WEBVTT 1 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:23.199 Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly 2 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:25.559 video game show here at geek Versus. It is our 3 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.559 Double oh seven first light review. Very exciting time, of course, 4 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.759 and I'm your hostel. Mustn't have with me the license 5 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:35.320 to pod Travis Snow, how are you doing tonight, my friend? 6 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.000 I'm doing good. This is we don't get many first 7 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.479 in the geek fir sphere, and I could be wrong. 8 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.840 We're turning eleven in August, but I think this is 9 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.679 definitely when we reviewed. But I don't think there's been 10 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.079 any Bond games out in our hemisphere in the geek 11 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:50.920 first spring, right. I know they did a Golden Night 12 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.200 like remaster, but like a new Bond game. 13 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.000 I don't think so Golden I remaster like. 14 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.280 Early on, but it's like it's like I'm just like, oh, 15 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.479 it looks a bit nicer, Like that's all was played on. 16 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.320 They replaced pierced come out. 17 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:02.880 I don't remember. 18 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:04.920 I could even be wrong. I'll fact checked after, but 19 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.920 they even replaced Pierce Bronson with Daniel Craig. They did 20 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.200 a full one over, and I think it came out 21 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:11.719 on like games Pass. 22 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.319 And stuff like Golden as a movie. Why would they 23 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:14.680 do because the game. 24 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.000 They just want that. But so, yeah, there's not many 25 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.640 times dow in a decade we get to do something 26 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.280 for a first time, and for the first time we're 27 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.680 talking about a Bond game in depth. So I'm very excited. 28 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.719 So and this is the first ever nickname for kirkln 29 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.799 Pats about the museum door inspector. How are you doing tonight? 30 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:30.439 I'm doing very well. 31 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.920 I feel underdressed looking at Travis's pocket square there, but 32 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.280 you know double Owai dress, they dress all different outfits. 33 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:42.159 This Patty Gibson is no different, So. 34 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.560 I was wrong. Twenty ten is when that Daniel Craig 35 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.319 Goldenye game came out. They came out for the Wii. 36 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.200 They remastered it there and then they've remastered the other one. 37 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.879 But yeah, so it's a first for us. 38 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.040 So long ago. Yeah, very exciting. Yeah, this episode is 39 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.680 going to be all about double oh seven first light 40 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.439 and then you know, we're already kind of into the 41 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.319 big excite season of all sorts of showcases and such 42 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:04.799 state of play is happening tomorrow or at the time 43 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:09.039 that you're listening to this traps you'll be doing a 44 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.400 live watch along reaction And then yeah, on that up 45 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:13.560 in the. 46 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.840 Area because I'll be alone because these guys are working. 47 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.479 Tanna come to a sony thing. If you're a patron, 48 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:20.439 if you're free, it's like a half nine. You can 49 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.080 come join me for live watch along. I'm gonna drop 50 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.439 a link on patroon. Just get in there, because if not, 51 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.319 I'll do it alone. I'll hold it down. But always 52 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:28.960 more the merrier. And if I'm alone already, h if 53 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.080 you're free, come join. But yeah, and then if it's 54 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.599 something juicy, uh, Dylan and I will cover after. But 55 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:35.000 I just happened to be off. I had some free 56 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:37.240 time and some time off. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna 57 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.719 watch this and live reacts. I'm excited to hopefully be 58 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.439 excited so nice. 59 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.240 Yeah that that should be fun. And if and if 60 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.360 you can't do that, you know, at least in the 61 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.520 discord is where we all hang out usually talking about 62 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:48.719 these things. I don't know if I will because I'll 63 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.000 be in the office so I probably can't, but yeah, 64 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.479 check that out. And then if it is a juicy 65 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.360 state of play, we will do a emergency side quest 66 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:57.400 tomorrow night cover that. Put that up on the feeds 67 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.400 as quick as possible this weekend is summer game happening 68 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.680 on a Friday. I don't know when we'll cover that, honestly, 69 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.879 just with my schedule and stuff. We'll see what's happening. 70 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.800 Maybe there's a watch along, maybe not. Maybe we'll cover 71 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:10.479 it Friday night, maybe not. We'll just kind of see 72 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.319 how it goes. Xboxes on Sunday. We'll cover that with 73 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:16.800 the regular side quest Tuesday, so we'll see what happens. 74 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:18.759 But just you know what you gotta do. You gotta subscribe, 75 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.159 stay tuned in the feeds because that's the best way 76 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.319 to see that as soon as it drops, or follow 77 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.719 the social media's to get those things as soon as 78 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.680 they go up. But yeah, today's episode all about Double 79 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:33.039 seven first Light, and yeah, I guess I think we'll 80 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.000 do this kind of in our movie format type thing 81 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.120 where we'll do like a little non spoilery section because 82 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:38.639 I think there's a lot of people, especially with how 83 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.400 expensive games are these days, who just want to hear 84 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:43.879 some high level thoughts, you know, get a recommendation is 85 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.719 this game worth the price of admission, and then we 86 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.000 can delve into some juicier things. I've beat the game, 87 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.680 I don't think these guys have, so we're not gonna 88 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.520 do a full spoilers, but we'll do a spoiler unless 89 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.680 Travis went nut nuts mode today with that little look 90 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:58.360 he's given me here, we'll see. We'll find out in 91 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:02.680 a bit. I guess what's uh, let's see, I suppose 92 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.280 for setting this up, I kind of want to know 93 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.080 from you guys. Well, I'll go over Kirkham first. So 94 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.919 what is your I guess fandom level of like James 95 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.520 Bond generally speaking, and then also your fandom level with 96 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.199 like IOI as a developer, uh, top level thought kind 97 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:19.800 of thing. And then into the game. How do you 98 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:20.920 what do you think about the games so far? 99 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.079 Great question, Dylan, thanks for having me a longtime listener, 100 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:28.399 multiple time, multiple time caller. 101 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.199 I guess I can call myself. 102 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:34.560 But yeah, for James Bond, I don't really remember when 103 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.639 it started, like definitely really really young, like like I 104 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.879 remember just being a kid being interested in action movies. 105 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.360 Mission I possible probably that. 106 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.720 Same type of like like when I saw movies like that, 107 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:47.920 I was just vibing with them. 108 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.360 Agent Cody Banks, you. 109 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.759 Know, lesser, lesser extent, but still like the kids version 110 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.079 of a of a secret agent. I just loved the 111 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:58.480 secret agent type of archetypes by kids of courses in there, 112 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.879 if there's gadgets and whatnot, I'm totally vibing with it. 113 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:05.319 And I didn't play GoldenEye or anything, so it definitely 114 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.399 would have been through the movies was my first exposure. 115 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.800 The earliest one I do remember seeing is the Pierce 116 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.759 Brosnen one. I remember at a young age just knowing 117 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.279 about Sean Connery and like knowing that he was James Bond, 118 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.360 and I just remember being so weird that there was 119 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.240 like multiple James Bond actors, I guess, like versions of 120 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.839 the character, not really thinking about like how much time 121 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.879 James Bond has just kind of been around, and like 122 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.879 multiple decades this character has lived on. Obviously new actors 123 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.720 portray that role. So yeah, Pierce Brosen was my first exposure, 124 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.000 and like because my first was the Pierce Brosen version, 125 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.240 I think my first Double seven game I played would 126 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.680 have been night Fire, and I absolutely love that game. 127 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.000 I got on the GameCube. 128 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:50.160 I think I remember like playing it at friends as 129 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.639 before I actually acquired it myself. So I just played 130 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.519 a lot of that game, doing the versus mode and 131 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:59.199 whatnot another title I do remember playing a lot I 132 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.279 never owned it, but A Friend's Houses from Russia with 133 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.279 love Man just just a great third person Double O 134 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.800 seven game. Really different type of like gameplay obviously than 135 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.319 what Knightfire was because that was all first player. I 136 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.000 don't think I ever played the story. I just remember 137 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.319 playing split screen with my friends and just playing is like, 138 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.160 that's what was so fun about playing these Mission Possible 139 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.000 games back in the day or sorry, Double seven, I'm 140 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:26.560 mixing them already, but just getting like access to the villains, 141 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.839 because like there's some really interesting like super villains roster 142 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.240 throughout the James Bond mythos, like whether. 143 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.000 It's Jaws, odd Job. 144 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.240 Like, there's just some freak shows in there. And the 145 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:41.160 video games usually always had those at least like the 146 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.480 split split screen couch co op type well not couch 147 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.879 co op couch versus, I guess, just split screen PvP 148 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.319 action there. But yeah, this game doesn't really have that 149 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.800 at all, so it's an interesting little comparison there. But yeah, 150 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.519 that so early on, I was definitely exposed to Double 151 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.079 O seven, and I think because of that and as 152 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.639 well as just watching Mission Possibles whatever, like I've just 153 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:09.160 always loved the spy archetype character and and big action 154 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.319 you know, uh, fan of just action movies and whatnot. 155 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:17.680 So yeah that, uh, I don't think that'll ever go away. 156 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.040 I always have a soft spot for action movies. And 157 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.959 I'm still there for Mission Possibles even though those have 158 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.000 gotten so bad. And then the last couple of movies, 159 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.920 I'm still just there for the action and then the 160 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:30.399 gadgetry and the whatever. I'm very intrigued on what they 161 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:35.040 do going forward for the films of James Bond. Yeah, 162 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:37.680 and then getting to your other question of of IOI, 163 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.839 I would have to I feel like there is some 164 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:44.240 like niche offshoot games that like our IOI that I 165 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.240 don't really think about our IOI that I have played 166 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.800 in the past, but the big one would have been, 167 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.839 of course, like the more recent Hitman. I think that's 168 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.879 their last title before this, right, Like, I know, that's 169 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.079 been a game that's been supported throughout the year, so 170 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.600 it's kind of had the leg more than just a 171 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:01.639 regular game. 172 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:04.800 I don't think they've really done much other than hip Man. 173 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.600 I know, yeah, all they got one like a various 174 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:09.879 there's one gem in there. 175 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:11.199 I love yeah, what is it. 176 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.000 I'll go when I go to my turn. 177 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.000 Okay, wow, he's not gonna give you this guy. 178 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:19.800 And clear I Haden Lynch. 179 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:21.680 Actually I played Canaan Lynch back in the day. 180 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.600 If that's you said the newer ones, I feel like 181 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:27.720 I'm not knowing Kirkland Pats and I feel like you 182 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:29.839 were more player of the older. 183 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.039 Ones versus the Okay, so it is IOI that's done 184 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:33.399 all the hit Man's all of them. 185 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.279 Yeah, okay, yeah. 186 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.519 So my first exposure would have been hit Man code 187 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.279 named forty seven. According to this it came out in 188 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.440 two thousand, which totally makes sense. I had that on 189 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.279 the family computer. That was a game that like my 190 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.200 dad played, and I like I could watch him play 191 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.799 if my mom like went to bed or something. You know, 192 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.720 it's like, okay, don't tell your mom that that I'm 193 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.399 letting you watch me play this game. But yeah, like 194 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.320 I just I guess that kind of is a spark 195 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.039 to my interest in like stealth games also because not 196 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.600 just IOI hit Man games, but again like going to 197 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.440 like the spy genre, like espionage and just sneaking around, 198 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.080 like that's always a thing in those types of movies. 