WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.359 Welcomember one, episode one eighty of the JASP Gains Cast. I am your 2 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:39.479 host, Rob Aksen joining me is the one and only Drew Roberts. How 3 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:47.439 are you, sir? I'm live live Alive. Is it live alive or 4 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.399 live alive or Live a Live? Actually, how do you pronounce it? 5 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.840 My phone keeps out of correcting it to love Alive and actually contact. I 6 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.759 used to think that it was a love Live game for like the longest time, 7 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:10.959 did you Yes, that's incredibly funny, despite it pre dating Love Live 8 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.599 by like twenty fucking years. I just thought a Love Live was really, 9 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.519 really fucking old. Oh my god, I can't believe Live a Live is 10 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:30.439 just an idol RPG. Amazing fantastic. It is just us today. Ryan 11 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.359 is busy with work stuff, and you know, I finished Octopath Traveler two 12 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.280 and I was like, you know what, we have kind of a lull 13 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.519 week. Why not just it be you and me and we probably send a 14 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.120 majority of time talking about Octopath, But also, I mean we can we 15 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.840 can talk about some of the other stuff that we've played before we get into 16 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:56.200 that. So warning to anybody listening, this is going to be like a 17 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:01.719 pretty much a spoiler cast for for Octopath Traveler two. So there's we can 18 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:06.239 talk about anything and everything. Everything is fair game, hold nothing back. 19 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:12.240 So if you're sensitive to talk to Pat Traveler too spoilers, definitely, uh, 20 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.680 turn away, Like we'll get to it later and I'll re announce this 21 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.159 so you can at least listen to like the first part of this recording and 22 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.159 you'll you'll have some heads up to win to tune out. But just just 23 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:24.879 to let you guys know ahead of time, that's what's gonna go down here. 24 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.840 Uh, some small housekeeping things. I know, the schedule has been 25 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:36.840 kind of weird, right, like we haven't done a show and what feels 26 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.000 like three weeks it's been. It's been a little bit, I know, 27 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:44.240 like Drew you was that evo and uh, there's a whole lot of other 28 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:49.439 stuff that has happened in between. Phil Yeah, true, true, he's 29 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:54.159 out gathering the content in the casinos of Vegas. Uh. And then also 30 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:58.479 like on the animated of things, we've had a couple of delays as well 31 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:02.439 due to schedules and conflict and stuff. So it's been kind of a drought. 32 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:07.520 But stuff is getting back to normal. So by the time you listen 33 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:13.599 by the time you listened to this, UH. The following Sunday, they 34 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.879 and a Castle me back and we'll be talking about Charlotte, So definitely take 35 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:20.479 stay tuned for that. That is my second time watching that anime and I 36 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.240 have some feelings, some updated feelings, I should say, so stay tuned 37 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:29.280 for that. So let's get into this show, this shindig Drew Stapher, 38 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:35.039 It's been a while since we chatted about video games. What have you been 39 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:42.080 up to aside from the optopaths? So we will talk about first thing, 40 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.080 I'll break into my usual fighting game thing as Street Utter six is a big 41 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.240 part of my life. So a couple of things on that front. One, 42 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.080 I went to EVO this past year after not having been since twenty eighteen, 43 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:59.319 so we took five years off and this is my first time backter EVO 44 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:05.120 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. And let me tell you 45 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.680 that tournament is on like anything else I have ever been to in my life. 46 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.759 It is uh and it's probably my favorite tournament to go to as an 47 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:25.279 event because it's less of a tournament and more of a convention. I know 48 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:29.560 a lot of people when they go to EVO for the first time, it's 49 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.600 not what they expect because they're used to other major Like EVO is not the 50 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:39.480 kind of tournament that you're going to to grind and get better. Like now, 51 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.399 EVO is the final boss. It's like you, you come, you 52 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.879 you you play your game, and you see how far you get, and 53 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:48.800 then if you don't make it, you kind of just watch the rest of 54 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:55.000 the spectacle and you enjoy like being in Vegas and like this grand production of 55 00:04:55.079 --> 00:05:00.759 fighting games, right, Like that's what EVO is, and like EVO always 56 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.279 delivers on that. It helps that you're in Vegas. I personally love Vegas. 57 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.680 I think Vegas is the coolest thing ever. Despite never really doing well 58 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:13.680 on the gambling side of things, I still really love Vegas. I did 59 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.639 really well in blackjack this year until like the very last day. Damn. 60 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:24.000 Yeah, Like I was because like I was teetering back and forth, like 61 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:30.120 I took a grand with me as like money, and like I was teetering 62 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.040 back and forth, and like sometimes I would end up down like two hundred 63 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.279 bucks and then like I'd go and sit down at a black jack table and 64 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:39.680 like I'd win at back. I'm like so I kind of teetered like back 65 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.000 and forth for a while, and then like close to the end of the 66 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.920 week or like the end of our stay, like I had this really good 67 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.439 run and a table where like I just was up like three hundred bucks and 68 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:56.279 I'm like fuck yeah, feeling it. And then like I went to bed 69 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:01.279 welcome the next day started playing went down here I just kept going down and 70 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.240 I'm like, ah, I see this is other game. I mean, 71 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:10.519 granted I stopped well before I ran out of money, but I definitely was 72 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:14.759 not ahead like I was. But I mean that's how it goes. The 73 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.920 house always wins. This is my first year playing craps, which Ron taught 74 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:23.480 me how to play craps this year, and every time I sat down to 75 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:29.120 play craps. I don't know if you're familiar with craps barely, but it's 76 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.800 kind of like Roulette, but instead of like a wheel, you have dice. 77 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.800 And basically how it works he is like, when you make your initial 78 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:44.439 bets, somebody rolls the dice and whatever number it lands on your bet transfers 79 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:47.040 to that number. But if it lands on a seven or an eleven, 80 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.920 you immediately win. Like the amount that you like you win one for one 81 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:58.519 the amount that you bet, and then but if it doesn't roll a seven 82 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.480 or eleven, it rolls a number, your bet is now transferred to that 83 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:05.199 number, and now you are betting that that number lands before a seven is 84 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:11.600 rolled, and if a seven before that number lands, you lose your beat, 85 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.680 okay, and so and so. Basically the idea is is that like 86 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.439 you you try to get like a bunch of numbers, so like as the 87 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:27.160 dice is rolling, you basically like make small winnings to up your bets. 88 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.120 So you're basically betting with free money, and then you just run it out 89 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:34.720 until a seven's landed and then you just take your winnings from that, right, 90 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:40.199 Okay, Yeah, it's kind of like an auto grind here, like 91 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.680 if I had to liken it like a mobile game, Like you're just minding 92 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.399 money at that point, like once you get just now, when I signed 93 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.079 down to a craps table, like there was a seven being thrown, like 94 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:57.600 every fucking four rolls and I'm like I can't get started. There are bets, 95 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.000 like you can actually make bets to like bet against like the numbers getting 96 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.000 rolled in seven actually landing, but like that's all. I'm not here to 97 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.000 talk about the metal craps. My point was if I learned how to play 98 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.240 craps this year and I got bodied, that was mostly where I lost my 99 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.439 money, and then I went back to a blackjack table and want to back 100 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.480 that you will see yourself like playing more of like did you enjoy playing craps 101 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.600 or do I think it's I think it's fun. I unfortunately didn't get to 102 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.680 play at an actual craps table. I only play it on like digital ones, 103 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.440 because so it has gotten very expensive to gamble in Vegas. What used 104 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.399 to be is you could walk up to a table and like bets were minimum 105 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:43.519 like five ten dollars. They are now much much higher. Used to be 106 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:50.799 like Thursday and Friday night bets were minimum twenty five dollars. But if you 107 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.399 go to like the digital ones or like the machine operated ones, those still 108 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:00.600 have much lower bets. So I kind of straight away from like I wanted 109 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.639 to bet at an actual physical craps table, but like my luck on traps 110 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.840 was so bad that I'm just like, I don't know if I want to 111 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:13.879 bet that much money on traps, right, right, right, So I 112 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.519 just hung around the blackjack tables, and I just played the math, and 113 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.600 like I really enjoy black jacks. So even when you're losing, it's just 114 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:26.679 like there's an energy. Like a lot of people say that if you're trying, 115 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.799 if you're quote unquote trying to make money off of blackjack, which by 116 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.679 the way, I never tried to make money by gambling. This is not 117 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.919 a real thing unless you're like counting cards and that's when you get throw an 118 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:45.039 energy. People say to go to an empty table, so you're just playing 119 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.600 heads up with the dealer, right, But like what I really enjoy is 120 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:54.559 going to a full table, and like there's like a certain sense of camaraderie 121 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.720 because it's like the table versus the dealer, and like if everybody at the 122 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.559 table, it's like playing the math correctly, you can actually get it to 123 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:11.360 where like the entire table wins and like the dealer loses, and like everybody 124 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.399 gets hype and it's real fun and like these are people you never met, 125 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:18.399 but like there's just this energy there that I really enjoy. And like that's 126 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:24.000 why I didn't really enjoy sitting in like a virtual black jack like thing or 127 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.039 anything like that, because like half the fun is like everybody popping off when 128 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.279 like they win big because like they split aces and like they got a pretty 129 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:37.480 big bet up there. Anyway, this is nothing to do with video games. 130 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.799 This is just the same game. I mean, you're really at a 131 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:45.480 digital machine, so that that is by nature a video game. That's true. 132 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.759 That's true. To get back on track, let's let's talk about EVO. 133 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.039 This EVO is definitely the biggest EVO I've ever been to. It's probably 134 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.039 the biggest EVO ever. I think there were over eleven thousand people in attendance, 135 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:07.320 over nine thousand unique competitors. It was a lot. There was a 136 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.639 lot there. When I say like it felt like a convention, it really 137 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:18.120 did, because like so you go into the event haul and it's like all 138 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.919 something the size of a x ROM. Yeah, and then like it's split 139 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:30.080 down the middle and on the left half is just nothing but tournament sent ups. 140 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.559 I've seen the videos of block throughs of this year's EVE. Yeah, 141 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.240 and then all the right is like all the convention stuff, like you had 142 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:50.039 Crunchy Roll and like all the Arcade shock junk food just not Vulix. I 143 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.759 can't remember the company, but like all the arcades to companies, was there, 144 00:11:54.519 --> 00:12:03.960 Combo was there everywhere. I don't sponsored this event, and I could 145 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.720 not buy Chipotle at this event. You would think they would have a shot 146 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:13.840 there, right, Like I really wanted a Brito bowl while I was there 147 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.120 and I could not get one. It was very obnoxious. What is the 148 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.200 deal with Chipotle? Like just sponsoring a bunch of these FCC events these days. 149 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.960 It's very kind of about of nowhere, it is. I mean we 150 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.320 come from uh like the FDC is no stranger to like women sponsors. You 151 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.519 remember, you need to remember like twenty four twenty fifteen where we're sponsored by 152 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:43.200 X videos and bait pens. Oh, that is true. So like Chipole 153 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.039 being the sponsor, it's more Chipotle is the most normal sponsor I've seen. 154 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:56.519 It's fair and that's what's so weird about it. But I mean it's cool, 155 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:03.840 Like I'm glad there's more visibility on the FGC and FGC, Like I 156 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:09.360 got two free meals out of Ebo, Like I can't knock that. Yeah, 157 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:11.919 that's it's pretty all right by my book, Like I got a free 158 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.879 burrito bowl for making it out of my pool and I got a free burrito 159 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.200 bowl for watching the stream, like I am not complaining, I will take 160 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:24.120 that all thing. And there there was like a whole bunch of like other 161 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.879 events demo stations, like you can try on Project l you can try it 162 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.200 two. Uh. They had street funder dual demo stations there, which I 163 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:35.960 don't understand the point of that when you can just download it for free on 164 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.679 your phone and try it out that way. But that's besides the point. 165 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.440 If I had, they probably gave something away from playing it both, maybe 166 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:52.159 maybe a really cool a really cool booth where they had a line where like 167 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.720 you just proved that you registered that you were a registered user coruntry roll and 168 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:58.559 they let you play this frame game for free and you can get back in 169 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:03.080 line as anytimes as you want and try to win this prize. And they 170 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.759 were like a couple of cool prizes. There was a few nandos. I 171 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:11.039 definitely tried for like an hour and a half to try and get the crunchy 172 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.240 Roll Tannnderoid and I just could not get it, and I eventually gave up 173 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.559 because somebody beat me to it. So I was like, all right, 174 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.960 was there only one? There were two and the other one was impossible to 175 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.000 get like it was just buried down in there, and I'm like, I 176 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.399 want to go do something else. I've been here for an hour and a 177 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.720 half. Yeah, but like there there was plenty of stuff to do while 178 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.840 you were at the event, And like I said, EVO is a spectacle. 179 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.159 EVO is a convention. It's not just a tournament. It's you don't 180 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:50.679 go there to grind. You're you're there for like the super Bowl of Fighting 181 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:56.519 Games. One of my favorite moments actually is around like top ninety six, 182 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.519 Top twenty four. I was actually in the EVENTU you try to get some 183 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.240 casuals while I was there because I'm like, all right, it's really hard 184 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:05.879 to get casuals. But the brackets winding down to the point where there should 185 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.639 be like a lot of open stations. Then people were playing, so I 186 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.600 should be able to do that, and like there were, but it was 187 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:18.559 also when staff was like trying to pack stuff up, So like I understand 188 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.559 like why they had to start packing stuff up then, because like they were 189 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.840 out of that event hall that Saturday, right because finals was all in the 190 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.279 arena. So like I managed to get some games, but like it got 191 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.919 to the point where like I really just wanted to watch the matches. And 192 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.320 it was really funny because in by the Street Fighter stations, there were two 193 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:41.480 streams showing off like Top twenty four matches, and they were like directly across 194 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.679 from each other and this giant event hall, and like it got to the 195 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:50.559 point where like the streams were playing matches like offset from each other. Like 196 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.279 one match would be over here and then that would finished, then another match 197 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:58.039 would be over there, and so like you had this group of people shuffling 198 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.360 from like one side of the event haul to the other as each match was 199 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:06.720 finishing, because everybody's just watching matches, so like they go and watch this 200 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.759 match, and then like that match would finish, everybody would turn it around 201 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.639 and go to the other screen and start watching the other watch and I'm like, 202 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:18.960 this is really funny. But it was really cool and like Street Fighters 203 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.840 six, Top eight or Top six, I really hope they do away with 204 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.720 that. It was really fun to watch. I unfortunately did not get to 205 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:33.480 see it in the arena because I think the arena tickets had told out before 206 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.279 we got a chance to buy them. I also personally have an issue with 207 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.200 that being a separate part of the ticket. I understand that that arena is 208 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:48.279 probably expensive, but the trip itself was expensive from like five hundred dollars for 209 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:53.879 the flight and then the hotel and then registration was almost two hundred dollars for 210 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:59.000 me. Like, even it's not cheap. I'm surprised that fucking eleven thousand 211 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.360 people winto this because it's not a cheap trip at all. It's it's not. 212 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.519 But they also give you the spectacle, right, so the bug will 213 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:12.720 Okay, yeah, that's very true all in all, the fun event, 214 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:19.400 I look forward to going again next year, and now that EVO is done 215 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:25.039 with, I can continue furthering my Street Better sixth career. I managed to 216 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:30.119 land five hundred and thirteenth out of seven thousand something or other people. Uh 217 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.440 so not bad. I've hit it out of my first round pools, lost 218 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.680 in my second round pools. But honestly, for a game only being out 219 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:47.599 two months, I can't complain that's pretty decent. Good thank you. But 220 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.359 now that EVO is over and I don't have any like big majors coming out 221 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.440 CEO Taku, the Street Better Stick's going to be at that for some reason. 