Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly video game show
here at GEK. First, I'm your host, Hil mustna with me these
two boys. Once again we got the clown Prince of Pod the compts of
parties. Rather, how are you doing good? I should have been the
crown clown Prince of Gatorade, because you know what, every once in a
while, it's just a ruger Gatorade. Something about this one was like the
Stanley, like, oh, that's got some punch. It just hit my
gullet and was like it has the same color as the Stanley punch. It
does, but for some reason, it just felt better than the Gatorades.
So I'm in a good mood. I'm ready to talk about some Nintendo directs.
Yeah. And then another party is with us here too, Taylor Field.
How's it going. It's going good. Happy to be here, happy
to talk Nintendo. Yes, that's what we're here to do today together.
You sounded like you're like someone's off the camera holding a sign like say this
about like your a hawted situation. You know this this is episode the day
late, of course, but we wanted to wait and cover the direct.
This will be kind of the final episode of the summer showcases. I know
there's Games Calm that happens again in August. I think so we'll get a
reprise of maybe some more information there, but yeah, it should be fun.
And it's been fun to go on this ride with all of you guys,
watching all these and covering all these conferences that have been going on.
And then next week we'll be back to the regular side quest goodness that you
can expect here. So we're gonna jump right into it because, as you
may be able to hear, my voice is messed up and I don't have
time for games tonight. Today, we're getting down to business. We're gonna
get right into it. Drive us. What do you think of this direct?
And if you want to throw a number on it, you can.
Yeah, I thought I was just pulling up, so I have it on
the wash along here. I think I would give it. I think I
would give it. It's tough because I think they did everything you need to
do in a conference to have a five. But I think it was still
because I'm looking at it's forty two minutes, I still think it was even
like a tadlong. I think there's a couple of games that they still could
have put in like a montage. But at the same time, I know
they might be excited for excitement for other people. Maybe it's also just it's
not that it's a knock. I guess I don't know how I feel that.
I I guess it depends for each person. There's a lot of remakes
here or a lot of remastereds and stuff like that, so that's where it's
like it there's layers of hype that can happen where I think if it's like
something for you, like for me a couple of years ago with my RPG,
right when that guy asks like, oh, this is a thing for
me, so this is very very exciting, where there's other ones like I
don't care too much about this. So I think even at forty too many
and it didn't feel too long, but I still felt it could have been
maybe trimmed, like maybe even ten like I think so. But I think
for the most part, they had good pacing. They had what a lot
of other places don't do as new games with like concrete and ounds dates or
I would assume concrete, but you know, something like September, like I'm
thinking in Nintendo, I do very much enjoy this method of Most of the
games they show in these directs, and these bigger ones lately have been when
they're comfortable with it, and I do like that. I think Zelda,
Breatha Wild and Pears of the Kingdom are like the only games that have been
delayed from Nintendo in recent past. That makes sense. I remember Zelda.
Yeah, there's been games, you know, Metro Prime Pick Forever. We
still don't have a date on it, but like they never really announced those
dates. So yeah, feel for the most part they try and wait until
they're ready with that date, like almost one percent. And even also we'll
talk about even when Metroid, they did come out and say, hey,
we aren't confident of this, we're gonna redo it from the ground up.
And I don't think they said ground up, but they use that kind of
terminology, right, So even Nintendo being officials like, hey, don't expect
this game because we need to work on it. And that's the thing where
usually you want to have one big last thing, a big surprise. I
think Metroid was that because I think we were all expecting at some point,
but still it was one of those games of like is it happening. Is
it in the ether? Who knows we're gonna be good? So I think
I'm gonna go a four point five pretty much a five, just maybe with
some pacing issues. But yeah, I think they had a really good showcase,
and I think i'd put it to kind of I think i'd still give
Xbox the the upper tier because they had a bit more of a better pacing
I think. But Nintendo still does a great job here. I'm excited talk
about some of these games. Yeah, how about you, Taylor. I
mean, I think that there's there's a few things that definitely caught my eye.
And I like Nintendo because it's not you're not getting like a full ten
to fifteen minutes of like hey, let's look at some gameplay and talk about
yeah, yeah, you have like super long like that, like a four
is a segment where you're gonna long, deep dive into it. I don't
need that from Nintendo. I'm happy just to have like the quick cut,
and I feel like they've they've they've done justice in that department where it's like
sometimes they'll cover like it could be like five games within a minute. They'd
be like boom boom boom, and it just has like the title at the
bottom of the game and it shows a cool little thing I did, a
release date, then it goes to the next one, and so I appreciate
that this one, like forty two minutes. I feel like it's kind of
in line with usually what a Nintendo Direct is. So I'm fine with that.
And for me, it just really comes down to what really got me
excited, And there's the one that I'm curious more about. But other than
that, like it didn't really kind of clue in until you mentioned it,
Travis. Yeah, there's a lot of kind of like remakes or I guess
like HD remaster. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm wondering, Okay, is
this is this because new releases are being kind of held the back burner for
a new Switch console, and maybe we're just focusing Yeah, we're focusing our
energy on a bunch of these AHD remasters just to kind of like keep the
market satisfied for the time being with the current Switch. But I would have
liked to have seen some more new stuff. Well, there is one new
thing here that, as I said, piqued my interest. I'm curious about
it and I'm excited to talk more about it, So I would if you
had to give this a number, I'd probably go like a, like a
four out of five. I enjoyed it. It's always fun to watch Nintendo,
and it's exciting when they are, you know, going from game to
game, so it's not always fun. Remember this podcast started when we just
were off the puppet Nintendo direct. Remember we're one of the worst ever that
was. I remember as we'd covered that in the very first that Solo Geek
first was that Nintendo direct being so bad. So they've they can be batter
our Fox puppets, right, Yeah, I forgot about that massacre, my
boy. These days they're much more like down to business. Yeah, still
have a little bit of playful like they have a lot of puns in these
directs, but for the most part, it's a lot more like, Okay,
let's get these games and info out here. I'm very much in the
same boat as you guys here. I think i'd also give this a four
out of five. I had very I kind of want to roll closer a
little bit, Like knowing that they were gonna do a direct this month,
I had pretty low expectations, just thinking like, Okay, they're coming to
like the tail end here of the Nintendo Switch before they announced that sequel console,
which they talked about how they're gonna talk about that soon. They did
the announcement of the announcement thing, and so I figured, okay, if
we're gonna get anything here, just like a couple of stragular type of games.
But then when they said it was forty minutes long, then I was
like, Okay, that's like a full length direct, as Taylor was saying,
so makes me think that there actually is quite a bit to be here.
And so yeah, I think this was a solid direct. There was
like two or three games that were complete surprises to me, some updates for
things. I was like, wow, I did not did not see that
coming. So there's some weird curve balls in there. I think with the
Nintender Direct too, there's always like there's different styles of them, and there's
even like sometimes I feel like there's an association if they have one, Like
if they do it direct in the afternoon usually like afternoon our time, usually
that's like, okay, maybe there's more of a North American focus on the
games here than if they do want like this like at seven am. It's
often like, Okay, here's a bunch of like Japanese focus things, and
it's like the timeline is more focused for that for that country, and that
feels like the case here. There was like so many JRPGs like Japanese games.
It was like subtitles and stuff, and a lot of people remember this,
it's like I don't, and honestly, for me, like they all
kind of bleed together to an extent, So there's definitely a few duds,
but even then it's like, Okay, that's cool, that's for someone.
And I still got some other interesting stuff here and some updates on things that
we've been waiting for updates for. So overall, I think they delivered a
good showcase here, and yeah, one that was way I guess it was
way better than was expecting because I had such a little expectations. So that's
where they blew me away to some extent. I feel like for a Nintendo
Direct, I'm curious to see the day when I give them a five out
of five if it doesn't have a smash announcement, I'm just so biased and
like that a smash like showing a new character, a new DLC pack like
that gets me so jazzed that, Like, I'm curious what it'll take for
a direct to ever hit a five out of five without that, And that's
just me personally. You know, maybe they would just have to have like
all the major major series except for Smash, a new Mario Kart, a
new three D Mario, New Zelda or something. But that's hard to believe
that they would punch all that in one direct. Four you know, yes,
that would do it too. Yeah, I was trying to think back
because I remember there was that one. I think it was the year after
or two years after Sony had like their showcases dreams that Nintendo had one like
that. But I have to look back because I still work at the Ramada.
