Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our video
Speaker 1: game show here at geek Verse. I'm your host, Del Musina.
Speaker 1: With me the Joy of CON's Taylor Field. How are
Speaker 1: you doing, my friend doing good? Happy to be here,
Speaker 1: Happy to be here? Post Nintendo Switch launch, it's yeah. Today,
Speaker 1: you know, we have kind of two episodes released in
Speaker 1: the same day and thought might maybe better just split
Speaker 1: them into separate episodes. You're kind of getting two shorter episodes.
Speaker 1: Presumably right now, we're gonna talk about our switch to
Speaker 1: first impressions, as we both got our consoles last Thursday,
Speaker 1: last Friday, so we've had a few days now to
Speaker 1: mess around with this little device here or big device,
Speaker 1: spend on your perspective. Also, same day, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: get the Xbox showcase breakdown. We're gonna record that after
Speaker 1: this last week was you know, very chaotic. We had
Speaker 1: Summer Game Fest episode, we had a State of Play episode.
Speaker 1: Before that, we had the Prediction So I don't know,
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Speaker 1: because all these things have happened at this point. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: live as they happen, which is fun. And I gotta say,
Speaker 1: no one else in our discord server has been talking
Speaker 1: about switch to I don't know if any of our
Speaker 1: listeners bought this bad boy or we're able to get
Speaker 1: their hands on one, So I don't know, we'll see
Speaker 1: if anyone is playing there is let us know what
Speaker 1: you're thinking of it's over. It's just been I'm surprisingly
Speaker 1: quiet for a console launch. But speaking of a console launch, yeah,
Speaker 1: the switch to is out. Thank you Taylor so much
Speaker 1: for you know, being the the Aprahaine you you you
Speaker 1: were able to get me a switch to. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I was trying to word it there through
Speaker 1: your Amazon account you got one as well. We both
Speaker 1: have them. Now just give me like, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1: Are you like this is obviously a weird week and
Speaker 1: never we've I don't think we've ever had a console
Speaker 1: launch during like all the E three you know, fake
Speaker 1: E three weekends, So it feels like it's drowned out
Speaker 1: a little bit of the noise of a new console launch.
Speaker 1: But how are you feeling? Are you hyped? Are you
Speaker 1: kind of just made you low? Where are you at
Speaker 1: right now in terms of you know, your console new
Speaker 1: console excitement?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty hyped.
Speaker 3: I am, and I mean I'm enjoying it and the
Speaker 3: excitement is there, the excitement could be a little bit
Speaker 3: higher if I had more new games, I guess for it,
Speaker 3: and that because I don't. I mean, I'm not a
Speaker 3: big Donkey Kong kind of guy myself. I know other
Speaker 3: people are, but it's not. And again that's next month too,
Speaker 3: So for now it's Mario Kart and that's been that's
Speaker 3: been great.
Speaker 2: I've I've been having a blast with it.
Speaker 3: So the excitement's been been there, and especially when you're
Speaker 3: in line then midnight launch kind of deal, and you
Speaker 3: know that that's got some hype to it too, and
Speaker 3: get the console and you get up to the front,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, you see all the other accessories they've
Speaker 3: dropped out, like other controllers and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's lots of there's lots of little moments
Speaker 3: of nostalgia where it's like, oh, this is what it
Speaker 3: was like back ten years ago when I was in
Speaker 3: high school going to a console launch or a video
Speaker 3: game midnight launch or something like that. So there's lots
Speaker 3: of excitement to be had, and so experiencing those were
Speaker 3: definitely really really wonderful. And having the console and just
Speaker 3: seeing it in all its glory and setting it up
Speaker 3: and that in itself is a joy and it's exciting and.
Speaker 1: Just and the music that plays like when you're like
Speaker 1: you know, setting up your internet, doing your transfer. You know,
Speaker 1: classic Nintendo, like all their stuff, like you know, whether
Speaker 1: there's the we like shop channel or like all the
Speaker 1: Wei music in general, just their console themes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I feel like that music was really groovy, h when
Speaker 1: you're just like doing the most boring stuff ever of
Speaker 1: like oh I kinda put in what is my WiFi password? Again?
Speaker 1: Like put in all this stuff. But yeah, they it
Speaker 1: feels like an experience, which I feel like I got
Speaker 1: a lot of tech. Does that you know when I recently,
Speaker 1: I guess last year, got like a newer car. Whenever
Speaker 1: I turn my car on, it does like a just
Speaker 1: makes like a noise. Like I feel like tech they're
Speaker 1: just trying to make things feel like experiences, and I
Speaker 1: think they definitely tried to make it feel like that
Speaker 1: when you're getting this new console, because you know, the
Speaker 1: UIs like the exact same as the Switch ones, I
Speaker 1: feel like, where can we add other fanfare? And they
Speaker 1: did that through like some fun sound effects and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think for me, I'm like pretty low.
Speaker 1: This is probably the least hype I've ever been on
Speaker 1: a console launch, and I think it's basically what you
Speaker 1: said of just like you know, the games like Mario Kart,
Speaker 1: Like I had no issues with Maro craaid, I would
Speaker 1: still play that game up up until recently. And so
Speaker 1: to get new Mariro Kart is fun, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that a little bit. And I've only I haven't
Speaker 1: played a ton of it, maybe like two or three hours.
Speaker 1: I also haven't had anyone to play with over the weekends.