222 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:02.440 But so now I'm kind of exploring other avenues for Street Fighter six. 223 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.880 I've actually started playing Ken just to take from DJ, and I've been focusing 224 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.240 on getting better with Ken simply for the fact that, like, there are 225 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.720 certain aspects of DJ that really frustrate me, and it's part of the meta 226 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:21.640 of Street Fighter six, where like DJ has, DJ has strengths and flaws, 227 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.559 and he's a really strong character, don't get me wrong, but there 228 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:30.359 are certain aspects that really annoy me, particularly his his inefficient I'm not going 229 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.240 to call it bad because it's not bad because he has a flash kick, 230 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:38.480 but his inefficient anti air game where DJ is designed as this like pseudo rushdown 231 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:45.440 character game, but when it comes to defense, his anti airs are really 232 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.960 lackluster, Like they don't stop a lot of the really good jumpings in this 233 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:55.599 game, except for his jack knife Magnum, which is his his flash kick. 234 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.880 Move his hold down for two seconds or not two seconds, hold down 235 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.640 for like thirty frames, and then hold up and then he does like the 236 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:06.440 upticks. The problem with that is, like when DJ's playing neutral, all 237 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:11.960 of his really amazing buttons force him to not be charging, so that makes 238 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:17.880 him really weak on a sort of antire game because his normal anti airs are 239 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:22.039 just not good. They often get stuffed or lose or they're too slow, 240 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:26.480 and so he pretty much just has to hold jump ins a lot of the 241 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:32.079 time, which is can be really frustrating from a neutral aspect, especially when 242 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.400 you're playing against more wild players. Anyway, I really wish I could stop 243 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:37.119 this guy from jumping in, but like, I'm just never in a situation 244 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.480 where I can do that, because like I'm trying to play this ground game 245 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.559 and I'm trying to get him to stop jumping at me, but it's getting 246 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:49.799 like it's difficult. So like I wanted to explore other avenues of like character, 247 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:52.839 Like anti airs are very important in Street Fighter, and they're very important 248 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.359 to me, Like I like having a good antire coming from Street Fighter four 249 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:00.920 where Dudley had Sam Medium, which was probably one of the best antiars of 250 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:06.240 the game, or like bb Tag or Blazement Proper, where my had this 251 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:11.279 giant freaking swite that said you're not going to be in the air. So 252 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.240 like having good anti airs and being able to stop my opponent from comming is 253 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:18.519 really important. So like Ken offers that because he has a sure Hugan. 254 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.000 Shureugans are really good like they have head and vulnerability, they're just really good 255 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:30.599 at stopping people from jumping. In the other aspect is I think DJ's low 256 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:36.119 game is particularly weak compared to the rest of the cast. So his crouching 257 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:41.119 medium kick is a sweep, which is traditionally just a normal pope for most 258 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.599 characters, and they're sweeping is usually delegated to their roundhouse. Well, DJ 259 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:53.279 has two sweeps, And where this is a problem is is it allows people 260 00:20:53.599 --> 00:21:00.839 to sort of walk out out of his pressure or play a like utual based 261 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:07.599 game against him with far less risk than other characters, particularly because of the 262 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:14.599 drive Rush system. So the drive Rush stem you're able to drive rush cancel 263 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:22.119 any special cancelabowl normals. And this is also contains a lot of crouch median 264 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:29.000 kicks from really good characters that pretty much just go half screen. So the 265 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.079 threat of their low game is so much stronger than DJ's in this game. 266 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:41.240 So like playing the neutral game them versus DJ, or even just like trying 267 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.200 to walk out of like throws and tick throws or whatnot, the risk is 268 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:49.720 so much greater versus like Ken or Luke or jury versus DJ. Where like 269 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:53.039 okay, if you try to walk out of his pressure or try to walk 270 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:56.880 away from his throw and he hits you with his crash medium kick, You're 271 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.799 just gonna get swept for five hundred damage, get up, and then you're 272 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.720 in the same situation again, meaning DJ is going to have to make you 273 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:11.279 guess like forty more times, whereas a luker can can like laying one crashing 274 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.480 medium kick on you and lead into like a fifty percent combo, right, 275 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:21.240 And that sort of as like I played a really long set versus a luke 276 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:26.480 and like that kept coming up to the point that it was like frustrating me. 277 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:33.200 Like the matchup felt so bad because this sort of like aspect of the 278 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:40.720 neutral was so skewed against me. It is, it's a very strong option. 279 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.920 And again I'm not saying DJ's a bad character, far from but like 280 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.119 I think that's one of the things that keeps him from being like one of 281 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:53.359 the best characters in the game personally. But be that as it may. 282 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.960 That and just wanting to play a new character has lent me just starting playing 283 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.519 Ken the Street Lighter six and That's where I'm going to go forward. And 284 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.319 I'm not saying I'm roping DJ. I'm just right now, I'm just playing 285 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:14.279 Kenre you're exploring here, you're playing around. I'm playing with Ken. You 286 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.920 play them in the beta, right, so it's a character you are familiar 287 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.599 with, and he just kind of I love it, yeah, pretty much. 288 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:26.359 I also think he has like the coolest level three in the game. 289 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:34.839 Oh let's sit down, the shut up. Yeah no, it's it's actually 290 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:40.839 like two of the coolest characters that I would eventually hope to like to play 291 00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:45.599 someday is like JP and Seun. I love watching them, Like I hate 292 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.039 fighting those characters, but I love watching people play those characters. I think 293 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:55.680 those characters are super cool and they're very unique in this game. They just 294 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.680 have like so many different options, and the combo routes are so cool. 295 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:03.000 Like I watched Cockero play JP and he's just doing like these five hundred Galaxy 296 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.880 Brain combos, and I'm like, this is the sickest shit ever. I 297 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.640 would be molding if this was happening to me, but this is tight, 298 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.599 and you know, hopefully, one day, you know, I'll try and 299 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.200 force myself to check out one of those characters, because I do eventually want 300 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:27.559 to get proficient with at least half if not all of the caster Street Fighter 301 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:34.559 six just in sort of my sort of my journey at getting very good at 302 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:41.079 that game. Yeah, I appreciate knowledge about the characters that are playing exactly, 303 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.720 and I think one aspect playing Ken is supposed to help me deal with 304 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:51.519 is I feel like up to this point, when I play fighting games, 305 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:55.799 there's a part of me that doesn't necessarily learn the game, but simply learns 306 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:00.000 the character that I'm playing. And that's why when I play a new character 307 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:07.039 or play like something like that, I feel so lost when I really shouldn't 308 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.039 be, because the rules that I have learned and applied from the character that 309 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:15.480 I was already playing should apply to the new character and the transition should be 310 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:22.079 faster, right, So, like I'm hoping that playing other characters is going 311 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:29.119 to help me understand the game better and not just the characters. Yeah, 312 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:37.240 I mean it gives you more perspective of different aspects of the game in theory 313 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:42.400 that should uh just help you, you know. Yeah, that's that's my 314 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:49.119 hope. But that's that's uh, that's the Street Better six front that I'm 315 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:55.319 sure I'll be bringing every recording at this point just because I love that game. 316 00:25:55.640 --> 00:26:00.640 The game is real cool, they'd say, funny. Before you continue 317 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:06.319 on, I want to take a quick break because there's like some feedback coming 318 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:10.640 through on your end and it's driving me nuts. So let's fix that real 319 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:15.200 quick. Oh okay, all right, look up, I'll just stitch these 320 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:21.039 things back together. Boom, all right, and we are back from that. 321 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:23.039 Technical difficulties have been fixed. This is what happens when I'm in charge 322 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:30.599 of recording. Everything breaks naturally, drew you. That's finishing up freet Fighter. 323 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.720 H yeah, sorry, so the stream Fighter six. And also while 324 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.319 I was traveling and I was gone for about a week, so I wanted 325 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.720 to have a game that I could play that was going to be too much 326 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:47.359 of an investment but would also like me substantial enough to like keep me distracted 327 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:52.359 for like a week. And what I decided to play was a game from 328 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.440 Team Osano. Because I'm just fresh off that Octopath. Kick is the remake 329 00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:04.319 of Livillage, Live Alive or Live Alive, Potato Potato Live Alive, Love 330 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:12.200 Live, Love School, Idol Festival, carry on. But so I decided 331 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.880 to check this game out because you know, it's been it's been sitting in 332 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:19.279 my back long since last year. It came out last year surprisingly like out 333 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:22.440 of nowhere. It was a really cool announcement. I was really happy to 334 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:29.359 see that because I've always heard like good things about well, excuse me, 335 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:36.079 Live Alive, and so I finally sat down and checked it out. And 336 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:42.799 so basically what Live Live is is it gives you seven characters to where you 337 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:49.559 They all take place like, they have unique stories and chapters and you can 338 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:56.000 pretty much pick any character that you want and you'll just start out in their 339 00:27:56.079 --> 00:28:00.599 chapter and you'll play out their story. And the best way I can describe 340 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.960 it this is like this game is an RPG, but also it's not an 341 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:11.640 RPG. It's a lot of different things than the ones, right, It's 342 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:21.759 it's definitely like got hints of Earthbound and Near Like as I'm playing these games, 343 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:26.200 I definitely get like Earthbound vibes and Near vibes like these very like, 344 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.480 hey, I'm an RPG, but also I'm not an RPG and like a 345 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.160 genre switch a little bit here and there. Yeah, like that's why. 346 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:41.480 Yeah, Yeah, that's what made me like really make that near comparison where 347 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.480 I'm just like, this game reminds me a lot of Near where like you're 348 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:51.599 you're playing an near as an action RPG, but like, over the course 349 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:59.079 of near you've played like five different genres of games yeh, and like livill 350 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.960 If is no different. I don't want to talk about it too much because 351 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.240 I really want Rob to play it, because I think the game is very 352 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:14.480 ripcorp and like I am currently sitting at like the door to the final boss. 353 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.359 I have not beaten the game, but like I've put all the time, 354 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:23.559 I've gotten all the way there, and like I'm kind of just blown 355 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.480 away by what this game is. The best way I can sum up this 356 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.599 game is like as I was playing it there there are definitely some aspects that 357 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.960 made me like, go, man, I forgot this is a thirty year 358 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.839 old game. Yeah, but then that's immediately followed by I can't believe that 359 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:48.599 this is a thirty year old. Like there's so many aspects of this game 360 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:53.680 that feel like so fresh and unique and unlike anything I've ever played in any 361 00:29:53.680 --> 00:30:00.880 other game, let alone RPG before. It is fredibly ambitious. I can't 362 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:06.519 believe the Super Nintendo was able to like run this game. It's wild to 363 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:11.480 me. It's it's great us I'm counting that yes, I understand that this 364 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.160 was a remake done in HD two D, and the game does looked that 365 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.519 pretty on Super Nintendo. But I'm sure it looks just live. It looks 366 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.160 good, and I mean mechanically it's still there, like everything is still like 367 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:27.240 it's just not in HD two D, right, right, So everything that's 368 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:33.359 blowing your mind is still going to blow your mind originally, and it is 369 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.039 one of those like legendary games that people talk about, and it's just like 370 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.799 you're not going to experience a game like this for at least for a very 371 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.799 long time, right until some of the games like Near comes out that like 372 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:51.799 subverts like expectations and genres or you see you kind of see like, uh 373 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:55.319 where where octopath kind of comes from? Right in a sense of like, 374 00:30:55.359 --> 00:31:04.559 yeah, definitely see like a lot of Octopaths sort of DNA or vice versa. 375 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:08.160 Right, you see Live lives DNA inside of uxor path. Right. 376 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.960 But but yeah, there's a lot of games that like draw direct inspiration from 377 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:21.160 Live a live and one of my one of my friends has stated that a 378 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:27.119 guy that made Undertail, Toby Toby Fox. Yeah, Toby Toby Fox. 379 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:34.240 It's very clear that he played Live Live all Along. Yes, yes, 380 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:45.079 absolutely that that that is like one of the big inspirations there. And like, 381 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.519 I just I don't know what I expected going in, to be honest, 382 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:52.880 because like one of the main reasons I checked it out was like I 383 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.079 needed a short game. That's another plus for Live Live, by the way, 384 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:02.480 is at max you're putting like maybe thirty person it's relatively short. It's 385 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.680 and like even then like you can stop for a bit, like you can 386 00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:08.920 do a story and then like stop a bit and then like come back. 387 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:16.200 So like it's it's fairly noncommittal, and I like that. But the main 388 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:21.279 reason I checked it out is like I wanted to play more Team Asano projects 389 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:27.960 because I really wanted to, uh just feed off that optopath high that I've 390 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:35.240 been having. And like it's it's a Team Asano game in that they did 391 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:39.960 the remake, but it's not a Team Assano game either, right it is. 392 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.759 It is not their title, it is not, but they definitely drew 393 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:52.440 a lot of inspiration from that game. And again, like this game, 394 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:58.319 like where I am not right now, this game is definitely like way up 395 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:04.440 there with the greats for me at this one, I cannot believe that this 396 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:08.920 was a Super Nintendo title. I cannot. It's it's so good. And 397 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:15.559 I mean also it's scored by a soundtrack from Yokoshi Mamura, who if you 398 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.160 have played Kingdom Harts, if you've played Super Mario RPG, Radiant Historia, 399 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:23.119 like you understand like that is kreme de la kreme when it comes to soundtrack 400 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:30.759 composers, and Goole Live is no different. It is so good. So 401 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:36.480 like you, you have like very interesting storytelling, like really unique gameplay mechanics, 402 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:43.799 a very compelling soundtrack like live a Live is the whole package. And 403 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.559 I can't wait to do a spoiler cast with you, Rob, like once 404 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.200 we're gonna get Lewis on here, because like I was screaming with Lewis about 405 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.240 it earlier, We're gonna get Lewis on there. We're gonna get you and 406 00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:58.240 we're gonna do a spoiler cast about it, just so I can gush about 407 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:02.160 the game and like what it so well sounds good to me. I mean, 408 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.599 I am forcing it up my my cueue. It was a game of 409 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.119 I was going to get to anyway, like that was on the docket of 410 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:14.320 my games to play this year, but it has moved up the list. 411 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.760 Once I clear out one game on my tip on my cueue, it goes 412 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.119 right in there. So I will have it beat by this time next month 413 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:28.199 and we'll we'll schedule that for sure. It is it is in scene to 414 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:36.239 me what that game is, like, ah's so good, so funny, 415 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:40.320 like it goes, it goes in directions that you really don't expect it to 416 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:46.840 and like you can definitely see like we're off the path like pulls. It's 417 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:53.559 sort of like ideas from in sort of like taking these characters who seemingly have 418 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:59.480 nothing to do with each other and like weaving some sort of tail between them 419 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:12.719 all mm hmm, and oh it's it's wow, like did you did your 420 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.800 headphone that? No, it just got disconnected because I think it just reconnected. 421 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:27.199 Hey he's bad. That's weird. Well it is because you're you're producer. 