I think Smash may have been in it. I'll have to do some
data smash, like with all the DLC that tailed for like two years after
the game's released and then like yeah, a year lead up into it.
It was a long time of getting you know, each a new character in
each one of these things or every second one. So let's jump into it
here. As always, we are gonna skip some things. A lot of
those j RPGs that I don't think any of us are really gonna have much
to say about. So yeah, this is not comprehensive, of course,
but just more of the things that I think are relevant for us. Starting
off here Mario and Luigi Brothership. This is coming to November seventh. I
was pretty surprised to see this. You know, there's so many different kind
of offshoots of the Mario RPG games. Where there's Paper Mario, of course,
there's Mario and Luigi. There's Super Mario RPG, which is the one
off, and then even like you know, some of the old sports games
were really like deep in like RPG mechanics, like some of the Game Boy
Advance ones and stuff. But Mario and Luigi is is one of those sub
series that I really thought we were done with at least for a much longer
period of time, with the exception of maybe getting like other ports, like
we got one of the Game Boy Advance games on into which online recently,
things like that, partly because of the studio that makes all those games,
Alpha Dream or who has made all of them historically, shut down a few
years ago. So this is being made by someone else. We don't know
who, because anyone ever really announces that thing. But yeah, so I'm
pretty surprised to see this, but you know, with New Mario party games,
obviously a thousand year Door that remake just came out. We had oregonbi
King on Switch. Super Mario RPG came out last year, so they've really
been pumping out these RPG games. I don't know, I don't think you
guys have played any of these games before, But what did you think of
this showcase? For this one, I've played one a long time ago,
but it was definitely a handheld Game Boy version, so any this was a
kid I remember really enjoying it. I like that esthetic. So I was
surprised because I'm not sure I felt like I didn't hear this rumored at all,
So I was kind of surprised that this is dated for this is really
leaked as far as I know. Yeah, it's like even when we get
to that other Zelda game later. So yeah, for me, this is
something that's it's on the radar. Also, people say I wouldn't mind dipping
my toes into it, but I definitely won't be this year because there's other
whether it's backlog games or games coming up around that time that I go.
Okay, like the Star wars, outlaws or maybe some other false stuff where
I just don't think I can justify it is only two players. But it
looked great. I don't like that title brothership. Just feel like I don't
still like saying the word brothership, Like I don't know what love it because
it's so stupid. There's not brotherhood and it's not friendship or partnership. It's
just something stupid in between, Like it's a tone of ship. Yeah yeah,
there's like the double to it. Yeah sure, but no respect your
take on that. It looked kind of like what you talk about, Dylan,
where it's not the exact same as Mario RPG, but it had like
paper Mario Mari RPG this they all have different looks, but they're in within
like the same realm of almost like color scheme and kind of vibe like vibrant.
So no, this this looked fun. Like I said, I do
have RPG, so check out me in Dene's review. But I've kind of
scratched this itch for now. But this would be good probably in like a
year or ear and a half, when it's like Christmas or when the Switch
Too is coming out. Maybe this gets discounted. I think that's where it
will be unless it's just reviewed nastly. But I think it's smart because they
said it's been nine years since the last one. But I think it's smart
because they still want to be pumping out Mario games. Mario's hot again,
like last year, the second biggest movie of the year. So it's just
like, this makes sense that you can't always keep doing like in Odissey,
you can't do another classic platform or what else do we got Mario related?
Well, we haven't done one of these in almost decade. Boom, there
you go. So I thought it was smart and a good way to now.
It was funny because fanboy Clay asked, what do you think you're gonna
see? And I said something with Mario, which was just a joke,
but literally the first thing was Mario and Luigi. So but no thought it
was a good showing. Taylor, do you think you'd pick up one of
these if you played any of these before? I've never played any of them.
I don't know if I played any of the RPG Mario RPG games.
Oh man, that's kind of a blind spot for me too, with a
couple of exceptions. So I think you'd like Mario RPG, like the last
one that was like remastard and everything. You should give that a whirlwind lying
physical, so you should borrow that from me. It was definitely kind of
I was. I was intrigued by it. I was definitely intrigued because I
don't know if I'd ever go back and play the original one, but seeing
the remastered, I was definitely I was looking at it that in Mario versus
Donkey Kongos and the remastered, I was kind of eyeballow. So I like
that they're doing those. But if this one, though, I don't know,
like maybe you know, eighty years old, I got some time,
We'll give it a go. Yeah, you know, I can play to
your eighty Okay, you know jokingly, I'm probably in the same boat as
you. I'm in the same brothership as you on this. I don't think
I'll pick this one up. If it goes deep on sale at some point,
which it won't, That's when I would potentially pick it up. But
right now, there is that Game Boy Advance one on Nintendo Switch Online that
I It's been on there for like a year or two at this point,
and I still have ben jumped into it. So that would probably be the
next one on my list because I kind of have it downloaded and ready to
go. I played a bit of Dream Team that was the packing game with
the three DS that I bought, and then I've always been really interested in
Bowser's Inside Story. That was another one of the three DS ones. I
thoughtked really good or I think it was a remake of an earlier game on
the three DS with new content. So but you can't really buy that anymore
because the three DS store is closed, so I don't know. It's one
of those sub series that I like. I feel like I've I should go
do Paper Mario before I go tomorrow and Luigi when I'm making time for Mario
RPG. So yeah, I don't know if anyone here at geek Versus will
be picking it up, but I thought that it looked really great. I
like the art style. At one point, the combo attach they were doing
was like pulled right out of Strikers. Luigi kind of kicks the ball up
or a shell up in the air. Yeah, it made me wonder like
maybe Next Level Games is making this game. That's the studio that acquired a
couple of years ago, who's made the Mari Strikers games, among other things.
They're doing the Luigi's Mansion remake, but I don't know. I don't
think that's a huge undertaking that they wouldn't be able to take on two games
at once. So I don't know. Curious to see who's actually making this,
but at once again, that's coming out November seventh. Next up,
any S World Championship. Any S Additions coming out July eighteenth. This is
like a kind of collection of a bunch of NES games and with built in
challenge challenge runs and speed runs and things like that. It's kind of interesting.
When I was looking into this, so there was the two NES remix
games I'm sure you guys remember those on the WIU, and then the three
DS both had their own, like different but same similar versions, and I
was surprised to see that they never actually ported those games to Switch. You'd
think they maybe would do a bundle pack and put them on there, but
they never did, so I think this makes sense in that way. It's
kind of like a I don't know feeling that market, so to speak,
but I don't think I'll be picking this one up. I'm any S games
not aged the best, even though that's you know, nostalgic. It's my
first ever console, but I don't I don't need to go back and do
speed speed runs of them. I think I'm good, so I'll be skipping
this one. Yeah, it comes out July eighteenth, so a month away.
What do you think a game like this goes for price wise? It
is on the store now, and I think it was such a freaking so
many words. I'll try and punch it in and see if I can.
Yeah. No, I'm similar to you where you know I like that era
I still everyone, so I'll dip my toes back in it. But it
would be in the sense of I'm just gonna play something and the whatever they
call it. And what's the switch option where you play a bunch old games
nintend to switch online. Okay, fine, it's forty bucks. Forty Yeah
that's bucks. Yeah, it's cheaper games. Still, it's like, Yeah,
for me, it's like, if I ever want to scratch that itch,
I'll go into the Switch online and boot up one of those games and
be happy. I retired many years from geek frisconless. So the idea of
speed running competitions that really only gets busted out once a year and that's the
cherry stream and even then your your your boy did too much of that.
So yeah, thats not not for me, but hopefully people enjoy it.
