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Hey, welcome to Case Spot After
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and nine, thousand nine. Damn, it's a year twenty seventy seven.

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We're still doing this. Nine Dragon
Age Wargins is coming out soon. I'm

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really excited. Oh I said two
thousand and nine. I thought I said

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two thousand and twenty oh episode two
thousand nine. Yeah, yeah, not

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the year two thousand and nine.
This is episode two oh nine. And

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boy, we got a lot of
shit to talk about. We got some

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looks, some cutting edge topics.
But before we get to those cutting edge

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topics, I want to introduce you
to my friends Johan Luke Siki. Hello,

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I can't wait to talk about Cloud. Oh my god. Oh yeah.

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Well, we're gonna get into that. We're gonna do a nice little

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breakdown of that new Rebirth trailer.
But who else will do that with us?

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Jacob Decker Edge co host Listen.
You know, you know, you

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know the vibes, all the all
the hard hitting topics like seven Rebirth new

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trailer. Uh just does Nintendo direct
very early in the morning, but I

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was barely awake for that. But
we will cover some of that. I've

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been playing cyberpunk twenty seven seven update, we've all been playing that new cyberpunk

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joint. You know what I'm saying
is back baby, And what is also

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on the documenttioned there's a lot there's
ghost Runner, Ghostly talking about that,

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and then Combat Day and last but
not least, that Pokemon dlc oh.

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I want to talk about Pokemon.
I've already finished it, so I've got

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I've got got at a lot of
thoughts. Can you guarantee you this will

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be the only podcast that talks about
the Pokemon deals you think, Yeah,

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probably, I'm sure only a general
video games Yeah? Yeah, man,

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my log on Twitter, everyone's like
losing their mind over little Pokemon details,

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like one of the new Pokemon appling
his shiny has like an altered move,

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which people are exciting. I want
to be on your online. That sounds

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way cooler. Well, my my
online is like for five minutes a day,

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I check and then or Twitter,
I guess I check with life yeah,

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and then I'm like, people are
still mad. But then but on

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the side, I see the trending
things which I don't even believe are actually

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real. I think it's like,
oh, this guy like lingers on Pokemon

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tweets so we're gonna tell on Pokemon's
trending, and then I click on it

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and it's like people happy about things, which is nice. Well, yeah,

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that's because usually when Pokemon's trending,
people are pissed. That's only what

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reason why I would be trending that
hard. But uh, but I guess

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we'll kick off that. I mean, I think I'm sure our friends over

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at NVC, over at I we'll
talk about the Pokemon podcast. But you're

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not watching that right now because you
watch a gay swine of the dark and

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I'd love to toss it to my
boy Jake tell us all about the teal

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mask. Hell yeah, So this
is part one of a two part DLC

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called The Hidden Treasure of Area zero, and it is like a legit part

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one and two, and that this
ends with a cliffhanger, which is interesting.

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I don't think. Yeah, I
already beat it's pretty sure. It

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took me around took me around ten
hours, probably ten to twelve hours,

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but I caught everything, so I've
I've completed the poke at X plan.

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Now by the time I rolled credits, there was like six Pokemon left.

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I needed a catch too to complete
the deck. So I imagine if you

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don't give a shit about that,
you could probably finish it in like four

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hours. But yeah, I was
actually most impressed by the story. I

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thought the characters were really good.
There was some good motivations, there was

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some good themes, there was some
twists and turns and some really interesting situations.

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I I'm kind of impressed at how
into this story I was. But

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then I was talking to you this
morning and I was like, Okay,

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well, Scarlett and Violet, I
actually had a pretty good story, very

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well for I mean, I hate
saying four Pokemon, but like not that

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the Pokemon story is necessarily bad,
but I feel like they're always so shackled

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to like the Gym challenge, where
it's like, okay, you got to

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get through. There's always there's always
a villain group that's trying to steal Pokemon

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or whatever the hell they're trying to
do, and then there's you who wants

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to become the master, and like
that is that story that's always the and

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they'll change it up. Like with
Sun and Moon, there was like the

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four main challenges you had to get
through that weren't weren't necessarily gym leaders,

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but it still kind of revolves around
that same challenge. This doesn't It just

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can kind of focus on those characters
and focus on the new area, which

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is called Katakami Katakami, I think, and it has like I think the

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poket X is two hundred Pokemon.
I think hundred of them are new ones

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and that they weren't in Scarlett and
Violet previously. And then there are actually

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some brand new Pokemon which they've shown
off, which is which is a nice

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addition. But yeah, overall,
I'm pretty positive on it. I think

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it's a very good addition. I'm
super excited to see what people do competitively

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with these new Pokemon. I think
there's a couple of interesting additions that I

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think people might be excited for initially. But I think like high level players

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and like competitive scenes are just going
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But I've heard some of the Loyal
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trio of this area, are are
kind of viable. But yeah, I

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would say like the biggest disappointment is
that technically it didn't really improve a whole

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lot. Like I wasn't really expecting
it to visually look better, but I

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was hoping it would run a little
better, and you know, frame rates

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still kind of low. Like there's
some weird visual glitches in terms of like

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if you battle a Pokemon on uneven
ground, the camera's probably going to cut

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through the ground. The lot of
that. Yeah, so weird stuff like

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that is still present, and I
was hoping some of that would get well.

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Some of it did actually get sorted, but I think like overall,

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when you're playing the game, it
feels pretty much the same. The thing

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that did get fixed was when you
bought navigating boxes as much snappier. So

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I don't know if you noticed,
but when you like pull up your boxes,

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you'd switch and it would take forever
to load in. All Pokemon would

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be all there would like box six
empty because none of these motherfuckers as low,

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which is nice especially like, like, yeah, the way Scarlet and

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Violet ran was frustrating at the time. I had issues with that, but

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like I like, I don't know, my last one hundred hours of that

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game are not exploring the world.
It is just training up Pokemon and managing

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Pokemon in my boxes or whatever.
So I was in there a lot,

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and like that is a huge change
for weirdos like me. Yeah, I

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think most people probably won't notice because
no other Pokemon game has really had laggy

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boxes. They're probably just like,
oh, yeah, this is how I

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remember when I played Scarlet and Violet
or whatever. But yeah, I think

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it's quite good. I think it
sets up a very interesting second expansion because

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they've hinted at a couple of times
that this Blueberry Academy that you go to,

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which takes place in the Unva region, which I think is what the

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fifth generation of Pokemon Black White,
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I mean in theory that would be
the next remake as well, because

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there's a little crossover there synergy.
But I think what has me most excited

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for the second delC is that everyone
keeps saying that it is like we're focused

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on battling, Like battling is what
we do. So I think this next

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deal C might introduce more of a
challenge, and you actually get a little

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taste of that in the DLC,
and that trainers learned how to use held

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items on their posts. Yeah,
like I was battling like a more Pico,

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a more Peco or whatever, and
it had a focus sash and I

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was like, what the they never
have a focus, they never have items

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or like a poly wrath who belly
drum d which, for those who don't

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know, belly drum has your HP
and maxes out your attack But a lot

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of people pair that with a berry, so you'll have your HP and then

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you'll get a quarter of your HP
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quarter HP and you are maxing your
attack stat. NPCs don't do that.

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They'll just use belly drum and they'll
be like a idiot, now I'm knocking

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out. But they actually there was
one trainer who had a berry that so

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I was like, Okay, this
is exciting because they're learning. Maybe in

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the next deal, see there'll be
some really challenging battles that the trainers are

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getting sentient the trainers are learning,
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I think, like casual fans,
I think casual fans will still probably enjoy

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the story. I think the story
is pretty good, but I think you

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know, you're only gonna get a
couple hours out of it. But I

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think the people who are really into
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there's a lot of great new Pokemon. Poly Toad is in it, and

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I love polytoach and I and since
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now get Polytoad's shiny and he looks
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like cotton candy with like blue swirls. Tasty. It's nice little detail.

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But yeah, how's quite good.
How's how's Briar? Briar's good parent though,

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par parent is uh is the real
bad? Okay, okay, alright,

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alright, Briar is good though too. Yeah, I was you know

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what I'm saying. You know this
Pokemon game Scarlet and Violet, they said

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you want professors hunt. Yeah,
all right, well we got professors horning

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this game up a little bit.
Hey listen, every game this year is

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a little horned up. Was like, we got to get him on something.

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Yeah, dude, you can't have
fucking hysterian biting everyone's necks all the

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time and blowing your back out,
like come on shore, share of the

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wealth. You know what I'm saying. Sick, That's that's that's Pokemon.

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So are you are you gonna play
it? Probably? Yeah, but not

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not right now. I'm very busy
with going on at other games. But

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yeah, like we've talked about on
this podcast before that I was late to

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the party. But Scotland Violet,
that shit broke me. Man, I

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I was, I was in my
feelings when I finished that. Just wait,

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I think, Yeah, this one
hit harder for me. The story

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hits. Yeah, it really just
because of it's kind of predictable and it

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sets up a lot and you kind
of know where it's going. But I

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think the way it is delivered in
the context, especially of the region,

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because the region plays a very important
role in the story, uh and the

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loyal three Pokemon, the new legendaries, and I think it works really well

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because they I don't want to spoil
anything because I actually think I think it's

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really good. Like I was,
I was, I was in it from

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start to finish. Oh man,
that's that's that's what I like to hear.

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It's funny because Area zero's only like
the last like two ish hours of

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Scotland Violet, and I played that
game for what like thirty forty hours or

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whatever, but that last two hour
fulk and hit and yeah, so this

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this de'll see, like me for
like four hours of story content. If

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it's like that, then that's all
I need, buddy. It's it's about

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rejection and acceptance. Is that that? Uh? Yeah? Core themes?