422 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.360 It's because of me. Yeah, yeah, this is all blame any 423 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.760 issues on me. It's I am bad with the just hit the start button 424 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:43.840 everything. I don't want to say games. I would compare it too, 425 00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:47.119 because I don't want to give anything. Like the near comparison is there, 426 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:52.079 but that's pretty obvious from like the surface level of like what you're looking at 427 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:57.920 and what you probably already know from like watching a trailer or something. You're 428 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.440 like, Okay, this is definitely something. It's different than your average RPG 429 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:08.079 near but like there are things that, like it hit me in ways that 430 00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:12.760 certain other games did that I'm just like if I say that, I'd be 431 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:20.719 giving things away, right, very cool, Like it's it's amazing that like 432 00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:28.239 I haven't been totally spoiled on that game, considering like how often it comes 433 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:35.119 up more often than not in like conversations over the over the years, because 434 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.119 I know a lot of people that that love that game. Right, So 435 00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:43.039 anytime like you talk about the quote unquote golden era of RPGs and like ness, 436 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.320 rpds and stuff like that, like Live Alive comes up a lot in 437 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:50.320 discussions, and I've heard a lot about Live alf Live Alive, Live Alive, 438 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.079 and it's it's one that's like I'm eventually going to get to it, 439 00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.719 I promise, uh, and I just don't. But like, surprisingly I 440 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.440 have been spoiled all that much on it, and like I know, if 441 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:07.840 you don't know anything about it, I'm not gonna say anything. But I 442 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:13.079 mean nothing like to the point where I can be like, oh, yeah, 443 00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.800 let's let's talk about this central point, you know what I mean. 444 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:20.639 It's just like small little bullets here or there. And if anybody wants like 445 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.199 a deeper breakdown of some of Live Live, I mean, Lewis has been 446 00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.199 on here to talk about it before, where he's talked about his journey through 447 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.039 some of those chapters and gives you a pretty good feel of like how different 448 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:37.320 each one is. So you can probably find that episode that, like I 449 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:43.440 wrote from now the fuck out of Lewis like holding this in and not streaming 450 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:49.119 about this like once he beat the game, because I'm like, I like, 451 00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.639 I just got here and I want to fucking go to the mountain tops 452 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:58.039 stream about this game. Man. And I understand I have a tendency to 453 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:04.400 like wear my passion on my shirt sleeve. But it's a good game. 454 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.119 It's a good game, and it's it's great that it like even within the 455 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:12.400 context of twenty twenty three, it is still an amazing game. Like that's 456 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.239 the cool part, right, Like it is a remaking game that was not 457 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:20.599 thirty years game is thirty years old. I cannot believe it and it still 458 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:22.440 hits like that, and that's how you know it's quality, because like there's 459 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.360 some games that maybe like gets remade and it's like, oh, this is 460 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.920 a classic, but then it comes from like caveats of like justest remember that 461 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:31.679 this was a game from X time period, and it's like put yourself back 462 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:35.280 in like that mind space and it's like, Okay, this is cool, 463 00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:39.280 this is great. But like this, this game clearly feels modern in a 464 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:43.719 way that like it could come out this year and you never would have guessed 465 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:45.199 that it was a thirty year old video game, and that's very cool. 466 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.840 There are there are very few games that I feel can really stand that test 467 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.000 of time. The ones that come to mind are like SuperM RPG, Coroner 468 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:59.440 Trigger. I feel like those are other games that also sort of stand that 469 00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:02.880 test of time. Absolutely agree. I mean, RPG is coming out this 470 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:08.159 year as a remake, but like that game, just it has always felt 471 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:13.800 right to me, and so I fully expected the remake, like even if 472 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.480 it's just a complete graphical overhaul, and everything is best saying, fine a 473 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.159 game, if you asked me, it's perfect as it is. And you 474 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:28.760 can anecdotally talk about like Chrono Trigger where Sky just played through it literally a 475 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:32.119 couple of months ago for the first time ever. Really yes, yes, 476 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.519 And the one thing that he really mentioned to me when I was asking about, 477 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:38.599 like, hey, what games set out to you this year? And 478 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:40.480 it didn't have to be of this year, just like what games have you 479 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:44.239 played? And he was just like, I played through Cronic Trigger for the 480 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:46.559 first time, not really knowing much about chron Trigger, just hearing about it, 481 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:53.199 and he's just like, I understand, I get it in that. 482 00:39:54.880 --> 00:40:00.119 You know, that is a game that was like my live a live for 483 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:04.360 the longest time, because like I played it for a little bit when I 484 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.239 was like in high school, right, but I it was on an emulator 485 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.880 and I never got to finish it. And then like I got to college 486 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:13.199 and I've gotten to a group of friends and like they were I was like, 487 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:21.159 like, younlay, I've actually got spoiled for me, unfortunately by someone 488 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:22.360 who just wasn't thinking. They're like, oh, it's a twenty year old 489 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:30.920 game. You assume everybody has play you just got But like even with that, 490 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.119 that game still hit me. Like when I finally sat down and played 491 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.320 it and they beat it, that game just hit me on such an emotional 492 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:45.679 level. Even knowing what happens, Yeah, because like it's more that game 493 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.400 is more than just the story. That game is, like it has some 494 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.320 gorgeous set pieces, It has a beautiful sound, right, it has an 495 00:40:52.360 --> 00:41:00.440 amazing battle system. Like someone once told me that if a game, if 496 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:02.800 a story is spoiled for you, and like that was the only way you're 497 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:10.199 going to enjoy it, is inherently not good because that means that every every 498 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:16.079 following like play through or watch or whatever, is just not going to be 499 00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:21.119 as good as the first one. So when you know that, like you 500 00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:22.920 can go into a game, whether it's been spoiled or not, and like 501 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:27.920 it just hits you, right, that's when you know that you have something 502 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:31.360 special. And I think that's what Chrono Trigger is and that's what RPG is. 503 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:37.199 And again I think like if I played through Live a Live again, 504 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:38.880 like after I beat it, I would just be like, man, the 505 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:45.039 section is so tight, Like it's just truly is something special. That's fucking 506 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:52.239 awesome. I love that. But because I don't want to go into detail 507 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.960 until the spoiler guests, I will leave it at that. Of course, 508 00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.480 of course we'll we'll get that planned and hammered out by the end the next 509 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.159 month. I promised that that is a rib promise, and I don't break 510 00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:12.199 my promises. Easily understood, understood. Other than that, I think that's 511 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:15.639 it. I also played a lot of theaterrysm like while I was traveling, 512 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:20.079 because the Octopath songs finally game and I think I mentioned that last recording. 513 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:24.639 But also I was able to play the Liver Live songs as well because they 514 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:30.599 finally listen to. But man, that's the best theater Rhythm I've ever played, 515 00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:37.559 and I really liked that game. I think getting it on a handheld 516 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:39.079 console is the way to go. So get on your Steam deck or your 517 00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:45.039 Switch. I actually don't I thought it would Switch only for right now how 518 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:49.840 much check? Well, no, because it's on PlayStation as well. But 519 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.119 I don't think if you get it I would. I would get it for 520 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:58.000 Switch because it is. It is the perfect handheld game. In fact, 521 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:02.119 I hate playing it on TV. Yeah, that would. That's a game 522 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:10.400 that I would just play in bed before sleeping. If anything. Theater Rhythm 523 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:24.559 is not on Steam okay, yeah, Switch sale man m hm oh wait 524 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.679 no, no, no, no, it is? Oh it is? 525 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:34.519 It is. This is so weird. Why is it so hard to confirm 526 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:38.960 this. It is not, it is not. It's weird because there was 527 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:45.199 this like this like an uh an event article thing on Steam that points to 528 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:51.239 the demo. But that's like pointing to a console demo that's not on Steam 529 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:55.480 and it's not on same Like, this is weird. Yeah, that's very 530 00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:01.679 awkward, very awkward. So other consoles only, Well, yeah, I 531 00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:07.360 definitely grab it on a switch tail if you can't. Hopefully it goes on 532 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:14.039 sell at some point. But that's that's where I'm at in games right now. 533 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:21.719 A copy Trails from Reverie came in, so that's the next thing on 534 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.800 the docket. I would like to start getting my Game of the Year stuff 535 00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:30.800 in a row. I have several games I don't like. I still want 536 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:32.840 to put some time in Cheers of the Kingdom, Like I really want to 537 00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.800 sit down and grind that out. I have to. Oh, we didn't 538 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.840 even talk about in New You that's also coming out of this year a couple 539 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:46.840 of weeks. No, it's September. Oh that isn't a couple of couple 540 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:54.599 of weeks. Wow, I can't do this, Yeah, and then you 541 00:44:54.679 --> 00:45:00.880 will. Did you read the book I'm about to No, not that I 542 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:08.519 know when I'm starting. I read it the other night. These things very 543 00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:15.039 curious. It's your thoughts. I'm very curious. It's your thoughts. I 544 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:17.079 mean, it isn't a thing where like I'm probably gonna need a refri so 545 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:24.599 both other things. No, No, I just very curious of your thoughts 546 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:30.119 of the book itself. Okay, okay, all right, I'm very bad 547 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:35.719 just from a just just from a storytelling perspective, like we can just chat 548 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.000 about it after you finished reading it and be like okay, cool, okay, 549 00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:40.800 all right, definitely read it before you start playing it, though I 550 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:45.800 will read it before I start playing. It's gonna happen. I got you, 551 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:52.000 I got you. But that's where I'm addling game Front. There's like 552 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:55.960 seven games coming out in the next like three weeks that I want to play, 553 00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:04.039 So that's gonna be fun, good luck, good look. Uh. 554 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:09.159 On my end of things, I almost like forgot what I was gonna talk 555 00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:14.920 about. Funny enough, I was very prepared. I was like, oh, 556 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:16.239 I got a lot of things to say today, and then as we 557 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.000 started recording, it just like left my brain and I was just like, 558 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:28.639 oh, so I obviously I finished talking about Traveler too, right, We're 559 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:34.719 gonna get into that in a little bit. But also upon finishing that, 560 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:40.480 I was able to return to U Yakasa Ishan like a Dragon Asian, So 561 00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:45.320 that that is a game that is now going to be a main focus for 562 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:49.400 me, alongside a couple of other things. That is a series I really 563 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:57.719 want to sa tell them to stop, tell them just do it. Just 564 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:02.199 start playing it. Job everything else and play it. Actually, I'll make 565 00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:07.599 it easier for you. Just start with judgment. There's only two of those. 566 00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:15.039 I've actually been eyes to not do that. Why because there were things 567 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.440 I will apparently appreciate more heaving prior to Yaka. It goes both ways. 568 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.679 It goes both ways, like you can start at first and do judgment, 569 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:29.440 or you can do judgment and then go to Yakasa goes I'll also say it 570 00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.480 is the Yakasa games are already on judgment games or not? This this is 571 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.320 fair start start yakas is zero. Like right now, I'm looking at it 572 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:43.840 as a fucking turn it on. Tell me to start right now and then 573 00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:46.320 tell me to start. I will do that. No, I will tell 574 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.639 you whether or not you do it or not. It's another thing. Uh, 575 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.039 I am telling you to go put that disk in your console right from 576 00:47:53.079 --> 00:48:00.599 now. Anyway, I finished the first chapter of Oian. This is the 577 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:05.320 game that takes place in like the single kup era of Japan, right, 578 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.280 and that games grabbed me by the balls. Man. It starts incredibly strong, 579 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:16.320 uh. In In so for a lot of these games, they almost 580 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:22.559 have like the the initial chapter it is like a little bit of a like 581 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.679 they talk you into a crazy scenario and then it's like a low burn until 582 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:29.639 it like leads up into like what the story is going to be? Right, 583 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:38.000 this one just like goes and like in a way it escalates in a 584 00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:43.719 way that I have not seen in like a little while. It is just 585 00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:47.320 like here's the first hour of the game and you're like, oh shit, 586 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.119 uh and now I'm just like I need to play this game. I'm thinking 587 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:59.760 about this game a lot. Uh. It's fucking fantastic. Yeah. The 588 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:07.039 only thing my my issue and this is also my issue of like judgment and 589 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.599 stuff after playing Ya Kasa seven, is that like I don't really care from 590 00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:16.440 the beatum up system and that's no different here. It's it's clunky in a 591 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.599 way that like it just It reminds me of like a PS two three D 592 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:23.880 beat them up right and in both like the fun goofy ways, but also 593 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:31.559 in like some frustrating ways in terms of like fackle and isn't like particularly great 594 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:37.639 in in some other instances. But it's like it's fine, you know, 595 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.960 it's not it's whatever. I kind of wish they went all the way in 596 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.199 with their RPG system because I find that to be so interesting. From Yakasa 597 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:49.599 seven that was like a really fun battle system. But but the beat them 598 00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.559 up is is okay. The gun is like, so you have four different 599 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:57.199 stances. You have you just have like your brawler, your fists if you 600 00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.440 just want to punch due to just toss them, toss them around. Uh, 601 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.239 you have a sword, you have a gun stance, and then you 602 00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:08.159 have sword pluck on right. Uh, let me tell you that gunstance. 603 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:12.320 This is the jankie. This game is guns dance. There. There there 604 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.639 is no reloading in this game. It is just like rapid fire pistol shots. 605 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:20.719 So like, oh so it's kind of just a John Woo game. 606 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:27.280 I'm just like bashing the fucking fut and it's just like kid you or or 607 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:34.199 what's his name Sakama Toyoma. I think, uh, it's just like standing 608 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.639 there and just like and the enemies can't touch me. I'm just like, 609 00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:42.480 oh this this is extreme cheese. And I find this hilarious. Uh they 610 00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:44.920 did not think this through. Maybe they did think this through and they just 611 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:49.039 didn't care, uh, which is also a very like yeah because the thing, 612 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.920 Uh, just break the game in any ways you want the the sword 613 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.920 pluss gun is a fun style that that's like equivalent to like a break dancing 614 00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.639 style. It is very flashy, a lot of like quick slashes and like 615 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:07.559 three sixty gunshots and the least stuff like that. So it's so it's gun 616 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:14.719 kata right. Uh, It's it's fun, It's it's goofy. It's fine 617 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.119 for what it is. It's a game that like I'm not gonna turn like 618 00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:21.000 the difficulty up on or anything like that because I don't care about the combat 619 00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:25.000 that much, but like mashing through it is it's fine. But the story 620 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:29.800 is like some good, good shit. Uh. And then it also has 621 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.239 like the Yakauza staple of like having very goofy side quests as well to like 622 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:37.800 balance out the main scenario that is like very very serious, and that's very 623 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:42.920 interesting, just like juxtaposition with the series, right, just like here's these 624 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:45.079 goofy, quirky side quests and then like, but I need to get back 625 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:51.159 to this like murder Mystery though, And it's a line that like only this 626 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.960 series can like walk so finely. It's very weird. I can't wait for 627 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:00.840 you to one day like play through these uh in in really come to understand 628 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:07.000 like what that means. But yeah, I'm gonna keep going through. I'm 629 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.119 in it. I'm probably gonna try to beat it within like two weeks. 630 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:16.119 We'll see these games are. They can be very long, but usually the 631 00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:22.960 critical path is like probably twenty to thirty ish hours, which isn't like the 632 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.320 worst thing in the world. It just depends on whether or not, like 633 00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.599 I do end up getting caught up inside quests, or if it has fun 634 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:32.480 mini games. Because I don't know what mini games are in this game, 635 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.199 I assume there are some. I don't expect to find a virtual fighter cabinet 636 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:42.239 here like in the other games, but that would also be very funny. 637 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:49.800 If there's just like an arcade machine in Feudal Japan, why not, I 638 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:53.800 wouldn't put it past them to just like play it off as some weird contraption. 