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Welcome everyone to another episode of the
jays B Games Cast. I am your

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host Rob aka Zen joining me today
we have the usual suspects. Ryan,

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you have relearned how this show works. How are you? Yeah? Doing

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all right? Just yeah? I
had to remember how hitting record and everything

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works, So yeah, but doing. I guess you could say I'm doing

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okay. Can't complain okay, yeah, yeah, I will take that if

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in a state of like, I
can't really complain we're doing okay. You

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know, Drew, you are here
as well. I hear you are are

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alive from the fields of high Roll, where your soul has been trapped for

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the past like months, longer than
a month. I start this game,

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okay, yeah, No, I
think I started like right after the last

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episode, and I actually played a
few games since the last episode, but

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I don't remember what they were.
So that's how lost you are in the

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high Roll fields. How is I
mean the game? I'll get into it,

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but how is it? It's hot? I see, I see,

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I understand, But I am on
death Mountains, so I mean that's to

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be expected. True, I very
true. I've heard the reviews. This

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time of year is bad for death
Mountain. Yeah, Yeah, it's not

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a great time of the U to
visit that place. Nah, not in

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season as they once. I No, I was like that one area and

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Alden Ring, I forget the name
of it, but yeah, cayleb Yes,

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that one Florida, Yes, that
one Ohio, Ohio. Well that

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as well. I mean, as
someone that is originally from Ohio, yes,

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I can that as well and confirm. That's the reason why I never

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went back. Understandable. But yeah, it has been a minute. You

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know, we all had we took
that break around like Thanksgiving issues the holiday

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times, right, so like schedules
were all over the place and we just

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need to take a little bit of
breather. But we found some time this

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week to just kind of like reconvene
before the next round of holidays hits.

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Right, I'm on vacation, Christmas
is coming up, New Year's all that

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jazz. We're working on the Game
of the Year episode, which that's going

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to be fire, trust me.
But yeah, my segment soon. Everybody

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has until December twenty ninth to get
their segments in and then I will stitch

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it all together and we'll have a
pretty good show. But I did want

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to, you know, at least
have one more episode before the year is

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over, to check in, see
where everybody is at, seeing how everybody

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is feeling, what games that people
have been playing, see if maybe we

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have a light discussion on like what
are your possible front runners for Game of

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the years. We'll see where the
conversation takes us, right, But I

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am happy to be back and talking
with you guys about video games because there's

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been a lot of that going around. So let's like just kind of jump

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right into it. I want to
start with Ryan, what have you been

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up to in the past like five
years since we have recorded gaming wise,

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it's been a lot of nik A. It's been a lot, Yeah,

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a lot of nik I never thought
that that would be a game that would

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consume as much time as it has
for me, but it has. And

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like they recently just celebrated their one
year anniversary, which that anniversary celebration was

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really good. On top of the
fact that they had a lot of cool

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like things, they gave away a
lot of you know, gifts for the

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one year and everything. The one
year anniversary like story thing with red Hood,

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who was the banner character, was
really neat to to kind of see

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like the back like story of the
first like Niek Squad in a sense basically,

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and it's kind of funny like seeing
the uh basically that whole Nique story

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revolved around red Hood Uh snow White
who was small white in this one,

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Dorothy Rapunzel, and Scarlet and like
seeing how like Scarlet was like so different

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back then than compared to like what
you see her as of now, which,

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by the way, I still want
that outfit of Scarlet's where she's basically

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medle gear rising Scarlet. Yes,
I cannot wait, because that is a

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dope outfit for her. But like
it was kind of interesting to see,

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like, you know, like how
things were back then and like how they

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ended up being where they are now
basically is a but it was a very

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good uh. It was very good, like first Anniversary pack, and now

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they're doing the uh Christmas pack now
with the Christmas version of Lamilla and Mika,

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which very first rule. I get
the the you know, hot spring

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Lamilla, and I'm like, yes, I'm good now, and apparently like

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she's also a really really strong unit
too right as well, So it's just

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like, yeah, I'm gonna go
ahead be dumping all my resources into her

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basically, and it was weird because, like I'm not, I wasn't like

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a really big fan of her original
look and anything, but like the hot

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Spring look, I was like,
dang, this is a really really dope

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outfit, which kind of goes to
what we've kind of talked about in the

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past, where like these alternate outfits
for a lot of these characters are a

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lot better than their original ones had
some really cool casual fits. Yeah right,

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Like as far as like the casual
alternate outfits go, they they're kind

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of batting for me personally, I
feel like they're at like a ninety percent

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on hit rate. Yeah, where
like most of these characters look really fucking

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cool and I'm like, damn,
dall'll know what y'all doing, mm hmm

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at which, speaking of which,
I'm so glad the Wars was just a

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season pass instead of a Oh y'all
got y'all got lucky with that, y'all

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got extremely Like I don't, I
don't like Nora's outfit, Like I feel

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like it's it's it's there's so much
potential there. It's it's almost a good

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fit in my eyes. But I
understand the market they are catering to I

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mean, but but I'm like,
there had to be some modifications in order

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for her to fit in that outfit
in areas, No, they did that

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right, but they again, they
know their audience, they know what they're

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selling to. They know me,
I am in the minority here. But

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like, y'all definitely like dodge the
bullet because they could have easily put that

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in the costume, gotcha and would
obeyed a bundche million dollars mm hm,

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so y'all getting it only for like
what twenty bucks? I think something like

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that, which is also the same
for Bloc's outfit too, which is I

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was like, well, if they're
gonna have a Noir outfit, they have

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to have a Blanc outfit. They
come as a shair. They did,

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that's the Bloc outfit. And it's
funny too because like cats who uh you

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know, because got me on a
Nik. We've been talking about Nick ever

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since I played it, like when
it launched on PC and stuff like everything.

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It's basically like Mika Blanc and Noir
are this winner's version of The Counters,

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which was Rappi, Anis and Neon. So so like they showed like

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this is what the outfits would have
looked like if it was a nice Rappi

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and Neon that was with them,
but instead they're going with Blanc in their

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and Mika for those ones. I
was like, okay that man, I

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was like, and that kind of
checks out, you know, that kind

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of makes sense since that's kind of
the way that was decided, but backed

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up a little bit as far as
like the anniversary event goes. I thought

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what was really cool about that event
was that they did do the Vampire Survivors

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mode yes, which was very cool
night. So for anybody that's played Vampire

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Survivors, it is one of those
type of games. They built that entire

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game inside of nik like in spared
no expense at it. It is a

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fully fledged game inside of this mobile
game. Well it's really and they're also

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going to be bringing it back from
what I understand too, is it going

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to be a permanent thing or yep. One of one of the developer notes

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was that everyone had such a positive
response to that that they what you call

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it, were like, Okay,
we're gonna make this like a full mini

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game that's gonna just be with the
game, so they should. Yeah,

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so they're taking input of like what
things can they improve to, you know,

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like make it like better. Yeah, but like yes, that was

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probably like of all the different mini
game that they've done, that was probably

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like my favorite mini game that they
did by far. Its right work on

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that was really good because they even
did it down to like the sixteen bit

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sprites and everything, and it was
like, this is really fucking cool.

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Mm hmm, Yeah I was.
I was, really, I was really

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Yeah, that that was like I
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like you said, that was definitely
the best mini game that they've had in

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a collab or like any of their
like their special story packs that they've done

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and everything. So yeah, definitely
second that. But yeah, I've been

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just dumping a lot of time in
a nik basically and everything. I have

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been trying to finish another game,
okay, which is probably gonna be maybe

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potentially my game of the year.
It's either going to be that one or

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Lost Judgment. Since I didn't talk
about Lost Judgment last year. I might

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make Lost Judgment my game of the
Year this year and cheat a little bit.

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But the other game I've been putting
time in is Signalis and yeah,

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and one I had to restart it
because it got removed off a game pass

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and I'm like, damn it.
So I looked and see what it was

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on like the Xbox like Marketplace whatever, and so it was like like ten

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bucks cheaper on Steam, and I'm
like, all right, well, I

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guess I'm getting on Steam and going
to have to start this over, which

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wasn't necessarily a bad thing because I
had to like refamiliarize myself with things and

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stuff like that and everything. Yeah. Man, that game has been incredibly

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fun to like play because of the
fact that it is such a throwback to

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like the old school Resident Evil and
things like that and everything with the way

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the game plays and stuff, and
like the puzzles are very very unique in

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that game too, especially like later
on in the game. So I just

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got to the excavation site basically,
so like I'm ground now and everything,

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and it's it's a little tricky to
navigate because there's no map information, so

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like I'm literally winging everything and I'm
like, fuck, I don't know where

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I'm going, which is a crazy
choice, right, Like you're so used

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to having a map, and then
you get down there and it's just like

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that unavailable and you're like, wait
a minute, and it's pretty dark,

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like at least for the initial portions
of it too, and you're just like

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hmmm yeah, like yeah, and
it's just one of those deals is like

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like yeah, so used to that
and everything, and like now that's like

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I'm missing piece and I'm like,
oh man, I'm really having to wing

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this now. And I'm kind of
like feeling the effect of feeling the effect

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of like not sure how much resource
management I have left as far as like

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MO and a few other things.
I don't know how much is left in

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this excavation site. And I'm kind
of like, am I boned here?

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Like am I? Like? I
don't? Like I don't know, so

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like it's definitely got me a little
concerned. I'm like, well, man,

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it's a good thing I got some
extra save points because like the whole

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management side of things is like a
big focal point in that game, especially

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like when you start accumulating items and
stuff like that and how you have to

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manage it all and like it's a
lot of remember, right, you only

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have six slots, right yep,
yep, yes, And there's no six

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inventories and there's no option to like
increase your inventory at all. Like you

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can't pick anything up to like increase
your inventory spots. So it's very much

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like when you played the original Resident
Evil or even like the an even remake

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that was for GameCube originally but then
got re released and stuff like that.

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Everything it's like it's like, especially
if you're playing Chris side, Nope,

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you got six slots and that's it. That's it. You cannot improve,

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And I'm like, oh boy.
So it's a like of a lot of

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like constant like return trips to like
the sav rooms to like put your stuff

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back in, or like trying to
reaccumulate the keys and stuff like that,

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because like it's not like, for
example, like you have these that are

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specific for the inventory items, and
then like there's another like side thing it

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was like, well, the keys
don't take up those inventory slots or whatever.

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Oh no, the keys take up
the inventory slots as well. Yeah,

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everything takes up the inventory slots,
and so like there's just a lot

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of unique micromanaging when it comes to
that, which is like not something that's

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really a big vocal points in game
games anymore. Like I know, like

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in the remakes of Residential stuff like
and you still had some of that and

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everything, but it was a lot
more lenient with how that works compared like

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giving yes, whereasnalos Nah, there's
not a lot of forgiving with that is

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very much kind of like you get
you basically take one gun, like,

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take one gun you're comfortable with,
uh, probably reload it to max,

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and then you're deciding do I want
to take AMMO or not, and then

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just leave the rest of your inventory
blank. Yeah, right, like you're

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kind of going out on like a
quick like Okay, let me see what's

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out here first and then kind of
plan your attack afterward, you know what

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I mean. Yeah, And it's
also trying to like just manage all that,

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and you know, you also have
your sub items and everything that you're

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hoping that you use up first before
use up in AMMO, because yes,

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AMMO is very very scarce, and
it's very very important. Like I have

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the bad habit of wanting to take
out everything in sight so I don't have

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to worry about it again. And
it's just like, no, this particular

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spot, I should probably just avoid
the enemy and just exactly and just continuously

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avoid it, knowing what you should
avoid and what you should in is like

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a key part. Yeah, and
especially like when you go like against the

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boss fights and stuff like that,
which I've done too. I don't know

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how many actual boss fights there are, and like I don't even know where

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I'm at with me being at the
excavation point or excavation site. I don't

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know if I'm like close to the
endgame or whatever the case may be.

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But it's been, like I said, it's been a very unique experience because

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of the fact that it's such a
throwback to how the you know, older

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games like that worked back in the
day, and it's going to be like,

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oh man, I got to rethink
how I have to approach all this.

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So so it's definitely been a learning
experience and definitely a lot of trial

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and error and like, thank goodness, I've had to use some different save

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spots and everything. And the puzzles
are puzzles are unique, like especially like

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the one rooms where you go in
and you gotta like pick a certain frequency

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that flashes on the screen stuff like
that, and then try to find which

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enemy it is that you have to
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They get very very creative with how
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comes to using like the radio frequency
aspect. Yeah, so it's been a

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very fun GAMEO. Like I definitely
say, if you have a chance,

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definitely play Signaliss, especially if you
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style games and everything, which is
yes, I understand it's definitely an archaic

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feeling, but I don't know,
it's been kind of refreshing and rewarding in

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this regard. Definitely give Signalis a
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for me, it's you know,
checked all the boxes as far as like

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how fun a game has been.
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it's a pretty short play through too, so it's probably taken me a little

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longer because like I don't know what
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there's certain things that's taken me a
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been a very fun experience. To
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I think you're probably like a little
over the halfway mark, like you're you're

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getting towards like the back half of
that game. Yeah, very much so,

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so you you probably don't have like
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I don't think so. But you
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there's a bit that comes up that
like I had to use a guide for

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like I got confused, So like
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your progress going forward for it,
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get to it, and like if
you feel the need pull up a guide

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for it, like, don't even
hesitate. Yeah, I'm definitely going to

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have to pull one up for sure
for that. But yeah, that's It's

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been a really fun game, Like
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with it. There's a couple other
games have been trying to meaning get back

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to, Like I still want to
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haven't been able to because, like
I said, I feel like I need

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to set aside a good a good
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make some progress in a game,
which I typically would which unfortunately, on

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the gaming side of things, I
haven't had a lot of time because of

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other things that's been happening with stuff. I won't get into it too much,

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but yeah, things have just been
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So I just kind of leave it
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it though. That's pretty much everything
I've done as far as the gaming stuff

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goes. Love that. Hell yeah, Ruth Deffer, howdy, So what

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have you been up to since we've
last talked? He said, you you've

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played a couple of video games which
you no longer remember it. Your your

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life is what's what's happening. It's
coming back, it's coming back. I

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think the games that I've played on
the last the last recording, I feel

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like I've just beaten something. We
talked about, Sumaro Wonder you finished,

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can we talk about Yeah, okay, then I have my feelings on Wonder,

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like after beating it and whatnot,
But like there was also something that

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I had just beaten, because like
I played Wonder after beating something, I

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guess I must have talked about it
last episode. Are you talking about I'm

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just trying to remember what that game
was. Oh. I think it was

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Miles Morales. Oh yeah, yeah, we talked about Mouth. Yeah,

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Miles was great. I still have
not started Spider Man two, but given

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how jam packed this year is,
I think it was inevitable given how my

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schedule worse, and I was going
to miss out on some games. Uh,

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despite my best efforts to fit in
as many games as I possibly could

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this year, and I think I
did a pretty good job. Well.

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I think I've played more games this
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That's good. So I did finish
Super Myer Brothers Wonder, and I've had

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some time to cook on that,
and I think, ultimately I walk away

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from that game to be disappointed.
I think because I feel Wonder is just

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I don't feel it's aptly named.
I feel Wonder is a very same.