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Oh god damn, I love themes. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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That's that's good to hear our Pokemon
Master reporting in. Yeah, that's

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all I'll say. I won't talk
about Pokemon again until part two. Yeah,

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while we're while we're here on Nintendo, do we want to talk about

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the direct a little bit? Oh? Yeah, well, any I think

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anything stood out to see all from
the direct besides the bucking banger that is

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paper Mario thousand years, Yeah,
like this was this was like Mario and

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Friends is direct. Yeah, oh
yeah. It was just like I mean,

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Mario, this Peach, this Luigi, this Mario. The Peach game

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actually look kind of what first I
was like, I was kind of like,

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oh, okay, like you know, she's doing this, and then

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they're like and then she can turn
into a Samurai and gets the sword.

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I was like, detective and then
she detective and I was like, okay,

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I see what you're doing. Like
what's called the Princess Peaches. I

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don't know, I don't remember the
name. Detective Peach returns name it looks.

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It looks like I was half asleep
watching this. Isn't it like,

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uh, Princess Peach Showtime or something
show Time? Yeah, it is Princess

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Peaches Showtime. I still don't really
understand what it is like happening in that

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game, but it looks pretty cute
and fun into it. It's like an

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adventure game where Peach transforms into different
jobs. Just it's like a job system.

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Yeah, but but under the guise
of like a play Yeah, it's

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like really cute. Yeah, I'm
curious about that. That looks cool.

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I like, I like it when
Nintendo kind of branches off tries other things.

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You know, maybe not all of
it pays off, but yeah,

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I've had some. They had some
real bangers, like Kirby's epic Yarn Yoh's

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uh yarn other buly Worldly World,
Yeah, Wally World, the Dune that

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Mario versus Donkey Kong thing that that
was kind of expected, right, Yeah,

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that was that's uh. I mean, I played the game Advanced games

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way back in the day with those, and those are fun. They're just

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like a little bite sized puzzles.
They were like perfect for the Game Boy

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Advance. They were sure and I
think the art style looks looks pretty great.

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It's how I would envision that with
better graphics on a you know,

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because I'm not the pixel game boy. Yeah. Look, but I'm curious

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to see if they're new levels or
if it's like kind of a remake,

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or if it's just like the same
style but different different levels. But yeah,

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it could be fun. It does
feel like we're in the current era

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of Nintendo where they're like, we're
still waiting on the switch too, what

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can we remake? Yeah, paper
we got a paper Mari thousand of Your

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Doors RPGA. We still got the
got the source code for paper Marios,

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Like, we don't have paper Mario. We got thousand of your doors,

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all right, fucking thousand of your
doors in your door is really funny because

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I feel like that was the last
paper Mario that like fans universally liked,

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like all the other ones have been
like okay, but like ur Star,

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most of them, people are like
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just give us like thousand your door, and then Nintendo's fine, like

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fuck it, thus in your door. Also, here's bar RPG as well,

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basically a paper Mario game. So
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most important games in my life.
Taught me how to read. I played.

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I beat it like thirty times because
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very long time. And I think
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off putting me about this remake.
Mario doesn't have a fucking neck. That

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is it was like that feels like
sunk into his body. Dude. It's

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yeah. I mean, I think
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to me, it's just like,
ah, like it's like the magic.

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and especially for SNS where it was
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meshed with pixel art. That was
also it's well, I wasn't talking to

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you about this. I was talking
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Allen shouts out to you, my
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like how we never Yes, it's
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up in Mario RPG remake and if
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that motherfucker's got no neck. No
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it's the magic was in the Pixar. It's like the same thing.

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I would never want to see Krona
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while like HD two D style thing
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you need to just do something weird
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think I said it before, like
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of gave it that like toy box
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it's like, oh, you're doing
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style or this. They're just like, yeah, we took those models and

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made them nice looking. But it's
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Mario, where oh they didn't need
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because it's just like, oh,
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they're like it looks so it has
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like oh crispy that do you guys
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do you know that like ghost Lady? Yeah, I have a question.

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I was very young, and it
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breast in order to get her to
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Hey yo. In the trailer,
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I can't imagine Mario is still grabbing
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that actually is what happened. But
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that looks like he is squeezing her
booby to make her blow yo. Hey,

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that's what it looked like as a
kid. It looks like he's holding

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her hand now, which is probably
better, but I yeah, some some

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flashbacks. As a kid, I
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Was that real? Or was that
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I can't remember my memory motives,
original vision. My memories are a bit

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hazy from back when I was a
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what any of that stuff was.
How often that that's a thing where like

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they were able to kind of do
some a little risque because like it's it's

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so lorez, like you can't tell. Now they're like, what we got

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to change that name? I fuck
forgot. I don't know, does Mario.

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I'm just gonna say, does Mario
squeeze the boob? That's a podcast

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title right there? All right?
Oh my god, hey, I should

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put it probably pull up the chat
here, so hold up, give me

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a second. I don't want to
see if anyone knows I googled it.

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And this says, has anyone else
noticed that it was talking about game facts

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earlier? That should will ever die? Game facts is forever when there's a

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nuclear apocalypse and all the websites are
shut down, game facts will survive.

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When you get the ghost in your
party in the Boggley Woods, whenever you

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use her windpower, Mario grabs her
boobs dot dot dot dot. Two things

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here. One that's sexual harassment too. This is supposed to be a kid's

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game. It's actually ambiguous where Mario
grabs here. The most accepted theory is

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that it's supposed to be her hand, but the angle isn't good enough to

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say anything for sure. Okay,
that's the GameCube resolution that puck this up.

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You know what I'm saying, damn
wow, Well, I mean now

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you can see that and then this
comment here. She doesn't have nipples period.

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Okay, but we're trying to stop
saying he squeezes her nipples. We're

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saying, whoever had to like do
that animation for the new one, like

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also had to be like wait,
what is he doing in there, like

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reanimating? Like, hold on,
I gotta call someone. They definitely booked

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the conference room for that. Yeah, it's like, oh, we need

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to get me Amoto on the phone
here. Yeah, that's crazy. But

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thousand of Your Door is game was
a banger though, was so fun.

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It was like still that core RPG
gameplay, but also with the platinum plat

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platinum puzzle solving and platforming and just
so genuinely funny. That game is so

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fucking hilarious, like clean humor.
Besides Mario grabbing the city. Okay,

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good for him, I say,
listen, yeah, look at looking real

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Italian and shit. But yeah,
thousand Your Door that is coming out next

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year, next year year. Yeaheah, that's that's that's really cool. I'm

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hype for people to try it for
the first time because I think it ages

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well time for Mario RPG looks.
Hell yeah, it definitely feels like switch

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to is coming. And they're just
kind of again, They're just like,

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here, let's let's get these not
cheaper games, but like a lot of

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remakes that are easier to produce,
like we get those out now, while

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we ideally they're focusing on like the
titles. I'm four, they're focusing on

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their launch titles for Switch Too.
Oh man, I didn't even think of

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the idea that Prime four could be
a launch title for the Switch. You've

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been saying that, I'm not gonna
I don't believe. Yeah, I think

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I don't think it'll be launch title, but I I mean, that'd be

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a good way to get people to
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a launch title for the Switch Too
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because it feels pretty twenty seventeen right
was when Odyssey came out. It's

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been a long time we've gotten another
Zelda in that time. I think I

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think for sure they're just taking their
time on that, and when that game's

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ready, they're like, Okay,
here's the Switch Too. We're gonna launch

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with this because they're not gonna be
Zelda. Yeah obviously. So yeah,

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and like as they look, you
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really have any heavy hitters on launch, but the Switch had Zelda. And

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then we're talking about we Festival what
was it called? Oh god, yeah,

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we Sports Resort. No no,
no, no, no, no,

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what was it called? It?
Was like that festival game. There's

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a bunch of mini games. It
was actually kind of sick, and it

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was like the best use of the
game pad two or whatever it was.

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It was pretty all right. But
yeah, I mean it was no,

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yeah, well you had a fucking
bang or launch game. It was pretty

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all right. It was pretty all
right. I don't remember the name,

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don't even remember the name. Well
once which who comes around, I'll fucking

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cop that shit, man, I
well them, Yeah, this is not

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about the switch to but this is
about that direct anything else from the Direct

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stop. No, that wasnt There's
a lot of a lot of smaller games

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that were in it. So that's
cool. Yeah, Splatoon DLC, which

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is surprisingly far out, like they
reveal that the last ye the side Order

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deals. Yeah, that's not till
what do you say they're doing like a

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roguelike, Like, yeah, that's
kind of ye play your own I'm like,

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oh, it's kind of neat.
Yeah, you know, like it

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looks like there's like a lot of
existential crisis. That's what I want out

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of Splatoon play. Can you play
the story mode? No? I didn't.

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It gets like in the law,
like real deep and you're like,

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oh, man. Yeah, ship, it's a dark world out there if

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you want to splat with your friends
sick. But yeah, direct was out

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there. We have a summary on
the site if you want to get all

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the details on that. Yeah.
But before we get to to talk about

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the Sony State of play ghost Runner
too, sure, I briefly talk about

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ghost Runners. So they actually had
a trailer for at the State of Play

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with an announcement for a demo.
I assume the demo is very similar,

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if not the same things that which
is basically the opening of the game and

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you get so you get a little
bit of kind of the more like traditional

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ghost Runner stuff that was in the
first game, and then they showed a

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little bit of like the bike stuff, which is the new thing bike stuff.

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Yeah, you're on a bike.
You get a run a motorcycle a

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game. Yeah. For for those
who don't know, the original ghost Runner

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is basically like first person Ninja parkorb
Hot on Miami. Yeah, where it's

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like, you know, you're super
fast paced, super fast paced. You're

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you're kind of like running through these
different like platforms and then you'll kind of

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get to these like pockets of arenas
with enemies and you have to like defeat

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them all on one go, and
you know you'll like die in one hit

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very fast. You're just constantly you're
loading and trying stuff. Uh, super

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fun. I really like that first
game, kind of a little surprise,

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small title. I'm shocked how quickly
they're turning around a sequel, to be

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honest, when the first one came
out in twenty okay, oh you're right,

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saw that right before the pandem Like
if you never mind, oh,

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if you don't count the pandemic,
it wasn't that long. Yeah I don't.