199 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.240 And obviously I relived the stell genre. So yeah, cod 200 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.600 named forty seven Blood Money. 201 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.440 For sure, I played hit Man two Silent Assassin. I 202 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.039 remember playing like later on, like like years later, when 203 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.559 I was like kinda, oh, I can just acquire these 204 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.519 games on Steam. I think I got like the bundle 205 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.039 and then played a little bit Hitman two. I think 206 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.399 I did a little bit of Hitman Contracts. Also, that's 207 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:36.759 more of just like playing level to level. But yeah, 208 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.840 not too familiar with that one. So yeah, Caanan Lynch Deadman. 209 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.879 I remember playing that game for sure, and then yeah, 210 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.240 there's just just those handful of Hitman titles there, and 211 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.559 then of course the newest hit Man and then now 212 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:53.879 h double O seven First Light and yeah, should I 213 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.679 lead into my just overalls or yeah, go ahead, yeah, okay, 214 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.799 so yeah, I mean Hitman like the most recent one, 215 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.840 it being like the closest title I think to this 216 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.919 newest one. I was kind of using that as a reference, like, Okay, 217 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:15.080 I'm assuming the gameplay will be mostly like that, and like, 218 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.679 I feel like the skeleton is there, but overall, like 219 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:19.879 the feel of it is so much different than Hitman 220 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.120 than what I was expecting. It's a lot more fast paced. 221 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.879 I think the game overall is a lot more arcadie 222 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:25.480 too than. 223 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.360 I was kind of expecting to it to be. 224 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.639 And early on I was a little bit like, I 225 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.159 don't want to say deterred, but just like, oh, okay, 226 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.320 this is a lot different than kind of what I 227 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.720 was expecting it to be. I think, like a good 228 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.840 comparison is like the Uncharted titles like it. It reminds 229 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.879 me a lot of that actually, just just the action. 230 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.200 It's a lot more refined and more satisfying to play, 231 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.799 but just how you kind of go, like whether you're 232 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.799 you're shooting guys or you're going into melee combat, you 233 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.440 can like kind of do some somewhat parkour like traversing 234 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.440 the environments like during unfires, like all that stuff really 235 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.840 reminds me of Uncharted. Obviously, it's like a more modern 236 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.960 version and it feels a lot nicer than what the 237 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.399 Uncharted combat was. But yeah, I don't know, like like 238 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.519 hit Man, to me, it's a lot slower obviously, it's 239 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.519 more of just like finding your targets and like not 240 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.960 really going guns of blazing full action hero, which you're 241 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.159 really able to do in this game. Uh, And earlier 242 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:22.679 on like I was like, oh, okay, this is a 243 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.080 bit of a surprise, but honestly, I totally prefer that. 244 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.720 I think for a double oh seven James Bond title. 245 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.039 Those movies have so much action in them, and they like, 246 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.840 this is a really good, h just version of that, 247 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.080 And yeah, I think there's a lot of things in 248 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.320 here that it's like, Okay, this is a little like 249 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.639 swallow my disbelief. 250 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.480 With how ridiculous some of these sequences go. 251 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:51.600 Of course, our characters just as the thickest plot armor, 252 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:53.639 even more so than like the movies. 253 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:54.519 It seems like the movies. 254 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.320 It's like, Okay, they're actually like trying to make this 255 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.960 seem somewhat realistic, even though he is double O seven, 256 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.720 like he's gonna make it supposedly at the end of 257 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:04.519 every story. This is like the video game version of that, 258 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:08.440 so it's just so much more extreme. But yeah, really 259 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.519 really loving the combat. It's super fun. I have a 260 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:16.840 funny story on like just my earlier adventures getting into 261 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.840 the like the early levels of this game, specifically with 262 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:20.639 the taxim stuff. 263 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:21.519 I don't know if you guys went in there. 264 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.360 We can talk about that when we get there, but Yeah, 265 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.639 So the gameplay, I'm really really satisfied. 266 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:28.000 I find it just really fun. 267 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.879 I think the melee combat I got like pretty good 268 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:34.360 with it, so I could just like really pop off 269 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.279 on everyone. But it feels like it's missing something. 270 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:38.600 I don't know. 271 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.159 I feel like it could be a little bit more 272 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.919 in depth specifically with just like I don't know, like 273 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.360 like it's the very classic like you can pay these 274 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.480 enemies or you can dodge these enemies, like like it's 275 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.840 very similar type of gameplay that I've seen in the past, 276 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:57.480 and it just kind of got old, I think for myself, 277 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:59.639 like pretty early on. However, it helped that like in 278 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.279 the game play, you can really balance what you want 279 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.039 to do. You can use gadgets, you can use guns, 280 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.120 you know, if you get the license to kill a 281 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.639 thing kind of going, or you can use melee, or 282 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.279 you can sneak. So like I think it all together 283 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.799 was a lot better for me. So the overall gameplay 284 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:19.320 I am really enjoying. And yeah, the story, it's nothing 285 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.080 like groundbreaking, but I think it's good enough. I think 286 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:27.200 it's definitely again similar to how I experienced those Uncharted games, 287 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:29.399 Like I I remember the stories not being like anything 288 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:30.559 that was boy in my mind, but like it was 289 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.240 just fun to be going level to level and this 290 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.480 game definitely has that really beautiful looking game. I really 291 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.639 do like Patrick Gibson as the video game bond, Like 292 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.639 like it's it's very different than if, Like, Okay, do 293 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.279 you want this guy to be your on screen bond? 294 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.799 No I don't, but like honestly, just following this guy, 295 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:53.440 like doing the like spy school and just him like 296 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.480 going through all of that. I think it's a really 297 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:57.759 good fit for a video game because you just feel 298 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.000 like a young Double seven that like fish. 299 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.440 Uh, I don't know fish. I don't know why I 300 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:03.240 said fish out of water. 301 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.279 I feel like i'sot the right terminology for that, but 302 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:08.159 just just a new fish in a in a big ocean, 303 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.919 I guess, for uh, entering this world of spy isms. 304 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.679 And yeah, I like the roster of characters too. No 305 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:21.639 one like no major like Oscar winning performances by any means. 306 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:25.360 But I think like overall, across the line, it's pretty uh, 307 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.759 it's pretty pretty good solid. So yeah, overall I'm really 308 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.919 positive on it. I'm on chapter seven, like I got 309 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:36.919 to chapter seven today, Nightfall. I guess I won't say 310 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:40.039 where that is for possible spoilers for people that don't. 311 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.759 Want to hear that. But yeah, I heard how many 312 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:45.639 chapters there are, so I don't know. 313 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.799 I I am enjoying myself, so I do wish the 314 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.320 game would just keep going and going. But uh, I 315 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:53.639 think with how many hours I have in right now, 316 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.440 I think I'm around six hours like in game, and 317 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:01.320 I've been enjoying my time. So yeah, overall, definitely positive 318 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:02.639 on it. If I had to give like a number 319 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.960 rating like on on where I'm at right well, maybe 320 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:06.360 I'll say. 321 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:06.720 That till the end. 322 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.080 Actually, when we discussed a little bit more, maybe i'll 323 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.320 I'll leave a little bit of a intrigue there. Oh, 324 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.679 last thing I'll say. Lenny Kravitz, Man, fuck, he slaps 325 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:16.519 in this again. 326 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.840 You said no oscar winning performances. There's one right there? 327 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:20.879 You got me? 328 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.240 Yeah, great, he reads you have like a guitar hero character, 329 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.759 and especially his like intro scene, it just seemed like 330 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:29.840 a guitar hero like cinematic. The way that his hair 331 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.519 is like moving around and his voice is just it's 332 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.840 like iconic to me. So it just sounds very like 333 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:36.399 I don't know, Lenny Kravitz. 334 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:40.519 I was expecting to just go want to get away. 335 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:42.559 Like I actually got to say a concert. He's gonna 336 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.080 do the Bond song next one. 337 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.120 So that'd be sweet. Yeah, all right, Travis. Yeah, brief 338 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.759 history Voy, brief history Bond, and then your thoughts on 339 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:51.039 the game. 340 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.120 Yeah. I think the easiest way to put Bond is 341 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:54.960 I said, it's a couple of casts ago and I 342 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.360 probably forgot one, and I'd say not a spy. Specifically, 343 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.919 James Bond as a kid, want to be a pirate, 344 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.360 want to be a cowboy, want to be a gangster, mobster. 345 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.840 James Bond was in that wish fulfillment of cool gadgets, 346 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.600 knows the right thing to say, wear in the suits 347 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.600 always gets not just the girl. The girls like everything 348 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:17.559 you do, gadgets of the ying yang, money, cool cars, 349 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:19.720 everything right. And I didn't care about cars. With the Bond, 350 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:21.799 It's like okay. So that was a character became big 351 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:25.080 wish fulfillment. I don't know he's always been around in 352 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.159 my life, but definitely it was the two fur of GoldenEye, 353 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.480 not only just the game, but the movie. I absolutely 354 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.759 love the movie. That is my second favorite Bond movie 355 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.000 all time. Spoiler for rankings when me and Kirkland get 356 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:39.279 there one day. But that's my second favorite movie all 357 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.480 time for the Bond series, so I just fell in 358 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.000 love even more so that character. Much like everyone around 359 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.000 my age. That was a classic. Hey we're coming over. 360 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.360 You're playing that game for hours and hours, You're finding 361 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.159 the secret portals, you finding the Golden guns, good time, 362 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:54.039 and then from them, I'm just consumed Bond. I'd say 363 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.679 I am a massive Bond fan in the way that 364 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.440 I love Bond a lot, not in the way that 365 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.919 I could tell you all this act, played this guard 366 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:02.320 and yet to do. I don't know the trivia and 367 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.440 I'm not seeing them all like I don't watch them 368 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.319 every year or anything like that. But I love the 369 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.599 Bond series. I own every single one on Blu Ray 370 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.920 four K, so I am a big connoisseur of the 371 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.400 franchise and I'm excited to see where we go in 372 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.319 the future. And I was very excited by this because 373 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.759 Io Interactive. It's been almost just like Bond, but a 374 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:22.880 different side of the coin for my gaming history as 375 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.160 far as growing up, because I played all the hit 376 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.640 Man's I got hit Man Blood money. When I think 377 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.720 it was the three sixty era, and then after that 378 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.079 they created a remastered of all of them and I 379 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.200 have it somewhere, but it's like a very cool, like 380 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.720 like this very this art cover, like it stands out, 381 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.559 it doesn't. It looks like there's lots of effort put 382 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:44.559 in