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Like the more I think about it, the more I just can't pick out

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what stands out about that game,
even with like the Wonder effects, because

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like, yeah, because the Wonder
effects, they were interesting at first,

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and then they like they never really
did anything like that crazy in the end,

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even when you got to like the
bonus world level, right right.

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So I just I come away from
that game being like this was good,

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Like it's an incredibly it's a polished
two D Mario platform. I think it's

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really good, but at the same
time, I think it's incredibly safe.

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They don't really do much like it
does not separate itself from like that new

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Super Mario Brothers sort of realm in
terms of like content and level design.

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I think I think the new art
style and and and all of that is

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a great step in the right direction. Like it really made that game pop,

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very colorful. It felt like that
game had personality, But in terms

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of like the actual content, I
wasn't too big of a fan, Like

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it didn't leave a lasting impression on
if that makes sense. Okay, yeah,

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I still think it's a good game. I just I still don't think

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I can put it in the same
like sort of tiar of like Mario Brothers

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three D Mario World asimary as it
comes to two D marios. And I

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think after Odyssey, I was looking
for them to sort of like Odesty kind

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of stretched what they could do in
the three D space. Like I think

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Odyssey was an amazing game. It's
probably one of my favorite three D marios

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ever. And I was hoping they
were going to like sort of hit that

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same bar with Wonder and it just
didn't resonate like that with me. Okay,

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Okay, I could I could see
that, Like definitely our conversations on

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that game was leading in that direction. I can definitely see you coming off

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of it like that. Yeah,
Like, I'm not trying to be a

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down it's just it's how I flatter
because again, I do think it's a

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great game. But it's like there
are times where I'll sit here and I'll

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think about Mario Brothers three or Mario
World. I'll be like, man,

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I can play through a couple levels
of those like right now and just have

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a grand old time. I don't
see myself doing that with Wonder, nor

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do I like do that with any
of the new Super Mario Brothers games or

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anything like that. It's something about
those games that they just haven't left the

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lasting impression. And you know,
maybe it's me. Maybe I've just outgrown

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that sort of two D Mario and
that like Mario Brothers three and Mario World

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get a pass because of how ingraining
those games are in in terms of me

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as a gamer, as it were. With stuff like that, there's definitely

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like an inherent bias. Right,
That's just like this is this is a

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nostalgia thing. This is something that
I know to my core and like it

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stuck with me. Thus I can
always go back to it, right,

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And for some like that that resonates
harder than others. Right, And like

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I feel like you as a person
very much like like really values that,

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right, So I can definitely see
you having this sort of like takeaway from

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Wonder and being like, yes,
I can go back to the older things,

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right, that makes sense to me
as you talk about it. M

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h, there is that, but
there is also things of like in Mario

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Wonder, I Julie didn't care for
the elephant power Like, I don't think

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the elephant power up really added and
it felt like a raccoon jail without the

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ability to find the elephant was like
by far the least interesting one out out

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of powers that in that game.
But it was marketed as like the main

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power up and like when when when
it's put on like the same like level

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as sort of like hey, this
is your you know cape or your raccoon

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tail or your h you know boomerang
bro suit like or your cat suit or

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something like that. Like it had
a very high bar to little up too,

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and I feel like it just didn't
do that. I think a lot

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of a lot of it too,
was mostly in like the visual aesthetic of

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it and like the meme that came
of it, right, and it's like,

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Okay, we're leaning into the meme
side of the Elephant Powers. I

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don't think anybody walked away from Elephant
Power going like, man, that was

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really cool. It's just like,
oh, this is a really funny looking

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thing, right, but like characters
like this. On that same token,

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you have Super Mario three D World
and the cat Suit, and the cat

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Suit was very meanworthy but also a
really cool power up. Like I actually

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forgot I forgotten to bring up Super
Mario three D in terms of like it's

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not just Mario Brothers three and Mario
World. Mario three D World, which

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like, technically isn't a two D
Mario, but it kind of is,

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and it's not a three D Mario, but it kind of is. Like

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I don't know, three World kind
of might be like what I think a

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perfect Mario game might be. Really
yeah, I know that's pretty wild to

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say, but I mean, well, the game I think it's I don't

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think it's not wild. Honestly,
three three D World is awesome, right,

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Uh, It's not one that like
I would go back and play,

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right, But I had a good
time playing that game. I thought it

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was very cool. I think that
was a furious fucking dope that that whole

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package is like a really cool slice
of like a weird three D two D

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Mario kind of thing. It's very
much it's its own thing. It's its

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own unique thing. And that's also
like another game that I think about and

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like I can go back and playing
the game again. The game I had

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my one to play through. I
was like, I'm good, but that

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was cool. That was a great
experience. The cat suit, like,

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I think it looks cool. It's
kind of whatever in terms of its actual

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like use. I'm not that blown
away by it, but it's it's very

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cute. I think it's a very
suit. I think that's probably my other

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issue with Elephant Marios. It's not
a suit. He actually turns into an

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elephant, and I just have with
that. It just raises implications that are

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not necessarily comfortable with me. Hates
elephants. You heard it here first,

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but but ultimately, like those are
my feelings on one here. Again,

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I think it's I think it's a
good game, but it's not going to

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stay with It's worth a play.
I think it's probably more fun multiplayer,

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uh, because it fixes a lot
of the issues that the new Super Mario

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Brothers games have, Like you don't
run into people and all that, and

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like local local multiplayer with that,
Yeah, like I have fun when you

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and I played it together. Yeah. Yeah, it's a fun multiplayer game

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to go through for sure, to
content continue my train of Nintendo disappointment.

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So after after beating Wonder, I
hopped onto Tiers of the Kingdom. But

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we'll get to in a minute.
But over the Thanksgiving break, in between

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Tiers of the Kingdom, so Mario
Rpgmate came out. I played that because

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I don't enjoy playing Zelda in handheld
mode, because Nintendo is a bunch of

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obstinate, like archaic assholes. We'll
get to that anyway. So I played

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Super MARIOPG the remakes and I played
it. I beat it, I did

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all the new content, and I
take away from that, like I need

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to preface this with Super Mario RPG. Legend of the Seventh Star is my

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favorite game of all time. It
is one my favorite game. I think

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about this game constantly. I'm constantly
humming the soundtrack. I know everything about

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that game by heart. You're saying
a game that is not a Falcon game

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is your favorite game of all time. Isn't that sacrilege. No, because

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some people will tell you that Lean
to the Past is my favorite game,

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and I would say that you're wrong. They're close to my second favorite game.

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But Mario RPG is the reason I
am the person I am today.

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Mario RPG is the reason I even
care about Falcon Wow, huh, I

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see interesting, interesting a little parallel, Like this game defined why I love

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the RPG genre so much, and
like I played it a million times growing

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up. Like again, I know
literally everything about this game, and I

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don't understand why this ringmak exists for
a new audience that never plays right so

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well, I guess, but like
I mean that that's really like the actual

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answer, that that's what it is. Yeah, I know, but like

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but for people that have have like
played this game before, there's not that

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much reason to go back to it. There's not. And like the things

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that they added in the remake,
Like what pisses me off about this remake

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is that like they added in things
without even like taking into account how this

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would affect the overall balance. I'm
not saying Super Mario RPG is a hard

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game, but like one of the
cool things about Super Mario RPG is like

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it introduced this idea of time hits. It introduced an action component to a

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turn based RPG, which was a
great way to indoctrinate, like people who

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would be like, I don't want
to play a game about menus. That

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sounds super boring, quote unquote,
like nine year old Drew. So like

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you have this new mechanic of like
time hits where you're actually interacting with the

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combat even though it's still turn based
combat. And like things were challenging if

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you couldn't do the time hits despite
being you know, a relatively easy thing

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to do, Like it was an
engaging combat system, and like all the

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new changes that they made in the
remake just completely ignore that. Like they

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made all these changes that simplify and
like streamline the game, but it doesn't

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take it into account, like how
it would affect the game. For example,

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like everything becomes trivial in that game
because they increased like the timing windows

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for like how to do perfect attacks, how to do perfect dodges, Like

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there were so many boss fights or
so many battles where I just never took

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damage because I was able to perfect
guard things, or I was able to

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perfect guard things that I wasn't able
to perfect guard before because they made those

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changes as well. Uh, battles
were a joke because now perfectly timed attacks

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did AoE damage and you could just
kill everything in like one hit. Stats

408
00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:15.519
were buffed like through the roof,
so like everything just died before you even

409
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:22.000
saw how they attacked. Like it, there's this all of these changes,

410
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.039
but like that base game wasn't changed
to like go along with it. So

411
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:30.920
like these changes just trivialize the game, and I feel like people who were

412
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.279
playing it now, even for the
first time, are gonna be this aunt

413
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:39.880
I don't get well, I know
lot. So it's like the it's it's

414
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.240
it's a weird thing because like I
think from like the very pure, like

415
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:47.440
casual perspective of it, like people
really for the changes, like they're digging

416
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:52.160
it, but a lot of the
complaints do come from the people that like

417
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.359
have played this before and are looking
for something else or wish there was more

418
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:59.960
to it. So it's like I
think they they nailed sort of the time

419
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:04.839
audience, but they're not thinking about
the audience that was there before, if

420
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:10.480
that makes sense maybe, because like
yeah, a lot of that stuff to

421
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:17.079
like streamline things to like widen the
window for time hits and dodges, to

422
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.920
doing the AOI attacks. All that
stuff was done to help facilitate like more

423
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:28.840
casual people getting into this game and
enjoying this game. Right, it seems

424
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.320
that from from that point of view, it seems like that has been an

425
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.480
actual success, right that that's that
that's the thing. But but us that

426
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:42.719
want more feel kind of like left
behind in a weird way. But it's

427
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.519
like it's not even like wanting more, it's I don't understand the design change

428
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:52.280
because the original design was so perfect
even from like like I'm not saying that

429
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:58.559
it couldn't have been been made to
appeal to even more casual players, But

430
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:06.079
the things that made Mario RPG so
great just don't come off as great in

431
00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.960
the remake because of these changes.
In my opinion. Yeah, and that's

432
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:14.880
not like your point. Yeah,
but that's not even like I want new

433
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:19.760
things or like I wish this REMA
did more. It's the changes that they

434
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:24.400
made don't make sense to me because
you're from like a game design perspective.

435
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.119
I think it makes sense from like
for specifically targeting like more casual audience.

436
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.320
Though, like all those changes you
you list it out makes sense for someone

437
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.000
that like, hey, this is
my first time playing this thing, like

438
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:45.199
I guess, but like Mario RPG
was already designed for like a person's first

439
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:51.639
RPG outing. I mean sure,
but also like you could you can improve

440
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:57.000
that for quote quote improve or streamline
it better for like a modern audience as

441
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:02.760
well. Right, I'm personally think
they didn't do that. Well, I

442
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:09.400
think they did, but hey,
that that's I think from from that specific

443
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:13.760
viewpoint of like a casual audience of
just like hey, I've never touched one

444
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.559
of these before. They feel it
out, they play it, and like

445
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.320
this feels good and it makes sense
to them. May not make sense to

446
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.760
us, but it makes sense to
them. I mean, I suppose I

447
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:30.719
just from when you when you throw
like the structure of the game out the

448
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:38.039
window, but it's not it's not
really thrown like it still works like you

449
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.239
hit a lot of hits black damage, and it's like, all right,

450
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.320
people get this. They see the
extra damage. It's like, oh that's

451
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:46.639
cool. That strikes a thing in
their brain and it's like, all right,

452
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:52.960
this this is clearly like like making
it better for some yes, but

453
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:57.679
like things where at the end of
the game where you don't even need to

454
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:01.320
bother with time hits because your damage
is so Like, why is it designed

455
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:07.920
like that? Like you don't even
have to interact with the game systems in

456
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.079
order to win battles. Makes it
easier for people to win the battles.

457
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:16.400
Like also from a cast perspective,
it removes the stress of having to do

458
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:22.880
it. But if you can be
serious, that is cool, I guess.

459
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.880
I just it's not a viewpoint that
will make sense to you. It's

460
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.039
from the way that you think about
video games. I guarantee you it will

461
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:36.159
not make sense. I can get
behind things being easy. Kirby's Adventure is

462
00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:39.199
easy and designed for like anybody to
pick it up, and like I can

463
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:45.239
get behind that game from a design
perspective. I cannot get behind this remake

464
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:51.079
from a design perspective. It does
not make sense to you. No,

465
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:52.719
it's not that it doesn't just make
sense to me. I feel all the

466
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.800
changes go against the spirit of the
game. Yeah, well all right,

467
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.360
I don't know. I don't know
how to talk around that then, I

468
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.119
mean, and ultimately, like that's
one of the issues that I have with

469
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.719
that remake is I played through it
and like it is y RVG, like

470
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:15.679
it is again still a good game. I just I wish that these changes

471
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:24.960
were done with more purpose. I
don't understand why there's two difficult like from

472
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.360
the normal difficulty, which is what
I played on, and like there's an

473
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:34.079
easy mode of breezy difficulty. I
don't understand how those I don't understand how

474
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:39.559
those two could be different. Uh, timing is even easier in breezing.

475
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:45.440
I think your damage is higher,
enemies do less damage, they have lower

476
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:49.880
HP. Like it's mainly like I
just want to play the story, which

477
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:54.400
okay, that's mine, hand down
to your six year old. Yeah,

478
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:02.079
like those modes existing not you.
Those modes existing are fine, like for

479
00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:05.960
people who just want to play a
game for the story and just want to

480
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:12.159
breeze on through, that's for that. That's great, But like I don't

481
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:16.480
understand like why those two difficulties exist
when I feel like the normal difficulty is

482
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:25.800
already that but that aggreance not to
beat a dead forward. I just I

483
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.559
think they could have done what they'd
done if they had just balanced the rest

484
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:36.239
of Like I really wish they had
done more, Like Okay, to put

485
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:38.639
it this way, it feels like
they just threw this in as like hey,

486
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.400
we're just gonna throw this in and
we don't care. And that's what

487
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.079
annoys me is like this they they
took the time to say, hey,

488
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:52.199
we're remaking a beloved classic, but
it feels like they put so little work

489
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:58.400
into this game outside of like the
graphical overhaul, which is hit or miss

490
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.000
depending on who you are. I
think it was fine. I know some

491
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:05.079
people like Rob, I know you
were the biggest fan of the art style,

492
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.199
I think I know it's a miss. For me, Like, I

493
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:14.280
think it is aggressively fine. It
is aggressive, aggressively fine. When I

494
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:17.119
think about that original game, it's
like there's a very there's a very specific

495
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:21.519
idea I had in mind for like
what that game could look like in a

496
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:24.199
modern setting with especially with all the
technology and like the creativity that people have

497
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.039
these days with visual styles. So
I'm like, now, could it did

498
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:31.920
something really fucking cool, even like
coming off of like the Links Awakening remake

499
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:35.559
that where they had like that whole
diorama effect, And I was like,

500
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.320
oh, this is a really cool, interesting take. Love it or hate

501
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:40.639
it, Like they they took a
chance in a swing at something right and

502
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:45.000
it's like I wish they just took
more of a swing at a at a

503
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:51.119
visual style or I think about like
Fantasian, how they had another like cool

504
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.079
like weird clay Nation diorama kind of
aesthetic to it. I'm like, you

505
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.280
know, these kinds of things.
I feel I could have fit that game.

