere with it. So yeah, 346 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:23.279 man, I mean, like you know, it's it's it's great. And 347 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:30.599 it's also like the art style is great. The music is fantastic, Like 348 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.559 some of the battle themes are just like really really awesome. Isn't it also 349 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.839 like for or like fifteen bucks or something or like twenty bucks. Oh maybe 350 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.920 I'm not sure the exact because let me look up. I feel like I 351 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:45.480 was like listening to discussion about it because like this sounds bad, but like 352 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.240 one of the reasons why, like I still have been putting off Prince of 353 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:52.559 Persias because I didn't get a code and it's like fifty bucks, so I've 354 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:56.240 been waiting for a sale twenty bucks twenty bucks, but literally hearing that it's 355 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.440 twenty bucks is like for a ten hour experience. So it's like like this 356 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:03.559 quality that's an easy sell to me. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, 357 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.160 man, I mean, what a what a fantastic debut from like a studio 358 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.440 and stuff like that. Awesome that in Cellar Blade, it's like, oh, 359 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.680 studios are like trying something different or like yeah they're and that's that's the 360 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.160 thing. Very different games obviously, but these are like two games that are 361 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.599 using a like a like a like a well made foundation and trying their own 362 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.319 thing. And I think what the result is that they they really they really 363 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.480 like as I said with Celebraty, they really figured out they have something that 364 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.839 works really really well. So whatever they make afterwards, like you know, 365 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.559 it might be fantastic. So yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, and 366 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.160 I've been following this game since it was announced at the Game Awards, right. 367 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.880 Yeah. The director, I think he has a little podcast series with 368 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.559 Ben Starr. Really yeah, yeah, they're they're so adorable together and uh 369 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.960 yeah, they're both like talking about because they've been through similar things in their 370 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:57.799 lives and them like coming through and like the games industry type shit. It's 371 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:02.079 really it's just so adorable. It's so cute. But they have a really 372 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.240 good discussion about the about this game and how it was made and a bunch 373 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:08.480 of its themes too, and like I know, he's been doing a lot 374 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:11.880 of interviews too at a lot of places to like obviously promote the game, 375 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.039 but also like tell people like, hey, this is what this this is 376 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.039 the focus of the game. So it's really it's really good to see that 377 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.200 that element is what makes it stand out, Like it is like that's the 378 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.640 thing that he kind of that he put him like he put himself into this 379 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.640 game in a way that is like hard to do because it's you're opening yourself 380 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.599 up to so many people and like especially gamers, you know that kind of 381 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:37.559 people you want to open yourself up to. And there's there's a separate there's 382 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.559 a separate discussion about this, but it's like, yeah, to put yourself 383 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.000 out there in such a vulnerable state in a video game is like such a 384 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.279 hard thing to do because like what if the game isn't Like I'm not not 385 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.400 that any I'm sure Like in the back of your mind anytime, anytime a 386 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.200 creative person puts something out into the world, always in the back of your 387 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.599 mind is like what if people don't like it? What if they don't see 388 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.720 it? In the back that is that is everywhere. So yeah, yeah, 389 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:04.480 like putting putting so much of your personal life into a into this thing 390 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:08.519 and then hoping that people like it is I can't imagine what that must feel 391 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:11.960 like. Absolutely. I mean so much of video games like feel at times 392 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:15.039 like they're just like products, you know, where this like this doesn't feel 393 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.279 like it's a product. This feels like it is. This is like art. 394 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:22.559 This is like them putting their soul and like they want to say something 395 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:26.960 and like that, you're right, like that that's terrifying to do. Like, 396 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.319 it's terrifying to do. I feel that way when I start to get 397 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.279 like even just a little bit personal and like a video I make for games, 398 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.200 Yeah, it's just like oh fuck, I'm getting too oh I got 399 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.440 a oh no no, no, no, like yeah, like oh they 400 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:44.279 might not like it or whatever, but it's like so doing that to this 401 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.680 scale for like a full ass game, like saying, well, I'm gonna 402 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:51.160 commit two three years of my life to doing this, like that's that's a 403 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:56.119 lot. Yeah, So like nothing but love and respect absolutely and it like 404 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.839 I mean, even if it wasn't as good as it was, I would 405 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.039 will be like that is an amazing feat. But like it's also a really 406 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.039 good game, so like wow, like absolutely incredible. What did you play 407 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.160 it on? I played on PlayStation five? Okay, because it's coming to 408 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:22.160 switch to, right, I asked switch to let's go. Yes, I'm 409 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:25.839 just curious if that runs well it is it is out on switch. I 410 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.000 don't I'm not sure how it runs on this switch. But play the demo 411 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:34.440 on solid so highly recommend that one. I as recommend recommend checking out Jordan's 412 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:47.079 review as well. Kurt's preview read that speaking about getting personal and opening yourself 413 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:52.319 up to other people. Man, what what what's this transition? No? 414 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:59.160 No, no with Kurt's previews Okay, because Kurs Kirk talked about the like 415 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:03.640 and we're going to talk about Sandland, like none of us have played Sandland. 416 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:10.519 I don't think have you played Sandlin I reviewed it. This is this 417 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.880 is the is a gamer focused episode. We just got games in games man, 418 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.200 it's it's gaming season. Well I just forgot because I just don't think 419 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:19.160 about ee Jan all that much, you know, Damn. I mean I 420 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:25.880 don't care until Wednesday next week. So Michael tell me about Sandland. Sandland. 421 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.920 Yeah, this was one of the last things that a Kiratyama worked on 422 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.960 the he consulted. It's so okay, let me back it up. Sandland 423 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.640 was a was a pretty short manga that he wrote in like two thousand and 424 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:42.200 wrote and illustrated in two thousand and it was just like something he did out 425 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.000 of passion and just yeah, it's a couple of I was like, I 426 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.119 think it's like what fourteen chapters or something on shownin Jump and ran for a 427 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.279 couple months and he's like, okay, cool, I like I did a 428 00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:53.720 thing man said I love tanks. Yeah, the whole thing about tanks. 429 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.480 Yeah. Yeah. He was just like fascinated by like drawing vehicles. And 430 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:02.519 I think the stories and I think Wakeling mentions this in the review and in 431 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:07.000 Yaws review, is like Toriama just like wanted to draw vehicles because you watch 432 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.759 Dragon Ball. He's like have some like wild shit, and this is what 433 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:12.920 Sandland is kind of just like an extension of him. Is like, ah, 434 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.880 what if I just made something like But when Toyo my past people were 435 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.240 like sharing a lot of his art and I was like, oh right, 436 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:25.000 Like he like just the most insanely detailed like planes and tanks and cars and 437 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:29.640 like Batman and this dude's imagination is crazy, love some automobiles, automobiles and 438 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.880 playing trains and automobiles. Yeah, hey, listen, listen me too. 439 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:38.640 Man. I wish, I wish I could kick it with Curatriyama, but 440 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:45.400 uh, such won't be the case. But Sandland is. Yeah, manga 441 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.599 came out two thousand. There's a movie adaptation, and then there's a manga 442 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.519 adaptation that came out recently as well to coincide with the game. So I 443 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:59.039 reviewed the game and it's okay. I gave it a six out of ten, 444 