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I don't have Yeah, I don't
count the pandemic. So yeah,

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somewhere I'm still twenty nine. I
wish. Uh. Yeah, what I

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played was cool. It definitely seems
like it is just building off the first

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and giving you more. So it
might be a little much if you've never

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played the original. Like they were
throwing a lot of abilities at you,

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and I was like, oh shit, okay, like I'm kind of having

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to balance all this stuff out.
But yeah, like I dug the new

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uh the new traversal stuff. They
kind of added some of the powers.

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The bike stuff was like the one
new thing. It's basically just like you.

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So the first sequence is pretty straightforward, where you're you're just kind of

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like on this linear track with a
bike and you have to kind of avoid

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these obstacles and you will like need
to either like time avoiding the obstacles or

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you'll have to hit like a power
junction with like your sword to open up

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like the door so that you don't
die. It's i will say, it's

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not doesn't feel as satisfying as the
core combat stuff. Like I don't find

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there's something about dying and needing restarting
a bike that feels less especially if it's

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pretty linear. Right, Yeah,
it's pretty linear like that Stop and start

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is like a little more frustrating,
Like to be fair, it has good

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checkpointing where it never took me back
far, but it's just more like that's

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sort of some momentum. Yeah,
yeah, is kind of lost, but

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I'm curious to see like how it
expands because everything they should was so early

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in and also like as a part
of the end demo, the original game

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like took place inside like basically this
one giant like mega building. Yeah,

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yeah, that was the whole concept. In the future. At the end,

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you bust out and then you're in
the outside World. So I'm like,

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oh, okay, cool, Like
that's kind of more of the stuff

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I'm curious about. It's like a
new environments. What's it like outside and

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like the post apocalyptic wasteland. So
yeah, you know, I don't think

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it's necessarily seems like it's gonna be
uh breaking new grounds, but it is

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definitely like I think if you like
that first one, yeah, he's another

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one of those with it. So
yeah, I definitely go check out that

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demo. I think it's just now
right the demo, Yeah, it's available

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now. Yeah, Ghost where two. Pretty cool ass concept. Yeah,

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good execution too, So definitely peep
that. I'll say. The one thing

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I don't love they kind of doubled
down. I didn't. I was like,

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I wasn't a huge fan of the
story of the dialogue in the first

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game. I thought was just kind
of okay. I was like, yeah,

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it's fine, and I wasn't the
focus of that thing. Yeah,

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at least and for me, I
was just like, I'm not like super

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invested in this, and at least
the first mission they did have a lot

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of dialogue, and I was just
kind of like, I don't really care

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about that, Like skips just skip. I mean, it's there for those

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who like it cool, but I
feel like it's easy to ignore, I

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guess, but it's really hard to
balance like a fast paced quick restart game

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like ghost Runner with a story like
a a you know, stop and talk

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to people kind of like meon White
had that issue too, sure. I

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mean to be fair, like they
do a good job where it doesn't repeat

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dialogue if you die. And then
also most of the dialogue happens in like

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the traversal between the arenas, so
it's not like you're constantly getting dialogue while

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you're trying to the combat, so
like they know how to handle it.

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It's more just like yeah, good
Conda, take it. Leave all this

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stuff cool. Yeah, there's another
game where you are a cybernetic person with

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a sword swinging that shit around with
bikes as Oh my god, let me

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tell you about Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven
two point h update, which we can

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now talk about. There's just play
a content on the site. Jake,

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you did a nine Biggest Changes breakdown
video which is a short and suite if

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you want to know what's up with
two point zero for sy Punk. And

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then we also did a discussion video
to talk about our feelings about two point

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zero and how it changes the game
from our perspective, and I also posted

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an in depth article talking about my
experience so far, played about twenty hours,

405
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started from the beginning. Again,
if you have a current save,

406
00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:27.359
you'll be able to respect because the
skill tree has been completely revamped. They

407
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.319
fucking took that old skill tree out
back, fucking shot it in the back

408
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.079
of its head and buried that shit
because there is a new perk system and

409
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.119
it is fulk insane. It is
shocking how much better it is. It

410
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.559
is. I was really thinking about
like the way I played that game originally,

411
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.480
and how like I remember its skill
tree being it's kind of all over

412
00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.519
the place. It wasn't very clear, and like, you know, it's

413
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.359
just like, oh, I don't
know, I guess I'll just pick some

414
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.960
skills or whatever. And I remember
like not really I remember hitting a point

415
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.960
where I was just like, oh, I don't twenty percent more health or

416
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:00.000
something like. It was just a
lot of skills that either didn't matter,

417
00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:06.039
like didn't There wasn't a clear sense
of like like building into it, yeah,

418
00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:08.359
build, yeah, making a build
right, like you got shoot,

419
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:12.039
So it's just like I guess I'll
pick this stuff that makes me shoot better.

420
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.000
Cool like, and that was kind
of it. So I never felt

421
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.440
like I really had to handle on
like, oh, I'm building a very

422
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.960
specific version of the Yes, this
version, this version of the skill tree

423
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.240
makes it so much clear, like
it's split where it's just like all right,

424
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:30.880
yup, you have your different attributes
and then in those has like three

425
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.599
specific trees that are like very clear, like hey, you like shotguns,

426
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:41.400
go down this shotgun. Yeah,
you like you're like hammers, or you

427
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:42.799
want to do like adrenaline shit and
have a bunch of health, Like there

428
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:48.759
are specialized perk trees for those play
styles, and it's very obvious, like

429
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.640
you need like to to go up
the tree. It's like, okay,

430
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.559
once you have like ten you can
put into like you know this many of

431
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.319
the skills. Yeah, it's like
a tiered system for ten cool for this,

432
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.519
and then like to get like the
final perk, you need like twenty

433
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.880
twenty cool. Yea ten cool,
you have to have twenty cool, I

434
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.519
mean twenty cool man. And loading
it up made me realize like how much

435
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.119
I didn't do that in the original
game, because like all, I very

436
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:19.079
clearly put like kind of an even
split of attribute, so I kind of

437
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.880
had like a bit of everything playing. Because of that, I couldn't actually

438
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.720
want with this new tree. I
was like, oh, I can't unlock

439
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.200
any of the higher tier stuff,
so I like reset it, and it's

440
00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:30.039
like, Okay, no, you
really want to just like pick like two

441
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:34.960
or three and max them, which
is way more satisfying because you get to

442
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.920
create a lot more builds. I
think that's one of my favorite things,

443
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:41.599
is like I think all of us
are using swords, but all of us

444
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:47.039
have managed to build all of us
have managed to build different builds around swords,

445
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:51.519
right, Like I'm pretty like tech. I'm I'm like, obviously,

446
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.960
uh, investing in god, what
is it reflexes so I can get better

447
00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.559
swords used. But I'm also doing
cool because I want to be able to

448
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.519
throw down at people because that's super
satisfying. But also I'm I'm doing a

449
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:06.759
lot of intelligence and net running and
stuff, and like the way you can

450
00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:11.480
combine all of these different skill trees
in different ways. I think it's super

451
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.440
satisfying and I'm super excited to do
like a more tech focused one because usually

452
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.000
I'm not super into tech trees.
I'm like, yeah, whatever, but

453
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:23.240
like that's kind of like if you
want to build like a just like edge

454
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:29.279
Runner sort of all cybered up character, like you can invest hard into that,

455
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:33.960
but then also invest in like stealth
too if you want to use some

456
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.880
of like the optical camouflage, a
cyber ware and stuff like that. So

457
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.240
so I think it's really cool,
like how how much malleability there is to

458
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.599
it, And I think, yeah, like I'm I'm I'm enjoying the hell

459
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.440
out of it, and I to
be honest, like, yeah, you

460
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.680
can load into other your other characters, but I kind of think you should

461
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.039
start, yeah, if you have
the time. I know, you know,

462
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.359
I chose not to. I just
took my old character. Yeah,

463
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.480
although I do eventually wanted someday do
it like a full Yeah. I mean

464
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.519
I think, like, nothing wrong
with that obviously, but I think it

465
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.920
was like kind of fun, just
like watching the skill trees develop as I

466
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.640
was peeing, like leveling up one
at a time, and like we were

467
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.799
talking about I mean, I think
you mentioned it in the impressions too,

468
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.720
where it's like a sign of a
good RPGs when you don't know what skill

469
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.680
to upgrade, and I feel like
you're not really getting that if you start

470
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.839
with your like level fifty character and
you're just like baby, like don't get

471
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:32.319
all the trees. I don't get
shit. That's kind of what I did,

472
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.440
damn. But also but I mean
you still have a great time.

473
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:38.720
So yeah, it's like my whole
thing because I remember trying swords in the

474
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.880
original game and it was there all
right, like, but it was like,

475
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:48.559
this doesn't feel uh, I'm using
it just because I want to,

476
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:51.839
not because it feels viable compared to
what else I have. Like it was

477
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.240
always like, uh, like I
would just be a lot better if I

478
00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:57.839
pulled out my shotgun or something like
this, because I spect specifically into the

479
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:02.440
sword, so I spec so word
uh speed and then like just like health

480
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:06.880
so I'm just like Tanky. And
also had like a couple of things that

481
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.000
made it so like specifically when you're
like close by people, you'll recharge your

482
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:14.880
stamina faster and stuff like this.
You combined it with the new dash ability,

483
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.559
which is one of the best things
they've got is awesome bear dash.

484
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.960
You can like, uh, you
get like an increased slide move that goes

485
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.559
real far nice slide and so slide
down hills too. Fucking apex out here.

