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Hello, and welcome to Sidequest.
This is our weekly video game show here

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at Peek First and I'm your host, the King of the Bridge, Dylan

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must and I had with me the
Prophet Kirkland Pats are making his long awaited

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return here at side Quest. How
are you doing, my friend? I

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am doing just fantastic. I'm so
happy to be here. It's been feels

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like forever since I've been on.
It's we'll go a string where I'm on

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for like four weeks and then I
just won't be on for like, I

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don't think you were here at all
in June, so it must sometime in

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probably early May at this point.
Yeah, I feel like I conquered May,

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though I feel like I was on
a lot of thee. But no,

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it's it's good to be back,
and yeah it should be a fun

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one. Yeah, let's get right
into it today. We're gonna we got

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a bit of news. We're gonna
break on a couple a trailer for a

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Quiet Place game which is coming out. We're gonna about the July month of

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Marvel Snap. And then we just
got a bunch of games we've been playing

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because obviously Kirklan hasn't been here in
a bit. I always have some new

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stuff, So let's start with A
Quiet Place. Remind me the movies?

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Have you seen? I know you
haven't seen Day one yet, but have

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you seen the first two? I
have never seen Quiet Place. You haven't

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seen a single single. I haven't
even seen the bird Box rip Off,

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whatever that one was. I haven't
seen any of this, right, Okay,

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no sound, no sight, Okay, but did you watch this trailer

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for the game. I did watch
this trailer, yes, which I already

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forget the name A Quiet Place,
the road Road Ahead to the Cold.

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There you go. What did you
think of this? As someone who hasn't

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clearly watched the movies yet? Does
this intrigue you out at all? From

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like maybe the gameplay sense rather than
just what the horror movie sense of it

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can do. It's funny with Quiet
Place. I really didn't know anything about

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it until I was going to see
whatever movie and they had the trailer for

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Day one. It was just like, oh, wow, okay, there's

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months in this movie, Like I
didn't know. Wow, you didn't even

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have that. I guess. Well. The first trailer for the first movie

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was pretty coy with what was going
on, and then I feel like by

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the second one, you were probably
pretty checked out because you're like, well,

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I haven't seen the first one,
so I don't care about I don't

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even remember seeing a trailer for the
second one. Maybe I have, but

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I'm just like mixing the two up. I just remember like a threat,

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but I like, I don't think
you ever see it, at least in

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the trailer. Well, now you
know, because they don't hold back in

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this, I know what it is. Yeah, I've seen the game engine

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version of it as well, but
uh no, I I haven't experienced the

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movies, but this trailer actually really
surprised me. It definitely reminded me of

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something similar like Last of Us,
you know, just like that post apocalyptic

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with monsters. The gameplay looked pretty
fun in my opinion, like, like,

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it looks like a pretty solid game
actually, and I feel like with

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the Last of Us, the story, I imagine would be more important than

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the gameplay. I feel like that's
usually how those games go. And yeah,

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no, I thought it looked really
solid and just the world overall it

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looks really interesting, So I don't
know, maybe like it. It boosts

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up my interest levels, I guess
for the overall, just movie universe.

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I always assumed it was gonna be
like a movie that I would eventually see,

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But it's just I mean, now
we have three movies out and a

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game coming. It's true. I
think I feel like this year, I

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think you need to say Day one
just for Goldenak purposes, honestly, Okay,

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cheap plug. We did a review
meet Travis and Taylor, and yeah,

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we all enjoyed it. I won't
spoil any more than that. Well,

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I'll just say that we enjoyed it. You should go check out that

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review if you want to hear more. But yeah, so I feel like

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maybe this year you'll have to check
that out. And I think Day one

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works perfectly because it is kind of
a prequel. It's also kind of just

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like another story in that world,
so you don't need to watch the first

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two before watching that. You're not
gonna spoil anything for yourself. It's I

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think it's completely fine to watch them
kind of out of order in that way.

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So I'm curious to hear what you
think about that movie when you and

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the rest of them, to be
honest, But yeah, I think that

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this game, it's I think we
usually look like kind of like a double

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a sort of thing, like it
didn't quite look you know, like that

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big four kit that we expect,
and this is a story trailer, but

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I was kind of surprised at how
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be. It's based on a movie, obviously, but there's just a lot

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of cut scenes going along, a
lot a lot of character stuff, and

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I guess I maybe expected when they
were doing this game that it would just

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be just kind of set far into
into the world, kind of going into

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disarray. But like the trailer opens
with like that same day one, you

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know, cutscene sort of thing,
and then we get into like the inciting

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event. So it's interesting that it's
kind of going right to the start,

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and I don't know how deep into
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be kind of like three or four
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rather than being like this big open
world thing that you're like potentially surviving

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for months. I think it will
be a shorter, more story focused thing.

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But yeah, I'm curious to see
more of it. I didn't look

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up the developer. I should do
that at some point here, just to

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see what we can expect in terms
of the gameplay, but I think it

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looks cool. I think for me
it would really just down to the price

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point. If it's a full eighty
buck, it's kind of tricky, but

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maybe when it drops on sale.
But I think it looks fun. I

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like the movies, and I like
the world enough, and you know,

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funnily enough playing Outlast a bunch this
year. One very minor mechanic that I

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really like in those games is if
you step on a little bit of glass

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and make noise and then like have
the monsters come after you. Like that's

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a fun, weird threat and not
really used to that in games normally,

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not like looking directly at the ground
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But I think this game could be
all about that kind of thing,

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of being really careful about your movements
and of course a stealth way, but

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like a little bit differently of not
just trying to avoid a monster but also

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trying to watch every last step.
And at one point the characters like bringing

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out like a tube of toothpaste or
something from a shelf, and he's like

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it's like operation where he's like,
oh, I can't touch this other thing,

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and make a noise in any way. So I don't know's I like

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a good stealth game, and I
think that this could be a cool,

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a cool way to do it.
I almost feel like it could be tricky

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to pull off, but it seems
like they're doing a decent job because I

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kind of feel like the game would
work really really well in VR honestly,

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like just with the concept. But
this is, of course, it's not

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a VR game, so I don't
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translate to just a regular first person
I guess not shooter, well a little

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bit of shooter first person mechanics,
it could be. Could be an interesting

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time, yeah, m And then
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this is a very minor spoiler for
you, Kirklin on the first one,

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is that at one point in this
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they go pick up a pregnancy test
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gonna be a mechanic in that,
like, well, how do you have

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a baby without making any sound?
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do, And that's something that happens
in the first movie. I'll say,

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without saying more than that, so
it's it's it's cool that they're kind of

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picking things that have been done in
the movies. But then also you know,

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grabbing new characters and telling a new
story in here. So I'm intrigued.

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Aoyu. I think it's a cool
idea. I guess I didn't really

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expect this game, and I don't
know it's it's it's just a cool,

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interesting thing. I'm curious what other
sort of any other Like, it's weird

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that that series already has three movies
in it. It's kind of like a

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becoming a big franchise. Just I
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even though I guess it was what
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the first one came out, so
it's been a while now. But I

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don't know, it's cool. I'm
I'm very very much intrigued by this,

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and I could see Taylor picking it
up for sure, maybe Travis Wood as

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well, So I don't know.
I feel like we could do a review

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in the future of it. This
is also a game that just makes me

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It just feels like it's screaming,
like game pass all over it, like

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like it'll just see on there,
like fairly, fairly quickly. I don't

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know right at launch, but I
mean, if it's on there, I'm

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sure both those lads they're pretty good
about. There's like they try to have

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like it seems like a constant flux
of horror games coming in and out,

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like Resident Evils are popping in and
out of the service. Uh, and

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then like Amnesia was on there,
a couple other ones that I've seen,

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Witch was on there, and Witch
was on there. Yeah, of course

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evil uh not Evil Dead what it
called Evil Within those games are on there

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because they own that studio and whatnot
at this point. So yeah, it

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seems like they definitely want to get
some horror games in there. So this

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would be a big one because it's
a big, bigger ip than some of

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those other ones we just mentioned,
So could be a cool thing. I

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don't think we have any sort of
release date on it yet, but I

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don't know. Looked like they had
a decent amount of gameplay in there,

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even though it was a story trailer. So maybe like at the Game Awards

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or something, we could get a
bigger trailer with a release date and maybe

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maybe it could be next year,
who knows. We'll keep an eye out

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on that. Yeah, okay,
moving on, Kirklem take it away.

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Tell me about what you've been playing
in the last month and a half here.

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Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's
been so long since I've been on

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here. I feel like I've gone
through like different phases with some of these

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games that I that I've played on. So I'll start at the top with

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a game that I picked up on
my switch. I've been playing my switch

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since I probably yeah, probably since
I beat Princess Peach. I feel like

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I haven't really touched the switch.
Maybe we played like Mario curt every once

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in a while here, yeah and
there, but no. When I went

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on my trip to Manatole, I
brought my switch with me and I booted

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up a game that I had not
play it since my last year, like

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the previous year's trip to Manitoba,
and that was FIRELM. Three Houses.

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I was hoping you would say Fire
today. I was smelling it in the

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air. I love it. Oh, yes, it's funny. This is

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just like a tradition game. I
guess I just pick up yearly around Father's

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Day weekend when I go out to
Manitoba when the school year is back.

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In Secsion come back, Yeah,
exactly, And uh, I couldn't really

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remember where I was. I knew
that I had finished like Act one and

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was at some just yeah it's some
area in Act two, and I can't

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remember what chapter I left off on
on my like recent binge of the game.

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But uh, I definitely put in
like probably a good ten hours just

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here and there, like all we'd
really be doing is like watching movies and

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chilling, so just like always be
pulling up the switch and man, that

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game is just so fantastic. I
honestly thought it was the most recent Fireman

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game too. I kind of forgot
about Engage and yeah, that game,

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which I definitely do at some point
want to try. But I mean I

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to this date, I have never
completed fully a FIREMLM game, and I

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definitely feel like I'm approaching. I
don't think like I'm on like the last

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chapter or two, but like I
just feel like, damn, I have

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a lot of hours into this game
now, and I definitely feel like I'm

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I'm able to conquer that Beast and
God that three houses. I don't know

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if it's if it's better than Awakening
in my opinion for the story wise,

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I really really love that Firing Them
Awakening game. And I also feel like

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because that was my first fire Fire
emblem, it was just like, I

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don't know, I didn't know what
to expect with the combat, let alone

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the story and the characters, and
I just I really love that game.

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But no, I really like just
the different characters in here and just kind

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of their dynamics amongst each other.
And I love the whole mechanic of like

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the characters aging and like they're just
their interactions kind of change around them aging

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as well as just the world around
them. So I do really like the

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story. I really like the characters, and yeah, I know it's it's

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it's pretty kick ass. The main
characters pretty op I feel like, yeah,

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they always are in like all the
fire On games. I remember Robin

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really being really opy, as well
as just Biloth is that the name I

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can't remember. Yeah, because they're
just so versatile, especially like Robin and

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Bilith. I think before that it
was usually like just a sword user and

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they usually have good stats, but
like they're not super opay because they're still

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limited. But now, yeah,
like Bielith and Robin just have range on

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top of their regular sword actions and
whatnot. They just yeah, they're just

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so versatile and you're gonna have them
in every battle, so they're level way

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be like over leveled at all times. So yeah, super strong. The

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Exalted one class that the I think
that's what it's called, that the player

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character has is it's just it's crazy. But I can't remember what house did

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you say you were when you played? So I the first one I did

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was adle Guard's house was Black Black
Eagles, Black Eagles, and then I

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did another play through with the Golden
Deer. Oh okay, and then I

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still haven't I haven't done a playthrough
of the Blue so that's the one I'm

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on right now. Like that,
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was the Black Eagles, but I
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made this one the Blue Lions,
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like I never really made like a
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like swords, and just like got
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wiven lords like just just like yeah, like my second playthrough, I made

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everyone a Wiverron lord because I was
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some extent, just like everyone,
you're gonna have the maximum speed, you're

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gonna be able to fly over gaps
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there's like the magic wiverns and stuff
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that I think that was added in
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game having wyverns that like weren't just
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later on, but yeah, I
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pegasusts. I can't remember the exact
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just having a flying who can do
magic is a really cool thing.

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Oh it's so strong and uh,
just like mounted units in general, the

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fact that they can like attack and
then move again is such a strong mechanic,

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especially if you have like a ranged
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I feel like again like I've never
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army, but I have a couple
mostly mostly like Pegasus riders like can like

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swap in and out like my one
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on them in every single battle.
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it's it's definitely another wive in Lord, but uh, just just having them

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with like a lance but then also
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it's it's crazy how strongest. But
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was so happy with with with Three
Houses, and I think they'd actually done

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it earlier with the remake of Shadows
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where they made bows have more range
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kind of the weakest class because they
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magic classes. But then they couldn't
do range one attacks. Yeah, so

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they just like didn't really other than
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flying units as like just because they
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super useful and so you still use
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they weren't really like one of the
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a really good choice that they had
just way more monster range in that game

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make them much more viable and so
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them. So yeah, because then
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implemented like the gambits that you can
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few of the games they've had similar
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ever called them gambits, but like
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thing in Path of Radiance I think
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The GameCube one. Okay, so
a while ago. Actually yeah, but

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yeah, like one of my characters, like he's mainly an archer, and

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then one of his gambits, I
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map, like it's just it's just
insane, and then have them on like

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a flying mount It's just yeah,
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And I feel like, because I
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expert with those games. I don't
play on Lunatic or anything I think I'm

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on. I have no idea what
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like Hard is the one that I've
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yeah, you can't really recall it. But do you know what chapter you're

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on? What number? Yeah,
that's what I was trying to remember.

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I should have grabbed my switch and
check. Things are heating up, that's

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for sure, just with the overall
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right now, and yeah, no, I'm I cannot remember at all.

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Pull it up. I mean,
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like you are getting near the end, which is it is exciting you're gonna

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roll credits on your first yeah game. I will report back when that day

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comes, because is that going to
be next year when you jump into it

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again or are you on a roll
right now? Do you think you're gonna

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keep it going? I have played
since I was on the trip, but

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that was a couple of weeks ago
already now and uh yeah, but just

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with some of the other games,
I'm gonna talk to you about it.

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I feel like we'll be filling up
sometimes slots. But uh yeah, that's

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my fire Emblem update. Absolutely love
those games. And you know, just

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shouts out to literally you. I
think you were the one that told me

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about them back when the target days. I'm pretty sure I was like,

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oh, yeah, I was checking
out this game I think I want to

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get and you're like, man,
I got Fire Awakening, you can borrow

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it. Yeah, that's all that's
crazy. There you go. Here we

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are all these years later. Yeah, I all throw in one of my

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games here. Actually, okay,
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it is. It feels a lot
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convention where there was all sorts of
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some games and one of the things
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for the Nintendo DS. Oh my
gosh, yeah, that's crazy. I

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remember that game on Xbox three sixty
yes, because that was I think the

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first Civilization game that was on consoles, So it was a bit it was

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a much more simplified version because it
had to be controller friendly and it had

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to kind of introduce a whole new
audience to what Civilization is, like this

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grand strategy sort of game, but
kind of simplified version. And so when

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I didn't even know until I saw
it at this booth that it had a

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DS port as well, which was
just the funniest thing to me. So

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I'm like, ten bucks, I'm
absolutely picking this up. I need to

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see what is going on here.
And so I've been playing through that.

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I've done a full playthrough actually,
because Civilization Revolution was also one of the

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with the casualification of it. It
made the runs a lot quicker, which

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is a good thing because you know, some civilization even on the shortest difficulties,

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can take ten to twenty hours for
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this one, I don't know,
probably took me maybe four hours or

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something to get through all all of
the ages. And it's funny because it

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very much looks like a fire emblem
sort of tactics game. It's like on

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a square grid instead of like the
hex grid, which they've kind of done

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different ones in different games, I
think, And yeah, like it just

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because of the placement of the units
and how kind of small ministule the maps

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are. It feels like a bit
of like a fire emblemp thing and that

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you're just taking over tiles positioning your
units in those similar sort of ways.

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And yeah, it's it's it is
a fun time. It's very different.

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It's a very simplified thing, but
it also has different mechanics. Like I

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don't think any of the civilization games
I've played have had an economic victory as

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one of the conditions, but this
has an economic victory, so just you

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know, hitting different gold in your
bank milestones. That's just one of the

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ways you can win the game,
which is crazy because yeah, normally,

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like money might help you get a
military victory because you can just buy a

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bunch of units, or maybe you
can invest much money to boost your science

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and then you could get a science
victory. But yeah, I can't recall

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there ever being just a straight up
economic victory. So it's a totally different

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way to play the game. The
heartbreaking thing of this is I did this

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whole run, and at some point, you know, I saw these victory

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conditions. A couple of players are
getting close. I'm doing okay. I'm

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a bit of an everyman. I
have all of the different win conditions.