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.079 and I think because I really like san Land a lot. It's it's 445 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.279 it's it's like a fun, little short manga and it's not super in depth, 446 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.680 but it does have it makes a lot of interesting points and have a 447 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:17.359 lot of interesting characters and plot points in a post apocalypse where people are struggling 448 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:22.160 for resources and like demons exist in a world alongside humans in this like waste 449 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.200 land basically, and you kind of go through a few dynamics about like humans 450 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.559 trusting demons, but demons actually want to do good and so like there's this 451 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.920 tension between them and there's like corrupt governments, and then you unveil like unveil 452 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.160 a secret, but like, oh, the government's been doing this the whole 453 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.200 time, and we're gonna take them down. So it's a pretty straightforward story, 454 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.400 and it like it's it's it has its heart in the right place, 455 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.880 is what I say. And that's cool. That's good, and that's all 456 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.119 it really has to be. It doesn't have to be anything more than that. 457 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:49.920 Sure, and then Toyama can just do his thing. Like you see 458 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.039 the character art, you see the see the vehicles, you see his imagination 459 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.960 at work here. So when you translate that into a game, though, 460 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:02.759 if I say this about the game is that its presentation is so bare bones 461 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.400 to where it's like characters standing there just like talking to each other and you 462 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:07.759 have to like flip through each line of dialogue and it's kind of like it 463 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.960 feels very rudimentary. It feels like, ah, okay, this is okay. 464 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.799 It feels like you play if you play DBC Cocrot, it's like similar 465 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.119 values but even a little less than that. In a way, I'm like, 466 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:23.240 fuck man, Like I like sandaland a lot. I just wish y'all 467 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:27.880 went the extra mile to present it in a way that can live up to 468 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.279 how good the manga and the anime actually are. So that was disappointing because 469 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.960 there are pre rendered cut scenes that are really really well put together for very 470 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.720 specific moments, but there's so few and far between that I'm mostly just like 471 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.680 flipping through like the stagnant dialogue and it's like all right, and like when 472 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:49.200 you beat a boss kind of like there's just like a lot of scene cut 473 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.480 scene transitions from like the gameplay moments up to the cut scene, Like, 474 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.480 this doesn't really make sense how we got to this point. There's there's I 475 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.000 feel like there's something missing here. There's like when it comes to the storytelling, 476 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.880 it feels like there's so much that is missing from it. So that 477 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.039 was like really disappointing to see because if you watch the anime, it's, 478 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:09.160 you know, an anime is a very different experience, but it's just it 479 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.680 keeps chrugging along and it is like a very briskly paced and you just move 480 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:16.079 on to the next thing. But the game itself kind of drags out a 481 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:19.440 lot of that stuff because it is a game, and then you have to 482 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:23.240 have these gameplay moments, and like the quest design gets like pretty repetitive, 483 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.559 and the world is The world is empty, but I kind of like that 484 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.599 it is empty because I don't want to I don't want to random shit. 485 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:32.640 I don't want to be doing a bunch of random shit that just kind of 486 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.599 like starts to pile up. So it's an open world game. But I 487 00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:38.720 do appreciate that they're like, yeah, let's just not make it bloated though, 488 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:42.880 so okay, and I think that that might have hurt that could have 489 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.920 hurt the game. So it's a like story wise, it's a I'm just 490 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.079 like, this isn't the best representation of sand Land, even though it does 491 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:54.119 have its moments. I think that there is a better way to experience the 492 00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:58.839 world of sand Land, and that's through the anime. Gameplay wise, though, 493 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.039 it does do some things, so I think because it's based all around 494 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:07.079 vehicles, so it's all vehicular combat, vehicular exploration. There's on foot stuff. 495 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:12.519 There's like brawler action stuff that isn't great, but thankfully they don't make 496 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.480 you do that very often. I say, my roof is about like seventy 497 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.319 percent vehicles, thirty percent on foot stuff. Okay, but the vehicle system 498 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.079 they have is it's it's pretty straightforward, but it feels really good. Like 499 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:27.720 when you pop out into a tank and you're blowing shit up and then you 500 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:29.960 switch over to the motorbike. It's like instant, It's like, Okay, 501 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.759 the tank just transforms into a motorbike and I'm fucking going and I'm like drifting 502 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:36.519 along these cliffs in the forest land and shit, and it's like kind of 503 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.960 like beautiful. It's this really lush place that juxtaposed with sand land itself, 504 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:43.799 and it's like, oh, this feels really cool. And then like, 505 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:45.200 oh shit, enemies are ahead. I'm gonna flip back into the tank, 506 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.960 blow shit up, almost switch to my like my walking mech that also has 507 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.839 like moodu verability and also shit. So they have a lot of working pieces 508 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:57.400 with the vehicles because you can have five out of time and you can swap 509 00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:59.640 between any of them at any time as well, so there's a lot of 510 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:02.359 flexibility. There's a lot of interesting mechanics behind the vehicle system, and the 511 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:06.640 way you navigate that world is I mean, it's not like super complex, 512 00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:08.039 but it feels good too, Like when I there's water, also, I'm 513 00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:12.880 gonna switch it over to my hoverboat, and my hoverboat controls like all The 514 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.920 vehicles control really well in a way that makes sense for what they are. 515 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.320 Even the tank itself, it doesn't feel like, you know, you hop 516 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:22.599 into a tank and like a shoot or whatever, and it feels like pain 517 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:24.199 in the ass to maneuver. It's like, now I need to turn the 518 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:29.320 treads this way. The tank and Sandland works on like a three sixty rotational 519 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.400 thing, so no matter which direction you're going, you're going full speed in 520 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:34.719 that direction. So I feel like, yeah, I'm in a tank that 521 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:38.639 like can blow shit up, but I'm also like dodging cannons this way and 522 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:40.920 that way, and I don't feel like I'm at a disadvantage because I mean 523 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.280 the way I'm positioned, so it all the vehicles just feel really good to 524 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.159 use, so points for that. The thing is like the combat encounters themselves. 525 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:52.800 The enemies that you face are just kind of like fodder, and that's 526 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.760 for most of the game. They're just like kind of dumb ai targets that 527 00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.320 just like sit there and like shoot at you. And I'm like, most 528 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.280 of the time, I like circle around them, just like shoot my cannon 529 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:06.639 at them. All right, well, I guess I killed them by circling 530 00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:09.800 around them. So they have this really smart vehicle system. I just wish 531 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:14.480 they did more with it in terms of giving you boss fights, giving you 532 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:19.480 combat encounters that actually made the most of it. There are few bosses throughout 533 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:22.800 the game that, like maybe two or three that actually do that. But 534 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.960 the rest of the game is very, very easy in a way that is 535 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:32.280 easy, I would say simplistic to a fault. There's a lot of potential 536 00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:37.119 here, but I feel like that they kind of phoned it in when it 537 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.000 comes to how they designed the combat encounters most of them. Some of the 538 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.280 level design, like you go through like four times, you'd go through the 539 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:49.199 same dungeon basically four times through the game. It's like kind of drags on 540 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.679 and like a man, like there's a whole open world out there with so 541 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:55.760 many more fascinating things and themes, and there's so much more potential out in 542 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.880 the open world. They make you go through these like abandoned ships like so 543 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.360 many times. I'm kind of like, this is not this is not what 544 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.000 I think Sandlin should be doing right now. So it's a little disappointing in 545 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.400 that regard, But I mean there's fun to be had in this game. 546 00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:13.880 I just don't think that with all the games other games that are out now, 547 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:17.559 I think it's probably the one of the least interesting ones. When you 548 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:22.360 have something like Stellar Blade, you have something like Tails of Tnzera's disappointing. 