I just don't know. I think it's I just don't know what the return
on this is. It feels like a very specific crowd, So I just
don't know, you know, what the if it's what if it's all So
maybe that's where they can make their money back on it, you know,
small investments. Yeah, but I'm with you. If someone had it and
we were doing a cherry stream or something, sure, but I don't think
i'd ever buy this. Yeah, I mean I I did own one of
the NS remix games and was not really for me, you know, shows
that we u such a great library of games over there. Yeah, I
wouldn't buy it, but I think that just seeing how they have, like
the speed run features and stuff like that. I love playing that og Nasa
Mario and it's quite often I will go back and I will still just I'll
just pop it on and play it. And of course I don't feel like
I need to have the need to get this because I have access to that
already on the not virtual console, the the Nintendo Switch. Yeah, Switch
Online. So it's such an easy game, guys, I just feel like
it should be selling. Switch Online should be for multiplayer stuff, and the
classic game should be for something else. But no. Yeah, so the
idea of speed runs though. For that I'm always trying to go faster and
faster and faster. So uh, play a sonic game or something instead.
Yeah, sounds Next up, this will be a quick show. So,
as I mentioned, a lot of Jerrpedg's a lot of turn based games in
here, but the one that stood out to me was Fantasian Neo Dimension.
These games have always had a cool art style, but this one particular a
couple of mechanics. I want to see these games, Like, how often
are these games actually having like genuinely new mechanics these days? You know,
all have new stories and characters, but it's like they're kind of just more
of the same at this point. But I thought there were some really cool
things they're one with like the bending mechanic of trying to like aim your shot
and hit multiple enemies. And the other thing I thought was really cool was
as you're going through the world, you know, running at random enemy encounters,
you can just like stockpile those, put them in some like dream dimension
wherever they called it, and then fight them all at once and fight like
twenty enemies all at once, which I think is such a cool idea and
would also make the game a lot more fun to play in terms of not
having to like stop every five seconds because you have to fight some other really
weak enemies so that you can just pile them up. So I thought,
some really cool mechanics. So yeah, there you go, Fantasian. This
was maybe the most surprising announcement out of all of them for me. Nintendo
switched Sports is getting a new sport this summer for freeing basketball a free update.
This game came out like two years ago, I think, and then
they added golf in I just looked this up in fall of twenty twenty two,
so a year and a half later, they're radomly having basketball basketball Hereio's
so freaking weird, Like, how much more sales this is this going to
generate from this new sport? Like it just seems like I don't know why
they would do this at this point unless it was already in development. But
then again, why did it take so long to finish. So yeah,
very puzzling update. Don't get me wrong. I'll jump in and play because
I own the game. But it was cool, really weird choice. It
feels like something was safe, like the third edition, you know, like
for the Switch too, and like you got basketball, so I agree with
you. Just saw it. I guess it's just like sometimes in Town,
just as wacky cool stuff, and that's cool that it's there. It's free,
awesome. I'll be excited to shoot some threes with you guys come November.
Yeah, I can definitely bring that along. Next up is Meo Memories
in Orbit. This is a two D platform, maybe Metroidvania, maybe Inside
like sort of thing. I don't really know what the genre would be,
but I just thought the art style was super super cool, the color scheme
games and kind of the hand drawn aesthetic, the kind of scribbly ness to
it, but like, I don't it's scribbled, so it's kind of messy,
but then it's also very clean, so I don't. And the way
you're moving around just looks so kind of fast and frenetic and really engaging.
So depending on what the price of this one is, I could see myself
picking it up. It looks really fun. Yeah, I think that just
the it does look fun the more I watch it, because I didn't remember
not as much. But I think it just looks different and it moves different,
like obviously of course it's mechanics if you're moving one way or the other,
but just the way the actual characters floating and stuff. So there's the
one particular spot like that, almost like a black and white area. So
yeah, I might keep keep an eye on it. I like it looked
interesting, so cool sounds good? Uh, Travis, did you end up
buying Disney Illusion Island? Nomber? You were always talking about it that you
thought it would be fun somehow Disney Illusion Island, I thought. I swear
you were like into this game and wanting and hot to look like a fun
platform to play with your kids. Oh yeah, maybe, I think it's
a thing where I don't think I knew it was out. It came in
a long while ago, and it's also getting to literally last year only last
year, not too long ago. And when was it last year? July?
It's not even a year old though, July twenty eight. No,
that's cool. I know I remember looking fun, But like I said,
I Honestly, that's the problem with games, especially something like that. It
feels like I'm not gonna see that on TV or like advertising a podcast so
cool free update, I'd have to take a look at a price, and
who knows, man, that'll be good stalking stuff for come come this Christmas.
Yeah, I think another good stalking stuffer could be Looney Tunes Wacky World
of Sports. I thought this looked like a lot of fun. I'm not
a Looney Tunes guy by any means, but what did you guys think of
this one? Absolutely, I'm a Looney Tunes guy. If this game?
Does this have a date? I'm watching the trailer right now. I didn't
write it down. Let me see. Let's see it Pory Pick comes out,
No, I don't think so. If this is out before the charity
stream we will be chairing. We'll be playing this for sure. I got
this on the radar because I just feel like it's I feel like gimmicky sports
games is our bag, you know, like Mario Tennis strikers. This looked
very similar to like, especially the soccer looked like they're strikers, like with
the items and everything. So yeah, yeah, this is definitely I'm all
down. And I like the aesthetic here too. It's almost like a hand
drawn animation moving round. So yeah, this was great. Yeah, this
looked like a lot of fun actually, and I was surprised then you said
it the strikers vibe that the soccer has is it was pretty much. It
was very close, and you got the tennis in there too. This,
like, I never thought I'd be like running for a Looney Tunes game or
anything like that, but I think making it sports style is a It's a
good way to kind of rope people in. I'd say, yeah, between
this and a lot of those characters being in multiverses, kind of a prime
time for Looney Tunes fans, right now, get them platform fighters, get
them in all these different sports games. And it showed off soccer and tennis.
But is there any basketball? Well, of course you gotta you gotta
have basketball, right, So okay, so I'm still trying to find a
date. But yeah, no, And I don't think that's gonna be like
a game that's gonna break the bank or anything. But I don't think there
is a I think it is cheaper than your usual triple A game, which,
yeah, let's see yeah, I'm not seeing. I like the art
style of it too. I thought it was doing something kind of different and
unique for Looney Tunes. There's golf too, apparently, so it's four games
of RKA, tennis, golf, and soccer. There was a lot of
twenty four hours stream fodder in this Nintendo direct. It was they were given
us content coming up November, so look forward to that. Next up,
Donkey Kong Country returns HD. So for anyone who doesn't know, this is
a wee game. Originally that got a three DS port and then this version,
I guess we would say is a hybrid because obviously it's not gonna have
the three DS double screen features, but it has whatever new content was added
to the three DS version, and then it's kind of upres but it's still,
you know, not looking like a prime triple A switch game. If
I'm gonna be honest here, I don't know. I desperately want like new
Donkey Kong stuff, but like I'm not I've never really been a big fan
of like two D Donkey Kong games. Like I'm really just a Donkey Kong
sixty four die hard. I don't know if I'll ever get a sequel to
that, But I don't know. This is not for me like I you
know, on my wishless for years and years has been Tropical Freeze. I'm
still waiting to pick that up, but it never really goes deep on sale,
so still it's still not on sale or anything that games old well,
I mean, I'm sure it's gone on sale, but you know, not
for a juicy amount of course. Yeah, so I don't know. I
don't I don't think I'll see myself picking this up once again. Maybe someday
when it's deep on sale whatever happens. But uh cool, I'm glad that
this is coming over. I get I think once again, we're still gonna
get a lot of stuff now that the three DS store has been closed for
a while. Anything that was kind of lin green on those consoles, we
will still get a lot of those ports, as we had a couple in
this direct here. So I don't know. Any thoughts on this one for
you guys, Taylor. Do you guys play this game back in the day
on the week or three D fiddled with it that I think? Yeah,
I would have been fiddling too, Uh No, donk yonks sixty four.