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I'm like in the race. To
some extent, culture was like my main

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thing. And then at some point
it was like there's five turns left in

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this game before it ends, and
I was blindsided by that because I didn't

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expect that to come up so quick. So I was like, Okay,

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I guess I'm gonna go all in
on economic victory because I'm probably closest to

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that. So all my cities converted
them to just making gold, and I

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got so freaking close. I think
I needed one or two more turns to

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get it, and I just barely
didn't get that economic victory. And then

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when it came down to the final
score, this is what is a real

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bummer about It is the eventual winner
because since no one hit any of the

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win conditions, it just ended on
time. It just gave like whoever had

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the most the highest, like accrude
average score. I guess between all the

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victory conditions because you're gonna getting rated
on them as you go through. And

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then the freaking Mongols won in a
random victory at the very end because they

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just had a humongous army and so
they won like the war victory whatever that

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one's called, just based on having
the largest army. But because I had

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so much freaking money, I could
have just bought like a million units and

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had a stronger army. So if
I had kind of foreseen that, or

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maybe if I had to save a
couple of turns ago, I could have

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like, okay, I can go
last minute by a bunch of units and

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go for that as my victory condition. So it was a bit of a

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bummer. I don't think I'm gonna
keep playing this game and grinding it by

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any means, but it was really
fun to do a play through, and

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I'm sure at some point in the
future if I'm on the road and want

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something, I'll pick it up again. It's you know, like Civilization six

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is on the Switch, so that's
like, you know, you can go

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play that if you want Civilization on
the Goal or on Steam Deck. I'm

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sure has all the games now,
you can play it on there. But

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it was it was really just an
odd fascination that that game existed on the

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DS. Just such a wild thing, and it was, Yeah, it

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was a it was a really good
time. It's like because those DS ports

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for games back in the day,
or like the Game Boy Advance ports,

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they were just completely different games,
you know, the completely different are completely

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different mechanics, and so it's very
impressive to me that they were just releasing

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multiple versions. But it's so different
than these days, where every version is

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you know, pretty much the same. Maybe it looks a bit worse on

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Switch, but it's always the same
mechanics, whereas different like online features or

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something. So yeah, it's such
a weird thing that exists, but yeah,

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it was. It was a good
time. So I don't know if

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I can recommend people go pick up
Civilization Revolution on their Nintendo dys in the

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year twenty twenty four. But for
someone who's a big fan of that series,

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uh, it was. It was
pretty cool random pickup to find you

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got your ten bucks worth out of
it. That's absolutely Oh yeah, okay

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back to you. What's what's your
next game on your list? Yeah?

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Next game? You are the one
that told me about this game, Pseudo

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Regalia, right, jumped in there. Yeah, go. I entered the

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dream World and man, what what
a game. I am pretty early on

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with it, like I just grabbed
it. I think I'm about an hour

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and a half in right now.
It's pretty short game, so that's actually

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you know, it's a meaty chunk
into It's a good chunk in. Yeah.

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I felt bad that I didn't have
like more time to like jump in

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there because I had played it in
one sitting and then I went back to

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it, like I think it was
a couple of days after and I like

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could not remember like where I was, and I feel like it's again no

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map in that game, which is
very controversial for a lot of people in

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the Steam forums of the game.
I was backtracking, uh like for a

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little bit there, and I'm just
like, man, I feel like I

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feel like it's a it's a game
that is fine to get lost in,

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but like I want time to get
lost in it. So I didn't want

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to like just play it for a
short time and then like forget where I

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was again. So when I have
like a nice time chunk to jump in

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there, I feel like I'll just
sit down and just like run through.

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That's always the thing that kills my
momentum on metroidvanias in general, and why

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I find it so hard to connect
with that genre is just because yeah,

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I'll play it, and even if
I come back two or three days later,

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sometimes that's all the difference. Even
games that have maps, and I

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come back to Hall of Night,
I didn't play for a week or two,

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and it's like no idea, what
the hell I was doing, what

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I should be doing, where I
should go. I feel like I should

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start new save, but I don't
want to do that. So I think

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for we were really at least I
mean, I did kind of play through

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it in a few days, but
since it's not super long, I don't

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know. But definitely the ending section
where I just had to get a last

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couple of collectibles whatever to finish the
game, I was going around the whole

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map just looking for random holes that
I hadn't been in before. So the

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ending of it for me was a
little tricky, But the rest of the

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way I found like there's enough ways
I haven't been yet that I can go

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mess around and eventually I'll bump into
some stuff I haven't seen yet. Yeah,

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but man it is. It is
absolutely fantastic. I love the soundtrack

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in it. I feel like it
fits the world so freaking good. So

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I still bump that soundtrack on a
weekly basis, putting on some of those

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songs. Yeah, it's got bobs
on it, that's for sure. And

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just think the animation as well,
with your at tax and the movement.

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I will say it took. I'm
still in the I still haven't mastered like

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the like the wall jumps. I
feel like sometimes I find myself like jumping

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in the wrong direction. It's kind
of frustrating, especially if you're like on

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a chain and then you like fall
and it's like, yeah, damn,

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you'll get the hang of it.
I think, yeah eventually. Yeah,

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No, I definitely think so.
But like I said, like, I'm

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only like an hour or so in
so I I think, you know,

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00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,480
throw in another hour, I'll probably
have it down and just like unlocking new

408
00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:11,880
abilities that like and then like chaining
them in with your movements. Like,

409
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,559
man, this game is just so
fun to like move around and adventure in.

410
00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:18,039
So yeah, I want to bring
that up because you are the one

411
00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:21,279
that told me about it, and
on that cast, I wish listed that

412
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,279
game right here we are and I
find was it a Steam a Summer Steam

413
00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:29,759
sale pick up? I'm pretty sure
I missed the summer summer sale by like

414
00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:32,000
a day, like like I literally
saw it. I'm like, oh awesome.

415
00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:33,240
I threw to my cart, but
I like never purchased it came back

416
00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:36,640
and I think it was only like
ten percent off, so it was like

417
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,759
this, I don't know if maybe
it wasn't part of the summer sale.

418
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,599
Yeah maybe not. I don't know. It's it's not very expensive game,

419
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,799
but uh yeah no, I it's
fantastic. So I'm glad I finally picked

420
00:24:45,799 --> 00:24:51,960
it up. All right, I
got some Meteor ones here. So one

421
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,960
big game that I'm pretty sure I
found out again, I was sitting in

422
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,880
this chair talking to you on this
cast about it is the game Scarlet Nexus,

423
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,599
right, that. Yeah, the
I think it's the second game from

424
00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:10,039
the studio that made Tales of a
Rise. And it's funny because the game

425
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,119
the gameplay is completely different, but
the story and the characters at least makes

426
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,759
me think of Fire Emblem and just
like how like anime those games can be.

427
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,799
This game is very much like an
anime. Like even if you just

428
00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:25,400
watch the intro to the game,
it literally just feels like you're about to

429
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,359
watch like an anime episode. Like
it's just all all of those aspects.

430
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,319
I just absolutely love. I really
really love the characters in it, and

431
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,240
I feel like more so than the
combat, that's what just like sucked me

432
00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:40,880
in on it. This game I
think of about thirty six hours in and

433
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,680
I yeah, oh yeah, this
was probably the month of June, like

434
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,480
before I went on my trip.
Like this game I was grinding, like

435
00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:52,240
just putting in PlayStation PlayStation yeah,
because it's on It was for free on

436
00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:56,680
the PlayStation, like it's not free, but the PlayStation extras catalog thing right

437
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,880
that I pay for. That was
where I was just going through and I'm

438
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,599
like, man, I pay so
much money for this a year, Like

439
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:04,759
I gotta start playing some of these
games. And I just saw that one.

440
00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:07,640
I'm like, what is this?
And then I'm like, oh shit,

441
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,799
I talked to Dylan about this game. That's interesting, okay, And

442
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,680
the gameplay was like nothing amazing,
I thought at least, but just the

443
00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:19,160
characters and like the twists and turns
with the story is really what had me.

444
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,079
It's a game that has two like
main protagonists and then you choose which

445
00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:29,640
one you play for like that particular
I guess just play through kind of like

446
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,319
Resident Evil too has with those two
characters there, and their stories definitely cross

447
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,000
over. And for the first like
good amount of hours, I'm like,

448
00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:40,599
I don't really see the point to
like play the other character because you're just

449
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,359
always interacting with them and you're like
always fighting with them. But then there's

450
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,839
like a specific thing that happens and
it's a it's a pretty good twist,

451
00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:49,079
and then it's like, oh,
okay, I get it now. We're

452
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:55,160
definitely treading different paths, and you
know, it's a bit like see If

453
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,880
Stars where it's like you can pick
you two protagonists, you can switch between

454
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,440
them, but like you're I'm just
gonna stick with one because you don't really

455
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,319
have a reason too and then there's
certain points in the story where you're kind

456
00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:07,920
of maybe forced to use one or
the other. Yeah, so like you

457
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,480
can't really switch between the two when
you're in combat, you can like call

458
00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:17,200
upon their abilities. I like it's
definitely inspired, but like I don't know

459
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,079
if you would call it like a
classic JRPG where you have like the party.

460
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,480
I don't know if j RPGs are
just turn based or whatever that that

461
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,839
the category is pretty much defined as. But like you have your party with

462
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,640
you, and then in combat like
you can kind of like do combo moves

463
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:36,720
with them. I guess the gameplay
is most similar to something like Final Fantasy

464
00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:41,680
fifteen or geez, what's another game
and that's Neino Cooney but you never play

465
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,559
that game. But just I don't
know, it's just instead of turn based,

466
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:51,880
it's just fall on like almost hack
and slash action with just some very

467
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,519
where does this strategy come into it
then, or like the RPG like the

468
00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:59,880
build, like the strategy building parts
of it, Like like you get your

469
00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:03,599
your skill tree. That's nothing too
crazy, basically just making you like like

470
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,759
it's a vast skill tree, but
it's not like you're learning necromancy or something

471
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,319
like it's just like hit harder,
you know, like move faster like like

472
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,039
stuff like that. But the gameplay
like is really fast and it definitely rewards

473
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:22,400
you if you have like quick reaction
times with like dodge timers and stuff like

474
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,880
that. And you know, like
this game is just like meant for an

475
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,240
anime fan, and just like the
wild visuals that like some of these fights

476
00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:37,720
have. It's probably something similar to
like a oh my gosh, what's it

477
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,079
called Bayonetta series, like something like
that, or like Devil May Cry.

478
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,799
Like it's just like so wild some
of these fights that you have. And

479
00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:48,039
the characters, Like there's one character
who you don't really know her age,

480
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,079
but she's like really old, but
she looks like a little girl and she's

481
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,880
like Bunny ears and she us like
a chainsaw. There's just like hack and

482
00:28:52,920 --> 00:29:00,319
slash things and it's just like classic
it's a classic anime character here. But

483
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:04,720
like the world, like world building
and just the lore is actually really really

484
00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:08,319
interesting. I feel like it's nothing
I've ever experienced before. It's kind of

485
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:15,160
this like futuristic cyberpunky type feel,
but like just the explanations on like how

486
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,160
the world works, like everybody without
going too deep into it. They have

487
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,799
this like gene that you can just
like connect to like a network, and

488
00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:26,440
then it's as if I can see
like my monitors without having like physical monitors

489
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,039
here. But then there's certain people
in the world that just they just don't

490
00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:33,200
have that quality, so they like
literally can't see. Like you go into

491
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,039
a city and there's just like crazy
visuals everywhere, and there's just certain people

492
00:29:37,119 --> 00:29:40,880
that can't see that because they just
weren't poort in that way. So just

493
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,160
like the actual world building aspect of
it is really interesting too as well as

494
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,079
Yeah, just I really love the
characters that were introduced to it. And

495
00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:52,359
unfortunately I haven't really picked up the
game, and like since my last real

496
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,880
hard binge on it. I like
I said, I probably around the fifty

497
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,920
percent mark and my completion level I
think it's a little bit below that,

498
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,359
but that's like your total completion with
like collectibles and such. But yeah,

499
00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,160
I know, it's it's one that
surprised me because I don't I feel like

500
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,640
when we first looked at it,
it's like, Okay, that's it looks

501
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,640
kind of interesting, but not a
game I'll pick up. But I eventually

502
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,119
jumped in there, and it was
pleasantly surprising, Like I like it was.

503
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,960
It was a really good time that
I had binging those early portions and

504
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,000
yeah, like some good twists and
turns with the story that definitely had me

505
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:29,079
hooked. Yeah, would you say
that the minute to minute combat then?

506
00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:32,200
Is it does it feel like a
Soul's type game? Or is it you

507
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,480
know, you're dodging, you're doing
your Perry's, you're getting your combos in

508
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,519
or or how does that does that
feel? Is it? Is it fun

509
00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:41,519
engaging? Do you like the combat? Is that what you're hoping for when

510
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:47,400
you're playing it? I like not
really Souls like in the sense of like

511
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,880
maybe there's certain I guess you could
compare it somewhat in that sense, but

512
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,079
there is areas that you will probably
tread back through that are just kind of

513
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,119
annoying to have to deal with these
enemies. But again that's kind of Souls

514
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:03,759
because you'll have to like go through
certain areas and sometimes you have to run

515
00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:06,759
by In this game, I guess
you can't really run by them, like

516
00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:08,559
it kind of like locks the area. So maybe that's the part of it.

517
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,920
Yeah, But like I don't know, like I might be downplaying it

518
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,839
a bit because I still really like
the combat, like it like it is

519
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,640
really fun. It's just maybe for
certain individuals that don't really love that hacking

520
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,960
slash style like a Devil May Cry, they might not love it. But

521
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,319
I think might be holding me back
because I don't generally like that kind of

522
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:33,519
combat system. But I mean,
I think the if there's a good amount

523
00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:37,599
of strategy and RPG building, party
assembly, that sort of stuff like though,

524
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,279
that could help, I don't know, motivate me because it's like,

525
00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:42,240
well, I'm having fun kind of
seeing my plans come to fruition, you

526
00:31:42,279 --> 00:31:47,079
know. Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. I feel like it's

527
00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:48,759
the type of game too where if
you see it come across your path on

528
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,960
game pass or whatever not or and
I think it might have been on there

529
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,720
at one point. Maybe it still
is. I know, the Tales of

530
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,640
a Rise that you said that was
the same studio. Yeah, this is

531
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,440
the second game, right, because
that game game passed. I actually did

532
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,640
download and played for like, okay
an hour or two and then kind of

533
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,359
bounce off of it. But yeah, I assume one sounds a lot more

534
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,160
compelling to me, just because of
the way you're setting up the world and

535
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,839
the story like that GM thing that
sounds really interesting. It's wild and the

536
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:20,000
way that would be integrating to the
story. I can just picture villains who

537
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,680
would be opposed to that sort of
setup of a world, wanting to change

538
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,119
things in a you know, less
than desirable way like that. That sounds

539
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,319
that sounds fun and cool, so
that on it. Like I've always seen

540
00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:32,680
this game and never really been like
too sold on it. It's until that

541
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,160
pitch from you, like that one
sentence is like, oh okay, that's

542
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,880
really interesting. I like that nugget. Yeah. No, there's a pretty

543
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,279
wild like like your character can basically
go like super Saiyane at some point,

544
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:47,000
but it's like really brutal the way
they do it. There's like these like

545
00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:52,880
needle things that come out of like
this technology type just air, I guess,

546
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,519
and they just like stab into your
character and then you just get like

547
00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:58,920
totally connected. I forget the term
that they call it, but you basically

548
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,680
just get like fully up and you're
just like wild and you're super strong,

549
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,480
but it drains your health bar and
you either die or you like stop it

550
00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:08,599
or early. Like like it's just
a thing that like you get super powerful,

551
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:13,000
but you will dive. It just
keeps so like, yeah, a

552
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:15,680
lot of like torment. I feel
like it's going on in this world.

553
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:20,960
It's it's definitely like a dystopian universe
that they have going but uh gotcha,

554
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,680
it's yeah, it's it's definitely worth
checking out, I think, And this

555
00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:28,160
game, I don't think like if
I do eventually roll credits, I don't

556
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,920
think I would run through it again. Even though the stories do deviate amongst

557
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,400
the two characters, I just feel
like they would be too similar or maybe

558
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,079
if I do, it would be
like in the future, Like I don't

559
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:39,279
know, like if I'm sixty hours
is too long to do a replay of

560
00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:43,519
a game unless you're like a Boulder's
Gate and you can justify it somehow.

