Hello, and welcome to Sidequest. This is our weekly video game show here
at Peek First and I'm your host, the King of the Bridge, Dylan
must and I had with me the Prophet Kirkland Pats are making his long awaited
return here at side Quest. How are you doing, my friend? I
am doing just fantastic. I'm so happy to be here. It's been feels
like forever since I've been on. It's we'll go a string where I'm on
for like four weeks and then I just won't be on for like, I
don't think you were here at all in June, so it must sometime in
probably early May at this point. Yeah, I feel like I conquered May,
though I feel like I was on a lot of thee. But no,
it's it's good to be back, and yeah it should be a fun
one. Yeah, let's get right into it today. We're gonna we got
a bit of news. We're gonna break on a couple a trailer for a
Quiet Place game which is coming out. We're gonna about the July month of
Marvel Snap. And then we just got a bunch of games we've been playing
because obviously Kirklan hasn't been here in a bit. I always have some new
stuff, So let's start with A Quiet Place. Remind me the movies?
Have you seen? I know you haven't seen Day one yet, but have
you seen the first two? I have never seen Quiet Place. You haven't
seen a single single. I haven't even seen the bird Box rip Off,
whatever that one was. I haven't seen any of this, right, Okay,
no sound, no sight, Okay, but did you watch this trailer
for the game. I did watch this trailer, yes, which I already
forget the name A Quiet Place, the road Road Ahead to the Cold.
There you go. What did you think of this? As someone who hasn't
clearly watched the movies yet? Does this intrigue you out at all? From
like maybe the gameplay sense rather than just what the horror movie sense of it
can do. It's funny with Quiet Place. I really didn't know anything about
it until I was going to see whatever movie and they had the trailer for
Day one. It was just like, oh, wow, okay, there's
months in this movie, Like I didn't know. Wow, you didn't even
have that. I guess. Well. The first trailer for the first movie
was pretty coy with what was going on, and then I feel like by
the second one, you were probably pretty checked out because you're like, well,
I haven't seen the first one, so I don't care about I don't
even remember seeing a trailer for the second one. Maybe I have, but
I'm just like mixing the two up. I just remember like a threat,
but I like, I don't think you ever see it, at least in
the trailer. Well, now you know, because they don't hold back in
this, I know what it is. Yeah, I've seen the game engine
version of it as well, but uh no, I I haven't experienced the
movies, but this trailer actually really surprised me. It definitely reminded me of
something similar like Last of Us, you know, just like that post apocalyptic
with monsters. The gameplay looked pretty fun in my opinion, like, like,
it looks like a pretty solid game actually, and I feel like with
the Last of Us, the story, I imagine would be more important than
the gameplay. I feel like that's usually how those games go. And yeah,
no, I thought it looked really solid and just the world overall it
looks really interesting, So I don't know, maybe like it. It boosts
up my interest levels, I guess for the overall, just movie universe.
I always assumed it was gonna be like a movie that I would eventually see,
But it's just I mean, now we have three movies out and a
game coming. It's true. I think I feel like this year, I
think you need to say Day one just for Goldenak purposes, honestly, Okay,
cheap plug. We did a review meet Travis and Taylor, and yeah,
we all enjoyed it. I won't spoil any more than that. Well,
I'll just say that we enjoyed it. You should go check out that
review if you want to hear more. But yeah, so I feel like
maybe this year you'll have to check that out. And I think Day one
works perfectly because it is kind of a prequel. It's also kind of just
like another story in that world, so you don't need to watch the first
two before watching that. You're not gonna spoil anything for yourself. It's I
think it's completely fine to watch them kind of out of order in that way.
So I'm curious to hear what you think about that movie when you and
the rest of them, to be honest, But yeah, I think that
this game, it's I think we usually look like kind of like a double
a sort of thing, like it didn't quite look you know, like that
big four kit that we expect, and this is a story trailer, but
I was kind of surprised at how story focused it was. Maybe I shouldn't
be. It's based on a movie, obviously, but there's just a lot
of cut scenes going along, a lot a lot of character stuff, and
I guess I maybe expected when they were doing this game that it would just
be just kind of set far into into the world, kind of going into
disarray. But like the trailer opens with like that same day one, you
know, cutscene sort of thing, and then we get into like the inciting
event. So it's interesting that it's kind of going right to the start,
and I don't know how deep into that it's gonna go. I'm guessing it'll
be kind of like three or four days consecutively that you're playing through through it,
rather than being like this big open world thing that you're like potentially surviving
for months. I think it will be a shorter, more story focused thing.
But yeah, I'm curious to see more of it. I didn't look
up the developer. I should do that at some point here, just to
see what we can expect in terms of the gameplay, but I think it
looks cool. I think for me it would really just down to the price
point. If it's a full eighty buck, it's kind of tricky, but
maybe when it drops on sale. But I think it looks fun. I
like the movies, and I like the world enough, and you know,
funnily enough playing Outlast a bunch this year. One very minor mechanic that I
really like in those games is if you step on a little bit of glass
and make noise and then like have the monsters come after you. Like that's
a fun, weird threat and not really used to that in games normally,
not like looking directly at the ground beneath your feet for little details like that.
But I think this game could be all about that kind of thing,
of being really careful about your movements and of course a stealth way, but
like a little bit differently of not just trying to avoid a monster but also
trying to watch every last step. And at one point the characters like bringing
out like a tube of toothpaste or something from a shelf, and he's like
it's like operation where he's like, oh, I can't touch this other thing,
and make a noise in any way. So I don't know's I like
a good stealth game, and I think that this could be a cool,
a cool way to do it. I almost feel like it could be tricky
to pull off, but it seems like they're doing a decent job because I
kind of feel like the game would work really really well in VR honestly,
like just with the concept. But this is, of course, it's not
a VR game, so I don't know. I'm curious to see how it'll
translate to just a regular first person I guess not shooter, well a little
bit of shooter first person mechanics, it could be. Could be an interesting
time, yeah, m And then the other thing that I found interesting,
this is a very minor spoiler for you, Kirklin on the first one,
is that at one point in this trailer of the character sitting on the toilet,
they go pick up a pregnancy test and it reads positive. So that's
gonna be a mechanic in that, like, well, how do you have
a baby without making any sound? That seems like a pretty tricky thing to
do, And that's something that happens in the first movie. I'll say,
without saying more than that, so it's it's it's cool that they're kind of
picking things that have been done in the movies. But then also you know,
grabbing new characters and telling a new story in here. So I'm intrigued.
Aoyu. I think it's a cool idea. I guess I didn't really
expect this game, and I don't know it's it's it's just a cool,
interesting thing. I'm curious what other sort of any other Like, it's weird
that that series already has three movies in it. It's kind of like a
becoming a big franchise. Just I feel like in a couple of years,
even though I guess it was what few like twenty eighteen or something like that
the first one came out, so it's been a while now. But I
don't know, it's cool. I'm I'm very very much intrigued by this,
and I could see Taylor picking it up for sure, maybe Travis Wood as
well, So I don't know. I feel like we could do a review
in the future of it. This is also a game that just makes me
It just feels like it's screaming, like game pass all over it, like
like it'll just see on there, like fairly, fairly quickly. I don't
know right at launch, but I mean, if it's on there, I'm
sure both those lads they're pretty good about. There's like they try to have
like it seems like a constant flux of horror games coming in and out,
like Resident Evils are popping in and out of the service. Uh, and
then like Amnesia was on there, a couple other ones that I've seen,
Witch was on there, and Witch was on there. Yeah, of course
evil uh not Evil Dead what it called Evil Within those games are on there
because they own that studio and whatnot at this point. So yeah, it
seems like they definitely want to get some horror games in there. So this
would be a big one because it's a big, bigger ip than some of
those other ones we just mentioned, So could be a cool thing. I
don't think we have any sort of release date on it yet, but I
don't know. Looked like they had a decent amount of gameplay in there,
even though it was a story trailer. So maybe like at the Game Awards
or something, we could get a bigger trailer with a release date and maybe
maybe it could be next year, who knows. We'll keep an eye out
on that. Yeah, okay, moving on, Kirklem take it away.
Tell me about what you've been playing in the last month and a half here.
Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's been so long since I've been on
here. I feel like I've gone through like different phases with some of these
games that I that I've played on. So I'll start at the top with
a game that I picked up on my switch. I've been playing my switch
since I probably yeah, probably since I beat Princess Peach. I feel like
I haven't really touched the switch. Maybe we played like Mario curt every once
in a while here, yeah and there, but no. When I went
on my trip to Manatole, I brought my switch with me and I booted
up a game that I had not play it since my last year, like
the previous year's trip to Manitoba, and that was FIRELM. Three Houses.
I was hoping you would say Fire today. I was smelling it in the
air. I love it. Oh, yes, it's funny. This is
just like a tradition game. I guess I just pick up yearly around Father's
Day weekend when I go out to Manitoba when the school year is back.
In Secsion come back, Yeah, exactly, And uh, I couldn't really
remember where I was. I knew that I had finished like Act one and
was at some just yeah it's some area in Act two, and I can't
remember what chapter I left off on on my like recent binge of the game.
But uh, I definitely put in like probably a good ten hours just
here and there, like all we'd really be doing is like watching movies and
chilling, so just like always be pulling up the switch and man, that
game is just so fantastic. I honestly thought it was the most recent Fireman
game too. I kind of forgot about Engage and yeah, that game,
which I definitely do at some point want to try. But I mean I
to this date, I have never completed fully a FIREMLM game, and I
definitely feel like I'm approaching. I don't think like I'm on like the last
chapter or two, but like I just feel like, damn, I have
a lot of hours into this game now, and I definitely feel like I'm
I'm able to conquer that Beast and God that three houses. I don't know
if it's if it's better than Awakening in my opinion for the story wise,
I really really love that Firing Them Awakening game. And I also feel like
because that was my first fire Fire emblem, it was just like, I
don't know, I didn't know what to expect with the combat, let alone
the story and the characters, and I just I really love that game.
But no, I really like just the different characters in here and just kind
of their dynamics amongst each other. And I love the whole mechanic of like
the characters aging and like they're just their interactions kind of change around them aging
as well as just the world around them. So I do really like the
story. I really like the characters, and yeah, I know it's it's
it's pretty kick ass. The main characters pretty op I feel like, yeah,
they always are in like all the fire On games. I remember Robin
really being really opy, as well as just Biloth is that the name I
can't remember. Yeah, because they're just so versatile, especially like Robin and
Bilith. I think before that it was usually like just a sword user and
they usually have good stats, but like they're not super opay because they're still
limited. But now, yeah, like Bielith and Robin just have range on
top of their regular sword actions and whatnot. They just yeah, they're just
so versatile and you're gonna have them in every battle, so they're level way
be like over leveled at all times. So yeah, super strong. The
Exalted one class that the I think that's what it's called, that the player
character has is it's just it's crazy. But I can't remember what house did
you say you were when you played? So I the first one I did
was adle Guard's house was Black Black Eagles, Black Eagles, and then I
did another play through with the Golden Deer. Oh okay, and then I
still haven't I haven't done a playthrough of the Blue so that's the one I'm
on right now. Like that, I think my first one I ever did
was the Black Eagles, but I didn't get too far into that one,
and then probably like took some time away from it, came back and then
made this one the Blue Lions, and I don't know, I just felt
like I never really made like a like a heavy martial type class, meaning
like swords, and just like got a lot of uh what do they call
wiven lords like just just like yeah, like my second playthrough, I made
everyone a Wiverron lord because I was just trying to like speed run it to
some extent, just like everyone, you're gonna have the maximum speed, you're
gonna be able to fly over gaps and they are. Yeah, especially because
there's like the magic wiverns and stuff too, which is a really cool addition
that I think that was added in Three Houses. I don't remember an earlier
game having wyverns that like weren't just like usually axe users are maybe a bow
later on, but yeah, I think the ones like or maybe it's the
pegasusts. I can't remember the exact but I don't know. Whatever it is,
just having a flying who can do magic is a really cool thing.