549 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.440 Yeah, it's disappointing because I, like I said, I love like Sanlin 550 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.519 is underrated. I think and like, oh fuck, they're doing a game. 551 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:31.880 But at the same time you play the demo, the demo is like 552 00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:36.880 a very bad representation of the game. Actually, really yeah, because I 553 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:38.239 play the demo, like what the fuck is this? What am I even 554 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.960 doing? There's just nothing to do. They throw you into like a small 555 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.280 portion of the open world and there's literally nothing. There's no quests, there's 556 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:47.599 nothing. Yeah, it's like, why would you show this to people? 557 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.039 This is like it'll make someone like not want to buy the game because like 558 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.519 there's so much more to it than that. But yeah, it's uh. 559 00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:01.280 I had I had fun at times with it, but it's Yeah, if 560 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:06.280 you're if you're into if you want to like see Toriyama's work in action, 561 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:09.239 if you just want to play through Sandland, there's fun to be had. 562 00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:14.360 But I would I can't recommend it right now. I guess like if you 563 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:19.880 see it on like thirty bucks whatever, like cool, but otherwise I don't 564 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.559 know. I think I'm gonna stick with the anime. Probably anime is very 565 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:24.239 good. Yeah, I think it's really good. I haven't watched the whole 566 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:29.440 thing. I got through the up to the original run of the manga for 567 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:34.480 the for the anime, but so I haven't checked out the forest Land stuff 568 00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:37.800 because the forest Land is a second half of the game and the second half 569 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:39.880 of the anime, and that's all new stuff that's not in the manga, 570 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:45.280 so it's basically like a part two of sand Land. I haven't gotten to 571 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:49.119 that point yet with the anime. But yeah, I mean, if it's 572 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.559 anything like the the first half of it, like, it'll be fantastic cool. 573 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.239 Yeah, I recommend sand Land the anime. Can't recommend the game, 574 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.800 So you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I know what you're saying. 575 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:05.280 Well, so that's a little that's a little disappointing, and then that's also 576 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:09.039 a stiff year for fucking RPGs, you know. So yeah, so, 577 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:14.239 but that's bummer, just especially because the vehicular stuff seemed like the like it 578 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:15.320 is so unique to me, and I was like, oh, man, 579 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.480 that's good. Yeah, and like you know, maybe maybe it's yeah, 580 00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.199 maybe there's a sale and I'm itching for it. I'll go to try. 581 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:27.039 But yeah, I was just say, like, what if it's another case 582 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:29.719 where they oh, they figured something out and then like this other stuff doesn't 583 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:30.679 work, they can do a second ones. There's not gonna be a second 584 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.840 Sandland though, No, Like Sandland is it is what it is, and 585 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.840 that's yeah, it can't be anything more than that. Unfortunately, maybe someone 586 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:43.559 get inspired and want to make a game kind of Land of sand sand right, 587 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.960 the World of Tanks Great World of Tanks by Banded NAMC would be kind 588 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.800 of that would be kind of sick, dude, Like I might be into 589 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:53.599 that, yeah, because that that stuff is good man. There's there's really 590 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:58.440 good characters too in uh in Sandland. Uh. Again, like they said, 591 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.159 that's not the best representation game, but if you watch the anime like 592 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:05.519 Bells above as a protagonist, he's he's like a child demon who thinks he's 593 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:07.239 like a badass kid or whatever. It does like bad ship and he's like 594 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.239 a dork. He like he asked his he asks his dad like, oh 595 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:13.480 can I play video games for more than an hour and his dad, his 596 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:15.679 dad is Lucifer's like this big ass, fucking demon dude, sits on a 597 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.239 throne. He's like you play for an hour and a half. And it's 598 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.800 like, oh, this is so cute. That's a very character. Yeah, 599 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.320 oh yeah, yeah, this is like yeah, there's a lot of 600 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:29.840 Toriama isms throughout sand Land, which is like really cool to see and beals. 601 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:31.239 Well, yeah, he's he always like ah, I'm a I'm a 602 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:35.079 bad ass and like he's he has some has his moments, but he's also 603 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.960 like very he has like a heart of gold, and it's really funny to 604 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:42.679 see him kind of people are like push his buttons and then they're like no, 605 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.599 I'm I'm I'm angy and I'm gonna I'm gonna beat you up and then 606 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.199 he's a big softy and like oh it's it's cute. I think the sheriff 607 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:54.639 that accompanies him has like a he's a really good focal point for like the 608 00:39:54.679 --> 00:40:00.119 conflicts in Sandland. Okay, so he's cool, he's good and who's the 609 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:05.039 mechanic. So here's the thing controversill take. I don't know if I trust 610 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:09.440 white girls with dreads, but okay, except for and from sand Land. 611 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:14.000 This is the only one. It's the only one I trust. She's really 612 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.559 cool. I really, she's a voice by kiro Bucklan, who has the 613 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:21.000 voice of two B. Also. Okay, many many, many, many 614 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.000 many characters throughout anime and video games. And that's like a Star Wars droid, 615 00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.920 right yeah, yeah, the little thing that rolls around. Shit, 616 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:31.280 it looks like it looks like a Sandland vehicle. Now. Yeah, so 617 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.840 there's like there's really cool characters in sand Land. Like again, I don't 618 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.519 have to say a million times, but some of that stuff doesn't exactly come 619 00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:43.360 through in the game. But otherwise, just like it's cool, check out, 620 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.719 check it out, neat. I want to play it eventually. I 621 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:49.440 don't think i'll play it right away, yeah, given the reviews, but 622 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.360 pretty sure. I played the demo or I played the not the demo a 623 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.000 preview I think Summer Game Fest last year, and I enjoyed what I played, 624 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.480 but like, it was such a short amount of time and it was 625 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.320 very like they they put me in like a big action set piece. Then 626 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.480 immediately I got to go play with all the vehicles, and I'm like, 627 00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:07.519 oh man, this seems pretty f Yeah, they show the best stuff of 628 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:09.159 course, right, and then you realize everything else in between is kind of 629 00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:14.039 yeah. Well actually one thing though that in Wakeling's review that did kind of 630 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.599 interest me though, was like the settlement building stuff. Yeah, like it 631 00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:21.840 sounded like the missions themselves to build it were kind of dull, but like 632 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:25.079 actually seeing that settlement come together and like have all these vendors in one like 633 00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.679 I love that kind of stuff. Yeah, and like that seemed kind of 634 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:30.639 interesting. It's kind of curious, like there's not there's not much too You 635 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:34.239 just do this, you do the side quest, and then it slowly gets 636 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.400 bigger whatever because then yeah, every time you do like a side quest in 637 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.760 sandlandy like hey you have nowhere to go, you can go back to you, 638 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:43.480 which is like the main Village's no, like you don't really get to 639 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.760 customize it. It's more just it's just like the more questions you do, 640 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.159 the bigger it gets, as opposed to lie and then I don't want this 641 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.960 instead