561
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:45,799
But yeah, for the most part, yeah, you get like you get

562
00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:49,279
the broad strokes. Then you can
watch a YouTube video of the biggest cut

563
00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:52,880
scenes that you missed or something.
Yeah, no, because yeah, that's

564
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,400
a good way to look at it. And I think I would potentially check

565
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,119
out Tales Will a Rise, just
because I do like this game, and

566
00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:02,079
I know that one is you know, it's a completely different stories and I'm

567
00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:06,000
more of the fantasy setting what you're
into, so it might be up your

568
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:07,880
up your alley. It's funny,
though, I only knew that they were

569
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,840
connected because in this game, one
of the characters can have like a sword

570
00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:17,079
that the character from the first game
has, and like I only know that

571
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:21,960
because it like details. It's like
this character from Tails Arise like wielded this

572
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,639
weapon. And I'm surprised that they
were but just because I thought those games

573
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:30,840
came out like within the same year
or like within the same two year period

574
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,360
or something, So it surprises me
that they came out so quickly. But

575
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,440
maybe my sense of time is just
skewy something I'm not sure perhaps, But

576
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,559
yeah, no, it's It's been
a good one and one that I've been

577
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,400
waiting to tell you about just because
you know, I discovered it with you.

578
00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:50,119
So yeah, it's sweet. Okay, Let's let's take a quick little

579
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:53,039
deviation here. We're doing some little
different We're now we're not kind of telling

580
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:55,000
you how you can support the show, kind of in the middle, you

581
00:34:55,039 --> 00:34:59,079
know, we want to just get
right into the action. But Kirkland,

582
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,719
where would be people go if they
want to support here us here at Geek

583
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,800
First, what is the best way
people can do that. You know,

584
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,760
there's lots of places that you can
go to support us, but the very

585
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,880
best is on our Patreon. And
true there's some fantastic things on our Patreon.

586
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,039
We got tons of retros coming out
right now, early ad free exclusive

587
00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:24,480
contents we got. You can participate
in our actual gv Geek first day.

588
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:30,000
Yes, for we're doing our twenty
twelve Golden Geeks, and I've been you

589
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,679
know, I've been kind of pushing
it last minute since we're on the last

590
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,920
month here, but no, I've
been I've been starting to go through some

591
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,679
of those movies and and what a
year, what a year we have in

592
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,159
twenty twelve. But yeah, I
know, tons of great stuff on our

593
00:35:40,199 --> 00:35:44,280
patreon. Yeah, GVDA that should
be super fun. That's that's on August

594
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,239
third, Saturday. It's the amount
of time will kind of depend on you

595
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,880
guys. You can help support the
show and then I'll extend the live stream

596
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,440
that we do and on that we
have. We're gonna do the Golden Geeks.

597
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,400
We're gonna do a trivia battle that
you can if you join Patreon,

598
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,960
you can you can be part of
that. You can join us and Kirkle,

599
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:00,719
You're on one of the teams,
so if people want to be on

600
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,599
your team, they can join and
request to be on your team. I

601
00:36:04,599 --> 00:36:07,239
don't know if you can do that. That's Taylor. Uh, I'm we're

602
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,239
going to get team money on the
on the poll. Yeah, that would

603
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,559
be really fun. That would be
fun. And yeah, I'm we're gonna

604
00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:16,119
play a lot of video games of
course, as we always do, probably

605
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:20,320
do some silly jack box stuff,
but uh, you know, always just

606
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,719
playing all sorts of random games.
So that's gonna be a good time.

607
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,119
But yeah, Patreon, Uh,
last week's side Quest, which was a

608
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:29,639
little solo episode with yours truly,
that was out almost a week early.

609
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:34,280
We're gonna be releasing the Alien Isolation
retro up here probably in the month of

610
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,000
July, so you're gonna need that
a few weeks early. Uh. So

611
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:38,400
that's kind of the the side Quest
side of things. But yeah, there's

612
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,880
all sorts of retros that whenever I
look at the colend there's a new retro

613
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,400
popping up that I didn't even remember
that we talked about doing. So I

614
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,599
won't announce those. I'll let Travis
do his announcements there. But yeah,

615
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,199
just an endless pipeline of content from
from us over here, so you can

616
00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:57,199
go check that out. You can
also join our discord. You can you

617
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,480
know, follow us on Twitter and
Facebook and don't really doing Instagram, I

618
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,519
guess what else. So that that's
kind of it. Leave a review that

619
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:08,199
helps you can buy my games called
Potion Proms on Steam and uh yeah,

620
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,440
any other any other plugs we should
do kirkloh Or is that kind of cover

621
00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:15,199
it? Are you plugging YouTube videos? Because I saw a certain YouTube video

622
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:21,840
this morning and god damn that was
entertaining. Tell me about this YouTube video.

623
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,199
It was about a certain house in
uh in a city in marrow Wind,

624
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:32,320
and yeah, my gosh it definitely. I could just tell your your

625
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,280
knowledge when it comes to the game
of just like I I feel like you

626
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,000
were because I haven't really jumped into
morrow Wind too much. You're just listing

627
00:37:42,119 --> 00:37:46,320
names and places and things that you
could do in the city of I can't

628
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:51,559
remember what it was there, just
era, but a certain man that you

629
00:37:51,599 --> 00:37:53,639
know you might you may or may
not take his home and uh yeah take

630
00:37:53,679 --> 00:38:00,800
all of his crates of the Yeah, yeah, this is it's very random.

631
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,320
But I had on a whim decided
to make a YouTube video. It's

632
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,760
about twenty five minutes long. It
is great. It is where I talk

633
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,840
about my favorite house in Elder Scrolls
three Marwind. That's not on geek first,

634
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,960
it's on my I have a YouTube
channel that I used to post my

635
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:22,400
trailer for my game. It's called
Rapatika Games or Potion Problem. I don't

636
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,960
know what YouTube calls it, but
yeah, if you want to find the

637
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,159
video, it's called a modest house
in Marwind. Maybe I'll post a link

638
00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:30,840
in the description of this video,
but yeah, I don't know, very

639
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,800
random. I just felt like making
it. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

640
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,840
Thanks for watching it, Kirkling.
That was a fun time. So if

641
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,119
people want to hear me talk about
Marwin a little bit and a pretty you

642
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:42,639
know, unserious way. You don't
need to know anything about Marrowind to hopefully

643
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,320
enjoy the video. If you do, enjoy more, I think you'll get

644
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,480
more out of it. But if
you know, if not, MUD's watching

645
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,719
it. Two, she doesn't know
anything Brown and she had a good time

646
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,000
with it, So yeah, I
as well. At some point too,

647
00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:55,239
I'm like, oh, this is
like an ad for Potion Problem. Like

648
00:38:55,400 --> 00:39:00,239
there's a nice little hidden easter egg
in there. Oh yeah, no,

649
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,280
it was very fitting and very entertaining. It was yeah, like I have

650
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,320
episode two if it ever drops.
Yeah, I definitely want to. I

651
00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:13,039
don't know where that will fall in
my priority of working on games, doing

652
00:39:13,039 --> 00:39:15,800
Geek for stuff, working doing other
life things. It's kind of a low

653
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,119
priority thing. It was just something
that it was just a passion project that

654
00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:21,039
I wanted to do and honestly didn't
take me that long to make it.

655
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,559
It was pretty pretty easy to make. But yeah, I someone on the

656
00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:27,599
video posted their favorite house, and
now I kind of want to do an

657
00:39:27,639 --> 00:39:30,559
episode, a follow episode where I
go check out that house, and I

658
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:34,119
think that would be a fun time. But yes, uh, with that,

659
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:37,239
we're going to kick to the you
know, the ad break as it

660
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,519
were, the regular ad break,
and we'll be right back to talk about

661
00:39:38,519 --> 00:39:45,320
more video games. Will be right
back. Okay, we are back,

662
00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:50,599
Kirklam. What is your last I
think your last game my last game mentioned,

663
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,239
Yeah, last game, definitely not
least. This is a big game.

664
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,440
I I feel like I had to
mark it on my calendar. July

665
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:02,920
seventh, around early in the morning
was the day that I picked up this

666
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,480
game. And this is a big
momentous occasion. I finally picked up elden

667
00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:16,800
Ring the twenty Yeah, I got
no, that is exciting. It's it's

668
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:20,000
it's one that I was just like, yeah, I know, I'll get

669
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,559
to it eventually. And then I
don't even know why. I feel like

670
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:25,599
I just woke up and it just
felt like a little bit are just like

671
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,039
shining their light on elden Ring that
right now. And I was pretty stoked

672
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:35,519
because I picked up they had like
a combo pack with Shadow of the Tree,

673
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:38,760
which right I heard it's a fantastic
DALC and like very lengthy. It's

674
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:43,760
also like basically a full price game
on its own, but again an elden

675
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,440
Ring and Shadow of the Air Tree. I think it was only like one

676
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:51,920
hundred bucks for nice, so you
pretty much saved twenty bucks ish. Yeah

677
00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:54,559
no, And like I feel like
games are normally like ninety bucks Canadians,

678
00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:59,480
so so like to get that and
out of the Air Tree. So I

679
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,920
was stoked by about that. I'm
sure it'll be a while till I,

680
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,360
you know, jump into those adventures
of what that DLC holds. But man,

681
00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:09,599
I think I'm about nine hours in
right now. That's why I was

682
00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:12,960
late to this cast because I was
just like, man, it was just

683
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,639
getting so fucked, couldn't find a
sight of grace to exactly, but you

684
00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:22,519
know, like just quick, like
I feel like I I've dabbled a little

685
00:41:22,519 --> 00:41:28,840
bit in souls games. I've tried
and failed and Dark Souls won a little

686
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,480
bit of Demon Souls, but that's
about it. On the the from software

687
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:37,480
games and then the souls like games. My my favorite one was the Neo

688
00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:42,519
franchise and sunk lots of hours into
that, and yeah, I know that

689
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:45,840
this game like from the like from
the get go, just completely blew my

690
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,679
mind on how beautiful it is and
also just just getting lost, Like I

691
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,119
feel like this game is so much
more approachable than other souls like games that

692
00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:59,199
I have played in the past,
just for the sense of like, Okay,

693
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,559
I got bopped here, let's just
go this direction, and then you

694
00:42:00,679 --> 00:42:06,880
just like go that direction and you're
just traveling on Torrent and you're just going

695
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,280
through the highlands. It's like,
man, that looks crazy over there.

696
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,519
Let's just go wander over there.
And like I don't really feel pressure to

697
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:15,800
like go a certain route, like
I'm really just wandering aimlessly through this world,

698
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,960
and uh, I don't. Like
I'll find something interesting and go in

699
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,079
it until I get bopped, and
then I'll try, you know, six

700
00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:27,320
seven more times. And if I
keep getting bopped, it's usually like okay,

701
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,360
if I'm doing no damage to them, and like it's like less than

702
00:42:31,199 --> 00:42:34,880
like not even three quarters or sorry, not even a quarter of their health

703
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,880
is gone. And I've tried like
ten times, it's like, yay,

704
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,599
I'm gonna move on from this,
drop a map marker and peace out of

705
00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:45,360
there. Yeah exactly, but uh, like yeah, just the early impressions,

706
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,760
it's just fantastic. For somehow,
I've been able to just not get

707
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,639
spoiled on like anything about this game. I've seen some very brief gameplay,

708
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:57,039
but nothing really for like, like
everything I've come across I've never seen before

709
00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:01,679
on any gameplay trailer or like other
streamers or whatnot. I feel like I've

710
00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:06,280
seen the Tree Sentinel like just his
image on like a meme or something like

711
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:10,360
across the interwebs. But yeah,
no, it's it's really really fantastic.

712
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:16,000
My character I made a profit as
my name, you know, Okay,

713
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:19,599
I only chose it because it just
looked funny. It's like the one with

714
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,199
like the it's got like a neck
guard thing like it just looks like a

715
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:27,519
prisoner. And then they have like
some magic and a spear that's their faith.

716
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:30,639
Is that where the profit is in
stats? Yeah? So I I

717
00:43:30,639 --> 00:43:34,719
I think I'm like level I don't
even know level twenty two or something right

718
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,079
now. Like I said, I'm
about nine hours in. Uh. I

719
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:40,519
leveled up my faith up to twenty
just because there was a couple powers that

720
00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:45,000
I was using. And I'm like
any Soul's game, I don't think I've

721
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,559
ever touched magic in any way,
shape or form. I didn't even know

722
00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:50,719
that this character had magic until like
I was just in there and they had

723
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,719
it available to them. But I
really was liking the spear as their weapon,

724
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,639
just like the thrusts. I've been
a big thruster in that game.

725
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,519
I love a good spear. Not
enough spears in games. And like my

726
00:44:02,519 --> 00:44:07,599
my last run that I did on
that game Neo, I was doing like

727
00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:10,440
a spear run in that one,
you pretty much just choose like a specific

728
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,840
weapon to do your whole run on. And yeah, I try to spear

729
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,920
and I just really loved it for
like just having that range. It's really

730
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:22,079
really effective in games like that,
those souls like schemes, and yeah,

731
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:24,159
I've found some great success with that. However, I did switch over.

732
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,400
I got my dexterity up high enough
so and I've been rocking the claymore.

733
00:44:28,519 --> 00:44:30,320
That's been like that was like my
favorite weapon in Dark Souls one. So

734
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:36,920
I found it here now and I'm
like, okay, old friend. Yeah,

735
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,320
and I mostly like I switched to
two hand every once in a while,

736
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,760
but because my character is like it's
got some faith there, I usually

737
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:49,480
go like one hand and then have
like a fireball type weapon yea, which

738
00:44:49,519 --> 00:44:52,960
is very effective at least just dealing
with like certain mobs or maybe like pulling

739
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:58,199
certain character like just mobs and definitely
aerial threats. I feel like the movement

740
00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:01,280
overall has been a big shocker in
this game, whether I'm attacking on Torrent,

741
00:45:02,039 --> 00:45:07,760
which is just wild, or doing
like those what are they called ashes

742
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,199
of war? Is that is that
what it is? Where like you have

743
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,440
the abilities on your weapons, yeah, like the left trigger things, or

744
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,639
you the left trigger like the claim
were one, you do like two front

745
00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:19,880
flips, which is just crazy to
me. I thought it was gonna be

746
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,800
like a like just a stab,
but he does. He does like one

747
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,039
swing back and then like a front
flip and it just like crushes things.

748
00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:30,400
And yeah, just it's it's wild, and uh, just like the movement

749
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:36,760
overall, like it just feels much
cleaner than you know, what makes sense

750
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,039
than what Dark Souls one would have
been. Like there, that's it's pretty

751
00:45:39,119 --> 00:45:45,079
dated game now it definitely holds up. But just how refined elden Ring feels

752
00:45:45,079 --> 00:45:50,039
like it's just yeah, it's it's
fantastic and uh, yeah, the commet

753
00:45:50,079 --> 00:45:52,920
feels really good. I really just
love the unique villains that I've come across

754
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:59,119
so far I've defeated. It's tough
to even say like where I am,

755
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,719
like specifically because he's still one grave. I'm guessing like in the grad.

756
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:07,440
Yeah, like I went up to
uh storm Hill, Storm Hill area,

757
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:13,480
and then I got bopped by Target
the fell moment was it? Yeah,

758
00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:19,000
yeah, more yeah that guy I
got bobbed, well yeah, whatever it

759
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:21,639
is the guy at the gate.
I got bought by him. Everyone listening

760
00:46:21,639 --> 00:46:24,280
knows who you're talking about. They've
all played here. I got bought by

761
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:29,480
him many times. Uh, and
then I left and then I went in

762
00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:34,039
the other direction, and then I
defeated some bosses here and there, and

763
00:46:34,079 --> 00:46:37,360
then you know, just recently before
I came back here, I went and

764
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,679
challenged him again and I got bopped, but it was going better. It

765
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:45,440
was going better last time, you
know, like I've I've suited up my

766
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:49,199
weapon a little bit. And yeah, it took me so long to get

767
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:52,800
to Morgot because I just went I
went like south first, and then I

768
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,400
like looped back up around then.
I don't think I came across him until

769
00:46:55,519 --> 00:47:00,679
like twenty or thirty hours or something, so I was a level due a

770
00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:02,039
point where you know, he probably
killed me a couple times that I don't

771
00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:05,039
think it took me too long,
just because I was so over leveled.

772
00:47:05,039 --> 00:47:08,400
But it's funny hearing afterwards how many
people just bash their head against the wall

773
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:13,400
fighting him forty times or something.
But I kind of circummended that. But

774
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,679
another bosses destroyed me that I'm sure
other people had got too later and were

775
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:21,239
much higher level and just one shot
or something. Yeah, No, for

776
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,920
sure, My I feel like when
I first entered the area, I just

777
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:30,159
like went straight basically to where that
gate was, and then after getting just

778
00:47:30,199 --> 00:47:34,559
defeated at the gate itself, because
there's like that big giant dude that just

779
00:47:34,639 --> 00:47:38,639
jumps down like at the gate with
all those armored soldiers. That's scared the

780
00:47:38,679 --> 00:47:42,599
hell out of me. So then
I just went the other direction. I'm

781
00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:45,719
pretty sure I only got past that
point because I was like running from something.