this, and it's like a silhouette and a big 383 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.119 mural of all the games put together. And then I 384 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.160 play them all. I was a big fan of Absolution 385 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.720 as well, that's more of a story based one. And 386 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.000 then I've only played the first one of the Newest 387 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.680 Trilogy because I'm just behind on stuff, so that I 388 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.680 played them all. I am a massive, massive fan of 389 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.720 Caame Lynch. I love Kane Lynch so much. I was 390 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.880 so hyped when they announced the movie that never got made. 391 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.480 Even the sequel for Kana Lynch is a weird game 392 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.200 when you play his Lynch and he's kind of like 393 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.119 crazy and schizophrenic and he's taken medicine and they do 394 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.000 so much stuff. So yeah, I like Iowa a lot 395 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.200 so this game. When they said, hey, We're doing Bond, 396 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:19.799 I thought that was a match made heaven because even 397 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:21.680 though I haven't got the hit Man, the New Hitman 398 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.079 two and three. I'm very excited, and even after this, 399 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:25.680 I'm like, Okay, I want to get back on that. 400 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:27.920 I'm hoping next years I've talked about is my catchup year, 401 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:30.480 and that's on the list of kay. I want to 402 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.480 two and three because I love the aesthetic. I love 403 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:35.079 the pacing, but like Kirkland said, the pacing's a little 404 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.240 bit different for here. So overall, so far, I really 405 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.319 enjoyed the game because I did beat it today. I 406 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:42.920 was okay, I'm going to power through. I want Yeah, 407 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.839 I wanted to get to it, so I just sat 408 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.799 down like Okay, I'm gonna get this done. Had a 409 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.799 really good time with it. I do have critiques. It's 410 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:54.960 not the it didn't hit the I wouldn't say it 411 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.440 hit the Spider Man or Arkham Asylum level. I think 412 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.880 it's more the like Star Wars Jedi Fall or whatever, 413 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:03.400 the Jedi the first Jedi game of Calcasts, whatever, that 414 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:05.440 it's like he has a fall in order, like somewhere 415 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.160 in that type of realm where it's like I feel 416 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:10.039 like with a sequel, maybe it can get there. Now 417 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.400 with the Star Wars game it didn't right, or even 418 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.599 Indiana Jones, I feel like I had a bigger experience 419 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:17.519 with Indiana Jones versus this. Still really like this, and 420 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.319 I still feel like my score would be pretty high, 421 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.359 and I would recommend that anybody it's a Bond fan. 422 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.680 I was trying to sell many like anyone's a Bond fan. 423 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:25.559 It is a must play. I think they do a 424 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.240 great job of issue. If you want to do the 425 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:29.519 wish fulfillment, you get to do that as Bond because 426 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:31.039 lots of the other games, when they are just the 427 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.559 first person, it is just you're just mowing through guys 428 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:35.440 shooting right. You might have a watch, you might do 429 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.640 a couple gadgets, but really it is a first person 430 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.680 shooter or this is honestly. The shooting is I don't 431 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:44.119 know where ranks and percentage not so much, maybe near 432 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:46.720 the back half of the game, but it's a very 433 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.599 low amount of shooting you do sometimes, but they hit everything. 434 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:51.480 You do. The gadgets, you do, the shooting, you do, 435 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.559 the handhand combat, you do, the vehicles, which all kind 436 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:57.319 of suck in my opinion. They're never that fun. There's 437 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.960 one moment where something unlocked, all that's gonna be really cool, 438 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.200 and it just sucks playing with this vehicle. It's it's 439 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.759 a pain and it's such a cool moment and it 440 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.200 feels like, oh, we finally got here, and it doesn't 441 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.440 play well. So the vehicles, they're kind of men even 442 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.400 anytime it's like a boat part and it's like, this 443 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:15.480 just doesn't feel good. I'm on the reverse of Kirkling. 444 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.000 My favorite part of the game is the combat, because 445 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.000 what I like about this is it does have that 446 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:23.240 dodge or just you know, miss time, like evade sort 447 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.440 of thing. But it's not the Arkham style where Baman's 448 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.279 like very meticulous and it's very boom boom down, boom 449 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:31.160 boom down. I love. It's very much like the Craig 450 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.559 movies where you're just getting scuffles, you're getting thrown against bookshelves. 451 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.039 You I love chucking things and throwing them at the people. 452 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.799 I love that. So I actually prefer to have the 453 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.440 handhanding comment over the gunplay. The gunplay's fine, it's good. 454 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.160 That feels very much like Hitman, where Hitman's gun play 455 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.240 is never amazing because you're never like trying to be 456 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:50.920 You're not trying to be Kurkling. In the twenty four 457 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:52.799 hour stream a couple of years ago, right, Like in Hitman, 458 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:54.640 most of when you're using your guns, it's like a 459 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:58.000 last resort or it's a designed level in my opinion. Right, 460 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.480 maybe Absolution was a bit different. But one play thing 461 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.880 is past well, it's good. But I love the fighting. 462 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:05.920 I love the you can just grab a person and 463 00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:09.480 do these different combinations. The gadgets are tons of fun. 464 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.319 I love that you can incorporate them in the mission 465 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.799 or also the fight. So yeah, the handhand combat, it 466 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.400 feels the closest to those Craig movies that they could 467 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:18.680 have got. It reminds me of a lot. They made 468 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:20.359 a Born Identity game back in the day and I 469 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:20.599 was a. 470 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:22.720 Huge fan of that man I played that that was 471 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:23.839 so good. 472 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:25.240 And the fighting is a lot like that. So because 473 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.000 especially Kirkland, I love like just kind of the spy 474 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.160 genre in general. And then for the story wise, I 475 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.240 think it's like a it's like a good like it's 476 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.839 a solid B type of story bond. It's kind of like, oh, 477 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:38.640 people love Skyfall and Casina around, but then it's like 478 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.799 and then there's Quantum Solace and then there's you know, 479 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.440 die another day. It's not dynamic to Moron never dies. 480 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:47.240 It definitely feels like if this was an actor's repertoire, 481 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.079 it being like the second section of the quality of 482 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:54.440 the movies. I'm harder than kirkland is. I had my 483 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:58.319 worries before and even more so now. Patrick Gibson's Bond 484 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:00.880 doesn't really work for me. I think playing as the 485 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.920 character feels like Bond, but he doesn't. And this is 486 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.519 just like a minor the most mindor spoiler Kirk. At 487 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:07.920 one point, you're gonna get a car that has some 488 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:13.319 guns in it. Big surprise, right, But there's a moment, Okay, 489 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:15.799 he sits down and he's talking the AI. He's like, 490 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.680 what's this what's this machine gut? And the AI goes like, oh, 491 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:21.279 it's got missiles. It's oh yeah, awesome. And then it's like, 492 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:23.359 but they're not working. Oh you kidding me? But does 493 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:26.680 machine guns? Hell yeah, now we're talking not Bond at all. 494 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.319 There's multiple times in this game story wise and character 495 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:32.079 wise they don't get Bond. There's someone that kills someone 496 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:33.960 and he's like, I don't handle things that way, and 497 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.000 then you go on to screen you murder a bunch 498 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:39.799 of people. They I don't think they nailed the character 499 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.880 of Bond, and I don't think Patrick Gibson did. I 500 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.000 think he did as good as he could, but I 501 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.640 don't feel Bond. So that's the thing that holds it back. 502 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:49.839 Story wise, I can never click in. It feels something 503 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.119 is off the whole time. It feels like this is 504 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.119 a guy that is like Double O five or Double four. 505 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.839 It does not feel like Double O seven. I think 506 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.359 it does hit on the cheesy lines and the hot 507 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.759 girls and the crazy situation. So all the bondisms is great. 508 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.640 Just Bond himself doesn't wear what we talk about Indiana 509 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:09.759 Jones right when god Osie he's playing Harrison Ford. But 510 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.640 still when Troy Baker's that, say okay, he nailed it, 511 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:15.640 He's I feel like he's Indiana Jones. It doesn't exactly 512 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.240 feel like Bond to me. So I like Patrick Gibson 513 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:19.880 so far. What I've seen from Dexter and even here 514 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:22.480 it's not necessarily bad. But I very much hope they 515 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:23.880 don't go this round the movies, which I don't think 516 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.039 they will. So overall, I had a really good time 517 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:27.759 that I've not done any of the tax sims. Like 518 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.519 you guys, if you want to talk about that, I 519 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:30.920 was waiting because I just wanted to do the full 520 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.519 story and lead. There's a kind of like a dessert 521 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:36.200 to have after the fact. But I would highly recommend it. 522 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.039 If you like iiO games or if you like Bond. 523 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:40.319 I think you like Bond, You're gonna be pretty happy. 524 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.119 And I think more people like Patrick Gibson than me, 525 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:44.480 so I think overall, I would recommend it as a 526 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.000 bye and I had a lot of fun of it, 527 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:48.119 But it's also not like a game in the year. 528 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.160 It's not one I'm like, oh man, they I think 529 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:53.480 they're like they nailed a lot of aspects, maybe not 530 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:55.680 the entire game, but I I enjoyed it. But I 531 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.920 also don't know if I'm gonna be like replaying it 532 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.000 right away. I'll replay like when a Bond movie comes. 533 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.279 So that's kind of my my overall package right now. 534 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.039 Very nice. Yeah, I in terms of my history backstory, 535 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:08.680 I'll be much quicker than you guys because I have 536 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:12.640 a much shorter history with Bond. I've seen maybe two movies, 537 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:15.640 two Bond movies in my life, and I don't think 538 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:17.720 I've ever rewatched them, so it's like I've just not 539 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:20.119 really watched these things at all it was just golden, 540 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:22.400 golden Ey as a kid, just playing that endlessly over 541 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:25.359 and over and over again. And yeah, I feel like 542 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.079 actually similar to you, Kirkle, Like I was into like 543 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:29.720 the more kid Bond stuff, and so I feel like 544 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.519 all that and stuff feels very similar to me, or 545 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:34.960 feels very reminiscent, like I know what the tropes arether 546 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.160 than like the kids movies don't have like hot girls 547 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:39.160 all the time like I guess the Bond stuff has. 548 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:42.759 But otherwise it all feels very familiar, even though you know, 549 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:44.279 I can't confirm because I haven't seen as many of 550 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:46.920 the movies. And then with IO, I'm I'm also kind 551 00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:49.200 of a recent convert here, Like the first game of 552 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:52.200 theirs I played was hit Man twenty sixteen, and then 553 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:54.799 rolling into hit Man two and hit Man three, and 554 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:56.720 then I guess World of Assassination, which kind of bundled 555 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:59.680 them all together and added freelancer mode, and that has 556 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:01.640 become if you bundle that all into one game, which 557 00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:03.880 they now have done, if you buy it on the storefront, 558 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:05.920 that has gone out to become one of my favorite 559 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:08.880 games of all time, like definitely right near the top ten, 560 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:10.559 top fifteen it's hard to put in the top ten 561 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:13.000 just because it is kind of three games, kind of 562 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:15.279 four games, kind of one game. Like it's just hard 563 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:17.640 to rank for that reason. But it is just one 564 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.400 of my favorite games ever. Like I've always loved stealth games, 565 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:24.440 and I love the It's just such a dense mechanical game. 566 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:27.559 It constantly makes me laugh with crazy scenarios. It makes 567 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:29.359 me feel so smart when I come up with a 568 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:33.279 really