486
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.640
Man. Like the majority of the
time I've been playing, I was

487
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:34.440
like, man, like, fuck
these guns. I got my sword and

488
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:37.559
you're just like dash into a guy, slice, slice, dash the next

489
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:44.119
guy. Reflect is so satisfying,
especially like I'll like run in, cut

490
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.319
up a guy, then hit the
block and if you will just go like

491
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.039
bing and then the guy just like
immediately like dies and I'm like, oh,

492
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.799
I feel like such a bad you
got a headshot without even shooting a

493
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.720
gun. And I'm like, oh, this is so good. It's so

494
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.680
good man. This is this is
like I said my article that it is

495
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:06.240
cyberpunk is now a fantastic RPG.
This is what this is what a like

496
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:10.200
first person action RPG should be.
This is a brilliant system because of that

497
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:15.119
synergy that you get no matter what, two or three attributes who want to

498
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.640
spec in and they're they're all viable. It seems even when I like mess

499
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:21.880
around, it's like, oh,
well, I'm because you can also take

500
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:27.039
out take out perks too. You
can refund those points without you only get

501
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.440
one respect for the attributes, but
for perks you can you can swap them

502
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:35.680
in and out freely. Ish.
There are some restrictions with like because it

503
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:40.200
is a tiered system, but there's
just there's so many fun things to tinker

504
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.200
with. And the more I look
down at like the Final Tiers system,

505
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:46.519
like I'm not I don't have any
I don't have twenty points in any one

506
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:50.519
of the attributes yet, but I'm
looking at the at the ship that you

507
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.400
could do with someone, like the
Final Tier perks, they're cool, likes

508
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.640
sick, And I also realize that
there are edge writers references in the perk

509
00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:04.160
tree. Becca's in there on the
shotgun tree, h Lucy has the tech

510
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.679
or the intelligence, sure, and
the tech ability is what's his name,

511
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:14.639
David David Martinez. The I think
the edge Runner one, which is the

512
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:17.360
highest one for body, I think
it is. Yeah, yeah, well,

513
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.119
I mean just to speak on like
the role playing side of it too,

514
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.920
I think a lot of the changes
benefit that a lot too, just

515
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:30.119
in terms of, like you can
now wear whatever you want because armor is

516
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:34.000
no longer tied to clothing, which
like is a small change, and like,

517
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.159
yeah, sure it's a first person
game, you're not really seeing your

518
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.159
character that much, but like For
me, I feel so much more connected

519
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:43.360
to my character now that I can
like wear the shit that I want to

520
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.079
wear and make my character look cool. I'm not looking like a clown walking

521
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:51.840
around with like a dumb hat because
it gives me extra armor and like the

522
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.039
brightest vest I've ever seen in my
life, you know, like like like

523
00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.039
that feeds into it. And then
also all of the cybernetics I think so

524
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.519
really cool because like, not only
are you building out this character through these

525
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:09.079
improved guiltres, but also like there
are so many abilities that are very specific

526
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:13.519
to cyberware that, like, to
be honest, like I didn't even know

527
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:16.880
existed when I played the original,
like optical camos something I didn't know existed

528
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.039
until I think Aaron mentioned it and
I went and I was like, oh,

529
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:22.039
yeah, I can just turn invisible
because of course I can, because

530
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.360
NPCs do that. Shit, Yeah, why can't I do that? So

531
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:31.360
like that's there, and like uh
like like there's the mantis blades, which

532
00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:36.800
have been shown off a lot,
but mono wire is something that, yeah,

533
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.599
that's something that I like kind of
forgot about. And then I was

534
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.239
like, oh, you know what, I should do that and run But

535
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:46.079
also, uh, there's missile launcher
arm you can install too that'll just mess

536
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:51.599
things up. And like it's like
such a rich playground now with so many

537
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:53.920
different opportunities and abilities, and like, uh, I don't know if you

538
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:58.119
saw some of the gameplay that they've
been posting, the CD project guy has

539
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:00.719
been posting, but like how they've
combined them are pretty cool. Like there's

540
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.760
that stunt jock ability that lets you
jump straight up from vehicles and like you

541
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.599
can just leap up in the air
and use your like hammer ground pound down

542
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:13.920
on a bunch of enemies and they'll
go flying and then you switch to your

543
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.280
sword and like start dashing to all
of them and kind of it's so cool.

544
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:21.480
There's so much flexibility to it,
and like I'm excited to dig deeper

545
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:23.920
into those skill trees. Yeah,
even the cyber ware stuff feels more meaningful.

546
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:27.159
And just the way they changed around
it, I mean, like they

547
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.679
completely redid the tree and I know, like it actually dictates health and armor

548
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:35.920
as well as you can only have
a limited amount. But I found because

549
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:38.199
at least in the late game,
that shit so expensive that like I really

550
00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:43.559
had to be deliberate in what I
did, so it's like it it felt

551
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.480
meaningful in a way that like that
like you're augmenting your body like it should

552
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:51.960
it should feel meaningful in the game
because it's supposed to be meaningful in the

553
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.760
world, and I never felt that
originally. And like it's the small just

554
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:59.119
like another menu that was just like
click click click exactly, and like this

555
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.079
it's like, you know, oh, okay, like I want you have

556
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:05.199
to go to a ripper doc to
do it, which I don't think it

557
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:07.519
worked like that in the original.
Am I crazy? Or you had to

558
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:08.800
go Okay, you did have to
you okay, maybe, but I just

559
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:15.000
remember it like being more trivial in
the original. It feels more meaningful.

560
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:15.440
Like I was like, yeah,
yeah, I feel like I have to

561
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:19.840
be real deliberate in what I'm doing
and what I'm picking and oh yeah,

562
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.440
just like yeah, it's like they're
there's small tweaks that just make you feel

563
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.320
like part of that universe in a
way that you didn't before. Yeah.

564
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.519
Yeah, even like how you after
you get implants, you like get up

565
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:34.079
out of the chair and you hear
like the buzzing and stuff like that,

566
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.480
and it's like, okay that that's
kind of cool. But also to your

567
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.400
point, like, one thing I
really like about this is that there are

568
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:45.159
so many worthwhile things to purchase in
this world that it feels like it like

569
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:47.199
I feel like I make a lot
of money in that game, and I'm

570
00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:52.119
like, oh, big spendings for
hearing this stuff I want to get and

571
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.199
I can, like I get like
two things, and I'm like, oh

572
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.280
shit, I gotta work for the
rest of this. And I love that

573
00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.800
stuff in games like I hate when
you're given too much money you can just

574
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.440
buy whatever you want. But I
feel like, you know, it's like

575
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.599
I'm like, I make like one
hundred thousand, I'm like, okay,

576
00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:07.559
there's some cyber where I want,
but I also probably need a new car.

577
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:10.360
And like, man, some of
those new houses they added in like

578
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.920
one point four whatever are like pretty
cool and while they're not super useful,

579
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:19.679
like they're still kind of cool to
have you can like roll up, change

580
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.960
your clothes, like check your emails
and stuff. It's just nice little details

581
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.920
like yeah, pour some coffee,
you know, yeah, get get shit

582
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:31.440
done. In the World of Cyberunk
twenty seventy seven, Man, that that

583
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.760
that game is in a real good
spot. The two point Hill update is

584
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.920
free, and that comes out on
the twenty first. It's just just ahead

585
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:44.800
of Phantom Liberty. Talk about Fansom
Liberty next week. We're not we're not

586
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:49.639
allowed to talk about the CD CD
project. Where it read police are outside

587
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:53.920
our door, Max Stack is on
our doorstep if we mentioned anything about Idris

588
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.920
Elba. So yeah, syer Punk's
in a good spot. If you've been

589
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.960
meaning to try it out at some
point, it'll be a good time when

590
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.519
two point over releases. And if
you want to jump back in, who

591
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.960
start over again, man, because
that's what I did. And you really

592
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:13.000
feel the impact of building your character, having an identity that you take into

593
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:16.320
combat and you take everywhere else in
the game. So yeah, it's it's

594
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.480
in a good great spot. I
think. Also we mentioned the impressions real

595
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.599
quick. There there's some things this
update doesn't touch, like questing, story,

596
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.119
story stuff, so all that's still
consistent. So if you love that

597
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.519
stuff, jump back in and have
a great time. But but if you

598
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.800
had like reservations about any of that
stuff or found any of those aspects disappointing,

599
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:37.880
that's not what this update touches.
And but yeah, overall, at

600
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.800
its core, this is this is
fantastic. I hope that they build on

601
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:46.519
this in the future in some way. But that's cyberpunk twenty seventy seven.

602
00:39:46.559 --> 00:40:00.360
Baby. You'll hear more about that
soon. I guess the big game that

603
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:07.239
came out this week Mortal Kombat one. Mortal Kombat. Uh, dude,

604
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:08.519
I've been Oh my god, have
you been deep in it? Huh?

605
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:13.280
I've been deep in it. We
got code kind of late. Everyone did,

606
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.760
everyone did, and so I've been
in the Mortal Combat minds for like

607
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:22.559
two days straight, just uh doing
everything I've been. I was grinding out

608
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:28.679
all those fatalities. Go go check
them out on a so far. You

609
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.440
know what I'm saying that if you're
of age. If you're of age,

610
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:36.440
of course, yes, please please
ask an adult before you don't. Don't

611
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:43.280
lie on YouTube. Yeah no,
never, never do that. We'll find

612
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:51.880
you'll click on it and burn.
No. No, no, yeah,

613
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:54.840
man, Mortal Kombat one, it's
pretty fucking dope. If it was real

614
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:59.239
good. You're telling me about the
story stuff, Yeah, yeah, so,

615
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.960
I like I I grinded through the
story. Took me about like five

616
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:06.960
and a half hours. This is
about on par with the Mortal Combat story.

617
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:13.679
It's real dumb in like the exact
way that you want Mortal Kombat.

618
00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:15.920
Like, I think Mortal Kombat like
has always struck this really fine line where

619
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.960
it's like, you know, we're
gonna take the world seriously, and the

620
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.360
characters take it seriously and everything they're
saying it's so serious. But you're also

621
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:27.119
like do this shit so dumb?
And like but like fun, it's like

622
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.000
it's great, Like like like I
think they've they know the tone, they

623
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.480
know the balance to strike, and
this game like totally does that perfect camp

624
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:39.920
exactly. And what's interesting about this
one is it's it's Mortal Kombat one because

625
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:44.920
it's a reboot, you know,
uh Luke King restarted the universe at the

626
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.639
end of the Mortal Kombat eleven DLC, and so you'd be like, oh,

627
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.519
okay, like this is the opportunity
to kind of like reset everything.