Oh it's so strong and uh, just like mounted units in general, the
fact that they can like attack and then move again is such a strong mechanic,
especially if you have like a ranged attacker. And I don't know,
I feel like again like I've never really played with archers in my in my
army, but I have a couple mostly mostly like Pegasus riders like can like
swap in and out like my one character that I feel like I just rely
on them in every single battle. Is I think it's a Actually no,
it's it's definitely another wive in Lord, but uh, just just having them
with like a lance but then also like a bow on them is just mmm,
it's it's crazy how strongest. But no, that was another thing I
was so happy with with with Three Houses, and I think they'd actually done
it earlier with the remake of Shadows of Lunch, like the three DS game,
where they made bows have more range than just two because they were always
kind of the weakest class because they didn't have more range than any of the
magic classes. But then they couldn't do range one attacks. Yeah, so
they just like didn't really other than being able to take down Pegasus and other
flying units as like just because they have that critical there weren't. They weren't
super useful and so you still use them if you like the character, but
they weren't really like one of the stronger ones. So I think it was
a really good choice that they had just way more monster range in that game
make them much more viable and so you can kind of do different strategy with
them. So yeah, because then I think it was Three Houses where they
implemented like the gambits that you can have with Yeah, I think for a
few of the games they've had similar things. Okay, I don't think they
ever called them gambits, but like certain special abilities like that was a big
thing in Path of Radiance I think was the first one that added that.
The GameCube one. Okay, so a while ago. Actually yeah, but
yeah, like one of my characters, like he's mainly an archer, and
then one of his gambits, I swear, you can shoot like across the
map, like it's just it's just insane, and then have them on like
a flying mount It's just yeah, no, it's it's it's it's really awesome.
And I feel like, because I don't know, I'm definitely not an
expert with those games. I don't play on Lunatic or anything I think I'm
on. I have no idea what difficulty I'm on. Actually, I feel
like Hard is the one that I've kind of always played on, but since
yeah, you can't really recall it. But do you know what chapter you're
on? What number? Yeah, that's what I was trying to remember.
I should have grabbed my switch and check. Things are heating up, that's
for sure, just with the overall political landscape, I guess on the maps
right now, and yeah, no, I'm I cannot remember at all.
Pull it up. I mean, from what you're saying, it does sound
like you are getting near the end, which is it is exciting you're gonna
roll credits on your first yeah game. I will report back when that day
comes, because is that going to be next year when you jump into it
again or are you on a roll right now? Do you think you're gonna
keep it going? I have played since I was on the trip, but
that was a couple of weeks ago already now and uh yeah, but just
with some of the other games, I'm gonna talk to you about it.
I feel like we'll be filling up sometimes slots. But uh yeah, that's
my fire Emblem update. Absolutely love those games. And you know, just
shouts out to literally you. I think you were the one that told me
about them back when the target days. I'm pretty sure I was like,
oh, yeah, I was checking out this game I think I want to
get and you're like, man, I got Fire Awakening, you can borrow
it. Yeah, that's all that's crazy. There you go. Here we
are all these years later. Yeah, I all throw in one of my
games here. Actually, okay, it's not it's not fire emblem, but
it is. It feels a lot like fire emblem. So recently I was
at a I mentioned this to Travis. I was at a retro video game
convention where there was all sorts of vendors selling things, and so I bought
some games and one of the things that I just impulse bought was Civilization Revolution
for the Nintendo DS. Oh my gosh, yeah, that's crazy. I
remember that game on Xbox three sixty yes, because that was I think the
first Civilization game that was on consoles, So it was a bit it was
a much more simplified version because it had to be controller friendly and it had
to kind of introduce a whole new audience to what Civilization is, like this
grand strategy sort of game, but kind of simplified version. And so when
I didn't even know until I saw it at this booth that it had a
DS port as well, which was just the funniest thing to me. So
I'm like, ten bucks, I'm absolutely picking this up. I need to
see what is going on here. And so I've been playing through that.
I've done a full playthrough actually, because Civilization Revolution was also one of the
with the casualification of it. It made the runs a lot quicker, which
is a good thing because you know, some civilization even on the shortest difficulties,
can take ten to twenty hours for one run for example. So yeah,
this one, I don't know, probably took me maybe four hours or
something to get through all all of the ages. And it's funny because it
very much looks like a fire emblem sort of tactics game. It's like on
a square grid instead of like the hex grid, which they've kind of done
different ones in different games, I think, And yeah, like it just
because of the placement of the units and how kind of small ministule the maps
are. It feels like a bit of like a fire emblemp thing and that
you're just taking over tiles positioning your units in those similar sort of ways.
And yeah, it's it's it is a fun time. It's very different.
It's a very simplified thing, but it also has different mechanics. Like I
don't think any of the civilization games I've played have had an economic victory as
one of the conditions, but this has an economic victory, so just you
know, hitting different gold in your bank milestones. That's just one of the
ways you can win the game, which is crazy because yeah, normally,
like money might help you get a military victory because you can just buy a
bunch of units, or maybe you can invest much money to boost your science
and then you could get a science victory. But yeah, I can't recall
there ever being just a straight up economic victory. So it's a totally different
way to play the game. The heartbreaking thing of this is I did this
whole run, and at some point, you know, I saw these victory
conditions. A couple of players are getting close. I'm doing okay. I'm
a bit of an everyman. I have all of the different win conditions.
I'm like in the race. To some extent, culture was like my main
thing. And then at some point it was like there's five turns left in
this game before it ends, and I was blindsided by that because I didn't
expect that to come up so quick. So I was like, Okay,
I guess I'm gonna go all in on economic victory because I'm probably closest to
that. So all my cities converted them to just making gold, and I
got so freaking close. I think I needed one or two more turns to
get it, and I just barely didn't get that economic victory. And then
when it came down to the final score, this is what is a real
bummer about It is the eventual winner because since no one hit any of the
win conditions, it just ended on time. It just gave like whoever had
the most the highest, like accrude average score. I guess between all the
victory conditions because you're gonna getting rated on them as you go through. And
then the freaking Mongols won in a random victory at the very end because they
just had a humongous army and so they won like the war victory whatever that
one's called, just based on having the largest army. But because I had
so much freaking money, I could have just bought like a million units and
had a stronger army. So if I had kind of foreseen that, or
maybe if I had to save a couple of turns ago, I could have
like, okay, I can go last minute by a bunch of units and
go for that as my victory condition. So it was a bit of a
bummer. I don't think I'm gonna keep playing this game and grinding it by
any means, but it was really fun to do a play through, and
I'm sure at some point in the future if I'm on the road and want
something, I'll pick it up again. It's you know, like Civilization six
is on the Switch, so that's like, you know, you can go
play that if you want Civilization on the Goal or on Steam Deck. I'm
sure has all the games now, you can play it on there. But
it was it was really just an odd fascination that that game existed on the
DS. Just such a wild thing, and it was, Yeah, it
was a it was a really good time. It's like because those DS ports
for games back in the day, or like the Game Boy Advance ports,
they were just completely different games, you know, the completely different are completely
different mechanics, and so it's very impressive to me that they were just releasing
multiple versions. But it's so different than these days, where every version is
you know, pretty much the same. Maybe it looks a bit worse on
Switch, but it's always the same mechanics, whereas different like online features or
something. So yeah, it's such a weird thing that exists, but yeah,
it was. It was a good time. So I don't know if
I can recommend people go pick up Civilization Revolution on their Nintendo dys in the
year twenty twenty four. But for someone who's a big fan of that series,
uh, it was. It was pretty cool random pickup to find you
got your ten bucks worth out of it. That's absolutely Oh yeah, okay
back to you. What's what's your next game on your list? Yeah?
Next game? You are the one that told me about this game, Pseudo
Regalia, right, jumped in there. Yeah, go. I entered the
dream World and man, what what a game. I am pretty early on
with it, like I just grabbed it. I think I'm about an hour
and a half in right now. It's pretty short game, so that's actually
you know, it's a meaty chunk into It's a good chunk in. Yeah.
I felt bad that I didn't have like more time to like jump in
there because I had played it in one sitting and then I went back to
it, like I think it was a couple of days after and I like
could not remember like where I was, and I feel like it's again no
map in that game, which is very controversial for a lot of people in
the Steam forums of the game. I was backtracking, uh like for a
little bit there, and I'm just like, man, I feel like I
feel like it's a it's a game that is fine to get lost in,
but like I want time to get lost in it. So I didn't want
to like just play it for a short time and then like forget where I
was again. So when I have like a nice time chunk to jump in
there, I feel like I'll just sit down and just like run through.
That's always the thing that kills my momentum on metroidvanias in general, and why
I find it so hard to connect with that genre is just because yeah,
I'll play it, and even if I come back two or three days later,
sometimes that's all the difference. Even games that have maps, and I
come back to Hall of Night, I didn't play for a week or two,
and it's like no idea, what the hell I was doing, what
I should be doing, where I should go. I feel like I should
start new save, but I don't want to do that. So I think
for we were really at least I mean, I did kind of play through
it in a few days, but since it's not super long, I don't
know. But definitely the ending section where I just had to get a last
couple of collectibles whatever to finish the game, I was going around the whole
map just looking for random holes that I hadn't been in before. So the
ending of it for me was a little tricky, But the rest of the
way I found like there's enough ways I haven't been yet that I can go
mess around and eventually I'll bump into some stuff I haven't seen yet. Yeah,
but man it is. It is absolutely fantastic. I love the soundtrack
in it. I feel like it fits the world so freaking good. So
I still bump that soundtrack on a weekly basis, putting on some of those
songs. Yeah, it's got bobs on it, that's for sure. And
just think the animation as well, with your at tax and the movement.
I will say it took. I'm still in the I still haven't mastered like
the like the wall jumps. I feel like sometimes I find myself like jumping
in the wrong direction. It's kind of frustrating, especially if you're like on
a chain and then you like fall and it's like, yeah, damn,
you'll get the hang of it. I think, yeah eventually. Yeah,
No, I definitely think so. But like I said, like, I'm
only like an hour or so in so I I think, you know,
throw in another hour, I'll probably have it down and just like unlocking new
abilities that like and then like chaining them in with your movements. Like,
man, this game is just so fun to like move around and adventure in.
So yeah, I want to bring that up because you are the one
that told me about it, and on that cast, I wish listed that
game right here we are and I find was it a Steam a Summer Steam
sale pick up? I'm pretty sure I missed the summer summer sale by like
a day, like like I literally saw it. I'm like, oh awesome.
I threw to my cart, but I like never purchased it came back
and I think it was only like ten percent off, so it was like
this, I don't know if maybe it wasn't part of the summer sale.