782
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,639
And then I just kept running up
that road on Torrent and then I

783
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:52,760
eventually just got to like I said, like a grace site, and so,

784
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,000
oh, okay, I made it
through. Look at that, look

785
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:01,800
at that, but yeah, I
I've just finished. I forget the guy's

786
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,559
name, but it was like a
lion type character like to the South,

787
00:48:05,639 --> 00:48:08,000
Like I just kind of finished my
journey south, went as far as I

788
00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:12,360
could, like defeated that character.
And then that's where I just like kind

789
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,920
of teleported back up and then started
doing some things here and there. I

790
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,079
kind of handed in I guess a
quest to a certain character. You don't

791
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:22,599
really like hand in a quest for
XP or anything like that. But I

792
00:48:22,119 --> 00:48:24,719
found the guy that told me to
go somewhere and do something, and I

793
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,360
did that and then finally found the
guy, and then that's where I had

794
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,800
gone back to that storm hill and
then I'm like, well, let's see

795
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,480
if I can, you know,
take on this guy. I got my

796
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:36,480
claim more now, and then yeah, I just humbled like instantly. But

797
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,880
with all those games like it just
kind of it just kind of hits a

798
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,920
point where it's like, Okay,
I figured it out, whether I'm reading

799
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,239
the specific moves of that character,
or I've just leveled up my character high

800
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:51,360
enough that I'm just hating more,
or I don't know, I'm just getting

801
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,639
better at piloting for whatever reason.
You just kind of get that from that

802
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,679
game, even though it's not like
super obvious. It's not one that like,

803
00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:00,679
Okay, you defeated this many characters, you get your level up like

804
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,519
it's it's very unique in that sense, and obviously that's what makes these games

805
00:49:04,599 --> 00:49:09,840
so just so I don't know,
just popular amongst amongst everyone. I mean

806
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:15,360
definitely like the wild Monsters that you
come across, and the world itself is

807
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:17,880
is just it's out of this world, like even just going through Dark Souls

808
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,320
and coming through and be like,
what the fuck even is that thing?

809
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,519
And then it's like moving around on
three legs and like shooting lasers at you.

810
00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:28,960
Uh. In this one, I
think I was just like traversing on

811
00:49:29,039 --> 00:49:30,960
Torrent and then I just heard like
an explosion go off, and then of

812
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,800
course you see one of the messages
it's like get ready for range combat.

813
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,719
I'm like, what does that even
mean? Like is there're a catapult?

814
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,280
And then I just see this like
giant sentinel thing like shooting arrows at me.

815
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,400
I'm like, oh wow, okay, that's a that's a big threat.

816
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,880
There ended up being a pretty easy
thing to take down. But no,

817
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:52,199
it's it's fantastic and definitely one that
I don't even feel like I'm like

818
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:57,519
one person in like I just feel
like I'm wandering through this world. But

819
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,880
yeah, I'm really happy I finally
you finally got in there. And yeah,

820
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,920
no, it's it's fantastic, a
great game. People don't even have

821
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,079
to hear me say that because it's
an old game and I'm sure you know

822
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:14,199
vast majority of people have already jumped
into the world of Eldin Ring And yeah,

823
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,719
yeah, is uh is Torrent in
your opinion, the best video game

824
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:23,719
horse of all time? Ooh I
probably not. I really love the designed

825
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:32,199
Red Dead. Yeah, like I
don't see good like Epona, like like

826
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:37,159
Lynx horses come to hit the carrots
in the right timing. No way,

827
00:50:38,119 --> 00:50:42,079
I don't know, Like I'm not
very like nostalgia and double jump with it

828
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,199
right now. Yeah, Torrent is
pretty bad at maybe I just need more

829
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,960
ventures with it. I just can't
think of many games where I actually enjoy

830
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,559
fighting on the back of a horse, but an elden ring, yeah,

831
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:55,000
I will gladly do it all day
long. I will say I absolutely hated

832
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,199
it when I had that spear weapon
because I had a time it like,

833
00:50:59,119 --> 00:51:00,840
and now that I have the more, like, I literally just like cack

834
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:05,360
it back swinging and it's like a
mole in the fucking lawn. Like it's

835
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,519
just it's just I'm a two handed
axe user, so yeah, it's just

836
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,639
so good to sweep the side.
But yeah, I haven't actually used a

837
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:15,039
spear on horseback, so that makes
more sense. I'm like a good jouster,

838
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:17,199
you know. It's like it's a
night stale or something. I was

839
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:20,360
gonna ask you what your build was. It sounds like it's pretty strength.

840
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,039
Yeah, a lot of strength.
I mean I'm like a level one hundred

841
00:51:23,039 --> 00:51:27,519
and fifty or something at this point, so I've put quite a few points

842
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:31,840
into decks as well. And then
in the DLC, without explaining too much

843
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:37,000
of how it works, there's a
kind of a separate leveling system because they

844
00:51:37,079 --> 00:51:39,280
the DLC, since everyone's kind of
going in at a different base level,

845
00:51:39,599 --> 00:51:44,679
they kind of added like a separate
way that you're scaling up. So because

846
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,360
of that, I felt like,
Okay, the leveling up my strength or

847
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,400
decks at this point isn't really that
meaningful anymore, and I already have high

848
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,679
enough strength or decks that like,
I'm never gonna be limited on using a

849
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,840
weapon. Uh So I've started putting
more points into the magic stuff, not

850
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,119
even to use the magic, just
just because like, oh, this weapon

851
00:52:00,159 --> 00:52:02,719
needs twenty faith and I really want
to try it out. So I've just

852
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,159
been putting a bunch of points into
like faith and mostly that one, and

853
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:08,639
then I think afterwards maybe a little
I'll do a little bit of int because

854
00:52:08,679 --> 00:52:10,960
there's a couple of other weapons I
want to try out. But yeah,

855
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,039
I kind of feel like the DLC
a little less meaningful on what actually you

856
00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:17,840
do with your points, which is
a good thing to some extent. I

857
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,639
think for me it's fun that I
this almost feels like I can kind of

858
00:52:21,679 --> 00:52:23,760
just level up my character separately,
and since I've kind of done anything in

859
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,480
the main game and I have no
interest in doing a new game plus and

860
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:30,480
worrying about my stats for that,
it's nice that I can kind of just

861
00:52:30,079 --> 00:52:35,239
do whatever I want and then put
the odd point into health or endurance to

862
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,840
make sure I'm you know, keeping
up with the stamina. And so yeah,

863
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:44,199
definitely big acts. Swinging one of
the talisman's I have gives me bonus

864
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,000
damage on jump attacks, so I'm
like running and jumping at people and smashing

865
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,519
it into the ground. It just
I try to play my character like a

866
00:52:52,559 --> 00:52:55,280
boss in the game, like the
big slow attacks that do a shit ton

867
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:00,440
of damage and like stun my opponents. That's that's my kind to go to.

868
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:02,840
Which is which is Yeah, it's
it's kind of my favorite way to

869
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,079
build in these kind of games.
And sometimes I'll use a shield if like

870
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:09,719
a certain boss is just kicking my
ass because their attacks are so fast,

871
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:14,039
then I'll maybe switch up the build. That's that's generally what I use,

872
00:53:14,079 --> 00:53:16,320
And it was it was nice this
weekend. Actually, the great Tyler Sayrius

873
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,960
was at my house, and he's
a master of these games, and he

874
00:53:20,159 --> 00:53:22,079
understands the mechanics way better than I
do. I don't understand anything in these

875
00:53:22,119 --> 00:53:25,960
games. They just make no sense
to me. So he's helping me with

876
00:53:27,039 --> 00:53:30,000
like giving me advice on certain weapons
to use and like certain things I come

877
00:53:30,039 --> 00:53:32,039
into the DLC. I haven't played
the base game in a while. I

878
00:53:32,039 --> 00:53:36,639
forgot that you can actually put your
second hand on a weapon to like two

879
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,639
handed. It took for the whole
DLC. I had been just running around

880
00:53:38,679 --> 00:53:43,440
one arm completely doing nothing, another
arm whatever, So he reminded me that

881
00:53:43,519 --> 00:53:45,079
that's a mechanic. So it was
nice to get I remember when I was

882
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:49,239
played Dark Souls one and I didn't
understand upgrade weapons even because it was so

883
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,440
weird and obscure. And when he
finally showed me how to do that,

884
00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:55,480
I just became so op because I
had so many resources save that I hadn't

885
00:53:55,559 --> 00:54:00,559
used for like thirty hours into the
game. So it's nice to have It's

886
00:54:00,639 --> 00:54:02,679
nice to have a friend when playing
a Soul's game. Yeah, Unfortunately I'm

887
00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:06,920
not the best friend because I don't
understand half these things either, but I'm

888
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,400
glad you're findly playing it. Yeah. I feel like every everybody either is

889
00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:15,079
or knows someone that's just like,
ye, the soul's head, like like

890
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,840
they just live and breathe. The
lore is so ambiguous. I have one

891
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,880
good buddy that, yeah, he's
all in on these games, and he's

892
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,000
just telling me all these deep like
it's all space aliens, man, all

893
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:29,119
these Souls games where there's bloodborn,
like it all comes down to space aliens.

894
00:54:29,119 --> 00:54:31,079
It's just like in this game,
for sure, there's some there's some

895
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,800
a lot of cosmic things. I
don't even notice that. I'm not even

896
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,159
trying to avoid spoilers. I just
don't even know. There's definitely a lot

897
00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:44,719
of cosmic I don't know, wording
and verbiage and stuff like that. The

898
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:49,000
like the world building overall in like
all these Souls games are just it's like

899
00:54:49,079 --> 00:54:52,400
almost comedic in the sense of like
here's this great character who's just like the

900
00:54:52,519 --> 00:54:55,760
lord of these lands and he just
like spawns and just fucks you up,

901
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,599
and you're like, I don't even
know who this guy is. I don't

902
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,760
like, I don't know if he's
a good guy. That guy, yeah,

903
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:02,800
I don't know. You're picking up
like old pickled livers and it's like,

904
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,800
what the hell's going on? These
messages it's like it's like it's just

905
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,639
the pickle, you know, like
like all praise the pickle. Yeah,

906
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:15,960
try Buttthole. The one that really
got me, like right at the start

907
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,920
of the game, you know,
you have the great air tree just like

908
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,960
just just looking at you, and
then there's a message. It was just

909
00:55:22,079 --> 00:55:23,840
like could this be a tree?
And I just I just I just laughed.

910
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:28,239
I'm like man like even ever since
Dark Souls one, when I saw

911
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,519
one where it's like try jumping and
then I jumped. You just died.

912
00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:32,559
It's like, yeah, the controls, I can't always trust him. I

913
00:55:32,599 --> 00:55:36,559
found in Elner and people were more. I don't know if I everyone ever

914
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:38,679
really tricked me. Actually, I
feel like people were pretty nice. My

915
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,800
most recent one, it was it
was a mistake death, but I ended

916
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,880
up laughing because like I hit a
lever for a lift to come down.

917
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,639
So I was just waiting and then
there was a message that just said like

918
00:55:50,039 --> 00:55:52,679
I think it was I think it
was watch out behind or like something along

919
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:58,000
those lines or no, it was
like danger ahead, and then I just

920
00:55:58,159 --> 00:56:01,039
like hit circle, which like jumps
back basically opposite of what it said.

921
00:56:01,079 --> 00:56:04,880
But I was facing the wrong way
and I just jumped back into the elevator

922
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,719
shaft. The hole fell, and
I just I just laughed, just like,

923
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:09,840
man, that is that is just
hilarious. Like it's all like I

924
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,880
read that and was like like on
purpose hit it. It's just I read

925
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:15,519
it and then I accidentally hit that
button and then my character jumps backwards.

926
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:20,840
Just like It's such a funny,
awkward movement, that backwards jump. It's

927
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,119
like so clunky. It's just it's
weirdly clunky. For how the rest of

928
00:56:24,119 --> 00:56:28,360
the game feels, you know,
very good with the movement for the yeah

929
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,519
part, Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm excited to kind of try out

930
00:56:31,559 --> 00:56:35,840
just more weapons that I come across, Like I just got the claim more

931
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:37,719
and that was the first time I've
switched from like the starter weapon that I

932
00:56:38,119 --> 00:56:44,360
that I got just the short spear. I'm pretty sure you can respect as

933
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,480
well. At some point in the
game. Man, I totally forget I'm

934
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:51,880
yeah, sure, I think that's
what I remember hearing, and so like

935
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,199
I'm not really worried about like my
stats. I feel like these are the

936
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:58,880
types of games like you can mid
max for sure, but yeah, you'll

937
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,400
keep leveling up forever, so you'll
have time. Yeah, I don't think

938
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:05,280
there's some level caps. You'll eventually
you know, have whatever stats you need

939
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,320
for the items you want. Yeah, exactly, Like I usually just go

940
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,320
like if I if I'm if I'm
going to strength build, obviously, I'll

941
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,039
just like put basically all my points
in that, but just do do what

942
00:57:16,159 --> 00:57:20,320
I need to like carry the weapons
that I want. And then and then

943
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,000
you get talentsmans too that give you
like you know, plus ten inch or

944
00:57:22,039 --> 00:57:24,800
something, so you don't even need
a love light. You can just use

945
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,679
that to temporarily get you or there
when you want to use a certain weapon.

946
00:57:29,239 --> 00:57:31,440
Yeah, no, hundred percent,
but uh no, I I really

947
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:37,400
like the Flask system as well,
especially like that's really like a magic user

948
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,760
like you have your got their call. They're basically just manipots and you can

949
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:45,480
kind of like like you only get
a max amount that you upgrade, but

950
00:57:45,559 --> 00:57:47,679
you can kind of allocate how many
that you want, which is nice,

951
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,679
especially if I have like a healing
spell for example, like I can just

952
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:55,760
take more magic, especially if I'm
using more of those fireball type attacks.

953
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,480
And I don't know, it just
it just seems it's nice that you can

954
00:57:59,599 --> 00:58:01,400
kind of customize based on like,
Okay, this boss, Yeah, maybe

955
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,880
they're really slow, so I just
want to spam fire attacks. But maybe

956
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,159
this boss is really aggressive, I
don't have time to be fire so I'm

957
00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:09,360
gonna switch over to full health pots
for this fight. It's it's a really

958
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,199
really good system, and for me
it didn't matter. I never had a

959
00:58:13,239 --> 00:58:16,320
single man of pot in my entire
career, but I think it's a really

960
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:21,000
cool mechanic to kind of balance.
Nonetheless, Yeah, yeah, one hundred

961
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,400
percent. And like my most recent
spell that I got was like that long

962
00:58:23,519 --> 00:58:28,039
range fire ball attack and uh,
the one that you start with. It's

963
00:58:28,199 --> 00:58:31,000
it's basically like Igny from Whicher.
It's just like a really short range like

964
00:58:31,119 --> 00:58:35,320
fire for like in use of melee, and it's all you can just like

965
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,519
attack and then use it really quick, like you have like a slight cast

966
00:58:37,559 --> 00:58:40,880
time with it, and it feels
janky, but I've just kind of got

967
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,599
used to the to the timing of
it, so like if there was like

968
00:58:44,679 --> 00:58:47,480
a group coming at me, I
felt like pretty confident that I could time

969
00:58:47,519 --> 00:58:50,719
it well that if they like jump
attack, I could just kind of like

970
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,199
stop them in that instance, or
like the spear, I think it's the

971
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,480
L two attack. It's just like
this like really strong thrust and I just

972
00:58:57,519 --> 00:59:00,519
got really good at timing that where
like someone jumps up and then you just

973
00:59:00,599 --> 00:59:04,119
kind of hit them with that or
you do like a jump R two attack.

974
00:59:04,239 --> 00:59:07,039
Like it's just really satisfying when you
can time those attacks really well.

975
00:59:07,119 --> 00:59:10,400
And I mean you can like crouch
in this game. That kind of threw

976
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,639
me off too, like old yeah, fuck, they brought stealth into this

977
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,320
a little bit. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, no, fantastic. I'm

978
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:20,679
glad I finally jumped on it.
Definitely late the party, but the party's

979
00:59:20,719 --> 00:59:22,960
still rocking, so uh yeah,
good time to jump in. Mm hmm.