506
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.159
But I mean they went with a
very safe, like traditional Nintendo three

507
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.440
D look, and it's fine.
Like the cut scenes cut yes, I

508
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.679
do like seeing like the cut scenes
in the game, and the characters like

509
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.920
are very emotive, like they're not
very like still or anything like that.

510
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:22.199
And like because if you watch the
Super Nintendo cut scenes, like the characters

511
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.559
are very expressive, like they may
like Mario makes a ton of faces for

512
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:30.960
like being a standard silent protagonist and
everything. It's great. Yeah, and

513
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.480
all of that translates into the new
game, like none of that spirit is

514
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.760
lost. Like playing through the remake, like I'm still laughing at the same

515
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.199
old jokes. They use the same
script pretty much from the Super Nintendo version,

516
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:46.360
the Ted Woolsey script, outside of
changing like a few pop culture references

517
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:52.440
here and there, which that makes
sense, Like I imagine your average gamer

518
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.239
like between the ages of eight and
twelve. Do not know who like Bruce

519
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:04.400
Lei is, so that makes sense
or I'm trying to I'm trying to think

520
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.280
there is a couple other like pop
culture around, like Ted Woolsey loved his

521
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:15.840
pop but like the script is fine. There was like one joke that they

522
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.880
took away that I was a little
bit sad on and it's when like Mario

523
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:24.119
is pretending to be a statue and
like the sculptor is describing to the villain

524
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:28.960
of like, oh, this is
like my masterpiece. And in the Super

525
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:32.320
Nintendo version, he's like very insulting
of Mario, which is kind of funny.

526
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.159
Yeah, but in the remake,
it's more of a like a positive

527
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.239
thing, and I'm like, I
don't like, it's fine, there's nothing

528
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.679
wrong with that, but like,
I don't understand why you changed it unless

529
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:49.440
it's just we're not negative around here, and we're not negative around here.

530
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.920
It's it's for everyone Nintendo, We're
not negative here. Yes, I don't

531
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:59.840
know. I didn't even think the
original was like that effect, especially since

532
00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:04.320
the was like straight up offensive jokes
that they just left in and I'm like,

533
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:09.519
bro okay, Like the Peaches Mystery
thing in her room is still there,

534
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:12.800
And I'm like, well, they
changed the text around that though,

535
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:17.360
right, So it's not like the
exact same thing. No, they changed

536
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:21.199
it. There's been a whole like
the whole thing about like they them changing

537
00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:24.400
the text about that. Oh,
it was the exact same Are you sure

538
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.719
I'm about to look this up right
now, because I'm I've been looking at

539
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:30.719
this, I've been hearing about this
this entire time. They tell the text

540
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:37.440
around that, yeah, Peach's question
mark, question mark question Yeah, the

541
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.559
text around the exact same. Yep. Let me see here, Rob,

542
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.719
I know, Rob, trust me. Okay, I've been listening to discussions

543
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:50.360
about supermar RBG for the past three
fucking weeks and this is the one thing

544
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.480
that is consistent around every single discussion
around that game. I trust you.

545
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:58.199
That's weird. They didn't change it, okay, all right, Like I

546
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.400
was very surprised they didn't change it
like in the Japanese version, Like in

547
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:07.239
the Japanese Super Nintendo it's Peaches x
x X, but it's never been like

548
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:12.719
Peaching like xxx in the States.
Even in it was the question mark,

549
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:16.480
but it was the comments around it
that was changed. No, still the

550
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:21.760
same, all right, okay,
all right, now now you got me

551
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:29.239
fucking down. All right. You're
confident, You're so confident. You know

552
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:37.679
this game like the back of your
head, very very confident. Now now

553
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:45.039
I have to look it up.
Yeah, I'll find it. What was

554
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:51.360
it or what was I supposed to
say? Originally it just says peaches question

555
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:53.360
mark, question mark, question mark, and like it's hidden behind like her

556
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:59.960
fireplace, and the first time you
can find it is when the Mushroom Kingdom

557
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.639
is taken over by uh the sword
mac or Clay Morton in the remake,

558
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:14.960
and uh, like the retainer that's
in Peach's room is like, hey,

559
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.400
you shouldn't touch things in other people's
rooms. Put that back and I'll give

560
00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:21.519
you this instead. And then like
when you do it, when Peach is

561
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.119
actually in the party, she's like, hey, don't go snooping in people's

562
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:30.599
rooms. And she says that in
the Superintendent version too well, because like

563
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:37.760
Google images says, found Toadstool's question
mark from our question mark. Yes,

564
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:43.320
because in the Superintendent version, Peach
is known as Princess Toadstool. But then

565
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.920
that was before like a thing here, but then it was changed to Peach

566
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.880
for the remake or did it still
stay toadstool, No, it still says

567
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:58.840
Peaches, or no, it says
Peaches in it says Princess Peaches question mark

568
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:05.960
question question mark, right, okay, and then in the Superintendent version says

569
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:10.800
total's question mark question question because Princess
Peach did not become Princess Peach until sixty

570
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:17.239
four, gotcha, okay? And
yeah, I'm not saying anything on Google

571
00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.320
row. All right, all right, keep keep up, hey, you're

572
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:24.159
if you're right, you're right,
keep it going. If I find the

573
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.760
difference, I will send it forward. I could be wrong, you might

574
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:31.119
be wrong. Yeah, please get
it. And this history of Super Mario

575
00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:36.519
brought to you by the Mushroom Kingdom. Indeed, visit them this year.

576
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:42.079
There were some other changes that I
was like, I don't like this,

577
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.440
but that's fine. That's just my
nostalogia kicking in. Like the first boss

578
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:51.320
in the Mushroom Kingdom is Mack the
Sword, and in the remake he's now

579
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.199
Clay Morton, which makes more sense
because I think the original reference was like

580
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:59.960
Mack the Knife, which is like
a it's a musical reference, I think,

581
00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.559
I think anyway, And so I
never understood it as like a kid,

582
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:13.159
like why is this called mac?
And then like the other guys are

583
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:17.320
like weapon related names. I don't
understand that. And so he's called Clay

584
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:20.800
Morton in the remake, and I'm
like, Okay, I don't like that,

585
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:25.480
but that's because I'm old. That
actually makes more sense. The only

586
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:31.039
one that I don't like is because
it feels like a like just weird to

587
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:38.000
say is the difficulties fight boss,
which is Yuridovich. You fight him after

588
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:42.840
you beat the Pirate Ship and you
fight him in Seaside Town, and like

589
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:47.599
in the remake, so Yari in
Japanese is just it's Japanese for spear.

590
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.880
So they rename him in the remake
as spirit Spirridovic, and that just sounds

591
00:47:54.960 --> 00:48:07.400
so much harder to say than Ridovich. Anyway, now we're cutting really really

592
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:14.599
tempotated chips. It matters. It
matters. Okay, enough of them matter,

593
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.480
you know, that's up enough.
Yeah, you know you get pringles.

594
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.639
But ultimately, like, uh,
the game itself is fine because it's

595
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:27.360
super MARIORPG. It's a great game. It's one of my favorite games of

596
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:32.880
all time. The remake still does
express that to a certain point. It

597
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:37.679
is still a great game. What
pisses me off the most is that you

598
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:42.719
unlock all the new content after you
beat like the main game mm hmm.

599
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:51.239
And like that's when they have like
done remixes of the boss battles, and

600
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.920
all these remixed boss battles are done
in like super interesting ways, And I'm

601
00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:00.719
like, where the fuck was this? Like why was this just not its

602
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:07.320
own separate difficulty, right? Like
this could have like you just put in

603
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:12.599
an arranged difficulty with like all these
new like boss challenges that would have been

604
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:16.119
so sick. Yeah, yeah,
Like that should have just been its own

605
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:23.360
difficulty added to the game, which
actually utilized the changes from like like the

606
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:27.719
new stuff that they added in the
remix. For example, when you do

607
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:31.519
the remix fight for Punchinello, he
has like super armor on, so you

608
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:36.000
can't do more than one damaged in
with any of your normal attacks. What

609
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:38.000
you have to do is he summons
bombs and you have to reflect them.

610
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:42.920
And the way you reflect them is
by getting like the AoE attack, and

611
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:45.599
then that turns the bombs around and
the bombs attack in and that's how you

612
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:52.840
do damage to me, right,
or like when you do the culix refight,

613
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.840
that's when you like you actually utilize
like the triple attacks, because there

614
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:01.119
are triple attacks that will help you
like protect to from like his instant killed

615
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:06.559
move that he does after a certain
amount of ferns, and like they're just

616
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:09.320
it utilizes all the new mechanics in
a way that I'm just like, why

617
00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:15.280
wasn't this just made as a separate
part of the game and not just like

618
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:22.639
a two hour at best, like
post game that is incredibly archaic that you

619
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.760
have to find out. So the
way it works is like after you beat

620
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:30.400
the game, it unlocks, and
like you have to go back to Mario's

621
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.400
house and sleep there, and then
when you wake up, Toad shows up

622
00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:38.920
and he's like, hey, here's
a sleeping pass for the hotel and Mary

623
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.400
Moore, and so you have to
go to Marymore and then you fall asleep

624
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.119
at Mary Moore and there's a cut
scene where like Geno scenes, something that

625
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.079
happen on Star Hill and you have
to go all the way to Star Hill

626
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.760
and there's like all these new wishes
that show up on Star Hill, and

627
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:57.000
like these wishes are like the Remix
bosses, but every time you want to

628
00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:01.159
fight a Remix boss, you have
to go all the way to Tadpole Pond

629
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:06.960
top to frog Fuchius, then go
to the boss, and then after you

630
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:09.440
beat that boss, go all the
way back to Tadpole Pond and Frog Fucius

631
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:13.119
find out where the next boss is. They can go there and then back

632
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:23.960
and forth like six songs. Huh
hmm. Yeah, that's not annoying.

633
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:32.840
It's very annoying. And like the
entire time I'm doing this is like,

634
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:43.039
this is the best content of this
remake, but it's so irritating. And

635
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:50.000
then also the remix soundtrack was hit
or miss with me. I think that's

636
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:57.199
a subjective thing. Like I don't
think the remix songs were objectively bad.

637
00:51:57.239 --> 00:52:00.960
I think they're fine. I think
they're just I prefer, like I prefer

638
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:04.559
some of the new ones, and
I prefer some of the originals, Like

639
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:08.000
it didn't like win me Out.
It's it's fine, aggressively fine. It's

640
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:13.400
aggressively fun. I feel like,
be the title of the podcast. Aggressively

641
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:21.840
fine. It's looking like a strong
contender today. Everything's fine. Aggressively fine.

642
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.159
I mean, ultimately, that's where
I land at the end of the

643
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:29.960
remake, is it's aggressively fine.
It had the potential to be so much

644
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:35.199
more, especially when we live in
a day and age like where. I

645
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:37.320
didn't say they needed to do an
f F seven remake to this game,

646
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:44.480
because it definitely didn't. But and
they're guilty of this with links Awakening as

647
00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:50.639
well. Nintendo needs to understand that
a remake is more than just a fresh

648
00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:54.840
coat of pain. I understand that
maybe they're just selling their games to a

649
00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:00.119
new audience. Fine, but like
even some kickbacks to like their veteran fans

650
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:07.440
wouldn't be nice. Mm hmm.
Like you could have put a hero mode

651
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.360
in links Awakening in the in the
remake, you could have had an arranged

652
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:16.199
difficulty in Mario ork G. You
could have added any new content to links

653
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:20.519
Awakening. There was zero new content
outside of like the Dungeon Builder, which

654
00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:23.559
had zero longline and that was a
completely missed opportunity. Hell, that could

655
00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:29.159
be a game on their own.
They just never did anything with it,

656
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:34.920
right. Nintendo frustrates me, Like
a long time Nintendo fan, they just

657
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:40.519
really irritate me. It's so weird
how they can be like so innovative but

658
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:45.119
also very safe in a lot of
different ways. And it's just like,

659
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:50.280
bro, why why can't y'all find
the right balance for this stuff? You

660
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:52.400
know? Yeah, It's like it's
like you go two steps forward, two

661
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:58.920
steps back, and then like one
side to the adjacent exactly, you fucking

662
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:04.400
spin around six time and then boom, ye have again. Mario. Just

663
00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:14.400
mind that it sounds like Nintendo's development
process in a nutshell yep. And so

664
00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:22.119
like when I consider the thousand Year
Door remake, like I've now granted thousand

665
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:27.559
your Door is not an Nintendo gain, it's an Intelligent Systems game. Those

666
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:32.119
are two very different things. M
So it could be a safe Nintendo rebate

667
00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:42.239
or it could be really really good
because like I think Intelligent system is like

668
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:46.800
Nintendo's like braver company, because like
they just try shit like have you looked

669
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:54.920
at fire Emblem Engaged and Gage is
crazy like ironically very safe in terms of

670
00:54:54.920 --> 00:55:01.800
like fire Ember fire Emblem formula,
but like also incredibly crazy. It's very

671
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:10.159
good. It's very crazy. Yeah, I mean, Tokyo Murra Sessions is

672
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:13.960
more at less than it is,
but that's still Intelligent Systems. Like that's

673
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.800
still like the fire Ample property.
All of the advanced word games are like

674
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:24.519
really like out there and like have
soul and so like I really hope that

675
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:31.320
the Thousand Year Door remake like still
sort of has that intelligence intelligent system soul

676
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:38.280
like before me A Moto sucked it
out from Sticker Star. I fully anticipate

677
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:43.679
that game being a one for one
remake. Yeah, I probably will.

678
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.000
I do not anticipate that being anything
more than that. I would be pleasantly

679
00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:50.360
surprised if it is, though.
That's where yeah, that's where I am

680
00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:54.079
on that. But I mean,
like, if it's a one for one

681
00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:59.360
remake, I think I'm okay.
Well, no, I don't know if

682
00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:00.440
I'm okay with that. No,
I want them to do more. Yeah,

683
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:04.559
no, I want them to do
like if we're gonna revisit like I

684
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.320
actually didn't got to play Metro Prime
remaster. But that's more of a remaster

685
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.760
than touted as like a remake,
right, it's a weird in between.

686
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:15.199
They did a lot of work.
Like here's how I described that. Uh,

687
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.559
And it's the same way I do
for like uh, for for like

688
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:30.000
the Blue Points remakes and stuff like
that. It feels like how you remember

689
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:34.199
it playing basically, it's where I
land on it, where like you have

690
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:37.079
a memory of how good something is
and sometimes when you revisit it, you're

691
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:39.039
like, oh, it's kind of
yanky here and there. It's like they

692
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:44.360
cleaned up Metroid Prime to where like
it feels how you remember it should play,

693
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:51.559
like the Resident remake, probably like
RI four. Yeah, there's one

694
00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:54.480
in specifically that I am thinking of, and it is do you having me?