Speaker 1: I just been like single player Marocart, which of course
Speaker 1: is not going to be the same highs as playing
Speaker 1: with friends and whatnot. But yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: going into the console, I kind of expected this. This
Speaker 1: is almost exactly the hype of like I was expecting,
Speaker 1: where this very much feels like a sequel console. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it has that name in it, which Nintendo doesn't often
Speaker 1: do except for like the three DS or the two DS.
Speaker 1: I guess like in some ways as like a number
Speaker 1: in it that sequalizes it. But usually it's like a
Speaker 1: new experience every time. And this is like the most
Speaker 1: or like the least of that that they've ever had.
Speaker 1: It's very much just like, here's the same thing, little improvements,
Speaker 1: bills and whistles here or there, and then, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: like the games, we're kind of still waiting on the
Speaker 1: big hype things. I think Donkey Kong will whin is
Speaker 1: when this thing's gonna feel brand new and fun and cool,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what that's like. But so far, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty much the same. It runs a little better,
Speaker 1: it looks bit better, the screen's a bit nicer, the
Speaker 1: controllers are a little bit bigger, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart's fun. But yeah, I'm not too blown away.
Speaker 1: But I kind of knew that I was getting this
Speaker 1: for the future and not for now. You know, I
Speaker 1: got this because like, at some point I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a Smash Bros. These other big Nintendo games and things
Speaker 1: I'm not even like seen coming. Donkey Kong's what I'm
Speaker 1: excited for, as well maybe Metroid and other things like this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like one, I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 1: less Hypedot've been getting a new console, but once again
Speaker 1: kind of expected. So that's that's kind of that's kind
Speaker 1: of fine. Walk me through like, you know, obviously you
Speaker 1: plug this bad boy in, you drop your innet in there,
Speaker 1: you do your data transfer. But like, what is the
Speaker 1: first kind of things are or thing you did when
Speaker 1: you kind of got this thing unpacked and booted up
Speaker 1: and passed that initialization.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So the first thing I did once it
Speaker 3: was up and running was okay, I gotta update my
Speaker 3: first switch switch one because I'm trying to do the
Speaker 3: transfer stuff.
Speaker 2: So that caught me off.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that in advance either. I was like,
Speaker 1: damn it, I should have seen this.
Speaker 2: Uh so yeah I did that, and then uh.
Speaker 3: Screen protector tossed that bad boy on there pretty quick, did.
Speaker 2: A terrible job at it, so i'mn have to like reapply.
Speaker 1: That's like a little bubbles in there, you mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one little like bubble right in the middle. So
Speaker 2: just a pain in the ass. But yeah, so that
Speaker 2: was that's all taken care of.
Speaker 3: And then I thought, okay, once I installed my express
Speaker 3: card as well, because I picked up one of those
Speaker 3: because I was talking to the personality be Games, because
Speaker 3: I saw everyone in line in front of me was
Speaker 3: grabbing one of those, I thought, do I need one
Speaker 3: of these?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what this really is supposed
Speaker 2: to do. So they had a bunch.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, Okay, I'm gonna buy it,
Speaker 3: and if I don't need it, I'll return it.
Speaker 1: So I bought a much more hard drive hard drive
Speaker 1: space what you're talking.
Speaker 2: About, that's exactly it. Yeah, and how how.
Speaker 1: Gigs did you get on there? It was like t
Speaker 1: ed something.
Speaker 3: I think the yeah, the it's two and fifty six
Speaker 3: in the console internally, and then I think this the
Speaker 3: express card is like another two and fifty six or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 2: So I just thought, whatever, I got it.
Speaker 3: And then when I was migrating everything over, it prompted
Speaker 3: me to put it in there. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: well i'll put it in maybe I'm supposed to do
Speaker 3: and I just I didn't know what I was doing
Speaker 3: half the time. I was just following the instructions.
Speaker 2: So did it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Got the card in there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I upgraded my switch membership to the full year with
Speaker 3: the GameCube, game Boy all that kind of stuff because
Speaker 3: I was paying monthly and just like the very basic plan.
Speaker 3: So yeah, now I've got like the top tier one,
Speaker 3: which is stellar.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Started installing a few of the games. Everything transferred, but
Speaker 3: I was just putting in some of the games too,
Speaker 3: or setting them to install. And then still the same
Speaker 3: night of that I got the console, I booted up
Speaker 3: some of the games just to see how they're running,
Speaker 3: and just to see if my saves are still in there,
Speaker 3: which they were, and so everything was good.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, then I closed it off. I didn't
Speaker 2: touch Mario Kart yet.
Speaker 3: I didn't play that until Friday when my friend came
Speaker 3: over and I had a few hours to dish it out.
Speaker 1: What were those games that you booted up just to
Speaker 1: see how they ran?
Speaker 3: Three D all Stars booted that up and I re
Speaker 3: downloaded that, redownload it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Nice. What was the other one I did?
Speaker 3: I was going to do Ultimate Alliance three, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I heard that's a little bit improved. I like, obviously
Speaker 1: I didn't get a sixty frames packed or anything, because
Speaker 1: that's going to require more than just the new console.
Speaker 1: They don't have to patch that, which they probably won't.
Speaker 1: But I've heard it runs a bit better, like doesn't
Speaker 1: drop frames as much and has like a little bit
Speaker 1: better loading time.