cool, interesting solution to a problem, and I just 569 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:34.880 like that. It's kind of yeah, different from like the 570 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:37.599 traditional third person action games and stealth games, like, it 571 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:39.920 is kind of completely unique in that way, and truly 572 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:44.279 like top tier level design, like Io and Arcane are 573 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:46.039 the two best in the biz when it comes to 574 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:49.000 level design. I'll say that over and over again. So yeah, 575 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:51.440 I love these games so much, and I think you know, 576 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:54.319 I was tempering the expectations of like, Okay, this game 577 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:56.440 is not going to be the next hip Man game, 578 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.400 so I can I'm not expecting to have all that 579 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:01.200 same mechanical depth. But then we had that showcase that 580 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:03.720 I think me and you covered Travis back in like 581 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:05.480 The Fall or whatever it was, where they kind of 582 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:08.279 went through the first main mission in this game, and 583 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:10.039 they kind of did like a vertical slice of like 584 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:13.000 here's like the mission like five different parts. Yes, And 585 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:14.759 from that I kind of I think I maybe got 586 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.319 possibly too excited because it was like, oh, this looks 587 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:19.599 very hit Man. This seems like hit Man, but with 588 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.720 like you know, the movement's faster and like the gunplay 589 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:24.559 is better and stuff like that. But it has that 590 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:27.720 kind of multiple solutions to the problem. You can, you know, 591 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.920 mess with the environment, trick people a little bit of 592 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:31.880 social stealth, not as much not putting on as many 593 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:34.039 outfits and things, but like a little bit of that. 594 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:35.720 And so I think, you know, I did have some 595 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:37.839 expectations of like, Okay, I think this actually is gonna 596 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:40.160 be quite a lot like hit Man, and I think 597 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.720 the reality is that that mission is by in this 598 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.559 game by far, the closest to a Hitman mission, and 599 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.039 after that they all get progressively less like Hitman. So 600 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:50.880 honestly that was a bit of a detractor for me, 601 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.119 and that I think this game as one of like 602 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:55.880 the strongest openings in first like few hours of a 603 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:58.839 game for me in recent memory, Like I love getting 604 00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:01.759 into the world, meaning everyone six, meeting the team. I 605 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:04.839 think that like games don't ever do montages. There's an 606 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.480 amazing montage tutorial sequence in this game that I think 607 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:10.160 is really great. It's like, here's literally ten seconds of 608 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.680 like some punching stuff, and then here's thirty seconds of 609 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.319 doing a race around the island. Here's another ten seconds 610 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:17.640 of you doing some platforming stuff, and then back here's 611 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:19.440 five more seconds of combat, and like here's a couple 612 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.319 of tricks you haven't learned yet, and it just cycles 613 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:23.759 through that stuff, and it just fucking rips and up 614 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:25.480 to that game too, like all the story stuff and 615 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.799 the beats getting you to that point, the game just moves. 616 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:29.400 It never takes you back to a menu. It never 617 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.079 says like click here to go to the next level. 618 00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:34.599 It just moves from thing to thing, introducing you to character, mechanic, 619 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.359 to the world, setting up you know, like the the 620 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:41.079 I guess not red hairings, but like foreshadowing. You know, 621 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.559 it's just setting up stuff left, right and center. And 622 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:45.640 then it kind of gets you into that first big mission, 623 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:47.319 that one that was shown off a few months ago, 624 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:50.039 and then that mission just sings, and I to me, 625 00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:53.119 that is the best mission in the game, and Honestly, 626 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:54.960 this is where I feel I have so many complex 627 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.079 thoughts about this game, because honestly, for me, the game 628 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:00.599 kind of just gets worse as it goes along. It 629 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:02.880 never becomes a bad game. I just think at worst, 630 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.480 this game just is extremely generic. And that is especially 631 00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:08.759 true for like the last two major sections of the game, 632 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:14.599 really uninteresting gameplay, really shitty puzzles, you know, just a 633 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:17.240 lot of like shootout galleries, which are fine, but like 634 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:20.039 the gunplay is not, like the handhand combat is the 635 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:23.079 better part of the combat system here, and so I 636 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.240 was kind of wanting the game to end when I 637 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:27.759 was getting to the end of it, to be honest. 638 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.880 But definitely those first few missions, first few areas, those 639 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.920 first three, I guess major areas, I think are all fantastic. 640 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:36.440 There was one I was pretty like, also just say 641 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.079 it's a resort, you know, to say in a light 642 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:40.759 spoilers a way, I was very disappointed with that region 643 00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:42.559 because it looks really cool and there's some cool story 644 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:45.160 stuff going on there, but the gameplay is just like 645 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.839 a zero out of ten. Okay that's exaggerating, but it's 646 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.680 like it's it's generic five out of ten level stuff 647 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:54.160 and I was like, man, the dark, fucked up part 648 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.519 of me is like, man, I just wish this was 649 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.559 a hit Man level, and this actually got like the 650 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:00.400 care and love of like a full, fully edged out 651 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.039 level instead of just what feels like a nice esthetic 652 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.480 without really much depth behind it at all. I think 653 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:08.640 there's a lot of really interesting mechanics in this game. 654 00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:11.359 I like the Q Watch and all the gadgets and 655 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.279 things you get there. I think it's extremely imbalanced, and 656 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.319 we can talk about like the reason for that. It 657 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:19.519 does play more into like a power fantasy than like 658 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:21.400 the limitations of like a hit Man game. But I 659 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.400 think at times it maybe goes a bit too far 660 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.680 where there's certain things like anytime you've got a pickpocket 661 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:27.480 a guy in this game, you just shouldn't with a 662 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:29.079 dart and you just grab the thing off him and 663 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:31.640 you don't have to use your brain. I didn't really 664 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:33.920 ever feel smart in this game in the way that 665 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.039 Hitman makes me feel like, Oh man, I came up 666 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.119 with a cool solution and then I pulled it off, 667 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:40.440 and I feel like a genius. I never really got 668 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:43.960 that kind of happy feeling from this game. Unfortunately, it 669 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.160 is still io. The level design is still great, even 670 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:49.480 if there are sections that are more linear and generic. 671 00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:52.799 I think overall, for the story, again, I'm not as 672 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.279 much of the Bond guy. I think there's some great moments. 673 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:57.599 I really like all the characters, like mi I six 674 00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:59.640 and a couple of other side characters. I think the 675 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:05.720 main villain is like garbage, like justly interesting. Again, very generic, 676 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:09.440 but yeah, overall, I did have a good enough time 677 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.279 with this game. I actually like the Vehicle six sections. 678 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:14.279 It switches it up, It's it's fun enough for you 679 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:16.440 know again, it's it kind of whips you through these 680 00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:18.240 different sequences. You don't have to sit on it for 681 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.160 too long. I like the performance of our main guy here. 682 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:23.440 I think it does a good job. Again, I don't 683 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.799 have as much baggage of like what what Bond is 684 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:28.839 or should be, so that's fine for me. And then 685 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.079 I think I've almost turned around a little bit more 686 00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:32.759 because now that I've beat the game, I didn't do 687 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:34.759 any of the tax sim stuff before beating the game. 688 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:37.200 Now that I have rolled credits, I'm jumping into some 689 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:39.480 of that stuff, and that is where this game is 690 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.000 trying to be hit man. A lot of that stuff 691 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:42.680 is structured in the same way Hitmen is. It has 692 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.599 the challenges. It even has like the same layout and 693 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.359 UI for some of those things. There's like the tiered 694 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.400 missions as you go through and unlock stuff. Yeah, you are, 695 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.599 you are unlocking things. There's not any things to unlock 696 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:56.319 as Hitmen. Of course, I'm guessing they're gonna keep building 697 00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:58.680 up this because it does feel a little light. I 698 00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:00.640 haven't finished all this stuff yet, but it does feel 699 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.079 like they could just, you know, every month at a 700 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:05.519 new section in here, a new a new mission that 701 00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:07.440 you can go in and do. Maybe they'll do that 702 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.599 in the way they keep supporting Hitman with new content 703 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.480 and things like that. Or maybe they'll just move on 704 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:13.960 to SQL. Who knows what they'll do. But either way, 705 00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:15.920 this stuff, there's a lot of really interesting things in 706 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:17.680 here that I'm excited to do, and it is giving 707 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.519 me more of like you kind of have to master 708 00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:21.279 stuff like there was I was doing this thing just 709 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.519 before this, did you guys know you can like do 710 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.440 it a gut punch attack that like Blake breaks blocks. 711 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:28.160 I did not realize that was in part of the 712 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.200 melee combat system because it's just a weird set of inputs. Yeah, 713 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:32.839 or maybe they was in the tutorial, probably was, and 714 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:35.039 I just forgot about it. But this mission, like you 715 00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:37.200 gotta do this thing, and now I've learned it, and 716 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:39.599 it's like, wow, I like the combat like ten times 717 00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:42.079 more now because there's just another wrinkle that adds into 718 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:44.359 the variety of it all. So I think the tax 719 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.039 Sim stuff is is pretty cool so far, but again 720 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:49.599 it is pretty small. It seems a little limited. But 721 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:51.400 I haven't really finished that stuff yet. But at least 722 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.079 from the you know, maybe two hours I have in 723 00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:54.960 the Taxim. 724 00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:59.160 Stuff man to tip your tongue, just my tax him 725 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.960 like adventure there. So yeah, like you you get access 726 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.799 to it early on, you don't have to do it. 727 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.640 Is everything I wish i'd like when you jumped in there. No, no, 728 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:08.039 it's not. 729 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:10.759 So there's only certain amounts that are unlocked, and then 730 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:11.640 you get more as. 731 00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:13.160 You I guess whatever places you've been to in the 732 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:13.880 story or like. 733 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.519 That, yeah locked, yeah, exactly, like the first one is 734 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:18.640 is Iceland or whatever, you know what I mean. And 735 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.440 I jumped in there and I did not I could 736 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:24.039 not figure out how to get the fuck out of 737 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:26.039 tax Sim. I didn't know how to get back into 738 00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:28.799 c branch. So I literally just stayed in there for 739 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:31.400 like like at least an hour and a half just 740 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:33.960 doing the tax sims because I'm like, Okay, well, maybe 741 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:35.640 I just have to finish these, like maybe it's part 742 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.440 of the tutorial, Like I like, I actually just have 743 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:39.319 to do all the ones that are unlocked, like I 744 00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:41.759 went through all the tears, and because of that, like 745 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:45.119 I was dying doing these, Like they're not super easy 746 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:46.920 at least I guess at that point in the game 747 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:49.799 for myself. But man, I was just getting locked in. 748 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:51.640 Like I was getting so good with the combat, and 749 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.720 there's some that are like just melee like challenges essentially, 750 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:57.640 and I was just like spamming those on repeat. So 751 00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:59.519 that's kind of like where I got really good with 752 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:01.720 the combat kind of before I even like jumped into 753 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:02.839 the main story stuff. 