628
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:54.880
You know. It's a lot of
like, hey, here's characters, you

629
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:59.760
know, but like as some things
are different now, you know, and

630
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.400
which is really fun. I actually
like really it was cool seeing like the

631
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.079
variations of this character is like you
know, uh, like hey, maybe

632
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.280
Molina isn't quite like as evil as
she was in you know, like previous

633
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:14.599
games or you know, like you
know, so it's kind of like,

634
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:17.760
oh, is this person gonna become
evil? Or like the is this is

635
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:21.599
the thing that happened to them in
the previous timeline gonna happen this time,

636
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:25.559
Like like it's the very smartly plays
with that and kind of like your expectations,

637
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.639
so you're kind of like waiting for
certain moments to maybe happen, and

638
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:32.719
sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. They also like have some really good

639
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:37.599
fun twist on characters like my boy
Reptile, Oh my god. Like they

640
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.639
took a character that reptiles like always
been in moral combat since like two.

641
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.760
I mean, he was like a
hidden character in one, but like he

642
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:47.079
was like a lizard guy right,
Like he didn't really have much going for

643
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:52.599
him. They gave him like a
personality and a character and he's hot now

644
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.239
and you're like, oh, you're
like, oh I Reptile, Like okay,

645
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:01.159
Like he's like one of my favorite
characters in the story. I was

646
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:04.639
like really like I was like,
yeah, like Reptile, let's go.

647
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.480
Like I was like really about it, and like, you know, like

648
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:12.199
rating's in it, but he's like
completely different now. He's actually Asian.

649
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.639
Yes, yes, I was gonna
say, they actually made Fuck yeah,

650
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.880
dude, they made they made Rating
actually Asian, and he like him and

651
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.360
Luke King of basically like swapped roles
for like Luke Kang is now like the

652
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:27.000
Protector of Earth Realm and like Ratings
like the up and comer like Champion,

653
00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:30.480
And I'm like, oh, think
it's cute, like I like seeing switches

654
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:35.320
in Dynamics. It's really fun.
Yeah, pretty good, I would say,

655
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:37.599
like, yeah, like the presentation
is great. It looks incredible,

656
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.920
like god damn, like just one
of the best nicest looking games I've ever

657
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.360
seen, like the details un real. Yeah, looks really good. And

658
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:51.119
it's just a lot more colorful,
vibe, much more vibrant. Yeah,

659
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.119
it's very vibrant. I thought eleven
was pretty vibrant compared to like, say,

660
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.880
like x X was pretty muddy,
really like the way that game looked.

661
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.920
But yeah, this is very vibrant, very colorful. All the stages

662
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.880
are just beautiful looking, and the
cut scenes are so well produced. Voice

663
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.920
acting is good. Well okay,
I hate to disappoint, but hold on

664
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:16.280
worse than uh Sonia Blade Okay,
so okay. So for context, Ntara,

665
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:22.039
I think she's like a vampire lady. Uh, and she's voiced by

666
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:28.559
uh, Megan Fox said, Megan
La Fox. That's not correct. She's

667
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:34.000
voiced by Megan Fox transform Transformers okay, and but more importantly Jennifer's body Okay.

668
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.639
Yeah, And I like Megan Fox. I don't think she's a bad

669
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:43.519
actress. She doesn't really fit here. She feels very I don't know she

670
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:46.840
her all. Her performance is very
flat. She's kind of like, hey,

671
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:51.559
I'm a vampire and you're like,
okay, sure, Like there's like

672
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:53.840
a there's there's a divide between acting
and voice acting. There is, there's

673
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.079
one hundred percent, and so it's
more just a case of like, like

674
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.840
you just you don't feel like you
fit or maybe like the direction wasn't great

675
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:06.239
or something. But no, not
as bad as Ronda Rowsy as Sonia.

676
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:12.559
Ronda Rowsley is not an actor in
any way terrible in that game. It's

677
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:16.360
so bad and also like it's extra
bad because they gave she voices Sonya Blade,

678
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:22.280
who's like a major character, not
some very like emotional pivotal moments in

679
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:28.320
Mortal Kombat eleven like that require like
some chops to pull off that she cannot

680
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.119
where in this one. Like,
uh, Natara like isn't as involved in

681
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:36.800
the story, so like she's actually
pretty limited. She doesn't really say all

682
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.199
that much. So even though like
she's she kind of stands out as a

683
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:44.639
weaker element, she's also not in
it enough to really like be an issue.

684
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:46.599
It just sort of feels weird of
like why did you cast her for

685
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:51.039
this if she's also not even gonna
say much and it's like kind of weird.

686
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:53.880
That's cool, but yeah, it's
fine, And hey, it was

687
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:59.000
a cool sexy vampire in the game, so that's great, which is neat

688
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.880
This game really like pays homage to
those like three D games, like puts

689
00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.559
a lot of those characters in there, which is like super fun. Kind

690
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:08.400
of took the good ones and the
source of like well kind of lead the

691
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:13.760
rest because I don't think those three
D games hold up very well. Apologies

692
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:19.480
to anyone who has fond memories of
the like Deadly Alliance and Armageddon, but

693
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.079
yeah, I mean, like I
think they took the right amount of like

694
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:29.119
reverence and stuff and brought those those
forward. But yeah, uh, this

695
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:32.920
game goes off the fucking rails in
the second half in a way that I

696
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.079
do not want to spoil, but
like wherever I said at the beginning,

697
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.480
hey, like this was their chance
to kind of read the series and and

698
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.159
maybe introduce new covers. They throw
all that out the window in the second

699
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.440
half. They say, no,
screw man, all that deep lore.

700
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:51.480
It still matters just as much,
and they start throwing out like terms and

701
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.199
callbacks and they don't explain it at
all, and they're like, if you

702
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:55.760
don't know what's going on, like
sucks to be you. And I was

703
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.599
just like, yeah, like I
love it. I'm like this is what

704
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:04.119
I want, mortal comment. I
just want like constant references and callbacks and

705
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:08.239
doing dumb shit. And the final
mission in particular, goes so off the

706
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:14.159
rails in a way that's just like
extremely fun, Like it's it's real good,

707
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:17.519
Like there's an achievement for doing it
twice, and there's a reason why

708
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:22.119
you want to do it twice because
it'll it'll change up a little bit depending

709
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.920
on like you do, and yeah, exactly, it's like it's just like

710
00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:32.599
it's exactly like exactly like that.
So yeah, story mode fantastic. I'm

711
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:37.920
playing online at all, Uh,
not much. There wasn't really I couldn't

712
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.000
really get a match going. I
got like one match and I got my

713
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:47.079
ass kicked dead game. Why isn't
anyone online because it ain't no yet.

714
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:52.000
I'm so tempted, yeah, to
get this game right now, But I

715
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:59.800
know if I get it right now
that, yeah, I don't recommend that.

716
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.440
Yeah, like you're very busy,
You're busy, there's too much to

717
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.800
play anyway, But I do really
want to. I do. I do

718
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.960
think it's it's a good entry point. It's like the combat feels really good.

719
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.239
It's smooth, like it's a little
snappier, there's some good like air

720
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:20.159
mobility in comparing the previous ones,
Like it's a it's not necessarily like drastically

721
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:22.840
different, Like I think, if
you didn't like Mortal Kombat before, this

722
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.480
isn't going to change your mind.
But to me, I'm like, yeah,

723
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:28.920
this is probably like my favorite iteration
of the last couple in terms of

724
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:32.360
just how it plays. I was
also checking out that invasion mode, which

725
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:39.039
is the it's there like seasonal content
style thing, where like that's where they're

726
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:43.440
gonna that's the hooks they get you
in to keep playing, especially for those

727
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:45.880
who like maybe aren't interested in the
online but want like a thing to keep

728
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:52.800
doing that's more single player focused.
It's pretty all right. Essentially. It

729
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:55.480
works like how the Towers of Time
worked in Mortal Kombat eleven, but it's

730
00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:00.559
like a board game where you like
walk around Mario Party World part Yeah,

731
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:06.159
Mortal Kombat Party get behind that hell
yeah yeah. I remember Kurt didn't really

732
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.039
He saw it a preview and he
said he didn't really like it because he

733
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.320
found the board game stuff to sort
of be like it was really slow,

734
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.320
really slow, and it kind of
gets in the way. And I do

735
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.119
agree it feels a little slow.
There was like a moment where I had

736
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:20.719
to like backtrack because I was looking
for a key, and I was like,

737
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:23.000
oh man, this is like really
really slow. Some moments like that

738
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:28.000
are kind of weird. But I
do actually kind of like the whole I

739
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:29.639
don't know, just like having a
board game where I'm like, oh,

740
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:31.440
I'm moving my little character around and
then like I hit a battle and like

741
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.480
it. It just has a little
extra flare that I do think it's kind

742
00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:39.679
of fun, and I think they
said they're gonna like do it over seasonal

743
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:45.039
stuff. It's also the best way
to grind your experience points, which you

744
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:50.360
need to do if you want to
get the remaining cameo fighters like five get

745
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.079
us, you get one every five
levels. You gotta get the level twenty

746
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.960
five. Grind out the I mean
it's not really grinding. Like I just

747
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:01.480
played through it and like, after
like a couple hours, I got them

748
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:05.559
all. Okay, so not a
big deal. I gotta play the game

749
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:07.440
if you exactly, just gotta play
it. But yeah, I like that

750
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.159
mode. It's it's pretty all right. I'm not sure if it's the thing

751
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:13.199
I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, I'm gonna come back every season,

752
00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:15.320
Like no, I'll probably just do
it this one time and get my fill.

753
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:20.519
But it's pretty cool. So well
combat, I highly recommend it.

754
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:24.159
Wow. Well, well, we
are currently working on a review. I

755
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:30.360
don't know who's on that is it. I don't want to say without I

756
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:32.280
don't want to say without any confirmation. But I mean, again, like

757
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:35.400
I said, we got the game
pretty late, so the review is going

758
00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.280
to take a little while. But
I mean, if you drop a hundred

759
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:43.119
was a hundred twenty, if you're
probably not gonna care whatever, Yeah,

760
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:46.159
yeah, you're you're probably just gonna
buy it. Anyway, But those are

761
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:52.199
our initial impressions, and there's gonna
be Mortal Kombat content continually through this weekend

762
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.199
next week, so if you interested, keep your eyes peeled for that.