Speaker 3: That's cool, okay, uh? And then yeah, Smash Brothers was
Speaker 3: the other one, and then I thought I did one more.
Speaker 3: I can't if I did the Luigi's Mansion or not.
Speaker 3: I don't think I did. I didn't try Pokemon, although
Speaker 3: Reuben was telling me that Pokemon got a bit of
Speaker 3: a buff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard. That's huge for Scarlett and Violet in particular,
Speaker 1: which is great because those games obviously were not not
Speaker 1: in a beautiful state when they when they came out.
Speaker 1: What other peripheral do you have any other peroher roles
Speaker 1: that you got any other little tech hardware things for
Speaker 1: it other than the hard drivest.
Speaker 2: What else did I do? No?
Speaker 3: I think I almost bought another one of the like
Speaker 3: the the thing Ima jiggers, whatever you call it, the
Speaker 3: thing that they.
Speaker 1: Say the controller joy controllers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then I thought, well, no, if we're playing
Speaker 3: Mario Kart, I don't need a second one of those
Speaker 3: because I have to just get the joy Cons to
Speaker 3: go with it. So yeah, and then that completely changed
Speaker 3: my world when we figure out the whole other joy
Speaker 3: Con scenario. But if anything, I wanted to get one
Speaker 3: of the game Cube Pro controllers. I really want to,
Speaker 3: but obviously those are sold out, so for now, my
Speaker 3: I still have my Wii U GameCube controllers after that
Speaker 3: plugs in with the two USB things. So I plugged
Speaker 3: that into my switch, took my GameCube controller up and
Speaker 3: it works just fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful. Yeah. I think when I booted it up,
Speaker 1: the first thing I did was, I think immediately played
Speaker 1: like a Grand Prix in Mario Kart. And then well,
Speaker 1: actually I guess first before that is like one, it
Speaker 1: queued like a million downloads, like things that were downloaded
Speaker 1: on my switch one, which I and I had like
Speaker 1: an external hard driver to all my switch one, so
Speaker 1: it's more things than I think it could fit, although
Speaker 1: it has more space than the switch one, so I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly if that's the case, but I, you know,
Speaker 1: stopped a bunch of downloads. I'm like, I don't need this.
Speaker 1: Minornet's kind of bad too, so it's gonna take seven
Speaker 1: years for that to happen. Redownload a couple of things
Speaker 1: that I forgot about, made sure, like you know, the
Speaker 1: Smash Bros And the things I need on there are downloaded,
Speaker 1: but with a priority on, Like okay, let's put Mario
Speaker 1: Kart top of the stack here so I can play
Speaker 1: this as soon as this is done, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just of course checking out the Shop, which
Speaker 1: I heard just runs a lot better, and it does,
Speaker 1: which is great, because that was really I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they even considered that acceptable on
Speaker 1: the switch one. It was so bad to use that thing, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know from the beginning, but just like as
Speaker 1: more and more stuff gets added to it, definitely made
Speaker 1: trick at the game. The GameCube app downloaded, Lady was
Speaker 1: on that tier, so I just had to download it.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's only three games on there right now,
Speaker 1: Win Waker, F Zero and Soul Caliber, so it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty light so far. But I already booted up win
Speaker 1: Waker and have played a little bit of that, a
Speaker 1: little bit of Soul Caliber as well, which is which
Speaker 1: is fun to go check those games out. I'm excited
Speaker 1: for the rest of those games to drop. But yeah,
Speaker 1: mostly it's just been Mario Kart because I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I've just more seen on like Reddit and stuff that
Speaker 1: like Smash Bros. You know, there's nothing really changing about it.
Speaker 1: That game already ran really well. Maybe the low times
Speaker 1: are a little bit better, but otherwise nothing to be
Speaker 1: surprising there. Ultimate Lines Threw is definitely what I was
Speaker 1: hoping would get, like a nice upgrade, but like I said,
Speaker 1: it won't go past thirty frames unless they actually patch
Speaker 1: the game, because you know, it was just always built
Speaker 1: for thirty frames. So I don't think that'll happen. I
Speaker 1: don't know how well that games sold, but I'd love
Speaker 1: to be surprise there, but yeah, I don't think I
Speaker 1: I oh, yeah, I guess. The other one I did
Speaker 1: is download Tiers of the Kingdom and then downloaded that
Speaker 1: like switch to patch version for it. And it's funny.
Speaker 1: I played like a half an hour hour that I
Speaker 1: was excited to get back into Tiers of the Kingdom
Speaker 1: because like you know, the game didn't run well and
Speaker 1: I was like, Kash should give this game another chance.