754 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:05.039 The way I got out of it. 755 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.079 Is I ended up just closing the game eventually, and 756 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:09.240 then it loaded me in when you first go back 757 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:12.200 to like the Q branch, so all of my Taxi 758 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:14.680 in progress was just not saved, but like I had 759 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.960 all of like the actual like reps as the player, 760 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.359 so I'm like, yay, I'm never going back into the 761 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:21.000 taxim because I don't know how to get the fuck 762 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.319 out of it. 763 00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:23.039 I don't know if I'm just that much of an idiot. 764 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:25.480 I don't know if like I went everywhere in the taxim, 765 00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:27.799 like I didn't know how to get back to Q branch. 766 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:29.559 I couldn't just go down the stairs. There's like a 767 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:32.160 gate there. It was so weird. I don't know if 768 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:34.440 it was bug or whatnot. But yeah, I haven't gone 769 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.680 back there since, but I was doing reps in the 770 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.160 taxim before I really even, like I think it was 771 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:41.440 I think it was like the first mission you do, 772 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:43.279 and then I went in there and I just I 773 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.359 was just in there for like a couple hours, like 774 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:47.200 definitely at least an hour and a half just just 775 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.519 grinding out some taxims. 776 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:50.559 But they're pretty fun for sure. 777 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:52.559 It's definitely you know, like like like you said, like 778 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.480 gives you a little list of challenges and that's where 779 00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:57.880 it kind of teaches you, like the different combos for 780 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.640 the melees like you said, like hit hole, the hit button. 781 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.920 You know, like like just doing in those patterns. 782 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:04.880 You would like accidentally do a lot, but then it's like, oh, 783 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:06.160 this is like a thing I can actually do in 784 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.760 this ye scenario, and yeah, you really gives me more 785 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:10.920 of an appreciation for all those mechanics that I was 786 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.679 kind of just blazing through or like stumbling through. 787 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.079 Yeah, totally, but I have those pretty much unlock, like 788 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:19.760 after the first mission, so it definitely equit me well 789 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:20.719 going forward. 790 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.480 Uh, there's definitely some sections that are really challenging to 791 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.880 get through, but overall, yeah, yeah, that third tier of 792 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.920 like the first tax emission ten to fifteen tries for 793 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:31.519 me to beat it was fucking man. 794 00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:33.920 I beat it with like one HP left, and it 795 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:36.079 was so stressful because she was like asking me something, 796 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.039 and I like, I guess I could have paused the game, 797 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.559 but I was just so locked in. I was treating 798 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:41.559 it like a like a from software game where I 799 00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:44.239 can't pause, and I ended up like just sniping the 800 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:47.519 last guy and I was like sweating. And it's funny 801 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:50.199 because in PlayStation it like records when you get a trophy, 802 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:52.840 and it actually like records like whatever, you're. 803 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:54.519 Oh right here through your remote. 804 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:57.239 Yeah, Like I watched the trophy again and I'm like, 805 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.079 holy shit, I'm like and then I I. 806 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:01.360 Like ask her whatever she was asking. 807 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.079 It's just a funny memory that they you know, just 808 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:06.480 data stole from me. But it's kind of funny to 809 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.119 look back on that. 810 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.400 Nice. Yeah, So I think I will definitely need to 811 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.480 report back on future side quests. Just want to gone 812 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:14.320 through more of this tax and stuff to see how 813 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.320 I feel about this game overall. I think with the 814 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:18.679 story itself, I was satisfied with it, but yeah, like 815 00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:20.840 as I said, it kind of really dragged near the 816 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.320 end for me and brought down some of that enjoyment. 817 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.880 I would recommend this game again. Since I'm not a 818 00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:28.320 big Bond guy, I don't know if I can recommend 819 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:29.880 it on that front, but just in terms of like 820 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.119 a game, it's really well done, you know, especially coming 821 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:34.119 from hit Man, I had low expectations for how good 822 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.519 it would feel to move around, to punch people, to 823 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:39.440 shoot guns. It's so much better than it. Man, it 824 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:42.039 feels really good. Like all that stuff is fun, you know, 825 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.679 you know, as you said, traps, you don't do a 826 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.119 ton of gunplay, like at most you're getting like a 827 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:48.679 clip extra of AMMO and like you're probably gonna burn 828 00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:51.599 through that really fast. But like it all feels very good. 829 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:53.920 I mean, there's like crazy like auto aim, like Logong, 830 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:55.239 and I'm just like, yeah, I'm just gonna rip with 831 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.239 this because it's more more fun for me to do 832 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.519 it this way. There's explosive barrels everywhere in this game. 833 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.719 It's comical amount. But yeah, like all that, all that 834 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.920 stuff's very fun. Before I guess we scoot into the 835 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:11.239 next sequence. Just two questions that we got on Discord 836 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.599 Comments Comments Questions. One from Sbub's the Guy in the Chair. 837 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:17.159 My only complaint about the game is that the low 838 00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:20.159 tens feel way longer than any current Gen Triple A 839 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.400 game I've played, which can be annoying if you're like me, 840 00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.400 dying and having to restart a bunch. Was this an 841 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.800 issue for you guys, Yeah, definitely. I don't think I've 842 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:31.639 played a game on PS five that has this bad 843 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.440 of load times, And it's funny, it's like, it's definitely 844 00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:36.480 the first one problem where it's really not that bad, 845 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.039 but we're just so conditioned with the PS five and 846 00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:40.760 how quick it is. And I think all three of 847 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:43.400 us are playing on PS five, right, Yeah, obviously Kirkne 848 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.159 you just mentioned a trophy, so yeah you are. But yeah, 849 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:49.800 like it definitely when you are in like a little yeah, 850 00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:53.159 fistfight brawl like the one in A Left, and I 851 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:56.360 lost that a couple of times. That's when I was like, WHOA, 852 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:58.920 these load times are crazy because before that all that 853 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.840 going from the different sequel, it's all really fast and zips. 854 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:03.920 But when you die and have to reset, it's I 855 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:05.760 guess there's just a lot of props, a lot of characters, 856 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:07.960 a lot of things. It definitely takes a while for 857 00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:11.760 the loading. So yeah, that definitely bothered me as well. 858 00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.079 And then other other tech things. One time I did 859 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.079 get soft locked and I had to look up a 860 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:18.880 walk through watch the video realize I got soft locked, 861 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:20.639 and then I had to restart that section and do 862 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.119 it again, which I hate when things like that happen 863 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.480 in games because then it's just this insidious thing in 864 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:26.960 the back of your head for the rest of the game. 865 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.119 Anytime you're stuck, you're like, oh, is the game just 866 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:31.360 bugged and I'm soft locked? Or am I just stupid 867 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:33.800 and not knowing the solution here? So that was a bummer. 868 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.559 I had the game crash a couple of times. I'd 869 00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.039 never lost too much progress, but obviously Kirkham was having 870 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:40.639 some issues with like the tax and thing being kind 871 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:43.360 of janky too, So I never had any like frame 872 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.159 rate drops. So for the most part, I think the 873 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.679 game is technically pretty sound, but there's just a couple 874 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:51.440 of hiccups and again, load times, yeah, could be could 875 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:56.920 be better. And then the other one was from Petcrum 876 00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.119 twenty four. I haven't played the game, although I planned 877 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:00.920 to at some point. I don't really enjoy the shooting, 878 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.960 aspecting games, I find it kind of boring, and I 879 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:04.400 expected this game to have a lot of that. But 880 00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:06.119 some of the things that have been said in the 881 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.239 discord about the use of environment, et cetera, have maybe 882 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.480 hopeful that maybe the game has more handic hand to 883 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:12.800 combat from what I expected it. So I guess I 884 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:14.519 would like to know if handahik combat plays a big 885 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.360 part of the game. Pin on buying it either way, 886 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:19.639 Just curious. Yeah, Travis, you kind of touched on this already, 887 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.079 but do you want to kind of answer that question 888 00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:22.199 more specifically as well? 889 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:24.239 Yeah, I feel like if that if you were in 890 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:26.280 the case where you maybe like the bond of World 891 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.400 but you're not looking for a shooter, I do think 892 00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.119 this is that perfect kind of combination. Is like what 893 00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:34.519 Kirkland said where it is more uncharted because it's also 894 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:36.800 you're playing hand in hand in combat, but there's also 895 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:39.159 lots of set pieces. Luckily, I was worried in the 896 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:41.599 first two levels, especially the first one. There was I 897 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:43.280 won't say a lot, but a good amount of almost 898 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.440 quick time cut seeming things, and I was like, oh, no, 899 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:47.280 it's gonna be a lot of that. I feel like 900 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.239 they pick it wisely, and I feel like they sometimes 901 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:54.320 may go overboard in some sections, but overall I would 902 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.039 pass and say no, it's still a good amount and 903 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.559 it was safe there, so no, I think if that's 904 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:02.079 also worry, the combat is to me the standout and 905 00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:03.880 that's why I play the game and have a fun time. 906 00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:06.199 Don't get me wrong, there is some fun times where 907 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:10.880 because you you have situations too where they will give 908 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:12.960 you the license to kill and you could go shoot everybody, 909 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:14.280 but you don't have to. You can still take it 910 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.719 as like a self thing. You can still do this combat. Obviously, 911 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:18.719 it's a bit more tricky if there's a bunch of gunfire, 912 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.760 you have to do some running and some hiding. But 913 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.280 there are of course some sections where okay, you just 914 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:25.800 have to use the gun. But I feel like it's 915 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.039 it's quite small for what I would have thought for 916 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:30.360 a Bond game. And even then, I think those sections 917 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:33.800 are really good. Like there's you know classic Bonds that 918 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.480 where you're in a room, there's a door you gotta 919 00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:38.440 get to. It's a bunch of computers and whatnot, and 920 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:40.360 there's dozens of guys and you just got to mow 921 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.039 through them, right and again, even in that situation, technically 922 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:45.159 you don't have to use your gun. I definitely use 923 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.280 the gun because there's a lot of guys, But if 924 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:48.880 you're an expert and you just want to steal it 925 00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:51.159 up or handhand, there is a way, especially if you're 926 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:53.480 depending on your difficulty, right, if you're playing the easiest, 927 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:55.320 which I played right in the middle, I'm sure you 928 00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:57.639 could easily just do most of this with combat. I 929 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.000 don't think with the hardest, because I we'd heard from 930 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.719 I that he kind of took a break because like 931 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:04.280 you just die after two punches. So I'm excited to 932 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:06.559 play the game at some point with that. But I 933 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:10.679 think if you had that same critique or worry this 934 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.039 scratches that it so. 935 00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.599 Yeah, yeah, I feel like hanahand combat is the most 936 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.519 common thing followed by probably like using gadgets and stuff, 937 00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:20.239 and then gunplay would be like below that in terms 938 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:22.440 of like just basic kind of gameplay things you're doing. 939 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.920 And then second part of his question was also the 940 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:26.840 car chase part of the mission in the trailer looked fun. 941 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.159 Should we expect more or do? 942 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:30.199 Yeah? 943 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.960 I mean, I don't know what exact trailer you're talking about. 