of that, Yeah, it's like oh, now perks there, they're 642 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.840 just like now everything is centralized in this hub city rather than having to go 643 00:41:54.880 --> 00:42:00.239 here there and whatever. So don't we play like Nino Cooney too. I 644 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:01.320 didn't I didn't get too deep in Nino Cooney too, because I know, 645 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:04.639 I know it has that stuff. It's like yeah, yeah, Dark Cloud 646 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.760 two very good version of that. It's like, yeah, that's what I 647 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.119 thought of when I saw it. I and I love that Nino Cooney because 648 00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.880 it was like just it was pretty simplistic but just deep enough to like really 649 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.599 interest me. Yeah. Yeah, that's how I feel about the vehicle system 650 00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.480 in Sandland, where it's like it's it doesn't need to be complex and it's 651 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.840 not complex. I'm like, Okay, this is simple enough to where I 652 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:30.480 feel like there's there's I could custom my stuff, upgrade my tanks and vehicles 653 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:32.679 whatever, and that's all it has to be. It doesn't have to be 654 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:35.440 anything more than that, because I just want to blow sh it up. 655 00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:38.079 So I think they figured it out there, but like there's not really any 656 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:43.000 settlement building. So you see the town grow, but in terms of like 657 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:46.199 depth of things to actually do, actually do, it's not really not really 658 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:51.119 there. So cool Sandlan awesome. Yeah, go share on Michael's review over 659 00:42:51.199 --> 00:43:06.719 on IGN. Yes, Yeah, that sounds right. Anything else's been drinking 660 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.320 out Michael sixteen Dale s The Rising Tide. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, 661 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:15.440 so I'm writing something on that for hit video game website game Spot. 662 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.800 I still got time. You're cool again? Dumb question? What's it about? 663 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:27.920 Like I felt like the ending of Yeah, Fantasy is pretty so they've 664 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.039 done They've done this twice with the first DLC and now this one where it's 665 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.920 like I forgot the first Dale even came out. Wow wow, I assume 666 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.840 this was the first one. Wow wow. This is the second one. 667 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:38.519 The first one is very short. It's both of them are kind of like, 668 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:42.440 okay, you're at like the point of note, You're right before the 669 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.000 point of no return, Like, oh shit, I just got a letter 670 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:51.199 from somebody that I should check something out. That's I'm going to go effect, 671 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:54.119 And like mass effect, it's equally wild because the situation is so like 672 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.519 we need to deal with this right fucking now. But hold on a minute. 673 00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:00.840 It's like I got a letter from somebody to say and the Leviathan is 674 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.039 fucking wild out here. Hold on, we booked, we booked a suite 675 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.519 for you on the Citadel. I'll think you guys need some R and R. 676 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.880 Okay, but like a Citadel style DLC for the final Fantasy sixteen cast 677 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:15.360 would be kind of I would love that. I would just like you and 678 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:17.920 like Jill, you just like what if we go like get some on the 679 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:22.760 beach again? Yeah? Yeah, sorry, the game has been out for 680 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.840 almost a year at this point. If you haven't seen Clive's naked ass booty, 681 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.239 uh, fucking rod your life. Raw dogging it on the beach, 682 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.239 bro, not even a beach, it's like, what's that like the coastline. 683 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:36.679 Yeah, it's a little alcove. It's just a little it's not it's 684 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.079 not sandy. It's like rocky and like bear ass. Well I would think 685 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:42.320 they put like a like a towel on the on the ground, but like 686 00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.480 bare ass on the coastal shore, like y'all are wild. And I don't 687 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:50.960 know what year this game takes place, but it's nineteen seven. That's not 688 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.960 true at all. Man, I was fucking raw dogging it on the on 689 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:59.760 the coastline is crazy. But anyway, that's not what the Rising Tide is 690 00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.280 about. Speaking of the coastline, yeah, yeah, this is a water 691 00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:08.559 based DLC class Rising Tide. Yeah a ao a, that's not what this 692 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:14.039 is about. But so if you played sixteen, there are references to Leviathan 693 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.159 and Levethon has been is an icon in the world of sixteen and has always 694 00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:22.480 been a summon throughout all of mythological creature that has always been in the Final 695 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:28.760 Fantasy, Lore or whatever as a sum in as Whatever's boss. So they 696 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.039 made reference to Levithan in the base game, but never did anything with it. 697 00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:36.360 So everyone immediately was like, oh, they're opening their souls up for 698 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.199 DLC, and then they revealed the Rising Tide. Dl seem like, yes, 699 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.960 it is exactly what we thought it was gonna be. So but it's 700 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:47.400 cool to see them expand on this thing that they left open, because I 701 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.159 mean they've said that like we weren't sure if we were going to do this. 702 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.880 I'm like, I'm pretty sure that y'all left it opens, like, 703 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.719 yes, this game is going to do well enough to it's Final Fantasy for 704 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:59.119 fuck's sake. And then it's okay, now we can do a DLC. 705 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:00.679 But it's a very good deal. See, it's better than the first one 706 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.880 is kind of like a teaser is on like two three hours. This one's 707 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.719 like more like five six hours, so it's a lot more meaty it has 708 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:09.440 a distinct storyline. So the setup is like, Okay, before you do 709 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:13.239 the last thing in the base game, you get a letter from somebody who 710 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:17.559 says, hey, there's another icon that we need help like figuring out or 711 00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:22.679 like taming or whatever. So you go off into like a very a distinct 712 00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:24.880 part of the world that just wasn't explored. So you have a new region, 713 00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:28.000 you have a new city, new hub area. Oh, okay, 714 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.519 characters, new kind of society, civilization that's been like kind of cut off 715 00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:36.599 from the rest of sixteen oh the rest of Vallaestia in that world. So 716 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.159 you start to like learn about a new civilization of these people who have kind 717 00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:44.679 of like sought refuge away from everything else, but they have their own problem, 718 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:46.880 and their own problem is like, well, Leviathan is kind of like 719 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:51.119 our eye, because like every nation has their icon, like their bearer who 720 00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:55.400 like protects them whatever. So they've had Leviathan in like their region whatever, 721 00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.119 but it's kind of like been stuck in time. It's been like frozen in 722 00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:02.960 time. So they've kind of been able to like section themselves off off and 723 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:09.719 like isolate live isolated. But then there's like this whole bunch of other fantasy 724 00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:13.320 bullshit that you get wrapped into and clouds like, well, I guess I 725 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.360 got to do this now. And then like the first hour, you get 726 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:20.920 the power up Leviathan and is so fucking sick to use dog. They're like, 727 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:22.559 hey, what if we gave Clive a shotgun and an s MG. 728 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.800 But it's all, yeah, yeah, it's so sick. It's like, 729 00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.000 what if we just turned this into a third person shooter kind of because when 730 00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:34.440 you get Levithan, they introduce you to all the different abilities and some of 731 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:37.559 the things. One of the abilities has like you can shoot it like a 732 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.280 fucking shotgun and it's like the spread it's it's all water. It's like you're 733 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:45.679 just shooting water. Super Yeah. Clive is just fucking squirting all over the 734 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:50.519 place, dude, It's crazy. Yeah, you know, his his tide 735 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.239 has risen and now he's just scuorting all over the place. It's crazy. 