Yeah maybe not. I don't know. It's it's not very expensive game,
but uh yeah no, I it's fantastic. So I'm glad I finally picked
it up. All right, I got some Meteor ones here. So one
big game that I'm pretty sure I found out again, I was sitting in
this chair talking to you on this cast about it is the game Scarlet Nexus,
right, that. Yeah, the I think it's the second game from
the studio that made Tales of a Rise. And it's funny because the game
the gameplay is completely different, but the story and the characters at least makes
me think of Fire Emblem and just like how like anime those games can be.
This game is very much like an anime. Like even if you just
watch the intro to the game, it literally just feels like you're about to
watch like an anime episode. Like it's just all all of those aspects.
I just absolutely love. I really really love the characters in it, and
I feel like more so than the combat, that's what just like sucked me
in on it. This game I think of about thirty six hours in and
I yeah, oh yeah, this was probably the month of June, like
before I went on my trip. Like this game I was grinding, like
just putting in PlayStation PlayStation yeah, because it's on It was for free on
the PlayStation, like it's not free, but the PlayStation extras catalog thing right
that I pay for. That was where I was just going through and I'm
like, man, I pay so much money for this a year, Like
I gotta start playing some of these games. And I just saw that one.
I'm like, what is this? And then I'm like, oh shit,
I talked to Dylan about this game. That's interesting, okay, And
the gameplay was like nothing amazing, I thought at least, but just the
characters and like the twists and turns with the story is really what had me.
It's a game that has two like main protagonists and then you choose which
one you play for like that particular I guess just play through kind of like
Resident Evil too has with those two characters there, and their stories definitely cross
over. And for the first like good amount of hours, I'm like,
I don't really see the point to like play the other character because you're just
always interacting with them and you're like always fighting with them. But then there's
like a specific thing that happens and it's a it's a pretty good twist,
and then it's like, oh, okay, I get it now. We're
definitely treading different paths, and you know, it's a bit like see If
Stars where it's like you can pick you two protagonists, you can switch between
them, but like you're I'm just gonna stick with one because you don't really
have a reason too and then there's certain points in the story where you're kind
of maybe forced to use one or the other. Yeah, so like you
can't really switch between the two when you're in combat, you can like call
upon their abilities. I like it's definitely inspired, but like I don't know
if you would call it like a classic JRPG where you have like the party.
I don't know if j RPGs are just turn based or whatever that that
the category is pretty much defined as. But like you have your party with
you, and then in combat like you can kind of like do combo moves
with them. I guess the gameplay is most similar to something like Final Fantasy
fifteen or geez, what's another game and that's Neino Cooney but you never play
that game. But just I don't know, it's just instead of turn based,
it's just fall on like almost hack and slash action with just some very
where does this strategy come into it then, or like the RPG like the
build, like the strategy building parts of it, Like like you get your
your skill tree. That's nothing too crazy, basically just making you like like
it's a vast skill tree, but it's not like you're learning necromancy or something
like it's just like hit harder, you know, like move faster like like
stuff like that. But the gameplay like is really fast and it definitely rewards
you if you have like quick reaction times with like dodge timers and stuff like
that. And you know, like this game is just like meant for an
anime fan, and just like the wild visuals that like some of these fights
have. It's probably something similar to like a oh my gosh, what's it
called Bayonetta series, like something like that, or like Devil May Cry.
Like it's just like so wild some of these fights that you have. And
the characters, Like there's one character who you don't really know her age,
but she's like really old, but she looks like a little girl and she's
like Bunny ears and she us like a chainsaw. There's just like hack and
slash things and it's just like classic it's a classic anime character here. But
like the world, like world building and just the lore is actually really really
interesting. I feel like it's nothing I've ever experienced before. It's kind of
this like futuristic cyberpunky type feel, but like just the explanations on like how
the world works, like everybody without going too deep into it. They have
this like gene that you can just like connect to like a network, and
then it's as if I can see like my monitors without having like physical monitors
here. But then there's certain people in the world that just they just don't
have that quality, so they like literally can't see. Like you go into
a city and there's just like crazy visuals everywhere, and there's just certain people
that can't see that because they just weren't poort in that way. So just
like the actual world building aspect of it is really interesting too as well as
Yeah, just I really love the characters that were introduced to it. And
unfortunately I haven't really picked up the game, and like since my last real
hard binge on it. I like I said, I probably around the fifty
percent mark and my completion level I think it's a little bit below that,
but that's like your total completion with like collectibles and such. But yeah,
I know, it's it's one that surprised me because I don't I feel like
when we first looked at it, it's like, Okay, that's it looks
kind of interesting, but not a game I'll pick up. But I eventually
jumped in there, and it was pleasantly surprising, Like I like it was.
It was a really good time that I had binging those early portions and
yeah, like some good twists and turns with the story that definitely had me
hooked. Yeah, would you say that the minute to minute combat then?
Is it does it feel like a Soul's type game? Or is it you
know, you're dodging, you're doing your Perry's, you're getting your combos in
or or how does that does that feel? Is it? Is it fun
engaging? Do you like the combat? Is that what you're hoping for when
you're playing it? I like not really Souls like in the sense of like
maybe there's certain I guess you could compare it somewhat in that sense, but
there is areas that you will probably tread back through that are just kind of
annoying to have to deal with these enemies. But again that's kind of Souls
because you'll have to like go through certain areas and sometimes you have to run
by In this game, I guess you can't really run by them, like
it kind of like locks the area. So maybe that's the part of it.
Yeah, But like I don't know, like I might be downplaying it
a bit because I still really like the combat, like it like it is
really fun. It's just maybe for certain individuals that don't really love that hacking
slash style like a Devil May Cry, they might not love it. But
I think might be holding me back because I don't generally like that kind of
combat system. But I mean, I think the if there's a good amount
of strategy and RPG building, party assembly, that sort of stuff like though,
that could help, I don't know, motivate me because it's like,
well, I'm having fun kind of seeing my plans come to fruition, you
know. Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. I feel like it's
the type of game too where if you see it come across your path on
game pass or whatever not or and I think it might have been on there
at one point. Maybe it still is. I know, the Tales of
a Rise that you said that was the same studio. Yeah, this is
the second game, right, because that game game passed. I actually did
download and played for like, okay an hour or two and then kind of
bounce off of it. But yeah, I assume one sounds a lot more
compelling to me, just because of the way you're setting up the world and
the story like that GM thing that sounds really interesting. It's wild and the
way that would be integrating to the story. I can just picture villains who
would be opposed to that sort of setup of a world, wanting to change
things in a you know, less than desirable way like that. That sounds
that sounds fun and cool, so that on it. Like I've always seen
this game and never really been like too sold on it. It's until that
pitch from you, like that one sentence is like, oh okay, that's
really interesting. I like that nugget. Yeah. No, there's a pretty
wild like like your character can basically go like super Saiyane at some point,
but it's like really brutal the way they do it. There's like these like
needle things that come out of like this technology type just air, I guess,
and they just like stab into your character and then you just get like
totally connected. I forget the term that they call it, but you basically
just get like fully up and you're just like wild and you're super strong,
but it drains your health bar and you either die or you like stop it
or early. Like like it's just a thing that like you get super powerful,
but you will dive. It just keeps so like, yeah, a
lot of like torment. I feel like it's going on in this world.
It's it's definitely like a dystopian universe that they have going but uh gotcha,
it's yeah, it's it's definitely worth checking out, I think, And this
game, I don't think like if I do eventually roll credits, I don't
think I would run through it again. Even though the stories do deviate amongst
the two characters, I just feel like they would be too similar or maybe
if I do, it would be like in the future, Like I don't
know, like if I'm sixty hours is too long to do a replay of
a game unless you're like a Boulder's Gate and you can justify it somehow.
But yeah, for the most part, yeah, you get like you get
the broad strokes. Then you can watch a YouTube video of the biggest cut
scenes that you missed or something. Yeah, no, because yeah, that's
a good way to look at it. And I think I would potentially check
out Tales Will a Rise, just because I do like this game, and
I know that one is you know, it's a completely different stories and I'm
more of the fantasy setting what you're into, so it might be up your
up your alley. It's funny, though, I only knew that they were
connected because in this game, one of the characters can have like a sword
that the character from the first game has, and like I only know that
because it like details. It's like this character from Tails Arise like wielded this
weapon. And I'm surprised that they were but just because I thought those games
came out like within the same year or like within the same two year period
or something, So it surprises me that they came out so quickly. But
maybe my sense of time is just skewy something I'm not sure perhaps, But
yeah, no, it's It's been a good one and one that I've been
waiting to tell you about just because you know, I discovered it with you.
So yeah, it's sweet. Okay, Let's let's take a quick little
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It was about a certain house in uh in a city in marrow Wind,
and yeah, my gosh it definitely. I could just tell your your
knowledge when it comes to the game of just like I I feel like you
were because I haven't really jumped into morrow Wind too much. You're just listing
names and places and things that you could do in the city of I can't
remember what it was there, just era, but a certain man that you
know you might you may or may not take his home and uh yeah take
all of his crates of the Yeah, yeah, this is it's very random.
But I had on a whim decided to make a YouTube video. It's
about twenty five minutes long. It is great. It is where I talk
about my favorite house in Elder Scrolls three Marwind. That's not on geek first,
it's on my I have a YouTube channel that I used to post my
trailer for my game. It's called Rapatika Games or Potion Problem. I don't
know what YouTube calls it, but yeah, if you want to find the
video, it's called a modest house in Marwind. Maybe I'll post a link
in the description of this video, but yeah, I don't know, very
random. I just felt like making it. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching it, Kirkling. That was a fun time. So if
people want to hear me talk about Marwin a little bit and a pretty you
know, unserious way. You don't need to know anything about Marrowind to hopefully
enjoy the video. If you do, enjoy more, I think you'll get
more out of it. But if you know, if not, MUD's watching
it. Two, she doesn't know anything Brown and she had a good time
with it, So yeah, I as well. At some point too,
I'm like, oh, this is like an ad for Potion Problem. Like
there's a nice little hidden easter egg in there. Oh yeah, no,
it was very fitting and very entertaining. It was yeah, like I have
episode two if it ever drops. Yeah, I definitely want to. I
don't know where that will fall in my priority of working on games, doing
Geek for stuff, working doing other life things. It's kind of a low
priority thing. It was just something that it was just a passion project that
I wanted to do and honestly didn't take me that long to make it.
It was pretty pretty easy to make. But yeah, I someone on the
video posted their favorite house, and now I kind of want to do an
episode, a follow episode where I go check out that house, and I
think that would be a fun time. But yes, uh, with that,
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more video games. Will be right back. Okay, we are back,
Kirklam. What is your last I think your last game my last game mentioned,
Yeah, last game, definitely not least. This is a big game.