944 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:37.320 I'm assuming it's like the the car chase from the 945 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:38.960 like first main mission, like that one that was in 946 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.840 that state of play or I showcase whatever it was. 947 00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:44.199 That's probably the most extensive one in the game. But 948 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:48.079 I there's probably like a good five six seven to 949 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:52.320 appiece Kirkland's favorite number. There of like different things, maybe 950 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.920 different driving sequences, vehicle sequences in this game. A couple 951 00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:57.599 of them are bigger, a couple of them are smaller. 952 00:40:58.239 --> 00:40:59.679 I've I though, thought it was fun. I like driving 953 00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.559 around this game, which again surprised me because it' hit 954 00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:02.920 maut you like never do that kind of thing, and 955 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.440 it is a very rigid game, but I thought it 956 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.639 felt pretty good. It is very on rails though, like 957 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:08.599 if you go like slightly out of line, it'll like 958 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.280 you're gonna beer back this way like it is. Those 959 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.480 are all very set piece, You're never like driving around 960 00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:18.559 freely and stuff. But it sounds like Travis kind of 961 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:21.599 dislike the driving stuff. And then Kirkland, I don't know, 962 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:23.880 are you on my side or Kirk or Travis's side. 963 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:30.880 I was in the middle the very first sequence. Yeah, 964 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.000 like like that part. I actually just restarted that sequence 965 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:36.800 like three or four times because I just kept fucking 966 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:39.719 running into the wall and I'm like this double seven man, Like, 967 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:41.679 I can't just be running into the walls for this mission. 968 00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:44.119 I got to do it smoothly, so so I just 969 00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:46.159 kept restarting it there. And that's kind of when I 970 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:48.679 realized the loading times actually, So that was when when 971 00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:51.239 that moment hit for me where I'm like, oh wow, 972 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:54.199 this is like, like I'm just so used to instant 973 00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.760 load times these days. You know, we're definitely spoiling that sense, 974 00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:58.480 which is a good. 975 00:41:58.320 --> 00:41:58.760 Thing to have. 976 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:01.880 But after that and I like kind of figured out 977 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:05.079 how the controls worked, I did like it a lot more. 978 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:09.280 It is on rails, but like you know, for. 979 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:12.760 A linear story game, like I'm totally fine with that, 980 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:17.840 and I like I remember loving the driving sequences in 981 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.559 Night Fire I think most of the Double seven games 982 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:23.559 had that incorporated, but in Night Fire at least, like 983 00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.800 the Aston Martin missions, those were like some of my favorite, 984 00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:30.000 and those are incredibly on rails and they're like even 985 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.719 so you're on a train compared to even with this 986 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:35.639 is little like more free roamy type driving games. 987 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:38.199 But yeah, overall, I think it was fine. 988 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:40.599 I definitely like if there was a lot of it, 989 00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:42.360 it could have been like, oh man, like this is 990 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.000 this is rough to get through, or if there's like 991 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:46.920 some of them are really difficult, like that would be 992 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:48.840 really brutal, like you just keep dying and you're trying 993 00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:51.000 to get through this like driving mission, that would really 994 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.880 really make me not like the driving sequences, but yeah, 995 00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.519 whether you're on like different types of vehicles, I just 996 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.239 never mind. I yeah, never mind. I didn't finish anything. 997 00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:05.239 Definitely not gonna say something about a chapter I just finished. 998 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.039 But yeah, just the driving moments, I think because they're 999 00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:11.159 not like back to back to back, like they're spread 1000 00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.000 out pretty evenly across the missions, like I have really 1001 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:14.840 enjoyed them. 1002 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:18.480 Yeah. Yeah, and just in like a more zooming out 1003 00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:20.719 thing like those are very much at big set piece 1004 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.199 moments and yeah, I was trying to say like that, 1005 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:23.920 there's a lot of that in this. It is a 1006 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.800 very set piec kind of game. Naturally in between in 1007 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:31.199 between the kind of more bespoke levels and such. Okay, 1008 00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:35.039 anything else in this kind of opening in this opening 1009 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.519 section is taking four to three minutes, classic classic gig 1010 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:39.960 first move here, but yeah, anything else before we kind 1011 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:42.480 of delve more into a little bit cracking open the 1012 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.320 spoilers a bit more and talking more specific stuff. 1013 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:49.639 Like the theme theme was good, and the opening was good. 1014 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:55.519 The opening was great. Dig a jobs Alay, she was fantastic. Yeah, cool, Okay, 1015 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.519 let me jump to a quick break here. I'll shout 1016 00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.400 out our Patreon producers. 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Subscribe 1023 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.039 to the feeds to be sure to see when we'd 1024 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:26.000 cover saved play Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase, all that 1025 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.960 good stuff, and then yeah, I think also like in 1026 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:30.239 the next couple of weeks, I'm sure we'll report back 1027 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:32.400 more when we've played more of Batman, likeol Batman and 1028 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.920 more of Double O seven. So definitely, yeah, keep keep 1029 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:36.519 an eye out for side Quest. Thenk it'll be a 1030 00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:39.280 fun next a few weeks, just a fun June in 1031 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:41.280 side Quest, even though there I don't think we're any 1032 00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:44.239 picking up any new games. But yeah, just so much 1033 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.679 news and kind of cleaning up these games and things 1034 00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:49.400 should be fun discussions all around. Let's jump to a 1035 00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:56.360 quick ad break. We'll be right back. Okay, we are back. So, Kirkland, 1036 00:44:56.360 --> 00:45:01.599 you are the furthest behind your on chapter Evan Nightfall, 1037 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.000 can you? Uh So, I guess what we'll say for 1038 00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:09.079 anyone listening. We're gonna open up spoilers. Anything from the 1039 00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:10.639 start of the game up to that section of the 1040 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:12.639 game is kind of fair play. And then any sort 1041 00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:15.159 of mechanics encountered in there. And if me and Travis 1042 00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:18.639 accidentally spoil you know, non story things that might pop up, 1043 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:21.119 you know that's that might happen too. But you know what, 1044 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:23.480 we're gonna try our best not to, but yeah, let's 1045 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:25.079 let's go to that. So, Kirklan, what is the very 1046 00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:27.400 last thing that's happened in your in your game? Just 1047 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:28.480 so I don't accidentally spoil it. 1048 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:33.000 Yeah, so myself being you know, mister James Bond and 1049 00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:37.480 Greenway just entered the web headquarters. 1050 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:39.840 There we're on the way to the perch, the kind 1051 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:43.679 of like apartment the office building the section got it. Yeah, it. 1052 00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.559 It actually reminded me of a level from Night Fire, 1053 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.480 which is funny because there's a there's a issue where 1054 00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:49.960 you're like you're like invading like a like a big 1055 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.280 office building like this, it starts stealth sequence. Those the 1056 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:56.480 stealth sequences in those old games were so limited, but 1057 00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:59.119 I was definitely get reminded of that, and I just 1058 00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.559 love this type of set also for the specific mission, 1059 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:04.519 Like it reminds me of the Dark Night when when 1060 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:08.840 Batman goes to China to take that one woe. Yeah loow, 1061 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:11.320 Like I just like settings like this, like you're just 1062 00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:12.000 invading this. 1063 00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:14.440 Like billion billionaire skyscraper. 1064 00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:17.519 It's like nighttime. Just just really really cool design. But yeah, 1065 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:21.599 what what just happened though, was like the big like 1066 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.960 museum sequence. I guess I could say. So that's what 1067 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.159 I just finished, and I was gonna say, like what 1068 00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:31.280 you drive away on in the garbage truck. That was 1069 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:35.199 really fun cinematic set piece, and I just liked that, 1070 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:37.280 Like I don't know, I wasn't really surprised by like, 1071 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.400 oh my god, mister Webb is the bad guy like 1072 00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:43.000 I was expecting and obviously someone that I have encountered 1073 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:47.880 to be, like the double agent or whatnot. I had 1074 00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:51.119 feelings it was gonna be greenway, and I thought it was. 1075 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:52.880 Like too easy to be set up that way. 1076 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.760 So I am kind of impressed they were able to 1077 00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:57.960 surprise me only chapter seven. Maybe this chapter he stabs 1078 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.000 in the back. You know, I'll try to read anything 1079 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:03.159 off your guys's eyes, but overall, like like yeah, like 1080 00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.719 I think the little twist and turns I have expecting 1081 00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.159 was expecting something, but it's. 1082 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:10.719 Been pretty well managed. 1083 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:13.039 And like when you first find like double owed nine, 1084 00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:14.519 like I thought he was gonna be a lot more 1085 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.400 of a villain than he's just capped on his boat. 1086 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:18.639 I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, I wasn't expecting that. So 1087 00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:20.880 a couple of moments like that kind of kind of 1088 00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:23.719 surprised by uh yeah, m hmm. 1089 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:26.280 What do you guys think of Greenway as a as 1090 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:30.719 a character so far? 1091 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.000 I'm I like the fact that he's like with you 1092 00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:36.599 more now, like like I think before I was really 1093 00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.400 annoyed by him, and then it's like, okay, it's it's 1094 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.159 gonna be oh yeah, like I was so wrong about 1095 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:43.280 you bond and like up until this point in my adventure, 1096 00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:44.880 like he hasn't done that, but he's just been like 1097 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.320 forced to kind of work with me, and I think 1098 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:49.559 that's been a more fun dynamic than what I would 1099 00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:51.639 have expected. Like I said, like earlier on when you're 1100 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:55.199 investigating uh double oh nine, like after you you meet 1101 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:57.719 Landing Kravitz and all that stuff, I'm like, man, Greenway 1102 00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:59.800 is like so obviously the bad guy here, Like I 1103 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:01.920 I it just seemed like everything was like, oh, we 1104 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:03.960 don't have to investigate Double nine, like just let just 1105 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:04.639 let it be done. 1106 00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:06.159 Like it just seems so on the nose. 1107 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:09.039 So that's where like right away I'm like, oh man, 1108 00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.000 this better not just be like dragged on for the 1109 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:13.039 next couple of chapters. And then right in that mission 1110 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:15.559 it was kind of revealed that Okay, no, like like 1111 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:18.480 there's maybe some credibility with what he's doing here, but 1112 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:21.880 just the fact that he's been with me on these missions. 1113 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:23.960 I think that's been kind of a fun dynamic. And 1114 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.280 he's definitely grown on me because he was pretty annoying 1115 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:30.400 earlier on. But just that you know, assholes, drill sergeant 1116 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:32.880 type character, right that you've seen many times before. 1117 00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:37.159 Yeah, yeah, I think I think that chapter that you're 1118 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.239 on actually is maybe when I turned more to become 1119 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:41.760 a bit more of a FANDOMI because I just I 1120 00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:44.280 just found like the hard ass boss who like hates 1121 00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.880 Bond shtick to get got old pretty fast. Then we 1122 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:51.239 just kept picking over him. It's like, fuck, man, Okay, 1123 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.559 come on. But yeah, I think in that chapter, like 1124 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:56.119 they you know, it's a lot of one on one 1125 00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.320 time they get to bond a bit more. They have 1126 00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:00.400 some moments where they slow down just like chat about 1127 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:02.800 life and stuff, and so I think I think he's 1128 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:06.840 you know, growing me somewhat as he yeah, kind of 1129 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:11.000 lightens up, I suppose. But yeah, I found him not 1130 00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:13.840 to be my favorite character in this game of the 1131 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.960 I six crew. He's probably my least favorite. Maybe, yeah, 1132 00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:18.519 maybe that started to turn with that one you're on. 1133 00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:20.320 But yeah, not my favorite character. 