980
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:27,559
Yeah, that was a nice surprise. I'm glad. You're glad you're

981
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:30,360
playing that. And yeah, like
I've had, I guess, a slightly

982
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,840
different experience with these games than you, where like I did play it ten

983
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,079
Dark Souls three and finish that game
and like hundred percent of it almost so

984
00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:39,360
played a lot of that, But
then I had a similar experience with Dark

985
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,280
Souls one. We're eventually just kind
of bounced off of it like you did.

986
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,960
But then elden Ring was a really
great comeback to form for it just

987
00:59:46,039 --> 00:59:50,159
because of like, oh, this
thing's annoying and frustrating, I'm just gonna

988
00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:53,159
go do a thousand other things that
are available to me at this given moment.

989
00:59:53,559 --> 00:59:57,400
And then just like the Lord of
the Rings vibes of it, just

990
00:59:57,519 --> 01:00:00,400
the vastness and the beauty, it's
just yeah, it was. It's just

991
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,519
such a I don't know, it
works so much more for me than like

992
01:00:04,679 --> 01:00:07,679
the more linear type of structure.
Yeah, some of the other games have,

993
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,719
so I'm glad that you're enjoying it. And also like there's so much

994
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:15,840
more generous with the save points the
sites of grace in this game than any

995
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,559
other Soul's game that I've played,
which I don't know for me, for

996
01:00:19,679 --> 01:00:22,039
me is better. I can understand
how for some people might take away some

997
01:00:22,119 --> 01:00:23,639
of the edge, but if you're
in an open world anyway, they kind

998
01:00:23,639 --> 01:00:27,079
of have to factor in that,
like maybe I just didn't walk down this

999
01:00:27,239 --> 01:00:29,719
one exact spot to find this one, so they kind of have more of

1000
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,880
them all over the place. So
I'm glad they like glad they did it.

1001
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,679
So yeah, I've been enjoying the
DLC. I don't think I've much

1002
01:00:36,719 --> 01:00:39,000
more to add yet. I'm gonna
wait until Travis's donner. I'm sure it's

1003
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,719
gonna take you a while to get
to the DLC, but if you do,

1004
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,840
then we can talk about it in
a more spoilers way. But I'm

1005
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,280
still deep in it. I've put
like twelve or thirteen hours into the DLC

1006
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,599
now, and I still, yeah, looking at the map and just looking

1007
01:00:52,639 --> 01:00:54,360
at things in the horizon. I
still have a lot to do. So

1008
01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:59,039
that's that's exciting. And yeah,
it's been super fun so far, finding

1009
01:00:59,079 --> 01:01:02,000
some weird new cool web pins,
some weird new areas, some fun bosses

1010
01:01:02,039 --> 01:01:06,119
and all that. It's a good
time. Another observation I've had just on

1011
01:01:06,199 --> 01:01:09,679
my adventures is multiple times has happened
where I'm like, I want to like

1012
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:14,719
investigate basically the whole area. I
think the last place I was at was

1013
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,519
like Castle mort or Okay, yeah, yeah, I remember that spot,

1014
01:01:17,639 --> 01:01:21,639
and like I would be checking something
out and it's like, Okay, it

1015
01:01:21,679 --> 01:01:22,760
seems like I want to go this
way, but let's just go down here,

1016
01:01:23,239 --> 01:01:27,079
you know, see if there's a
chest or something like to to find,

1017
01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:30,440
I go down there and then it's
like okay, a couple of mobs

1018
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,199
and then there's like two doors here, Okay, let's go down this one.

1019
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:37,119
And the next thing you know,
you're like you're like really far down

1020
01:01:37,199 --> 01:01:39,159
somewhere, and you're like, Okay, this doesn't just seem like a side

1021
01:01:39,239 --> 01:01:43,599
area. It just feels like a
realm to fucking she loves Layer or something

1022
01:01:43,679 --> 01:01:46,599
like. I think that was the
first like major boss area I went to

1023
01:01:46,719 --> 01:01:51,360
in the first major like I don't
know boss, I guess that wasn't I

1024
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:52,280
don't know if it's story crucial,
but I think that was, yeah,

1025
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:57,239
like the main area I went to. That was the first boss that I

1026
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,480
killed that gave me an achievement.
So that was like, oh, okay,

1027
01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,920
maybe maybe that's like a like spamming
attacks like yeah fast, Yeah that

1028
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:07,599
he bought me so hard, like
man like cause I have like that range

1029
01:02:07,599 --> 01:02:10,320
fire attack, but it takes a
while to cast. It's really strong,

1030
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:14,679
but it takes a while, and
I like he gave me no breathing time

1031
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:16,480
on like any casting. So then
I literally was just like, okay,

1032
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:20,760
I'm just dual, I'm just I'm
too handy my spirit. Now I'm fucking

1033
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:25,280
taking this guy off likes here,
and yeah, I I eventually just you

1034
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,599
know, you you just get those
I frames and you just you just feel

1035
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:31,559
immortal when you get like a perfect
chain and you're like, I can't be

1036
01:02:31,639 --> 01:02:34,920
stopped. And then he hits you
once and he just one shots you and

1037
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,079
you're like, oh, okay,
yeah, I just got humbled. I

1038
01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:42,360
gotta I gotta focus on Yeah,
definitely, yeah. Show with Seldon Ring

1039
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,360
it was funny. I was once
again when Sarah's and Amanda Great the great

1040
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:50,159
man who does the the music for
Sidequest here, they were over and we're

1041
01:02:50,199 --> 01:02:52,800
just hanging out. They were watching
me play because they both and man just

1042
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,079
played some of Belden Rings. Sarahs
played through like the whole thing and he

1043
01:02:55,079 --> 01:02:58,559
hasn't jumped into DLC yet, but
we were just hanging out and then I

1044
01:02:58,639 --> 01:03:00,639
was kind of done playing the sex. Then we're just sitting talking for a

1045
01:03:00,679 --> 01:03:04,679
while and we just like I just
went and like did the post thing.

1046
01:03:04,719 --> 01:03:07,519
I just sat down on a ledge
and we're just looking out at this beautiful

1047
01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:10,000
horizon just talking for like an hour
or something. We just Elding ring on

1048
01:03:10,079 --> 01:03:15,400
in the background. It's like it
is a very beautiful and like a serene

1049
01:03:15,519 --> 01:03:17,679
game in all that's right if you're
not near an enemy, it is just

1050
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,440
a beautiful world. The music is
very nice, the landscapes and the skyboxes

1051
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,760
are just insanely beautiful, and like, I don't I think that was the

1052
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:30,199
thing that I was most happy to
just kind of remember when I jump back

1053
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:34,800
in the DLC is just the scale
of that game. There's just a vastness

1054
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,639
to it, not just in terms
of like an open world game and it's

1055
01:03:37,719 --> 01:03:40,599
wide, but just like the size
like vertically too is something as you just

1056
01:03:40,639 --> 01:03:44,800
mentioned with Castle Moore and how many
times you just keep jumping down and down

1057
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:46,840
and down and down until you get
to the sand. It's just, yeah,

1058
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:52,199
such a such a beautiful and unique
experience. It's awesome. I feel

1059
01:03:52,199 --> 01:03:53,920
like every time I come to a
ledge and there'll be a message that's just

1060
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:58,199
like praised the air tree or whatever
it says, and I just like kind

1061
01:03:58,239 --> 01:04:00,880
of take a minute and like look
up, yeah, wow, like I'm

1062
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,800
in here right now, Like this
is this is beautiful? Yeah, because

1063
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,039
you know, like you're focusing on
kind of where you're going, you're just

1064
01:04:06,119 --> 01:04:09,519
galloping a torrent, and then you
just take a moment just stop and look

1065
01:04:09,559 --> 01:04:13,440
around. You're like, oh wow, glowing tree right there, that's still

1066
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:18,400
there. It's beautiful right on.
Okay, let's let's jump into the next

1067
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,400
game. There's gonna be a bit
of a pivot here from like one of

1068
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:25,840
the more complex, intense games of
all time to one of the first and

1069
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,880
simplest games, but it still has
a lot of depth. This is this

1070
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,639
is funny. So on, if
anyone is a patron subscribing, you've listened

1071
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:35,360
to the most recent episode of the
Originals, you would know that both me

1072
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:41,360
and Kirkland have been playing some chess
recently. You've been playing camping. I've

1073
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:45,840
been playing camping as well, and
just you know elsewhere. And so as

1074
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,119
part of the summer this Steam Summer
sale, I picked up a couple of

1075
01:04:48,199 --> 01:04:53,559
chess related games, kind of like
chess puzzle games, and these were both

1076
01:04:53,639 --> 01:04:58,280
like two bucks each on sale easy
pickups. The first one is this game

1077
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,199
called Chess Former, which I behind
on my list for a while. And

1078
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:05,800
this is a as the title would
suggest, it is a chess platformer where

1079
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:11,360
essentially each level has like a big, you know grid. It's not chessboard

1080
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:14,920
size, but it's chessboard in that
kind of you know, white, white

1081
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,559
and black tiles spread around and it's
pretty simple. You just have to use

1082
01:05:17,599 --> 01:05:20,599
your pieces to take out the enemy
king. And so it starts very basically

1083
01:05:20,679 --> 01:05:24,760
just moving your units and then okay, simple platform where you gotta like move

1084
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,719
the night because you can go on
this ledge that's in the air. There's

1085
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,159
physics in this game, so your
pieces are falling if there's nothing below them,

1086
01:05:30,199 --> 01:05:33,719
there's no platform or other piece under
them, and so it starts out

1087
01:05:33,719 --> 01:05:36,719
pretty simple, but then eventually it
gets into the classic puzzle stuff of like

1088
01:05:38,159 --> 01:05:40,960
there's you know, you got to
stand on this button to open this door

1089
01:05:41,039 --> 01:05:44,000
and then you can get another piece
through there. And yeah, it's a

1090
01:05:44,119 --> 01:05:47,239
very simple game. The esthetic is
very very simplistic. There's fifty levels in

1091
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,800
there, and I think I beat
every beat every level within like an hour.

1092
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:55,480
So it's a pretty pretty short and
sweet kind of experience. But just

1093
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:58,639
you know, as a fan of
chess and the different chess pieces in the

1094
01:05:58,679 --> 01:06:00,880
way they can move and the specials
ways that all of them are limited and

1095
01:06:01,039 --> 01:06:04,480
have special ways that they can move, it was a fun kind of interesting

1096
01:06:04,599 --> 01:06:09,280
idea on top of that. So
I had a good time playing through that.

1097
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,559
I think it you know, it
doesn't quite reach the depths of like

1098
01:06:11,599 --> 01:06:14,039
an all time great puzzle game by
any means. It's kind of a simple

1099
01:06:14,119 --> 01:06:16,119
concept and I wish it had gone
a bit deeper, like because in each

1100
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:20,000
level that the enemy team the enemy
pieces, they're never moving. There's just

1101
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:23,880
one king, and so you just
have to, you know, get through

1102
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:27,519
the level using kind of little chess
movements and you take it the king,

1103
01:06:27,559 --> 01:06:29,840
you win. But I think it
would have been cool if there was other

1104
01:06:30,039 --> 01:06:32,920
at some levels where there was like
other enemy pieces and that would be somehow

1105
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:35,159
like you would have to capture them
and that would be the way that you're

1106
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:39,559
moving around the map. I think
that could have been a cool idea or

1107
01:06:39,679 --> 01:06:42,000
something. Like you know, castling
is I think is one of the cooler

1108
01:06:42,079 --> 01:06:44,760
mechanics in chess that a lot of
people don't even know about. But it's

1109
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:46,840
just like a basic thing that is
cool. But like this game never really

1110
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:50,360
never had like castling as part of
a puzzle, which I think is kind

1111
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:54,440
of a missed opportunity. But yeah, it was. It was a fun

1112
01:06:54,559 --> 01:06:59,000
time, a cool game and yeah, just like a fun, interesting idea

1113
01:06:59,159 --> 01:07:00,639
to take chess and like what would
chess look like as a platformer, And

1114
01:07:00,719 --> 01:07:04,880
that's exactly what this game is.
It's a shortened speed experience of what that

1115
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:10,239
could look like. So shout outs
to Chess Former. That was the first

1116
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,079
one, and then the second one
is what my name is loving to today,

1117
01:07:14,119 --> 01:07:16,079
The King of the Bridge. And
this one I think came on earlier

1118
01:07:16,119 --> 01:07:19,079
this year actually, so check this
one out as well, Kirkle. And

1119
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:24,400
this one has a much nicer aesthetic. I really like the visuals of it.

1120
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,559
It's kind of got like four or
five colors, like shades of green

1121
01:07:27,599 --> 01:07:30,159
and black and white, but it
looks really nice. I like the character

1122
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:33,519
art and the art for the pieces. It's like kind of cute. They're

1123
01:07:33,519 --> 01:07:38,800
all kind of like stumpy and kind
of cozy in a way. And this

1124
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,239
is a very simple game as well. Once again, I beat it within

1125
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,519
an hour and then there's like different
endings so you can go back and do

1126
01:07:43,639 --> 01:07:46,079
more. But the concept of this
one is a bit more complex. Where

1127
01:07:46,159 --> 01:07:49,159
you are a little guy. You're
running across this bridge, and eventually on

1128
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:53,920
this bridge, you come across the
troll who you know is operating this bridge,

1129
01:07:54,159 --> 01:07:57,280
and you have to beat him in
a game of chess if you want

1130
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,480
to get across the bridge. But
you very quickly realize when you're playing against

1131
01:08:00,559 --> 01:08:03,960
him that this is chess with different
rules. So on the side of the

1132
01:08:04,119 --> 01:08:06,960
on the main center of the screen, there's a chess board, and then

1133
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,400
on the side there's a rule book, and so in there it's like,

1134
01:08:10,519 --> 01:08:14,000
here's how a night moves, here's
how a bishop moves. You can't you

1135
01:08:14,079 --> 01:08:16,159
know, you can't control the enemy
pieces. It's like all the little basic

1136
01:08:16,239 --> 01:08:20,479
rules that you'd expect, but then
there's different ones or pieces move differently or

1137
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:25,680
act differently than you are used to
in chess, and so and whenever.

1138
01:08:26,319 --> 01:08:29,239
The big part of it is you're
kind of playing a game against this guy,

1139
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:32,680
and he's constantly cheating, and you
might be cheating as well, usually

1140
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,479
early on, because you don't know
the rules of this weird chess game that

1141
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,880
this troll has created. So,
for example, Kirkland, whenever I play

1142
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,880
chess, my first move all the
time is to blast a pawn out there.

1143
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:45,720
I'm doing the double jump. I'm
trying to get control of the center

1144
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,920
of the board. Yeah, exactly, give me any one of those I'm

1145
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:54,920
in there. So I immediately do
that, but then he immediately accused me

1146
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:58,920
of cheating because in this game,
pawns cannot move two squares at any point,

1147
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,600
they can only move one space,
but they can move in any any

1148
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:04,760
directions. That's the difference of them
there. So immediately I did that,

1149
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:09,239
he's like, you're fucking cheating instantly
takes me out and I gotta start from

1150
01:09:09,279 --> 01:09:11,920
scratch, beat him, you know, start a new game. And so

1151
01:09:12,159 --> 01:09:15,479
for a while it's that you're like
doing things that are seem like a regular

1152
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,399
move, like, for example,
I won't spoil too many, but like

1153
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:19,600
with my queen, I had the
opportunity to take his king, so I

1154
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:23,279
went for it. But then no, and this guy's rule, but queen's

1155
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:27,119
are not allowed to have affairs with
the opposing king, so it was against

1156
01:09:27,119 --> 01:09:30,479
the rules. So I lost because
I cheated. And then so you kind

1157
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:31,520
of have to pay attention to what
he's doing too, and if he at

1158
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,000
any point makes him illegal move or
does something he's not supposed to, you

1159
01:09:35,079 --> 01:09:40,159
can accuse him of cheating, and
if you're correct on the accusation, then

1160
01:09:40,199 --> 01:09:44,760
you can cheat in return. And
so the way that that's not just an

1161
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:45,960
instant win, because if you know, if you could cheat, you could

1162
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,640
just pick up any piece and take
out his king. It doesn't matter if

1163
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,319
that's an illegal move because you can
cheat. But the way he kind of

1164
01:09:51,319 --> 01:09:55,720
gets around that is anytime you kill
the enemy king, it'll transfer to another

1165
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,439
piece that he has, so you
have to take out every single one of

1166
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,079
his pieces in order to beat him, unless there might be some secret way

1167
01:10:01,079 --> 01:10:04,000
you can beat him. I haven't
discovered yet, but that's kind of the

1168
01:10:04,079 --> 01:10:08,199
general idea of it, and once
again, pretty short and sweet to figure

1169
01:10:08,199 --> 01:10:11,960
out. You know, you'll figure
out the moves or like the rules like

1170
01:10:12,159 --> 01:10:14,920
fairly quickly, and then it doesn't
take too long kind of figure out like

1171
01:10:15,119 --> 01:10:16,800
how to abuse it, and really
you can even just do like little passing

1172
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,880
non moves and just wait for him
to cheat, and whenever he cheats,

1173
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,920
then you can just like cheat back
and do some really strong thing and take

1174
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:28,119
out some weak point in his position. So it wasn't that hard to crack

1175
01:10:28,199 --> 01:10:30,000
the code the first time, but
then after I did beat it seems like,

1176
01:10:30,079 --> 01:10:32,680
yeah, there are all sorts of
different endings, and I'm guessing you

1177
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,239
get a different ending if you beat
the game without using any cheats or beating

1178
01:10:36,359 --> 01:10:40,279
the game without accusing him of any
cheats. But to do those things would

1179
01:10:40,279 --> 01:10:44,319
be a lot harder because yeah,
sometimes he'll just with a random piece,

1180
01:10:44,399 --> 01:10:47,239
move across the map and take out
a rook of yours, completely cheating,

1181
01:10:47,319 --> 01:10:49,920
like there's no way you can possibly
do that move. But then if you

1182
01:10:50,159 --> 01:10:53,319
don't accuse him, then it's like, oh damn, now he just got

1183
01:10:53,359 --> 01:10:56,359
this piece for free and there's nothing
I could do about it. So it's

1184
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,680
a very fun goofy idea. The
game is very silly. It made me

1185
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,840
laugh quite a few times, and
I enjoyed it once again. I think

1186
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,479
there's there's room for more. Once
I beat it, and then I was

1187
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,199
like, Okay, I guess I
can do other things, but like I've

1188
01:11:09,279 --> 01:11:11,760
kind of discovered all the rules,
I kind of lost steam on it.