736 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.519 That's that's a wild thing to say. I have an important question here. 737 00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:05.440 So my boy Dion, do he play a big role in this. Ah, 738 00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:09.480 that was like homophobic to say that. I said that it's homophobic to 739 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:13.920 non include Dion in this. It is like the most underutilized king. He's 740 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.920 so cool. Man, he's so good. He's so hot and just like 741 00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:21.679 elegant but also badass, and he's a dragoon, Like, oh I need 742 00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.440 that Dion DLC man, come on now, but no he's not in. 743 00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:29.119 I'm sorry, that's my boy. Yeah I do. I Man, there's 744 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:32.239 a lot of good fucking coming back to sixteen. I like, I think 745 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:36.800 I see a lot of its flaws, or like I recognize a lot of 746 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:38.159 its flaws as time has gone on. But man, there's like so much 747 00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:42.559 that I still fucking love about sixteen going back. You're talking about the world 748 00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:44.760 and the characters. I'm like, man, yeah, I loved all that 749 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:46.559 about that. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, ah fuck, I miss 750 00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:50.920 I'm a little sad that that's all that sixteen kind of is going to because 751 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:52.039 this was this DLC is kind of like their sign off, like this is 752 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:57.719 the last thing we're doing for sixteen here it is. So I'm glad that 753 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.440 they did something to expand on it, but I just wish they could do 754 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.639 a little bit more with it, because there's there's a lot of potential in 755 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.039 that world, of which I absolutely loved. But yeah, the I think 756 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.199 I mean, if you like sixteen, this is a must play. It's 757 00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:13.719 really good. It's it's a lot of fun. I think the Levithan abilities 758 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.320 are just really fun to use. Like I'm switching between all of them because 759 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.400 that's how you have to play the game. But I'm always like waiting. 760 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.079 I'm gonna say, okay, my cool downs from my Levi, then ship 761 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:24.559 is ready to go. Actually, you could just use because the way Levithan 762 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:29.639 works as an icon power is like I said, it's like a shooter because 763 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:32.199 you're circle getting into the weeds. But like the circle ability is always kind 764 00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:36.559 of like if you're if you use differ it it's your dash. If it's 765 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.199 greater, then it's the thing that. Yeah, it's like mobility type. 766 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:44.119 Yeah, it's always it's yeah, it's always something like to make you move 767 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:47.320 or like control the battlefield in some sort of way. The circle ability for 768 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:52.079 Levithan is like, okay, this is you go into shooter mode and you 769 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.920 like there's like an active reload to it because you have a meter's like oh 770 00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:58.480 I have one hundred percent water, and then as you use your shotgun, 771 00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:00.960 your machine gun, whatever the fuck ability you want to use, it goes 772 00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:04.440 down. And then you like press circle and then there's like a there's like 773 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:08.679 a active reload thing that is like yes, and if you time it right, 774 00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.519 it's like, okay, you have you have a short period, we 775 00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:16.719 have infinite ammo. Oh, I'm just I'm just walking around the battlefields blasting 776 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:21.400 motherfuckers with water. It's it is. It's kind of wild that they said, 777 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.519 fuck everything else, just use this and we're just gonna turn this into 778 00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:28.639 a shooter. It's like this really wild idea. But that's the thing I 779 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:30.719 love about sixteen, Like once you get all the icon powers, you realize 780 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:36.480 like how weird they are and how complex they can get. The problem is 781 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:38.440 like the game never really asks you to engage with it. Yeah, that 782 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:43.599 level of depth that they have created, it's almost similar to Sandlands, like, 783 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:45.800 hey, we have this really good combat system, but we're not gonna 784 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:51.079 like challenge you to learn it very often. I like doing it because I 785 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:52.039 just want to, Like I just wanted to play the game, and I 786 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.119 did a lot of the challenge based stuff. But again, there's like, 787 00:50:55.199 --> 00:50:59.639 man, y'all are like cooking. Man, y'all got some crazy ideas that 788 00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:01.400 work really really well, And I'm like, man, I want to play 789 00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:06.119 through. I wish well you can, because you'd like new Game plus and 790 00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:08.599 shit. But I'll go through the game again, playing Leviathan throughout the rest 791 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.159 of the game because it's so fun to use. It's also novel because like 792 00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.239 I've used all these icons for how long now, like one hundred percent of 793 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:17.199 the game whatever, So like having this new icons, like, oh shit, 794 00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:22.920 they made a DLC around a new power and it is like very very 795 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:27.280 distinct from it functions so differently from everything else, And I love that about 796 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:29.960 Like you get Odin so late in the game, but some of the shit 797 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:32.760 that you can do with Odin as an icon is so fucking sick. And 798 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:36.159 it's the same thing with Leviathan. It's like you're gonna give you this power 799 00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:39.360 last minute at the end of the game because you can't access the Rising Tide 800 00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:45.159 storyline until like very close to Oh okay, so man, such a cool 801 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:50.119 idea. Fuck, it's like walking around as Clive with a fucking super soaker 802 00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:52.360 blast in while the fuck is like Dog's tell me that's not sick any any 803 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:58.360 good Ben Star Clive lines. He says when you get Leviathan, he says, 804 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:00.519 I can feel the icon inside me, and I'm like, yeah, 805 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.880 let's know, I posted a clip. So there's all this other another thing 806 00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:08.480 too. It's really stupid. But he unlocked the forgery at the at the 807 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:13.199 town village and then one of the NPC's like turns and like what do you 808 00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:19.639 want? And then Clive says, your wife asked me to do this, 809 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.760 this and that. But there's there's like there's a a slight pause where it's 810 00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:30.320 just like hey, yo, like Clive, you nasty boy. Jill's I 811 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:34.960 was like, that's really funny. Jill's right there, bro, Relax. 812 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.000 But yeah, it's it's a DLC where you can distinctly tells like Okay, 813 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.599 they're gonna like branch off and do like a separate thing before the end of 814 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.320 the game whatever. But it's a it's twenty bucks. It's a little a 815 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:46.880 little steep, I guess, but do you get a little extra Jill Like 816 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:50.360 it's Jill. I mean, she's there, she has lines and stuff, 817 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:52.360 but it's like she's it's like the rest of the game she's like there too. 818 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:54.880 Well, she has her moments in the Bass game of course, which 819 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:59.679 a right, But like with Dion, I also was like I need more 820 00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:02.559 underutilized. Yeah, still still underutilized, but like she's like there along for 821 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:07.119 the ride. She is part of the conversation and all that. Okat something. 822 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.280 Yeah, Targle's there too, And there's a new character named Shula, 823 00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:15.880 so she's kind of like the the the person who runs this new town and 824 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:20.199 you're kind of like your contact to do bullshit within this new region whatever. 825 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:24.440 She's really good too, so yeah, there's extra story content. It feels 826 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.440 really well made, Like, man, I kind of wish this was part 827 00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:30.320 of the base game in a way because it's it fits right into the quality 828 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.800 of everything else cool, So it doesn't feel like, oh, let's just 829 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:36.320 add more content for the sake of it. It's like, nah, this 830 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.719 was actually really well put together and really well thought out, and it is. 831 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:43.920 It's beautiful. Like obviously this game, Like one of the big deals 832 00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:46.599 about sixteen is like how technically impressive it is, and to like go to 833 00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:51.440 a new region that is equally as impressive as anything else, like the Icon 834 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:54.960 battle in this DLC is fucking insane. Oh shit, Yeah, oh my 835 00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:59.039 god, it is so good. Fuck. I might have returned to it 836 00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.920 and play it on sometime rebirth. Yeah, Yeah, I think it's a 837 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:05.440 it's a nice like I just want a little bit more sixteen and you get 838 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:07.039 that from this, So I think I think it's absolutely worth it if you 839 00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:12.880 just want more sixteen as a layup baby. So yeah, nice Rising Tide 840 00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:17.199 