1134 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.480 Yeah, I think I'm similar to dealing why I liked 1135 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:26.679 him more as we went along, I understood the reason 1136 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:28.360 we were there. I didn't touch upon this in the 1137 00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:32.480 overalls that I was kind of disappointed, and I'm still 1138 00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.000 fine that now. I didn't know the whole game was 1139 00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:36.920 gonna be in the you know this is my I suppose, 1140 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.320 but I think once you're playing into it, you know 1141 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:41.239 it really is like an origin for Bond. I was 1142 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:43.079 just kind of home we were just gonna be Bond 1143 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.679 because we just got that with Greg. This movie is that? 1144 00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:48.760 Or sorry, this game is that? The rumors are doing 1145 00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:50.119 that with the movie again, like oh, we're gonna give 1146 00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:52.360 him a new version. I would have been fine with 1147 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.559 just picking up with him as Bond and us going forward. 1148 00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:56.760 So you get a lot of those tropes of can 1149 00:49:56.760 --> 00:49:59.039 he be trusted as he good at his job? Can 1150 00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:02.400 he performed to this level? Yet even the training stuff 1151 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:05.679 I agree with the doing where I loved the idea 1152 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.440 of running, catching the flag, fighting and shooting all back 1153 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:10.320 for the Oh that's cool. It's like a movie montage, 1154 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.960 but you're playing the movie montage, but the actual kind 1155 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.440 of I think set piece, or just even chapter of 1156 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:17.679 it being at full training went on for a bit 1157 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:19.320 too long, like the whole thing with him and Moreau 1158 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.400 was like, Bond is cheesy, but I feel like they 1159 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:22.880 weren't trying to go for that type of cheese in 1160 00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:27.519 this game, and like they're they're fighting the call whatever, 1161 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.280 the place that they've decided to train all these new 1162 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:33.599 double agents, and they're bringing down buildings, they're destroying like 1163 00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:35.239 all of a sudden's like, all right. 1164 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.199 A little bit. I was popping off on some essays soldiers. 1165 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.440 Yeah the side here, Yeah a little far so. Yeah, 1166 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:44.360 So I think were weighing concept. I was like, and 1167 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:46.800 even in general that I didn't love the idea of 1168 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:49.000 all we're doing Origin, but I think they gets executed 1169 00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:51.039 and it gets better over on something is the Origin. 1170 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:54.159 It's fine. It's not my cup of tea. But I 1171 00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:57.440 think they do a good job of kind of giving 1172 00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.400 this bond something a little bit different. I think they 1173 00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.480 make them maybe a little too normal in my opinion, 1174 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.239 a little too not coldhearted. So and that's fine. There 1175 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:09.480 is other bonds that might be like Roger Moore's Bond 1176 00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:11.840 is a bit more fun and whatnot. But I just 1177 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.039 feel like this game doesn't go for that iffect. They 1178 00:51:14.039 --> 00:51:16.239 try to be serious, but the Bond is a little 1179 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:19.280 more lighthearted so long form. I didn't have liking Greenway 1180 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:20.559 at the end, where I do think at the beginning, 1181 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:22.880 I was like, Okay, this might be a little uh 1182 00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.599 whole home for me, So yeah. 1183 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:29.760 How about just sticking with like the I six characters. Yeah, 1184 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.239 you don't have to, we won't talk about all of them, 1185 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:33.800 but yeah, any any highlights favorite favorite characters or at 1186 00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:35.800 least favorite from that from that whole crew. 1187 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:39.079 But money Penny was definitely a highly run away penny 1188 00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:43.960 instantly just great charisma, and I like Travil. 1189 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:46.320 I feel like, yes, Patty. 1190 00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:49.519 Gibson Bond like definitely not the higher tier ones I've 1191 00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:51.840 come across, but like just his like one liners and 1192 00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:54.719 like schmoozing like random characters. I did like to that 1193 00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:59.039 door inspector one l oh, yeah, I love you know, 1194 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:01.639 I love that stuff. But it's just anytime he's interacting 1195 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:06.320 with em doing his like schmoozing thing, like when they're 1196 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:08.719 at the nightclub you meet the woman in the red dress, 1197 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:10.760 Like all that stuff for me was was really fun 1198 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.719 and I felt like the dialogue that he delivered, whether 1199 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:16.280 it was selected by me or not, like it was 1200 00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:19.719 it was. It was good, Like that was bond esk right, 1201 00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:21.639 like like just him schmoozing. He does that a lot 1202 00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:22.000 with Money. 1203 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:24.719 Yeah, that was probably his strongest stuff. I didn't think 1204 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.679 Moneypenny him really had a flirtatious relationship in this one, 1205 00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:30.239 because Money Penny doesn't really bite on it. 1206 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:32.639 Just when they're like when they're first meeting, right, like 1207 00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:34.400 he's trying to get the name, and just that back 1208 00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:35.480 and forth was kind of fun. 1209 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.079 Yeah, I think it's probably strong suit is the flirting 1210 00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:40.079 style stuff. 1211 00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:45.079 So Chob Patty g Yeah. Yeah, but you Travis, any 1212 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:47.079 highlight characters from that in my sixth. 1213 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:49.599 Group I really liked. I can't remember how you say 1214 00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:51.960 her name. It wasn't Carissa, but it was like something 1215 00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.960 like that. Cressida. Yeah. I was disappointed when they start 1216 00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:58.440 of said the storyline like, oh her morower into each other. 1217 00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:04.760 I'm like, nah, I'm I want to into Carissa already. Yeah, 1218 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:08.599 So yeah, I think like she's probably my favorite. Q 1219 00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.960 was cue Money Penny. I was a little underwhelmed with. 1220 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.239 Like I said, I don't think they had the flirtatious relationship. 1221 00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:16.960 As a one. I think it was very one sided 1222 00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:19.840 and she didn't really bite on any of that were 1223 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:21.360 the rest of the game. They did make the girls 1224 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.519 very like fall for the cheesy, sexy one liners and 1225 00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:26.039 just be all over them. I guess that's kind of 1226 00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.039 the point. But even then there's a kind of will 1227 00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:30.519 they won't They were at times just felt like he's 1228 00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:33.239 I'm not gonna say he's harassing her, but it's sometimes 1229 00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:35.320 felt like he's thrown out like these section one liners 1230 00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:38.599 and she's like, all right, here's a mission statement. You know, 1231 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:40.519 we're usually the movie's a little back and forth. She'll 1232 00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:42.639 throw that out and they go into that. So I 1233 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.800 liked her enough. But yeah, I would say her and 1234 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.519 I kind of grew on Monroe a little bit awesome. 1235 00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.719 We didn't spend much time with these characters, but she 1236 00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.840 was my favorite at the bunch. So and obviously well 1237 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.480 not m I six girl, but the other els or 1238 00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.480 EELSA or whatever, too close submission possible name right there 1239 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:01.920 for me, I'm gonna mess up for life, but. 1240 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:03.920 One like the French Lady. 1241 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:07.360 So yeah, but yeah, Sola, Yeah, she was tons of 1242 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:11.239 fun and she's a classic like spy archetype of you know, 1243 00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:14.039 canyo can you trust? So often? Am I six? But 1244 00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.559 out of an adjacent character, she was my favorite. 1245 00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:19.679 So really fun introduction to that character too, Like right, yeah, 1246 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.199 it felt like Selena Kyle was in was in the 1247 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:24.039 mission with me. I was like, yeah, who the fuck 1248 00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:25.719 is this person again? Like it's just so like in 1249 00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:27.239 the middle of everything else that's going on. 1250 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:30.599 Yeah, yeah, I think she's really well paced within the story. Yeah, 1251 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.480 I really liked that trio that you know is funny. 1252 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:34.800 You get like the apartment with Crusta dunmon Roe as well, 1253 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:36.480 and so you get some fun little just kind of 1254 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.039 kind of roommate quabbles almost in a little interstitial moments, 1255 00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:42.920 and you know, I cared enough for them. I didn't, 1256 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:44.679 you know, I don't love him on Roe by any means, 1257 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:46.760 but I you know, it's still a good emotional scene 1258 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:49.039 when he when he bites the bullet and when Crusta 1259 00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.079 also gets crushed by that that pillar and loses her, 1260 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:54.119 Like that was a really sad moment and I was 1261 00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:56.559 bummed that we lost her and she's not no longer, 1262 00:54:56.719 --> 00:54:59.400 uh you know, kind of part of the crew for 1263 00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:02.159 that that section going forward, So so Yeah, I was 1264 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:04.480 pretty to that. I really like you, you know, just fun. 1265 00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.480 The tech guy, uh has a lot of like knowledge 1266 00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.320 and history of this place that he drops the little tidbits. 1267 00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:10.679 I think he has a couple of scenes later on 1268 00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:14.079 that are are particularly really great. Uh. And yeah, it's 1269 00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:15.559 just a fun just I mean, in general, I just 1270 00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:17.880 like hanging on the lab. You're there a lot. I 1271 00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:20.280 just like hanging out there. Jem and Chants is of 1272 00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:23.320 course one that's like disappointingly just not in this game. 1273 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:25.000 And then I got like a glimmer of hope when 1274 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:26.760 I finally went to the text and stuff, and she's 1275 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:28.880 the character that introduces you to that and walks you 1276 00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:31.119 through it. And then in the two hours since I 1277 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:33.000 haven't heard her say a peep, Like she just kind 1278 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:35.079 of she just kind of gets you set up there 1279 00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:37.480 and then like disappears into the shadows, going back. 1280 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:40.920 At it again, right back to the tax. Yeah, so 1281 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:42.119 that was kind of disappointing. 1282 00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.480 Em. I didn't really care for kind of bored by 1283 00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:45.119 that character. 1284 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:47.880 Yeah, that's just fine for me, which is tough because 1285 00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:50.760 like the m relationship is usually such a juicy thing 1286 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.039 in the movies. I didn't think they I think that 1287 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:54.559 was part of the problem of it also being an 1288 00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:56.159 origin story, because that's times when you pick up with 1289 00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:58.719 MM Bond, they have all this history and they refer 1290 00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:01.280 them this relationshiphere, this was like feeling each other out, like, oh, 1291 00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:03.639 can I trust you? So I think that maybe to 1292 00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:06.559 me suffer from oh they're just meeting and and I 1293 00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:08.119 have no problem with them being a woman. It's been 1294 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:10.760 that way many times. I just didn't. It's just it's 1295 00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:11.400 just didn't really. 1296 00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:13.320 The whole middle chunk of the games. She's just not 1297 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:15.719 really there at all. No, you don't really get like 1298 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:17.440 maybe you hear her like on a calm, but it's 1299 00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:20.440 more like Moneypenny talking about what she's doing or something like. 1300 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:22.480 That's kind of it. So, yeah, you don't get you 1301 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:24.679 don't get a ton with her. But yeah, I guess 1302 00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:27.480 talking through we can go somewhat kind of in order 1303 00:56:27.519 --> 00:56:29.800 here talking about these sequences that stand out to us. 1304 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:32.480 I mean, I really like the first sequence in Iceland. 1305 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:34.800 I think that is a fun location. It felt very 1306 00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.760 death stranding to me. And part of that is because 1307 00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:38.599 like the first base you come up to has like 1308 00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:40.960 these orange light pillars that are very similar to like 1309 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:42.840 the mule camps, like when you show up to them 1310 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:44.840 and they get like they pings off when you walk 1311 00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:48.320 through them, and just like the right exactly. Yeah, it 1312 00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:50.320 looks it looks like the exact same as Best Stranding. 1313 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.679 So I really like that sequence. I think it was 1314 00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:55.360 a good intro and it kind of introduced you to 1315 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.480 to one that he's like a bit of a rule breaker. 