I I feel like I had to mark it on my calendar. July
seventh, around early in the morning was the day that I picked up this
game. And this is a big momentous occasion. I finally picked up elden
Ring the twenty Yeah, I got no, that is exciting. It's it's
it's one that I was just like, yeah, I know, I'll get
to it eventually. And then I don't even know why. I feel like
I just woke up and it just felt like a little bit are just like
shining their light on elden Ring that right now. And I was pretty stoked
because I picked up they had like a combo pack with Shadow of the Tree,
which right I heard it's a fantastic DALC and like very lengthy. It's
also like basically a full price game on its own, but again an elden
Ring and Shadow of the Air Tree. I think it was only like one
hundred bucks for nice, so you pretty much saved twenty bucks ish. Yeah
no, And like I feel like games are normally like ninety bucks Canadians,
so so like to get that and out of the Air Tree. So I
was stoked by about that. I'm sure it'll be a while till I,
you know, jump into those adventures of what that DLC holds. But man,
I think I'm about nine hours in right now. That's why I was
late to this cast because I was just like, man, it was just
getting so fucked, couldn't find a sight of grace to exactly, but you
know, like just quick, like I feel like I I've dabbled a little
bit in souls games. I've tried and failed and Dark Souls won a little
bit of Demon Souls, but that's about it. On the the from software
games and then the souls like games. My my favorite one was the Neo
franchise and sunk lots of hours into that, and yeah, I know that
this game like from the like from the get go, just completely blew my
mind on how beautiful it is and also just just getting lost, Like I
feel like this game is so much more approachable than other souls like games that
I have played in the past, just for the sense of like, Okay,
I got bopped here, let's just go this direction, and then you
just like go that direction and you're just traveling on Torrent and you're just going
through the highlands. It's like, man, that looks crazy over there.
Let's just go wander over there. And like I don't really feel pressure to
like go a certain route, like I'm really just wandering aimlessly through this world,
and uh, I don't. Like I'll find something interesting and go in
it until I get bopped, and then I'll try, you know, six
seven more times. And if I keep getting bopped, it's usually like okay,
if I'm doing no damage to them, and like it's like less than
like not even three quarters or sorry, not even a quarter of their health
is gone. And I've tried like ten times, it's like, yay,
I'm gonna move on from this, drop a map marker and peace out of
there. Yeah exactly, but uh, like yeah, just the early impressions,
it's just fantastic. For somehow, I've been able to just not get
spoiled on like anything about this game. I've seen some very brief gameplay,
but nothing really for like, like everything I've come across I've never seen before
on any gameplay trailer or like other streamers or whatnot. I feel like I've
seen the Tree Sentinel like just his image on like a meme or something like
across the interwebs. But yeah, no, it's it's really really fantastic.
My character I made a profit as my name, you know, Okay,
I only chose it because it just looked funny. It's like the one with
like the it's got like a neck guard thing like it just looks like a
prisoner. And then they have like some magic and a spear that's their faith.
Is that where the profit is in stats? Yeah? So I I
I think I'm like level I don't even know level twenty two or something right
now. Like I said, I'm about nine hours in. Uh. I
leveled up my faith up to twenty just because there was a couple powers that
I was using. And I'm like any Soul's game, I don't think I've
ever touched magic in any way, shape or form. I didn't even know
that this character had magic until like I was just in there and they had
it available to them. But I really was liking the spear as their weapon,
just like the thrusts. I've been a big thruster in that game.
I love a good spear. Not enough spears in games. And like my
my last run that I did on that game Neo, I was doing like
a spear run in that one, you pretty much just choose like a specific
weapon to do your whole run on. And yeah, I try to spear
and I just really loved it for like just having that range. It's really
really effective in games like that, those souls like schemes, and yeah,
I've found some great success with that. However, I did switch over.
I got my dexterity up high enough so and I've been rocking the claymore.
That's been like that was like my favorite weapon in Dark Souls one. So
I found it here now and I'm like, okay, old friend. Yeah,
and I mostly like I switched to two hand every once in a while,
but because my character is like it's got some faith there, I usually
go like one hand and then have like a fireball type weapon yea, which
is very effective at least just dealing with like certain mobs or maybe like pulling
certain character like just mobs and definitely aerial threats. I feel like the movement
overall has been a big shocker in this game, whether I'm attacking on Torrent,
which is just wild, or doing like those what are they called ashes
of war? Is that is that what it is? Where like you have
the abilities on your weapons, yeah, like the left trigger things, or
you the left trigger like the claim were one, you do like two front
flips, which is just crazy to me. I thought it was gonna be
like a like just a stab, but he does. He does like one
swing back and then like a front flip and it just like crushes things.
And yeah, just it's it's wild, and uh, just like the movement
overall, like it just feels much cleaner than you know, what makes sense
than what Dark Souls one would have been. Like there, that's it's pretty
dated game now it definitely holds up. But just how refined elden Ring feels
like it's just yeah, it's it's fantastic and uh, yeah, the commet
feels really good. I really just love the unique villains that I've come across
so far I've defeated. It's tough to even say like where I am,
like specifically because he's still one grave. I'm guessing like in the grad.
Yeah, like I went up to uh storm Hill, Storm Hill area,
and then I got bopped by Target the fell moment was it? Yeah,
yeah, more yeah that guy I got bobbed, well yeah, whatever it
is the guy at the gate. I got bought by him. Everyone listening
knows who you're talking about. They've all played here. I got bought by
him many times. Uh, and then I left and then I went in
the other direction, and then I defeated some bosses here and there, and
then you know, just recently before I came back here, I went and
challenged him again and I got bopped, but it was going better. It
was going better last time, you know, like I've I've suited up my
weapon a little bit. And yeah, it took me so long to get
to Morgot because I just went I went like south first, and then I
like looped back up around then. I don't think I came across him until
like twenty or thirty hours or something, so I was a level due a
point where you know, he probably killed me a couple times that I don't
think it took me too long, just because I was so over leveled.
But it's funny hearing afterwards how many people just bash their head against the wall
fighting him forty times or something. But I kind of circummended that. But
another bosses destroyed me that I'm sure other people had got too later and were
much higher level and just one shot or something. Yeah, No, for
sure, My I feel like when I first entered the area, I just
like went straight basically to where that gate was, and then after getting just
defeated at the gate itself, because there's like that big giant dude that just
jumps down like at the gate with all those armored soldiers. That's scared the
hell out of me. So then I just went the other direction. I'm
pretty sure I only got past that point because I was like running from something.
And then I just kept running up that road on Torrent and then I
eventually just got to like I said, like a grace site, and so,
oh, okay, I made it through. Look at that, look
at that, but yeah, I I've just finished. I forget the guy's
name, but it was like a lion type character like to the South,
Like I just kind of finished my journey south, went as far as I
could, like defeated that character. And then that's where I just like kind
of teleported back up and then started doing some things here and there. I
kind of handed in I guess a quest to a certain character. You don't
really like hand in a quest for XP or anything like that. But I
found the guy that told me to go somewhere and do something, and I
did that and then finally found the guy, and then that's where I had
gone back to that storm hill and then I'm like, well, let's see
if I can, you know, take on this guy. I got my
claim more now, and then yeah, I just humbled like instantly. But
with all those games like it just kind of it just kind of hits a
point where it's like, Okay, I figured it out, whether I'm reading
the specific moves of that character, or I've just leveled up my character high
enough that I'm just hating more, or I don't know, I'm just getting
better at piloting for whatever reason. You just kind of get that from that
game, even though it's not like super obvious. It's not one that like,
Okay, you defeated this many characters, you get your level up like
it's it's very unique in that sense, and obviously that's what makes these games
so just so I don't know, just popular amongst amongst everyone. I mean
definitely like the wild Monsters that you come across, and the world itself is
is just it's out of this world, like even just going through Dark Souls
and coming through and be like, what the fuck even is that thing?
And then it's like moving around on three legs and like shooting lasers at you.
Uh. In this one, I think I was just like traversing on
Torrent and then I just heard like an explosion go off, and then of
course you see one of the messages it's like get ready for range combat.
I'm like, what does that even mean? Like is there're a catapult?
And then I just see this like giant sentinel thing like shooting arrows at me.
I'm like, oh wow, okay, that's a that's a big threat.
There ended up being a pretty easy thing to take down. But no,
it's it's fantastic and definitely one that I don't even feel like I'm like
one person in like I just feel like I'm wandering through this world. But
yeah, I'm really happy I finally you finally got in there. And yeah,
no, it's it's fantastic, a great game. People don't even have
to hear me say that because it's an old game and I'm sure you know
vast majority of people have already jumped into the world of Eldin Ring And yeah,
yeah, is uh is Torrent in your opinion, the best video game
horse of all time? Ooh I probably not. I really love the designed
Red Dead. Yeah, like I don't see good like Epona, like like
Lynx horses come to hit the carrots in the right timing. No way,
I don't know, Like I'm not very like nostalgia and double jump with it
right now. Yeah, Torrent is pretty bad at maybe I just need more
ventures with it. I just can't think of many games where I actually enjoy
fighting on the back of a horse, but an elden ring, yeah,
I will gladly do it all day long. I will say I absolutely hated
it when I had that spear weapon because I had a time it like,
and now that I have the more, like, I literally just like cack
it back swinging and it's like a mole in the fucking lawn. Like it's
just it's just I'm a two handed axe user, so yeah, it's just
so good to sweep the side. But yeah, I haven't actually used a
spear on horseback, so that makes more sense. I'm like a good jouster,
you know. It's like it's a night stale or something. I was
gonna ask you what your build was. It sounds like it's pretty strength.
Yeah, a lot of strength. I mean I'm like a level one hundred
and fifty or something at this point, so I've put quite a few points
into decks as well. And then in the DLC, without explaining too much
of how it works, there's a kind of a separate leveling system because they
the DLC, since everyone's kind of going in at a different base level,
they kind of added like a separate way that you're scaling up. So because
of that, I felt like, Okay, the leveling up my strength or
decks at this point isn't really that meaningful anymore, and I already have high
enough strength or decks that like, I'm never gonna be limited on using a
weapon. Uh So I've started putting more points into the magic stuff, not
even to use the magic, just just because like, oh, this weapon
needs twenty faith and I really want to try it out. So I've just
been putting a bunch of points into like faith and mostly that one, and
then I think afterwards maybe a little I'll do a little bit of int because
there's a couple of other weapons I want to try out. But yeah,
I kind of feel like the DLC a little less meaningful on what actually you
do with your points, which is a good thing to some extent. I
think for me it's fun that I this almost feels like I can kind of
just level up my character separately, and since I've kind of done anything in
the main game and I have no interest in doing a new game plus and
worrying about my stats for that, it's nice that I can kind of just
do whatever I want and then put the odd point into health or endurance to
make sure I'm you know, keeping up with the stamina. And so yeah,
definitely big acts. Swinging one of the talisman's I have gives me bonus
damage on jump attacks, so I'm like running and jumping at people and smashing
it into the ground. It just I try to play my character like a
boss in the game, like the big slow attacks that do a shit ton
of damage and like stun my opponents. That's that's my kind to go to.
Which is which is Yeah, it's it's kind of my favorite way to
build in these kind of games. And sometimes I'll use a shield if like
a certain boss is just kicking my ass because their attacks are so fast,
then I'll maybe switch up the build. That's that's generally what I use,
And it was it was nice this weekend. Actually, the great Tyler Sayrius
was at my house, and he's a master of these games, and he
understands the mechanics way better than I do. I don't understand anything in these
games. They just make no sense to me. So he's helping me with
like giving me advice on certain weapons to use and like certain things I come
into the DLC. I haven't played the base game in a while. I
forgot that you can actually put your second hand on a weapon to like two
handed. It took for the whole DLC. I had been just running around
one arm completely doing nothing, another arm whatever, So he reminded me that
that's a mechanic. So it was nice to get I remember when I was
played Dark Souls one and I didn't understand upgrade weapons even because it was so
weird and obscure. And when he finally showed me how to do that,
I just became so op because I had so many resources save that I hadn't
used for like thirty hours into the game. So it's nice to have It's
nice to have a friend when playing a Soul's game. Yeah, Unfortunately I'm
not the best friend because I don't understand half these things either, but I'm
glad you're findly playing it. Yeah. I feel like every everybody either is
or knows someone that's just like, ye, the soul's head, like like
they just live and breathe. The lore is so ambiguous. I have one
good buddy that, yeah, he's all in on these games, and he's
just telling me all these deep like it's all space aliens, man, all
these Souls games where there's bloodborn, like it all comes down to space aliens.