639 00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:59.400 So here's my question, which will de turn on whether I get to 640 00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:04.280 the Aircus games anytimes Fantasy said Rebirth come out this year, next year, 641 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:12.559 Winter twenty twenty three. Take that as you will, So anytime anytime between, 642 00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:17.239 like what December in March twenty twenty four. Yeah, I think it 643 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:22.480 will probably be early next year. Yeah, I'm pecking. I would say 644 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:30.960 February. I think I would play bench the game on play Crisis Score, 645 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:38.119 a short game. You should play Crisis Score before Rebirth. I'm aware. 646 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:47.800 I'm barely just saying Chi to stop making video games. Robs. They don't 647 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:51.599 listen to me. I've not missed the video game. They don't listen to 648 00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:55.039 me. But yeah, this continues the line of just really good, good 649 00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:59.000 games out of the studio. They know what they're doing. I mean, 650 00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:01.239 it is the remake of of a p S three game, so like I 651 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:07.800 do think that they they added a few things here or there, but largely 652 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.800 the story is intact right. So it is a case of like level where 653 00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:15.840 this game was out before, but we're finally getting a chance to play in 654 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:19.840 the West for the first time. Officially and oh okay, it was never 655 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:24.000 released here. It was never released over here, right, but it's fantastic. 656 00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:28.119 It's top tier storytelling out of this team that knows how to do it. 657 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:36.519 The other game I've been sinking my teeth into after tossing and turning for 658 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:39.719 probably two days on whether or not I should buy Balder's Gate three and then 659 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:45.239 getting peer pressured by Twitter to buy Balderskate three. I have successfully bought Balder's 660 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:52.800 Kate three. I tried, and then like, but what if everybody is 661 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:59.440 playing it? And I'm like yeah, And then like what if I also 662 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:06.840 if almost a bit, and then like what if Humble Bundle is like deal? 663 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:13.280 And I'm like hmmm mmmm. Anyway, I ended up with Skate three. 664 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:21.719 Uh. I want to start with this game. I want to make 665 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:25.039 it clear that, like, I am not a D and D person, 666 00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:30.840 I am not a CRPG person, I am not a tabletop RPGs a person. 667 00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:37.760 I for the first time this year, actually have played a tabletop RPG 668 00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:45.079 campaign with Asher called frost Haven that we have been playing like every couple books 669 00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:47.119 will sit down and play. That was my first experience with one of those. 670 00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:52.960 So I'll have a lot of experience in this space. But what I 671 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:58.239 do have experience with and what I really fell in love with, despite like 672 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:02.880 not really caring about the genre as a whole, was Divinity Original Sin too. 673 00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:09.920 That was one of my favorite games for how insanely open ended. Uh 674 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:15.119 the storytelling in the Narration was for that game as well, like a really 675 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:22.960 cool tactics combat system in it's just like a really fun playground of an RPG 676 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:32.039 that that for the first time, I think in probably my entire gaming career, 677 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:38.440 as it were, I felt like I played through a story that like 678 00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:45.599 you know that that thing, like the marketing will say, is like you 679 00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:51.480 play through this game and this is your story. You know. That's how 680 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:53.960 I felt playing that game for the very first time. That that I for 681 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.559 the first time ever, that is the feeling I got out of a video 682 00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:00.679 game where like, this is my story. In the way that the Narration 683 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:08.920 like allowed me to do the things that I wanted to do and like carve 684 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:13.480 the story out to allow me to do those things right. I could kill 685 00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:19.360 mainline MPCs through just like either a mis click maybe it was an accident, 686 00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:22.920 or maybe just like I had a side quest that told me to give in 687 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:28.239 too, like some dark side to kill this MPC, and the game is 688 00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:35.039 like, well that happened, Switch the narration around a little bit, go 689 00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:39.239 do this instead to carry forward through the main path. So how how I 690 00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:43.679 end up through that game it is very different than how I actually played that 691 00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.440 game, or how my old housemate Paul, how he played through it. 692 00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:51.920 And then that doubles doubles up when you're playing multiplayer, uh, and like 693 00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:57.360 everybody can do their own actions independent of each other, right, So like 694 00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:00.400 Asher could pick up a quest that in fault was killing an NPC that maybe 695 00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:06.760 I need for my quest, and maybe we're deep into role play that like 696 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.039 he's not like telling me what he needs to do, you know what I 697 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:13.119 mean. And then all of a sudden, I go up to this NPC 698 00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:15.400 and they're dead, and I'm like, what the fuck happened here? And 699 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:17.199 He's like, I don't know, I just saw him there, and I'm 700 00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:21.639 like, shit, what am I supposed to do with this item? Now 701 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:25.159 you have instances like that that just kind of like naturally occur. That is 702 00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:30.039 just very funny to play off of. So even like the multiplayer experience is 703 00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.320 very much like you're creating your own story through this game, and the game 704 00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.440 will account for any of the actions that you do. That game was designed 705 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.719 by Larry and Studios, and I hold them in very very high regard just 706 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:45.360 off of that one game. That is the only game I have played of 707 00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:47.599 them, and I hold them in insanely high regard. So they got the 708 00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:53.039 license to do Bolder Skate and they have come back to do Boulder Skate three, 709 00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:57.320 which has been in early access for a very very long time. I 710 00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:00.719 completely paid no attention to it. I was just like, when the game 711 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:06.079 comes out, I'll check it out. And these motherfuckers they did it again. 712 00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:14.840 But more I saw somebody us about this game. It is. It's 713 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:17.280 right now one of the highest rat rated games of all time in terms of 714 00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:22.480 PC like and I think it's like number two, like right behind something else 715 00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:28.320 in terms of all games period. It's insane what they have packed into this 716 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:32.000 game. It's it's wild because, like we're so used to these days, 717 00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:38.880 games coming out like either being like unfinished or broken or DLC. It's just 718 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.440 the star feeling. You know, we already know that's gonna be a mess. 719 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:49.400 Games come out with battle passes and cash shops, for like seventy dollars 720 00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.000 games, and you know there's always a stigma around like new games, and 721 00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:57.239 you kind of feeling like jipped in some ways, you know what I mean? 722 00:59:57.360 --> 01:00:00.960 That just comes from like every Triple A title these days, save for 723 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.559 a few, Like there's some kinds what's out there, but this is one 724 01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:07.519 that comes out that's like, here's a sixty dollars complete package, Like this 725 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.360 is worth way more than what we're asking you to charge that we're charging you 726 01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:19.239 for. Honestly, it's it's fucking phenomenal. Just like the way the game 727 01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:22.800 begins, it's just very very interesting where you're you're on this ship and you've 728 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.519 been hijacked by a mind flare, and it's just like what the fuck is 729 01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:31.280 going on? It immediately throws you into like a fascinating scenario that like within 730 01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:37.519 the first thirty minutes of the game, you come to know like at least 731 01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:43.760 some characters that you could recruit for your party. They could end up dying 732 01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:47.159 in those thirty minutes. Like it's very you could end up not rescuing them, 733 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:52.440 you could just end up just organically going through and being like I feel 734 01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.480 like I missed somebody or not even know that you missed somebody. Right, 735 01:00:55.559 --> 01:01:01.559 It's just like it's kind of crazy. Micro management in this game would murder 736 01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:13.320 me. It's it's not bad actually, because like you don't know what you're 737 01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:15.800 missing. You're just making decisions as you go through it, right, You're 738 01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:22.280 just like, oh, this seems like interesting choice to make. Here, 739 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:28.920 I feel paralysis because they'll be like, what'll happen? You're gonna pick one, 740 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:31.159 but you're going to pick one. One is going to speak out, 741 01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:35.360 that's gonna be like, this is a very Drew answer, And I'm going 742 01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:39.079 to just be Drew here, and I'm going to see where Drew leads me 743 01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:45.519 being Drew. What happens if it Drew gets Kid into this smaldest Gate world? 744 01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:52.119 One of the choices will Drew make. But it's it's really cool how 745 01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:58.320 many options that they do give you, and they are very interesting choices when 746 01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.960 it comes to like the multiple choice sections of the dialogue, and it does 747 01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:07.159 get There's another layer to it too, in terms of like creating your character, 748 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:10.320 so like you have different like race responses, right, So like I 749 01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:15.760 created a t flang, which feels the closest to like being a black person's 750 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:22.400 honestly, like, there's a lot of racism around around this this race that 751 01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:28.079 I'm like, m I feel a spiritual connection here. And there's been some 752 01:02:28.280 --> 01:02:32.079 really good choices that are just based off of me playing as a t fling 753 01:02:32.199 --> 01:02:36.239 that like Chase or Ashure wouldn't get because they're playing some other race. And 754 01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:40.199 that leads us down like a completely different conversation path that again doesn't really feel 755 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:45.679 canned. It just it feels organic as I'm like talking through these these characters, 756 01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:49.960 and I wouldn't even think twice that there was another option for me to 757 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:52.400 pick as we go down these choices. It's like I never I never really 758 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.400 find myself thinking about like what if I picked this. I'm just like, 759 01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:00.000 this is my answer. They gave me a satisfying as to my to my 760 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:05.639 answer, uh, and we're carrying on. And then and then when I 761 01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:07.239 talked about the scenario with like Chaser Ashton, they tell me what they did, 762 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:14.400 I'm like, oh, that's interesting, that's completely different. Huh. 763 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:21.039 It's it's crazy. See, I might have a lack of commitment to be 764 01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:24.760 able to be okay with that. I don't know, man, I think 765 01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:30.119 you would be okay because again, strangely, like as you're playing it, 766 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:36.480 Yeah, it's it's it sounds weird, but like, I don't think you'll 767 01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:38.119 get hung up on it in the way that you think you will. I 768 01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:45.239 really doubt but I mean you would have to try it and see at the 769 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:50.320 end of the day. Right, It's been a really fun experience. I'm 770 01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:54.119 only like maybe three or four shours into like my campaign, but I did 771 01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:57.679 start two of them, so I have a I have a solo campaign, 772 01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:01.280 and then I've started like a multiplayer one with with Chase and Asher that we're 773 01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:08.119 gonna try to at least play a few times a week to get through it. 774 01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:13.360 And it's already it's wildly different than than me being on on my own, 775 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:17.599 like some of the shenanigans that you get it too, Like there's there's 776 01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:23.440 two things that like I want to I want to talk about and give an 777 01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:28.880 example of that gives you a sense of like how crazy this game can get 778 01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:33.079 or how fascinating this game can get. I mentioned earlier that like when you're 779 01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:38.679 playing multiplayer in these games, you are entirely independent, right, you guys 780 01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:43.159 are working together for a common goal, But like I really can't control what 781 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.639 Chase does. I can't control with Asher does all this jass there. There's 782 01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:50.679 there's a moment where we came up to like this abandoned it almost seems like 783 01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:55.639 an abandoned temple, right and there are these uh, these bandits that are 784 01:04:55.679 --> 01:05:00.119 there. Uh. I didn't realize Chase started talking to to any of them. 785 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:02.239 So I walk up and I'm like, oh, what's going on here? 786 01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:09.320 Uh? It Chases apparently trying a diplomacy and that fucking fails. So 787 01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:13.159 I just walk in and in a battle immediately starts. So I'm like, 788 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:14.760 what the fuck happened? He was like, I don't know, man, 789 01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:16.599 they just started attacking me. I'm like, mm. So we we cleared 790 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:23.599 the stage and there is a locked door. So I go up to locked 791 01:05:23.599 --> 01:05:26.960 door and one of the NPC is behind it is like asking about one of 792 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:30.159 his friends that we literally just murdered. Uh, And I'm just like, 793 01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:32.239 hmmm, what if I can deceive this guy and just tell him and get 794 01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:34.519 him to open up the door. So I'm trying to negotiate with this guy 795 01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:41.039 on the door and all I hear is is is Ashure and Chase in the 796 01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:43.920 background. There they're just talking. They're just like, Hey, what's this 797 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:46.079 hole in the ground? Do you do you think you can break it? 798 01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:50.360 And I'm like, what is happening? I can't I can't see what they're 799 01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:54.880 doing because I'm in conversation, but like I just hear them. And then 800 01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.280 all of a sudden, I hear an explosion and I'm like, oh, 801 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:00.800 we made the whole bigger. You want to jump on it? And I'm 802 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:03.360 like, what are they doing? So they jump down this hole. I 803 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:08.559 finished negotiating, dude opens up the door. I walk in. I end 804 01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.239 up murdering this dude, and I just want to loot what's in the area. 805 01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:18.719 Meanwhile, while I'm over here, Jason Asher are like getting getting ganged 806 01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:23.960 up on and by like five bandits because they just drop down in the middle 807 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:29.320 of like this encampment, and I just hear them. I just hear them 808 01:06:29.400 --> 01:06:33.599 like trying to survive, like they're they are literally going through it. And 809 01:06:33.639 --> 01:06:38.559 I'm just like over here, like a couple of rooms over because because this 810 01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:42.800 door leads to like eventually where they are, I'm just a couple of rooms 811 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:45.360 over just like loot in the place, just like chilling doing my own thing, 812 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:49.599 grabbing everything I want and I walk through one door, and it's like 813 01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:54.039 that one gift of like the guy with the pizza box runt coming into the 814 01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:58.199 Yeah, that's literally what it feels like. I open up the door and 815 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:01.679 like the fog of war opens, and like I see, like Chase is 816 01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:05.119 like three HP left. Actually is a bar that's just like singing in the 817 01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:10.320 corner of this like small room that they're trapped in, and our NPC companion 818 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:15.079 is like fucking useless. I'm like, what's going on here? So it 819 01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:18.599 becomes a case of like I'm trying to rescue these guys before they fucking die. 820 01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:23.039 And it's just like a funny, silly scenario that like none of us 821 01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:27.480 really expected was going to happen, right, And it's just these things like 822 01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:30.280 happen in this game in a way that's just very fun and silly and gofe. 823 01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:36.639 And then like the other scenario that I think about is after all of 824 01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:41.159 that, we get to like our first main town of the game, which 825 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:46.119 involves like this small druid village basically being overrun by goblins, and we have 826 01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.480 to like kill the goblins so that it's safe to go into the village. 827 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:55.159 So we have to save them one of the NPC's. Unfortunately, if we 828 01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:59.599 didn't save them, all one ends up dying. So they died. Everybody's 829 01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:02.079 like, man, that sucks, he got killed. We're gonna open up 830 01:08:02.079 --> 01:08:05.960 the gates everybody can walk through. So Jason Asher walked through. I go 831 01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:09.880 up to the dead body. I'm just like, but what do you got? 832 01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:13.920 Though? It's not good? No, it is not good to loot 833 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:18.920 the body of like Allied people. Right, Wow, they're not using it. 834 01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:21.800 They don't, That's what I's saying. They're not using it, right, 835 01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:25.840 but you know, desecrate the dead or something like that. Whatever. 836 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.920 I don't know U, but this guy has some good ship. So I 837 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.039 was like, I'm gonna take a ship. No one's gonna know. That's 838 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:36.000 fine. I'm just gonna take it. So I take it. Ashler comes 839 01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:43.439 back out. He does something with the MPC nearby or whatever, and as 840 01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:46.840 he's starting to walk back in, this MPC like walks over it to me. 841 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:51.760 It's just like, hey, did you touch that body? And I'm 842 01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:57.319 like, what are you talking about? So I do? I do some 843 01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.560 of the deception choices and unfortunately, like I failed the the role check that 844 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:09.840 that occurs there Meanwhile, as I'm like trying to avoid any sort of uh, 845 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:13.239 you know, punishment for this crime. Uh, Chason actually get into 846 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:15.520 like a side quest where they end up starting like some fight that is occurring 847 01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:18.600 inside of the village. I don't know what the fuck they're doing, but 848 01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:23.800 again I hear them communicating they're fighting something. Meanwhile, my ass literally gets 849 01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:28.239 like thrown in jail. Like it goes to a long screen and all of 850 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:30.159 a sudden, I'm just like, uh, all my shit is gone. 851 01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:35.079 I am behind bars and I'm like, guys, I'm in fucking jail, 852 01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:43.199 and they're like, what is it. It's just like this whole it's almost 853 01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:45.479 like a rib side quest, just like, h I'm not gonna break out 854 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:49.359 of jail. Meanwhile, I'm hearing them again like trying to survive your Sunds 855 01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:56.399 very much like having your own D D. It is one hundred percent having 856 01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:59.800 your own D and D scenario, and the game is like the perfect DM 857 01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:04.680 to allow all of this ship to occur and still push forward like a narrative. 