695
00:56:54.559 --> 00:57:00.360
Crazy? Shadow of Colossus is what
I was thinking of. Like they

696
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:02.119
cleaned it up enough to where like, Okay, I remember this game being

697
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:07.519
fucking tight, but I completely blocked
out all of the negatives and it's like,

698
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:08.800
yeah, but what if that game
just exists though, where it's just

699
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:13.599
perfect and it's like all right,
well there. But again, like they

700
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:19.760
weren't touting that as a remake though
they they claim it's a remaster, but

701
00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:22.679
when people got their hands on it, they're like, there's way more work

702
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:27.920
under the hood for this than they
they gave credit for. But again that

703
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:32.360
was more retro than it was.
Nintendo. Nintendo when it comes to like

704
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:37.400
their main SA and for like,
for whatever reason, the company that did

705
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:39.679
the Super Mario RPG remake, they're
actually a company that worked on like the

706
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:46.639
DS Dragon Bus games. Yes,
uh, and like this is Square NX.

707
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:52.199
You know, it's sure. It's
not Nintendo First Party technically, Like

708
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:55.440
it's not a Nintendo studio. It
is Square X. I bet you NINT

709
00:57:55.880 --> 00:58:01.719
had a lot of inpute possibly probably, but but it is. It is

710
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:08.000
both of those companies. I mean, Squere has its own problems. So

711
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.519
if you put those two together.
What if you put problematic company with another

712
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.280
problematic company, you put them together, you get super rpt, you get

713
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:20.639
more problems. Yes, ninete ninety
six, I would say the best game

714
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:28.760
ever, but or ninety ninety eight
anyway, Like Nintendo was really tight lipped

715
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:30.880
on who was working on the remake
for whatever reason. I don't know why,

716
00:58:31.079 --> 00:58:34.880
Like I think when they were asked
or like, just check the credits

717
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:37.920
in the game, bro, and
I'm like, okay, dad, with

718
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:42.519
crediting in general, Like I feel
like a lot of times you have to

719
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.559
wait until like the release before you
find out who actually developed the thing.

720
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:51.599
Yeah, it's very Nintendo is very
dumb. Anyway, I've ragged on the

721
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:55.760
remake enough, like again the final
word expressively fine. Yeah, so I'll

722
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.039
move on to the final game that
I've been playing that I was hoping to

723
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:04.199
have done by now. But it
turns out. There's a lot to that

724
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:08.000
game. I finally have sunk my
heath into Tiers of the Kingdom. Hell

725
00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:14.800
yeah, I was planning to play
Sea of Stars first and then play Tiers

726
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:16.920
of the Kingdom because I wanted to
beat I wanted to make sure those two

727
00:59:16.920 --> 00:59:22.760
games will be before I designed.
My game of the year was See Stars

728
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:28.599
Looking dicey right now, I know, I mean, we're close to the

729
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:32.719
end. I got sixteen Shrians left
for fourteen, I have very few shrines

730
00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:39.360
left. We're almost done. I
put two hundred hours into this game.

731
00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:45.599
I don't believe it, but that's
a lot. I want the record to

732
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:49.480
know that. I say Drew will
beat it in three hundred hours. He

733
00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:54.440
is currently on track for three hundred
hours. You're kidding me. I can't

734
00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:59.400
imagine there's much more after where I'm
at, Like I'm on the final dungeon,

735
00:59:59.840 --> 01:00:04.800
the the final you at the beginning
of the game, what I said,

736
01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:13.280
Bro, you spent eight almost eight
and a half days on this thing.

737
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:17.000
Yeah, yeah, told you.
He's reporting to his live from Hirol

738
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:22.679
literally, so there's there's a lot
of this game. Do you have real

739
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:25.159
state out there? Like I mean, I actually do I have a house

740
01:00:27.199 --> 01:00:30.360
he actually does. I was on
the discord call when he bought a house

741
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:34.079
in Hirol, I mean two weeks, potentially two weeks in high Role.

742
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.679
There is a lot to this game, I think at the very first thing

743
01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:46.000
I have to say is this is
a very better game the Breath of the

744
01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:52.800
Wild. I think Breth of the
Wild was probably one of like in twenty

745
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:57.000
seventeen, Brother Wild was supposed to
be my game of the year, it

746
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:00.239
was not. Stead gave that choosing
a play Chronicles too, because I felt

747
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:06.400
like examad Pronicles to the better job
of rewarding the player for exploring its open

748
01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:10.920
world and just having a more engaging
story and more engaging characters. So here

749
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.199
we are in twenty twenty three and
Cheers the Kingdom has released. It took

750
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.679
seven years, six years, almost
seven years for us to get a sequel

751
01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:24.400
to Breath of the Wild. That
being said, Cheers of the Kingdom is

752
01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:29.159
both the same game and not the
same game. Now true, What could

753
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:34.960
you mean by that? It's the
same engine. It is the same engine.

754
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:40.199
It is the same sort of lane
gameplay loop, the same sort of

755
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.480
line goals that you're trying to do. That's all pretty much the same for

756
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:50.480
Breath a while that has not tame. If you were hoping that this game

757
01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:53.880
was going to sort of like change
your mind on how you felt about Breath

758
01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:59.400
of the Wild, I would say, yeah, maybe, but maybe not.

759
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:02.880
And there's there's a few reasons for
that. I think the physics system

760
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:08.119
in this game and like what this
game allows you to do is absolutely insane.

761
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:14.400
I think how you feel about that
depends on how much you're willing to

762
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:19.880
engage with this game and like how
much your imagination is able to like utilize

763
01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:27.159
it and how much time you will
spend them. So in Breath of the

764
01:02:27.159 --> 01:02:30.840
Wild, they gave you like the
four glyphs at the beginning of the game,

765
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:36.079
which was like the bomb glyph,
the magnet glyph, the ice like

766
01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:39.360
building pillars glyph, and I forget
what the fourth one was. I don't

767
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.480
think it was important. Oh it
was the It is important because it's the

768
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:49.079
one that freezes and like you are
able to like store momentum. Those were

769
01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:54.000
like the ones that had the craziest
Twitter clips. You guys are still there,

770
01:02:54.079 --> 01:03:00.800
right, I'm just talking, okay, sure, because yeah, I

771
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:04.360
made you're you're on the tangent.
I didn't realize you were getting into the

772
01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:09.559
breath of the Wild. But here
we are, so Chare's the Kingdom nixes

773
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:19.719
all that instead they basically give you
developer jus uh where uh Link is just

774
01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:25.159
an actual god. He has the
ability to you know, move anything and

775
01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:31.599
take it together and create a million
different things. And like you can create

776
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:37.599
vehicles, towers, bridges, you
name it. It's there. Uh.

777
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:40.800
This game probably will let you do
anything you put your mind to. It's

778
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:45.639
that insane, like paired with like
the physics system that was introduced in with

779
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:49.039
the Wild, you could probably do
whatever you wanted in this game. It

780
01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:54.159
is a physics sandbox. Plenty of
clips of people building actual gundoms and actual

781
01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:02.559
like gundoms that Rex built in it. You have like again like gun dams

782
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:06.800
that will deploy many gun dums that
will auto like seek out enemies to destroy

783
01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:12.159
them. I have seen the full
range of things that people can create in

784
01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:16.880
this game Wild. Yeah. No, Like, I definitely don't interact with

785
01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:21.360
the game on that level, but
you also don't need to. But I

786
01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:28.559
feel like you would probably get a
lot more enjoyment if you did, because

787
01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:31.880
if you're not interacting with a game, like that. The game is like

788
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:39.719
a much more polished, much more
improved Breath of the Wild. So to

789
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:45.199
get this out of the way,
durability still exists in terms of like you

790
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:51.519
know, weapon hit points and bows
and arrows and having to deal with that,

791
01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:56.239
and that's annoying, but the game
introduces like the fuse mechanic, which

792
01:04:56.239 --> 01:05:00.119
sort of like mitigates that. For
example, Breath of the Wild, like

793
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:02.960
you would get special weapons, like
elemental weapons that were really cool and like

794
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:06.880
you could freeze or shock or burn
enemies, and like you never really wanted

795
01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:11.000
to use those because it's gonna break, and like what if you really needed

796
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:15.519
for like a certain kind of fight, Whereas like in Cheers of the Kingdom

797
01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:18.519
you can just make your own and
then that's fine. So like you can

798
01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:24.800
like you'll find like random weapons and
they have durability, but you confuse them

799
01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:30.320
with monster parts. And they introduced
monsters that have elemental parts, like Lizzelfoss

800
01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:31.960
have like there's a fire one,
there's a nice one, there's an electric

801
01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:34.800
one, and they drop their horns
when you kill them, and you confuse

802
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:39.280
their horns to your thwarts and boom, you have an elemental sword. Pretty

803
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:46.400
cool. So like I feel like
that sort of idea of durability in terms

804
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:58.960
of the combat is mitigated completely.
I think the combat overall is whatever in

805
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:02.679
these Zelda games, like they're fine. Zelda has never necessarily been like a

806
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:06.639
combat first game anyway, And the
kind of is what a kind of isn't

807
01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:14.960
like it's it's it's a very simple. Yeah, wrong with that, there's

808
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.039
really wrong with that, except like
sometimes the enemies and in tears they can

809
01:06:18.119 --> 01:06:25.320
and can be a bit damaged slungey
and that's unfortunate. But I digress.

810
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:30.920
Uh So, like one of my
main complaints from Breatha Wilde has been solved.

811
01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:34.559
Fuse mitigates a lot of that,
and so I'm able to, uh,

812
01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:41.440
you know, use weapons without that
much of the care in the world.

813
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:45.119
There's a few weapon types that I
will hoard and I have actually found

814
01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:48.840
octaros on the map and marked on
my mat, so I when they're about

815
01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:51.960
to break out, we'll go find
them and like repair my weapons. So

816
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:59.119
like that's an option to which is
really cool. The second problem that I

817
01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:08.920
have with Breath the wild So it's
it's very interesting approaching tiers of the Kingdom

818
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:14.320
after playing a game like elden Ring, and I've had a lot of time

819
01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:17.320
to think about my feelings and Tears
of the Kingdom, and my feeling is

820
01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:23.519
the Breath of the Wild and my
feelings about elden Ring, and like Brother

821
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:27.159
the Wild, I walked away very
disappointed. Elder Ring, I walked away

822
01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:31.760
very impressed. Tears of the Kingdom
is like somewhere in the middle of that,

823
01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:36.960
whereas like Tiers of the Kingdom still
has a lot of the same problems

824
01:07:38.039 --> 01:07:43.400
Breath as the Wild does, and
that I think this system, like especially

825
01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:49.400
due to durability, especially due to
the open world, and like how the

826
01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:55.239
developers want you to find shrines and
like that's where you interact with the puzzles

827
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:57.639
that they have developed, and they
give you like an order of light so

828
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:06.079
you can raise your heart containers or
your your standard to gauge ship. My

829
01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:12.599
point was so long that I forgot
where are you going? I feel like,

830
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.640
since you're bringing up the Elder in
comparison, we're talking about like reward

831
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:18.520
being rewarded first, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I'll

832
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:24.600
take a guess. I feel like
Tears the Kingdom still does not reward the

833
01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:30.319
player in a substantial way in a
way like the game Elton Ring does,

834
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:35.800
which I find very unfortunate, Like
it's very frustrating to be playing in this

835
01:08:35.920 --> 01:08:40.439
game and like you see something cool, Like it actually happened to me today.

836
01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:45.039
I was working in like the southeastern
coast of Iral and like I'm just

837
01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:49.960
going along and like I'm gliding and
I see like a wall with like some

838
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.199
ruins on. I'm like, oh, what's that? And I go over

839
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:59.199
there and I check it out.
It's just a qure ox seed. Yeah,

840
01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:05.600
thanks. Or Actually this one happened
pretty close to recording and a message

841
01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:10.960
rob about it. I was doing
some shrines in the sky and I noticed,

842
01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:14.600
like over off in the starting area
there was like a giant light coming

843
01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:18.039
from and I'm like, that wasn't
there before? What's that about? And

844
01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:20.399
then I go over there and it's
like, oh, I'm going to tell

845
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:24.359
you the point of like why this
island's here. I'm like cool. And

846
01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:28.600
also give your award after like beating
this trial. I'm like cool. And

847
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:33.439
it's a skin for my parent Glidder. Don't you like cosmetics? And like

848
01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:39.279
that's what a lot of the rewards
in this game are outside of like the

849
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:43.760
different armor pieces that you can find, which, honestly, like there's a

850
01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:45.960
part of me that's like, Okay, I'm really glad there's like a lot

851
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:50.199
of legacy sort of outfits that you
can unlock. Like I've been rocking the

852
01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:56.800
Fierce Deity armor from Majora's Mask pretty
much the entire game, because that is

853
01:09:56.840 --> 01:10:00.600
my favorite Zelda thing of alt and
I'm really happy that this game like lets

854
01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:03.760
me do that. But at the
same time, like I thought about onlie

855
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:08.000
Man, it's kind of a cop
out that like the only things that I

856
01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:12.279
can find are cool things from others, all the games. Mhm. I

857
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:15.680
mean, it's it's cool that like
they do reference a lot of those older

858
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:20.560
other games, but like they feel
out of place. I don't feel part

859
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:25.880
of this world that they're trying to
build. Well, it's clearly Therey just

860
01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:29.039
for like, oh it's the thing, right, Like they're not building anything

861
01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:31.560
off of it where they could,
right. But also that also gets into

862
01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:34.840
like I feel like, if you're
going to go that mile, you need

863
01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:40.479
to kind of have like a pretty
coherence all the like timeline. Then we

864
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:45.840
know that's very iffy to incorporate all
of these things. But like, but

865
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:48.720
it's definitely a case with not only
two The Kingdom, but just like open

866
01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:53.199
world games in general, post like
Eldon Ring, It's it's really one of

867
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:57.239
those things that just like can our
developer's gonna find a way to make us

868
01:10:57.239 --> 01:11:01.359
feel rewarded for our time exploring these
places? Right? And like the enjoyment

869
01:11:01.359 --> 01:11:05.640
I get out of chairs of the
Kingdom for well, exploring really does just

870
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:09.640
come from like I really enjoyed the
Shrine puzzles, and like I'm not in

871
01:11:09.680 --> 01:11:12.319
it so much for the reward.
It's just like, oh, this is

872
01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:15.439
a neat thing, but I wish
there was better rewards, right, Like

873
01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:17.840
that is something I want out of
all of these types of games. And

874
01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:24.359
I don't know if like they had
enough time to like really think about that

875
01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:28.800
post elden Ring, right, like
they're very late into development cycle, but

876
01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:32.199
like I hope lessons are learned from
that game so that going forward we can

877
01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:36.560
see better things. But that is
definitely uh an area where that game still

878
01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:41.640
still kind of struggles. Yeah,
And like I agree with you, I

879
01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:45.479
enjoy doing the things and like learning
more about the lore and everything about this

880
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:49.159
world that they have built, because
I do think that narratively this game it

881
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:53.920
leaks about Breath of the Wild,
Like, let's start talking about positives about

882
01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:57.600
this game narratively, Okay, actually, this one's like a half and half

883
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.640
simply because of how like how it
does open world. We've discussed this at

884
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:10.079
length, bron I do feel yeah, I do feel like that that's worth

885
01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:14.119
mentioning. But I do think like
narratively, this game is leads better than

886
01:12:14.119 --> 01:12:15.800
Breath the while I care more about
these characters. I care more about like

887
01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:19.479
what's going on in the world.
They have like an actual, like physical

888
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:25.000
villain that feels menacing and I'm like, it's it's cool and the badass and

889
01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:31.079
like all. I wish this game
had a bit more structure around its narrative

890
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:36.880
because depending on how you play the
game can determine like the impact of said

891
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:44.319
narrative on you, Like basically because
Cheers of the Kingdom lets you go and

892
01:12:44.359 --> 01:12:47.520
do whatever you want from any point
in time, so long as like you

893
01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:53.680
find a way to do it,
it will and like the way it does

894
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:56.800
the same thing as Breath of the
Wild, where like to find like the

895
01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:00.520
general story of like what's going on, you go and you memories which are

896
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:06.039
flashbacks of like what's going on and
like why things are happening in High Rule

897
01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:12.159
as of right now, but like
they're total like specific cutscenes are in specific

898
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:15.720
spots and so like depending on what
spots you go for, will be the

899
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:18.680
cut scenes that you see, and
they're not necessarily in order. And the

900
01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:25.359
problem is is they developed cut scenes
that have like stingers, and then like

901
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:29.239
you go and you watch the cut
scene that is after the stinger first,

902
01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:31.039
and then you go and watch the
cut scene with this thing and you're like,

903
01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:35.159
oh, well, okay, I
guess that leads to that cut scene.