It's just like in this game, for sure, there's some there's some
a lot of cosmic things. I don't even notice that. I'm not even
trying to avoid spoilers. I just don't even know. There's definitely a lot
of cosmic I don't know, wording and verbiage and stuff like that. The
like the world building overall in like all these Souls games are just it's like
almost comedic in the sense of like here's this great character who's just like the
lord of these lands and he just like spawns and just fucks you up,
and you're like, I don't even know who this guy is. I don't
like, I don't know if he's a good guy. That guy, yeah,
I don't know. You're picking up like old pickled livers and it's like,
what the hell's going on? These messages it's like it's like it's just
the pickle, you know, like like all praise the pickle. Yeah,
try Buttthole. The one that really got me, like right at the start
of the game, you know, you have the great air tree just like
just just looking at you, and then there's a message. It was just
like could this be a tree? And I just I just I just laughed.
I'm like man like even ever since Dark Souls one, when I saw
one where it's like try jumping and then I jumped. You just died.
It's like, yeah, the controls, I can't always trust him. I
found in Elner and people were more. I don't know if I everyone ever
really tricked me. Actually, I feel like people were pretty nice. My
most recent one, it was it was a mistake death, but I ended
up laughing because like I hit a lever for a lift to come down.
So I was just waiting and then there was a message that just said like
I think it was I think it was watch out behind or like something along
those lines or no, it was like danger ahead, and then I just
like hit circle, which like jumps back basically opposite of what it said.
But I was facing the wrong way and I just jumped back into the elevator
shaft. The hole fell, and I just I just laughed, just like,
man, that is that is just hilarious. Like it's all like I
read that and was like like on purpose hit it. It's just I read
it and then I accidentally hit that button and then my character jumps backwards.
Just like It's such a funny, awkward movement, that backwards jump. It's
like so clunky. It's just it's weirdly clunky. For how the rest of
the game feels, you know, very good with the movement for the yeah
part, Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm excited to kind of try out
just more weapons that I come across, Like I just got the claim more
and that was the first time I've switched from like the starter weapon that I
that I got just the short spear. I'm pretty sure you can respect as
well. At some point in the game. Man, I totally forget I'm
yeah, sure, I think that's what I remember hearing, and so like
I'm not really worried about like my stats. I feel like these are the
types of games like you can mid max for sure, but yeah, you'll
keep leveling up forever, so you'll have time. Yeah, I don't think
there's some level caps. You'll eventually you know, have whatever stats you need
for the items you want. Yeah, exactly, Like I usually just go
like if I if I'm if I'm going to strength build, obviously, I'll
just like put basically all my points in that, but just do do what
I need to like carry the weapons that I want. And then and then
you get talentsmans too that give you like you know, plus ten inch or
something, so you don't even need a love light. You can just use
that to temporarily get you or there when you want to use a certain weapon.
Yeah, no, hundred percent, but uh no, I I really
like the Flask system as well, especially like that's really like a magic user
like you have your got their call. They're basically just manipots and you can
kind of like like you only get a max amount that you upgrade, but
you can kind of allocate how many that you want, which is nice,
especially if I have like a healing spell for example, like I can just
take more magic, especially if I'm using more of those fireball type attacks.
And I don't know, it just it just seems it's nice that you can
kind of customize based on like, Okay, this boss, Yeah, maybe
they're really slow, so I just want to spam fire attacks. But maybe
this boss is really aggressive, I don't have time to be fire so I'm
gonna switch over to full health pots for this fight. It's it's a really
really good system, and for me it didn't matter. I never had a
single man of pot in my entire career, but I think it's a really
cool mechanic to kind of balance. Nonetheless, Yeah, yeah, one hundred
percent. And like my most recent spell that I got was like that long
range fire ball attack and uh, the one that you start with. It's
it's basically like Igny from Whicher. It's just like a really short range like
fire for like in use of melee, and it's all you can just like
attack and then use it really quick, like you have like a slight cast
time with it, and it feels janky, but I've just kind of got
used to the to the timing of it, so like if there was like
a group coming at me, I felt like pretty confident that I could time
it well that if they like jump attack, I could just kind of like
stop them in that instance, or like the spear, I think it's the
L two attack. It's just like this like really strong thrust and I just
got really good at timing that where like someone jumps up and then you just
kind of hit them with that or you do like a jump R two attack.
Like it's just really satisfying when you can time those attacks really well.
And I mean you can like crouch in this game. That kind of threw
me off too, like old yeah, fuck, they brought stealth into this
a little bit. Yeah yeah, but yeah, no, fantastic. I'm
glad I finally jumped on it. Definitely late the party, but the party's
still rocking, so uh yeah, good time to jump in. Mm hmm.
Yeah, that was a nice surprise. I'm glad. You're glad you're
playing that. And yeah, like I've had, I guess, a slightly
different experience with these games than you, where like I did play it ten
Dark Souls three and finish that game and like hundred percent of it almost so
played a lot of that, But then I had a similar experience with Dark
Souls one. We're eventually just kind of bounced off of it like you did.
But then elden Ring was a really great comeback to form for it just
because of like, oh, this thing's annoying and frustrating, I'm just gonna
go do a thousand other things that are available to me at this given moment.
And then just like the Lord of the Rings vibes of it, just
the vastness and the beauty, it's just yeah, it was. It's just
such a I don't know, it works so much more for me than like
the more linear type of structure. Yeah, some of the other games have,
so I'm glad that you're enjoying it. And also like there's so much
more generous with the save points the sites of grace in this game than any
other Soul's game that I've played, which I don't know for me, for
me is better. I can understand how for some people might take away some
of the edge, but if you're in an open world anyway, they kind
of have to factor in that, like maybe I just didn't walk down this
one exact spot to find this one, so they kind of have more of
them all over the place. So I'm glad they like glad they did it.
So yeah, I've been enjoying the DLC. I don't think I've much
more to add yet. I'm gonna wait until Travis's donner. I'm sure it's
gonna take you a while to get to the DLC, but if you do,
then we can talk about it in a more spoilers way. But I'm
still deep in it. I've put like twelve or thirteen hours into the DLC
now, and I still, yeah, looking at the map and just looking
at things in the horizon. I still have a lot to do. So
that's that's exciting. And yeah, it's been super fun so far, finding
some weird new cool web pins, some weird new areas, some fun bosses
and all that. It's a good time. Another observation I've had just on
my adventures is multiple times has happened where I'm like, I want to like
investigate basically the whole area. I think the last place I was at was
like Castle mort or Okay, yeah, yeah, I remember that spot,
and like I would be checking something out and it's like, Okay, it
seems like I want to go this way, but let's just go down here,
you know, see if there's a chest or something like to to find,
I go down there and then it's like okay, a couple of mobs
and then there's like two doors here, Okay, let's go down this one.
And the next thing you know, you're like you're like really far down
somewhere, and you're like, Okay, this doesn't just seem like a side
area. It just feels like a realm to fucking she loves Layer or something
like. I think that was the first like major boss area I went to
in the first major like I don't know boss, I guess that wasn't I
don't know if it's story crucial, but I think that was, yeah,
like the main area I went to. That was the first boss that I
killed that gave me an achievement. So that was like, oh, okay,
maybe maybe that's like a like spamming attacks like yeah fast, Yeah that
he bought me so hard, like man like cause I have like that range
fire attack, but it takes a while to cast. It's really strong,
but it takes a while, and I like he gave me no breathing time
on like any casting. So then I literally was just like, okay,
I'm just dual, I'm just I'm too handy my spirit. Now I'm fucking
taking this guy off likes here, and yeah, I I eventually just you
know, you you just get those I frames and you just you just feel
immortal when you get like a perfect chain and you're like, I can't be
stopped. And then he hits you once and he just one shots you and
you're like, oh, okay, yeah, I just got humbled. I
gotta I gotta focus on Yeah, definitely, yeah. Show with Seldon Ring
it was funny. I was once again when Sarah's and Amanda Great the great
man who does the the music for Sidequest here, they were over and we're
just hanging out. They were watching me play because they both and man just
played some of Belden Rings. Sarahs played through like the whole thing and he
hasn't jumped into DLC yet, but we were just hanging out and then I
was kind of done playing the sex. Then we're just sitting talking for a
while and we just like I just went and like did the post thing.
I just sat down on a ledge and we're just looking out at this beautiful
horizon just talking for like an hour or something. We just Elding ring on
in the background. It's like it is a very beautiful and like a serene
game in all that's right if you're not near an enemy, it is just
a beautiful world. The music is very nice, the landscapes and the skyboxes
are just insanely beautiful, and like, I don't I think that was the
thing that I was most happy to just kind of remember when I jump back
in the DLC is just the scale of that game. There's just a vastness
to it, not just in terms of like an open world game and it's
wide, but just like the size like vertically too is something as you just
mentioned with Castle Moore and how many times you just keep jumping down and down
and down and down until you get to the sand. It's just, yeah,
such a such a beautiful and unique experience. It's awesome. I feel
like every time I come to a ledge and there'll be a message that's just
like praised the air tree or whatever it says, and I just like kind
of take a minute and like look up, yeah, wow, like I'm
in here right now, Like this is this is beautiful? Yeah, because
you know, like you're focusing on kind of where you're going, you're just
galloping a torrent, and then you just take a moment just stop and look
around. You're like, oh wow, glowing tree right there, that's still
there. It's beautiful right on. Okay, let's let's jump into the next
game. There's gonna be a bit of a pivot here from like one of
the more complex, intense games of all time to one of the first and
simplest games, but it still has a lot of depth. This is this
is funny. So on, if anyone is a patron subscribing, you've listened
to the most recent episode of the Originals, you would know that both me
and Kirkland have been playing some chess recently. You've been playing camping. I've
been playing camping as well, and just you know elsewhere. And so as
part of the summer this Steam Summer sale, I picked up a couple of
chess related games, kind of like chess puzzle games, and these were both
like two bucks each on sale easy pickups. The first one is this game
called Chess Former, which I behind on my list for a while. And
this is a as the title would suggest, it is a chess platformer where
essentially each level has like a big, you know grid. It's not chessboard
size, but it's chessboard in that kind of you know, white, white
and black tiles spread around and it's pretty simple. You just have to use
your pieces to take out the enemy king. And so it starts very basically
just moving your units and then okay, simple platform where you gotta like move
the night because you can go on this ledge that's in the air. There's
physics in this game, so your pieces are falling if there's nothing below them,
there's no platform or other piece under them, and so it starts out
pretty simple, but then eventually it gets into the classic puzzle stuff of like
there's you know, you got to stand on this button to open this door
and then you can get another piece through there. And yeah, it's a
very simple game. The esthetic is very very simplistic. There's fifty levels in
there, and I think I beat every beat every level within like an hour.