858 01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:12.399 It is incredible. This game is simply incredible. How they made it, 859 01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:17.399 I don't know, but I highly, highly highly recommend anybody give it 860 01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:21.199 a chance. Even if you're not like into D and D or Tabletop Proper 861 01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:26.920 or in anything like that. It's just it's an amazingly well done game. 862 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.640 The combat is great. Is pretty much like a term based style or like 863 01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.720 a tactic style game. A lot of people like liking it to xcom in 864 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:40.000 some ways. If you've played like Velcire Chronicles or anything like that, like 865 01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:46.119 it. It feels a long a similar line in some ways, and just 866 01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:53.800 like fantastic vo work, good writing. It's I love this game to death 867 01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:57.920 and I'm nowhere near beating it, but every time I pick it up, 868 01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.720 I am just like blown away by what it is allowing me to do. 869 01:11:00.640 --> 01:11:04.439 Somebody made the comparison of like, uh, this is like the Tears of 870 01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:09.479 the Kingdom of the genre, and like, I understand what that means. 871 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.680 If you think it, this game will let you do it. It gave 872 01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:16.880 you a huge fucking toolbox. And I'm small brained, but they give you 873 01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:20.720 a huge fucking toolbox of just like, hey, we gave you a shove 874 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:25.439 command. Do what do with it as you will? And you're like, 875 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:29.840 can I just I will push somebody off the cliff? You will? Absolutely, 876 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:31.359 you will, absolutely do. What if you just push them in? 877 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:38.720 What if you just push them into the into the ocean, just drown them? 878 01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:43.359 Yeah? Yeah, it's like you have a throw command. You can 879 01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:47.399 just throw a random shit. Uh, potions are only made for you. 880 01:11:48.079 --> 01:11:53.319 But what if you throw it at your ally? Will that work? What? 881 01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:56.279 It works? You threw it at them, the bottle breaks on them 882 01:11:56.279 --> 01:12:00.399 and they get healed. Sure, you throw a pot at an undead enemy, 883 01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:04.039 you could. I don't know what happens, but I'll let you know 884 01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:06.880 next time I play. Yeah, I'm gonna need you to test that formal. 885 01:12:08.039 --> 01:12:12.359 Sure? Why not? It's incredible that the toolbox that they give you 886 01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.239 and you could just like fuck around anyway, and then I guess accounts for 887 01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:19.560 it. It's ten out of ten. I love this game. Stay tuned 888 01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:29.880 for more bald scation against So let's get the meat of this discussion Traveler too, 889 01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:36.119 all right, final spoiler warning if you do not want spoilers Traveler to 890 01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:42.560 leave now, or don't bitch at us because we gave you a chance. 891 01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:53.880 That's it. Count down from five, five, four, three two one. 892 01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:57.239 If you're still listening to this, you have accepted the terms that you 893 01:12:57.239 --> 01:13:00.239 were okay, hearing Acabad driver, wou choose spoilers that will not be held 894 01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:04.880 responsible or anything that gets spoiled. So I'm gonna just jump straight to the 895 01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:11.159 fucking end the how do how do you say it? Vibe feed Fight Day 896 01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:16.760 fay Uh? I think I agree with you that VDA is like one of 897 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:20.520 the cool boss fights on a China based r J. That boss fight is 898 01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:27.079 so fucking sick. I think I was stringing at the top of my lungs. 899 01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:31.840 It's really fucking cool from a lot of different standpoints. Mechanically, it's 900 01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:38.199 it's super cool, even though that fight is insanely anti RIB. Oh yeah, 901 01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:43.439 no, I knew you were gonna it is anti RIB. But what 902 01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:47.680 what saves? So what saves from like me hating it? Because I did 903 01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:50.800 enjoy it that that fight put me through the ringer in a way that I'm 904 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:54.680 just like, That's why I was like asking you questions, right, because 905 01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:59.199 I really didn't want to like die and start over, and I was just 906 01:13:59.239 --> 01:14:01.039 like, I need to so at least fundamentally how a few of these things 907 01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:04.760 work so I can devise a plan. Because uh, if in case you 908 01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:10.439 guys listening don't know, I am not tourists for like not leveling characters. 909 01:14:11.479 --> 01:14:15.439 I stick with like the characters I like and use them throughout the entire entirety 910 01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:17.800 of the game. And this boss fight has you used all the characters. 911 01:14:18.079 --> 01:14:24.039 Right, so half of my party is literally under leveled, Like three of 912 01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:30.079 them, Well, what's up, I'll poorly equipped as well? Oh they 913 01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.840 have nothing. They are not equipped well at all. Three of them are 914 01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:40.439 like under forty. One of them is like at forty exactly like and I 915 01:14:40.439 --> 01:14:45.199 think the boss fight is recommended like fifty five or something like that. Something 916 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:46.840 like that. So like I was like, Drew, I need to know 917 01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:53.520 a few things how this works so I can like plan over and like there 918 01:14:53.560 --> 01:14:57.720 are turns where I'm sitting there for like five to ten minutes just like how 919 01:14:57.720 --> 01:15:01.840 do I do this? How do I but that? But that's cool. 920 01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:06.920 And one of my favorite things about Optipeth Traveler, just like as a as 921 01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:12.800 a series at this point is its battle system. Uh. It is one 922 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.720 of my favorite time based vile systems, like of all time, right up 923 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:18.319 there with like S and T games and stuff like that, because of the 924 01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:23.920 break system. Right, So, like even though all under leveled, I 925 01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:30.000 can play around the break mechanics to like get through fights, you know what 926 01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:34.039 I mean, Like I can properly strategize on how to survive this encounter despite 927 01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:39.479 being massively under leveled, and I did it without Like at the end of 928 01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:43.239 that fight, everybody was alive and I think only two people actually died throughout 929 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:45.800 the course of that fight, which was very very like surprising to me. 930 01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:50.640 And yeah, it was just it was just super cool. Like I like 931 01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:54.760 the idea of like having eight party members and like you're having to switch between 932 01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:58.720 them. The only thing that I wished was that maybe I got a chance 933 01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:04.760 to like set the the party order beforehands, because like how it works is 934 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:09.479 like when when one of your characters and one party slot is it's their turn, 935 01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:13.399 then the person that's in that slot in the back row is also on 936 01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:15.920 that turn, you can swap between them. I wish I could have like 937 01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:19.600 changed who was in what slot, right, because there was some some parts 938 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:23.760 where I was just like, man, this is this is overlapping in a 939 01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:28.840 way that I will never use like thrown for example, and maybe there's like 940 01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:32.239 a turn where I really needed her, but like I'm prioritizing Osfald and I'm 941 01:16:32.279 --> 01:16:39.359 like I can't justify swopping right now, but that that's like that ultimately that's 942 01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:42.920 kind of whatever. That's like a small thing, but mechanically how that fight 943 01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:46.279 goes down, it's really fucking cool. And and just like design is really 944 01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:53.760 cool, Like the music is really fucking good. Like was that SHI was 945 01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:59.159 tight? Like I was typing throughout that entire fucking encounter. It's it's really 946 01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:03.479 just like really tight experience. And for me because I used all eight travels 947 01:17:03.520 --> 01:17:11.199 constantly travelers throughout the game, like being able to swap like I never felt 948 01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:15.239 bad like using one traveler over another because I'm like, well, I need 949 01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.199 to use thrown A because thrown these subclasses Hunter and I need her to like 950 01:17:18.279 --> 01:17:24.680 delay d day. So like I won't use Partisio for like this turn and 951 01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:30.319 then like maybe next turn I'll use Partie. Oh that's I want to those 952 01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:34.079 I was gonna say, I want to give a special shout out to your 953 01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:40.279 son Partisio. Uh, he got the final hit. He killed it at 954 01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:44.199 the end, And I was like, Drew, you told me to fucking 955 01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:48.000 go all in and be aggressive at the very end, and your son dealt 956 01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:53.760 the final blow. Thank you. True. I love PARTI is so good. 957 01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:58.600 Yeah, no, that that final bass sequence is one of the coals 958 01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:03.359 final law sequences I've ever played any turn based rpg. I've already had some 959 01:18:03.399 --> 01:18:11.159 pretty high expectations going from the first one because I thought Galdera from the first 960 01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:15.119 fight it was probably one of my favorite boss fights in an RPG because like 961 01:18:15.560 --> 01:18:23.000 it really challenged you to like be knowledgeable of how to like break the game. 962 01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:27.319 So like going into that, I'm like, I really can't wait to 963 01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:30.119 see like what they bring to the table for like this final boss right, 964 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:35.079 And like my first attempt, I got wrecked pretty fast. But then like 965 01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:39.479 once I started getting into the groove and like it swapped your party and I'm 966 01:18:39.520 --> 01:18:42.199 like, oh, this is exactly like Galdera. And I'm like, okay, 967 01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:45.279 so I guess the first party's done, which sucked because like my best 968 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:48.600 my best party members were definitely on my first squad. Yeah, and then 969 01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:55.800 they fucking hit you and everybody just shows up and I'm like, bro, 970 01:18:56.119 --> 01:19:00.079 this sister tight. Bro, So that's what I'm messaging you. And I 971 01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:03.479 was fucking streaming because I will, like, rob, this game is the 972 01:19:03.520 --> 01:19:11.359 best fucking game ever. I understand uh that that first phase funny enough. 973 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:15.720 So when it swapped the party, I was I was literally prepared to just 974 01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:18.399 fucking drop dead, and I was like, fuck, I'm going to lose, 975 01:19:18.479 --> 01:19:20.960 and then I'm gonna have to like spend the next couple of hours grinding 976 01:19:21.039 --> 01:19:25.520 because like, if if I lose, so how I played time based sarparties, 977 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:27.960 if I end up losing a fight due to like being under leveled, 978 01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:33.199 I will, like out of spite over fucking level like that just like pumps 979 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:35.520 me up to where like I'm not going to re engage from this fight until 980 01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:40.159 everybody's at fucking seventy because fuck this ship, I will kill him. And 981 01:19:40.239 --> 01:19:44.239 I really didn't want to go through that. So when he swapped the party 982 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.119 to me to to party Bat, I was like, Oh, I'm so 983 01:19:47.239 --> 01:19:53.319 fucking dead. This is this is so over And the only reason I won 984 01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:58.800 is because of Partico. He is the fucking lifesaver of that party because of 985 01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:03.720 hired help. That is the only fucking reason. A pretty fucking good skill. 986 01:20:03.960 --> 01:20:09.159 It's so fucking good. So it's like full boost hired help thirty K. 987 01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:13.279 I'm glad I have like on me, just like throw the fucking money. 988 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:23.840 It saved me something I have definitely abused some Particio hired help. I'm 989 01:20:23.880 --> 01:20:27.359 going to assume you did not attempt the Caldera Superboss fight. I have not 990 01:20:27.439 --> 01:20:31.840 attempt any any super Boss fight anything anything of that nature. Okay, I 991 01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.800 will go. I will probably go watch it. I don't know if i'll 992 01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:36.760 attempt it. I don't know if I would be able to. Okay, 993 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:42.039 so do you want me to just break down? Of course? Okay, 994 01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:48.520 everything's on the table. The Superboss fight is is it's Caldera again from the 995 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:56.800 first game, except they super charged it. Of course fight it's fucking bullshit. 996 01:20:57.640 --> 01:21:00.600 So I mean this gets you going like a couple of days like you 997 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.199 were going through it if I remember Crust. Oh yeah, no it was. 998 01:21:03.399 --> 01:21:09.159 It was rough, like I was having to like reclass everybody, and 999 01:21:09.279 --> 01:21:14.760 I figure out just like the perfect way to like cheese this fight, but 1000 01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:18.560 not cheese like you cheessee it in the way that the fight's cheesing you. 1001 01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:25.159 You have to cheessee it back because the way the fight works is like you 1002 01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:28.800 start up the normal like gold Era and like phase one and throws out like 1003 01:21:28.840 --> 01:21:33.920 the three arms and the three arms protect the eye. And so here's the 1004 01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:38.760 thing. It's like they all have like quadruple times the HP that they had 1005 01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:45.279 for the first game US Christ. And here is the best part. The 1006 01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:50.199 appendage is that you have to like destroy to get to the eye. If 1007 01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:57.640 you don't hit them with a weak point, they counterattack you. Do they 1008 01:21:57.720 --> 01:22:03.239 all have different weak points? Yes, okay, there is one common week 1009 01:22:03.319 --> 01:22:11.520 point shared across all three arms, and that was a wind interesting which is 1010 01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:18.279 a very uncommon yeah, like attack to have like they're doing, like what 1011 01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:23.359 is the dancer has the wind stuff? I think dancer has to win. 1012 01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:27.560 But like if you have like another idea, like ideas one of your like 1013 01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:31.560 support classes, so like do you sacrifice all your support just to like break 1014 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:38.880 this and and so like like I immediately think of like I would just have 1015 01:22:38.960 --> 01:22:43.520 a chet, uh have a monster that has a win. Well that's what 1016 01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:46.600 I had to do, Like I went, uh captured a death wing, 1017 01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:50.600 which death wing was a wind attack that also had a chance to like inscu 1018 01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:57.399 yeah oh okay uh, And so basically like I would try to start the 1019 01:22:57.399 --> 01:23:01.199 fight. I think my my round on one party was like oh Chet, 1020 01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:14.520 it was ochet Oswald. I think Casty and Partisio or knows Cassie and throne 1021 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:19.560 A And basically what I would do is I would like start out the turn 1022 01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:29.760 have CASTI like just use her her apothecary stuff and give everybody like max VP 1023 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:33.239 and then I'd be like, oh, chet, take it away. And 1024 01:23:33.239 --> 01:23:38.880 then like basically what that boss fight turned into is like you try to blitz 1025 01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:43.560 it down, but that first phase will like gate keep used to where like 1026 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:45.479 you can't blitz it down as much as you want. Yeah, And so 1027 01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:49.000 like you get the second phase, so like when the arms respond, it 1028 01:23:49.159 --> 01:23:55.239 changes all their weaknesses and then it locks their weaknesses and they still counter etective. 1029 01:23:55.279 --> 01:24:00.279 You don't hit a weakness and because so like it locks their weaknesses for 1030 01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:02.680 one and every time you hit that week it changes the weakness. And like 1031 01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:09.359 they're all offset, they're all offset and so like, but they change in 1032 01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:12.720 order, so like you have to like single target certain ones so they're like 1033 01:24:12.720 --> 01:24:16.039 they're all on the same one and then just like them all yeah, no 1034 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:24.880 that so like you get phase one down to like a system, and like 1035 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:28.680 then you go up to phase two, which is like the big one and 1036 01:24:28.800 --> 01:24:36.720 like there's no like fair way to beat this boss like it has it also 1037 01:24:36.800 --> 01:24:41.319 has four arms, like you have like the head and the two appendages, 1038 01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:45.720 and then like the Guldera Soul, and so like when you you can't to 1039 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:49.199 beat the boss, you have to defeat the Caldera Soul, but you can't 1040 01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:54.920 really damage Gouldera soul until you beat like the three appendages like the head and 1041 01:24:54.960 --> 01:25:00.760 the two arms. But when you do that, Guldera Soul gets four fucking 1042 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:09.039 turns. Oh no, and they're all like super like AoE like fucking meatier 1043 01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:13.159 storm, Like you're not living, They're just not. So basically what I 1044 01:25:14.319 --> 01:25:16.840 basically what I had to do is like I had to do the strategy with 1045 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:23.159 Tenemos, Like one of his ex skills is Tenemos gets fucking self destruct where 1046 01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:26.199 it drains all of his MP and it does damage based on his MP. 1047 01:25:26.439 --> 01:25:30.640 So like, and there's there's an accessory that you can get that increases your 1048 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:38.479 damage bait approportionately to how few HP you have. So basically I set up 1049 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:44.600 Temenos to like have like no HP and max MP, and I'm just like 1050 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:49.960 we're gonna and you're gonna fucking blow up, yeah yeah, and we're gonna 1051 01:25:49.960 --> 01:25:55.239 hope that this works. And eventually I got to the point where, like 1052 01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:59.760 I had to decide on like do I rush him or do I do I 1053 01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:02.640 try to play defensively, and I'm just like, fuck it, we just 1054 01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:08.359 gotta rush. The name is read, the name is red, like that 1055 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:12.920 go in. That's that moment you see the name is red and you're just 1056 01:26:12.960 --> 01:26:19.239 like all in, We're putting all on black baby, let's go. Uh. 1057 01:26:19.279 --> 01:26:24.119 And like I was so relieved after I beat, like like that was 1058 01:26:24.159 --> 01:26:29.520 the final trophy that I had to get to play that game. Yeah, 1059 01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:33.800 that boss fight was rough. It really challenged like pretty much everything I needed 1060 01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:36.439 to know about the game. I definitely look some stuff up where I was 1061 01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:44.239 like, how did people actually do this? Because I don't know. But 1062 01:26:44.439 --> 01:26:46.800 that that that's those aspects of the game. I do want to talk about, 1063 01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:51.359 like Octopath as a whole, and like just how much better of a 1064 01:26:51.479 --> 01:27:00.199 games is than Octopath One? Is there all the say? Is there lot 1065 01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:05.760 more than what we've covered before in that regard? Uh? I mean I 1066 01:27:06.239 --> 01:27:11.039 we can talk about the final chapter, which is where I feel like the 1067 01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:14.960 game really shines, which I wasn't able to really talk about. Yeah, 1068 01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:19.319 so the last game, like or the first game, what it does is 1069 01:27:19.439 --> 01:27:26.319 like after you beat all the Travelers stories, and like you you finish a 1070 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:30.800 certain amount of side quests, you unlock the gate of Finnish in a path 1071 01:27:30.920 --> 01:27:39.920 one which leads which has like a boss rush and then like a exposition dump 1072 01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:43.399 between on these stones labs, and like you find out like how everything was 1073 01:27:43.439 --> 01:27:46.119 connected. I don't feel like it's done very organically, and then you fight 1074 01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:53.239 called in an It's that, it's really not. It's actually like very disappointing. 