I remember after school one of my friend's house playing it. That was that
was a good time. Yeah, I don't like that you put down on
the ether, Dylan, because I'm just with you, like, oh,
that's not gonna happen. So I didn't have a switch to switch to.
I feel like we've talked about this and then I forget about it, and
now I'm sad again knowing like I hope that would be such a hype announcement,
like see whatever they call it, just a spiritual I mean, they
just have so little interest in doing any donkey hung stuff at all that I
feel like I don't get it. When they finally want to do a new
one, it's going to be a two D game, probably, I don't
know. Maybe they're getting off with these remakes though, and then that they
could do that, but once again, that was also maybe by Rare and
Rares now with an Xbox like they wouldn't make it, so I don't know
who would make it, but I don't know. I desperately want it,
but I I'll even take that the same way Mario RPG got that treatment.
If they could find somebody to do that with sixty four, I'll even take
that, not not this. I I'm sure that is on Antendo switch online
because well there is rare games once again, that's that's the weird thing,
like the Banjo Kazooi Perfect Dark, which we'll talk about. Like there are
rare games on intendoit online, but not that one for some reason. So
it's it's weird how they pick and chew is well goes to that service and
and whatnot. But yeah, Travis, did you play that? I guess
you said you fiddled a fiddle. I play a little bit chrunckle freeze,
right, So do you have any interest in this? Love is a tough
word. I had like a trained relationship with it because it's pretty at times,
it was pretty tough. It was like a big update. So I'm
like with Clay thought, yeah, no, it's a well made game.
Absolutely, Yeah, I shouldn't throw the love word around. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's that's a strong one. But yeah, I was really
hoping this is gonna be something new when it's not, so that's kind of
a bummer. But I still like two D mar or two D Donkey Kong
enough, so I'm down for that. But yeah, I don't know,
maybe just need them to announce that movie and then they'll start pumping out these
games because maybe and like I agree with you, this looked very dated,
even for the updates and everything, especially those missions when they're like play to
three DS ones, those looked extremely rough. So I think the interesting thing
with this game to me was the release date. They threw it January sixteenth
on this, so that I think that was the only like official date for
a twenty twenty five thing. And I'm I guess what I'm thinking here is
that you know, they said that within the next year they're gonna announce their
sequel to the Switch, They're going announce their next console. My guess is
we're not gonna get another direct this year like they often do a September one.
I don't think we're gonna get that this year. I think they laid
out everything and that's why they put a release date on this and announced it
here, is because they're not gonna have that fall one. So they're just
lining up all that stuff to January and then maybe in February or after this
game in January, that's when they do the big direct drop with potentially the
next console, probably the next console would be my guess. So I think
that's why they did that release date. It's my little theory there next up
Dragon Quest three two d HD uh. So this has been announced for a
while, but I don't think we've ever actually seen it physically. Maybe there's
screenshots, but I don't think there's ever been a trailer for it. This
is coming out in November, and then they announced that they're doing the one
and two remakes next year, I believe. And I was watching this something
that's weird that doing it this order, but then the creator comes on and
talks about how like chronologically three comes first, that makes sense. I I
love this this engine. I think it makes the most beautiful games. And
I've been curious about this because I really want to get into Dragon Quest and
I have jumped into eight in the last couple of years of playing that,
and it's really fun something about this though the gameplay looked really basic U And
one of the things I heard from because people have had impressions with this,
is that they described as like, yeah, this is a remake of an
NYS game, and like it's still an NS game, but it just looks
really good. To me. That's kind of like, okay, Well,
then I feel like mechanically it's probably maybe pretty simple game. I guess for
a remake, that's what you want, But for me, I would want
something that can maybe stand up a bit more in the modern day. So
you know, maybe I'm speaking too soon on that, but it's definitely on
the radar for me, and as well as one and two. So I'm
glad that they're finally announce It's cool, it's coming out soon. This could
be a potential pick up for me, but I definitely gotta wait and see
more. I'm gonna guess nothing for you guys on that. Nothing for me,
I'll jump to the next one. I would love not to be on
this review, but to hear a review from you two covering Funko Fusion.
I think that would be Oh, that would just be a joy for me
to listen to. What did you guys think of Well, let Taylor take
that one. I mean, I think Funko is it's quite the brand,
totally smokes like it's it's it's a dominant brand, But I I don't know.
I mean, it seems kind of cool. You can kind of like
select through the boxes and pick your pick the characters or stuff like that.
And do a bunch of different things. But I'm not run to to get
this. I own what sorry, two funkos. I have a sealed Doctor
Alan Grant and then I have an old Luke Skywalker from Last Jedi. That
was the only two funkals I have. Uh, and that's what it is
where I'm ending it. Yeah, I don't think they're in this one.
I didn't see them in the trailer. I don't know either. The ones
they were listing were big franchises, but not once particular. Yeah, and
I've I have funkos. I've never bought a single funko, so yeah,
if Taylor's on their review, neither will I. So it'll be a maybe
Kirkland, if I am on it, you would be on it, though
absolutely not. I don't own any. I've bought one. I bought one
for Kirkland. I got him that Dishonored one, right. Yeah, Yeah,
this is the kind of the freaky section of the directory had this.
Then there was like Luis's Mansions reminding us that's coming out, And then there
was Denta Man, which is another just wild looking game that we don't even
need to talk about it, but it's crazy looking. I think I missed.
What's the official date on Luigi again? It's this month, that's next
couple of weeks, now next rock? All right, are you what?
Are you intrigued by it? Oh? Just like just I want more time
on that. But maybe it'll get thrown down. Or maybe I might wait
till the Spooky Month and buy it then because I have played it before.
I will all want it because I wanted to play it on a bigger screen.
I'm not a handheld guy, so just a busy time. But yeah,
maybe I'll wait until the Spooky Month to pick that up. It was
fun to play on the three DS. It's still a lesser version of the
OG and for me personally, I think it would be an easy day one
purchase if they did the original on switch and like like remastered, like oh,
that would be sick. And I don't know why they picked this one,
but that seems to be the theme, right with Donkey Kong and well
this one's are not consoles though, right, so it's a whole different There's
a bunch of people that probably never even bought the Game Boy or whatever.
It was true, but I mean even that first one, that first one,
I mean that's that's just why not? Like why not? It is
weird like they've been doing a lot of GameCube like they I guess they did
the Metroid remaster and then the other games. They've just been pourting them,
like Pickman and uh like Marco Sunshine, even though Sunshine was part of the
All Stars pack. They've been doing a lot of three DS stuff too,
as I mentioned, So it's weird that they're kind of picking and choosing.
So it. Yeah, it is strange to me that they picked this one.
I'm sure you'll get the GameCube one at some point too. Yeah didn't
you? Didn't you? What was it? I thought they released the first
one? Was it on the DS? Like? Getting that wrong? Just
do I think? So? I don't think they ever re released it on
that Uh, just little fingers go, I thought they re released it.
Yeah, I don't think so. Maybe just on the Wei like virtual consoles
place, Yeah, I think that. Yeah. Yeah, I I forget
which one of you I was on side quest with and I talked about playing
through the second one they was last year. I picked it up on three
D S and did not enjoy it very much. So I'll definitely be skipping
this one as well. Next on Metal Slug Attack reloaded. This was an
Out Today title. They described this as a tower defense. Though I watched
this trailer multiple times, I never saw a tower or anything that made it
look like a tower defense game, So I don't know what's going on there,
but it looked really cool. There's this game I played back in the
day called Crimson Warfare. It was like a browser game where you would like
spawn in like ships and tanks and stuff like that, and it's just like
you just buy the units and then they go in and auto attack each other
and try and take down the opponent's base, which is a genre like I
haven't really seen done a whole lot, and this looks very much like that.
Pixelar looks fucking fantastic. Skin animations look unreal, so looking into this
the reloaded part, this is a I guess re release of an iOS game.
This was an iOS game or Android mobile game, whatever you want to
call it, from a few years ago, and so this is kind of
the switch to console port. So yeah, I guess the good part about
that is that it's not gonna have any the weird mobile micro transaction stuff with
it. This game's like thirteen dollars, so I might pick this up.