So it's a pretty pretty short and sweet kind of experience. But just
you know, as a fan of chess and the different chess pieces in the
way they can move and the specials ways that all of them are limited and
have special ways that they can move, it was a fun kind of interesting
idea on top of that. So I had a good time playing through that.
I think it you know, it doesn't quite reach the depths of like
an all time great puzzle game by any means. It's kind of a simple
concept and I wish it had gone a bit deeper, like because in each
level that the enemy team the enemy pieces, they're never moving. There's just
one king, and so you just have to, you know, get through
the level using kind of little chess movements and you take it the king,
you win. But I think it would have been cool if there was other
at some levels where there was like other enemy pieces and that would be somehow
like you would have to capture them and that would be the way that you're
moving around the map. I think that could have been a cool idea or
something. Like you know, castling is I think is one of the cooler
mechanics in chess that a lot of people don't even know about. But it's
just like a basic thing that is cool. But like this game never really
never had like castling as part of a puzzle, which I think is kind
of a missed opportunity. But yeah, it was. It was a fun
time, a cool game and yeah, just like a fun, interesting idea
to take chess and like what would chess look like as a platformer, And
that's exactly what this game is. It's a shortened speed experience of what that
could look like. So shout outs to Chess Former. That was the first
one, and then the second one is what my name is loving to today,
The King of the Bridge. And this one I think came on earlier
this year actually, so check this one out as well, Kirkle. And
this one has a much nicer aesthetic. I really like the visuals of it.
It's kind of got like four or five colors, like shades of green
and black and white, but it looks really nice. I like the character
art and the art for the pieces. It's like kind of cute. They're
all kind of like stumpy and kind of cozy in a way. And this
is a very simple game as well. Once again, I beat it within
an hour and then there's like different endings so you can go back and do
more. But the concept of this one is a bit more complex. Where
you are a little guy. You're running across this bridge, and eventually on
this bridge, you come across the troll who you know is operating this bridge,
and you have to beat him in a game of chess if you want
to get across the bridge. But you very quickly realize when you're playing against
him that this is chess with different rules. So on the side of the
on the main center of the screen, there's a chess board, and then
on the side there's a rule book, and so in there it's like,
here's how a night moves, here's how a bishop moves. You can't you
know, you can't control the enemy pieces. It's like all the little basic
rules that you'd expect, but then there's different ones or pieces move differently or
act differently than you are used to in chess, and so and whenever.
The big part of it is you're kind of playing a game against this guy,
and he's constantly cheating, and you might be cheating as well, usually
early on, because you don't know the rules of this weird chess game that
this troll has created. So, for example, Kirkland, whenever I play
chess, my first move all the time is to blast a pawn out there.
I'm doing the double jump. I'm trying to get control of the center
of the board. Yeah, exactly, give me any one of those I'm
in there. So I immediately do that, but then he immediately accused me
of cheating because in this game, pawns cannot move two squares at any point,
they can only move one space, but they can move in any any
directions. That's the difference of them there. So immediately I did that,
he's like, you're fucking cheating instantly takes me out and I gotta start from
scratch, beat him, you know, start a new game. And so
for a while it's that you're like doing things that are seem like a regular
move, like, for example, I won't spoil too many, but like
with my queen, I had the opportunity to take his king, so I
went for it. But then no, and this guy's rule, but queen's
are not allowed to have affairs with the opposing king, so it was against
the rules. So I lost because I cheated. And then so you kind
of have to pay attention to what he's doing too, and if he at
any point makes him illegal move or does something he's not supposed to, you
can accuse him of cheating, and if you're correct on the accusation, then
you can cheat in return. And so the way that that's not just an
instant win, because if you know, if you could cheat, you could
just pick up any piece and take out his king. It doesn't matter if
that's an illegal move because you can cheat. But the way he kind of
gets around that is anytime you kill the enemy king, it'll transfer to another
piece that he has, so you have to take out every single one of
his pieces in order to beat him, unless there might be some secret way
you can beat him. I haven't discovered yet, but that's kind of the
general idea of it, and once again, pretty short and sweet to figure
out. You know, you'll figure out the moves or like the rules like
fairly quickly, and then it doesn't take too long kind of figure out like
how to abuse it, and really you can even just do like little passing
non moves and just wait for him to cheat, and whenever he cheats,
then you can just like cheat back and do some really strong thing and take
out some weak point in his position. So it wasn't that hard to crack
the code the first time, but then after I did beat it seems like,
yeah, there are all sorts of different endings, and I'm guessing you
get a different ending if you beat the game without using any cheats or beating
the game without accusing him of any cheats. But to do those things would
be a lot harder because yeah, sometimes he'll just with a random piece,
move across the map and take out a rook of yours, completely cheating,
like there's no way you can possibly do that move. But then if you
don't accuse him, then it's like, oh damn, now he just got
this piece for free and there's nothing I could do about it. So it's
a very fun goofy idea. The game is very silly. It made me
laugh quite a few times, and I enjoyed it once again. I think
there's there's room for more. Once I beat it, and then I was
like, Okay, I guess I can do other things, but like I've
kind of discovered all the rules, I kind of lost steam on it.
It's like I don't really feel the urge to go back in a big way.
But at the end of the day, it was two bucks. It's
like five bucks at one at full price, so it's hard to complain too
much. But I had a good a good time with this one as well.
Just yeah, I like games making use of chess mechanics in like cool
and unique creative ways. I think it's a It's a fun thing to do
as a fan of chess who doesn't always want to just play a stressful game
against someone online, you know. Yeah, No, that's that's fun That's
that's funny that you brought that up, because when I was jumping in again
trying to like, I don't know, play chess online and just learn a
little bit more about it, I was like, Man, I wonder if
there's any chess games out there, and you know, when you're just thinking
about those things, I want to watch Queen's gam but I've never seen that,
Like you just kind of get immersed in the realm of that. So
it's funny that you went ahead and jumped on that. But interesting, like
the I really like the troll on That's that's pretty funny. Yeah, i'd
recommend that one. You should. I think it is on sale still during
the sale two bucks right now. You recommend picking that one up. It's
worth worth the worth the price for sure. Yeah. No, that's that's
fantastic. I'm excited to play you finally, don't care. Yeah, we
should do that soon TV day, Yes, that we'll get aboard the VDA.
Yeah, that would be fun. Okay, there there were my those
were my chess, chess games, chess shoutouts, and then uh, I
think I'll just showed to one more game here for the day. There's another
one that I'm still kind of playing through, so maybe I'll save that for
another week of side quest. But I wanted to show this with you because
this is very relevant to you as well. Another game has been in my
whishtles for a long time finally got here. It's called Circuit Superstars. I
feel like I maybe have talked to you game to talk to you about this
game before. I don't know, but look it up. This is a
racing game from the perspective, it's a top down view so rather than kind
of behind the car review that most games do. And this game is very
much a like F one themed or styled thing, which is why I think
you would be into it. But yeah, it's a pretty basic racing game.
It's on simple maps for the most part that I imagine are based on
like famous F one courses. Potentially some of the names or like, I
don't think they're official names for actual racers because then they have to play pay
licensing fees and whatnot, but it seems like very much inspired by that sort
of stuff. But I don't know anything about F one. But then there's
also like off road races as well in the dirt, and then there's all
sorts of different cars you can use. So there are other kind of like
classic F one cars, there's like rally cars. There's like a truck you
can use. There's like a big semi truck. There's other kind of goofy
ones in there as well, and so in these races you'll be having you
know, a mix of different vehicles in there. But it's a really fun
game. It's really challenging, which I think is fun for me because I
feel like I haven't played like a genuinely super hard racing game in a while.
But I don't know, usually these realistic racing games are the ones that
kick my ass because I just more want to smash into other cars and create
havoc or like, you know, if I'm playing kart Racer, of course,
that's a whole different, different type of thing. But yeah, this
is really fun. I played a lot of it in co op with Clinton,
so that was a good time playing through with him. And one thing
that I thought was really interesting about it was just some of the other mechanics
in here, Like there's pit stops, pit stop lanes built into the maps,
and in some of the maps you will have to do that because your
tires are degrading as you're going through. You have a fuel amount that you
have to keep track of, and then you also have HP. So obviously
if you're smashing into walls or people too much, you got to you know,
go heel up, get repaired. But then also, yeah, keeping
an eye on your fuel, keeping an eye on your tires. And it's
funny because as you're going through, you know, very slow progression as your
tires are getting weaker and you're losing traction. Once you go through a pit
stop and then get out on the course, you can immediately feel like,
man, my tires were so degraded. Now I have so much more control,
or like, because I have the fuel, I'm moving so much.
How does it work? Would you move faster with more fuel because you have
more power, or would you move faster because you have less fuel that is
weighing you down. You're faster with less fuel because you have less weight.
Okay, yeah, that's an avid F one enjoyer, right, I know
these things. Yeah, So this game I feel like does a pretty good
job of making those sim elements, but it's funny having those alongside a game
that looks pretty cartoony, cartoony and cute and has that top down view,
because normally I'm used to it just being the more like behind the like the
fors of Motorsport ones for example, or like grant Reasma, like those sort
of games I picture as the more hardcore ones where it's like you're following the
line and getting really precise with your timings, compared to like Dirt, which
is more off road and smashing into people. But yeah, it's cool to
have that from like this perspective, because the only other racing games I've played
from this top down view are ones that are very arcadie and are like kart
racers, or you're having items and whatnot, so that completely changes the vibe
of it. But yeah, it's it's really it's really cool. I think
if I have any criticisms of it, one would be just the course of
variety. We played for a couple hours, and I think in that time
we played every single course in the game, and you know, I know
it is a more realistic game, but I think I want a little bit
more in there, like maybe more ramps or some different like elevation that you
have to kind of keep track of how fast you're going so you're not just
flying off and losing control. There's a couple of maps that do that,
but not a ton. And then you know, there's all sorts of different
cars in the game, but as far as I can tell, there's nowhere
like shows you the actual stats of them, so you're more taking a guess
of like what this car's stats are gonna be. But it would be nice
to see a little bit more of those those details. And yeah, it's
like it might be a bit too hard, Like there is an easier difficulty
that we didn't go on, so it is nice to have, I guess
that that variety in there, and you can change the settings around. But
yeah, it's it's a cool game. It's really cute. I like the
visuals, like the kind of brightness of it. And yeah, once again,
this one's been on my radar for a couple of years now, so
I'm glad I finally picked it up. Do you think that a game like
this would intrigue I know you like f one stuff like this perspective. Do
you think this would be fun for you? Uh? I possibly possibly?
I feel like the co op element could be fun. You were playing like
F one manager recently, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's that's a really
fun one for you know, if you're actually an f F one fan.
Not to sound like that guy, but I feel like it's also just fun
like knowing the drivers and like knowing like just the teams and interest stuff like
that, and like getting fully immersed in that sense. I don't know,
I I'm I'm I wishless wish listed it so I'll keep my eyes on it.
But I feel like every time I've played top down like racers, I
just haven't been too thrilled by them. But yeah, I like that there's
more to it than definitely less immersive. That would be a big fish,
i'd point out. You know, maybe the difficulty is what scares me.
I don't know. I don't know. I feel like you would be good
at it because you know, like it seems like a pretty realistic sim in
that way, and I feel like you understand those mechanics or whatnot. But
I don't know. Yeah, I love to get out sometimes. See.