1075 01:27:53.359 --> 01:27:58.720 Honestly, you know, on top of like I don't I didn't care 1076 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:02.039 for like the boss Russ mechanic of that either, right, so if the 1077 01:28:02.079 --> 01:28:05.319 loss versus cald Era, you had to do it. Yeah, So that 1078 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:09.479 that literally led me to the point where like I just looked up like the 1079 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:12.840 end, like I've never actually finished it personally, I've looked that up because 1080 01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:16.479 really it's it's one of those things again where like I don't want to really 1081 01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:20.119 spend the time to love up a bunch of characters, and then you're asking 1082 01:28:20.159 --> 01:28:24.079 me to commit to this boss rush that where if I fuck up once, 1083 01:28:24.119 --> 01:28:26.319 I have to do it. Like that to me is like not a fun 1084 01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:29.199 experience. And I was like, Okay, I'm just gonna look this up 1085 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:39.159 I'm just I understand that if yeah, if there was literally if that game 1086 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:44.760 had like achievements or something, right, uh, I probably would have went 1087 01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:47.239 through it, but like I don't feel compelled to do it when like something 1088 01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:54.560 like that is not there. I guess it's how I put it. But 1089 01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:58.039 yeah, but so so this final chapter, like not only have you like 1090 01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:00.800 by this point, by your fishing the final chapters, you can start to 1091 01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:08.079 see like the little connections, especially like with the shadow aspect of like you 1092 01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:12.439 mainly see it in like Ochet and Oswald's story, where like you see this 1093 01:29:12.560 --> 01:29:15.880 enemy of the Shadow, right, like the Shadow is the one true magic 1094 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:19.920 or like it's the Shadow that's coming to attack oh Chet's island. And then 1095 01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:25.239 like you can take the connections between like well, that looks like the thing 1096 01:29:25.319 --> 01:29:30.560 that's possessing Hikari, or that looks like the thing that is you know, 1097 01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:36.039 possessing casties like Apprentice or whatever, and like, oh, so you can 1098 01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:41.399 kind of see how these all are connected, and like I think the ones 1099 01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:46.039 that are not very connected are Agnea and Partisio. They're kind of just there. 1100 01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:53.600 Yeah, Like I like I like their arts, Like I think they're 1101 01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:57.319 solid stories and they're really like Partisio just always put a smile on my face, 1102 01:29:57.319 --> 01:30:00.680 and so did Agnea. And I think Agnea is like final chapter is 1103 01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:05.319 really sick, like the whole dance off at the end, and like she 1104 01:30:05.399 --> 01:30:10.680 has the unique she has the unique version of like not the final bass theme 1105 01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:14.319 but like the journey's end thing. Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah, 1106 01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:20.319 and I really enjoyed that. But like their stories feel so disjointed compared to 1107 01:30:20.359 --> 01:30:27.960 everybody else's because like the shadow doesn't really their stories. They they could actually 1108 01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:31.359 just be like their own stories. Yeah, because like with with like Partisio, 1109 01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:35.199 right, it's more like the it's more or right, and it's like 1110 01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:39.760 this character of that, yeah it doesn't show up every time, but like 1111 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:45.279 she's not really like deep deeply connected to Partisio in it anyway, right, 1112 01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:49.319 And we'll get to we'll get to or because I do want to talk about 1113 01:30:49.319 --> 01:30:54.399 that. It's really fun because like I was in my mind which when she 1114 01:30:54.479 --> 01:30:58.039 first appeared, like we can come back around to her. But like when 1115 01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:00.880 she first appeared, I was like, dang, I was ory was playable? 1116 01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:10.079 Boy? Did I learned later was? But like Agneas is probably like 1117 01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:15.520 the least just jointed, but like Agnea, Like especially the way the ending 1118 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:23.199 plays out, Agnea is kind of like she's the storyteller. Yes, almost 1119 01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:30.479 yes, she's like the record keeper as it or yeah kind of so. 1120 01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:33.319 But but as these stories are coming together, and like you you get to 1121 01:31:33.479 --> 01:31:39.319 like the final chapter, like actually all four chapters, and like I had 1122 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:43.039 my own theories about like where the story was going, and like my own 1123 01:31:43.079 --> 01:31:47.399 suspicions on like certain characters, like in in uh Temino's a story, like 1124 01:31:47.439 --> 01:31:49.920 when you get to his chapter two and he goes to like the fell Sun 1125 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:55.760 ruins and like everybody has that. I was like waiting pendant, and that 1126 01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:59.279 made me think back to like like I had to go back, like thank 1127 01:31:59.319 --> 01:32:01.800 god the game lets you rewatch every cut scene in the game, and I 1128 01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:05.119 went back and I watched like the intro cut scene to like this chapter one 1129 01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:10.319 where like one of the orphans mentioned like Mint's hairpin, and I'm like, 1130 01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:15.760 Okay, that's not apendent, but I've got my eye on something. Something's 1131 01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:24.560 not right. And there's so many like subtle indications, like especially in I 1132 01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:29.680 really like Temnos's story because like there's a lot of subtlety in his chapters and 1133 01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:34.039 like the very beginning where he's talking with the Pope and Mint comes out and 1134 01:32:34.079 --> 01:32:38.159 he and she like you jokingly says, hey, you're keeping secrets from me, 1135 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:41.479 and the pope kind of response funnily, he's like, oh, yes, 1136 01:32:41.640 --> 01:32:45.199 gray secrets, and like if you don't think about it, if you 1137 01:32:45.239 --> 01:32:47.680 don't think about it, it's just like a funny like sort of interjection because 1138 01:32:47.720 --> 01:32:53.680 like you know that Temnos is involved in something greater, and like they probably 1139 01:32:53.720 --> 01:32:57.520 just don't want to worry his friend Mint, when in reality, maybe the 1140 01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:00.720 Pope was already on to Mints, because as it's revealed in the final chapter, 1141 01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:09.079 we'll get there and then like there's other aspects and like, uh, 1142 01:33:09.600 --> 01:33:16.039 I would go and I would read some of the journal summaries just to get 1143 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:20.079 like a refresher on certain things. And like as hit Caaria was my main 1144 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:24.840 character, and as I was going through Hitari's like the way he would talk 1145 01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:29.760 about Kazan, I was like, this, dude's definitely up to something. 1146 01:33:29.920 --> 01:33:33.439 Dude, I was sess of Kazan immediately, Like characters like that are always 1147 01:33:33.479 --> 01:33:38.760 fucking schaming. Like I didn't have like the evdence behind it because I didn't 1148 01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:43.039 like I wasn't like snooping that hard, right, but like him as a 1149 01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:48.000 character is just putting in a way. M I didn't like peg him as 1150 01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:53.039 like final boss sort of material. But I was like team's up to something 1151 01:33:53.079 --> 01:33:57.199 and I'm not sure what, and like what killed me is I finished Hikari's 1152 01:33:57.279 --> 01:34:03.840 like final chapter first, so like because like I wanted to get him out 1153 01:34:03.840 --> 01:34:10.119 of my party because he was already like super Highland okay, So like I 1154 01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:15.640 went and I did his chapter first, and like there's that scene where he 1155 01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:17.960 goes into the throne room and because I's like, go and greet you, 1156 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:23.439 know, your your your people and all that, and I'm like, is 1157 01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:29.079 he alone with the sword? Still? There? Is still there? Bro? 1158 01:34:29.439 --> 01:34:30.960 I saw that as soon as he said, why don't you go out 1159 01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:35.119 there? I was like, yeah, I see you, I see you, 1160 01:34:41.239 --> 01:34:46.359 and so like as like things are coming out, it's funny. So 1161 01:34:46.520 --> 01:34:49.319 like one of the big indications is like when you get into the final chapter, 1162 01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:54.600 you have this mission to like relight the four lanterns of the church, 1163 01:34:55.079 --> 01:34:58.520 and one of them takes you back through the fells and ruins. So what's 1164 01:34:58.520 --> 01:35:03.680 funny is ARTI Traveler too has like a lot of like really small easter eggs. 1165 01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.439 I do want to talk about thrown as chapter in a minute. But 1166 01:35:09.479 --> 01:35:14.640 so there's like so many like small easter eggs and like little cool things, 1167 01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:18.239 like, for example, in the I think it's gravel, where like I 1168 01:35:18.279 --> 01:35:23.840 don't know how much you interacted with like sealing items or buying items or like 1169 01:35:24.279 --> 01:35:29.039 reading character descriptions and all that, But there's a kid and I think it's 1170 01:35:29.039 --> 01:35:32.399 in gravel that has a stuffed toy, which is like an item that you 1171 01:35:32.439 --> 01:35:40.079 see around everywhere, but like his stuffed toy is just like displayed very weirdly, 1172 01:35:40.159 --> 01:35:45.239 like it's in caps and underscore letters everywhere, and something is weird with 1173 01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:47.880 it. Yeah, it's like a creepy stuff there, and like you actually 1174 01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:51.520 there's no way for you to get this in. And like the character description 1175 01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:57.880 is like the boy can't sleep, he always has nightmares, and like his 1176 01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:01.720 only solace is like this bay that he talks to that helps him finally calm 1177 01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:06.520 down, and like the idea is that this bear is like feeding off his 1178 01:36:06.640 --> 01:36:13.520 fears and his soul. And so like there's a small little hint where if 1179 01:36:13.560 --> 01:36:19.359 you go outside the town at night, that kid walks out completely possessed and 1180 01:36:19.399 --> 01:36:25.199 then you fight like a ghost and then you get like the best weapon. 1181 01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:30.199 Oh interesting, I didn't know that. So I was always on the lookout 1182 01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:33.239 for stuff like that because there are like small things like that here and there, 1183 01:36:33.239 --> 01:36:36.279 and like there's a lot of there's a lot of subtlety in MT PAT 1184 01:36:36.279 --> 01:36:43.600 Travelers, like world building and like storytelling. And there's there's an MPC that 1185 01:36:43.760 --> 01:36:47.239 actually nobody knows and I've looked this up. Nobody knows what the purpose is. 1186 01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:51.960 But in the town next to the fell Sun Ruins, I can't remember 1187 01:36:53.000 --> 01:36:56.199 the name of the town, there is an MPC. There's a girl, 1188 01:36:56.399 --> 01:36:59.880 like a little girl. Yeah that is just like standing by the end, 1189 01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:01.640 and if you go and talk to her, all she does is walk off. 1190 01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:05.840 Yes, yeah, yeah, I know the guy who's talking about Nobody 1191 01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:10.600 knows what that NPC is for. I have no idea what. I was 1192 01:37:10.680 --> 01:37:13.680 very curious about that the first time I interacted with her, and I mean 1193 01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:15.199 I didn't think about it again until you just brought this up. Actually, 1194 01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:18.520 but like when I first interacted with I was like, this is very weird, 1195 01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:21.920 and like I met around like a little bit, just like see if 1196 01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:25.920 I could trigger something and I was like, huh, I wonder what that's 1197 01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:28.760 about. And then like I proceeded to not think about it until now. 1198 01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:33.000 But that's very funny that no one knows what that character is for. Well 1199 01:37:33.000 --> 01:37:36.920 what's funny is I actually chased after her to like see if they were Like 1200 01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:40.600 I went all the way to the Fells, and this is before I started 1201 01:37:40.600 --> 01:37:44.800 the final chapter. But it was after I had already finished some of like 1202 01:37:44.840 --> 01:37:48.359 the Travelers final chapters, right, And so I went into the Fell Sun 1203 01:37:48.439 --> 01:37:53.880 Ruins and that's when I found all the journal pages. Yeah, this is 1204 01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:57.399 before I even started the final chapter. I'm like, where did all these 1205 01:37:57.439 --> 01:37:59.840 journal pages come from? And that maybe thing. I'm like, wonder if 1206 01:37:59.840 --> 01:38:04.439 that's why that NPC is there pages? And I'm like, oh my god, 1207 01:38:04.479 --> 01:38:08.680 are you it's I don't know if I'm supposed to know this, but 1208 01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:14.560 this is crazy, uh, And like that's when you find out about like 1209 01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:17.399 Oory and like how she was in on it, and like she got the 1210 01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:20.760 job as a reporter to like kind of keep an eye on like all these 1211 01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:26.479 goings ons in the world and like help her brother who was Kazan with his 1212 01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:30.520 plan, right, and then like how you see her have this change of 1213 01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:39.479 part because of PARTIIO like, ah, I understand that, like the journal 1214 01:38:39.520 --> 01:38:45.119 pages are still an exposition. I was very worried that every single temple or 1215 01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:47.319 every single light to flame location was going to be journal pages. I was 1216 01:38:47.439 --> 01:38:53.119 very very word because that was the first place I went to and I saw 1217 01:38:53.239 --> 01:38:56.880 the job pages littered every fuckingwhere, and I was like, oh, this 1218 01:38:57.000 --> 01:39:00.199 is very annoying, Like I like, I like this that are being told 1219 01:39:00.279 --> 01:39:03.000 of course, right, like like that's it is very interesting. But I'm 1220 01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:08.520 like, please don't let every single location be this, because this this there's 1221 01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:12.920 too many of me. It could have just been one journal. It could 1222 01:39:12.920 --> 01:39:15.960 have been one, it could have been five, like the audacity to have 1223 01:39:16.039 --> 01:39:20.880 like fucking twenty of them. Yeah, and like there are other journals for 1224 01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:25.880 the for like these, but they're all like one yeah. Yeah, so 1225 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:29.680 I don't know why, and like they put them all in the same place. 1226 01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:31.600 It's not like something that you pick up over the course of the game, 1227 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:36.159 right, but like as I'm reading those, because I don't know if 1228 01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:41.600 you remember when you do hit Cary's chapter one. Yeah, and like this 1229 01:39:41.640 --> 01:39:44.840 was something I remember from the demo and I remember talking about it the very 1230 01:39:44.880 --> 01:39:47.199 first time or like a very first recording. I was talking about Alcapet dram 1231 01:39:47.199 --> 01:39:51.800 would you where I was like they start talking about an overarching plot very early 1232 01:39:53.239 --> 01:40:00.359 and hit Cary's chapter. You find Oberro's journal of Oberro's talking about like this 1233 01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:03.800 plan for revenge and like this thing to end the world, and like that's 1234 01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:09.840 when you find Aori's journal pieces and you start to like, oh shit, 1235 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:14.760 she's talking about her brother, who's Obro, who might because on and then 1236 01:40:14.920 --> 01:40:17.119 like that's all when it all comes together, You're like, oh, it's 1237 01:40:17.199 --> 01:40:25.680 so good. The storytelling feels so much more organic this time around. I 1238 01:40:27.239 --> 01:40:30.079 this is why I feel like you can definitely see like Live A Live in 1239 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:33.239 this game, like having played through Live A Live, because like I can 1240 01:40:33.279 --> 01:40:40.680 definitely see where they drew inspiration and like it's still not perfect. For example, 1241 01:40:41.359 --> 01:40:49.159 I don't really understand throne A's story much. It's kind of like it's 1242 01:40:49.199 --> 01:41:00.840 connected. It's more connected than Partisio and Igneas. I mean, it's really 1243 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:08.000 just like her dad right being the vampire. Good thing. Yeah, I 1244 01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:13.000 understand. I understand the story of like wanting to know like where you're throne 1245 01:41:13.079 --> 01:41:16.239 and like feeling a sense of self. Yeah, but I just don't think 1246 01:41:16.359 --> 01:41:28.239 that throne A's story was told particularly well. I think it's what, yeah, 1247 01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:30.520 we could start, Yeah, I would probably be inclined to agree. 1248 01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:34.960 It's a story that, like you would think would be super fascinating, and 1249 01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:45.439 it really isn't and never really quite. I finds behind that story so fascinating. 1250 01:41:45.439 --> 01:41:47.800 Like that, going through her final chapter and going through that town, 1251 01:41:47.920 --> 01:41:53.479 I was like, what the fuck is this on paper? It should be 1252 01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:58.079 really fucking good, right, but just like in execution, be it like 1253 01:41:58.479 --> 01:42:02.279 maybe throwing herself as character, Just like the way she sort of responds to 1254 01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:09.000 a lot of this stuff is very dry, despite like having moments with like 1255 01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:12.640 other characters, where like she can be a little witty at times, right, 1256 01:42:13.000 --> 01:42:16.560 like like her actions with everybody else. Yeah, like her crawl pass 1257 01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:20.520 with Tim, I actually really it's great. I love their back and forth. 1258 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:25.279 It's really really good. And I'm like, I wish this was shown 1259 01:42:25.439 --> 01:42:30.600 more in her own personal story, Like I need more out of her for 1260 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:34.600 the story to be like worth more to me, because the whole setting around 1261 01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:40.640 it is very fascinating. And then like as you said, walking through like 1262 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:45.159 that town, that part is like so creepy and like the thing with like 1263 01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:48.520 the baby and like go kill my baby, and I'm just like, what 1264 01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:56.600 the fuck is happening right now? Really fucking cool stuff, Like there's so 1265 01:42:56.680 --> 01:43:00.359 much promising stuff there, but it just falls a bit, just shorts fall 1266 01:43:00.479 --> 01:43:05.840 short. Yeah, yeah, because like I do think and I remember mentioning 1267 01:43:05.840 --> 01:43:12.439 this to you for that octopads who does like some of it's like sound design 1268 01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:16.319 really well in bits and pieces like that. Yeah, kind of like Zero, 1269 01:43:16.479 --> 01:43:19.680 like it hit me, like there's a part of the story that hit 1270 01:43:19.760 --> 01:43:25.079 me in the same way that like when you find out about wisdom and nosis 1271 01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:32.920 in uh Trails from Zero where like particularly the oh Chet and Castie cross path. 1272 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.199 Yeah, like the second one, yes, where they're going through the 1273 01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:42.560 forest and like casting Oh my god, that was so good and like that's 1274 01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:45.239 salt, Like that's all that plays. It's the song that plays in the 1275 01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:47.600 final chapter. But that's the first time you hear it, you're just like, 1276 01:43:48.239 --> 01:43:51.920 yo, what the fuck is going on? I immediately thought when I 1277 01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:58.199 started playing, I was like, ah, I see, it's so good 1278 01:43:58.600 --> 01:44:02.640 like that because it's it sounds so different from everything that you've heard before. 1279 01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:08.520 It just strikes a chord with you and you're like shit speaking of Actually, 1280 01:44:09.640 --> 01:44:15.479 I thought it was fucking chets kiss for like a large portion of the final 1281 01:44:15.560 --> 01:44:18.840 chapter to just be silent, just be eerie and just like not really have 1282 01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:26.960 sound at all, right, like the night coming through you feel it, 1283 01:44:27.119 --> 01:44:30.600 you hear it. And the fact that like it is silent now there there's 1284 01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:35.079 no birds chirping, there's there's nothing, and that just adds to the atmosphere 1285 01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:39.920 of like that, like even the battle encounters you run in yea, they 1286 01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:43.680 have no nothing, there's no music, or you have is these creepy shadow 1287 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:46.560 enemies that just pop up as you're traveling through trying to light the flames. 