Speaker 1: Played for like a half hour hour, I'm like, god,
Speaker 1: I remember why. I just didn't like this game a
Speaker 1: whole lot. I went into like a couple shrines and
Speaker 1: they were just so annoying. I'm like, fuck this game,
Speaker 1: Like I wish I could love this game as much
Speaker 1: as everyone else does, but it's still not my cup
Speaker 1: of tea. So I think I just went back to
Speaker 1: win Waker at that point. So yeah, it's honestly like,
Speaker 1: I think I'll just play some Mario kard if I
Speaker 1: have friends over. But until Donkey Kong, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll be using this much. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any third party stuff I'll be picking up. I still
Speaker 1: have like multiple things that go on the go, like
Speaker 1: I'm playing on Xbox and things like that. Death Stranding
Speaker 1: comes out pretty soon, so I think this thing will
Speaker 1: be collecting dust a little bit until Donkey Kong, and
Speaker 1: then after I've played don Kong for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, until we get that next uh Nintendo Direct
Speaker 1: and see what the next slate of things are and
Speaker 1: if there's anything else coming out later this year. For me, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I will be playing it much in
Speaker 1: the meantime, which maybe sounds like some people were like,
Speaker 1: why'd you buy this console if you're kind of this
Speaker 1: low hyped on it, But once again, I kind of
Speaker 1: got it for the future, So that's that's what to
Speaker 1: expect there. And then yeah, I didn't really get anything else.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a storage thing. I have like a
Speaker 1: million game controllers here, so I'm like, yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: have the left bumper, but like I can get away
Speaker 1: without using that. I don't want the freaking camera. I
Speaker 1: don't need that. I have discord. Uh yeah, so I
Speaker 1: don't think I didn't get anything else. And then thank
Speaker 1: you for that tip that the joy cons from the
Speaker 1: switch one can connect. I didn't think they would. I
Speaker 1: don't think they talked about that pre launch because I
Speaker 1: think they wanted people to not to about that so
Speaker 1: they would just buy more switch to joycns and make
Speaker 1: some money there. But that's a huge hint. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably sell my switch one, so I might
Speaker 1: get rid of those. But anyway, that is a good
Speaker 1: thing to know if I want to play some miro
Speaker 1: Kart with some friends this week, I.
Speaker 2: Got my my rechargeable path, so I don't need my
Speaker 2: dock anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh nice thing. Wow that looks because it looks like
Speaker 1: the controller thing, but it just doesn't have the side pack.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have the sides yeah yeah, but it has
Speaker 3: the charging cord that works out there and it works
Speaker 3: works great.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Yeah, let's talk about the I guess
Speaker 1: hardware a little bit. So obviously, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: nothing really too surprising, but like the screen isn't that
Speaker 1: much bigger, but it's just more economically there's less of
Speaker 1: the bars I guess on the edges, so it just
Speaker 1: feels a lot better. It feels a lot more slick,
Speaker 1: and obviously like this back thing is, you know, not
Speaker 1: nearly as yanky as the old one was. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you think about the joy Con twos?
Speaker 1: Like were you in the same campus with me where
Speaker 1: the joy Con ones were just like you just don't
Speaker 1: like those are? Were you fine with them in the
Speaker 1: first place? Like, how do you feel about the upgrade here?
Speaker 3: The joy cons for the switch one definitely felt not perfect.
Speaker 3: They felt like just holding it like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: they don't feel I feel like they could break. I
Speaker 3: don't feel like they gotta like a toy strength. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they do feel like a toy. Even the plastic feels different,
Speaker 3: all that mumbo jumba. But when I start holding like
Speaker 3: the switch two joy cons, the thumb sticks feel better.
Speaker 3: Everything about this feels better. And also I got big
Speaker 3: hand Hans Madson's got little hands, so the joy cons,
Speaker 3: the one joy cons are easier for her, but the
Speaker 3: big joy cons.
Speaker 2: It is perfect.
Speaker 3: And when we're using before we're using the switch one
Speaker 3: joy Cons she specifically requested to use. I think it
Speaker 3: was the left the joy joy Con because her thumbstick
Speaker 3: was closer to the side for her thumb, whereas the
Speaker 3: right one her thumb. It was a bit difficult because
Speaker 3: it was further over right.
Speaker 2: That was kind of interesting. But for me, I got
Speaker 2: I got bigger hands, so either or works for me.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just thought that was an interesting scenario
Speaker 3: considering they are excessively bigger and better built than the
Speaker 3: first joy Cons are, right, so.
Speaker 1: The overall just a huge improvement for you because they
Speaker 1: just put your hands with better. Yeah, I haven't used
Speaker 1: it enough yet, and maybe because next week we are
Speaker 1: planning doing like a fuller episode on Mario Kart and
Speaker 1: we'll have Travis Jones there as well, and he'll share
Speaker 1: his thoughts on the console. That just he just hasn't
Speaker 1: had much time with it as as we have. I
Speaker 1: am still a joke on hater. These are maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit of improvement, but they honestly don't feel much
Speaker 1: different for me. After playing Mario Kart for a bit,
Speaker 1: like I did a round of Knockout Tour, which is
Speaker 1: like the Battle reality thing, and that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're playing for a while without a break, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know how long it is. It feels like twenty
Speaker 1: minutes or something. And like doing that, I had like
Speaker 1: a bit of hand pain in my right hand. I
Speaker 1: was like, fuck, okay, this is like maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit better, but I still have the hand pain that
Speaker 1: switch one gives me, And so you know that's part
Speaker 1: of me, just like turning thirty soon. I'm just old
Speaker 1: as old as dirt over here, and I climb all
Speaker 1: the time. My hands are fucked like I'm just done for.
Speaker 1: But I was hoping that these would be better hearing that,
Speaker 1: Like the sticks are a bit bigger and the controllers
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, So you know, I need a
Speaker 1: few more hours with that to really come down on it.