763
00:50:54.559 --> 00:51:00.320
And I think moving on to the
last topic of the league, PlayStation stayd

764
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:04.679
play. Yeah, that like just
happened before we started recording. Yeah,

765
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.039
and I think because I was helping
cover it, I missed some things along

766
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:09.280
the way because I was focused on
it. I missed the second half because

767
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:14.719
I had to go capt some Mortal
Kombat fatalities. Yes, you walked back

768
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:15.960
and you're like, huh, what
happened? I was like, dog,

769
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:21.599
there's a fucking Final Fantasy seven rebirth
trailer, so hard. I had to

770
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:28.119
watch the residue before uh, Separate
Ways, Separate Way three year monitor,

771
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.960
So I didn't have any next week
because next I was like, oh shit,

772
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:37.079
I'm very excited for that. Probably
she ain't calling me for sure,

773
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.519
I did. I did watch the
Final Fantasy trailer in the bathroom before the

774
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.760
podcast. That improved the experience.
Yeah, absolutely, the bathroom experience of

775
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:50.960
the trailer watching experience. Both both
Yah to the Bathroom had a rebirth.

776
00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:55.000
That ship was sick though, Oh
my God, they showed so much.

777
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.000
They showed everything that you kind of
yeah that's what you said to me,

778
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:00.880
and I was like okay, and
I watch it was like, oh no,

779
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:04.039
it really showed everything you'd want to
see. Oh my god, it's

780
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:07.000
it's this, It's for me.
It's the little things too. Having recently

781
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:09.920
replayed it, yes, everything that
happens in June on where you have like

782
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:15.480
the marching mini games, the parades
there, you know, yeah, yeah,

783
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:20.440
yeah, it's like fully realized too. And then uh uh Gold the

784
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.440
Gold Saucer, all the mini games, if not more mini games, Like

785
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:30.159
it's crazy Gold Saucer. Bro,
I'm so fucking excited. Pocabo Racing,

786
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:35.320
the boxing. Do they show the
snowboarding one? I don't think so,

787
00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.519
because snowboarding doesn't it's not available to
like later in the game, So I

788
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:42.000
don't know if it's gonna be part
of that's a part of three. That's

789
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.639
a part three thing. Yeah,
someone dies, go snowboarding. Gotta say

790
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:52.280
something. Best friend dies, Cloud
on a segue, Cloud on an I

791
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.360
don't know what that's about? Is
I don't I think so? But that

792
00:52:54.400 --> 00:53:00.599
made me laugh out loud. It
looked like it looked like that one,

793
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:04.599
the One City and a Final Fantasy
fifteen because yes, yes exactly, And

794
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:06.960
I was like, what is going
on here? He was He's wearing like

795
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.320
this this this light blue outfit right
A look, he looks like he's yeah,

796
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:15.239
like coordinated, Like all the is
going on? Isn't like the world

797
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.519
gonna end? Is there an environmental
crisis? He's like, I'm chilling,

798
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:22.159
bro. I hope they have that
area because if they do, that means

799
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.280
we get to see what's his name, chilling on the beach. Ye,

800
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.840
I need to see like high chilling
on the beach, me too. That

801
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:35.039
is that's like there's some goofy shit
that happens in that particular chunk, and

802
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:39.719
it seems like they're keeping it in
great Yeah, because I think based on

803
00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:43.400
you know, seven remake was a
small part of the game, but it

804
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:45.639
felt like like, Okay, yeah, y'all can still have the goofy shit,

805
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:50.000
play it straight and it still makes
sense in the context of the story.

806
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:55.079
Yeah, it definitely looks like they
they took how positively received what's the

807
00:53:55.119 --> 00:54:00.039
area called in in remake? Wad
car no no No in Sector seven,

808
00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:05.880
oh, wall Market, Wall Markets, they took like how well received Wall

809
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:08.440
market was and so like, okay, cool, let's make sure we retain

810
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:10.719
that stuff in because I remember that
being like a big highlight of that.

811
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.679
Yeah, I wrote an arcle said
like, Yo, Final Fantasy seven remake

812
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:16.880
has a lot of Yakuza energy,
yes, and they're keeping that energy in

813
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:20.880
yes, because this is like this
is the perfect time in the chunk of

814
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:24.280
seven to do that with gold saucers
before it gets real seriously, before it

815
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:30.719
gets real dark. So yeah,
they showed a lot of combat stuff the

816
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:34.320
real a lot of like they had
a lot of hints about where they're going

817
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:38.719
with the story. So you get
the Seffroth and Cloud stuff. Oh god,

818
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.400
the two of them are fighting and
then like they both like have a

819
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:45.920
look at each other. It's like
the most animated bullshit. Yeah, Like

820
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:51.000
they do it like a partner team
up attack. And then the cinematic like

821
00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:53.840
cuts to like it's staring at Cloud
and Cloud's kind of like, oh yeah,

822
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:58.199
they're giving you each other like this
this this whimsical gaze. Yeah,

823
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.800
and you're like, wow, I
think there's something is going on here.

824
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:06.239
And then he burns down Clouds village, kills his family, and immediately immediately

825
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.440
after that well, I mean,
who knows, maybe that doesn't happen.

826
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:13.760
They can they can do whatever they
want with the story, and that's like

827
00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:16.159
one of the most exciting things about
Rebirth is that the directions that they could

828
00:55:16.159 --> 00:55:20.719
take it in and all the hints
that they're dropping. There's a lot of

829
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:24.119
Zack stuff in it. Yeah,
they seem to be really expanding upon that

830
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:31.840
Zach stop. Did they give a
release date, Yes, February twenty nine.

831
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:36.920
Is it a leap year next year? Yeah? Next year, they're

832
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:45.239
doing it like February thirty. Uh
funny, but yeah, that's it's February,

833
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:46.920
And I'm like, holy shit,
that's that's crazy. That's close,

834
00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:53.719
isn't isn't Person to three reload coming
in February? It doesn't stop, man,

835
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:57.639
doesn't. My god, there's there's
there is something else coming out in

836
00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:01.599
February also that that is also in
our Please don't please tell me that Infinite

837
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.320
Wealth isn't coming out in fifty Infinite
Wealthy. I think it is going to

838
00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:09.320
be a fall release, Okay,
okay, yeah hopefully. Well we're gonna

839
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:15.239
find out later because there's good probably
because there's gonna be RGG Direct Direct seventeen

840
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.760
yeah, these motherfuckers is like,
we should have our own yeah live stream.

841
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:22.079
They've been doing the RGG Summit every
year now, yeah, but now

842
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:28.079
they're having an RGG Summit and they're
having a direct meant for the Western audience.

843
00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:30.480
I mean, Michael is gonna be
logging in at nine am or nine

844
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:34.519
pm, nine pm. Hell yeah. They released like three games a year,

845
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:37.519
might yeah I know, right seriously, Yeah yeah, so yeah,

846
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:40.039
a lot more to look forward to. So if you want to know more

847
00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:44.280
about well anything else from the State
Play, there's Spider Man. Of course,

848
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.199
that's kind of the real two real
big things. That's because Rebirth.

849
00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:51.960
Rebirth was the thing that capped off. Yeah, State Play, and that's

850
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:53.840
the one that's like, oh okay, yeah this this stayd play fo sick

851
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:58.280
because otherwise see Avatar. They should
more Avatar. Yeah, yeah, I

852
00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:01.519
think its final fantasy wasn't there and
maybe like the resonable thing, I think

853
00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:04.519
it would have been a pretty Yeah, it would have been like L plus

854
00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:07.280
ratio and yeah, I wouldn't It
wouldn't been that good honestly, because they

855
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:10.280
didn't really show anything new. Hey
whoa Tales of a Rise, Dawn of

856
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:15.079
Not don of Sorrow. That's a
Castalvina game, Dawn of Beyond the Dawn,

857
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.639
Beyond the Dawn, Beyond the dongy, I'll show you Beyond the Dong.

858
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:22.840
It's a DLC for Tales of a
Rise, which came out two years

859
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:24.960
ago. I didn't play it,
so damn, that's that's that's crazy,

860
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:28.840
like the timing gap because we saw
that. I saw the beginning of the

861
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:30.320
trailer, like, oh shit,
that's Alfin and like all the characters from

862
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:35.280
Tales of a Rise. And I
was like, is this a sequel because

863
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:37.280
it's a two year of gap,
So maybe they're doing Tales of a Rise

864
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:40.800
too. I figured that's what they've
been working on because it's been a while

865
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.280
and like they do kind of take
their time between games. But I know

866
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:47.559
this one was pretty successful, so
I figured they do sequel. But I

867
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:52.920
wonder if maybe I don't know,
it didn't quite makes sense. I don't

868
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.480
know, so compact the two.
I'm curious because I played probably about three

869
00:57:57.599 --> 00:57:59.840
or forty hours of Tales of a
Rise and I really enjoyed it, but

870
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.000
I just got to a point where
I had to stop and never finished it.

871
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.400
And now when I returned to it, I'm like, what the hell

872
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:09.719
was going on? Uh, so
I've been this all the time. I

873
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:15.920
think I will probably check out this
DLC if it like kind of fills me

874
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:19.760
in on what happened, because apparently
this DALC takes place what a year after

875
00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:22.639
year after the events? Interesting?
Yeah, but I'm interested. The combat

876
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:27.000
in that game was really good.
Yeah, some good action RPG type shit.

877
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.039
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's coming
out this year November nine, I

878
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:32.960
think it was. I wrote the
article on it, so I should know.

879
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.840
Too many games stop releasing games please? Oh man, I kind of

880
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.199
wish. I love I like Tales
of a Rise, and I would I'd

881
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:44.679
be interested in returning to it,
But November of this year is not the

882
00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:45.679
time for me to be playing Tales
of a Rise. No, it is

883
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:50.000
not. But yeah, that's that
was also say to play. That was

884
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.320
pretty interesting. And like Tales,
they've done sequels to their individual games before.