1288 01:44:48.680 --> 01:44:56.279 That I thought that was brilliant, Like absolutely seller. That whole final chapter 1289 01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:00.119 is just so well done in like you really see that chemistry all eight of 1290 01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:05.000 the travelers that I really wish you saw that. I wish you Like when 1291 01:45:05.039 --> 01:45:10.119 you get to the site to start that and everybody just like shows up and 1292 01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:13.680 they're interacting with each other, I'm like, I want more of this, 1293 01:45:14.760 --> 01:45:17.680 right, Like like I appreciate the small like one on ones here or there, 1294 01:45:17.960 --> 01:45:23.199 or even like the three person conversations that've happened here or there, but 1295 01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:28.079 like I want more pieces of like all eight of them doing something, yeah 1296 01:45:28.159 --> 01:45:31.560 know, because that stuff was really sweet, right, and even like the 1297 01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:34.439 final moments of like the final time they're at the camp side or whatever after 1298 01:45:34.520 --> 01:45:39.000 everything, and like they're saying they're goodbyes, and I'm like, this feels 1299 01:45:39.039 --> 01:45:44.039 emotional, but I feel like it could have felt more emotional had like we've 1300 01:45:44.039 --> 01:45:48.600 seen more of this, right, yeah, And like even then, like 1301 01:45:48.640 --> 01:45:54.000 the tavern talks weren't perfect because like during the chapters, the characters had to 1302 01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:57.560 be in your party, Like I don't think we need to relegate only having 1303 01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:00.159 four to party members, like might as well at a and like you might 1304 01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:05.000 as well just have all that way you organically, like get these tavern talk 1305 01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:10.960 talks. The fact that like the three and four person taver talks don't show 1306 01:46:11.039 --> 01:46:15.800 up until you've finished a Travelers story, right, it's really silly. I 1307 01:46:15.880 --> 01:46:21.760 don't understand that as yeah, because like I started getting them after I beat 1308 01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:26.479 Hit Cars, like chapter and I'm like, where the fuck were these all 1309 01:46:26.560 --> 01:46:31.800 games? Exactly right, like I had more of these, And I do 1310 01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:34.079 I agree with you. I do wish they were boys. I think there 1311 01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:38.600 would be a lot more impactful they were boys thinks, so like I can 1312 01:46:39.279 --> 01:46:42.479 there are conversations that happened. I'm like, I can hear Otete saying this, 1313 01:46:42.560 --> 01:46:45.880 and I wish that like she was actually saying this and that goes for 1314 01:46:45.920 --> 01:46:49.479 everybody, right or I would love to hear you know, throwing it actually 1315 01:46:49.520 --> 01:46:55.640 make these quips right in her cold voice like that. This would have been 1316 01:46:55.680 --> 01:47:00.600 cool, you know. So I hope that is as feedback for whatever next 1317 01:47:00.640 --> 01:47:04.520 game that they do. I'm really excited to see what Octopath three turns out 1318 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:09.840 to be. Like I think they're moving in a great direction, and like 1319 01:47:09.880 --> 01:47:13.439 that final chapter is like it's a chef's kiss, like it is. That 1320 01:47:13.560 --> 01:47:17.359 whole thing hadn't make so high from start to finish. Final boss fight fantastic. 1321 01:47:17.520 --> 01:47:20.960 There are some aspects that I wish, like so we can talk about 1322 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:26.359 how I was right about Mint the entire time. I like that reveal, 1323 01:47:26.560 --> 01:47:33.840 although that part I wish I hadn't found aries journal pages early because that's pretty 1324 01:47:33.920 --> 01:47:41.600 much confirmed because like they start talking about this character like the mistress ark in 1325 01:47:41.680 --> 01:47:45.479 Air or whatever, not my female character that's gotta be Mint, gotta be. 1326 01:47:46.279 --> 01:47:53.399 Yeah, there's there's some light structural like uh, I don't want to 1327 01:47:53.640 --> 01:47:58.279 say like grievance, but like there's some things around the structure of this game 1328 01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:00.640 where it's just like they're there are deals or things that can happen a little 1329 01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:03.560 too early because you went to a thing first, you know what I mean. 1330 01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:10.760 And I'm like, exactly exactly, and I'm like, some of those 1331 01:48:10.840 --> 01:48:15.960 could have hit harder. Mmmmm. I think you. I think you can 1332 01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:19.039 find a way to weave it in there. You just gotta be like smart 1333 01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:24.560 about what's being revealed and when you know. Maybe, but but but I 1334 01:48:24.600 --> 01:48:28.760 agree that like there needs to be a change to the formula, Like you 1335 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:30.920 can be like close it a little bit. It doesn't have to be super 1336 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:34.560 open, like you could have some linearity in here, you know, for 1337 01:48:34.880 --> 01:48:42.119 the benefit of like the storytelling, because because I do think like, uh, 1338 01:48:42.439 --> 01:48:45.039 getting those pages tells a lot, like I would feel like if you're 1339 01:48:45.079 --> 01:48:49.239 lighting those torches, like when you're supposed to find those pages, or I 1340 01:48:49.239 --> 01:48:53.439 feel like when you're supposed to find those pages at least, uh, that 1341 01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:58.319 should be like the last one that you do, and then it all like 1342 01:48:58.960 --> 01:49:01.600 really comes together in that way, you know what I mean? That should 1343 01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:05.960 have been like the final spot and then it's like, oh, as like 1344 01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:09.760 the last last one, right, yeah, because that was the first one 1345 01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:14.000 that I did, and then it's like okay, I see uh, and 1346 01:49:14.039 --> 01:49:17.399 then I went into the other and like I found that before I even started 1347 01:49:17.399 --> 01:49:20.600 the final chapter, right, was wild, Like it was kind of cool 1348 01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:24.319 the way I found it, in like an open world way, like in 1349 01:49:24.640 --> 01:49:28.119 aspect. I was like, oh, I see how things are starting to 1350 01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:33.479 come together. But I wonder when did they spawn there? That's a good 1351 01:49:33.560 --> 01:49:38.800 question. I have no idea because like I thought the actually that way, 1352 01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:45.079 right, because I thought that that just happened after you start the final chapter, 1353 01:49:45.920 --> 01:49:48.960 right, But clearly they spawned in before then. So I wonder exactly 1354 01:49:48.960 --> 01:49:55.439 what point can you find those and then all will be revealed. It might 1355 01:49:55.520 --> 01:50:00.680 be after you finished Partisio's chapter. I can't remember exactly like or I was 1356 01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:02.800 when I found those, Yeah, I know, I just know I had 1357 01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:09.119 the start of the final chapter yet right the look up later. I do 1358 01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:15.760 find it weird that like they spend all of the Chet's story talking about this 1359 01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:21.079 dark hunter and then you never interact with her. Yeah, yeah, to 1360 01:50:21.199 --> 01:50:31.039 the point where like like once like it's very very little to where like when 1361 01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:35.000 you when you do see them, like wait towards the end, right, 1362 01:50:35.039 --> 01:50:40.920 it's just like I kind of forgot who this Hunter person was, Like they're 1363 01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:45.640 evil. I wish they did like more with that character. I do points, 1364 01:50:45.720 --> 01:50:53.159 you know. Oh, that's how Agnea's story was connected, the lady 1365 01:50:53.279 --> 01:50:58.640 from the producer from the Truth. Yeah, and that was another thing that 1366 01:50:58.680 --> 01:51:02.560 I didn't really yet. She she fell in love with Mint and Mint used 1367 01:51:02.600 --> 01:51:10.600 her to spy basically. Yeah. She she was like a follower of the 1368 01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:15.680 church, and like she I forgot what happened. I think she lost like 1369 01:51:15.760 --> 01:51:21.439 her significant other or something like that, and ends up really falling for Mints. 1370 01:51:21.439 --> 01:51:25.279 Like Mint comes and guides her or whatever, and like she like falls 1371 01:51:25.319 --> 01:51:29.319 madly in love, like I'll do anything for you Mint, and then Mint 1372 01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:33.560 sends her to like do some reconnaissance basically and keep tabs on what's going on 1373 01:51:33.600 --> 01:51:40.880 over there. That's basically her whole deal. And then she obviously she comes 1374 01:51:40.880 --> 01:51:44.439 back to Mint and it's just like I did everything you wanted. I love 1375 01:51:44.479 --> 01:51:46.640 you. And then like Mints like banish the shadow of Rome be gone, 1376 01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:55.000 thought, the flame goes away. That's how it happened in rent vision. 1377 01:51:56.680 --> 01:52:01.479 That's fair, That's fair. But I definitely feel like you could walk away 1378 01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:06.840 from this game and like either oh Chet, Kari or Temenos or the main 1379 01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:15.520 character because I feel like their stories had the strongest ties. Yeah, I 1380 01:52:16.439 --> 01:52:20.000 agree with that. I think you could you could rotate any of those three. 1381 01:52:20.199 --> 01:52:26.119 I I'm almost leaning towards like I feel like he caught You would probably 1382 01:52:26.199 --> 01:52:31.640 be like the strongest in terms of like a traditional protag but I think but 1383 01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:36.079 I think he'll Chet also be a really fun one too, right exactly, 1384 01:52:36.119 --> 01:52:39.520 Like I could definitely see him by the end of its definitely see him being 1385 01:52:39.560 --> 01:52:43.479 like the primary protagonist. But I also see a world where like, oh 1386 01:52:43.600 --> 01:52:47.239 Chet is the main character here, yeah, and like oh Chet has that 1387 01:52:47.359 --> 01:52:54.840 almost von vibe to degree where like this is very her coming of age story, 1388 01:52:55.239 --> 01:52:58.760 right, and like her like finding out about the world and like meeting 1389 01:52:58.760 --> 01:53:02.439 these friends and yeah, growing on this journey to where like she feels ready 1390 01:53:02.479 --> 01:53:09.880 to bear that burden as total Haha's guardian exactly, and like that's what makes 1391 01:53:09.920 --> 01:53:15.560 her like a really strong candidate for like pro tag And then like Taminosis is 1392 01:53:15.600 --> 01:53:20.439 like another story that really like I really liked the detective like sort of route 1393 01:53:20.479 --> 01:53:27.359 they went with him where like solving bro that junk was cool. Even then, 1394 01:53:28.319 --> 01:53:31.079 I was like, I like this character alone. I need it. 1395 01:53:32.079 --> 01:53:34.359 He was going to be my least favorite character, and he turns out to 1396 01:53:34.399 --> 01:53:38.359 be like one of my favorites. He's fantastic. I need he wanted to 1397 01:53:38.399 --> 01:53:42.920 do a gift of him just putting on like the Horatio Shades from CSI Miami 1398 01:53:43.119 --> 01:53:46.439 and he finds a crime scene and then the music starts playing like that goes 1399 01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:56.399 in my head every time. Nuts He's great. And again I like all 1400 01:53:56.439 --> 01:54:00.439 the Travelers. Again, I do think Thron's the weakest, but like all 1401 01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:04.319 the stories were really compelling for the most part, again except Throwners. And 1402 01:54:04.439 --> 01:54:09.800 I understand like Particios was kind of whatever for you. Yeah, like Partsio's 1403 01:54:09.960 --> 01:54:14.800 is just it's it's just commerce. At the end of the day, he 1404 01:54:15.800 --> 01:54:18.760 is just going around and just like I'm going to Yeah, I'm just gonna 1405 01:54:18.800 --> 01:54:21.119 invest in the people, and I'm like, all right, let's go. 1406 01:54:21.199 --> 01:54:29.399 Bernie Sanders. Uh, he's he But like you mentioned earlier, like anytime 1407 01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:30.079 he's on the screen, you have a smile on your face. Right, 1408 01:54:30.079 --> 01:54:33.800 he is a lovable google at the end of the day. Right, So, 1409 01:54:33.920 --> 01:54:39.920 like I have fun watching Poticio, right, even though I don't particularly 1410 01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:44.640 I'm not really invested in his story arc, but he's a fun character to 1411 01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:48.000 watch on the screen and interact with people and just like have his his mind 1412 01:54:48.079 --> 01:54:51.720 is blown. Anytime he sees anything, He's like, whoa, Yes, 1413 01:54:51.960 --> 01:54:58.079 that's so cool, and I'm like, bro, it's just a fishing rod 1414 01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:04.279 and he's just like whoa, uh you know at anything. But yeah, 1415 01:55:04.319 --> 01:55:15.279 he's a fun character. I think, Uh, what's the Casti story was 1416 01:55:15.399 --> 01:55:17.640 one that like we we've we've had our back and forth on that one, 1417 01:55:17.720 --> 01:55:23.680 right, but but we can can air it out here. Even though like 1418 01:55:23.680 --> 01:55:28.399 I like her story a lot, right, Like her reveal with Malaia is 1419 01:55:28.479 --> 01:55:34.760 one of the coolest moments in that game show, and it's it's so good. 1420 01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:40.199 I was just like, slowly that gets revealed, and like the realization 1421 01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:45.960 dawns upon you as like they're they're getting to that reveal and you're just like 1422 01:55:45.000 --> 01:55:49.279 that sill around. How is she still around? Right? Like, how 1423 01:55:49.319 --> 01:55:53.439 is she sacrificing herself in this scenario? How did she live? How did 1424 01:55:53.479 --> 01:55:57.880 she get to the to the island before Casty did like there are things that 1425 01:55:57.920 --> 01:56:02.239 are not adding up, and then like you land on, is she dead? 1426 01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:12.239 And then they pull it off and it's just like you motherfuckers, oh 1427 01:56:12.520 --> 01:56:17.640 good, And like the way she fades out. I stopped and I clapped. 1428 01:56:17.680 --> 01:56:21.159 I was like, you motherfuckers, y'all, y'all did it that? 1429 01:56:21.159 --> 01:56:28.720 That's a fucking good right there. That Yeah, it's it's great. It's, 1430 01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:30.000 like I said, one of my favorite moments of the entire game, 1431 01:56:30.159 --> 01:56:33.800 Like it's it's It's one of those moments that it will stand out for me, 1432 01:56:34.600 --> 01:56:39.000 h for a very long time, Like when someone says pat Travelers too, 1433 01:56:39.039 --> 01:56:40.600 I think that would be one of the first things that comes to my 1434 01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:43.960 mind. It's like, Yo, that moment with cast Meliah, like that 1435 01:56:43.960 --> 01:56:51.119 shit was fucking sick. Her as a character, I'm like, not that, 1436 01:56:51.319 --> 01:56:54.479 like I hate her or anything like that. Like base level, I 1437 01:56:54.479 --> 01:56:58.119 like every character in this game, you know what I mean. But it 1438 01:56:58.199 --> 01:57:02.800 was a sense of like that the Amnesia plotline I didn't find particularly as interesting 1439 01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:05.640 as I wanted it to be, right because I thought there was a lot 1440 01:57:05.640 --> 01:57:09.720 of cool things you could have done with this character coming from a group that 1441 01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:13.399 seemingly has a really bad stigma behind it, And I'm like, what if 1442 01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:15.960 they play at like two different versions of Casty happening right now, Like what 1443 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:20.720 if she was actually leading this terrible crusade and now she's sort of enter torn 1444 01:57:20.800 --> 01:57:24.800 model as she's trying to be a good person, right, and then like 1445 01:57:25.319 --> 01:57:30.880 I feel like the final moments of her of her character arc where where she's 1446 01:57:31.000 --> 01:57:34.520 she's helping somebody and she's like where the air Apothecary's, Like she's kind of 1447 01:57:34.520 --> 01:57:39.600 like spreading the name of the Apothecary's again and like trying to like rebuild it. 1448 01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:43.520 I was like, that could have been a way stronger like declaration if 1449 01:57:43.520 --> 01:57:46.720 she's trying to reverse the awful stigma of like who she was previously, you 1450 01:57:46.720 --> 01:57:49.319 know what I mean. So like there are things that could have done with 1451 01:57:49.359 --> 01:57:53.880 that that I think would have been way more interesting than what unfolded. But 1452 01:57:55.199 --> 01:58:00.960 I do like the story she's ends up in like the other characters around her 1453 01:58:00.159 --> 01:58:04.840 a lot, right, So, like the storyline with the mansion, with 1454 01:58:04.840 --> 01:58:10.520 with the woman and her daughter, I thought was like an incredible story that 1455 01:58:10.680 --> 01:58:13.800 like even with Cassy not being there, you can replace Cassy with any other 1456 01:58:13.840 --> 01:58:19.760 doctor. Like that storyline is really really strong. You know, I really 1457 01:58:19.800 --> 01:58:27.520 like that story. It's great. I kind of like, was if you 1458 01:58:27.720 --> 01:58:30.119 on like the passage of time that was happening there in terms of like we're 1459 01:58:30.159 --> 01:58:34.680 waiting until the girl's birthday. I was like, this is kind of weird 1460 01:58:34.840 --> 01:58:40.239 in this scenario, but sure, but I think that was really cool. 1461 01:58:40.279 --> 01:58:43.199 I almost thought in the moment where I was like, what if this was 1462 01:58:43.199 --> 01:58:45.720 a storyline that like played over through like the course of the game instead of 1463 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:51.079 like immediately fast forwarding to her birthday, that would have been right, Like 1464 01:58:51.159 --> 01:58:54.199 that was one of the first things I thought of when they did that time 1465 01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:56.520 scipe. I was like, oh, this would have been cooler if we 1466 01:58:56.600 --> 01:58:59.800 like dragged this out a little bit every so often we check in to see 1467 01:58:59.800 --> 01:59:04.239 what's going on. But regardless like that, that whole thing was was very 1468 01:59:04.359 --> 01:59:14.439 very good and and I was hitting one percent is just a good boy, 1469 01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:18.960 Yeah, just a good boy. Like but this was fantastic storytelling around around 1470 01:59:19.000 --> 01:59:32.039 her. What did you think of Ryme? I love Ryme Now I did 1471 01:59:32.119 --> 01:59:36.680 Hit Cars chapter four. I was like, Rob, this rime is the 1472 01:59:36.760 --> 01:59:44.000 fucking best. Give me a Ryme a game. One percent rib core character 1473 01:59:45.479 --> 01:59:48.560 character Friday is the best unplayable character in the game. She is the best 1474 01:59:48.560 --> 01:59:51.920 nonplayable character in the game. Her story arc, like I thought she was 1475 01:59:51.920 --> 02:00:00.880 the main character. I was heavily invested in her entire storyline. I really 1476 02:00:00.880 --> 02:00:02.920 like that they didn't commit to her just being like, yeah, we're friends 1477 02:00:02.920 --> 02:00:08.520 again. Yea was a really good take on that story. I was. 1478 02:00:08.680 --> 02:00:11.680 I really like, I was very much prepared for her to be like, 1479 02:00:11.840 --> 02:00:15.880 let's go fucking do the thing, and she she was like, nah, 1480 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:19.840 nah, I can't, like I need you to die for my people. 1481 02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:27.119 And then like that struggle, you have that struggle, and then you have 1482 02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:32.239 like the thing with like her brother, and like that whole scenario that like 1483 02:00:32.399 --> 02:00:36.640 it complicates it even further. So it's not just like okay, Mugan, 1484 02:00:36.760 --> 02:00:42.600 it's kind of threatening her entire clan. It's like this goes another lair deeper 1485 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:47.399 in terms of like there is like a guilt feeling of betrayal that like we 1486 02:00:47.560 --> 02:00:51.159 killed your mother as well, you know what I mean. Like there there's 1487 02:00:51.239 --> 02:01:00.760 a lot to unpack it in the whole Ryme clan storyline she has to like 1488 02:01:00.279 --> 02:01:06.720 go through and even towards like the end of like that chapter and you do 1489 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:10.560 the duel with her, and he caught it and he's just She's like, 1490 02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:17.520 just kill me now whatever. He's like, no, fantastic, and he's 1491 02:01:17.600 --> 02:01:21.039 like, no, I believe that you will be there when I need to 1492 02:01:21.159 --> 02:01:26.479 write. And it still leaves you with like some uncertainty, right. I 1493 02:01:26.520 --> 02:01:30.039 think we all know deep down like she's probably going to come through in the 1494 02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:33.960 end. But I'm glad that it wasn't just resolved immediately right there, and 1495 02:01:34.000 --> 02:01:39.720 they let it sit for a while even after, like the the invasion for 1496 02:01:39.760 --> 02:01:45.439 the final chapter is like she is not there second until last second when like 1497 02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:50.199 he remembers to like ring the bell for reinforcements, and like he hits it, 1498 02:01:50.239 --> 02:01:53.399 and then like she shows up out the cut and it's just like I 1499 02:01:53.439 --> 02:01:56.840 got you, fam and it's like, all right, Rame, you are 1500 02:01:56.840 --> 02:02:00.079 a fucking ten out of ten. I love you. I Also, in 1501 02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:05.399 terms of Hikari's story, I like that they committed to Hikari's best friend's betrayal 1502 02:02:06.199 --> 02:02:14.600 very to the very end. He is better that. I really appreciate that 1503 02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:18.319 we committed. There was no like power of fucking friendship to fucking save this 1504 02:02:18.399 --> 02:02:23.760 ship. He was committed to his ideals, he stood strong and he fucking 1505 02:02:23.840 --> 02:02:29.319 died for it, and he I fucking love that. Yeah, I think 1506 02:02:29.359 --> 02:02:34.159 he CARDI has the best storyline. I think I think his whole story I 1507 02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:39.760 think that you were going to say that. I don't think I could in 1508 02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:44.159 good faith argue against it, right, Like I could. I could joke 1509 02:02:44.239 --> 02:02:46.880 around and be like, yeah, I do think CHET is the best story, 1510 02:02:46.880 --> 02:02:50.600 and I hold Jet's like in Steer story, like I love her fucking 1511 02:02:50.640 --> 02:02:57.239 story. But I cannot in good faith be like TI wasn't the best, 1512 02:02:57.359 --> 02:03:01.279 Like I could have a whole game based off of he storyline and that ship 1513 02:03:01.359 --> 02:03:09.960 would be so engaging from beginning to end, like I felt like it was 1514 02:03:10.000 --> 02:03:16.960 an entirely different game period, Like I don't know, he has the most 1515 02:03:16.960 --> 02:03:23.359 mombastic chapter one. He has. It's a bombast chapter one. The cinematography 1516 02:03:23.439 --> 02:03:30.000 around hit chapters are so insanely well done, right, like the flashback sequences. 1517 02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:32.239 Everything in his chapter is like so overly produced in a way that I'm 1518 02:03:32.279 --> 02:03:40.960 like, this is just a separate fucking video game. Like I'm so invested 1519 02:03:41.079 --> 02:03:43.760 in this fucking kid's story to the point where, like I wanted to save 1520 02:03:43.800 --> 02:03:46.039 his story for last I was like I'm going, I like, I know 1521 02:03:46.119 --> 02:03:48.600 this is going to hit strong, Like I don't know where it's going to 1522 02:03:48.680 --> 02:03:50.680 go, but I'm like, this shit is going to be good. So, 1523 02:03:50.800 --> 02:03:57.439 like I saved his chapter four for last, which is the Ryme story, 1524 02:03:57.840 --> 02:04:00.560 So I got Ryme and Go immediately into the final chapter, and I 1525 02:04:00.600 --> 02:04:03.520 was just like, this is the best way I could have fucking ended this 1526 02:04:03.800 --> 02:04:11.720 entire experience, because I was writing a fucking high throughout his entire those entire 1527 02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:16.239 chapters. It's like this is great, this is video games, Like, 1528 02:04:16.520 --> 02:04:19.760 oh, it's so good. And like even even though like I finished his, 1529 02:04:20.000 --> 02:04:23.560 like his was the final chapter I did first, I don't feel like 1530 02:04:23.600 --> 02:04:28.760 any loss for that because, like I feel like having him as a main 1531 02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:32.119 character, like I really felt like I had that main character like story and 1532 02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:38.359 like that really delivered. And like the only other like chapter that got me 1533 02:04:38.439 --> 02:04:45.199 super invested from the get go, like that was Oswald's because olds it's pretty 1534 02:04:45.199 --> 02:04:48.279 hard hitting out the gate two because like it's very different, like you do 1535 02:04:48.439 --> 02:04:54.479 two chapters at once instead of just one. Yeah, and like you you're 1536 02:04:54.560 --> 02:04:58.479 in an area that you can't access for like a majority of the game until 1537 02:04:58.560 --> 02:05:02.680 the very end, where you can finally go back to it, like it's 1538 02:05:02.760 --> 02:05:12.199 it's just so different and like, oh, like everything is just so much 1539 02:05:12.239 --> 02:05:15.560 better than Octopath one. Like someone told me that they liked the story, 1540 02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:16.880 is an Octopath one better? I'm like, what are you talking about? 