Yeah, there you go. So that was Circuit Superstars. Let's take our
last break and then we will talk about some Marvel Snap. We will be
right back. Okay, we are back. So yeah, we're gonna break
down this. This new season of July is the Deadpool Wolverine month of Marvel
Snap, which is great. You know, I love when they can compare
the theming along with a thing releasing. Of course that movie's coming out.
Have you have you been playing Marvel Snap as well? Is that kind of
still in your in your rotation? Uh, it's been kind of toned down.
I feel like I haven't been going too hard this uh this this current
battle pass, I've kind of just been I don't know, I guess waiting
for the next one. I last time I logged on, I saw that
there are you know some of the cards that I was using kind of change.
Was like, oh, oh, Like I don't know if that changes
the whole meta of what my my deck could do. But I mean watching
the trailer for this coming up season definitely sparked my intro. Obviously I'm excited
for Dipple Wolverine, but just just what they're gonna be adding is like I've
never bought in a battle pass before, but I liked everything that I saw,
So I don't know, we'll see, yeah, I like the art
of the cards, which is always a big one for the battle pass stuff.
And then yeah, like for the first because I haven't got a battle
Pass in a few months, but and that's mostly just because the season past
card hasn't isn't one that I need day one. But Gwen Poole is the
new card of the month. Here her abilities on reveal pick a random card
in your hand three times and give it plus two power each time, which
I think is really fun. I feel like there's a lot of potential with
that, whether that's something like you know, hitting the Black Panther would be
huge. Obviously hitting Deadpool is an obvious kind of connection there, but that
would even work well with like a Galactus deck, really well with Sebastian Shaw
or Brood or Mister Sinister. Like there's a lot of cards right off the
bat that I can see how that would be super strong with. And I
really like a lot of those times of decks, so I can just see
instantly three or four of my decks that I already have built, I would
easily subb out some card to put Gwen in there, and just Gwen Pool,
I guess to be specific, and just immediately level them up. So
that's a really cool effect. And I like the card art, so I
might I might pick this one up. And yeah, it's been I think
three months, three or four months since I since I picked one of these
up, and uh, yeah, I've been playing. I've been playing a
lot. The most recent card that came out is Arisham. Have you have
you seen ershim? Had or played a game? Yeah, so he gives
you I forget if we talked about him, but he he's a seven cost
card, the first seven cost card in the game. He gives you this,
Yeah, he gives you plus one max energy and then shuffles twelve random
cards into your deck. So he's just a full on chaos card, but
he gives you more like you know, essentially six more energy per game,
so it's really strong. Potentially to be able to play anything like a turn
sooner is pretty crazy. So that's been super fun. I just love chaos
and randomness and that those sort of types of decks and games like this,
So I've been having a lot of fun with that. But yeah, I'm
thinking about picking up gwen Pool here. Uh do you do you like that
ability? Would that fit well into any of your any of your current decks
or strategies. I definitely think it would fit somewhere. I feel like it
was just maybe more so than the like the previous months. It's just a
character that just seems interesting. It's like, hmm, yeah, I could
check that one out there. There's nothing that really shouts out like immediately of
like this will pair very well with this specific card for me. But it's
mostly just I feel like when I evaluate like a battle Pass, it's it's
not just the one card, it's like kind of what the whole package has,
and this one is more appealing than what previous ones have been for me.
Nice. Yeah, because you never You've still have not picked up a
season's pass, right, No, I haven't. I came close. I
think it was the Around the World by Night one. Okay, wow,
I think I can't remember which one it was. That it was basically just
one that I had played a lot, and like I had finished like all
the stages and I'm like, wow, this could be an easy cash in
right here, because you always want to make it worth it, right,
like actually get all the rewards if you are getting that month's Batle Pass.
And I came close then I feel like, also, I was like grinding
for a specific thing, and I'm like, well, I could get it.
If I just get the battle pass, I'll have all these like tokens
or whatever. The unluckuple things that I needed were perhaps those boosters can't remember,
but yeah, I don't know this one. I feel like the hype
of the movie also helps a lot. So yes, it's great that they
pair it up with that for just marketing wise. Yeah, and then another
new card is Copycat. When you draw this, steal the text from the
bottom card of your opponent's deck. She is a three five. I forgot
to say, Glenpole's a four to six. I think copycats a really cool
idea and potentially really strong. I mean potentially you get a pretty weak effect
and don't get anything from it. But I to me like information is such
a huge thing in Snap, and there's not a lot of cards that give
you information. Like Yondo is one. He you know, destroys an enemy
card in their hand. You get to see what it is. Cable's really
good because even if you don't want to use the card, you just get
to see what a card in their deck is. Daredevil see, you know,
seeing what your opponent's gonna play on turn five, and then even Howard
who helps you see what you're gonna draw next, Like those are really powerful
cards. I like because having those kind of things really can tell you whether
or not you should be snapping, and that's such a big part of the
game, right to have that kind of information. And three five is a
very solid stat line as well. And you know this is a card too,
like she's draws she does that effect steals the ability, and that's just
drawn into your hand, so you don't even need to play her to get
that information. So if you get a bad ability, you just don't even
play her, right you just you just keep her in your hand if it's
going to screw you over. But then if you do get something like in
the video they showed doctor Doom, which is like, oh hell yeah,
that's great, I guess ten bonus power along when I play with her,
Like it's super strong. So that's I don't know what week. I haven't
looked at all the spotlight caches that are gonna be happening this month, but
I think I'm definitely gonna either drop tokens on her or or save up some
I think I already have like seven keys, so I'm looking pretty good on
the key game right now. But yeah, that's definitely a card I'm gonna
go for. That's just such a strong ability and super fun and it's like
also, yeah, just disruptive to your opponent, so that's always a nice
thing too. Yeah. No, I I feel like just seeing her highlighted
it because they do like a little montage or just showing her taking certain just
text abilities from other cards, just like this could be so hit or miss,
it seems, and but I don't know. It's it's fun inclusion,
and yeah, I feel like it would just be a great addition to almost
any deck unless it's like super specific. Yeah, it is a pretty versatile
card in that way, like you could. It's not really when you would
build a deck around. It's more just, hey, I have a room
for a three cost in this maybe I'll pick her up and put it which
would fit for me because I feel like most of my cards it's just kind
of piecing together, Like I feel like none of my decks are like what
the meta option would be for like that play style, whether it's I guess
naturally yeah, maybe not going to have the complete sets at this point.
So yeah, exactly, I will say too. I don't know if he's
if he's still going hard. But last time I was talking to you know,
Patreon Tyler about Marvel Snap, he said like he was like he had
just jumped in, and it's it's a long journey. Like I feel like
I've been on it for a long time and I'm still I feel like like
obviously I don't have all of the the older cards yet. But yeah,
no, it's uh, it's always fun to just see someone kind of going
on that adventure and then mentioning like what their deck is. It's like,
oh, yeah, I remember, I remember that deck. I remember unlocking
that specific character because I think early on they kind of they unlock in it
guaranteed. Yeah, order for quite a while there. Yeah. Next up
is Hydra Bob who have not heard this character. He is a one four
which is cool. Stats after each turn this moves is so if a player
snapped. So I remember them teasing a few months ago that they were going
to interact and introduce a character whose mechanic was based around snapping. So in
that way, he is the first of his kind. What do you what
do you think of that ability. I like it just because of like the
originality of it. It's a it's a new way to interact with a mechanic
that everyone interacts with. It's funny. Hydro Bob. I only know who
that is because we went through our Deadpool retro leading up to this this movie
and Travis informed us that, like, he is in the Deadpool movie.
But it's like almost like an easter egg for someone in the first one.
I watched them back to back. I can't even remember. I think it's
the second one. Actually, would he have been like during the recruiting of
X for us or something. No, he's he's like fighting these bad guys
and then he just goes like, oh, hi, Bob. Because in
the comics he he has like a buddy who is on Hydra named hydro Bob,
and he's just like a reoccurring character who's like a villain. So he
doesn't look like he doesn't snap for example, No, like like and like
I don't know if that if the snap one is the more comic book accurate
one. But he's just wearing like like a like a classic Henchman type garb,
and then Deadpool's just beating up guys. He's just like, oh hi
Bob. Then he knocks them out. Cool. Yeah, funny they adding
him in there. Yeah, but what do you think of that mechanic?
Uh, the snap based activation. I thought I mentioned it. I I
I like it because it's it's like a new way to interact with just just
the game in general. And uh, I don't know, it's it's it's
not just taking like the same mechanic that we already have on certain cards and
just adding a number two right, Like, it's it's actually affecting a player
decision on doing something like snap because you can always snap, but it wouldn't
really like affect your cards more so than just the rewards after the game.
So it's a fun thing to add. I think. I think it's guaranteed
at some point they'll ad a card that is like black Panther or something when
you snap it like double his power. I feel like they'll definitely do that
at some point. That'll probably be a more costly card because that's a cool
ability. But yeah, I hadn't really thought about when they talked about that
being a mechanic that there would be an activation from your opponent too, because
that's an interesting angle to this as well, where maybe your opponent sees that,
oh man, if I give him an extra move right now, maybe
that will help, you know, fulfill some combo or boost Craven or something,
so they're not gonna snap perhaps even if they think they're gonna win the
game. Like, I wonder how that will actually play into strategy oral warfare,
think about it. Yeah. I don't know if you saw this,
but they they recently. It was I think it was part of Summer game
Fest to some extent, where they talked about they kind of talked a lot
about the Deadpool season kind of early, and they also talked about that they're
gonna be adding a new so instead of like on reveal and ongoing, they're
gonna add a new keyword like that called activate, which is when you have
the card on the board, you can like tap it and then we'll you
know, do whatever the ability is. So I think one of them was
Madame Web and you tap Madam Web and then she moves a card away from
that locate. So this is almost similar to that, but rather than it
being an activatability, it's a you're you're activating it, but you're activating it
by hitting the snap button rather than clicking the card itself. So I'm curious
what those two cards will look like in conjunction with each other. I feel
like that could be a potentially strong interaction or a weird one. Nonetheless,
but I mean he has like a you know, a way higher stat line
for a one cost than his average. I mean, you have Ebony Maws
in there, you have Martyr in there now, and zeros of one to
three. It's not hard for Rocket to hit one five or Hawkeyed hit one
five, and man like a lot of them do get higher stats now,
but he is still above the curve. So I don't know. Even if
you're not using his ability and you just want a strong one cost card,
he could be in there as well. So I'm not gonna go to my
way to get this card, but I honestly might just because of the unique
mechanic. I think it could be fun to try and mess around with,
especially with another mode we'll talk about coming up a little bit later on.
Yeah, next up is three to one Cassandra Nova, So the villain of
the new movie, which is cool on reveal, steal one power from each
card in your opponent's deck, stealing it giving it to herself so she can
get pretty high stats. And this is a funny one that the timing of
this announcement being the week after Aershom because holy shit, this card is gonna
be super strong against Aersham decks because it's gonna get twenty power potentially, you
know, given that every card has that one power, I guess even if
you don't have one power, you can still steal from a zero power and
then just pit them in a negative. So I don't know, that's gonna
be a funny counter and I'm glad it's coming out, you know, a
little bit later than when I've been playing a lot of this new card.
But this is a cool card. And this one also is integrated into a
mode that is going to be coming out that we'll talk a little bit about.