I think it looks really cool. It looks like something different, and I
love Metal Metal Slug like art style, and I've played some of those games.
I'm very much. I'm still waiting for that Tactics one that they announced,
and I think it's supposed to come up this year. So this is
kind of a random When I saw like Metal Slug, I was expecting that
Tactics game, it was kind of a a surprise. But yeah, I
think this looks really cool. I think I'll probably pick this one up.
Yeah, that's cool that Crimson Warfare is still available online though less you want
to play. Did you play that? I feel like that would be a
tall I didn't. I didn't, but I was curious when it's one of
those old flash games, right, and yeah, you can still find it's
on new Grounds. I just was. I got curious because there's there is
a couple looking at these images. There's a few of those old flash games
like addicting games MIDI clat. Oh, yeah, it takes your back.
It was one of those. I forget which side I played it on.
But next up we got some updates on Intended Switch Online. You guys,
remember remember what that's called. We got a couple game Boy Advance games got
Linked to the Past plus four Swords and Metroid Zero Mission. They already had
Metroid Fusion on there, so I think this is all the game Boy Advanced
ones now and it's good to have that others the game on there. I
own both these still, so like, it's not really that exciting for me,
but I think it's cool. Zero Mission is a great game, so
if anyone hasn't played that, definitely do so Link to the past. You
know, they already have the ny S version on or the sne S version
whatever, I can't remember what that. I think it was an NS game
sn E S game that's already on suspension Nintendo Switch on the version as the
four player mode and all that kind of stuff. But then the surprising part
was they added a new Nintendo Switch Online app which is the seventeen plus N
sixty four version that has Perfect Dark and Turrock, so obviously Perfect Dark,
perfect timing for this hot off. The full gameplay trailer got thecase Yeah,
really really nice. I believe that is already like available through game Pass on
rare replay collection, but I could be wrong. I don't know if this
was only a run the n sixty four, but it could be worth looking
into. And then yeah, Tarak game, which I don't think I've played
this Tarrok, so this is It's just funny to me that this is like
a whole nother app And this actually is like a different icon on the switch.
I already downloaded this. It's a different icon on your switch console.
So curious what other stuff is going to go in here. And I'm also
I'm kind of surprised, like I guess Golden Eye not an m orated game.
It looks about as violent as these though, so I'm kind of sorry'll
get this is where you get Donkey Kong sixty four, they'll put in the
Oh yeah, sure. Honestly when they when I saw the seventeen plus,
I'm like, oh, is this like Conquers Bad for Dagg. Isn't that
like an emorated game? But no, and said we got this stuff so
interesting. Do you guys think you'll jump in any of these four titles that
just dropped here? No? But I I laughed that they put Metroid later
on, because I think for a second people thought that's the old Metroid.
They were going to get this, uh this, yeah Zelda m Metroid.
I guess they did these announcements prior to the big stuff. But no,
yeah, nothing, None of these games that were a nichem needing scratched,
and even Perfect Dark Look was looking good at the Xbox showcase. That's where
I'll maybe dip my toes into that, but I don't need to go back
into that that Ara. I'll definitely jump into the OG, but if it
is on a rare replay on Xbox, I'll go there because they have like
modern control schemes, whereas the Switch ones tend to not have that kind of
thing. So yeah, I'm I'm curious about this, and I've actually been
kind of like scoping out because I need to actually change my my Switch subscription.
I don't think i've changed it since I got my Switch initially. You
don't have an expansion pack one of the four and Game Boy Advance games,
is what you're saying. No, I don't. I just have like the
Classic Nests one and I think the S and yes, yeah, and probably
the Genesis is included as well. Yes or yeah, I think the Genesis
is included in there. But I mean they got some interesting new prices in
here, because I pay like five fifty nine I think a month, and
I'm seeing like, oh, you know, why didn't you do in the
year the annual. I don't even know if they had that at the time,
Like I haven't really I've just I just subscribed and just let it roll
and just haven't really questioned it. But now lately you don't really think about
it in the way you do other subscriptions. It is, but now I'm
seeing, what have they got like twenty bucks for a year? Is that
a thing? Yeah, I'd be like twenty five for individual online memberships.
That's not including the expansion pack if I mean, maybe if through like a
family plan, you could get it that cheap, but if you're not on
a family plan, it's definitely more expensive than that. Damn whatever I got
right now, I feel like I'm paying twenty five dollars a year, but
I maybe don't have some expansion better than what I'm paying. I'm paying at
least sixty I'm funding these directs apparently. Yeah, I mean, I do
get an email every year, and I'm always confused. Whenever I get it.
It's like, thank you for your purchase of Nintendo thing. I'm like,
I didn't buy anything. What is this? Someone hacked my account.
I'm scared by that. My fucking Gmail Taylor, have you ever played to
Rock as the Dinosaur? I'm gonna call you a dinosaur guru. I don't
know. Have you ever played this game? You used to love strolling TV
games and just looking at like ROK three, you just look at it.
I just look at it all you needed. I don't want to kill the
dinosaurs. I just want to look at the look at it. Yeah,
but I've never actually played it. Yeah, fair enough. Next up,
Marvel versus Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics. Yeah, it's a very long title,
but yeah, this is really cool. Is I think five games or
was it five or six kind of older Marvel Capcom games bundled into one pack.
A lot of the fighting games, then a punisher game as well.
I think this looks really great. Depending on the price, I would definitely
pick this up. I would love to go back and check these out.
I'm not a big fighting game guy, but I'm just such a big Marvel
fan that I'd like to go check out all these old games. So yeah,
hopefully this comes out prior to the twenty four hour stream. I'd love
to play some games with you guys. It would be really fun collection to
go jump into. This was the one the I don't even think it's because
the people that were hyped about it. Yes, my like Twitter timeline is
more probably Marvel algorithm centric, but this was coming from more the gamer side
because I know people I feel like all I hear about from Marvel and Capcom
fans. Now, the last two games are always such a disappointment, not
saying they're bad games, but I just feel like that community's always let down.
So, you know, a couple of generations, so for this general,
for those people, these generations, these games are the ones where they
found their love or they consider the best of So I've saw lots of excitement
and what I loved about the art style and like the graphics. It's not
as good, but if you look at side by sides, it reminds me
from like X Men the original series to X Men ninety seven where they look
a similar but it is updated a little different and a new and that Punisher
game never knew it exist untill today. I had to look it up,
as did they just make a Punisher game from scratch, but no, it
came out nineteen ninety three, same year I was born, So like,
I was very surprised. I'm like, you don't. I'm also a big
fighting game either, but our fighting Yeah, not also a big fighting game
fan either, But I think with it being in the pack makes it a
little more different. I love that the Punisher like they showed multiplayer nick fears
on those multiplayer people. So yeah, I think it's one either way.
You'll probably see the stream because we've said before we were planning to an Arcade
hour and they have X Men Children of the Ad and that's one of the
ones I would have talked about. So it's just like kind of already there.
Like the fighting game. We could do a better version of what we
did last year with Killer Instinct, and they will bring Fight Night back in
and do some different games. But no, this looked great, and this
was the one that it definitely was Metroid as well, but this was the
other one that I think even more people, I think just because it was
so unexpected. Even Metroid wasn't expected, but this was like some of it
wasn't even people's radar thinking that it could happen. So it looked very very
cool, and it's coming to x or, It's coming everywhere but Xbox,
which is odd. But yeah, Xbox hates getting superhero games. They do,
but they got play. Yeah, okay, Super Mario Pay not excited
at all? Eh No, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'll be there.
There'll be one Super Mario Party Jamboree coming out coming on October seventeenth,
is the third Mario Party game on the Switch. Plus I see in Tennis
Switch online ones. But yeah, this is a This game's looking pretty big
and bold. There's a lot of characters in here, a lot of mini
games. It's all new. Of course, you got seven maps in total.