Speaker 1: The only this is a very weird little nitpick. But
Speaker 1: with where my hand sits naturally on this controller, Taylor,
Speaker 1: specifically the right hand, if I want to like hit
Speaker 1: the plus button like the pause, like with where my
Speaker 1: hand sits naturally, I have to like fully readjust my
Speaker 1: hand and to hit that like it normally would always
Speaker 1: be like in reach of like a quick movement, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, the way I'm gaming here, I have to
Speaker 1: like like let go a bit and shift my hand
Speaker 1: up to hit that like comfortably, unless I was just
Speaker 1: like stretching. So it's a weird nippick. And I don't
Speaker 1: if you've noticed that, because obviously it's not like you're
Speaker 1: hitting plus too often when you're playing games. You just
Speaker 1: like are pausing or going to a menu or whatnot.
Speaker 1: But it's almost like slightly too big in a weird way.
Speaker 1: Uh So, once again that is my maybe nitpick of
Speaker 1: it all. But I was maybe hoping for a bit
Speaker 1: more organomics. But these things are still just like flat,
Speaker 1: you know, like they're not These are not built for
Speaker 1: a hend. These are I don't know what they're built for.
Speaker 1: But uh, obviously it's like form overfunction, I think. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was maybe home for a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a glow up, but uh, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm I don't hate on them, but they're there.
Speaker 1: May be slightly better, but they honestly don't feel like
Speaker 1: much of a change for me other than like they
Speaker 1: look a lot slicker and the buttons feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better. But that's also probably just because they're new
Speaker 1: and not crusty like my uh switch one joy CON's
Speaker 1: at this point, hopefully they don't get drift. Apparently they're
Speaker 1: a lot better for drift prevention, because I definitely have
Speaker 1: had a pair of joy Funds that I have had drift,
Speaker 1: So hopefully that doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want that.
Speaker 3: It's funny you mentioned the reaching your right finger and
Speaker 3: like kind of removing your hand from the controller, or
Speaker 3: at least repositioning it to hit that button. I've naturally,
Speaker 3: and I've noticed this. I've naturally just been kind of
Speaker 3: angling my controller. So when I'm playing Xbox, I kind
Speaker 3: of go I pulled it kind of like like this.
Speaker 3: As I'm playing, Oh on an angle?
Speaker 1: Wait, like you actually hold it like this?
Speaker 3: I hold it so if I'm playing straight, I hold
Speaker 3: it kind of like this. As I'm playing, I hold
Speaker 3: it like on an incline, which is kind of weird. Interesting,
Speaker 3: And I noticed that when I'm playing switch on like this,
Speaker 3: I'm going like this too, I have it on an incline.
Speaker 1: Right, interesting, So huh, maybe I gotta try that. I'm
Speaker 1: at the point now where I have like a nice
Speaker 1: pillow and I like rest my wrists and hands on
Speaker 1: the pillow because that's helped me a lot alleviate the
Speaker 1: hand pain that I it from playing games, because I
Speaker 1: do get pain on like Xbox and stuff too if
Speaker 1: I'm gaming like a fucking mad man. But the pillow
Speaker 1: helps leave it out and everything except for the joy
Speaker 1: colns just because they're I don't know, they're too baby
Speaker 1: for I don't know if they're too baby for my
Speaker 1: hands or it's just because they have dog shit organomics.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure, but you know, it's a slight improvement.
Speaker 1: But I still got beef with these bad boys. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think about other things, like the screen. It's
Speaker 1: good you don't have an O laed switch, right, you
Speaker 1: just have the base.
Speaker 2: I got the Base number one switch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I've seen a lot of people who have
Speaker 1: the O LED one. When they get the switch too,
Speaker 1: they feel like this feels like a huge downgrade in
Speaker 1: terms of screen quality. I actually haven't really used it
Speaker 1: much in handheld yet, so I can't compare, but at
Speaker 1: least in terms of the size of the screen, it's
Speaker 1: much nicer. And then obviously justn't have the downgrade because
Speaker 1: I don't have the O lead model either, So yeah,
Speaker 1: what else is anything else? Like tech tech wise or
Speaker 1: just like about the switch console? We haven't mentioned it.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd say depending on what TV you have, because
Speaker 3: I I went in and I set it to one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty ear it's refresh rate, which is nice
Speaker 3: because my TV has that hence the courtesy of my
Speaker 3: Xbox series X SO did that and set it to
Speaker 3: make sure it was on four K and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and I don't think it didn't set
Speaker 3: it initially, so I had to go in and like manually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did not default a four K for
Speaker 1: mine either, which was weird. What to one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty frames? I guess have you experienced a game that
Speaker 1: has that? I don't know if anything you have that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is the menu?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is the menu? Like? Holy shit, this is one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty Like can you tell? Or the quality of.
Speaker 2: Like the dark mode gray background is phenomenal?
Speaker 1: No, I don't can cruise to the shop at one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty frames? Second? Yeah, because yes, Like I
Speaker 1: can't even think back to when I because I talked
Speaker 1: you know, a bit ago when they announced one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty frames thing that I'm kind of pissed because
Speaker 1: of my old TV was one hundred and twenty frames.