904
01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:42.800
It would have been a lot better
if I watched them like reverse and

905
01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:48.319
then like finding out the overall payoff
of like this cut scene quest super early

906
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:51.159
and then having to do the cut
scene quest was kind of a bummer.

907
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:57.920
Also very mad at Google, by
the way, what are googled? There?

908
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:03.760
They recommended an article about the game
talking about how Nintendo wants to have

909
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:12.680
a playable Zelda in the future,
and it's very clearly a screenshot of what

910
01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:17.399
is probably the ending. Oh oh
dang, Yeah, I'm very pissed.

911
01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:27.159
I'm very pissed Google. Please,
So, like I knew something about the

912
01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:30.039
ending now, which I was like, well, all right, that makes

913
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:33.720
me have some feelings about what I
already know. But you see the game

914
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:40.079
out to the end, But I
think what kind of annoys me of Like

915
01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:44.199
if this game just had more structure
and in terms of like how it tells

916
01:14:44.239 --> 01:14:47.640
its story, I think it would
just overall be better for it. I

917
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:53.000
was thinking about it today and like, I think, even after I beat

918
01:14:53.039 --> 01:14:55.319
Tears of the Kingdom and granted,
and I need to see how the ending

919
01:14:55.359 --> 01:14:59.680
plays out, but I think even
after Tiers of the Kingdom, Skywitzward will

920
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:04.880
probably remain the strongest narrative for me. But what sucks is Tears of the

921
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:11.960
Kingdom had the potential to beat that
out if I had just interacted with the

922
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:15.760
game a little bit differently. So
you think, because of how you experienced

923
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:21.920
it, it can't. So you
think the what is here? From what

924
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:27.920
I'm understanding is that you're saying that
what is here potentially could have been way

925
01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:30.279
better, or it could have been
better than sky Resort, but because of

926
01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:32.560
how you the order, you experienced
it, and it can't go over it.

927
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:35.800
Yes, so like you're acknowledging the
quality is better there, But like

928
01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:44.760
skyrisword is going to stick with you
harder where that kind of quality. It

929
01:15:44.760 --> 01:15:47.159
sounds like you're saying it's better,
but like because of how you experienced it

930
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:50.039
it it can't be better. So
it's like you're acknowledging like one thing.

931
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:55.960
It sounds like you're like saying both
things. Yeah, Like I think the

932
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:01.399
payoff is probably better than like,
well because Starward Sword, like I think

933
01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:05.880
it's it's narratively the strongest Zelda game
up to this point, right, I

934
01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:14.039
would agree star Starward Sword doesn't necessarily
have like any like huge revelations, but

935
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:16.680
it had like some really good emotional
scenes, and like that's why it sticks

936
01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:23.279
with me. I think the narrative
of Tears of the Kingdom had like some

937
01:16:23.359 --> 01:16:29.560
really good reveals that would have been
so much better. If I had experienced

938
01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:31.359
it differently, I would have pushed
it over Starward Swords. For me,

939
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:41.880
wrote like on an emotional level,
I think that's where I'm at, and

940
01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.920
like I can't help but walk away
like a little frustrated by that. I

941
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:53.560
am frustrated hearing that. I understand. I understand. I mean, it's

942
01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:58.359
not your fault, it's the game's
fault or my fault because of how I

943
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:02.159
decided to interact with world and explore
like I did what the game told me

944
01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:06.960
to do and I got punished for
it. It be that way, unfortunately.

945
01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:14.239
I think this is the strongest reason
is my question. I don't let

946
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:15.359
me put it this way, I
will, I will say definitively, I

947
01:17:15.399 --> 01:17:17.920
think this is the strongest narrative they
have ever done for his health game,

948
01:17:18.199 --> 01:17:25.479
like point blank, and I don't
And I don't think it's because of the

949
01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:28.520
order, Like I think you can
watch this out of out of order,

950
01:17:29.279 --> 01:17:34.239
and I think still as a whole, this story is stronger than Skyward Sword.

951
01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.239
I think the I think the emotional
beats of this game are stronger regardless

952
01:17:40.239 --> 01:17:43.039
of order. I think if you
look at like what is happening and the

953
01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:46.159
implications of how it all happens,
I think it is stronger than Skywardsword.

954
01:17:46.760 --> 01:17:49.279
But I also think up to this
point, Skyward Sword was the best.

955
01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:55.720
I don't know. I feel like
the reveal as far as like the main

956
01:17:55.760 --> 01:18:00.359
cut scene Quest Goes Again, I
feel like it would resonated with me so

957
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:04.399
much better if I hadn't discovered the
things that I had discovered so early on.

958
01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:09.159
Maybe like resonated in the moment,
I think so, right, like

959
01:18:09.199 --> 01:18:14.119
I agree with you, But if
you sit and think about the out that

960
01:18:14.199 --> 01:18:18.600
story, though, like you're gonna
tell me that's not stronger than what also

961
01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:24.359
that character has gone through in Skyward
Sword. I mean there are like alternate

962
01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:29.800
implications as well, like there are
things that I appreciate about Skyward Sword that

963
01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:32.319
are and Tiers of the Kingdom.
And again I haven't seen the ending of

964
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:36.079
Tears of the Kingdom yet, so
like I can't definitively say that. I

965
01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:43.439
think where you're going to land,
we'll see, we'll see. I'm very

966
01:18:43.479 --> 01:18:50.439
curious to see where you land.
I'm very curious, but like I don't

967
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:56.039
know. I just I wish the
structure was just a little better. I

968
01:18:56.119 --> 01:19:00.479
think it would have been better because
for for me, I think of like

969
01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:04.039
how I feel emotionally in the moment, and like that's how I resonate on

970
01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:10.600
things, like when I think about
them further along, like and how they

971
01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:18.439
resonated with me in the moment,
And like I wish I had that feeling

972
01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:21.600
in Steroid's Sword, like or not
star Ward Sword cheers the game point,

973
01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:27.840
I kind of do, but like
knowing that it could have been so much

974
01:19:27.880 --> 01:19:33.279
better is so irritating and like diminishes
from it a bit, and like to

975
01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:38.319
you it might seem like a dumb
thing to like focus on, but like

976
01:19:38.359 --> 01:19:41.399
I can't help it. I don't
think it's a dumb thing, but I

977
01:19:41.880 --> 01:19:44.960
like, I understand what you're saying, right, Like, I get it,

978
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:47.880
But I think I still think,
like the overall quality of this story

979
01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.760
is a higher quality. It's such
that like the moments are taken away from

980
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:55.760
you, but I think those are
kind of like two different things, I

981
01:19:55.760 --> 01:20:01.399
guess in my mind. So like
I understand, like I could see you

982
01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:08.039
saying, like Skywards Sword resonates with
me harder than Tears of the Kingdom,

983
01:20:08.079 --> 01:20:10.199
And I think it can also be
true that Tears of the Kingdom has a

984
01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:15.239
better story than Skyward's Sword, right, I think, I think, I

985
01:20:15.279 --> 01:20:19.640
think, no, go on,
I think, like objectively, I think

986
01:20:19.680 --> 01:20:24.159
this has a stronger story than Skyward
Sword. I think is what where I

987
01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:28.800
land. And I was hoping you
would feel the same, right, but

988
01:20:28.880 --> 01:20:30.239
maybe not. And I'll be very
curious to see, like at the end

989
01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:35.520
of this where we can compare both
games, like coming first. So I

990
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:42.319
mean, we're not gonna talk about
it until twenty twenty four, So so

991
01:20:42.439 --> 01:20:45.960
like I think both things can be
true. Like, I get the feeling

992
01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:48.640
in wanting to be in the moment
and all that stuff, Like, I

993
01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:55.920
understand that, But I think aside
from that, I think Cheers of the

994
01:20:56.000 --> 01:21:00.880
Kingdom still just has a stronger narrative
overall. Then maybe I think I have

995
01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:04.359
to admit this. There is also
the aspect of I think there's aspects of

996
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:09.399
Skyward Sword that like, I don't
know why I'm comparing Skyward Sword and Cheers

997
01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:13.079
of the Kingdom so hard. I
think I think there is a lot to

998
01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:15.880
compare, Like, having freshly played
both of those games, I think it

999
01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:19.960
is very fair to compare those games
in a lot of different ways. Unlike,

1000
01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:24.159
there are other aspects of Skyward Sword
that like, I also compare.

1001
01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:29.840
For example, the first dungeon of
Tiers of the Kingdom was really really cool,

1002
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:32.800
and then I did the second dungeon, and then I did the third

1003
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:39.640
due dang, these dungeons are kind
of saying and that is disappointed. I

1004
01:21:39.640 --> 01:21:43.439
think the dungeons have a lot more
character than the dungeons and Breath of the

1005
01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:45.479
Wild like, for sure, I
think they're a lot cooler, like,

1006
01:21:46.039 --> 01:21:50.399
uh, the aesthetics are a lot
more exotic, like they feel more like

1007
01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:58.439
dungeons, but they ultimately are all
the same thing, and I feel like

1008
01:21:58.479 --> 01:22:00.880
that's a bit of it, like
a little bit of a missed opportunity.

1009
01:22:02.079 --> 01:22:05.439
Granted, I think that's a product
of like the game systems and that's just

1010
01:22:05.439 --> 01:22:12.640
the way it is, right,
but like that's another reason why Skyrot Sward

1011
01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:15.199
skart Sward in my opinion, and
you know what, feel free to tweet

1012
01:22:15.199 --> 01:22:17.600
at me and tell me how wrong
I am. I will disagree with you.

1013
01:22:17.920 --> 01:22:25.920
Skarrotward has the best like designs elder
dungeons of all time, And like

1014
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:29.840
I was really hoping, like one
of one of my major hopes going from

1015
01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:32.520
Breath a while to two the game, especially after playing elden Ring, was

1016
01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:39.680
that we would have more fleshed out
and like really needy dungeons. Because I

1017
01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:45.039
was talking to a friend earlier today
about like why elden Ring has resonated with

1018
01:22:45.079 --> 01:22:47.760
me more even though I really liked
here as the Kingdom, is that ellen

1019
01:22:47.840 --> 01:22:53.199
Ring is this open world, but
it still has like it's areas, It

1020
01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:59.039
still has the legacy dark souls areas. Legacy, yeah, legacy Dune,

1021
01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:02.119
which I didn't realize. I didn't
know that until today when I was talking

1022
01:23:02.479 --> 01:23:08.760
with Wrong about it and I was
like, oh, well, why does

1023
01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:12.399
an indenda just do that? They
could totally do that. They could,

1024
01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:17.439
they could. I wish they would
lean into it more like baby steps are

1025
01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:23.960
being taken, but like they they
should lean into it more like to compare

1026
01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:28.000
Teams of the Kingdom to another game
that I played this year, I compared

1027
01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:30.680
to Octopath two a lot in that
it's very it does a lot of the

1028
01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:35.319
same things Octopath two does, where
like it's moving in the right direction of

1029
01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:40.359
what I wanted to do, Yeah, but it's not there yet. It's

1030
01:23:40.399 --> 01:23:45.840
not moving fast enough. Yeah,
And again I still need to see you,

1031
01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:48.920
like where where the end of this
narrative is, and like there is

1032
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:55.760
structure there clearly because there are things
that are in this world that I cannot

1033
01:23:55.800 --> 01:23:59.840
interact with, and it's clearly waiting
for me to beat certain things. And

1034
01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:02.239
that's another reason, like I probably
should have done things a bit differently.

1035
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:05.359
I played this game like I would
play Breath of the while I probably should

1036
01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:12.560
have finished like the main dungeons like
fucking one hundred hours ago. I wanted

1037
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.840
to do that. But at the
same time, it's just like you figure

1038
01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:17.399
it out on your own, you
know. Like I'm not trying to like

1039
01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:21.000
push you, you know what I'm
saying. It's like, yeah, you

1040
01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:26.000
have to discover the game at your
own pace, you know. Yeah.

1041
01:24:26.039 --> 01:24:29.399
And I kind of wish I had, you know, just made that decision

1042
01:24:29.479 --> 01:24:31.439
earlier. But like, at the
same time, I just kept getting distracted

1043
01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:36.439
by something. Be like what's it
says something for like a game that it

1044
01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:40.640
does a terrible job of rewarding me. I still like went and fucking did

1045
01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:45.399
shit. It's still fun to play
in that world is a game to play,

1046
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:48.760
right, So like stuff is still
fun. I do want to like

1047
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:54.119
preface this or not, but I
want to state I really liked this game,

1048
01:24:54.560 --> 01:24:58.319
like it is a contender for top
five Zelder games. Like, despite

1049
01:24:58.359 --> 01:25:02.520
all of my complaints, I still
think it's really good. This game is

1050
01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:06.640
incredible. It's really really good.
It's contender for game of the year.

1051
01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:10.680
Like that is better the Breath of
the Wild can say it is contender for

1052
01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:14.000
game of the year for me.
So like, I really do like this

1053
01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:17.560
game, But like, at the
same time, everybody already knows what's good

1054
01:25:17.560 --> 01:25:21.039
about this game. I need to, like, I want to be a

1055
01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:27.000
bit more analytical and critical of like
where like they made a great game,

1056
01:25:27.079 --> 01:25:30.279
but they could have also made an
even better game. No, granted,

1057
01:25:30.600 --> 01:25:35.239
it's not entirely fair compared to elden
Ring because elm Ring came out and they

1058
01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:39.560
had like a year, So like
a lot of the things that elden Ring

1059
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:45.560
like really established, they had no
way of like really implementing that. Yeah,

1060
01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:53.119
but like going forwards that they had
for Breath of the Wild Tears came,

1061
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:57.079
they could have fixed the UI.
There's like a lot of things they

1062
01:25:57.119 --> 01:26:00.319
could have definitely fixed and like they
kind of fix but they didn't, and

1063
01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:03.880
so like I can't help but like
point those out. But I do really

1064
01:26:03.920 --> 01:26:06.479
like this game. I think it's
so much better than Breath of the Whild.