I think it was five brand new ones to kind of one for Mario
Party one and one from where maybe. Yeah. So, uh, you
guys both had a nickname based on this. I'm guessing you're pretty hype.
Tell me about your hype lebles for Jamboree. Is tara ip the question mark
another party? I really sold myself on the concept that Superstars is gonna get
DLC at some point. Well, and I think I am my own worst
enemy. Well I'm not. I'm not upset that this is a new Mario
Party. I'm I'm gonna buy it. This will be a Day one for
sure, because Mario Party is easily probably my number one Switch game that I've
invested the most time, and it's something to me in Madison play and the
fact that they've introduced online with Superstars, even the one before that, that
that first dropped on the Switch before Superstars, that one as well, like
the online play, we've played with our friends a lot, so it's it's
it. It's definitely justified for me at this point to buy this day one
just for a lot of the memories and the fun times with it, and
especially seeing the roster of characters Whi Luigi Berdo those are our go tos in
this household, and the maps to look like a lot of fun. So
the fact that it is not DLC does upset me because I think Superstar is
really knocking out of the park. That's my that's my favorite one, and
I mean a long, long, long, long, long, long long
time. So yeah, this one seems pretty cool though with the more of
the multiplayer aspect being emphasized, because you're getting into like a huge cluster of
online people until like doing twenty people. Yeah, like, that's that's crazy.
I mean that's it looked like Bads was back as a playable character.
Right in the split screen they showed he was a bottom and I think that
I can't remember the Wei era, but I think he made his debut sometime
in the GameCube era, so that's kind of cool that he's back. So
yeah, and was it was Super Mario Party one there he where he was
playable as well, probably not the previous one. Yeah, No, he
was, wasn't he like in this the most one, not Superstars the one
before on the Okay, I'm pretty sure he was because you can get him
as like one of the assists. I remember too, right he had his
own diet. Yeah, I think so. I just can't remember because his
characters weren't actually playable, right they were, Yeah, characters, I think
he was, though, I think you could play as them in Mario Party
ten. Uh. There was a weird way that they did it because the
Train one. Yeah, because yeah, it's interesting to me that they for
the branding of this, they just had to go Super Mario Party Jamboree.
So there's almost a sequel in the Super Mario Party and which is like the
other Switch one. Of course, not Superstars included there, so I don't
know what that means for game playing stuff, but it's, I don't know,
an interesting distinction to me in Super Mario Superstars that was like the remaster
one in sense, right, Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm glad Taylor's
buying this Stay one, so be there for the stream because I won't be
buying this day one. Mario Party is my probably my favorite the Tendo franchise.
Have to really think about it. I guess there is some ones where
it's like you got Luigi's mansion and stuff, But I think just the one
that I've played the most. Maybe I'll say that may I won't say figure
it because that's a bold claim because there is also Smash. I'll say the
one that I've played the most is Mario Party in my entire life. I
think it's much like what we talked about with Smash where and I'm not comparing
Superstars to Ultimate because I think ultimately it's just like a a massive achievement in
like a top ten game all time, just for what they had. They're
ross or everything. I think they just for It's like the endgame of smash
video games. You know, it's like, yeah, I can't say enough
good things about it. So Superstars is like that to a smaller degree,
and for me it's like, hey, the next game, when you do
it, you have to do something different, you have to do something kind
of bold, and I do think they are doing that here. The problem
is I'm just not really interested in it, Like the maps with oh,
you're in a ship and you move this way and you can jump to forty
spaces. All the stuff that they showed was new features. I think that's
a great idea because you've got to do new stuff because if it's just more
you probably with different maps, that's not going to sell too many people.
But there was that. There was the ship one, then there was another
map to where I just was like, it felt too gimmicky. It felt
very similar to that train where we talked about where that was different where we
moved together. But I just liked that og clas Sometimes I think if there's
too much in it, I kind of I lose my interest. And there
was at least two maps and I haven't even done a deep dive. And
even then I think they zoomed down the oh, and there's seven maps,
so I don't think we got to see a bunch of them. So if
there's even a few more, yeah, but I mean like even the moving
of them and stuff like yeah yeah, if yeah, if it's more like
you're on a pogo stick, I know, it sounds dumb, and so
I'm like, oh, so Mario Party, I know, but there's still
a certain thing I like with Mario Party. I like basic and then everything
else maybe add around it. So yeah, there's just a few things in
here that I didn't I didn't love even the twenty player online mode. It's
like a reduced like mini games sort of thing, right, It's not pretty
much. Yeah, And that for me was like, yeah, I don't
really need that. I would love that they said, hey, we're doing
Mario Party board and there're gonna be twenty people, good luck, and I'd
be like, man, and of course that could never happen, right,
But I'm just saying it is crazy that they've never done more than four for
like Local Cold, considering how many other games on the Switch, I guess
mostly even six, but other games have had greater numbers. The board game
like Staple, you know, Monopoly for well, actually I think like sorry,
frustration, we'll not play adaptive with the times, you know. So
for me, like I said, I think they're doing the right move of
doing some of the different things. I just didn't look at this and see
why I need to get this other than Westernland is back one of my first
lands, but that was one of my favorite. It probably was my favorite
to Mariroo Party two. I think Cowboy out fits and the dual so good.
That's on the box art too. It's yeah, and maybe it's a
thing if Taylor gets at day one. Obviously we'll definitely play it on the
stream and then maybe that will change my mind. But just the few things
are showing me right now, not anything I immediately need that. I couldn't
just go play Superstars with Emily and the kids and still a good time,
you know. Yeah, Well I will also be buying this day one for
sure. Whoa, we'll have multiple copies. Hey we could do eight player,
who would have fos or something? Day one? Why are you buying
at day one? Why is it such a stamp for you? Mario Party
Superstars is also very much like Taylor, just the mainstay for me and us,
we're always playing that we have friends over'll do Mario Party maps. It's
been such a great time. I was really impressed with what they showed here.
I think the look of the maps is really cool. I love the
racetrack map. I think that's such a fun idea. Kind of fusing Mario
Kart with Mario Party is like a really fun idea. And then there was
the what the Goomba lagoon? I think it looks kind of cute. King
Bowser's Keep like that looks like a really fun map. And then of course,
yeah, bringing back Western Land, one of my favorites there. So
I really like the look of the maps. You know, the mini games,
there is motion controls in some of them, which I'm not heated about,
Like I don't love that, but it's not the end of the world.
At the same time, some of them, like there's one where you're
all riding like a Yoshi You're going through an obstacle course and like the heck's
like so much fun. I definitely want to do that. And then yeah,
I think that the Battle Royale type mode is like a really great idea
have like a Fall Guys esque sort of like Mario Party thing, And that
also means that there's like gonna be at least twenty characters in this game,
which is really awesome. I think, you know, one of my few
disappointments of Superstars is that there was like such few characters you could pick in
there. Those kind of disappointing. I think they've kind of gotten better with
that entry to entry with that version kind of was let down there. So
this one having you know, the freaks like Ninja and Koopa and Goomba and
Montanti. Yeah, you play as all those freaks, which I always like.
So yeah, I think this looks great, looks like a lot of
fun, and yeah, me mus will definitely be picking this one up,
so very much looking forward to that. But yeah, I did want to
ask you guys about that, like because I was looking into Okay, what
were the sales of Superstars, like, did it not sell well? Is
that way? They never did DLC for it? And it's like it's in
the top twenty for Switch games. The sold twelve million copies did really well?
Is the top twenty I thought was higher than that? Or is the
other Mario party that's high listen I'm seeing here has it in the top twenty.
But as far as I know, Nintendo does not report their digital sales,
so these numbers are all gonna be like way off. But with the
numbers we have here, it's still top twenty. But yeah, Like I
imagine that this game, Super Mario Party, and Superstars are all made in
the same engine. I am guessing so, and so I imagine if they're
making a map like this, like they can kind of somewhat easily kind of
bring them between entries. And I wonder if those maps were like in development
or something for Superstars. But then because they had this game, like because
what that came out twenty twenty two, was it like two years ago?