1541 02:05:17.199 --> 02:05:21.239 Can you even tell me what they were? Because I can't tell you what 1542 02:05:21.279 --> 02:05:28.079 they were. I can't like Tressa was trying to go to like some giant 1543 02:05:28.119 --> 02:05:42.479 market, like uh, Virus was on sabbatical. I remember prim because she 1544 02:05:42.560 --> 02:05:45.960 has a really cool chapter one, which I like, Oh, this is 1545 02:05:46.039 --> 02:05:48.720 dark in a way I was not expecting from the video game. Uh. 1546 02:05:48.760 --> 02:05:56.000 And then I, Honey, that's about it. That's all. And that's 1547 02:05:56.039 --> 02:05:59.000 just because I love say. I don't even remember much of Honey, But 1548 02:05:59.079 --> 02:06:04.359 like all of Octopath two feels like Prince chapter one, where like it really 1549 02:06:04.399 --> 02:06:10.039 delivered on like that sort of setup and like there are commitments and story beans 1550 02:06:10.039 --> 02:06:19.159 that Octopath two does that just feels impactful. Uh, like for example, 1551 02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:26.680 Oswald's chapter three where you discover oh god, what's his name Harvey's secret lab? 1552 02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:30.079 Yeah, and like we go full full metal alchemist on this ship, 1553 02:06:31.039 --> 02:06:39.399 much like that ship was good. I was like, no fucking way we're 1554 02:06:39.439 --> 02:06:43.840 doing this, we're killing people off, we're holding friends to fucking betrayals, 1555 02:06:44.279 --> 02:06:48.239 like everything. Just they committed to things, and I really appreciated that. 1556 02:06:48.560 --> 02:06:55.920 It was very like cool. It's I love the Oswald story from pretty much 1557 02:06:55.920 --> 02:07:00.079 from beginning to end. Like the when when you get the cut scene with 1558 02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:08.319 Harvey, it's like when when he's spreading on or he's showing off the monster 1559 02:07:08.560 --> 02:07:11.760 basically on the table or whatever, like at that moment, I was like, 1560 02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:15.319 Oh, we're about to go full metal on this ship. I already 1561 02:07:15.399 --> 02:07:18.079 see it. This is about to bust out the fucking kaimeras and everything. 1562 02:07:18.600 --> 02:07:21.439 Uh. And and towards the end of that scene, he talks about I 1563 02:07:21.520 --> 02:07:27.760 have to go see my daughter, and I immediately like was like, oh, 1564 02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:32.079 oh yes, Like oh nope, but oh yes, because I was 1565 02:07:32.159 --> 02:07:35.239 like this, motherfucker, I bet he doesn't have a daughter. I know 1566 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:39.239 where the ship, I know where this is going. I know where this 1567 02:07:39.399 --> 02:07:45.680 is going. Uh. It's it's even better than like thinking they were initially 1568 02:07:45.760 --> 02:07:49.640 killed off, Like yeah, it's that much harder, yeah, because like 1569 02:07:49.800 --> 02:07:55.199 give you that like little twinge of hope and then you're like noah, motherfucker, 1570 02:07:55.279 --> 02:08:00.720 wife's still fucking dead. The only the only thing I wish that they 1571 02:08:00.760 --> 02:08:03.560 pushed harder on. Maybe it would have been too much, Maybe it will 1572 02:08:03.680 --> 02:08:07.720 enough. I don't know. Uh, but but he did say that like 1573 02:08:07.279 --> 02:08:13.239 the the one uh creature, I'm just gonna call a camera. Uh. 1574 02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:16.720 That was like his wife wasn't fully his wife, it was just using her 1575 02:08:16.720 --> 02:08:22.399 blood. And I was like, mm, but what if it was just 1576 02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.439 his wife? Though? That was that went through my head and I was 1577 02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:30.159 like, I mean in my in my head and it was just his wife. 1578 02:08:30.920 --> 02:08:33.119 I wanted it to be. But I was like, we're just gonna 1579 02:08:33.479 --> 02:08:41.439 dock minus point five points here. But but it's fine, It's fine. 1580 02:08:41.479 --> 02:08:48.880 I understand that that that chapter, those chapters, particularly for me, was 1581 02:08:48.880 --> 02:08:54.800 was a very fun treat because of the Japanese voices. And this is a 1582 02:08:54.880 --> 02:08:58.439 very personal thing to me, uh in anybody else out there that that has 1583 02:08:58.479 --> 02:09:05.159 an affinity towards like a lot of the JP voice acting. In that hard 1584 02:09:05.560 --> 02:09:09.960 All is played by like a very popular voice actor that does like a lot 1585 02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:15.720 of villains, particularly Key Day from from the Fate series. He's a very 1586 02:09:15.880 --> 02:09:20.319 very distinct voice. So the very first time I heard Oswald, I was 1587 02:09:20.399 --> 02:09:24.600 like, oh, We're in for some shit. He never plays a role 1588 02:09:24.039 --> 02:09:30.319 that is just like very straight laced. It is always some shit. So 1589 02:09:30.399 --> 02:09:33.239 I heard his voice immediately and I'm just like, oh, key day, 1590 02:09:33.279 --> 02:09:35.720 this is gonna be fucking great. And then you get to you know, 1591 02:09:35.960 --> 02:09:39.920 to that point, to that point, I want to say, like that 1592 02:09:39.920 --> 02:09:46.039 that really helped Oswald's character because he was a man desperate and was willing to 1593 02:09:46.079 --> 02:09:52.119 do whatever he was It is the perfect Yeah, yeah, it is the 1594 02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:56.520 perfect role for him. And then when you get to Harvey, which is 1595 02:09:56.520 --> 02:10:03.199 how he says Harvey and I cannot say it might say Harvey when he when 1596 02:10:03.199 --> 02:10:07.760 he gets to him, you realize that Harvey is played by the VA that 1597 02:10:07.800 --> 02:10:13.359 does Dio from JoJo's which is a very very popular villainy character also on the 1598 02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:18.680 on the extreme end of that shit in saying and plays wild characters. So 1599 02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:24.960 when you have this show down between Oswald and Hovey, it is just these 1600 02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:30.159 two prolific vas yelling at each other. Both are just like fucked up in 1601 02:10:30.199 --> 02:10:33.680 their own ways, and it's just like this wonderful headcannon of just like Key 1602 02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:37.439 and A versus Dio in my head of just like some anime bullshit, and 1603 02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:41.840 I'm like, I am here for this. I had the biggest grin on 1604 02:10:41.880 --> 02:10:46.800 my face throughout that entire exchange, both because of what's happening in the story, 1605 02:10:46.880 --> 02:10:50.560 because obviously the stuff with his daughter on the table and like that, 1606 02:10:50.680 --> 02:10:54.520 that whole situation, but also because of the voices that are being played. 1607 02:10:54.520 --> 02:10:58.079 And I'm like, you could not have picked like any better vas for this 1608 02:10:58.239 --> 02:11:03.920 exchange another insane highlight for me, and that that's a very like personal thing, 1609 02:11:05.479 --> 02:11:07.680 but it just added to it. For me. I was like, 1610 02:11:07.680 --> 02:11:09.640 Oh, this is chef's kiss head out of his head. I cannot ask 1611 02:11:09.680 --> 02:11:16.800 for anything more. And for those of you who interested in the English vas, 1612 02:11:16.279 --> 02:11:20.800 I can speak to the English vas. We're also toms. Like both 1613 02:11:20.880 --> 02:11:28.039 Harvey and Oswald still had like those menacing sort of like voiceovers that felt like 1614 02:11:28.199 --> 02:11:33.600 impactful and like I can agree, like those scenes still hit pretty hard because 1615 02:11:33.640 --> 02:11:37.560 like especially when you have those moments where Oswald's like, I know I shouldn't, 1616 02:11:39.119 --> 02:11:43.239 but I am incredibly fascinated by Harvey's work. Yes, yes, yes, 1617 02:11:45.680 --> 02:11:50.119 like he's still hit it. He's still hit it. The only slight 1618 02:11:50.199 --> 02:11:54.520 downside is the power of love and friendship. So I get the Light magic, 1619 02:11:54.560 --> 02:12:01.079 and I'm like, Okay, I mean, Troupe's gonna be Troupe's gonna 1620 02:12:01.079 --> 02:12:03.760 be true. It's gonna be Trupe. We got the one true magic. 1621 02:12:03.800 --> 02:12:07.920 It's it's it's love. I understand. It's the Light to count of the 1622 02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:13.239 Dark. Okay, sure it is a fantasy JRPG. At the end of 1623 02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:16.600 the day, I do need to remind you of that, I understand. 1624 02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:24.840 But all in all, like we probably should start wrapping up here. It's 1625 02:12:24.840 --> 02:12:28.840 three in the morning. I gotta work in five hours. All in all, 1626 02:12:28.880 --> 02:12:35.439 I have to say, Octopath To really just delivered all. I'm trying 1627 02:12:35.479 --> 02:12:37.199 to think if there's anything else I want to talk about. As far as 1628 02:12:37.239 --> 02:12:43.079 a spoiler casto, it was like, oh, the expanded overworld was just 1629 02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:48.439 so cool. The fucking like I when you get the ship because like Partisio 1630 02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:52.279 has like those like little extra side quests where they sort of expand the game's 1631 02:12:52.359 --> 02:12:56.640 lore and whatnot, Like you get the library that's sort of this world building 1632 02:12:56.720 --> 02:12:58.199 for you, and then you get the ship, and that's that's when you 1633 02:12:58.239 --> 02:13:03.039 realize, oh, this game is a lot bigger than I fucking realized. 1634 02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:11.039 Like they they spared no expense I don't understand the record player thing, but 1635 02:13:11.359 --> 02:13:16.119 all right, that was that was there. It's there, it's there. 1636 02:13:16.520 --> 02:13:22.800 It was a trophy. I also expected them to create a portable record player 1637 02:13:22.880 --> 02:13:26.439 and just have you play music all over the place. That would have been 1638 02:13:26.439 --> 02:13:28.279 tired. I would have had the battle the ball scene going like give me 1639 02:13:28.479 --> 02:13:37.840 entire time. But oh, I just there's so much in that game. 1640 02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:46.159 Did you mess around with like the unique job classes at all? Not one 1641 02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:50.800 of them? I got them all? Well, you did? I did. 1642 02:13:50.159 --> 02:13:54.880 I made sure to like look up how to get them, because like 1643 02:13:54.920 --> 02:13:56.399 I didn't want to finish the game without getting all the jobs. So like 1644 02:13:58.560 --> 02:14:03.479 I did get them, I did not experiment with them as much as I 1645 02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:11.039 probably should have, only only because like the requirements around really unlocking them it 1646 02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:15.079 was like tedious in a way that I didn't feel like doing when I wanted 1647 02:14:15.119 --> 02:14:18.960 to like finish this game in a timely manner, you know. So like 1648 02:14:18.000 --> 02:14:20.279 when you get Tinkerer, it's like, Okay, I have to find all 1649 02:14:20.319 --> 02:14:24.359 of these items to unlock the rest of the skills, and I'm like I 1650 02:14:24.359 --> 02:14:28.000 don't quite want to go through this right now, but the job seems kind 1651 02:14:28.000 --> 02:14:35.760 of cool, Okay, I did land on what's what's the black magi one? 1652 02:14:37.720 --> 02:14:46.359 Arcadis Arcadis? Yes, yeah, I do love Arcadis Is broken oswald 1653 02:14:46.520 --> 02:14:50.279 on fucking Arcanus. I was just like, this is everything I need in 1654 02:14:50.319 --> 02:14:54.039 life. I love I love the way it looks. What's up? He 1655 02:14:54.199 --> 02:14:58.319 was my first Arcanus bro. I think that's just like a cannon event. 1656 02:14:58.399 --> 02:15:07.039 See to Artissio Arcadis is canon Guys, I say, I don't know, 1657 02:15:07.479 --> 02:15:13.359 Laura says otherwise. Uh, that class is really cool. It's it's very 1658 02:15:13.399 --> 02:15:18.319 cool. I love the sprite for it. Also, on that note, 1659 02:15:18.399 --> 02:15:20.640 I love the sprite for Tinker as well. I think those are like two 1660 02:15:20.680 --> 02:15:26.319 of my favorite looking classes. But yeah, I didn't play with the advanced 1661 02:15:26.359 --> 02:15:30.680 jobs as much as I probably should have outside of Arcanus because that was just 1662 02:15:30.800 --> 02:15:35.760 mean in my party. Oh man, that's fair. Yeah, Conjurers really 1663 02:15:35.800 --> 02:15:39.079 cool. It's definitely like a watered down room Blade from the first game. 1664 02:15:39.920 --> 02:15:46.279 That boss fight to get was rough. Yeah, I had a tough time 1665 02:15:46.319 --> 02:15:52.399 with that bass fight. I kind of just cleaned it. Oh wow, 1666 02:15:54.119 --> 02:16:01.479 I was severely under leveled when I had to do that boss fight. But 1667 02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:07.520 like I turned like Hikari into like a spell sword for a while, and 1668 02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:13.760 that was really cool until Boss told me I couldn't do that. So but 1669 02:16:13.880 --> 02:16:20.600 like I do wish and again, I wish they threw these advanced jobs at 1670 02:16:20.640 --> 02:16:24.960 you a bit faster, because like they give you Inventor like right away, 1671 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:28.840 like within the first round, but like Inventors locked behind you finding these items, 1672 02:16:28.880 --> 02:16:31.479 so you're like you don't really get to do much with it for a 1673 02:16:31.479 --> 02:16:35.440 majority of the game, and like you can get Arcanus after you unlocked the 1674 02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:43.000 ship. Uh, and then what is it not war Master or whatever it's 1675 02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.120 called. It is war Master, but it's called something else in this game. 1676 02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:50.799 But like that one and Conjurer are pretty much locked into any game. 1677 02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:56.200 Like, I really wish you just got to experiment with these a bit more, 1678 02:16:56.600 --> 02:17:00.959 because then you might have felt like you had a reason to actually experiment, 1679 02:17:01.319 --> 02:17:03.799 because by the time you get them, you might be at a point 1680 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:07.559 where you're like, I'm kind of trying to wrap up this game like that, 1681 02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:11.639 that's kind of the point right where I'm just like I'm kind of at 1682 02:17:11.680 --> 02:17:13.760 the end stage, not like fully at the end stage, but like enough 1683 02:17:13.799 --> 02:17:18.600 to where like I got a good thing going right now. I don't really 1684 02:17:18.799 --> 02:17:24.360 need to experiment with this stuff. I'm good, you know. Like that, 1685 02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:26.760 that's kind of the vibe, even though like it's cool, don't get 1686 02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:30.040 me wrong, but it's just like that's the vibe I was kind of going 1687 02:17:30.079 --> 02:17:35.680 with one thing. I do want to wrap back real quick, real quick? 1688 02:17:35.799 --> 02:17:39.639 Uh in that, Like, I really do love the end of o 1689 02:17:39.799 --> 02:17:46.399 Chet story. No, I know, we touched like one. It is 1690 02:17:46.399 --> 02:17:50.479 one of my favorite moments where she is she is talking to the Guardian and 1691 02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:54.639 they have that conversation of like, I know when you left you said that 1692 02:17:54.760 --> 02:17:58.520 the weight is heavy on your shoulders. Is like do you still feel that 1693 02:17:58.600 --> 02:18:03.360 now? Is Like she takes a second and she's just like, no, 1694 02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:09.760 it's not heavy anymore. That sticks out to me really hard and maybe like 1695 02:18:11.680 --> 02:18:13.680 it's just a meat thing. I don't know, but like I think about 1696 02:18:13.719 --> 02:18:16.559 like her as a character, her place in this world, and like everything 1697 02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:20.520 she experienced, like leaving her island and learning more about the world around her, 1698 02:18:20.879 --> 02:18:26.559 like that just hit in a way that like almost no other line in 1699 02:18:26.559 --> 02:18:31.440 this game did for me. And she's just like I'm good, I'm ready, 1700 02:18:31.879 --> 02:18:33.479 you know, And I'm like, yeah you are, Yeah, you 1701 02:18:33.559 --> 02:18:37.799 fucking are like I definitely agree. She has like one of the more like 1702 02:18:39.200 --> 02:18:43.360 impactful stories are like tales that are told in the game, and like you 1703 02:18:43.399 --> 02:18:48.479 really feel that character growth at the end of her story. Yeah, and 1704 02:18:48.879 --> 02:18:52.319 like she's a goofy character that's just like I like meat. Everything's about meat. 1705 02:18:54.319 --> 02:18:56.040 What if you just had jerky that'll make everything better. Like she's a 1706 02:18:56.120 --> 02:19:01.159 very very goofy character, but there are moments throughout her story or like she 1707 02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:05.479 she's goofy, but she takes in everything around her, like she understands what's 1708 02:19:05.520 --> 02:19:13.239 going on. She's not dumb quote unquote really like he's a joke. Visually 1709 02:19:13.360 --> 02:19:16.280 she's goofy, but she's not dumb, but she's not dumb. So like 1710 02:19:16.319 --> 02:19:20.760 there are moments where like there's clearly some racism she had happening, where like 1711 02:19:20.760 --> 02:19:24.319 people don't like beastlings, and I forget what it was, but there was 1712 02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:26.760 one moment where like, whichever partner character you choose, I chose the Fox, 1713 02:19:26.799 --> 02:19:30.799 But like they're definitely a little like awesome show like this is why we 1714 02:19:30.840 --> 02:19:35.360 don't trust humans and shit like that, and it's just like let's just go 1715 02:19:35.120 --> 02:19:39.479 right, Like she says it in a way that it's like she understands what's 1716 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:43.600 happening, and she's willingly not to engage in it, and she's like, 1717 02:19:43.639 --> 02:19:46.760 I got better things to do, right. It's like those moments where she 1718 02:19:46.840 --> 02:19:50.600 like snaps back into reality outside of her meat dimension, like just hits in 1719 02:19:50.639 --> 02:19:54.239 a way that like I know, I've been there, I know this exact 1720 02:19:54.239 --> 02:19:58.120 moment she is going through, and it's just like I just have to continue 1721 02:19:58.120 --> 02:20:01.360 on with my day. That shit is just really good, man. I 1722 02:20:01.399 --> 02:20:09.600 fucking love that character to death. She's such as she's in my top three. 1723 02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:15.000 I think, Yeah, it's hard because like like I can tell you 1724 02:20:15.000 --> 02:20:20.760 that like throwing at the bottom, but like it's just crazy because like at 1725 02:20:20.799 --> 02:20:28.440 the top, when I told you I'm Rob, I encountered this character that's 1726 02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:31.760 very one hundred percent you, And like that was at the beginning, Rob's 1727 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:33.959 gonna love this character, and then I was playing it more like I don't 1728 02:20:33.959 --> 02:20:39.840 know Rob's gonna love this character. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of where 1729 02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:46.159 it went. But gun to your head, Top three, Gun in my 1730 02:20:46.200 --> 02:20:54.920 head. Top three. Hecarty cast a chet Okay, Okay, I think 1731 02:20:54.959 --> 02:21:03.239 I land on uh he caught e a chet uh uh Oswald. That's fair. 1732 02:21:03.319 --> 02:21:05.760 I mean, Oswald's up there too, so is Agny, and so 1733 02:21:05.840 --> 02:21:09.879 it is protein. They're they're all up there, like like I said, 1734 02:21:09.959 --> 02:21:15.079 it's it's like S plus tier is everybody and then S tier is thrown. 1735 02:21:15.360 --> 02:21:22.120 Yeah, basically like I said, coming coming from Octopath one, everything is 1736 02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:28.360 just not great. Everything like the stories better, the characters are better. 1737 02:21:28.200 --> 02:21:33.479 I don't know how Nishiki did it, but soundtracks fucking better. Like, 1738 02:21:33.959 --> 02:21:39.760 oh, that's not so good. I could gosh about this game for like 1739 02:21:39.840 --> 02:21:43.520 ever and ever and ever, I won't. I do want to mention one 1740 02:21:43.520 --> 02:21:48.000 more thing. Shout outs to them throwing in fucking genocide as a story point. 1741 02:21:48.520 --> 02:21:54.920 I appreciate it absolutely. Uh huh, Well, like I really appreciate 1742 02:21:56.000 --> 02:22:00.760 to them sticking to the darker tones of the storytelling. And then like especially 1743 02:22:00.760 --> 02:22:03.520 like the roy thing that I told you earlier, where like you start to 1744 02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:09.360 see the subtleties of like the first boss you fight as oh Chet is a 1745 02:22:09.719 --> 02:22:16.719 mutilated, warped version of Terminos's like uh mentor or whatnot, And I'm like, 1746 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:20.840 that's so fucking cool, and like if it's something you only notice the 1747 02:22:22.200 --> 02:22:24.520 like you're really paying attention. And they didn't have to throw in that detail, 1748 02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:30.879 but they did appreciate that they did. Yeah, and I'm I'm very 1749 02:22:30.879 --> 02:22:35.959 curious to to see, like eventually someone's gonna do like the big like fifteen 1750 02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:39.440 things do they know about larrepout Traveler table, like the Laura videos at some 1751 02:22:39.520 --> 02:22:45.520 point. I'm very curious whenever those started dropping, because I would love to 1752 02:22:45.559 --> 02:22:50.799 see like all of the fucking small stuff it's like presented to me on a 1753 02:22:50.159 --> 02:22:54.239 nice platter, you know, because that game has a lot, right, 1754 02:22:54.280 --> 02:22:58.040 there's a lot in there. It's very easy to stuff some stuff that you 1755 02:22:58.079 --> 02:23:03.200 need to like really look in too. But that reminds you. That just 1756 02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:05.200 reminds me one more thing that I want to mention. I know, how 1757 02:23:05.280 --> 02:23:09.639 we keep doing this. You didn't get to think there are a lot of 1758 02:23:11.280 --> 02:23:20.440 post story uh side quests involving like major MPCs from each character's stories that I 1759 02:23:20.520 --> 02:23:24.879 really appreciate that they added in because it just adds more flavor and more world 1760 02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:30.200 building to these character stories and like what happens to them afterwards. Like in 1761 02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:37.280 he after you beat Hikari's story, you have like the sister of like Hikari's 1762 02:23:37.319 --> 02:23:41.840 best friend, like she has like a small little arc and then like uh, 1763 02:23:41.879 --> 02:23:46.600 the NPC of like Hikari's friend who gets murdered in her chapter one, 1764 02:23:46.719 --> 02:23:50.760 like she has a twin sister, and then like she has her own story, 1765 02:23:50.159 --> 02:23:54.920 and there's like these small little things that just add to a greater whole, 1766 02:23:56.440 --> 02:24:00.239 and like they might not seem like a lot at like at first, 1767 02:24:00.319 --> 02:24:03.000 but like as you build it more, Like I don't want to say like 1768 02:24:03.079 --> 02:24:07.719 it's it's a trail style, living breathing world because that feels almost like it's 1769 02:24:07.719 --> 02:24:13.440 a Souls game. But like the world building in this game is really phenomenal, 1770 02:24:13.920 --> 02:24:18.479 and like what they do with like the NPC descriptions and all that, 1771 02:24:18.680 --> 02:24:22.559 Like I think even those were an upgrade from the first game. Like just 1772 02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:28.040 ah again, I can keep fucking going, so you gotta cut me off. 1773 02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:31.079 I'm cutting you off here. You've had it. You've had too much 1774 02:24:31.079 --> 02:24:35.360 Octopath to drink. The tap is empty, the bar is closed. Get 1775 02:24:35.360 --> 02:24:45.360 out of the tavern. Take this music box with you. Fantastic video game. 1776 02:24:45.399 --> 02:24:48.600 I'm glad I got a chance to play through it. It is a 1777 02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:54.159 strong contender for my Game of the Year. And it's it's up there, 1778 02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:56.920 man, Uh, it's it's It's another one of those games on on my 1779 02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:01.559 ever growing list of amazing fucking games that came out in twenty twenty three that 1780 02:25:01.680 --> 02:25:03.920 if someone said this is my game of the year, I would not batt 1781 02:25:03.920 --> 02:25:11.079 and I would be like, yep, I understand. I would need more 1782 02:25:11.079 --> 02:25:13.760 time to figure out what my game of the year looks like. But it 1783 02:25:15.159 --> 02:25:20.280 is a very crowded space for them. But it's it's very stacked. But 1784 02:25:20.399 --> 02:25:24.920 this is one that again, on any any day, someone can say this 1785 02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:28.159 is my game of the year, I will one hundred percent back them up 1786 02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:31.360 and agree, like, yes, this this is an incredible one of the 1787 02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:35.559 best JRPGs I've played in quite some time. It's it's I up on my 1788 02:25:35.760 --> 02:25:41.079 personal list. Love it. Uh So, that's that's that. Let's get 1789 02:25:41.079 --> 02:25:41.959 out of it. We've we've been doing this for like two and a half 1790 02:25:43.000 --> 02:25:46.559 hours. Uh So, let's let's let's wrap it up here, Drew, 1791 02:25:46.879 --> 02:25:50.600 Where can people find you all that jazz? Oh you find me on Twitter 1792 02:25:50.639 --> 02:25:56.159 at jf me totally Drew posting about video games, fighting games, all that 1793 02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:00.479 gym. Hell yeah, you can find me on Twitter. Ats was kazy 1794 02:26:00.600 --> 02:26:05.719 and it's uk E where I just retweet mussum artwork as well as fung Fence 1795 02:26:05.799 --> 02:26:11.680 to sixteen artwork. Man, the artists are really fucking good. One day 1796 02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:16.959 I'll do that spoiler cast. One day I'll have the the crew to make 1797 02:26:16.000 --> 02:26:22.200 it happen, hopefully soon as soon as people finish it up. So stay 1798 02:26:22.239 --> 02:26:26.799 tuned for that coming up with the anime cast. Make sure you can check 1799 02:26:26.840 --> 02:26:33.959 that out. We that should go up on this Sunday. I believe we 1800 02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:37.040 are covering Charlotte, So if you've seen that anime, definitely give us a 1801 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:39.280 watch. If you haven't, go watch it and then go give us a 1802 02:26:39.280 --> 02:26:46.760 watch. And with that, we're out of here. Bye guys. Later