1065
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:10.279
It is definitely like the kind of
improvement that I wanted to see and

1066
01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:13.079
I look forward to, Like like, all right, I'll put it to

1067
01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.039
you this way. I did not
finish all the shrines in Breath of the

1068
01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.600
Whild. I got to a point
where I was like I'm done. Yeah,

1069
01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:24.000
I have not gotten like I've gotten
to that point in Tiers of the

1070
01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:28.199
Kingdom of I've been playing this game
for two hundred hours I would really like

1071
01:26:28.279 --> 01:26:32.920
to play something else, but I
also keep playing it because like, don't

1072
01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:36.720
get me wrong, I was saying
the exact same thing at our two hundred

1073
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:41.000
of Eldon Ring Online. I really
like this game. I really wish I

1074
01:26:41.039 --> 01:26:44.399
was playing something else, but I
have to finish this game, right,

1075
01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:46.319
and that's where I'm at in Tiers
of the Kingdom. So, like all

1076
01:26:46.359 --> 01:26:49.199
things said, like despite my complaints, and the game is really cool.

1077
01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:54.159
I think the world is amazing.
I think the engine that they built in

1078
01:26:54.159 --> 01:27:00.079
that game is cool, like being
able to build something and like just like

1079
01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:03.079
build a flying machine or build a
car. I don't understand why horses exist

1080
01:27:03.119 --> 01:27:08.880
in this game. Like the Fuse
Mechanic is really cool because I can make

1081
01:27:08.960 --> 01:27:15.520
all all sorts of like different weapons
and arrows, and like I can gush

1082
01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:19.960
of like why I really like this
game. I can, but none of

1083
01:27:19.960 --> 01:27:24.319
that is good for discussion, So
like I want to talk about these things

1084
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:30.239
that are good for discussion, but
like here's the Kingdom does do things right.

1085
01:27:30.239 --> 01:27:32.760
The Feuse Mechanic fixes so many complaints
I had from the first game,

1086
01:27:32.840 --> 01:27:38.840
and like I have like I think
it's really cool that you can take the

1087
01:27:39.319 --> 01:27:43.319
katanas that you got from the Yiga
clan and like you can now have like

1088
01:27:43.399 --> 01:27:47.359
elemental shots on like your wind attacks. Yeah, I think that's really cool.

1089
01:27:47.399 --> 01:27:50.600
And so I hoard those weapons that
I'm trying to like exclusively find them,

1090
01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:53.800
and then if they're about to break, I'll go and get them repaired.

1091
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:58.079
And I'm like, Okay, that's
really cool exploring the underground in the

1092
01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:03.960
sky and like finding like just getting
around is cool and fun. And see,

1093
01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.880
this is this is not a good
discussion. This is mee of judging.

1094
01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:12.239
We had we had to get through, like the thirty minutes of like

1095
01:28:12.319 --> 01:28:16.880
me fucking tearing the game shreds.
First. No, I think James the

1096
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:19.319
Kingdom's really good. I think it's
definitely contender for game of the year,

1097
01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:26.840
like for your own personal game of
the year. I've been told that because

1098
01:28:26.840 --> 01:28:29.760
it's too similar to About the While, that it doesn't hold a candle to

1099
01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:34.800
Balder's Gate. But I mean,
I think that's a subjective viewpoint. If

1100
01:28:34.840 --> 01:28:36.439
it's your game of the year,
it's your game of the year, and

1101
01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:44.640
I understand why it's definitely a weird
viewpoint. These are the video game opinions

1102
01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:47.319
that I get on a daily basis. Is why I'm so glad I have

1103
01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:51.439
you in my life. I understand. It's so funny because like what Tears

1104
01:28:51.439 --> 01:28:58.640
of the Kingdom does for like not
just Zelda, but kind of like the

1105
01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:03.680
freedom of expression out of an open
world game, right, Balder's Gate does

1106
01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:11.359
the same exact thing, or CRPGs. It is very fun comparing both of

1107
01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:15.159
those games and like how they bust
open like the genre that they're playing in

1108
01:29:15.800 --> 01:29:21.119
and kind of the same, like
how we talked about how like tis the

1109
01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:27.319
Kingdom, lets you build a gun
dum metal gear rex, but also like

1110
01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:30.800
we can be really stupid and we're
just going to build a raft out of

1111
01:29:30.840 --> 01:29:34.800
three logs and a fan. Yeah
right, We're build a bridge out of

1112
01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:38.720
twelve logs, or build a bridge
out of twelve log But somebody else is

1113
01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:44.560
building a fucking warship right that has
like heat seeking lasers and shit right on

1114
01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:46.319
the other show. I mean,
I was really proud of myself when I

1115
01:29:46.359 --> 01:29:49.239
built a boat with like a single
laser to deal with off the rocks in

1116
01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:51.520
I came across and I'm like,
you know what is really cool that I

1117
01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:55.680
can do? It's pretty tight.
And then you have like Bulder's Gate which

1118
01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:59.640
on the CRPG side of things is
just like, I'm too stupid. I'm

1119
01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:02.920
just going to swing sword and kill
enemy and this is fine. And then

1120
01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:08.720
someone with a three thousand IQ play
is like, but what if I stack

1121
01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:12.319
forty five crates on top of each
other so then I can use teleport to

1122
01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:15.920
get over this castle building. Well, basically like Balder's Gate three, lets

1123
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:18.399
you do the dumb shit that you
would try to do in an actual D

1124
01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:23.119
and D campaign, right, yes, and it equates for it, like

1125
01:30:23.880 --> 01:30:27.039
yeah. So like, for example, if you're playing a D and D

1126
01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:30.359
campaign and you're a sorcerer and you're
on an enemy ship and it's thinking,

1127
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:33.760
you could be like, all right, dungeon master, I want to cast

1128
01:30:34.119 --> 01:30:39.920
explosion on the deck of the ship
and use it to propel myself back to

1129
01:30:39.960 --> 01:30:42.520
my ship. Yes, and your
dungeon master would be like, okay,

1130
01:30:42.560 --> 01:30:46.439
make a roll check, make make
a role for it, and then yeah,

1131
01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:49.720
that's it, walters Gate says roll
check, and then it's just like,

1132
01:30:49.840 --> 01:30:54.319
yeah, go for it. And
I feel like Kame does the exact

1133
01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:57.920
same thing in just a different way. It does right. It's fun comparing

1134
01:30:57.960 --> 01:31:03.119
those two games wildly questions and actually
I'll close with an anecdote of like why

1135
01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:09.720
like Tears of the Kingdom was really
getting in my view for a Game of

1136
01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:14.880
the Year is that I was coming
across like a lake and I didn't really

1137
01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:17.920
have the materials to make a boat. So I was like, ah,

1138
01:31:17.920 --> 01:31:19.840
shoot, I need to get across
the side of the lake, and I

1139
01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:21.880
don't want to have to swim.
I don't have a lot of stamina,

1140
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:29.359
And like I was able to like
shoot an ice arrow into the water to

1141
01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:32.640
make like an ice block, and
then infuse that ice block to like a

1142
01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:36.479
stick to make an ice fan,
and then I was able to use the

1143
01:31:36.600 --> 01:31:42.319
ice fan to just make a bridge
of ice to cross the lake. And

1144
01:31:42.399 --> 01:31:46.439
like I immediately thought about me playing
Majora's Mask when I'm a kid, where

1145
01:31:46.479 --> 01:31:51.039
like there's near the water temple in
Majora's Mask, Like you can see the

1146
01:31:51.079 --> 01:31:54.680
water temple off in the distance,
but you have to ride like a turtle

1147
01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:57.560
to get there. But for whatever
reason, when I was a kid,

1148
01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:00.239
I wanted to try to see if
I could get there without the turtle.

1149
01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:03.600
And so I drank like the potion
that gives you unlimited magic, and I

1150
01:32:03.640 --> 01:32:08.319
mean, and I just shot ice
arrows to try and make a bridge to

1151
01:32:08.319 --> 01:32:11.159
get to this dungeon. Obviously,
like I never got to it, but

1152
01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:14.880
like to be able to like come
up with that idea in a Zelda game

1153
01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:19.039
and then actually see that idea realize
in a future Zelda game, it's really

1154
01:32:19.079 --> 01:32:23.520
cool. Yeah, And like that's
where I said that. I like this

1155
01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:29.800
game is like letting you live my
adventure, like how I dreamt I would

1156
01:32:29.800 --> 01:32:33.319
play Zelda when I was younger,
And like in some aspects, Tiers of

1157
01:32:33.359 --> 01:32:39.880
the Kingdom does that better than elden
Ring, Like I think I think Tears

1158
01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:45.920
of the Kingdom ember Reth the while
like on adjacent makes exploring and getting around

1159
01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:49.920
a lot more fun than elden Ring
did. Absolutely. I mean elan Ring

1160
01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:53.279
you had Torrent. You're like he
had a double jumping horse, and like

1161
01:32:53.319 --> 01:33:00.079
that's really cool. But like just
getting places in like Tiers of the king

1162
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:02.800
and like that's why I enjoy playing
is like figuring out, like well,

1163
01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:05.319
how do I cross this? Like
anytime I get to a cave, like

1164
01:33:05.399 --> 01:33:09.880
I can just like make a bridge
out of ice, or like I can

1165
01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:12.960
find a way to like crawl through
it, or I can make a boat.

1166
01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:15.119
Now in Tiers of the Kingdom,
and like that's really cool, and

1167
01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:18.479
like that's what things I really like
about Tiers of the Kingdom. And when

1168
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:23.039
I want to see more, just
give me like a super six sword at

1169
01:33:23.039 --> 01:33:28.199
the end of that cave instead of
a fucking hoorock please, that's all I

1170
01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:32.720
want, totally want and like and
like you could still have the durability,

1171
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:36.239
but like especially when they put in
like the legacy weapons. Most of these

1172
01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:40.000
legacy weapons don't have special effects,
oh man, because I can give him

1173
01:33:40.000 --> 01:33:44.560
special effects and I'm like, oh, okay, that's really cool. There's

1174
01:33:44.600 --> 01:33:46.760
like small things that they could do
to just make it that much better.

1175
01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:50.079
Yeah, And I hope to see
it in the next one. I think.

1176
01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:53.479
I g on Uma already said that
he's working on the next one,

1177
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:56.079
but it's not a sequel two Breath
of Wild or Tiers of the Kingdom.

1178
01:33:56.119 --> 01:34:00.960
So it's very interesting they said that
because like next year, I think,

1179
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:04.560
or no, earlier this year,
they were definitely talking about like how they

1180
01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:08.239
were working on the next game or
they're thinking about the next game, and

1181
01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:14.199
that it would be like an evolution
of like the current engine. But I

1182
01:34:14.199 --> 01:34:16.039
guess maybe those plans may have changed, and I have a different idea in

1183
01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:19.239
mind, and you know what,
I'm sure or it is an evolution of

1184
01:34:19.279 --> 01:34:23.880
the currency, or maybe it is
in like they just pushed it. Maybe

1185
01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:29.039
it's more of emerging of like the
ideas in elden Ring and the ideas of

1186
01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:32.079
I don't even know what to call
these elders, like just the Open World's

1187
01:34:32.079 --> 01:34:40.439
elder, like I think, I
think there's a lot of potential there.

1188
01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:45.479
I mean, Anoma makes great games, like he sturd towards, so I

1189
01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:48.239
trust the guy, and The Kingdom
is a great game, so I'm very

1190
01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:54.199
excited to see what the next Elder
brings up. For sure. Yeah,

1191
01:34:54.760 --> 01:34:58.279
and again I think Tiers of the
Kingdom is a vast improvement of Breath A

1192
01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:01.760
while I won't say I couldn't have
asked for more, because I definitely could

1193
01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:06.279
have. This episode is any evidence
of it. But it is a seven

1194
01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:10.560
light like Octopat too. It's a
step of the right direction and I like

1195
01:35:10.640 --> 01:35:14.520
what I am playing, and it's
definitely contender of game of the year for

1196
01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:17.960
mere incredibly stacked here, Oh yeah, oh god, it's this year stacked

1197
01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:28.359
cool. I love that. I'm
tired of talking. That's fine, I

1198
01:35:28.399 --> 01:35:30.880
will take over for you. Sir
you. Oh look, we haven't been

1199
01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:33.840
here for a while. I had
a lot to talk about. I see.

1200
01:35:34.560 --> 01:35:39.640
My man's was like, I'm taking
up all the clock. That's cool

1201
01:35:39.640 --> 01:35:42.439
though. I love I love that. I'm glad you are. You are

1202
01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:45.920
finding this level of enjoymentality is the
Kingdom. I wasn't sure. I was

1203
01:35:45.920 --> 01:35:47.800
like, is true gonna like this
guy? I wasn't sure, But I

1204
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:55.119
am glad that you do. That
makes me happen. That's it's some serious

1205
01:35:55.119 --> 01:36:01.760
Dookholm syndrome if you didn't. But
cool. Since we have last recorded,

1206
01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:09.239
I've played through many a video game. I've beaten several. I don't have

1207
01:36:09.279 --> 01:36:12.039
time to talk about everything, but
some of that stuff we'll be talked about

1208
01:36:12.119 --> 01:36:15.840
on the Game of the Year episode. I'm sure, because I'm sure I'm

1209
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:19.279
going to talk about like five different
games during during that bit, I did

1210
01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:24.319
finish like a Dragon Dragon Guy Den, the man who erased his name.

1211
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:30.039
That is something that I do plan
to talk more about at a later date,

1212
01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:33.640
But just no very quick thoughts on
that. I appreciate that it is

1213
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:38.960
a much smaller focused game. It
is like the Miles morales of this of

1214
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:42.439
this series, right, so instead
of being like a forty to fifty hour

1215
01:36:42.520 --> 01:36:47.520
game. It is like a very
clean twenty twenty ish hours to do one

1216
01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:51.039
hundred I never one hundred percent.
Yeah, because of games like there's always

1217
01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:55.119
substories I leave on the table,
there's always extra stuff I leave on the

1218
01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:59.720
table. I did every substory in
this game. I did just about everything

1219
01:36:59.760 --> 01:37:02.840
you could doing this game, aside
from the Coliseum, which is just like

1220
01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:08.279
a little too grindy for my taste. But I do kind of want to

1221
01:37:08.319 --> 01:37:11.600
go back and do it though,
because it's very annoying seeing like, hey,

1222
01:37:11.640 --> 01:37:14.680
you only have like two more achievements
to go, and I'm just like,

1223
01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:18.840
I just finished this out. You
know, there is a I need

1224
01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:21.920
to get back into the Yakaza series
just so I could play this, just

1225
01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:27.680
so I can see the one side
story that I saw a screenshot of.