Yeah, maybe the development time they're like, okay, you want, We're
actually already working on Super Mario Party. Let's save these maps put it in
that big like send off Mario Party game, the biggest one on the Switch.
That's kind of my tenfoil hat theory on this, like it because that
just makes so much sense too, because those games were very much focused on
or Superstars was very much focused on those early Mario Party games and stuff from
Mario Party one and two. So it does seem to me, Taylor,
like that stuff was stripped out of Superstars and put here which I want to
get. I would get this regardless of those two maps, so it's not
a big deal to me, but it is still kind of weird, just
with how they've been doing their free updates recently. It was strange that that
game never gotten any post content release. I mean they never announced it,
of course, so we can't expect it, but I don't know it.
It was strange, so I agree with your conspiracy theory. Yeah, there
you go, So there we go. That's Jamboree October seventeenth, Very much
looking forward to that. Next up was the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.
Very surprising this coming out September twenty sixth, so pretty soon just ran
on the corner here. This game is very clearly made in like the same
kind of Links Awakening engine. Link looks the exact same as you in that
game, a lot of the same kind of trees and stuff. But this
is I thought this was another remake of another game in that same engine.
Even the math looked a lot like Linked to the Past, and like where
the castle was in the center and kind of the mountains off of the side
and whatnot. But no, this is a brand new game where for the
first time you get to play as Zelda as the protagonist of this game,
and she has different mechanics and whatnot. What did you guys think of this?
Any interest in picking this one up for yourselves? No, I don't
think it's like a bad like not anything n I saw, like, Oh,
this doesn't look like it's for me. It also looks like it could
be a fun game. I could enjoy it. It's just kind of won
those It's like, oh, this looks like a could be a good to
great game if I hear overall really really good things and maybe, but I
think it's gonna be similar to the game you mentioned. It's just kind of
like, well, there's other games that I'm more pressing. So is it
a game that I'll never ever play? No, maybe I might find myself
on the sticks at some point, but it's not marked on the calendar.
Now. It's like, oh, that's cool, and I think it's fun
that. I kind of a shocked that there's not been a game ever that
you could play like Zelda's the main character. I thought that would have happened
by now, like not coming smash. Obviously, it's like that's the age
of Calamity Hyro Warriors games. And then yeah like Smash Yeah, which felt
very odd, So that's cool. And I like the aesthetics, so yeah
it look good. But yeah, nothing nothing that blew me away. But
I think it's kind of like similar to some of the other titles in that
that realm. So I really like the art style and links Awakening. It's
one that I eventually would like to like explore that kind of world in that
storyline a little bit more. And I think that, I mean I haven't
even gotten Breath of the Wild. I mean that's one. I know you
said Horse Mechanics. I thought I better not get into this, so but
no, I cut at this point in terms of that's a that's an old
Yeah, you gotta be a o G to get that one. Yeah,
it's something I definitely do want to play, but you know, maybe when
I'm eighty years old, maybe seventy five, actually seventy five a game backed
up when you're I'll be backed up. Yeah, it'll be backed up art.
I I think this looks great. I I love the links Awakening,
I love the visual style of that game. I'm probably a day one on
this. I I really really like this. I am one of those people
that was hoping Tears of the Kingdom would have a playable Zelda. I really
liked that idea, and I like that with that, they kind of rethought,
Okay, what would that game look like in terms of gameplay? What
would be the other distinctions other than just like, okay, it's reskinned and
now you have like a different character. But I like that this. They
have this mechanic with this Wisdom Rod or whatever the hell they called it,
where you're grab objects from the world and then you kind of can kind of
recreate them whenever you want to. Me it like had like immersive sym vibes
to it, where it's like, oh, you can do things. You
can like break the game in a way and do things out of order,
and it actually does feel like Tears of the Kingdom in a way and like
building or making weird things. And so it starts out like the way they
did this trailer I thought was really strange. Or they're like, and you
can make a table anywhere, and it's like, okay, like that that's
what you have for the latest Zelda entry. You can make a table anywhere.
But that as it goes on, and stuff that are not even really
mentioning, but if you're just like looking at the screen, you can see
like, wow, there's a big menu of all these different items that you
can get, and like how different are they really gonna be? I don't
know, but I think it's a really cool idea. I think it's gonna
be really fun. And then for me too, like the combat side of
it, because I've heard some people talking about this, and a lot of
people are complaining that like, oh, it doesn't look like you're doing combats.
Too bad that Zelda doesn't get to bust up enemies and have this combat
system. Personally, I have never enjoyed combat in any Zelda game ever,
even in my favorite Zelda games. I don't I don't like the comment.
I think it sucks, like every one of the games not good. So
for me, I'm cool with this, like not really having traditional combat.
Instead you just summon crazy and weird and funny looking enemies and they do the
fighting for you, or you get like some op big like razor thing and
just smashed through them. That looks super fun. So I'm very much into
that. I do have some questions, and one thing for me is like,
I don't know if I really saw a dungeon in this game, like
in terms of what they showed here. So it makes me wonder where kind
of the structure is gonna be of this game, and if you're gonna be
going around to the different dungeons get collecting whatever different pieces you need and then
going to fight like again in equivalent, like, I don't know, it
seems less structured in that way, at least from this first trailer. It
looks like a bit more of a looser explorer and find stuff, which I'm
into, and I'm sure there's got more of a like Zelda like structure to
it. So whatever it is, I'm curious to find out. I'll I'll
definitely be picking this one up, I think. So it wasn't again such
a big surprise. What was that was the date? Again? That's the
series September twenty sixth. Yeah. They a packed fall coming up, you
know, very packed backed up like Taylor in his eighties. Ye yeah,
next up kind of two quick hits strays coming to switch cool Tales of the
Shire. I don't know if you guys, I forget who I've talked of
this It was Taylor on the cast. I remember I've talked Taylor about it.
I think I've talked to Kirkling about it. Travis. I don't think
we've got your take, Taylor. Are you picking this one up? I
think I messaged. I don't know if I pinged you directly in the discord,
but your initial thoughts were the same thoughts that I had, and from
the I don't know. Okay, it sounds dramatic, but the nose dive
from the sound of the pitch of the game to seeing the game has been
dramatic. And I have little to no interest in this game. I thought,
man, there could be something fun about almost like a tycoon sort of
taking care of the shy or being a life type experience. Absolutely animal crossing
but lower the rings right, something like that. But no, this just
looks like the game boy version of the Fellowship movie or something. So uh
yeah, I uh, unfortunately not. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe it's
gonna be a nice sleeper hit, but this is not looking good. We're
on a bad string of Lord of the Ring game right now, so yeah,
true calling him into this into uh what Embracer Group's going to be doing
next? There was the Dwarfs right minds of Maria game. Oh yeah,
I returned to Maria. That looks fun. I just don't want to pick
that up. Yeah, yeah, I hope is it out now? I
think it's out, but it might be an early access. Okay, it's
only on PC. I believe Taylor. Any new thoughts on it? I
don't think this doesn't really changed much from I think what we talked about previously.
Right, Honestly, it's kind of gone downhill for me after seeing it.
I think it's pretty pretty shitty. Actually, yeah, it looks really
bad. I'm so I'm disappointed for sure. I was very excited for the
pitch, as you were, Travis. So that's too bad. But we
will move on to the fine actually final game, Metrod Prime. Did I
skip over anything that you guys wanted to talk about? No? You hit
it. Did I do a good job of deciding what I didn't think you
guys would care about? No, we don't need to talk about just dance.
You know, we didn't see a UBI. We saw fairy Tale two
or whatever, like, yeah, hello kitty, Okay. Metroid Prime four
first as a subtitle called Beyond. I think they threw twenty twenty five on
this am I crazy? Yeah that is correct. Yeah, no quarter,
no nothing, but just the year. No quarter, no nothing. But
they showed off some gameplay, gave some hints that some stuff going on with
potential characters and a villain here. What do you guys think of This is
the first time we've really seen this game, and I think they did a
good showing of giving us a bunch of different kind of vibes of what's going
on here, borrowing a generic to bad kind of review score spread from people.