So in theory, should be one that everyone can get if they play
a little bit without having a you know, pay to win or not needing
the keys or the tokens for it. So potentially gonna be a card that
a lot of people will have. I don't know how much grinding you'll have
to do actually get the card, but I think it's cool. I love
when they, like, you know, on the High Evolutionary came out during
that Guardian's month, when that new movie was coming out. So it's just
cool when they have that kind of kind of pairing. And yeah, that's
a really really strong ability potentially, I guess it also could be pretty weak
depending if you play late in the game. Maybe not that good at all.
So I don't know, interesting card. I like it. What was
the cost on that one? Three to one? Okay? Yeah, yeah,
it could be good with Mister Negative. I guess make it a you
know, a one cost card if you get the flip on it and then
higher power and then even more so, it could be a good way for
it to be there. I'm still seeking a nice mister Negative deck for me.
I've tried a couple iterations. It's just I don't know, it's it's
one that you have to like. I still want Nolan. I feel like
Noel would fit really well, super helpful Nolan Zola. Do you have Sola?
Yeah, Sola, you have iron Man. Iron Man's good in there,
but yeah, you definitely need one of those two. And that's just
a deck that it's fun when it works out but it's one that you have
to accept. I got to retreat a lot because if I don't draw mister
negative, than this deck does nothing. It's really weak. So yeah,
it's gotta be you just gotta be accepting, you know, losing those one
cubes but hopefully getting an eight cube or when it when it pans out right.
Uh. Next up is Ajax, who is a A five to five.
He has an ongoing that is a one power one gets one plus power
for each card and play afflicted with negative power. Uh. So I really
like this. I think this is a fun idea because so far, to
my off the top of my head knowledge, there's not like there's a lot
of cards in the game that do inflict negative power uh in the game,
but really the only one on your side that you would use to like counteract
that is Louke Cage, where you if you had negative power, put Luke
Cage out, you know, regenerate it's all that power. But there isn't
one that gives you power based off of afflicting negative power. So I think
that's pretty cool. I think it's interesting. It's a new mechanic in a
way, and compare well with like a high revolutionary deck compare well with like
a toxic long sort of thing as well, So I think it's really cool
I can get to try and pick this one up as well. There's a
lot I want this month, actually, I definitely want copycat Ajax, and
I kind of want Hydrobob just for the laughs. And Cassandra be an easier
card to just kind of everyone to get. So I don't know, it's
gonna be hard month for me, but I think that's a really cool ability.
And I'm guessing for you you might not have a lot of cards that
could really make use of that at this time. Uh yeah, not really.
I haven't really used anyone that's done that in a while. I guess
Scorpion, right, he inflicts negative and that's a good one. That's kind
of the full extent of that. Do you have Toxic No, I don't,
yeah, because the only time I really on my previous deck at least,
like I was using Electro a lot. But that doesn't that just takes
one out, that's not a negative effect. But yeah, it's cool card.
At least I thought the design looked really cool, interesting character definitely,
So those are the new cards coming out, And then there's a couple locations.
I don't know if we need to break those down, but one of
the new modes is uh, Deadpool's Diner. And they said that it's coming
out now. It's gonna be available for like two weeks, I think,
and then they said they're gonna bring it back later on as well, like
it just in I don't know when it makes sense, I guess in a
season when they want it to. And so this is I didn't I don't
fully understand it, like I didn't understand when they explained it via text a
few weeks ago, and I still don't understand it totally seeing the video of
it. But essentially it's a new mode, so like Conquest or like regular
Ladder, like it's just a new goat place you're gonna go in and q
in and there's a new currency for it called bubs, and so you're gonna
be building up bubs based on winning matches, and then the more bubs you
have them, the more you can like enter higher sticks battles essentially, which
just give you more bubs if you win them, I guess. And so
it's just that sort of thing, uh, And then you're you essentially have
like a different collection track just for this system. So as you're leveling up
that bub count or that overall or like the highest bub count or whatever it
is called. It feels weird to say bub counter. Yeah, s bub
counter. Yeah. As you're building up, you're getting different wards and that's
where Sandra Nova is as I mentioned, as well as a bunch of other
things. So I mean, cool, it's a new way to play.
I mean, it's the same way to play, but it's just slightly different
variation on it. And then just a bunch of new unlocks, So I'm
into that. I mean, I think it'll be tricky in this month to
like make sure you're doing all your conquest stuff to try get those upgrades or
all those unlocks, doing this stuff to get the deadpool down your stuff,
and then just I guess you'll get the regular collection track from whatever you do.
But yeah, I'm curious to see how that goes, because, yeah,
they haven't done one of those events in a while, like they did
that Valentine's Day one that was really fun where they just made certain cards have
special ability pairings, and they haven't done it in a bit, So I'm
it's fun to have something new and fresh in the game. I don't know
if it's like really changing the game a whole lot, but I'll definitely check
it out and I'll probably play it enough to at least get the new card
Cassandra, right, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I I'll check
it out. I don't know if it'll if I'll stay on it. Like
Conquest, I've never really dabbled in too much. Like I've done a couple
of matches here and there, but I pretty much just stick to the just
the us, the use for me. But the rewards would be nice.
Yeah, I mean that's the thing, right. I think you and me
and everyone like Snap because it is such a bite sized game where you can
play it when you're on the toilet or if you're just waiting for your chicken
to cook and you're in the kitchen. You know, it's like a good
game just like in between. And so when you're playing something like Conquest,
it's like could take upwards of twenty minutes if it's gonna be a full length
game. Yeah, it's not always what we're looking for. And if I
have that amount of time to play a game, usually I want to play
something go play elden Ring or something like that, right, Yeah, And
then so there's there's a lot coming out of a two other things. They're
finally adding these alliances feature, which is where you can make like finally have
like a bit of a friends group. You can make groups clans with people
and then you'll get rewards and boost each other up in some way. Not
sure what that'll look like, but it's cool if rather find the ending it.
And then they're also adding another mechanic of leagues, where leagues is where
you get you get put into a league with thirty other random players or I
guess twenty nine to for a total of thirty, and you're competing against them.
I don't think you're necessarily actually playing against those people, but you are,
you know, based on your ranking how many games you're winning, you're
going up in the ranking of the league. And then when the league is
over, whoever has like the highest ranking gets like certain rewards and stuff.
So they had done a trial of this a few months ago in like Europe,
and a big criticism of it from people was that I was like,
oh, this is very paid to win, Like if you're putting your bucks
and you're gonna get first place. If not, you're not gonna get anything.
And so it seems like they've taken that feedback and maybe split leagues into
like paid leagues versus just free to play ones. So we'll see how that
goes. But yeah, I don't know they're really putting a lot out in
this month. I guess it was all ready to it was all finished development,
ready to go, and so they're just going for it, making this
big, big month with the new Marvel movie coming out perhaps, So yeah,
a lot to look forward to in this in this month. Any interest
in leagues or alliances, not really maybe alliances? Maybe what do you do
you want? What do you what would you want them to add? What
is what would be like actually exciting thing for you in terms of like features,
considering that these things aren't really doing much for you. I mean,
I feel like the thing that gets me the most excited when I play that
game is just like getting new cards. So I love my you know,
my monthly three series that I get. Maybe give me two. Maybe I
think you should increase that to two. I think it's about time now that
there's a lot more cards in that series. They've talked about they want to
make that experience better, but they they talk about a lot of stuff and
then take months to do anything about it. But I think that's an easy
one. Yeah, give you give you guys two a month. Yeah.
So like and I'm not pretty salty about that as someone who's done all that
now, I'm I'm happy for more people to have more cards. I think
that is a perfectly acceptable thing. It's like, I feel like it's fun
to collect them. It's funn to get cards that you're interested in, but
it's also just it gets me hooked on the game again. Like if I
get a card that I've been waiting for, like really been excited to like
try a deck around that specific card, or I've been wanting to do a
certain deck but I've been missing a very specific card and then I finally get
that, then I'm just like hooked again. I feel like there's also certain
cards that aren't really new, like maybe they're a three series and I can
only really get them if it is through the I guess you get them on
your journey through the collection tokens too, right, But it's like that's not
really worth spending tokens, Like there are only one thousand tokens, but it's
you're not really it's not really a wise investment. It might be cool if
you could like choose a certain character that you're like really after, especially if
it's like a series. Yeah, like Spider Glen for example, Like that's
another card that's just always eluded me. A couple other Spider fel Like I
still don't have venom. I feel like that's just a tragedy. Yeah.
No, So lots of cards that I just want to get, but I
just feel like they're they're ever fleeting for me. Yeah, one day,
fair enough. I'll keep logging in. I'll keep checking in every month for
my series three and hopefully they'll be there. Yeah, oh have you?
I guess the newest season hasn't started yet, but tomorrow, like tomorrow,
tys tomorrow. So yeah, what are you gunning for? One? In
particular, you're just gonna kind of look at that rotation. Is gonna be
ny because there I feel like there's still a good amount of the series three
that I don't have yet. I I pretty much just wait until one is
is cool enough to get, or like one that I have been looking for.
But I try not to be too picky because there has been sometimes when
it's like that's a cool card, but maybe the next one will be even
more interesting, and then it's just like worse. It's like, oh,
I should have just got that first one. So now it's just like kind
of the first one that I see that I that I really like, Like
I can't I can't even really remember my last one was now. Oh yeah,
I'm trying to remember, but uh, it's just fourteen hours till my
next card, so looking forward to that. Nice. Oh I think my
last one actually would been Ultron, which was a fantastic pickup. Yeah,
because I remember we talked about that because he just got buffed, so that
was good timing here. Yeah, it was perfect timing. And I really
really liked that deck. I was spamming that deck for a long time,
so yeah, yeah, that's it's funny. Ultron he was when he got
buffed, he was super popular again. I feel like three days I was
seeing like every game was an Ultron deck, and I feel like I haven't
seen him since, so he's kind of like submerged under again, but like
it's all like he got nerved again. He's still really good, but he's
just underrated or you know, there's a new card every single week, so
of course people that's always what people are gonna flock to when they get the
new cards, so it makes sense cool. Any other snap thoughts or is
that is that all for the day? Was there anything that I skipped over
in the video that looked compelling to you? I think I think we've kind
of mentioned it all. I didn't love the whole pool segment. That was
kind of haty. I fast forward to their like skits at this point,
I'm not into it, Ben bro It seems like a nice guy, but
man, his energy is like too much for me these days, and like
the deadpool of Mariachi band that they have, Like I after every card while
I was just going like on elden Ring and just just looked over and just
yeah, it's too much. I'm smashing that forward key yeah, getting Yeah,
it's no modest house in Morowin, that's for sure. That's that's a
true video. Oh you're so nice. Oh if I was gonna ask you
this earlier in your game has been playing section? Have you still been playing
Fallout? You're still working through Fallout four there? Or is that taking a
little back seat that has a lot of stuff, so I'm not gonna blame
you too much, but that has taken a back seat. I feel like
I haven't touched it since I updated you, so you are completely updated on
that journey. Still still downloaded, so that's a good sign. A good
time hasn't walked the plank yet. Uh okay, well I think for today
that that's gonna do it. We're gonna walk the plank on out of here.
Thank you everyone for listening. I think next week'side quest is going to
be one day late just because of recording schedule stuff, so uh you know,
look look for Wednesday morning instead of Tuesday morning. Thank you everyone for
listening, and we'll see you then. Bye.