1226
01:37:28.279 --> 01:37:32.119
Yeah, I I need to live
through this side story. You would appreciate

1227
01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:36.119
that game does a really good job
of connecting all of the universes, everything

1228
01:37:36.119 --> 01:37:41.039
that RGG Studio has done so far. That game like shouts out everything and

1229
01:37:41.079 --> 01:37:45.079
it's just like this, this world
now truly feels complete. I have decided

1230
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:47.439
that next year is going to be
the Drew Riakos for a year, and

1231
01:37:47.560 --> 01:37:51.960
I'm going to start in the series
next year. Please please do I think

1232
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:58.640
this This game originally started out as
DLC for Yakuza seven. It was just

1233
01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:00.479
supposed to be a very small thing, and then it blew up into being

1234
01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:09.119
its own self contained story, which
has in my opinion, uh and I

1235
01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:13.479
think Chase is also an agreement.
From what I've talked about, this has

1236
01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:16.960
the best ending of any game that
the studio has done. Oh wow,

1237
01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:24.880
that's that's a high bar saying something. That's a high fucking bar, because

1238
01:38:24.920 --> 01:38:29.920
there's some there's been some good endings
that I've seen from RGG Studios in some

1239
01:38:29.960 --> 01:38:33.880
of the games I played. So
they all hit, like Judgment, Lost,

1240
01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:40.439
Judgment, Yoxon Seven's Kiwamie zero,
all of them, they all hit,

1241
01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:45.239
But this one, like it is
a different It is a different tone

1242
01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.520
for like the last like hour of
that game, because they're always like very

1243
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:54.920
bombastic, but this one has a
very like, very different but intentional tone

1244
01:38:54.960 --> 01:39:00.560
to it, and it hits so
fucking hard. I was crying at the

1245
01:39:00.640 --> 01:39:02.760
end of this, like ugly crying, which was very funny because Lewis was

1246
01:39:02.800 --> 01:39:05.439
sending me memes at the same time, So like I was crying and then

1247
01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:09.760
looking at my phone and then like
laughing and then looking at the screen and

1248
01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:14.199
crying again, And it was a
very like awkward like back and emotion Lorne.

1249
01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:18.720
But like it, it hits.
It is like the perfect capstone to

1250
01:39:18.920 --> 01:39:24.119
like this series as a whole.
And now I'm very much excited to see

1251
01:39:24.159 --> 01:39:30.399
like where we go from here with
Infinite Wealthycase eight. So yeah, Drew,

1252
01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:32.640
I'm excited for you to start the
games. I think you will fall

1253
01:39:32.680 --> 01:39:35.760
in love with, like at least
the narrative of them. Some of them

1254
01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:40.000
maybe hit or miss in terms of
like combat. I don't know where you'll

1255
01:39:40.039 --> 01:39:45.760
fall on that. They're they're very
much like Arcade beat them up games,

1256
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:49.359
Like they're they're yanky uh in,
just like very goofy stuff there. But

1257
01:39:49.399 --> 01:39:55.279
I think you're really going to get
into the narr especially very early iterations of

1258
01:39:55.479 --> 01:39:59.840
early Dragon Engine. You're gonna end
up going back and forth, right because

1259
01:39:59.880 --> 01:40:03.159
like you have like zero and like
some of the more like modern takes on

1260
01:40:03.199 --> 01:40:08.199
them, and then you have like
the three through six remasters, which is

1261
01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:11.640
like I'm playing a PS three game, you know, So like you're gonna

1262
01:40:11.640 --> 01:40:14.079
go back and forth in terms of
controls. But like, I think you're

1263
01:40:14.079 --> 01:40:18.920
going to enjoy it all and I'm
looking forward to uh hearing your thoughts or

1264
01:40:18.960 --> 01:40:24.319
watching you stream stream them if you
do. Uh, none of those,

1265
01:40:25.479 --> 01:40:29.119
none of those are coming off a
game pass anytime soon, right, No,

1266
01:40:29.800 --> 01:40:39.159
they're almost like permanently there games even
better. Yeah, but yeah,

1267
01:40:39.239 --> 01:40:42.960
they they left game Pass for a
little while and then they the contract got

1268
01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.199
renewed, so they're all up there. So it's very very easy for anybody

1269
01:40:46.199 --> 01:40:49.239
to check them out if you haven't, including the latest one like a guide

1270
01:40:49.239 --> 01:40:55.199
in uh or like a guide like
a dragon, like a dragon. Guidan

1271
01:40:55.359 --> 01:40:58.479
is also on there, and I
think Infinite Wealth will also be on game

1272
01:40:58.479 --> 01:41:03.479
Pass, so Issians not on game
pass, so right, yes it is

1273
01:41:03.640 --> 01:41:09.920
oh is Yes, I need to
play. You need to play, you

1274
01:41:09.960 --> 01:41:13.720
need to play Isshian, please play. I need to play. That's also

1275
01:41:13.720 --> 01:41:17.000
a very good one. So yeah, that was a very emotional game.

1276
01:41:18.439 --> 01:41:26.439
I finished playing Little Goody two Shoes. It's very good. What is it

1277
01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:30.399
Little Goody two Shoes? You can
look it up on Steam and check out

1278
01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:34.159
the trailer. It is a It
is a horror game that has a very

1279
01:41:34.279 --> 01:41:41.159
nineties anime aesthetic to it. It's
a very simple game of you play a

1280
01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:48.920
girl, and a girl named Elise. Elise Uh actually lives in this town

1281
01:41:49.479 --> 01:41:56.000
that is seemingly tormented by a witch
and the town is very paranoid about who

1282
01:41:56.039 --> 01:42:00.560
this switch is. So you're you're
operating on so like you have like a

1283
01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:04.159
morning section, an afternoon section,
and even a section in a late night

1284
01:42:04.239 --> 01:42:08.720
section where you're going around, you're
talking to the town, you're doing little

1285
01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:14.680
mini games. There's romance in the
game. There's three bachelorettes to choose from.

1286
01:42:14.960 --> 01:42:17.239
There are two correct answers, and
I will leave it at that.

1287
01:42:18.840 --> 01:42:28.000
Yeah, And you have like you're
kind of managing different meters in that game.

1288
01:42:28.119 --> 01:42:32.439
So you do have like a hunger
gauge, which every time the time

1289
01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:36.920
transitions between like morning and afternoon,
you lose one hunger, and then you

1290
01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:40.520
have a health gauge, right,
so if you get hit by enemies,

1291
01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:45.119
you lose health. There's also a
suspicion gauge, right, so as you

1292
01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:47.640
talk to NPCs and they start questioning
you, they might start thinking, oh

1293
01:42:48.000 --> 01:42:51.880
is Alisa which and you have to
like keep that suspicion down, right.

1294
01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:57.640
It's a very it's not stressful at
all, So I wouldn't say it's like

1295
01:42:58.760 --> 01:43:01.920
like you really have to worry too
much. You have plenty of resources to

1296
01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:08.279
buy food items, by healing items, by things that help you progress through

1297
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:11.760
the game. I don't think at
any point you can really lock yourself out

1298
01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:15.600
of anything, you know, but
it is something that's just very fun to

1299
01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:21.199
see play out, as like paranoia
starts like ripping through this village. I

1300
01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:26.039
will say, as far as it
being like scary, I don't think the

1301
01:43:26.039 --> 01:43:29.880
game is necessarily scary. I think
there's like two or three jump scares that

1302
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:32.079
got me pretty good, right,
one that is very early on, and

1303
01:43:32.119 --> 01:43:36.119
then it just kind of chills out
for a while. But overall, like

1304
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:40.560
it is not a scary game,
but it is a tense game at times

1305
01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:45.880
as you walk through like these weird
landscapes, or you have a lantern,

1306
01:43:45.359 --> 01:43:49.760
right so at night it gets very
dark and like your paranoia gauge kind of

1307
01:43:49.760 --> 01:43:53.079
goes up a little bit and you're
like, Okay, I need to light

1308
01:43:53.119 --> 01:43:57.920
this lantern and you have like matches
you kind of have to manage right as

1309
01:43:57.960 --> 01:44:00.359
the light goes out and you have
to strike another match, and like walking

1310
01:44:00.439 --> 01:44:03.600
through these dark areas. You just
like, is this game gonna fuck with

1311
01:44:03.640 --> 01:44:08.319
me? And you know it's bad
when like you go through parts of the

1312
01:44:08.359 --> 01:44:12.319
game and it doesn't do anything,
but like you're tense, right because you

1313
01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:15.239
know at some point this game is
going to fuck with me, right.

1314
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:19.800
It's that it's that kind of feeling. It reminds me of Evil Tonight.

1315
01:44:20.239 --> 01:44:24.840
Yeah, yeah, this makes me
really happy. There's some Evil Tonight vibes

1316
01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:28.359
in there. So I don't think
it's anything too hard for people to play.

1317
01:44:29.159 --> 01:44:32.239
And it does have multiple endings,
right, because it follows like the

1318
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:36.800
romance options, and there's a few
other endings in there based on if you

1319
01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:44.760
survive, right, But I got
one ending with the romance option, and

1320
01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:49.319
it was so good that like,
I don't need to play the rest of

1321
01:44:49.359 --> 01:44:53.079
this, Like I don't need to
see the other endings. I am like

1322
01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:56.159
content with what I had. And
I was like, this was a very

1323
01:44:56.199 --> 01:45:00.239
good story. I will go back
and play through the rest of it.

1324
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.000
But where my character ends up at
the end and how the story unfolded,

1325
01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:09.840
I'm like, yep, this is
it. This was very very good.

1326
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:15.159
It's not going to be like top
five in my Game of the Year.

1327
01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:17.239
Or anything. It might not even
slip into like top ten, but I

1328
01:45:17.239 --> 01:45:20.960
think it is a very good game
this year, and it is a cool

1329
01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:27.199
thing out of Square NX to publish, which, like Square Enix now has

1330
01:45:27.199 --> 01:45:30.239
published two games, two horror games
this year that like kind of stuck with

1331
01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:32.840
me, right, the other one
being Paranormal Site, which was an in

1332
01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:39.560
house Square NX developed game, and
this one is just published. So it's

1333
01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:43.359
very cool that they're like taking chances
on like some smaller things here and there,

1334
01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:46.359
you know, very very pleasant surprise
because that game kind of came out

1335
01:45:46.359 --> 01:45:49.319
of nowhere, right, It's just
like in October they announced it and you're

1336
01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:55.680
like, what is this? And
it's very short too, It's only I

1337
01:45:55.680 --> 01:46:00.399
think that was like ten hours that
for that first playthrough, and I think

1338
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:04.880
subsequent playthroughs would be much shorter since
you already know what to do. The

1339
01:46:04.920 --> 01:46:11.920
mini games in that game are like
unhinged with what they do. Like the

1340
01:46:12.039 --> 01:46:16.600
visual the visual aesthetic of that game
I think is like some of the best

1341
01:46:16.640 --> 01:46:24.079
this year. I think it is
amazing what they do for their visual style

1342
01:46:24.159 --> 01:46:27.279
and how they transition to like mini
games, and how they transition to like

1343
01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:31.960
the night stuff and there. There
are certain segments of the game where it's

1344
01:46:32.119 --> 01:46:36.800
just like you start questioning, what
are you actually playing? They come out

1345
01:46:36.800 --> 01:46:42.000
of pocket with some with some scenes. It's a great time. Please go

1346
01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:45.960
play it. And it's only like
I think fifteen bucks on Steam. I

1347
01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:50.119
think it's also on Switch. I'm
not sure, but definitely give it a

1348
01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:56.560
look. See every christis finally got
its PC version. I pop that on

1349
01:46:56.640 --> 01:47:03.359
today. Hey please white Girl,
white Girl, please save me, save

1350
01:47:03.439 --> 01:47:10.359
me White Girl ever crisis, Final
Fantay seven Ever Crisis. Yeah, yeah,

1351
01:47:10.680 --> 01:47:14.520
they finally Yeah. The Steam version
dropped a couple of days ago.

1352
01:47:15.640 --> 01:47:17.880
Oh wait, I think I did
see someone about that. Did they ever

1353
01:47:17.920 --> 01:47:20.880
get the servers up and running?
Yeah, it's all. It's up and

1354
01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:25.640
it's up and running. Everything is
up and good. I think our friends

1355
01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:30.760
over in Southeast Asia are still locked
out, so like they may need to

1356
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:35.520
do some VP and stuff to access
the game, but we're good. It

1357
01:47:35.640 --> 01:47:40.720
is still that game. It is
just a PC version with like with higher

1358
01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:47.000
resolution textures and like it's really pretty
all. It's basically just mobile game version

1359
01:47:47.039 --> 01:47:51.600
of Final Fanta seven remake Integrate.
Like the models are so high quality that

1360
01:47:51.680 --> 01:47:54.960
I'm like, oh, this is
super pretty. This is great. I

1361
01:47:55.000 --> 01:48:00.199
think I'll do all of the story
segments on PC going forward. I'm pretty

1362
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.439
pretty impressed by it, honestly.
And they have like keyboard shortcuts and stuff

1363
01:48:03.479 --> 01:48:06.199
too, so that like you don't
have to use the mouse to play it.

1364
01:48:06.760 --> 01:48:13.279
This is some like thoughtful like porting
that went on for this version that

1365
01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:17.880
I found very interesting. And then
also they do have the Christmas manner,

1366
01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:26.920
so like I did get both Tifa
and Erith's Christmas outfits despite having to spend

1367
01:48:26.960 --> 01:48:30.319
all of my gems, but I
got there. I was saved by white

1368
01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:39.000
curl. Uh. But yeah,
it's good. I if people like f

1369
01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:42.359
F seven, right, I think
it's a pretty solid gotcha game. Like

1370
01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:45.520
you know, don't don't expect too
much out of it, but enjoy the

1371
01:48:45.560 --> 01:48:48.119
story out of it. There's some
good stuff there, especially with the first

1372
01:48:48.119 --> 01:48:56.000
Soldier stuff. I think they're they're
doing some interesting stuff there. I thought

1373
01:48:55.880 --> 01:48:58.039
it Spider Man two. Don't really
have much to talk about it on Spider

1374
01:48:58.039 --> 01:49:02.920
Man two. The only other thing
I really want to highlight here at this

1375
01:49:03.159 --> 01:49:09.760
point is a Lethal Company is a
game that that Stealth dropped recently came out

1376
01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:15.760
of nowhere that is kind of uh
seen the clips. Huh, I've seen

1377
01:49:15.800 --> 01:49:18.960
the clips. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's making its rounds right. Everybody

1378
01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:24.600
is on Lethal Company. I played
it the day came out. I got

1379
01:49:24.600 --> 01:49:30.920
a chance to actually sit down and
I got together with with Asher and Carry

1380
01:49:30.960 --> 01:49:38.239
actually and we we hopped on Discord
and played some Lethal Company. And that

1381
01:49:38.279 --> 01:49:45.479
game is great. That game is
really fucking fun for to set up what

1382
01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:49.840
it is, essentially, you basically
clock into work. You have a you

1383
01:49:49.880 --> 01:49:55.800
have a Greek how you worlded that. It's it's what it is. You

1384
01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:00.319
listen, I clocked out of work
so that I can hop on this Gordon

1385
01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:04.479
clock back into work. You gather
up with up to three other friends,

1386
01:50:04.560 --> 01:50:08.319
so you can have up to a
party of four. Though there are mods

1387
01:50:08.359 --> 01:50:11.760
to make the room bigger. I
think that kind of takes away from the

1388
01:50:11.800 --> 01:50:15.399
game a little bit. I think
five players it's a cool sweet spot.