885
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:58.559
I think, what had Zelia had
one and then uh that sequel is

886
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:04.000
bad? Yeah, and then they've
been spinoffs two of other games like yeah,

887
00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:07.559
anyway, Yeah, I would also
like a different Tales game with new

888
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:12.280
characters and stuff. I think that's
usually my favorite thing about those games is

889
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:15.840
just being introduced to fresh start characters. There's always a new world and like

890
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:22.079
all that's interesting to me but sick. Yeah, yeah, let me see,

891
00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:24.800
let me see if I can rack
my brain on anything else. No,

892
00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:29.840
I think that that's the stuff that's
stuck out to me or us.

893
00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:32.480
Yeah, nothing stuck out there.
But one game that I've been playing that

894
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.880
I don't think I've been able to
talk to talk about see if Stars.

895
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:40.119
Oh shit, yeah, let's do
that. Yeah, it's really good,

896
00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:43.320
and like I feel like I have
not had a chance to talk about it.

897
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:45.280
I don't know if it's been talked
about on this podcast because I missed

898
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:47.960
a couple of weeks. But like
that game is came out of nowhere kind

899
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:52.599
of. I mean people have been
people have been anticipating it for a while.

900
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:57.960
Okay, it came out in the
middle of like a bunch of shit,

901
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.000
Like I think, like Starfield code
had already been distributed, yes,

902
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.760
and like it was nuts. But
I've played like six hours or so that

903
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:08.039
game, and it is really good. The music is incredible, the pixel

904
01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:10.880
arts really good. The combat's a
lot of fun. Speaking of like you

905
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.920
know all these Mario RPGs, it's
very inspired by that in terms of active

906
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:20.239
and active. Yeah, like trigger, I heard influence trigger. Trigger is

907
01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:22.920
a big influence. One of my
favorite things in the combat though, is

908
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.760
that there's a move where you like, you like hit a ball like a

909
01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:30.480
moon ball at an enemy and you
have to deflect it with a so you're

910
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:35.880
just constantly gets faster and faster and
faster. It's like Gannendorf. Yeah,

911
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.639
and they do like cheeky things like
that with the different moves. Okay,

912
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.559
yeah, I always always liked that
one. Like that was my favorite thing

913
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:45.679
about like the paper Mario games is
like when you did a move, you

914
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:51.000
actually had like a little fun.
Yeah, Like there would be something unique

915
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:54.480
about really fun gimmicks is what the
Mario RPGs like do really well, Yeah,

916
01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:58.360
that makes it. That's what takes
it beyond just being a turn based

917
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:00.519
rpg exactly. You're a look a
little there's a little quirk for you to

918
01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:04.159
like have a little fun with.
So yeah, so he starts got a

919
01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:07.000
little bit of that. Yeah,
but I definitely think it's like it's gonna

920
01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:08.000
be my top ten for sure.
Well, I want to finish it,

921
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:14.000
yeah, but I I have a
hard time seeing it not yeah, it's

922
01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:15.639
gotta be in my top ten.
I think like when we get when we

923
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:20.039
get to that point, I don't
even want to think about that. I'm

924
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.000
like, that will be. I
think this year is gonna be the hardest

925
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:29.400
year it will be. I'm gonna
be Dredge was awesome too, and that

926
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:30.280
was like, oh, yeah,
that's gonna be in my top ten.

927
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.679
And now I'm like, there's some
stuff I'm gonna have to cut that's like

928
01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:37.360
really gonna bum me, you know
what. I don't even think so I

929
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:42.480
don't think is gonna make my top
I don't think it is either this year

930
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.719
like it's good love that, it's
it's how is I love it? But

931
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:49.559
like I'm with you or I'm like, I don't think it's gonna make the

932
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:52.119
cut. Man, Like there's too
much other stuff. Got to make room

933
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:57.000
for the man who his name whoa
whoa? I talk with the man who

934
01:01:57.159 --> 01:01:59.840
race his name. I got caught
saying that I will raise my name.

935
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:05.519
But yeah, everyone I've heard who
have hows actually finished Sea of Stars came

936
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:10.079
away from it like like that was
amazing. So it feels like there's some

937
01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:12.960
people who like reach a certain point. It's like Okay, yeah, I

938
01:02:13.039 --> 01:02:15.280
kind of get it. And then
they do the RPG thing where there is

939
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.559
a kind of not not necessarily a
twist, but it ramps up in a

940
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.920
way that like really grabs you and
doesn't let you go. So everyone I've

941
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.119
talked to who has finished the game
was like that was like that is definitely

942
01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:29.360
going to be in my top volt. Sure, So I feel like if

943
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:31.360
you're if you feel like that right
now, I imagine it's yeah, I

944
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:35.679
want to play more. It's also
like appropriately challenging. I feel like,

945
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.159
you know, like obviously when you
start, it's pretty easy, but like

946
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:44.039
one of the first bosses you fight
like really had me rack my brain on

947
01:02:44.079 --> 01:02:45.639
how to figure out how to take
it down. Like I was like,

948
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:49.880
Okay, you have to focus on
this while this character is going to focus

949
01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:52.480
on this, and like I can't
do anything too big with you because I'm

950
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:55.920
gonna need you to heal later.
And like there's a whole cooking mechanic too

951
01:02:55.960 --> 01:03:00.159
that fits into it that I think
is really well signed and and it's very

952
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:05.000
appealing, like and how it looks
makes me hungry, if I'm being honest,

953
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:07.199
but uh, but like, yeah, how a lot of these mechanics

954
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:14.079
kind of work together too to tell
a so far very intriguing story with like

955
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:19.880
incredible music, beautiful pixel art like
it is. It definitely do not sleep

956
01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:22.079
on this game. Yeah, yeah, I love how well it's animated.

957
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.559
I love how well it's animated to
animations are really good, like it's it's

958
01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:28.719
super impressive across the board. Yeah
yeah, that's uh yeah. Se Star

959
01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:30.880
is definitely it's up my alley.
I started it too, but I definitely

960
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.039
want to get deeper into. I
feel like it's one of those games.

961
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:36.079
I mean I kind of mentioned this
a lot, is that it's one of

962
01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:37.760
those games where I owe it's myself
to play because it's just like, this

963
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:42.880
feels like a game that was made
for people like me on pass. I'm

964
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.079
pretty sure it's playing on game Pass. It's like thirty hours too perfect.

965
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:49.119
It's not like I mean that's still
long, but I mean I guess for

966
01:03:49.239 --> 01:03:55.199
a for an RG compared to compared
to sixteen, it was like sixty hours.

967
01:03:55.360 --> 01:03:59.599
Yeah for me, like I think
it's three hours. I'm probably wrong.

968
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:03.880
I thought googled it because I was
the the consensus. Maybe that's a

969
01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:08.239
good like I don't get to it
in time before. Maybe that'll be a

970
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:12.360
good like Thanksgiving Break. Yeah,
it plays good on switch Steam Deck and

971
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:15.159
like that. Although if you want
to play it on Xbox Game Pass,

972
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:19.039
get you a aces rock l I
That's how I'm playing it, yea.

973
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:23.360
But yeah, that's a Sea of
Stars. We have a review on Site

974
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:27.599
nine and it's tent from Jason Finelli, so we can he backs up the

975
01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:30.119
claims that we have made about Sea
of Stars. So that's cool to hear.

976
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.760
Jake sick another game to add to
my infinite pile. I mean,

977
01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:36.960
none of us have played it,
so we weren't going to talk about it.

978
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:43.400
But like lies a pe lies that
drop said, I said that comes

979
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:45.440
out next week? Also next week? What comes out next week? But

980
01:04:45.480 --> 01:04:47.679
the embargo drop, Like, you
can talk about it, but we haven't

981
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:51.400
played it. But apparently it's fucking
awesome. I have seen it being played.

982
01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:57.320
I know the highest praise I can
give it. I'm sure he'll talk

983
01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:00.880
about it next week when he's back. Tam, it loves it. Tam

984
01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:05.679
does not like souls like born type
copies, like from software copies, like

985
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:09.440
I've never seen him like one.
He's always like even the ones that like

986
01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:11.400
people always are like, oh,
this is the one. GAM's like,

987
01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:13.599
no, no, no, yeah, I'm not playing that. Yeah,

988
01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:16.679
that's just trash. He likes this
one. So that to me, I'm

989
01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:19.239
like, oh, that's high press. That is that is the stamp of

990
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:24.159
approval that you want for a Soul's
clone, And like, I mean,

991
01:05:24.199 --> 01:05:28.079
I'm sure folks know it at this
point what Lizappe is kind of like trying

992
01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:31.880
to do. We have a review
on the review on site Richard Wakeling just

993
01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:36.440
beautifully written, just really yeah,
he's an amazing review. Is doing done

994
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:39.679
a lot of a lot of this
stuff for us for a long for a

995
01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:43.559
long time. But that his review
of lizape was just like it's just incredibly

996
01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:45.039
well written, well thought out.
So if you really want to get a

997
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.559
like a full view, full breakdown
of that, definitely check out the review.

998
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:53.519
But from talking to people who have
played LISP, like Bless is also

999
01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:57.440
someone who is kind of in that
camp where it's like I see all this,

1000
01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:00.400
I try all these souls, like
these clones whatever, like games trying

1001
01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:03.559
trying to do the from software thing, but there's always like something, it's

1002
01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:08.679
always something that makes it feel like
it doesn't maybe doesn't have the identity or

1003
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:13.920
doesn't necessarily execute on the specific things
that make a from Software Souls game special.

1004
01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:17.280
But both Bless and Tam I'm like, oh, they are all in

1005
01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:20.719
on it, and I was seeing
some of it being played, and I

1006
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:25.960
get it like that that blood born
atmosphere, and I think Andy courts has

1007
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:30.000
also has liken it closer to Securoh
in terms of mechanics with like Perry's and

1008
01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:35.880
blocking, and but it has the
kind of pacing and the atmosphere of a

1009
01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:40.280
blood born, So you're kind of
getting the best of those those worlds.