1189
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,279
It's like I don't really feel the
urge to go back in a big way.

1190
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:16,880
But at the end of the day, it was two bucks. It's

1191
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,399
like five bucks at one at full
price, so it's hard to complain too

1192
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:24,079
much. But I had a good
a good time with this one as well.

1193
01:11:25,039 --> 01:11:30,239
Just yeah, I like games making
use of chess mechanics in like cool

1194
01:11:30,239 --> 01:11:31,560
and unique creative ways. I think
it's a It's a fun thing to do

1195
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:34,880
as a fan of chess who doesn't
always want to just play a stressful game

1196
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:39,960
against someone online, you know.
Yeah, No, that's that's fun That's

1197
01:11:40,079 --> 01:11:43,840
that's funny that you brought that up, because when I was jumping in again

1198
01:11:44,159 --> 01:11:46,239
trying to like, I don't know, play chess online and just learn a

1199
01:11:46,279 --> 01:11:48,000
little bit more about it, I
was like, Man, I wonder if

1200
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:51,239
there's any chess games out there,
and you know, when you're just thinking

1201
01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:55,239
about those things, I want to
watch Queen's gam but I've never seen that,

1202
01:11:55,319 --> 01:11:58,319
Like you just kind of get immersed
in the realm of that. So

1203
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:01,520
it's funny that you went ahead and
jumped on that. But interesting, like

1204
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:05,079
the I really like the troll on
That's that's pretty funny. Yeah, i'd

1205
01:12:05,079 --> 01:12:08,640
recommend that one. You should.
I think it is on sale still during

1206
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,479
the sale two bucks right now.
You recommend picking that one up. It's

1207
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:15,319
worth worth the worth the price for
sure. Yeah. No, that's that's

1208
01:12:15,399 --> 01:12:17,560
fantastic. I'm excited to play you
finally, don't care. Yeah, we

1209
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,880
should do that soon TV day,
Yes, that we'll get aboard the VDA.

1210
01:12:23,039 --> 01:12:26,359
Yeah, that would be fun.
Okay, there there were my those

1211
01:12:26,359 --> 01:12:30,479
were my chess, chess games,
chess shoutouts, and then uh, I

1212
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,600
think I'll just showed to one more
game here for the day. There's another

1213
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:35,560
one that I'm still kind of playing
through, so maybe I'll save that for

1214
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:39,600
another week of side quest. But
I wanted to show this with you because

1215
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,520
this is very relevant to you as
well. Another game has been in my

1216
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:46,159
whishtles for a long time finally got
here. It's called Circuit Superstars. I

1217
01:12:46,239 --> 01:12:48,800
feel like I maybe have talked to
you game to talk to you about this

1218
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,239
game before. I don't know,
but look it up. This is a

1219
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:57,399
racing game from the perspective, it's
a top down view so rather than kind

1220
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:00,039
of behind the car review that most
games do. And this game is very

1221
01:13:00,119 --> 01:13:04,439
much a like F one themed or
styled thing, which is why I think

1222
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:08,720
you would be into it. But
yeah, it's a pretty basic racing game.

1223
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:12,439
It's on simple maps for the most
part that I imagine are based on

1224
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,479
like famous F one courses. Potentially
some of the names or like, I

1225
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:19,039
don't think they're official names for actual
racers because then they have to play pay

1226
01:13:19,119 --> 01:13:24,520
licensing fees and whatnot, but it
seems like very much inspired by that sort

1227
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:27,000
of stuff. But I don't know
anything about F one. But then there's

1228
01:13:27,039 --> 01:13:30,359
also like off road races as well
in the dirt, and then there's all

1229
01:13:30,399 --> 01:13:31,279
sorts of different cars you can use. So there are other kind of like

1230
01:13:31,319 --> 01:13:34,760
classic F one cars, there's like
rally cars. There's like a truck you

1231
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:39,720
can use. There's like a big
semi truck. There's other kind of goofy

1232
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:42,520
ones in there as well, and
so in these races you'll be having you

1233
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,840
know, a mix of different vehicles
in there. But it's a really fun

1234
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,640
game. It's really challenging, which
I think is fun for me because I

1235
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:53,520
feel like I haven't played like a
genuinely super hard racing game in a while.

1236
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:57,520
But I don't know, usually these
realistic racing games are the ones that

1237
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,279
kick my ass because I just more
want to smash into other cars and create

1238
01:14:00,399 --> 01:14:02,439
havoc or like, you know,
if I'm playing kart Racer, of course,

1239
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,520
that's a whole different, different type
of thing. But yeah, this

1240
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,239
is really fun. I played a
lot of it in co op with Clinton,

1241
01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,399
so that was a good time playing
through with him. And one thing

1242
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,920
that I thought was really interesting about
it was just some of the other mechanics

1243
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:18,840
in here, Like there's pit stops, pit stop lanes built into the maps,

1244
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:21,399
and in some of the maps you
will have to do that because your

1245
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:25,960
tires are degrading as you're going through. You have a fuel amount that you

1246
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:28,720
have to keep track of, and
then you also have HP. So obviously

1247
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:30,439
if you're smashing into walls or people
too much, you got to you know,

1248
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:33,039
go heel up, get repaired.
But then also, yeah, keeping

1249
01:14:33,039 --> 01:14:35,840
an eye on your fuel, keeping
an eye on your tires. And it's

1250
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,920
funny because as you're going through,
you know, very slow progression as your

1251
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:43,199
tires are getting weaker and you're losing
traction. Once you go through a pit

1252
01:14:43,279 --> 01:14:45,199
stop and then get out on the
course, you can immediately feel like,

1253
01:14:45,399 --> 01:14:48,640
man, my tires were so degraded. Now I have so much more control,

1254
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:50,439
or like, because I have the
fuel, I'm moving so much.

1255
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:55,760
How does it work? Would you
move faster with more fuel because you have

1256
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,800
more power, or would you move
faster because you have less fuel that is

1257
01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,640
weighing you down. You're faster with
less fuel because you have less weight.

1258
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:08,680
Okay, yeah, that's an avid
F one enjoyer, right, I know

1259
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,479
these things. Yeah, So this
game I feel like does a pretty good

1260
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:15,159
job of making those sim elements,
but it's funny having those alongside a game

1261
01:15:15,239 --> 01:15:17,479
that looks pretty cartoony, cartoony and
cute and has that top down view,

1262
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,880
because normally I'm used to it just
being the more like behind the like the

1263
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:26,439
fors of Motorsport ones for example,
or like grant Reasma, like those sort

1264
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,239
of games I picture as the more
hardcore ones where it's like you're following the

1265
01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:31,760
line and getting really precise with your
timings, compared to like Dirt, which

1266
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,880
is more off road and smashing into
people. But yeah, it's cool to

1267
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,840
have that from like this perspective,
because the only other racing games I've played

1268
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,319
from this top down view are ones
that are very arcadie and are like kart

1269
01:15:42,399 --> 01:15:45,560
racers, or you're having items and
whatnot, so that completely changes the vibe

1270
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:49,159
of it. But yeah, it's
it's really it's really cool. I think

1271
01:15:49,159 --> 01:15:53,920
if I have any criticisms of it, one would be just the course of

1272
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,039
variety. We played for a couple
hours, and I think in that time

1273
01:15:57,079 --> 01:16:00,319
we played every single course in the
game, and you know, I know

1274
01:16:00,399 --> 01:16:02,800
it is a more realistic game,
but I think I want a little bit

1275
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,279
more in there, like maybe more
ramps or some different like elevation that you

1276
01:16:06,319 --> 01:16:09,520
have to kind of keep track of
how fast you're going so you're not just

1277
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,079
flying off and losing control. There's
a couple of maps that do that,

1278
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,720
but not a ton. And then
you know, there's all sorts of different

1279
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:17,039
cars in the game, but as
far as I can tell, there's nowhere

1280
01:16:17,359 --> 01:16:20,560
like shows you the actual stats of
them, so you're more taking a guess

1281
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:25,039
of like what this car's stats are
gonna be. But it would be nice

1282
01:16:25,039 --> 01:16:28,760
to see a little bit more of
those those details. And yeah, it's

1283
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:30,960
like it might be a bit too
hard, Like there is an easier difficulty

1284
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,079
that we didn't go on, so
it is nice to have, I guess

1285
01:16:34,159 --> 01:16:36,920
that that variety in there, and
you can change the settings around. But

1286
01:16:38,399 --> 01:16:40,520
yeah, it's it's a cool game. It's really cute. I like the

1287
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:43,359
visuals, like the kind of brightness
of it. And yeah, once again,

1288
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,600
this one's been on my radar for
a couple of years now, so

1289
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:48,279
I'm glad I finally picked it up. Do you think that a game like

1290
01:16:48,359 --> 01:16:53,520
this would intrigue I know you like
f one stuff like this perspective. Do

1291
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:58,600
you think this would be fun for
you? Uh? I possibly possibly?

1292
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:02,119
I feel like the co op element
could be fun. You were playing like

1293
01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:06,800
F one manager recently, right,
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's a really

1294
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:11,199
fun one for you know, if
you're actually an f F one fan.

1295
01:17:12,279 --> 01:17:15,560
Not to sound like that guy,
but I feel like it's also just fun

1296
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:20,720
like knowing the drivers and like knowing
like just the teams and interest stuff like

1297
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:25,760
that, and like getting fully immersed
in that sense. I don't know,

1298
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:30,840
I I'm I'm I wishless wish listed
it so I'll keep my eyes on it.

1299
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:34,000
But I feel like every time I've
played top down like racers, I

1300
01:17:34,159 --> 01:17:39,680
just haven't been too thrilled by them. But yeah, I like that there's

1301
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:43,159
more to it than definitely less immersive. That would be a big fish,

1302
01:17:43,279 --> 01:17:45,800
i'd point out. You know,
maybe the difficulty is what scares me.

1303
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:49,039
I don't know. I don't know. I feel like you would be good

1304
01:17:49,079 --> 01:17:53,560
at it because you know, like
it seems like a pretty realistic sim in

1305
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:58,159
that way, and I feel like
you understand those mechanics or whatnot. But

1306
01:17:58,239 --> 01:18:00,039
I don't know. Yeah, I
love to get out sometimes. See.

1307
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:04,880
Yeah, there you go. So
that was Circuit Superstars. Let's take our

1308
01:18:05,039 --> 01:18:09,039
last break and then we will talk
about some Marvel Snap. We will be

1309
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:16,079
right back. Okay, we are
back. So yeah, we're gonna break

1310
01:18:16,079 --> 01:18:20,000
down this. This new season of
July is the Deadpool Wolverine month of Marvel

1311
01:18:20,039 --> 01:18:23,600
Snap, which is great. You
know, I love when they can compare

1312
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:27,520
the theming along with a thing releasing. Of course that movie's coming out.

1313
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,520
Have you have you been playing Marvel
Snap as well? Is that kind of

1314
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:34,800
still in your in your rotation?
Uh, it's been kind of toned down.

1315
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:39,640
I feel like I haven't been going
too hard this uh this this current

1316
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,920
battle pass, I've kind of just
been I don't know, I guess waiting

1317
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,159
for the next one. I last
time I logged on, I saw that

1318
01:18:45,199 --> 01:18:48,119
there are you know some of the
cards that I was using kind of change.

1319
01:18:48,279 --> 01:18:51,039
Was like, oh, oh,
Like I don't know if that changes

1320
01:18:51,119 --> 01:18:56,319
the whole meta of what my my
deck could do. But I mean watching

1321
01:18:56,399 --> 01:19:00,039
the trailer for this coming up season
definitely sparked my intro. Obviously I'm excited

1322
01:19:00,079 --> 01:19:04,680
for Dipple Wolverine, but just just
what they're gonna be adding is like I've

1323
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:08,800
never bought in a battle pass before, but I liked everything that I saw,

1324
01:19:09,039 --> 01:19:12,239
So I don't know, we'll see, yeah, I like the art

1325
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,880
of the cards, which is always
a big one for the battle pass stuff.

1326
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,840
And then yeah, like for the
first because I haven't got a battle

1327
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:21,159
Pass in a few months, but
and that's mostly just because the season past

1328
01:19:21,239 --> 01:19:26,399
card hasn't isn't one that I need
day one. But Gwen Poole is the

1329
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:30,520
new card of the month. Here
her abilities on reveal pick a random card

1330
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,119
in your hand three times and give
it plus two power each time, which

1331
01:19:33,199 --> 01:19:35,880
I think is really fun. I
feel like there's a lot of potential with

1332
01:19:36,159 --> 01:19:40,279
that, whether that's something like you
know, hitting the Black Panther would be

1333
01:19:40,359 --> 01:19:43,800
huge. Obviously hitting Deadpool is an
obvious kind of connection there, but that

1334
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:46,680
would even work well with like a
Galactus deck, really well with Sebastian Shaw

1335
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:50,720
or Brood or Mister Sinister. Like
there's a lot of cards right off the

1336
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:54,359
bat that I can see how that
would be super strong with. And I

1337
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,199
really like a lot of those times
of decks, so I can just see

1338
01:19:57,239 --> 01:20:00,640
instantly three or four of my decks
that I already have built, I would

1339
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:04,560
easily subb out some card to put
Gwen in there, and just Gwen Pool,

1340
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:09,039
I guess to be specific, and
just immediately level them up. So

1341
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:12,520
that's a really cool effect. And
I like the card art, so I

1342
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,039
might I might pick this one up. And yeah, it's been I think

1343
01:20:15,159 --> 01:20:17,239
three months, three or four months
since I since I picked one of these

1344
01:20:17,319 --> 01:20:19,760
up, and uh, yeah,
I've been playing. I've been playing a

1345
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:24,000
lot. The most recent card that
came out is Arisham. Have you have

1346
01:20:24,119 --> 01:20:28,079
you seen ershim? Had or played
a game? Yeah, so he gives

1347
01:20:28,119 --> 01:20:30,520
you I forget if we talked about
him, but he he's a seven cost

1348
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:33,560
card, the first seven cost card
in the game. He gives you this,

1349
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:39,039
Yeah, he gives you plus one
max energy and then shuffles twelve random

1350
01:20:39,119 --> 01:20:42,680
cards into your deck. So he's
just a full on chaos card, but

1351
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,800
he gives you more like you know, essentially six more energy per game,

1352
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:49,359
so it's really strong. Potentially to
be able to play anything like a turn

1353
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:53,840
sooner is pretty crazy. So that's
been super fun. I just love chaos

1354
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:58,199
and randomness and that those sort of
types of decks and games like this,

1355
01:20:58,319 --> 01:21:00,640
So I've been having a lot of
fun with that. But yeah, I'm

1356
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,439
thinking about picking up gwen Pool here. Uh do you do you like that

1357
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,840
ability? Would that fit well into
any of your any of your current decks

1358
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:11,960
or strategies. I definitely think it
would fit somewhere. I feel like it

1359
01:21:12,079 --> 01:21:16,439
was just maybe more so than the
like the previous months. It's just a

1360
01:21:16,560 --> 01:21:20,239
character that just seems interesting. It's
like, hmm, yeah, I could

1361
01:21:20,279 --> 01:21:24,199
check that one out there. There's
nothing that really shouts out like immediately of

1362
01:21:24,319 --> 01:21:29,439
like this will pair very well with
this specific card for me. But it's

1363
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:31,880
mostly just I feel like when I
evaluate like a battle Pass, it's it's

1364
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,600
not just the one card, it's
like kind of what the whole package has,

1365
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:39,279
and this one is more appealing than
what previous ones have been for me.