1389
01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:17.880
I think anything more than that starts
to get like it kind of like makes

1390
01:50:17.920 --> 01:50:21.560
a game a little easier, right
with more hands on deck. Though it

1391
01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:25.359
is fun with like the right group
of friends obviously, but I do think

1392
01:50:25.399 --> 01:50:30.760
like a sweet spot is like four
or five people. But ultimately what you're

1393
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:35.520
doing is you're you're hired on this
company by this company to go find resources

1394
01:50:35.520 --> 01:50:41.119
on other planets and bring them back. Right. You are given a quota.

1395
01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:44.920
Right, so like the first day, you have three days to get

1396
01:50:44.960 --> 01:50:49.439
like four hundred and fifty dollars worth
of merchandise. Right, And it's very

1397
01:50:49.439 --> 01:50:51.880
fun. The first time you start
playing, they give you they take you

1398
01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:55.239
through like a whole orientation. When
you're on the ship, you have this

1399
01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:57.520
computer that's talking to you, just
like, welcome to the company. This

1400
01:50:57.560 --> 01:51:00.039
is what blah blah blah, this
is what you're gonna do. So you're

1401
01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:06.279
clocking in for work and you land
on a planet and you enter a building,

1402
01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:13.560
and it is just go find the
things. The lights may be off,

1403
01:51:13.680 --> 01:51:18.800
there may be monsters in the building. Crazy shit happens. And I

1404
01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:23.800
highly urge people to, like,
if you haven't engaged with the game much

1405
01:51:23.800 --> 01:51:27.279
in terms of like either playing it
or watching it, I would suggest go

1406
01:51:27.359 --> 01:51:30.119
play it a little bit before watching
some stuff, because like a lot of

1407
01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:35.279
the fun of the game is like
not knowing what these creatures are or how

1408
01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:40.760
they react. Right, So it's
like I really get a kick out of

1409
01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:43.000
like you see a monster for the
first time and you're just like, Okay,

1410
01:51:43.600 --> 01:51:45.560
maybe if I don't make any noise, it's not going to bother me.

1411
01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:47.640
And it's still kind of functions with
you and you're trying to figure out,

1412
01:51:47.640 --> 01:51:49.760
like how do I deal with this
thing? Right, and you see

1413
01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:55.640
people like go through it. It's
very very entertaining and there's a wide variety

1414
01:51:55.680 --> 01:52:01.000
of like enemies that do like a
bunch of different things. The game does

1415
01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:06.600
have proximity voice chat, which is
also very fun too, so like you

1416
01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:10.479
know, if someone's too far off
into the distance, you can't talk to

1417
01:52:10.520 --> 01:52:14.319
them. But you can purchase like
equipment, right, everybody can purchase different

1418
01:52:14.319 --> 01:52:16.760
items. You can get flash lights, you can get shovels, which is

1419
01:52:16.760 --> 01:52:23.279
mostly used as an as a weapon
to hit things with. You can buy

1420
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:27.079
a boom box if you just want
to make noise. Like there's a bunch

1421
01:52:27.119 --> 01:52:30.680
of goofy items in there. But
you also get like a walkie talkie for

1422
01:52:30.720 --> 01:52:34.479
example, which, like the sound
design in this game is really good too,

1423
01:52:34.520 --> 01:52:36.680
so like when you're talking over the
walkie talkie, like it sounds like

1424
01:52:36.680 --> 01:52:45.239
you're actually talking through one, and
it's just great. It's it's just wild

1425
01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:50.399
chaotic fun in like every time I
play, you find something new and it's

1426
01:52:50.479 --> 01:52:55.079
just like you're having your goofing and
gaffing and just trying to make quota.

1427
01:52:56.079 --> 01:53:00.640
If you don't make quota, it's
game over. But like there's a fun

1428
01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:05.960
scene about it too. There's also
seems to be like some some other stuff

1429
01:53:06.039 --> 01:53:11.239
hidden about the game that kind of
tells a narrative. I'm waiting to see

1430
01:53:11.239 --> 01:53:15.279
people kind of crack that. Maybe
some goofy like a arg stuff. I

1431
01:53:15.279 --> 01:53:17.880
don't really know. But there's a
lot of things planted around the world.

1432
01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:20.680
It's it's a great time with with
with the right group of friends. I

1433
01:53:20.680 --> 01:53:30.760
gotta say a blast. There are
there's like quicksand and like things where like

1434
01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:35.399
you know, you can drown in
water or falling quicksand stuff. And one

1435
01:53:35.399 --> 01:53:39.039
of the credits to like the sound
designe of this game is like if something

1436
01:53:39.079 --> 01:53:44.239
is covering your mouth, you sound
muffled to everybody else, right, So

1437
01:53:44.359 --> 01:53:50.800
like there's a really fun clip of
like a friend of ours drowning and we're

1438
01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:55.600
like, dude, you drop the
quick sid He's like what this group and

1439
01:53:55.600 --> 01:54:04.039
we're just like rocking up. It's
so good. That's pretty good. It's

1440
01:54:04.039 --> 01:54:08.640
a real treat. The game's only
made by one person. It's a single

1441
01:54:08.680 --> 01:54:13.279
developer that put this game together,
and it is a whot. I think

1442
01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:19.279
it's only ten dollars on Steam.
Definitely worth checking out. Great time.

1443
01:54:19.640 --> 01:54:23.920
It might slip into like my Game
of the Year talks because I think it

1444
01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:29.479
is incredible what it's doing and I
want to see more of that game.

1445
01:54:29.520 --> 01:54:32.039
I want to play more of that
game. My schedule doesn't really sync up

1446
01:54:32.039 --> 01:54:35.319
with a lot of people, so
like real opportunities to play it as ill

1447
01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:40.159
say, real life work, Yeah, real life, real life work interrupts

1448
01:54:40.199 --> 01:54:43.600
my in game work. I can't
clock into work because by the time I

1449
01:54:43.600 --> 01:54:45.840
clack out of work, it is
too late for me to clock into work

1450
01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:51.800
with friends. But I'm glad I
got to experience it at least a little

1451
01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:55.479
bit and got a taste for what
this game is now that it's blowing up

1452
01:54:55.520 --> 01:54:59.920
everywhere, yeah, watching people stream
it. There is one clip by Saul

1453
01:55:00.119 --> 01:55:05.359
where, uh, one of this
guy was like putting out the ladder or

1454
01:55:05.399 --> 01:55:10.960
something like that, and like the
he took out one of his buddies with

1455
01:55:11.039 --> 01:55:15.720
the ladder. Yeah, because but
like what killed him was like the bunk

1456
01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:18.119
sound it made as it hit the
person in the head. Yeah, as

1457
01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:21.960
the ladder fell, I was he
ejected the ladder and it just like falls

1458
01:55:23.000 --> 01:55:28.319
over on them. Yeah, I've
seen that. Yeah, that one.

1459
01:55:28.680 --> 01:55:30.119
That one made me. That one
made me laugh. I was like,

1460
01:55:30.319 --> 01:55:34.199
okay, I kind of see why
people are raving about this game. It's

1461
01:55:34.239 --> 01:55:39.399
it's got a really goofy tone to
it. When you order items, right,

1462
01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:42.000
like you have to wait a little
bit for it to get delivered onto

1463
01:55:42.000 --> 01:55:44.760
the planet, and when it does, the shuttle comes down playing the ice

1464
01:55:44.800 --> 01:55:47.520
cream truck music, like, and
you're just like, yo, ice cream

1465
01:55:47.600 --> 01:55:51.800
is here. That's pretty good.
It's very very good. You're like,

1466
01:55:51.800 --> 01:55:57.680
why is it playing this? We
don't know. It's goofy, it's silly.

1467
01:55:58.159 --> 01:56:00.079
But yeah, there's a lot of
really good strategy in the game too,

1468
01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:04.159
so like depending on your teammates and
how you want to tackle it,

1469
01:56:04.159 --> 01:56:08.479
there's a lot of different ways you
can tackle this game and progress further,

1470
01:56:08.600 --> 01:56:13.359
which I think is also I don't
know how intentional some of this design was,

1471
01:56:14.560 --> 01:56:16.880
but it feels all brilliant and it's
designed. But all of it,

1472
01:56:16.960 --> 01:56:21.119
I'm sure some of this is very
unintentional. All of it was intentional,

1473
01:56:21.279 --> 01:56:25.880
but it's it's a pretty well thought
out game. It is yanky, right,

1474
01:56:25.920 --> 01:56:30.039
there are some glitches in there.
We've had monsters like clip through a

1475
01:56:30.119 --> 01:56:35.279
wall into the ship to kill somebody
and goofy stuff like that. But you

1476
01:56:35.319 --> 01:56:38.479
kind of just roll with the punches
with that game, you know, it

1477
01:56:38.560 --> 01:56:43.159
just kind of happens. You burst
out laughing and then just keep going when

1478
01:56:43.199 --> 01:56:49.720
somebody dies. Right, sounds like
the game Anybody is intended working as intended

1479
01:56:50.319 --> 01:56:57.079
if it's developed by one person,
right, it does work like among us,

1480
01:56:57.119 --> 01:56:59.560
right, So, like if people
die, the people that are dead

1481
01:56:59.600 --> 01:57:02.359
can talk to each other, but
they can't communicate with the living. Also,

1482
01:57:02.439 --> 01:57:06.039
it is very important to like,
if somebody dies, try to recover

1483
01:57:06.119 --> 01:57:12.119
their body, because you do get
a fine if you don't recover their body.

1484
01:57:12.560 --> 01:57:16.880
Oh it's a it's a minor fine. But also, like in a

1485
01:57:16.920 --> 01:57:21.159
game where you're trying to make quota, like any little bit helps you know

1486
01:57:21.279 --> 01:57:27.680
or could work against you. So
I say, does that countas quota?

1487
01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:30.600
You know, they don't give you
money for it, They will just take

1488
01:57:30.600 --> 01:57:33.840
it away if you don't bring the
body back. There are some cool items

1489
01:57:33.840 --> 01:57:40.439
that can help you with that too. So yeah, great game, fun

1490
01:57:40.479 --> 01:57:44.560
game. I hope to play it
some more. If I can't, I

1491
01:57:44.600 --> 01:57:49.279
will enjoy watching people stream it.
So yeah, that's about it from from

1492
01:57:49.319 --> 01:57:55.239
me. There's play more that I
could get into, but we're running a

1493
01:57:55.279 --> 01:57:59.520
little late here. I don't want
to keep people up too long, so

1494
01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:02.640
let's let's wrap it up. Let's
get out of here. Let's prepare for

1495
01:58:03.000 --> 01:58:08.279
a Game of the year. It's
gonna be great, It's gonna be really

1496
01:58:08.279 --> 01:58:15.359
good. I'm excited signing off Ryan. What's going on with you? Where

1497
01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:16.920
can people find you? And all
the cool things that you're doing? Promote

1498
01:58:16.920 --> 01:58:23.560
yourself? Let's see what do I
want to promote. I don't know all

1499
01:58:23.600 --> 01:58:28.600
of it. I guess you can
find me on Twitter RCB Draws. It's

1500
01:58:28.680 --> 01:58:35.800
where I post a lot of my
artwork. I also will promote my online

1501
01:58:35.840 --> 01:58:44.319
store where I've started selling a lot
of my merchandise with stickers, keychains,

1502
01:58:44.399 --> 01:58:49.720
prints, and the first ever T
shirt that I launched, which has been

1503
01:58:50.720 --> 01:59:00.000
a pretty big hit to say the
least. We're also working on on future

1504
01:59:00.159 --> 01:59:09.359
designs as well of said shirts,
so be on the lookout for those.

1505
01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:17.479
Also, I'm starting to do some
commission work for a independent comic comingy that

1506
01:59:17.760 --> 01:59:23.600
I'll be talking about stuff with as
well. I don't know how much I'll

1507
01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:26.640
be able to share with that as
far as, like you know, things

1508
01:59:26.680 --> 01:59:30.039
I'm working on and things like that, but be on the lookout for some

1509
01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:35.359
potential stuff there, because yeah,
there's some there's some stuff happening to say

1510
01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:42.760
the least, so, but that's
where you can primarily find me is basically

1511
01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:45.720
Twitter, RCB draws, and then, like I said, check out my

1512
01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:47.640
online store, especially since I got
like a twenty five percent off sale going

1513
01:59:47.720 --> 01:59:54.439
right now for like stickers, printing
key chains. So definitely check all that

1514
01:59:54.520 --> 02:00:00.000
out if you can. Cool for
sure, Drew Stifferr, how about you?

1515
02:00:00.880 --> 02:00:03.039
All right? You can find me
on Twitter at JSB totally Drew,

1516
02:00:03.439 --> 02:00:09.560
Uh, I have really been active. I mean I mainly just post video

1517
02:00:09.600 --> 02:00:13.439
game opinions at this point. Well, fighting game complaints. L felts real

1518
02:00:13.520 --> 02:00:15.079
tight. I didn't get to talk
about that, but l Felton Strive is

1519
02:00:15.119 --> 02:00:21.520
pretty cool. Mm hm hmm.
She is pretty cool. Hopefully I can

1520
02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:29.000
make time to check her out.
You can follow me on Twitter at zenos

1521
02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:32.079
k z n on s u k
E. But yeah, it's it's just

1522
02:00:32.119 --> 02:00:35.319
a lot of video game stuff,
a lot of a lot of anime retweets

1523
02:00:35.479 --> 02:00:42.000
and uh general impression on things.
You can follow us at Jack Savage Race

1524
02:00:42.039 --> 02:00:44.840
as well if you want to learn
more about the various things that we got

1525
02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:50.880
going on or what's coming up where
we're working on figuring out, uh starting

1526
02:00:50.880 --> 02:00:55.840
back up the JSP animecalfs. We're
trying to trying to get that in order.

1527
02:00:56.279 --> 02:00:58.840
We're working on the Game of the
Year stuff, so like you know,

1528
02:00:59.039 --> 02:01:00.920
when when that stuff ready, probably
gonna be like the first week of

1529
02:01:00.960 --> 02:01:09.279
January that that gets released, So
stay tuned for that. We are going

1530
02:01:09.359 --> 02:01:12.640
to go on like a little bit
of another break before our next recording session,

1531
02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:16.760
so like sometime in January, I'm
sure the show will return, so

1532
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:21.199
like keep your eyes on that for
when we u when we start everything back

1533
02:01:21.279 --> 02:01:27.680
up. So like have a good
new year, you know, and we

1534
02:01:27.720 --> 02:02:03.479
will talk to y'all later. Bye
later, bye, not time. Got supp suppos