DLC very very good. Great, Yeah, Jake, is there anything else 841 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:22.360 you've been checking out? Or is that about? I mean, I'm still 842 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:25.639 playing Final Fantasy Rebirth. Sure, I think I'm getting close to the end. 843 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:35.400 Michael, you a week before this week's hours eight hours hours? No, 844 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.159 I'm eighty eight hours in. You're gonna be past one hundred, bro. 845 00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:40.599 Like if at the pace that you've been going, because we've been talking 846 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:45.639 about business everything that's part of its I'm doing this to myself, yeah, 847 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:47.400 which is which is cool? Like I wish I had one hundred hours of 848 00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:52.360 plays game. What I land at eighty two? Eighty two hour? Yeay, 849 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:57.280 eighty two hours. But anyway, the part you told me, because 850 00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:59.920 we talked about this before we started, you told me where you're at, 851 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.360 kid Gi my motherfucking boy Kidji. No, he's not my boy. Second 852 00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:06.199 time he showed up. Second time I've wanted to strangle him. Oh my 853 00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:10.639 god. If you know who Kidji is? What a fuck? Oh, 854 00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.280 there's something about him. You ever meet somebody who's like a douchebag? But 855 00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:19.119 there's there's nothing you can can't really put your you can't put your finger on 856 00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:21.920 it, but you just know for a thing. Yes, this morning, 857 00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.760 I was just taking a shower and I was like, fuck Kidji, man, 858 00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:28.840 but why do I hate him? And I was trying to figure out 859 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:30.239 why I hate him and I couldn't figure it out. I got out of 860 00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:36.400 the shower pissed. Because I makes you hate them more because it frustrates you, 861 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:38.400 Like I don't know why I hate your ask, but I do pictures 862 00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:42.800 like face showing up on the screen, like what's up? Cloud? You 863 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.639 want to come and I want to talk to you. You couldn't beat this 864 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:49.760 challenge, but maybe you should try again next time. You could do better, 865 00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:55.199 Like fuck you and you're stupid ass Beanie and Jordan's or whatever who designed 866 00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:59.719 Kiji. I just want to talk to y'all, like, like what if 867 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:05.519 you took Dobby and swagged him out, like you took took Dobby to like 868 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.159 fucking you went on stock X and like Okay, we're gonna we're gonna swag 869 00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:10.320 out, Dobby and this is gonna be a kid GI like, get the 870 00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:14.679 fuck out of here, dude. But yeah, the point you told me 871 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:16.239 that you were at, I'm like, oh, but I got away. 872 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:20.400 I mean, I know what, there's fourteen chapters and technically I'm in chapter 873 00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:22.920 twelve. I think, yeah, yeah, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit, 874 00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:28.400 because that is actually pretty far along. It's so I've done all of 875 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:30.280 the side stuff leading up to that point, like well, actually, no, 876 00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:35.480 I guess not all of it because I don't want to say what happens, 877 00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:37.639 but like the other area opens up, it's really big that I haven't 878 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.800 explored all because I'm intimidated. But oh, okay, and I don't know 879 00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:44.360 if there's a whole lot there is there are you talking about? We talk 880 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:45.840 about offline? But okay, it depends. It depends. Yeah, it 881 00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:49.599 depends, because I know in chapter twelve that they open up, they're like, 882 00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:52.920 hey, guess what, there's there's more shit. Yeah. So if 883 00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:54.880 you've done all of that stuff that was presented to you at that point, 884 00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:59.119 then I think, okay, you're on the track to beat this game, 885 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:00.840 and like maybe this wekend. Yeah, yeah, I think you could do 886 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:06.960 it this weekend. And I will say we've we've talked at length about around 887 00:57:07.159 --> 00:57:10.960 the ending of this game, but I will say that once you reach the 888 00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:15.559 point of an old Return, there are some genuine, like highest moments of 889 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:19.519 this game tucked into that. Like there's a lot of bullshit. I've talked 890 00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:22.679 that length about how much bullshit there is in this sequence, but along with 891 00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:27.599 that are some of its best moments as well. So there's I'm just excited. 892 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.239 I mean, I'm I'm enjoying it still, Like I'm really excited for 893 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:32.639 all the character moments and stuff the story. Like I get lost from time 894 00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:37.519 to time, like usually I just forget what I'm doing because yeah, for 895 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:42.719 so long, but yeah, I really want to finish it, and I 896 00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:46.920 hope you soon because you got to move on with your life. So yeah, 897 00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:52.320 lots of final fantasies, you know what I'm saying. Cool, Well, 898 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:57.199 I think that's an episode? Is that an episode? That's an episode? 899 00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:00.760 I don't know if I have anything else to the shore, but yeah, 900 00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:01.800 I think that's No, I don't really have anything. I played Fallout 901 00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:05.400 three for a little bit and I was like that, what's up? Found 902 00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:07.239 your dad? I found my dad. Have you seen my dad? Middle 903 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:09.320 aged man? And then you play fall Out four? You look for your 904 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:15.920 son, who's now your dad? Spoilers dog ten year old game. That 905 00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:22.119 was the most obvious Yeah, twist in the it's like okay, yeah, 906 00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:24.400 I think I know what they're doing. Yeah, come on fall Also like 907 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:30.480 if that's a fall Through four stories not good? Yeah that is the still 908 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:34.039 disappointed by a Fallout. I took time off to play fall Out four when 909 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.880 it first came out. Me Ker worked on a small video that was like, 910 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:39.599 hey, if you're interested in playing Fallout because of the TV show what 911 00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:43.760 what would what? What's like the what game should you play? And kind 912 00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.199 of breaking down like the thing that each game does well. And I had 913 00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:50.159 to like really sit there and think about for for a while because like, 914 00:58:50.239 --> 00:58:52.920 for for me personally, four is like a game I really struggle to like 915 00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:58.800 articulate like why I don't like it and so it makes but I know a 916 00:58:58.840 --> 00:59:00.159 lot of people do like it. I was really like, what, okay, 917 00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:04.480 like what and I think it is. I do think that game is 918 00:59:04.519 --> 00:59:08.000 like a good systems game. Yeah, but at least and and I think 919 00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:12.400 people who just want it for the systems are like going to get the most 920 00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:15.079 out of it. But the reason I don't like that game is because I 921 00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:20.559 don't think it ends up having anything interesting to say, whether it's story or 922 00:59:20.599 --> 00:59:22.239 its systems. The result, like i'd like I play that game, I 923 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:25.960 like I feel nothing from it almost like samely enough. Yeah, And like 924 00:59:27.039 --> 00:59:30.440 even though like fall three was the first Fallout that like in the in the 925 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:35.639 Bethesda style RPGs, Yeah, of course you could see like right through its 926 00:59:35.679 --> 00:59:37.880 flaws. But for for all of that, like Fallout three is still a 927 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:43.320 very like grim Dark type thing that did explore a lot of the stuff that 928 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:46.559 you expect from Fallout. I also think three genuinely still nails the feeling of 929 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.880 exploration of wandering like a desolate wasteland in a way that four does not, 930 00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:57.800 because four's map is so like condensed and urban. It's trying so hard to 931 00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:01.400 like emulate the Boston area. Yeah, and and it ends up just kind 932 01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:05.559 of like weirdly enough like it, I feel like it it ends up like 933 01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:09.280 being less memorable, where like there's something about three where it's like most of 934 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:14.079 that map is just like fucking nothing and that sounds boring. But there's like 935 01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:17.159 a vibe that it captures. There's a mystery behind them, Yeah, emptiness 936 01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:22.920 that where you're just like walking in a direction like everything's dead. You got 937 01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.039 the music playing in the background, you got like Galaxy and his radio going 938 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.280 three dog pops up. Hey it's three Dogs, and you're like, yeah, 939 01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:32.280 like it's just a vibe to exploring three that I think, like no 940 01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:36.880 other Fallout has like