Speaker 1: I'd get a new TV, and since no games were
Speaker 1: really using one hundred and twenty frames, I'm like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'll just get a sixty frame TV and then this
Speaker 1: has one twenty frames, Like damn it, I missed out
Speaker 1: on that. But I don't remember when I had that
Speaker 1: on Xbox, Like did I notice that in menus or
Speaker 1: was it only just like when I was playing Doom
Speaker 1: or something that had like one hundred and twenty frames
Speaker 1: patch for it. So I'm curious to see what the
Speaker 1: first I guess it would be. Metroid is the one
Speaker 1: they announced, presumably that's the first one that comes out
Speaker 1: that has one hundred and twenty frames, which I don't
Speaker 1: even think you're playing on getting that game right, but
Speaker 1: if you do, that would maybe be the first one.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious to see what other games get the
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty because that'll be a test case.
Speaker 1: I forget, does it run one hundred and twenty for
Speaker 1: the handheld as well? I think it does, uncertain.
Speaker 2: Feel like it does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be surprised, which is pretty crazy, not four
Speaker 1: k obviously that would just be ten eighty, but an
Speaker 1: improvement from the seven to twenty that the Switch one had. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see what else. I guess we could talk about
Speaker 1: Mario Kart a little bit. Like I said, well, next
Speaker 1: week we'll do a full deep dive on on Mario Kart.
Speaker 1: But yeah, how much have you played of Mario Kart
Speaker 1: so far?
Speaker 2: I feel like I have sunk in a fair bit
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 3: Nice so that when my buddy came over on the Friday,
Speaker 3: that was around like ten eleven am and we're playing
Speaker 3: right up till three, So we sunk in. We completed
Speaker 3: all all the Grand Prix, unlocked the extra one that
Speaker 3: they've tossed in there, the Rainbow Road, and then we
Speaker 3: got most of the characters, which is pretty nice.
Speaker 2: And so at this point I'm just going through. I
Speaker 2: think it was just like the.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of costumes to unlock.
Speaker 3: That's right, there's a lot of costumes, and so I've
Speaker 3: just been working at getting costumes right now. I'm switching
Speaker 3: up every Grand Prix I do, I play a different
Speaker 3: characters and just hitting those sandwich bags throughout the course
Speaker 3: just to get the new costumes, and then I did
Speaker 3: do a bit of a free room.
Speaker 2: That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3: You can also do free roam and get certain sandwich
Speaker 3: bags on certain locations, and then you can get costumes
Speaker 3: that way, but for this point no, I've just been
Speaker 3: hitting the races and Grand Prix and getting the costumes
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the game so far. It's
Speaker 1: funny just how much Mark eight I've played at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm so into the muscle memory of that, just getting
Speaker 1: used to like the new drin where it feels a
Speaker 1: little bit i don't know what the word to use,
Speaker 1: a little bit squishier. It feels really good, but like
Speaker 1: you sink a bit more into your turn rather than
Speaker 1: like the tightness that I'm obviously just used to. But
Speaker 1: I think it feels really great. I like that they
Speaker 1: kind of simplified the you know, characters select well. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's a lot more characters in costumes, but in terms
Speaker 1: of the cart right, like you're picking, that is a
Speaker 1: little bit simpler than it was before. I still have
Speaker 1: a ton to unlock, obviously. I think I've played three
Speaker 1: or four Grand Prix. I did a round of Knockout Tour.
Speaker 1: I've done a little bit, maybe a half an hour
Speaker 1: hour of the Yeah, Free Rome. I haven't played battle
Speaker 1: Mode yet, and I'm surprised that was even in there,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that was in the Markard direct
Speaker 1: that they did like a couple months ago. I don't
Speaker 1: think they ever announced battle Mode. I think that was
Speaker 1: kind of a surprise when I was in there. Have
Speaker 1: you tried battle Mode yet? Because I'm curious what the
Speaker 1: maps are? I'm guessing they just like take a section
Speaker 1: of the world, right, because that's like what the rest
Speaker 1: of the courses do.
Speaker 2: I did not try a battle mode yet. I've just
Speaker 2: done Knockout and then the Grand Prix that's it, and
Speaker 2: Free Rom.
Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, how did Knockout Tour and go for you?
Speaker 2: Uh? What did I do with that?
Speaker 3: Because we put Madison joined me for that because we
Speaker 3: played a bit and I think I said it to
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty CC and when I did, I
Speaker 3: did that I had to lean forward, and when I
Speaker 3: lean forward, I'm playing games, I'm in game remote. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that was definitely give me a run for my money,
Speaker 3: but it was it was a lot of fun and
Speaker 3: I feel like this game too in general, like it's
Speaker 3: easier for I should say easier. Madison definitely is like
Speaker 3: she's she has a good time with Mario Kart, but
Speaker 3: this it's been a few times, so she's snuck it
Speaker 3: and she's got that like gets that second or first place,
Speaker 3: and I'm coming at third. I'm like, what the heck,
Speaker 3: because I'd say, at least with one hundred CC when
Speaker 3: I'm doing the Grand Prix, I'm usually out of the
Speaker 3: four races, three of them, I'm coming first place.
Speaker 2: I like my odds.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty consistent, and I hope that this appears again
Speaker 3: in the Gauntlet or whatever in the future, then we
Speaker 3: can I can.