This is a day one for me. Okay, I was a massive
fan. I can't remember the exact title because I'm getting older, but whateveryone
was on GameCube. That game was wrenched. I'm one and maybe two was
on game Okay one of them. That game was rented many many times over
and over. Don't know why I never bought it, don't know why I
never told parents by it. But there's just some of those games, right
you'd have as a kids where they're just you would rent. I don't know,
maybe if I beat it and just would rent and want to play it
again. But a lot of hours. So I'm not the biggest metroid guy,
But there are certain spots in my heart and I feel like I've not
played a Metro game since then. Alvisoly there's not been too many as well,
but I feel that's why for me this, if it's a good game,
then that's an itch that's been waiting to be scratched for decades now pretty
much. So that's why it's like kind of the perfect time, I think
for me to jump back in it. This looked good. I don't think
it looked anything. It kind of looks like what you want a Metroid game
to be. So hopefully it's not just completely basic and maybe there is some
new audities added in there. But for the most part, it did look
kind of like, Okay, what you know in love about Metroid, We're
doing that. But it's gonna look better some new missions, maybe a little
bigger areas. So yeah, I think this will be one that'll be on
the calendar and I'm ready. I'm ready to see what Samus is up to.
So I thought it was a good showing. I don't think it was
like blew me Away. Wow. The blow me Away was like the fact
that was here and had a date like at least a year, right,
but uh, it wasn't anything that I was like, Man, this looks
like it's something completely new. It's like no, it's like chicken soup.
It's like, no, I know what I'm getting here, and I could
use some chicken soup for the soul, you know. So I'm excited.
It's been a long time coming. Yeah, you're gonna get this chicken soup
for your soul. I will you know, I'm gonna go over. I'm
gonna share the soup with Ruben. And Ruben's just gonna be guzzling it down.
He's the biggest Metroid fan I have ever met. And was like,
cool a bit. I don't want him to guzzling hot soup. He he's
just he's always over the moon for met Trot and anything met Troit. He's
he's there, and he's always telling me about the lore and everything like that
when we're hanging out, and he's just he loves it. So this is
between this and Summer Game Fest. Just your love for your love for Ruben's
love of things. I just yeah, wholesome. But now you you know,
I gotta get in the sticks. And I've never I've never the only
time I've ever actually had like the reins over Samus was in a smash game.
So I feel like this would be your alley too, like being an
alien guy. Like I just feel like there's even an alien isolation. Now
that's scary. I just feel like there's like I just feel like there's aspects
of this would be a Taylor game, you know, so most likely most
likely, and I think it. I think it's cool to see a game
like Metroit Prime where you have the original one being the two D platformer,
and then this kind of changes it up and gives you that first person access
viewpoint. That's that's really really cool and it's bold. So obviously there was
that GameCube one, and I know that one's really really popular. I never
got around to playing it, And maybe that's what I'll keep my ident Field
for. Yeah, I'll rent it. Yeah, go to a blockbuster.
I think I still have that one on game Oh that's a good one right
behind me here right they have the remaster on switch, which is do they
which is? And that's not like a HD five, that's like a really
like they did a really good job. I remember when the games when did
I Miss I thought there was like a few of them, But I feel
like that came out. Was it earlier this year or was it last year?
We're starting to trickle into some game cube games. Huh, yeah,
they did that. They did pick them in one and two. Yeah.
I remember the Mario party they had that. God, what was that card
game, Taylor that you played back in the day, the RPG card game
thing? Uh? What was it called again? RPG card game? First
party thing? But like the thing that you played back in the day.
I'm curious. It's on my It's on my backlog list, so I'm gonna
go find it. Heretosos. That's the one Biden. I said that wrong?
Was your sleepy joke? But yeah, no, they've they've been doing
quite the pipeline of game Cube games, not all of them yet, but
these online are the ones you have to buy separately. Uh No, there's
no GameCube on antendan Switch online. You have to no, by all of
them. No. I meant like, uh, you're this game. You're
saying, I can play the GameCube one on Switch right, Yes, you
have to buy it as a thing. That's I mean, it's on the
subscription. It is a separate person Okay, thank you. I don't.
I don't think they'll ever put game maybe a switch to that's their big thing.
But like that so they can get so much money off selling the GameCube
games like remade or not that I don't know if they will. February eighth,
twenty twenty three is when Primary Master came out. Yeah looks great,
It looks really great. Yeah, I I have a look at that box.
I know game where I have kids tired, not time for Metroid I
Now I have a Christmas list. A pretty short history of Metroid Prime where
I, like I said, I owned the first one. That game was
way too hard or complicated, or maybe I was just too dumb. I
could not get very far in it. It was I never got rid of
it, but it's just it was a game. I never really got into
it. Same with Luig's Mansion when I was a kid. For whatever reason,
like didn't do it for me. I didn't really play it in earnest
until I was older and very much enjoyed it. So Metroid Prime I still
I still haven't gone back to that recently. I never played the sequel or
three or other m or any of these other games. So yeah, definitely
a sub series I'm not too familiar with, but I loved Dread and I
want more Metroid stuff, so I'm probably gonna get this day one. I
thought this was a really good showing for it. I just thought, like
the amount of stuff going on on screen, where there's like space battles happening
above and explosions over the place and walls busting open. It just I was
really impressed for it being a switch game. To be honest, I really
like the visuals, even if it's not you know, four K or whatever.
I thought it looked really solid. It's got that Metroid Prime that you'd
expect, So I'm probably a day one on this. I was very happy
to finally see it. I was gonna say, closer to the game,
you should get Prime and we should do a retro for this, because I'm
definitely going to be telling Emily to get this for my birthday or Christmas,
because I did. I don't know when we talked about this. I don't
know what direct Maybe I missed, but I did not even know that it
was out because it was probably one that they announced like really close to the
released. Actually it might have been been out for a whole year and your
boy didn't even know. I actually think it might be as a shadow drop
or it came out like a month after she probably just missed that direct and
like time flew by and they have physical copies too. I don't even buy
phy, remember that was the thing? Yeah, that case spicy. I'm
pretty I'm pretty jazz right now, guys, I thought this was gone for
a while. So that's that's good stuff. So no, I'm I'm really
happy with what they're doing with Metroid right now. With you know, Dread
was like a really good return to form, putting Fusion and Zero Mission on
intend Whitch online, uh, and then dropping this game finally like it.
It seems like they're really putting some love, uh some TLC behind Metroid,
which is good to see. Sam. Now, Nintendo, just wait five
more years, let us build up our film resume and let me make this
with Sydney Sweeney and you had a fucking billion dollar them on your hands.
I kid you fucking not. I'm telling you right now that they gotta get
a Metrod movie going. Stat That's all I gotta say. I would love
it. I would love I think that was everything then, or I guess
my last question on Metroid was there's no way this game is a switch to
exclusive, right, and it's got to be on this generation as well?
I think No, I don't think so. I think it'd be like Breath
of Wild, like that's the way we're going to be a double Yeah,
yeah, I think so too. They're pretty good with that. I feel
like they don't want I feel like Nintendo for the most part these since the
Switch era, is not trying to piss people off, which is always a
good thing to be as a company, you know. So yeah, I
mean, I do think there will be a lot of backwards compatibility, but
I also do think like this possible that within that first year of the switch
too, they'll definitely be like an exclusive Mario three D game or probably not
news Elda thing. I don't know. I think they're ready for that with
Tears that can come of last year and then Echoes of Wisdom just coming out,
but other things. But yeah, I think this will definitely be a
this generation game as well. Okay, that was everything for this direct.
Thank you guys for joining me on all these summer game showcase things. It
was a fun year, A good year, I would say, not the
best of course, like a really really solid year. A lot of great
games really filled up my second half of the year calendar, which I think
I needed. It was looking a little thin, uh into all these showcases,
so it was nice to get announcements for things that are coming out this
year. That's always always fun to have. Okay, thank you everyone for
listening. We'll be back again next week with more regular side quests. Thank
you everyone for listening, and bye bye