quite captured. Yeah. Then, like, and that's 941 01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:40.239 the thing about three that I think is still compelling even though replaying it a 942 01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:45.719 little bit the other day, Uh, like it's not that opening. Good 943 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:47.800 Lord, the Almos stuff in all one on one. I remember how like 944 01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:52.360 amazing that felt at the time. Yeah, I remember it was the video 945 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:55.039 game. I was a child and I got a birthday and this, oh 946 01:00:55.119 --> 01:01:00.159 this is crazy. Was cooking tunnel snakes rule Yeah, and now you're just 947 01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:05.519 like, oh man, this dog is like real flat and like this is 948 01:01:05.559 --> 01:01:08.880 also like really dragging on and and and like I wish you could skip this. 949 01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:15.280 Although a real mod, right, there's a there is a mod. 950 01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:17.960 Oh yeah, that's like the most popular mod for every fall It's like skip 951 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:22.280 the in yeah, geez, except for New Vegas. You know why, 952 01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:29.519 because it's intro. Yeah, like choose some pictures and mess with the doc 953 01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:32.119 like to fuck off. I'm good at skipping, like all right, yeah 954 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:36.079 man, yeah, fuck dude, I forgot about that ship. Like the 955 01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:38.400 opening to New Vegas. You don't even have that stepping out of the vault 956 01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:43.119 like that's God we talk about New Vegas like every fucking week at this point 957 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.800 too. But it's the antithesis to like typical Fallout in so many ways that 958 01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:51.239 that's what makes it so interesting. Like you don't have that walking out of 959 01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:54.519 the vault moment because you're there's some fucking nobody who gets shot in the head 960 01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:59.440 and the grave and it's like, fuck, Matthew Perry just don't want to 961 01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:04.400 go kill Math Perry. Yeah, well rip Matthew Perry and I r L. 962 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.119 But yeah, that's uh, that's that Shit's fucking yeah New Vegas, 963 01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:10.000 man. But yeah, for I don't know, I think four is four 964 01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:14.719 is like is a good Babies First Fallout? Yeah, because it does play 965 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:19.480 so much closer to a typical first person game. Yeah that like you have 966 01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.599 to you have to fight with the systems of three in New Vegas to the 967 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:24.840 way that I think is going to turn people off who might know a little 968 01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:28.800 bit about like my you know, familiar with video games, watch the show 969 01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:30.880 and said, oh, I want to get into that. I have nothing. 970 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:31.800 I have no experience with it, and so like you can give them 971 01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:36.079 four and be like you can pretty much streamlined in a way that is good 972 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:39.760 for mass appeal, absolutely, which I will give it credit for that. 973 01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:43.360 Yeah, I'll give it some credit for that. And I do know people 974 01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:45.840 who like that was their first Fallout game, really liked it at the time 975 01:02:46.360 --> 01:02:50.079 and have now like now finally kind of gone back and been like, oh, 976 01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:52.199 I should check out some of the other ones, like New Vegas or 977 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:53.599 you know, even like one and two, and then we're just like, 978 01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:58.559 yeah, these are a lot better. You know, this and this and 979 01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:01.239 that and and kind of like but yeah, you know, like for sure, 980 01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:05.800 Fur is maybe like the best playing of the Fallout games. You could 981 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:08.280 actually play it like a shooter, which is yeah, it's kind of specific. 982 01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.559 But I like how they handle the power armor too, and for how 983 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.599 the power arm is like super cool in the Fusion Fusion Core and you customize 984 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:17.440 it and like that was cool. Yeah, you know, that's actually like 985 01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:21.599 a genuinely like good change because I also think it gives a power armor, 986 01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:23.880 like a like a weight to it, and like a mechanical weight. Like 987 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:25.880 it's like you have to get in it and like put it all three. 988 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.239 You just like go to a menu and just click it on it and you're 989 01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:30.360 in it, and you're just like, yeah, it's just like a piece 990 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:36.280 of armor power, you know, getting the fucking power armor. Shiny Ray 991 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:38.599 will have to do it and she won't like that. Yeah, I've been 992 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:47.639 I've been wanting to return to four. Oh but the well, so they 993 01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:52.119 put out the next gen update today. Yeah, and we were and me 994 01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:53.079 and Jake were like, oh, we should check it out because they have 995 01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:58.360 an ultra wat we they added and we're like, yo, let's check it 996 01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:01.280 out. Apparently it's bus the whole word. No, all is going to 997 01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:04.559 be like you should watch the video called giving Fallout four second ship. No, 998 01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:08.719 no, no. Apparently the ultra wide is busted on PC where it 999 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:13.880 only supports some ultra wide resolutions and all of those like two and then and 1000 01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.079 then like people were like, yeah, so the game's ultra wide, but 1001 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:21.599 the UI is just stretched. Oh yeah, and there's no FOV sliders and 1002 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.679 there's no fov slider, uh, because because you have to go in the 1003 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:30.039 I and I five, so it's instead of like properly like ultra wide, 1004 01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:33.880 it just crops it in so it's like even more cropped and you're like yeah, 1005 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:38.920 and everyone's like this sucks. So like the there's this article on Piece 1006 01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:41.280 of Gamer and that was just like so, uh, to fix it, 1007 01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.239 you have to go download this mod, which is how everyone did it before 1008 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:46.280 this update came out in the first place. It just kind of be like, 1009 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:50.159 hey, before it still works. Yeah, It's like, damn, 1010 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:54.679 it's twenty twenty four and we're going to I and I files. That's crazy. 1011 01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.360 I love that shit, man, I mean, don't people find it 1012 01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:00.639 out? Like pretty sure Starfield also didn't have an fov slider. You have 1013 01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:03.119 to go into the I I. I think it does. I remember I 1014 01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:05.400 think it was Naked Jake's video where he was like, dude, I still 1015 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:11.679 have to fucking gow Yeah, but does it keep doing that? I kind 1016 01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:14.880 of like that. It makes me. It makes everyone feel like a modern 1017 01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:16.079 Yeah. Yeah, you know. I don't make mods, but I kind 1018 01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:20.400 of do because I just go to the iron I files and I'm like, 1019 01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:25.599 oh, change that value to uh sixty and it's a gateway drug, right, 1020 01:05:25.719 --> 01:05:29.440 Like, hey, if you want to go this ten steps ahead. 1021 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:31.360 Yeah. Yeah, kids of these days don't know about how much you have 1022 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:36.840 to mod games on Windows XP to get them, Like we're getting the original 1023 01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:41.559 days X to work on Windows XP was a fucking nice Yeah, dude, 1024 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:43.760 Yeah, there was. I think by like I want to say, like 1025 01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:46.360 seven or maybe even ten, like Windows has gotten to a point where it's 1026 01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:50.239 backwards compatibility is like pretty good now with older games. But yeah, I 1027 01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:55.719 want to say, like XP and like the Vista era, you couldn't get 1028 01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:57.679 like you'd be like, oh, that game is two years old, fuck 1029 01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:01.079 you. And once once a dual core CPUs started being like a common thing, 1030 01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:05.760 a lot of older games didn't know how to process that process that and 1031 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:10.559 then like they had problems with game like running at like double speed or like 1032 01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:14.239 too fast or too slow whatever, and it was like you have to do 1033 01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:16.599 jump through so many hoops disabled when you go into the bios, disable one 1034 01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:19.440 of the cores if you're gonna play this game like Dog we were, We 1035 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:24.199 was in the trenches in PC gaming back into two thousands. Bro, you'll 1036 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.840 motherfuckers don't know about that ship you back in my day. This is kind 1037 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.480 of unrelated, but do you remember for Dark Souls three where weapons would degrade 1038 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:36.280 twice as fast on PC because it was at sixty frames a second. It 1039 01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:42.960 was too it was too like every swing it like registered it like hitting things 1040 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:47.760 twice as much. That's yeah, I