1010
01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:44.039
But I mean, it's it's also
one of one of those things where it's

1011
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:47.039
so clearly trying to be blood born
that it kind of hits a ceiling in

1012
01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:50.360
a way where it's like, Okay, you can you can imitate blood born

1013
01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:55.559
as well as you possibly can,
but you're never going to like you're never

1014
01:06:55.599 --> 01:07:00.480
going to break beyond that, which
is still a very high ceiling for so

1015
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.440
if you even come close, which
lies of p seems to do, that's

1016
01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:06.679
a really good place to be in. So if you want to play genuinely

1017
01:07:06.679 --> 01:07:11.679
interested in like the Pinocchio stuff people
are saying, it's actually like pretty good

1018
01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:15.519
Sabia. It's a good interpretation of
that whiche. That's actually really cool because

1019
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:16.679
like I first, I mean,
I remember when they first announced this,

1020
01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:21.559
like it was almost laughable, the
idea of like Timothy shallow May plays Pocchio

1021
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:27.199
in blood Board and it's called Lies
of p and you're just like it's a

1022
01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:29.800
silly name, Like what the fuck
is this? When you die, it

1023
01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:32.960
says liar die, that's like that's
the game over. Yes, the loading

1024
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:38.159
screen is literally his nose like loading
like it's no, it's face. You're

1025
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:41.920
like okay, And then but then
they keep showing I was like, this

1026
01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:46.280
looks kind of seems like they actually
pulled it off, so like that's incredible.

1027
01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:51.719
Yeah. I think they should just
do like these expired Disney licenses as

1028
01:07:51.800 --> 01:08:00.280
like two will be like lies of
Winnie the Pooh who lies pooh oh?

1029
01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:05.119
Yeah yeah, like trying to think
of other expired Disney license Yeah, I

1030
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:08.719
was thinking of the same thing too. They need to copy like different from

1031
01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:10.840
software, like I don't know,
they need to make like an armored Core

1032
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.079
clone. That's like about I don't
know, we need yeah yeah, hell

1033
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:16.520
yeah? Is there any is there? Any? Is there any mex stuff

1034
01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:20.800
that is in public domain. Pete
the Pete, Pete the Dragon. What's

1035
01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:27.319
the I don't know, Tomo,
Lies of G make a Gundam Armored Core

1036
01:08:27.399 --> 01:08:30.640
Gundham game after Lies of G.
That'd be spoke and sick. You can't

1037
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:34.079
tell me that sick. That's another
game. I haven't touched Armored Core,

1038
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:39.239
which bought it and I played like
two hours and said I'll return. I

1039
01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:44.119
have not returned. So listen,
when when will my husband returned from the

1040
01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:47.840
console wars? Who knows? But
yeah, that's that's video games, man,

1041
01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:51.920
That's that's crazy. Yeah, I
saw a game. I'm like,

1042
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:57.399
I want to play Timothy Shallow me
in a in a Soul's Like, that's

1043
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:00.640
crazy, that like, because here's
the thing. Every Souls game, I'm

1044
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.560
playing some raggedy ass motherfucker just got
out of the swamp. Yes, every

1045
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:11.000
Souls game, I am just like
face and like the most fucked up clothes

1046
01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:15.520
and I'm just like, yeah,
poor ass, you know you're you're you're

1047
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:17.760
Securo and Securo. But even then, he's he's he's grizzle. He's an

1048
01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:21.600
older grizzle. He's like he's been
through a lot of ships. A little

1049
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:28.680
gray gray you know he's been he's
been through a lot, Jonathan. Yeah,

1050
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:30.680
he's he's he's been in those streets. But here it's just like,

1051
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:34.239
Hey, I'm a pretty boy,
and I'm I'm the most advanced pup puppet

1052
01:09:34.239 --> 01:09:38.039
in the world, and I wear
cool clothes. He was wearing a sailor

1053
01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:41.239
outfit with like these really slim cut
pants. I'm like, yeah, that's

1054
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:44.439
my boy. That was like me
when I was seventeen dog Like, fuck,

1055
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:45.439
yeah, I want to play a
seventeen year old version of myself in

1056
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:47.920
a souls game. So I think
that is the thing that's gonna push me

1057
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:54.840
over the edge to hell. Yeah. So it comes at the nineteen,

1058
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:59.840
doesn't it? Next week? That
and Morald Kombat one, along with every

1059
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.199
the game that you have not played
yet. Summer Bunk stuff is also next

1060
01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:09.359
week. Oh yeah, my god. So yeah, that is those video

1061
01:10:09.359 --> 01:10:14.479
games for us here on game Splat
after Dark episode two hundred nine. If

1062
01:10:14.520 --> 01:10:16.479
you want a full breakdown of the
state of play, which we talked about

1063
01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:19.359
here, head on over the website
on a full breakdown of what happened during

1064
01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:24.159
the Nintendo direct Also head over to
our website. There's some great reviews already

1065
01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:28.159
up that we had mentioned, such
as you have Stars, Eliza Pee and

1066
01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:32.239
everything else in between. So yeah, and see stars also, pant I'll

1067
01:10:32.359 --> 01:10:38.199
shout myself out FPS podcast friends per
second. I always always on it to

1068
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:42.760
talk about Starfield, but they are
Ralph and the gang did a good interview

1069
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.520
with the creative director four Seas Stars, So if you want to know more

1070
01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:51.119
about that game's inspirations theory, yes, so yeah, that was a really

1071
01:10:51.279 --> 01:10:57.079
genuinely interesting conversation. But not before
you go to our YouTube page game spot,

1072
01:10:57.119 --> 01:10:59.439
YouTube dot com, slash Games.
I watch all our videos out there,

1073
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:00.800
a lot of good videos. As
you mentioned. Me and Jake did

1074
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.399
some some collabbing on cyberpunk coverage.
Very good. Yeah, and we will

1075
01:11:04.439 --> 01:11:06.479
do more of that in the future. Jean Luca, do you want to

1076
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:11.239
plug anything else again? All the
Mortal Combat stuff that's going up and we'll

1077
01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:15.279
go up. Yes, has been
captured and edited by yours truly or actually

1078
01:11:15.319 --> 01:11:18.359
with the help of Richard. Shout
out to Richard, who've been helping me

1079
01:11:18.640 --> 01:11:24.279
get all that ship up. And
uh yeah, I mean yeah, I'm

1080
01:11:24.319 --> 01:11:29.840
mostly working on that. I think, uh, just just like some housekeeping

1081
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:35.720
for next week, depending on what
happens next week, we might record the

1082
01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:44.159
podcast early and not be live because
it might be gone during the normal recording.

1083
01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:47.000
I can't say anything because it's all
in flux, but just yes,

1084
01:11:47.239 --> 01:11:51.439
what the fuck for this? This
will not matter for audio listeners at all.

1085
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:55.119
For those are you watching live,
we might not be live next week

1086
01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:58.119
because we might be to record early. That's all. That's all I'm trying

1087
01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:00.520
to say. It doesn't matter for
about You're getting your wisdom teeth pulled out.

1088
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:04.600
Huh yeah, exactly. Damn that's
crazy. Already had them Okay,

1089
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:10.800
forever, I've never pulled out my
wisdom teeth. Well, you wouldn't do

1090
01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:13.439
it. Someone else would do it
for you. That's that's also true.

1091
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:16.439
So probably hurt pretty bad if Yeah, it's a fucking yaking my own ship,

1092
01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:19.279
you know what I'm saying. But
we also need to pull out of

1093
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:24.680
this room to continue with our jobs. But I do want to shout out

1094
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:28.680
Hedge Hugo in the chat, who's
been falling along dropping some dimes in the

1095
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:31.479
chat confirming release dates for us as
we've been talking, So shout out to

1096
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:35.520
you. Batman's also in the chat, Thanks for thanks for chilling with us.

1097
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:41.840
And everyone listening in your ear holes
from your favorite podcasts apps such as

1098
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.199
Spotify and Apple Podcast. Hit us
with that five star stunt rating. If

1099
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:47.960
you have not already, you know
what it is. We locked in Amen

1100
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:51.640
gays right after dark. We'll be
back with episode two hundred and ten next

1101
01:12:51.640 --> 01:13:09.119
week and until then, you know
the fucking vibes peace ye sick? Hell?

1102
01:13:09.239 --> 01:13:13.840
Yeah, it's great. Yeah,
lovely video game talk. Yeah.

1103
01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:16.000
Yeah. We might be flying a
PLN on next Thursday. Say what we

1104
01:13:16.039 --> 01:13:19.479
might be flying a pawn next Thursday? Or London, London. Oh that's

1105
01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:24.359
right. I didn't realize. I
thought it was like said Portland next school.

1106
01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:26.800
I thought it was the week after. No, it's next week.

1107
01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:30.720
That's why I keep being like,
because I gotta get my passport dealt with.

1108
01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:36.319
Uh good luck bro. No,
So there's yeah, I'm sure that'll

1109
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:40.239
work. Fine. No, there's
a special thing where basically like you can

1110
01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:45.319
go to the like passport office and
SF and like get it expedited, but

1111
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:49.199
they make you go like within like
ten days before you're flight, like you

1112
01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:53.520
have to posish yeah early. Yeah, And so I'm going to do that,

1113
01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:56.279
but I need to get I need
to give them a proof of Like

1114
01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:59.520
I'm flying, so I'm like,
hey, can we buy tickets? Oh,

1115
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:03.600
like not have to? So you
might actually need to get a cancelable

1116
01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:06.680
flight then and do that because well, actually I don't know. I guess

1117
01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:11.600
they can still take your because if
if they're booking the flights, they're gonna

1118
01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:15.319
need your passport number. Oh,
I guess you can still give them.

1119
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.000
I guess you can still give them
your passport number. But I don't know

1120
01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:24.880
if it'll block them from I don't
think it would interesting, which is cool.

1121
01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:38.760
Good luck with that. Tastes just
messaging me release dates with games sick

1122
01:14:39.439 --> 01:15:13.520
okay, great thing they bound dead. Move on, dimpt dim