1366
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,560
Nice. Yeah, because you never
You've still have not picked up a

1367
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:45,880
season's pass, right, No,
I haven't. I came close. I

1368
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:51,039
think it was the Around the World
by Night one. Okay, wow,

1369
01:21:51,079 --> 01:21:57,279
I think I can't remember which one
it was. That it was basically just

1370
01:21:57,359 --> 01:22:00,479
one that I had played a lot, and like I had finished like all

1371
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:03,439
the stages and I'm like, wow, this could be an easy cash in

1372
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:05,720
right here, because you always want
to make it worth it, right,

1373
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:10,279
like actually get all the rewards if
you are getting that month's Batle Pass.

1374
01:22:10,359 --> 01:22:13,880
And I came close then I feel
like, also, I was like grinding

1375
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:15,359
for a specific thing, and I'm
like, well, I could get it.

1376
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,279
If I just get the battle pass, I'll have all these like tokens

1377
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:23,960
or whatever. The unluckuple things that
I needed were perhaps those boosters can't remember,

1378
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,600
but yeah, I don't know this
one. I feel like the hype

1379
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:30,319
of the movie also helps a lot. So yes, it's great that they

1380
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:33,319
pair it up with that for just
marketing wise. Yeah, and then another

1381
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:38,399
new card is Copycat. When you
draw this, steal the text from the

1382
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:42,199
bottom card of your opponent's deck.
She is a three five. I forgot

1383
01:22:42,199 --> 01:22:45,720
to say, Glenpole's a four to
six. I think copycats a really cool

1384
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:50,199
idea and potentially really strong. I
mean potentially you get a pretty weak effect

1385
01:22:50,399 --> 01:22:56,439
and don't get anything from it.
But I to me like information is such

1386
01:22:56,560 --> 01:23:00,880
a huge thing in Snap, and
there's not a lot of cards that give

1387
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:04,359
you information. Like Yondo is one. He you know, destroys an enemy

1388
01:23:04,399 --> 01:23:08,039
card in their hand. You get
to see what it is. Cable's really

1389
01:23:08,079 --> 01:23:10,319
good because even if you don't want
to use the card, you just get

1390
01:23:10,359 --> 01:23:13,520
to see what a card in their
deck is. Daredevil see, you know,

1391
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,079
seeing what your opponent's gonna play on
turn five, and then even Howard

1392
01:23:16,119 --> 01:23:19,560
who helps you see what you're gonna
draw next, Like those are really powerful

1393
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:24,680
cards. I like because having those
kind of things really can tell you whether

1394
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,840
or not you should be snapping,
and that's such a big part of the

1395
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:30,960
game, right to have that kind
of information. And three five is a

1396
01:23:30,039 --> 01:23:33,199
very solid stat line as well.
And you know this is a card too,

1397
01:23:33,279 --> 01:23:38,439
like she's draws she does that effect
steals the ability, and that's just

1398
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:41,319
drawn into your hand, so you
don't even need to play her to get

1399
01:23:41,359 --> 01:23:44,479
that information. So if you get
a bad ability, you just don't even

1400
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:45,680
play her, right you just you
just keep her in your hand if it's

1401
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,039
going to screw you over. But
then if you do get something like in

1402
01:23:48,119 --> 01:23:50,479
the video they showed doctor Doom,
which is like, oh hell yeah,

1403
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:54,560
that's great, I guess ten bonus
power along when I play with her,

1404
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:58,279
Like it's super strong. So that's
I don't know what week. I haven't

1405
01:23:58,279 --> 01:24:00,560
looked at all the spotlight caches that
are gonna be happening this month, but

1406
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:04,600
I think I'm definitely gonna either drop
tokens on her or or save up some

1407
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:08,159
I think I already have like seven
keys, so I'm looking pretty good on

1408
01:24:08,199 --> 01:24:10,880
the key game right now. But
yeah, that's definitely a card I'm gonna

1409
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:14,199
go for. That's just such a
strong ability and super fun and it's like

1410
01:24:14,239 --> 01:24:16,720
also, yeah, just disruptive to
your opponent, so that's always a nice

1411
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:23,680
thing too. Yeah. No,
I I feel like just seeing her highlighted

1412
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:29,159
it because they do like a little
montage or just showing her taking certain just

1413
01:24:29,279 --> 01:24:33,159
text abilities from other cards, just
like this could be so hit or miss,

1414
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:38,520
it seems, and but I don't
know. It's it's fun inclusion,

1415
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,760
and yeah, I feel like it
would just be a great addition to almost

1416
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:46,239
any deck unless it's like super specific. Yeah, it is a pretty versatile

1417
01:24:46,359 --> 01:24:48,800
card in that way, like you
could. It's not really when you would

1418
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,359
build a deck around. It's more
just, hey, I have a room

1419
01:24:51,399 --> 01:24:56,000
for a three cost in this maybe
I'll pick her up and put it which

1420
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,560
would fit for me because I feel
like most of my cards it's just kind

1421
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,359
of piecing together, Like I feel
like none of my decks are like what

1422
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,840
the meta option would be for like
that play style, whether it's I guess

1423
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:10,399
naturally yeah, maybe not going to
have the complete sets at this point.

1424
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,359
So yeah, exactly, I will
say too. I don't know if he's

1425
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:15,520
if he's still going hard. But
last time I was talking to you know,

1426
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:19,800
Patreon Tyler about Marvel Snap, he
said like he was like he had

1427
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:24,880
just jumped in, and it's it's
a long journey. Like I feel like

1428
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,399
I've been on it for a long
time and I'm still I feel like like

1429
01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:30,199
obviously I don't have all of the
the older cards yet. But yeah,

1430
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:34,199
no, it's uh, it's always
fun to just see someone kind of going

1431
01:25:34,279 --> 01:25:38,399
on that adventure and then mentioning like
what their deck is. It's like,

1432
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:40,880
oh, yeah, I remember,
I remember that deck. I remember unlocking

1433
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:44,920
that specific character because I think early
on they kind of they unlock in it

1434
01:25:45,119 --> 01:25:49,000
guaranteed. Yeah, order for quite
a while there. Yeah. Next up

1435
01:25:49,119 --> 01:25:54,079
is Hydra Bob who have not heard
this character. He is a one four

1436
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:59,039
which is cool. Stats after each
turn this moves is so if a player

1437
01:25:59,199 --> 01:26:01,000
snapped. So I remember them teasing
a few months ago that they were going

1438
01:26:01,079 --> 01:26:06,520
to interact and introduce a character whose
mechanic was based around snapping. So in

1439
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,399
that way, he is the first
of his kind. What do you what

1440
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:14,479
do you think of that ability.
I like it just because of like the

1441
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:18,399
originality of it. It's a it's
a new way to interact with a mechanic

1442
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:23,840
that everyone interacts with. It's funny. Hydro Bob. I only know who

1443
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:28,199
that is because we went through our
Deadpool retro leading up to this this movie

1444
01:26:28,279 --> 01:26:32,199
and Travis informed us that, like, he is in the Deadpool movie.

1445
01:26:32,239 --> 01:26:35,479
But it's like almost like an easter
egg for someone in the first one.

1446
01:26:38,159 --> 01:26:40,439
I watched them back to back.
I can't even remember. I think it's

1447
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:43,920
the second one. Actually, would
he have been like during the recruiting of

1448
01:26:44,119 --> 01:26:46,119
X for us or something. No, he's he's like fighting these bad guys

1449
01:26:46,319 --> 01:26:48,920
and then he just goes like,
oh, hi, Bob. Because in

1450
01:26:49,119 --> 01:26:53,720
the comics he he has like a
buddy who is on Hydra named hydro Bob,

1451
01:26:54,119 --> 01:26:58,399
and he's just like a reoccurring character
who's like a villain. So he

1452
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,159
doesn't look like he doesn't snap for
example, No, like like and like

1453
01:27:01,199 --> 01:27:04,279
I don't know if that if the
snap one is the more comic book accurate

1454
01:27:04,319 --> 01:27:10,079
one. But he's just wearing like
like a like a classic Henchman type garb,

1455
01:27:10,520 --> 01:27:13,039
and then Deadpool's just beating up guys. He's just like, oh hi

1456
01:27:13,119 --> 01:27:16,399
Bob. Then he knocks them out. Cool. Yeah, funny they adding

1457
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:19,039
him in there. Yeah, but
what do you think of that mechanic?

1458
01:27:19,399 --> 01:27:26,640
Uh, the snap based activation.
I thought I mentioned it. I I

1459
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:30,000
I like it because it's it's like
a new way to interact with just just

1460
01:27:30,079 --> 01:27:33,319
the game in general. And uh, I don't know, it's it's it's

1461
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:38,960
not just taking like the same mechanic
that we already have on certain cards and

1462
01:27:39,039 --> 01:27:44,960
just adding a number two right,
Like, it's it's actually affecting a player

1463
01:27:45,039 --> 01:27:48,079
decision on doing something like snap because
you can always snap, but it wouldn't

1464
01:27:48,079 --> 01:27:51,359
really like affect your cards more so
than just the rewards after the game.

1465
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:55,479
So it's a fun thing to add. I think. I think it's guaranteed

1466
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:58,920
at some point they'll ad a card
that is like black Panther or something when

1467
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:01,720
you snap it like double his power. I feel like they'll definitely do that

1468
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,960
at some point. That'll probably be
a more costly card because that's a cool

1469
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:09,680
ability. But yeah, I hadn't
really thought about when they talked about that

1470
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,359
being a mechanic that there would be
an activation from your opponent too, because

1471
01:28:13,399 --> 01:28:16,399
that's an interesting angle to this as
well, where maybe your opponent sees that,

1472
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,479
oh man, if I give him
an extra move right now, maybe

1473
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:23,039
that will help, you know,
fulfill some combo or boost Craven or something,

1474
01:28:23,359 --> 01:28:26,520
so they're not gonna snap perhaps even
if they think they're gonna win the

1475
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:30,960
game. Like, I wonder how
that will actually play into strategy oral warfare,

1476
01:28:30,039 --> 01:28:32,079
think about it. Yeah. I
don't know if you saw this,

1477
01:28:32,199 --> 01:28:35,199
but they they recently. It was
I think it was part of Summer game

1478
01:28:35,239 --> 01:28:39,399
Fest to some extent, where they
talked about they kind of talked a lot

1479
01:28:39,399 --> 01:28:42,359
about the Deadpool season kind of early, and they also talked about that they're

1480
01:28:42,399 --> 01:28:45,359
gonna be adding a new so instead
of like on reveal and ongoing, they're

1481
01:28:45,359 --> 01:28:49,399
gonna add a new keyword like that
called activate, which is when you have

1482
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:53,960
the card on the board, you
can like tap it and then we'll you

1483
01:28:54,039 --> 01:28:56,239
know, do whatever the ability is. So I think one of them was

1484
01:28:56,680 --> 01:28:59,520
Madame Web and you tap Madam Web
and then she moves a card away from

1485
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:02,239
that locate. So this is almost
similar to that, but rather than it

1486
01:29:02,359 --> 01:29:06,920
being an activatability, it's a you're
you're activating it, but you're activating it

1487
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:11,760
by hitting the snap button rather than
clicking the card itself. So I'm curious

1488
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:14,359
what those two cards will look like
in conjunction with each other. I feel

1489
01:29:14,399 --> 01:29:17,199
like that could be a potentially strong
interaction or a weird one. Nonetheless,

1490
01:29:17,279 --> 01:29:20,439
but I mean he has like a
you know, a way higher stat line

1491
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:25,000
for a one cost than his average. I mean, you have Ebony Maws

1492
01:29:25,039 --> 01:29:28,039
in there, you have Martyr in
there now, and zeros of one to

1493
01:29:28,079 --> 01:29:31,199
three. It's not hard for Rocket
to hit one five or Hawkeyed hit one

1494
01:29:31,279 --> 01:29:33,720
five, and man like a lot
of them do get higher stats now,

1495
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,680
but he is still above the curve. So I don't know. Even if

1496
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,119
you're not using his ability and you
just want a strong one cost card,

1497
01:29:40,159 --> 01:29:42,680
he could be in there as well. So I'm not gonna go to my

1498
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:45,560
way to get this card, but
I honestly might just because of the unique

1499
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,000
mechanic. I think it could be
fun to try and mess around with,

1500
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:53,039
especially with another mode we'll talk about
coming up a little bit later on.

1501
01:29:53,279 --> 01:29:58,600
Yeah, next up is three to
one Cassandra Nova, So the villain of

1502
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:01,520
the new movie, which is cool
on reveal, steal one power from each

1503
01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:06,520
card in your opponent's deck, stealing
it giving it to herself so she can

1504
01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:11,479
get pretty high stats. And this
is a funny one that the timing of

1505
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:15,039
this announcement being the week after Aershom
because holy shit, this card is gonna

1506
01:30:15,039 --> 01:30:20,880
be super strong against Aersham decks because
it's gonna get twenty power potentially, you

1507
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:25,239
know, given that every card has
that one power, I guess even if

1508
01:30:25,279 --> 01:30:28,119
you don't have one power, you
can still steal from a zero power and

1509
01:30:28,159 --> 01:30:30,199
then just pit them in a negative. So I don't know, that's gonna

1510
01:30:30,199 --> 01:30:32,439
be a funny counter and I'm glad
it's coming out, you know, a

1511
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:35,880
little bit later than when I've been
playing a lot of this new card.

1512
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:39,960
But this is a cool card.
And this one also is integrated into a

1513
01:30:40,079 --> 01:30:43,119
mode that is going to be coming
out that we'll talk a little bit about.

1514
01:30:43,199 --> 01:30:45,760
So in theory, should be one
that everyone can get if they play

1515
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:48,640
a little bit without having a you
know, pay to win or not needing

1516
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:53,800
the keys or the tokens for it. So potentially gonna be a card that

1517
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:56,000
a lot of people will have.
I don't know how much grinding you'll have

1518
01:30:56,039 --> 01:30:59,239
to do actually get the card,
but I think it's cool. I love

1519
01:30:59,319 --> 01:31:00,680
when they, like, you know, on the High Evolutionary came out during

1520
01:31:01,039 --> 01:31:03,680
that Guardian's month, when that new
movie was coming out. So it's just

1521
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:06,359
cool when they have that kind of
kind of pairing. And yeah, that's

1522
01:31:06,399 --> 01:31:11,279
a really really strong ability potentially,
I guess it also could be pretty weak

1523
01:31:11,319 --> 01:31:14,439
depending if you play late in the
game. Maybe not that good at all.

1524
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:16,680
So I don't know, interesting card. I like it. What was

1525
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:23,159
the cost on that one? Three
to one? Okay? Yeah, yeah,

1526
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:26,319
it could be good with Mister Negative. I guess make it a you

1527
01:31:26,399 --> 01:31:29,079
know, a one cost card if
you get the flip on it and then

1528
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:31,880
higher power and then even more so, it could be a good way for

1529
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:35,640
it to be there. I'm still
seeking a nice mister Negative deck for me.

1530
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:40,479
I've tried a couple iterations. It's
just I don't know, it's it's

1531
01:31:40,520 --> 01:31:43,439
one that you have to like.
I still want Nolan. I feel like

1532
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,399
Noel would fit really well, super
helpful Nolan Zola. Do you have Sola?

1533
01:31:47,760 --> 01:31:50,319
Yeah, Sola, you have iron
Man. Iron Man's good in there,

1534
01:31:50,359 --> 01:31:54,680
but yeah, you definitely need one
of those two. And that's just

1535
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:57,560
a deck that it's fun when it
works out but it's one that you have

1536
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:00,359
to accept. I got to retreat
a lot because if I don't draw mister

1537
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:02,560
negative, than this deck does nothing. It's really weak. So yeah,

1538
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:05,720
it's gotta be you just gotta be
accepting, you know, losing those one

1539
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:11,039
cubes but hopefully getting an eight cube
or when it when it pans out right.

1540
01:32:12,079 --> 01:32:15,399
Uh. Next up is Ajax,
who is a A five to five.