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be I feel like I needed to
Speaker 1: learn these maps because there's so much more in in
Speaker 1: terms of like shortcuts and stuff, just because of the
Speaker 1: addition of wall riding and grinding and obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of that you can kind of figure out if you
Speaker 1: do some of these like piece switch things whatever in
Speaker 1: the free rom mode and whatnot. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's a lot more like these. There's less maps
Speaker 1: than obviously Mark or eight has because that game has
Speaker 1: ton of DLC at this point. But yeah, the maps
Speaker 1: feel like they have a lot more depth to them
Speaker 1: in terms of like shortcuts and things. So I feel
Speaker 1: like that's going to take a long time to really
Speaker 1: master this game, which is kind of exciting, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure by the time we do, they'll have some more
Speaker 1: DLC maps to chuck at us, which will be exciting.
Speaker 3: The idea of doing the wall riding that blows my
Speaker 3: mind because I was doing the free roam and I
Speaker 3: was sitting those piece switches and just doing a bunch
Speaker 3: of different challenges and then the lo and behold, here
Speaker 3: comes my first one for wall driving and thought, okay,
Speaker 3: I had to watch a YouTube video how they were
Speaker 3: doing it, and so it was like you go along
Speaker 3: the left wall and then you have to go along
Speaker 3: the right wall, and it's a time trial, so you
Speaker 3: have limited amount of time to do this because you
Speaker 3: have to go along the left wall, go through a
Speaker 3: time extender, then jump to the right wall, hit that
Speaker 3: time extender, and then hit the last one on the
Speaker 3: ground straight ahead. And so I could do the left wall,
Speaker 3: I couldn't get over and do it on the right wall.
Speaker 3: It was just too it was too tricky. I and
Speaker 3: the essence of time too, is a factor as well,
Speaker 3: trying to figure that out because you're going you can't
Speaker 3: be turning. You get to be going straight, charge up
Speaker 3: your jump, jump off onto the side of the wall,
Speaker 3: and then jump off. But my brain and my fingers
Speaker 3: want to go into like a drift after I jump.
Speaker 2: Off that first wall.
Speaker 3: But this is one of those things where I feel like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's just because I'm an old man now and you
Speaker 3: get like a six or seven year old in here,
Speaker 3: they're gonna do it in like ten seconds maybe, yeah,
Speaker 3: some crazy shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like these are new mechanics, like just
Speaker 1: being able to jump, you know, whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: forget what the button conboys, if you hold the button
Speaker 1: then it hit the right trigger or something like that.
Speaker 1: You that's right, right, It's like that's that's new. But
Speaker 1: for like if you're kid, it's your first marrow kart,
Speaker 1: Like that's just a mechanic. But for us, it's like
Speaker 1: we got to rewire the brain's a bit to figure
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 3: And it applies not just to the wall jumps, but
Speaker 3: to like incoming projectiles. Right, I'm prety sure you can
Speaker 3: jump over shells doing it, and you can do other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, probably. Yeah, I don't. I've not I've definitely
Speaker 1: not mastered the jump at this point, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: take me a bit to get used to that.
Speaker 3: It's it's similar to the I guess the oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: the feather. The feather is like feather that jumps you.
Speaker 1: A huge jump, yeah, which I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: shortcuts will be tied to that, which is a cool item,
Speaker 1: and I like that. That's another because I feel like
Speaker 1: there's such a rare or a small pool of items
Speaker 1: that you can get if you're in like a high
Speaker 1: position like one, two, three, four. I think feather you
Speaker 1: can get. I don't know if you can get it
Speaker 1: if you're in first, but you can get it when
Speaker 1: you're in like a lot of those high positions. So
Speaker 1: it's fun to have like a new item there rather
Speaker 1: than just only getting coins or like the odd banana
Speaker 1: or the odd green shell. Now you get I can
Speaker 1: get something that you know you can use for a
Speaker 1: shortcut or just you know, I don't even know the
Speaker 1: bounds of all of the I'm sure you can dodge
Speaker 1: a lot of it shells with it and things too,
Speaker 1: So it's fun to have a new item for those
Speaker 1: those tiers. Yeah, I think I need to do a
Speaker 1: bit more of the open world to see how I
Speaker 1: feel about that, because like, some of the challenges, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, are challenging, and some of them are quite fun,
Speaker 1: but it does feel a little basic, I guess, but
Speaker 1: you know, it is like and I guess. The other
Speaker 1: last thing I wanted to say about this is like,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that the Grand Prix
Speaker 1: they added is like you're traveling between the maps, and
Speaker 1: I wondered how that would work, but it turns out
Speaker 1: that like the map still ends, you know, everyone finishes,
Speaker 1: you see the scoreboard, and then you go back into
Speaker 1: the race, and then you drive from that map to
Speaker 1: the next map. But that's like included in the lap count.
Speaker 1: So the reason when I was the most recent when
Speaker 1: I did ended or ended up at some point at
Speaker 1: Warrior's Shipyard, which is such a cool map. But by
Speaker 1: the time I got to Warrio's Shipyard and it was
Speaker 1: already like a lap and a half into the race
Speaker 1: just driving there, and then I did like one lap
Speaker 1: of warriors Shipyard and then it was over, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I feel like I wanted to play on
Speaker 1: that map, but I spent instead spend half the time
Speaker 1: just like actually getting there on like which is still
Speaker 1: a decent little path, but it's not as exciting as
Speaker 1: the map itself. I've heard that if you go in
Speaker 1: like not Grand Prix but and just like verse mode
Speaker 1: I guess, and you pick maps that way, then you
Speaker 1: don't do the transition between them, You just do like
Speaker 1: three laps or whatever on the actual course. So that's
Speaker 1: something to try out too, because maybe this is fun
Speaker 1: for now to do the Grand Prix, but once you
Speaker 1: get the unlocks from it, maybe I would just go
Speaker 1: to Verse mode and like pick individual maps. So I'll
Speaker 1: try that out before next week's episode and report back
Speaker 1: on how that works in there. But yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: next week, we will dive deeper tomorrow carp. But any
Speaker 1: other like top level thoughts on it you wanted to
Speaker 1: share or the console as a whole.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much. It's pretty much shit. The other one
Speaker 2: of the other kickers is why I want to upgrade
Speaker 2: my online subscription. I will, I will shut up because
Speaker 2: I really wanted to play fire Emblem on the Game
Speaker 2: Boy Advance.