think so funny, incredible. Yeah. 1041 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:53.440 Oh man, y'all don't know about that. That's funny. Anyway, 1042 01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:56.320 go check how that fall for next gen update. I guess I want to 1043 01:06:56.320 --> 01:07:00.199 go check that out. I think Tom is putting together comparisonthing, like a 1044 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:04.079 little comparison. I mean, I think it seems like it's it's just better 1045 01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:08.840 on just getting mod stick to go to the old Yeah, yeah, like 1046 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.519 the like console you know, you're getting like the higher frame rates and stuff 1047 01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:15.320 like that. It's like that stuff seems cool like. But PC gamers, 1048 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:17.800 I think, are a little more like we'll do it ourselves. Didn't do 1049 01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:20.199 it anything for me. It just broke all my ship. So I think 1050 01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:23.679 it's they're a little more salty about it. And honestly, I think, 1051 01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:28.360 uh, you look at the PC moding community, especially for beth As the 1052 01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.199 games, whether it be Elder Schools or Fallout and like, y'all kind of 1053 01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.480 already figure this out, so we don't need to give you anything. If 1054 01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:38.639 anything, It's like made it worse for them because they Fallout London was supposed 1055 01:07:38.639 --> 01:07:41.840 to going I think today or tomorrow or anything like that. But I but 1056 01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:44.199 but they were like, oh, we're gonna hold it to see if it 1057 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:45.840 breaks and turns out it like it does, broke it quite a bit. 1058 01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:54.280 I think the mod creator, one of the creators like tweeted like this, 1059 01:07:54.280 --> 01:08:00.639 this screwed us over a lot. The like the standalone mod community because I 1060 01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:02.639 know, I remember you did something on one of the New Vegas mods. 1061 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:08.719 It was for I did one on follow Out Miami and Cascadia, Yes, 1062 01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:12.840 I remember that. Yeah, but yeah, the standalone mod community for fall 1063 01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:16.840 and not just like we're making tweaks and improvements to the Yeah, there's there's 1064 01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:19.560 some wild ship and almost like but that would be like, yo, we're 1065 01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:23.800 not even gonna touch the PC version. You'll have y'all figure this out, 1066 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:26.479 because like you said, like, it's kind of sucks that like, hey, 1067 01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:29.640 we're gonna give these updates and try to refine the games, like oh, 1068 01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:31.600 well, you fucking broke everything. We already figured out for you. 1069 01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:34.920 So I didn't even fix the Ultra Wife, I know, and didn't even 1070 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:39.920 do a good job in that area. So that's disappointing to hear it, 1071 01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:42.560 because yeah, there's some really cool ship. Yeah, yeah, a little 1072 01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:45.560 bit of a shame. But hey, you know those models, they'll get 1073 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:48.359 it all fixed up. They'll figure it out. They always do. Please. 1074 01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:55.439 Do you know something about war never changes? Bodies and fallen mods, 1075 01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:00.319 mods never change. But that's never changes. Uh, that's and you know 1076 01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:03.079 what this podcast never changes. And that's an episode of it's going to going 1077 01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:06.239 to well I guess it is. Yeah. Yeah, So I mean, 1078 01:09:06.439 --> 01:09:11.319 you know, Michael, now that you're going to be a part of the 1079 01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:15.960 enemy, I should like really like I'm just joking, I genuinely. We'll 1080 01:09:15.960 --> 01:09:17.840 go after that. On Wednesday, we're gonna meet on site. It's it's 1081 01:09:17.880 --> 01:09:25.399 on site, okay. Is it like that scene in uh what's it? 1082 01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:30.479 The Ron Burgundy? Yeah, we're meet up all the newscasters. Is gonna 1083 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:32.560 like just brawl on the beach. He's going to show up in one corner. 1084 01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:36.199 We're gonna show it's murdered alley for real, for real? Yeah, 1085 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:40.800 yeah, the Ghost of fan bite will show. Hell, yeah, well 1086 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:43.760 I'm Ron's in the city, so him and I can. You could be 1087 01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:45.119 like, wait, what if we call it I need some port you know 1088 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:49.479 what I'm saying. But no, no, no, we we We genuinely 1089 01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:53.960 love all of our peers at I g M and and soon to be peer. 1090 01:09:57.039 --> 01:10:00.720 That's that's business. No. So yeah, going to be starting at 1091 01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:02.880 IGN next week, as I said, and that means that I Am probably 1092 01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:05.760 not going to be on this podcast as frequently. I mean there will be 1093 01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:10.800 moments in which I can drop on, but there's no reason you can't come 1094 01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:15.319 on or anything like that on your end. Rules. Yeah, there's no 1095 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:16.119 rules on our n I don't buy your end. Yeah. Yeah. So 1096 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:18.159 I mean like the other thing too, is like I need, I need, 1097 01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:20.920 I have. I have a full job that I need to figure out 1098 01:10:21.279 --> 01:10:26.840 integrate yourself with with your coworkers. So yeah, it's it's, uh, 1099 01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:29.920 it is really weird because I mean, if we know all the people I 1100 01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:32.880 GN, We've have seen them at like parties and industry events, and like 1101 01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:36.840 I'm good friends with many many of them. Yeah, and I've been freelancing 1102 01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:41.000 with them for for a while now, so I know how this show works. 1103 01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:43.920 But again to be like, oh, this is now, this is 1104 01:10:43.920 --> 01:10:46.319 now where I this is where I work, It's it's a it is a 1105 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:48.600 bit weird because I'm just like, oh, I've been game Spot for like 1106 01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:53.920 even more than six years, because I'm still I still show up to the 1107 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:55.680 office that you're like, I don't work with you up, but I'm here 1108 01:10:56.079 --> 01:11:00.199 desk here. I still don't ship in a desk here. So it is 1109 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:02.560 really weird to be like, oh, man, ship the things are things 1110 01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:06.039 are different. I will say, though, uh that I have a project 1111 01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:10.560 that I can't talk about yet, but I still actually, I do still 1112 01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:13.479 have things that I'm gonna be doing for game Spot in the coming month, 1113 01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:15.760 which is really funny. But that's yeah, that's a different story. But 1114 01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:20.199 it is funny that I'm so integrated in game Spot that it's like you still 1115 01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:25.079 can't fucking get rid of me. But yeah, so, I mean, 1116 01:11:26.359 --> 01:11:28.960 I'll be chilling with y'all. I'll hop on the podcast when I can, 1117 01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:30.560 but it's not going to be as as frequent as it used to be. 1118 01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:36.439 So yes, yeah, yeah, drag Kurt, drag Kurt. You know 1119 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:41.119 what I'm saying. Uh So, yeah, it's three three white people whoop, 1120 01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:45.159 damn sliding backwards. Damn man, y'all kind of have y'all kind of 1121 01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:47.079 easy diversity higher right here. You know what I'm saying, But y'all fumbled 1122 01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:50.279 the bag. So that's not that's not y'all. I can't I can't even 1123 01:11:50.359 --> 01:11:55.640 I can't disagree with that. Yeah, so yeah, uh, Game Spot 1124 01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:59.720 after Dark is still my It feels like my home, and I'll be back 1125 01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:05.279 at some point, you know what I'm saying. Absolutely goodbye everybody. I 1126 01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:11.000 feel like I should just stop right there. Damn. Well that's been the 1127 01:12:11.159 --> 01:12:13.920 episode of Game Spot after Dark. Do you want you want to close it 1128 01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:20.399 out? Oh? Sure? Yeah, like and subscribe. You've been okay 1129 01:12:20.439 --> 01:12:24.319 what I said to you, I'm never coming back here, damn. Oh 1130 01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:28.680 no, man ship, I love y'all. Thank you for listening. You're 1131 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:31.880 gonna you're gonna hear from me again. Of course, g said, is 1132 01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:34.359 this what is where it's at? Man? This has been going on for 1133 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:38.680 a long time. No one's been able to stop us. So you know 1134 01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:42.199 the fucking vibes. You get your favorite favorite favorite white folks out here. 1135 01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:46.000 James Decker, Jean Luke, Ssike, Kurt Indovina, Uh, y'all have 1136 01:12:46.079 --> 01:12:48.359 Tam right there. He should bring him on. No one's gonna notice. 1137 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.399 Just put put me on with a British accent. It's the same ship, 1138 01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:56.359 so uh yeah, uh, it's yeah, it's It's been great to be 1139 01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:59.399 a part of this podcast, even when I was working at fan Bite and 1140 01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:01.119 when I was being as like, let's just fucking show up. So yeah, 1141 01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:08.960 I'll miss that aspect, but I'll be back. Motherfucker's it's your motherfucking 1142 01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:13.640 boy coming to you live from the Bay Area. Oh alright, peace, 1143 01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:19.720 bye to you. I'll probably come on next week. Next week.