1541
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,640
He has an ongoing that is a
one power one gets one plus power

1542
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:24,159
for each card and play afflicted with
negative power. Uh. So I really

1543
01:32:24,399 --> 01:32:26,960
like this. I think this is
a fun idea because so far, to

1544
01:32:27,119 --> 01:32:29,880
my off the top of my head
knowledge, there's not like there's a lot

1545
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:32,720
of cards in the game that do
inflict negative power uh in the game,

1546
01:32:33,279 --> 01:32:38,039
but really the only one on your
side that you would use to like counteract

1547
01:32:38,079 --> 01:32:40,960
that is Louke Cage, where you
if you had negative power, put Luke

1548
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:44,079
Cage out, you know, regenerate
it's all that power. But there isn't

1549
01:32:44,119 --> 01:32:49,079
one that gives you power based off
of afflicting negative power. So I think

1550
01:32:49,119 --> 01:32:54,239
that's pretty cool. I think it's
interesting. It's a new mechanic in a

1551
01:32:54,359 --> 01:32:57,880
way, and compare well with like
a high revolutionary deck compare well with like

1552
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:01,079
a toxic long sort of thing as
well, So I think it's really cool

1553
01:33:01,119 --> 01:33:02,800
I can get to try and pick
this one up as well. There's a

1554
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:06,760
lot I want this month, actually, I definitely want copycat Ajax, and

1555
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:11,199
I kind of want Hydrobob just for
the laughs. And Cassandra be an easier

1556
01:33:11,279 --> 01:33:14,159
card to just kind of everyone to
get. So I don't know, it's

1557
01:33:14,159 --> 01:33:15,680
gonna be hard month for me,
but I think that's a really cool ability.

1558
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:18,359
And I'm guessing for you you might
not have a lot of cards that

1559
01:33:18,399 --> 01:33:25,439
could really make use of that at
this time. Uh yeah, not really.

1560
01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:30,640
I haven't really used anyone that's done
that in a while. I guess

1561
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:34,279
Scorpion, right, he inflicts negative
and that's a good one. That's kind

1562
01:33:34,319 --> 01:33:40,640
of the full extent of that.
Do you have Toxic No, I don't,

1563
01:33:43,119 --> 01:33:45,239
yeah, because the only time I
really on my previous deck at least,

1564
01:33:45,239 --> 01:33:47,560
like I was using Electro a lot. But that doesn't that just takes

1565
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:50,880
one out, that's not a negative
effect. But yeah, it's cool card.

1566
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:55,600
At least I thought the design looked
really cool, interesting character definitely,

1567
01:33:56,359 --> 01:34:00,000
So those are the new cards coming
out, And then there's a couple locations.

1568
01:34:00,039 --> 01:34:01,760
I don't know if we need to
break those down, but one of

1569
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:05,560
the new modes is uh, Deadpool's
Diner. And they said that it's coming

1570
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:08,760
out now. It's gonna be available
for like two weeks, I think,

1571
01:34:09,199 --> 01:34:11,399
and then they said they're gonna bring
it back later on as well, like

1572
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:13,760
it just in I don't know when
it makes sense, I guess in a

1573
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:16,600
season when they want it to.
And so this is I didn't I don't

1574
01:34:16,640 --> 01:34:19,560
fully understand it, like I didn't
understand when they explained it via text a

1575
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:24,039
few weeks ago, and I still
don't understand it totally seeing the video of

1576
01:34:24,159 --> 01:34:27,439
it. But essentially it's a new
mode, so like Conquest or like regular

1577
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:30,520
Ladder, like it's just a new
goat place you're gonna go in and q

1578
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,760
in and there's a new currency for
it called bubs, and so you're gonna

1579
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:36,960
be building up bubs based on winning
matches, and then the more bubs you

1580
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:41,079
have them, the more you can
like enter higher sticks battles essentially, which

1581
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:43,560
just give you more bubs if you
win them, I guess. And so

1582
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:47,119
it's just that sort of thing,
uh, And then you're you essentially have

1583
01:34:47,239 --> 01:34:51,600
like a different collection track just for
this system. So as you're leveling up

1584
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:56,159
that bub count or that overall or
like the highest bub count or whatever it

1585
01:34:56,279 --> 01:35:00,520
is called. It feels weird to
say bub counter. Yeah, s bub

1586
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:02,600
counter. Yeah. As you're building
up, you're getting different wards and that's

1587
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:06,319
where Sandra Nova is as I mentioned, as well as a bunch of other

1588
01:35:06,399 --> 01:35:09,520
things. So I mean, cool, it's a new way to play.

1589
01:35:10,039 --> 01:35:12,640
I mean, it's the same way
to play, but it's just slightly different

1590
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:15,760
variation on it. And then just
a bunch of new unlocks, So I'm

1591
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:17,760
into that. I mean, I
think it'll be tricky in this month to

1592
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:21,159
like make sure you're doing all your
conquest stuff to try get those upgrades or

1593
01:35:21,159 --> 01:35:24,880
all those unlocks, doing this stuff
to get the deadpool down your stuff,

1594
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:28,960
and then just I guess you'll get
the regular collection track from whatever you do.

1595
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:31,600
But yeah, I'm curious to see
how that goes, because, yeah,

1596
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:33,359
they haven't done one of those events
in a while, like they did

1597
01:35:33,399 --> 01:35:36,880
that Valentine's Day one that was really
fun where they just made certain cards have

1598
01:35:38,199 --> 01:35:41,760
special ability pairings, and they haven't
done it in a bit, So I'm

1599
01:35:42,039 --> 01:35:44,439
it's fun to have something new and
fresh in the game. I don't know

1600
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:46,760
if it's like really changing the game
a whole lot, but I'll definitely check

1601
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:49,800
it out and I'll probably play it
enough to at least get the new card

1602
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:55,880
Cassandra, right, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I I'll check

1603
01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:58,680
it out. I don't know if
it'll if I'll stay on it. Like

1604
01:35:59,279 --> 01:36:01,399
Conquest, I've never really dabbled in
too much. Like I've done a couple

1605
01:36:01,399 --> 01:36:05,079
of matches here and there, but
I pretty much just stick to the just

1606
01:36:05,159 --> 01:36:09,600
the us, the use for me. But the rewards would be nice.

1607
01:36:10,279 --> 01:36:12,560
Yeah, I mean that's the thing, right. I think you and me

1608
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:15,359
and everyone like Snap because it is
such a bite sized game where you can

1609
01:36:15,399 --> 01:36:18,920
play it when you're on the toilet
or if you're just waiting for your chicken

1610
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:21,239
to cook and you're in the kitchen. You know, it's like a good

1611
01:36:21,279 --> 01:36:25,279
game just like in between. And
so when you're playing something like Conquest,

1612
01:36:25,359 --> 01:36:29,239
it's like could take upwards of twenty
minutes if it's gonna be a full length

1613
01:36:29,319 --> 01:36:30,800
game. Yeah, it's not always
what we're looking for. And if I

1614
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:32,840
have that amount of time to play
a game, usually I want to play

1615
01:36:33,319 --> 01:36:38,319
something go play elden Ring or something
like that, right, Yeah, And

1616
01:36:38,359 --> 01:36:40,960
then so there's there's a lot coming
out of a two other things. They're

1617
01:36:41,039 --> 01:36:45,279
finally adding these alliances feature, which
is where you can make like finally have

1618
01:36:45,399 --> 01:36:47,359
like a bit of a friends group. You can make groups clans with people

1619
01:36:47,760 --> 01:36:51,319
and then you'll get rewards and boost
each other up in some way. Not

1620
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:55,439
sure what that'll look like, but
it's cool if rather find the ending it.

1621
01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:59,920
And then they're also adding another mechanic
of leagues, where leagues is where

1622
01:36:59,920 --> 01:37:02,840
you get you get put into a
league with thirty other random players or I

1623
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:06,640
guess twenty nine to for a total
of thirty, and you're competing against them.

1624
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:10,960
I don't think you're necessarily actually playing
against those people, but you are,

1625
01:37:12,239 --> 01:37:14,800
you know, based on your ranking
how many games you're winning, you're

1626
01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:16,880
going up in the ranking of the
league. And then when the league is

1627
01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:20,600
over, whoever has like the highest
ranking gets like certain rewards and stuff.

1628
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:24,880
So they had done a trial of
this a few months ago in like Europe,

1629
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:27,680
and a big criticism of it from
people was that I was like,

1630
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:30,439
oh, this is very paid to
win, Like if you're putting your bucks

1631
01:37:30,479 --> 01:37:33,000
and you're gonna get first place.
If not, you're not gonna get anything.

1632
01:37:33,359 --> 01:37:36,800
And so it seems like they've taken
that feedback and maybe split leagues into

1633
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:41,640
like paid leagues versus just free to
play ones. So we'll see how that

1634
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:43,880
goes. But yeah, I don't
know they're really putting a lot out in

1635
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,159
this month. I guess it was
all ready to it was all finished development,

1636
01:37:47,239 --> 01:37:49,479
ready to go, and so they're
just going for it, making this

1637
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:54,520
big, big month with the new
Marvel movie coming out perhaps, So yeah,

1638
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:57,560
a lot to look forward to in
this in this month. Any interest

1639
01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:02,880
in leagues or alliances, not really
maybe alliances? Maybe what do you do

1640
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:04,720
you want? What do you what
would you want them to add? What

1641
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:09,840
is what would be like actually exciting
thing for you in terms of like features,

1642
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:15,199
considering that these things aren't really doing
much for you. I mean,

1643
01:38:15,399 --> 01:38:17,640
I feel like the thing that gets
me the most excited when I play that

1644
01:38:17,720 --> 01:38:23,439
game is just like getting new cards. So I love my you know,

1645
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:28,000
my monthly three series that I get. Maybe give me two. Maybe I

1646
01:38:28,039 --> 01:38:30,640
think you should increase that to two. I think it's about time now that

1647
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:32,880
there's a lot more cards in that
series. They've talked about they want to

1648
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:35,960
make that experience better, but they
they talk about a lot of stuff and

1649
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:39,239
then take months to do anything about
it. But I think that's an easy

1650
01:38:39,319 --> 01:38:41,800
one. Yeah, give you give
you guys two a month. Yeah.

1651
01:38:41,960 --> 01:38:44,479
So like and I'm not pretty salty
about that as someone who's done all that

1652
01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:46,720
now, I'm I'm happy for more
people to have more cards. I think

1653
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:51,000
that is a perfectly acceptable thing.
It's like, I feel like it's fun

1654
01:38:51,079 --> 01:38:55,079
to collect them. It's funn to
get cards that you're interested in, but

1655
01:38:55,159 --> 01:38:58,199
it's also just it gets me hooked
on the game again. Like if I

1656
01:38:58,239 --> 01:39:00,399
get a card that I've been waiting
for, like really been excited to like

1657
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:04,000
try a deck around that specific card, or I've been wanting to do a

1658
01:39:04,079 --> 01:39:08,960
certain deck but I've been missing a
very specific card and then I finally get

1659
01:39:09,039 --> 01:39:13,279
that, then I'm just like hooked
again. I feel like there's also certain

1660
01:39:13,359 --> 01:39:17,840
cards that aren't really new, like
maybe they're a three series and I can

1661
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:23,840
only really get them if it is
through the I guess you get them on

1662
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:27,960
your journey through the collection tokens too, right, But it's like that's not

1663
01:39:28,079 --> 01:39:30,920
really worth spending tokens, Like there
are only one thousand tokens, but it's

1664
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:35,119
you're not really it's not really a
wise investment. It might be cool if

1665
01:39:35,119 --> 01:39:40,479
you could like choose a certain character
that you're like really after, especially if

1666
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:45,399
it's like a series. Yeah,
like Spider Glen for example, Like that's

1667
01:39:45,399 --> 01:39:47,520
another card that's just always eluded me. A couple other Spider fel Like I

1668
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:53,319
still don't have venom. I feel
like that's just a tragedy. Yeah.

1669
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,359
No, So lots of cards that
I just want to get, but I

1670
01:39:57,039 --> 01:40:00,720
just feel like they're they're ever fleeting
for me. Yeah, one day,

1671
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:02,800
fair enough. I'll keep logging in. I'll keep checking in every month for

1672
01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:06,000
my series three and hopefully they'll be
there. Yeah, oh have you?

1673
01:40:06,279 --> 01:40:11,199
I guess the newest season hasn't started
yet, but tomorrow, like tomorrow,

1674
01:40:11,439 --> 01:40:13,680
tys tomorrow. So yeah, what
are you gunning for? One? In

1675
01:40:13,720 --> 01:40:15,840
particular, you're just gonna kind of
look at that rotation. Is gonna be

1676
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:21,279
ny because there I feel like there's
still a good amount of the series three

1677
01:40:21,319 --> 01:40:26,439
that I don't have yet. I
I pretty much just wait until one is

1678
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:30,199
is cool enough to get, or
like one that I have been looking for.

1679
01:40:30,359 --> 01:40:31,920
But I try not to be too
picky because there has been sometimes when

1680
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,399
it's like that's a cool card,
but maybe the next one will be even

1681
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:39,640
more interesting, and then it's just
like worse. It's like, oh,

1682
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:41,880
I should have just got that first
one. So now it's just like kind

1683
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:45,199
of the first one that I see
that I that I really like, Like

1684
01:40:45,319 --> 01:40:49,560
I can't I can't even really remember
my last one was now. Oh yeah,

1685
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:54,840
I'm trying to remember, but uh, it's just fourteen hours till my

1686
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:59,000
next card, so looking forward to
that. Nice. Oh I think my

1687
01:40:59,119 --> 01:41:02,399
last one actually would been Ultron,
which was a fantastic pickup. Yeah,

1688
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:04,479
because I remember we talked about that
because he just got buffed, so that

1689
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:08,840
was good timing here. Yeah,
it was perfect timing. And I really

1690
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:11,399
really liked that deck. I was
spamming that deck for a long time,

1691
01:41:12,239 --> 01:41:15,159
so yeah, yeah, that's it's
funny. Ultron he was when he got

1692
01:41:15,199 --> 01:41:18,880
buffed, he was super popular again. I feel like three days I was

1693
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,640
seeing like every game was an Ultron
deck, and I feel like I haven't

1694
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:25,319
seen him since, so he's kind
of like submerged under again, but like

1695
01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:27,720
it's all like he got nerved again. He's still really good, but he's

1696
01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,479
just underrated or you know, there's
a new card every single week, so

1697
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:32,760
of course people that's always what people
are gonna flock to when they get the

1698
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:38,359
new cards, so it makes sense
cool. Any other snap thoughts or is

1699
01:41:38,399 --> 01:41:41,359
that is that all for the day? Was there anything that I skipped over

1700
01:41:41,359 --> 01:41:44,159
in the video that looked compelling to
you? I think I think we've kind

1701
01:41:44,199 --> 01:41:46,039
of mentioned it all. I didn't
love the whole pool segment. That was

1702
01:41:46,079 --> 01:41:49,560
kind of haty. I fast forward
to their like skits at this point,

1703
01:41:49,600 --> 01:41:54,159
I'm not into it, Ben bro
It seems like a nice guy, but

1704
01:41:54,439 --> 01:41:57,880
man, his energy is like too
much for me these days, and like

1705
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:00,760
the deadpool of Mariachi band that they
have, Like I after every card while

1706
01:42:00,760 --> 01:42:04,880
I was just going like on elden
Ring and just just looked over and just

1707
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:10,000
yeah, it's too much. I'm
smashing that forward key yeah, getting Yeah,

1708
01:42:10,239 --> 01:42:13,760
it's no modest house in Morowin,
that's for sure. That's that's a

1709
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:16,520
true video. Oh you're so nice. Oh if I was gonna ask you

1710
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:19,479
this earlier in your game has been
playing section? Have you still been playing

1711
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:23,079
Fallout? You're still working through Fallout
four there? Or is that taking a

1712
01:42:23,119 --> 01:42:26,079
little back seat that has a lot
of stuff, so I'm not gonna blame

1713
01:42:26,119 --> 01:42:30,840
you too much, but that has
taken a back seat. I feel like

1714
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:33,560
I haven't touched it since I updated
you, so you are completely updated on

1715
01:42:33,640 --> 01:42:38,039
that journey. Still still downloaded,
so that's a good sign. A good

1716
01:42:38,079 --> 01:42:43,720
time hasn't walked the plank yet.
Uh okay, well I think for today

1717
01:42:43,800 --> 01:42:45,680
that that's gonna do it. We're
gonna walk the plank on out of here.

1718
01:42:46,399 --> 01:42:48,960
Thank you everyone for listening. I
think next week'side quest is going to

1719
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:55,680
be one day late just because of
recording schedule stuff, so uh you know,

1720
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:59,560
look look for Wednesday morning instead of
Tuesday morning. Thank you everyone for

1721
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:00,560
listening, and we'll see you then. Bye.