Speaker 1: Ooh that excites me to hear? Hell yeah, which one?
Speaker 1: Which one? You playing or I'm which there were two
Speaker 1: on there, right, there's Blazing Blade and Sacred Stones.
Speaker 3: And Sacred Stones. Okay, then I'm pretty sure the one
Speaker 3: I popped on and is Sacred Stones. And I'm doing
Speaker 3: that because when when I was young, my cousin I
Speaker 3: go to his place and he has Game Boy Advance
Speaker 3: and he had Sacred Stones on there, and I he
Speaker 3: let me try it, and I loved it, loved it,
Speaker 3: loved it.
Speaker 2: And that's why years later.
Speaker 3: When the DS came out or three DS, maybe I
Speaker 3: picked up Shadow Dragon, which of course was fun, but
Speaker 3: it didn't satisfy that itch.
Speaker 1: So Shadow Dragon is crap. It's probably the worst fun
Speaker 1: in the series. I mean, it's a remake of the
Speaker 1: first game, so it's very basic and simple. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Sacred Stones is still the goat Fire Bloom game in
Speaker 1: my opinion, as someone who's played like twelve entries in
Speaker 1: the series, I'm so happy're playing that one because I've
Speaker 1: played that game probably through to credits at least four times.
Speaker 1: Maybe doesn't sound like a lot. That's a long ass game,
Speaker 1: and then started it like another twenty times in my life.
Speaker 1: It's just so good.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, like it's it's going back and playing it
Speaker 3: after all these years because I never was able to
Speaker 3: find it on game Boy Advance. So it's just it's
Speaker 3: an absolute delight. I'm having such a blast with it.
Speaker 3: I'm a few few missions in so far, and I
Speaker 3: love it. It's just it's bringing me back and it's
Speaker 3: it's such.
Speaker 1: Those battle animations. Oh, the most gorgeous picks alert in
Speaker 1: the world. Hey, it's fucking beautiful. Oh, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: you're playing that game. I'm gonna bug you every side
Speaker 1: quest now of like where you where it's.
Speaker 2: Please do it's easy to just hop on and pick up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I think that's like those games have always been,
Speaker 1: especially now that you can like make save states mid
Speaker 1: level because of the switch like functionality of it. That's
Speaker 1: even or you can rewind if you know, you make
Speaker 1: a like you know, because that's a feature in the
Speaker 1: new Fireingblum games but not those old ones. So it's
Speaker 1: really nice, like through this roundabout way and the switch
Speaker 1: emulation to be able to do that stuff. That's really great.
Speaker 1: You did you ever play Path of Radiance, the one
Speaker 1: on GameCube? No, and that one hits When that one
Speaker 1: hits the catalog, you should definitely check that one out too,
Speaker 1: because that game is also I think it's still my
Speaker 1: second favorite in the series. Like there was something about
Speaker 1: that early mid two thousand spot where fire Emblem that
Speaker 1: was like absolutely perfect, and that game's gorgeous, has some
Speaker 1: beautiful like CG cut scenes and really colorful, great mechanics
Speaker 1: and all that, and I think you'll really like that
Speaker 1: one as well. So that's that's gonna be dropping on
Speaker 1: the announced that it's coming. Yeah, it was in that'll drop,
Speaker 1: So I don't know when. It's probably this year, I
Speaker 1: would assume at some point, which is cool because that
Speaker 1: game is super hard to find and like super expensive
Speaker 1: at game stores and things, so it's really nice that
Speaker 1: it'll be easily accessible. And I hope, well, I guess
Speaker 1: Kirkland doesn't have a switch too, but someday when he
Speaker 1: gets a switch to, I'm sure he'll jump into Path
Speaker 1: of Ratings as well. But dude, that's sweet. I'm so
Speaker 1: so glad you're playing Sacred Stones.
Speaker 2: It's good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any other closing thoughts here for today?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I've top my head. I can't I
Speaker 2: can't think of anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, no problem. This is kind of our
Speaker 1: first impressions, of course as it's titled, and next week
Speaker 1: we'll do but if a deeper diving to Mario Kart,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about, you know, just more switch to discoveries
Speaker 1: and things that we've been doing with this new console.
Speaker 1: So that'll be a fun update to one week from now.
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone for listening. Go check out our Xbox
Speaker 1: Show coverage and all the other showcases we did, and yeah,
Speaker 1: let us know what you're thinking of the console. If
Speaker 1: you have any questions about it, also send those our way,
Speaker 1: either on the Patreon or Discord or YouTube or whatever
Speaker 1: the heck. I'll see them and put them in next
Speaker 1: week's episode. And yeah, thank you for joining me, Taylor,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you all next week. Bye bye