1316 00:56:57.480 --> 00:56:59.199 He's a bit of a bad boy. Then also like 1317 00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.719 he's breaking the rule to save people, and so he's 1318 00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:04.360 like obviously doing it for a good cause, has a 1319 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:05.679 big ego and all that. So I think it does 1320 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.880 a good job of like setting the scene for who 1321 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:09.719 this guy is. And he's always like young and it's 1322 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:12.000 like the origin of him. He still has like that 1323 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.079 braggadocious nature. He still has that confidence and still cares 1324 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:18.440 about like saving lives. So yeah, I thought that was 1325 00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:21.559 a good a good opening sequence. 1326 00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:24.760 I'm such a sucker for when the game opens and 1327 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:27.039 you're like going on a mission or something and then 1328 00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:30.360 it just crash, crash lands somewhere. The most recent one 1329 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.800 that I played on that was cost Riqua Breakpoint. It's 1330 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.119 like the second wild Lands game. It's like a very 1331 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:39.239 similar opening to this obviously you're not like going in 1332 00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:40.880 there to save people, but just like you're in a 1333 00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:43.760 helicopter crash lance and then like people are hunting you 1334 00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:45.840 and you gotta you gotta evade, and it's just such 1335 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:48.480 a fun like Okay, we're getting right into the action here, 1336 00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:50.599 and it's like this is why you don't just have 1337 00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:52.320 an M sixteen on your back, you know, like like 1338 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.000 you're really limited. And I thought they did a good 1339 00:57:55.159 --> 00:58:00.079 like balancing of you really like you feel capable, like 1340 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.000 he's he's not a double O agent at this point, 1341 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:05.320 but like he's not just he's not just I don't know, 1342 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:06.599 a little civilian here, like. 1343 00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:10.000 Like he is somewhat survival instincts here. 1344 00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:12.679 Also like the threat like when you jump in the 1345 00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:14.679 water because you're just like forced to. I'm like, man, 1346 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.800 I feel so cold for my character knowing that he's 1347 00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:19.480 in Iceland. You just came out of like the freezing 1348 00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:21.360 cold ocean and he gets thrown back in the water, 1349 00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:23.639 like it's just yeah. I thought it was a really 1350 00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:27.119 really good intro opening sequence, and I really didn't know 1351 00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:29.400 how this game was gonna go, Like I assumed it 1352 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:32.159 was gonna be an origin for the character I didn't 1353 00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:33.800 think it was gonna be going through the whole like 1354 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:36.159 how he gets recruited and then you go through the 1355 00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:39.280 training and that stuff was was really extended, and I 1356 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.239 don't have any problems with that. I really like those 1357 00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.599 sequences and help build up just the chemistry and relationships 1358 00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:48.400 with Monroe and Cressida. I did feel like attached to 1359 00:58:48.440 --> 00:58:50.119 those characters, even though you lose them kind of on 1360 00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.800 the first mission. I really like just on the mission, 1361 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:55.880 having them like in the earpieces and stuff, and even 1362 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.159 going to like the nightclub like training mission that you do. 1363 00:58:58.239 --> 00:58:59.880 Like that was really fun to just have like. 1364 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:02.159 Characters kind of you know, because it's like you don't 1365 00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:04.119 get that in the Hitman games, so so that felt 1366 00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.280 really different and unique. And of course when you're watching 1367 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:09.280 like a Bond movie, that happens a lot where he 1368 00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:11.960 has people like working with him in his ear just 1369 00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:14.679 different like players around in the party. So so that 1370 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:16.880 stuff was really really fun for me. But yeah, I 1371 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:20.599 really love the opening. Just yeah, really first couple of 1372 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:22.280 missions I thought were really really bangers. 1373 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:25.480 I like that from a game point of view. I 1374 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:28.039 like it visually, I think it's fun. I don't really 1375 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.159 love it in the Bond setting. I don't love anytime 1376 00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:33.119 Bonds like doing army stuff. People don't get mad me. 1377 00:59:33.320 --> 00:59:35.159 He comes from the army. I get that. I just 1378 00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:37.039 like them. Bond's a spy. I don't like seeing him do. 1379 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:38.800 I don't like the before. So even in the movie 1380 00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:40.360 like oh we might cover when he's a navy, it's 1381 00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:42.000 like I don't need to see any of that, like 1382 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.400 and I don't really see Like I was fine with 1383 00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.239 the other characters, but I don't need the whole like, oh, 1384 00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:50.440 you were learning together and this and that. Like I again, 1385 00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:52.280 that's where I get it's as origin and be oh 1386 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:53.960 he'll become the Bond that you know in love. I 1387 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:55.719 get it. But again I felt like he was still 1388 00:59:56.639 --> 00:59:59.159 even a bit too friendly and wanted to hang out 1389 00:59:59.159 --> 01:00:01.199 and they're playing these cars games together there. I think 1390 01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:03.400 it was effective from a story point of view though, 1391 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:05.719 for this Bond where he loses them all and that's 1392 01:00:05.719 --> 01:00:08.280 something where there's seven people and they all are either 1393 01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:11.320 dead or now you know, maimed, and it's just like okay, 1394 01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:13.599 now you're alone and you were the last choice. So 1395 01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:15.760 I think that what does do good story wise? So 1396 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.639 when you had to go back to the hotel or whatever, 1397 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:20.440 the apartment and all their stuff still there, and even 1398 01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:22.519 things like a card game that they were playing and 1399 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.440 it's you know, didn't finish and they were gonna fish 1400 01:00:24.440 --> 01:00:26.199 when they got back. So I think it worked for 1401 01:00:26.239 --> 01:00:28.760 this Bond. It's not my favorite Bond with those type 1402 01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:31.840 of friends. I like the colleagues like Q and Moneypenny 1403 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:33.519 that they're friendly, but like at the end of the day, 1404 01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:35.920 Bond would call them their friends, but this felt too 1405 01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:38.679 much friendly. But again, it's the it's the origin, so 1406 01:00:38.760 --> 01:00:41.719 it's done well in a bubble. I like the nightclub 1407 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:43.559 mission a lot, though when we go from there, that's 1408 01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:46.760 lots of fun. So opening I thought was fine for myself. 1409 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:50.039 But the other missions that the whatever, the chess match, 1410 01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:52.599 like all that stuff is good. So not my favorite 1411 01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:54.639 aesthetic with Bond, but I think they do it well 1412 01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:57.800 with him as a team, and I was sadly happy 1413 01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:00.440 that they did, like kind of mission three. They're gone 1414 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:02.800 and we're with Bond now, and again he's not double 1415 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:04.239 seven yet, but they're working on it. 1416 01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:07.159 So yeah, yeah, yeah. We kind of talked about the 1417 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:10.760 multi training sections somewhat. I mean, I again, I just 1418 01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:13.880 love that montage. I think it's very unique for like, 1419 01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:16.559 I can't think of a game that's had of tutorial 1420 01:01:16.679 --> 01:01:19.039 like that. Can you guys have to them like very cool, 1421 01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:21.960 very cool, And it felt it felt very very movie like, 1422 01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:24.280 and so obviously that's like true to kind of the character. 1423 01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:26.280 And I don't know if there's a scene I assume 1424 01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:28.920 there's scenes like that in some of the movies. Uh 1425 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:31.599 maybe not. I guess if he's like an established guy anyway, 1426 01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:33.599 we don't even worry about that too much. But yeah, 1427 01:01:33.599 --> 01:01:37.360 that whole sequence is good. Let's see we've talked about 1428 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:39.280 some of these things. Yeah, I guess to show up 1429 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:42.400 the nightclub mission, I guess that's kind of the first 1430 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.000 more hit manny sort of mission where there isn't like 1431 01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:47.679 just enemies with guns all over the place, and you 1432 01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:50.280 get to walk around. You're doing a bunch of eavesdropping, 1433 01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:53.840 you're sneaking into areas you shouldn't be, You're you're truspassing, 1434 01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:56.719 doing things like that, and yeah, I really like that 1435 01:01:56.760 --> 01:01:59.159 sequence to walking around talking to your team and maybe 1436 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:00.960 get an intel. But then I was like, no, I 1437 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:02.960 have this other task. Let me do my thing. And 1438 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:04.960 then of course getting into like that like brawl with 1439 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.719 a guy because you were talking to his girlfriend because 1440 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:10.320 you were told there to look for someone in red, like. 1441 01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:13.400 There too in the bathroom. He's not he's not slash. 1442 01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:15.320 I was expecting one punch him. No, he could he 1443 01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.119 could go. You know. 1444 01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.199 Hm, it's so funny in that, like in that mission, 1445 01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:23.519 uh at the end, I assumed it goes the same 1446 01:02:23.559 --> 01:02:25.679 way where you meet the woman in black and then 1447 01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:28.119 the woman in red comes and like interacts like did 1448 01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:29.079 that happen for you guys? 1449 01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:29.400 Also? 1450 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:32.840 I think I just went right to the woman in red. 1451 01:02:33.199 --> 01:02:36.360 I don't remember a woman in black, yeah, because like 1452 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:38.920 you end up getting that the lady in the back 1453 01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:41.760 room with like the touch in the back room. Oh okay, okay, 1454 01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:44.719 so that that woman in black, and then you meet 1455 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.199 a woman in red that's like like the girl that 1456 01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:49.320 has the boyfriend. And I was like, oh, yeah, meet 1457 01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:51.320 me maybe outside in thirty minutes, like that was the 1458 01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:53.559 dialogue option I chose. But then she like just comes 1459 01:02:53.559 --> 01:02:55.960 and interacts like while you're doing that deal. 1460 01:02:55.800 --> 01:02:56.719 Did that happen you guys? 1461 01:02:56.880 --> 01:02:57.599 Yeah? Yeah, yeahay. 1462 01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.000 I assume that that happened to everyone. 1463 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:02.239 And regardless of how that happened, I just thought it 1464 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:05.440 was a really comical sequence, and in that moment, I'm like, man, like, 1465 01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:08.199 does this happen because I chose that, Like I wish 1466 01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:10.599 there was more of that. Get like, it's a linear story, 1467 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:14.159 so you can't do well. I was gonna say, maybe 1468 01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:15.880 you can't do that, but I think you can still. 1469 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.000 Well that's what even with Hitman though, you have that 1470 01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:20.400 right where that and that's where I'd say if you 1471 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:22.679 are more on the dyl inside where if it is 1472 01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:25.360 more the I on Hitman stuff, that's where I'd say 1473 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:27.039 you could wait for a sale for this game, because 1474 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:29.119 to me, this feels like hit Man light like if 1475 01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.360 it like not does sound mean, but it's like hit 1476 01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:34.320 Man for dummies where yeah, where it's like okay, other 1477 01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.000 times where you might get those things where oh you 1478 01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:38.480 do this and it causes this, not really in this 1479 01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:41.760 game they have the whole like oh, there's different options 1480 01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:44.119 that you could maybe go do this route, go through 1481 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:46.039 that door over there and get a key, or go 1482 01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:48.480 through event, but there I feel very small and some 1483 01:03:48.519 --> 01:03:50.360 of them always lead to the same spots, and like 1484 01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:52.840 Dy'll mention overalls when we talk about it on after nine, 1485 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.360 it's like, yeah, I need to pickpocket someone I lasers 1486 01:03:55.360 --> 01:03:58.039 than the eye. Oh and they there, you lays them 1487 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:00.280 and you're like, I'm blind, I'm blind, and you just 1488 01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:01.239 take it and there's. 1489 01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.079 Ridiculous and I can't believe that's how that works. 1490 01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:07.679 Yeah, and that's where again, that's where something where for me, 1491 01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:09.360 some of the diskind with the game where I think 1492 01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:12.039 sometimes they do lean like Kirklen said and Arcadie and 1493 01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:14.280 more cheesy, but then they try and make it very 1494 01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:17.119 seriously with the friends dying and Bond's very depressed. It's 1495 01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:19.239 like if the whole game was like, oh, we're making 1496 01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:22.239 a very slapstick like fun super Asian game, okay, But 1497 01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:23.960 then other times it kind of pulls back and like 1498 01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:27.480 this is serious now. So you'll have a situation where oh, 1499 01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:29.679 I gotta pick I gotta go to this laptop. Oh 1500 01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.119 but you can't, dear do because there's people nearby watching, 1501 01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:33.599 But you gotta get this key to do it. So 1502 01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:36.519 if you can laser a person and pickpocket them, you 1503 01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:38.800 can't do the laptop. But none of these people around 1504 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:40.920 you notice that you just shot this person with a laser. 1505 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:42.920 It just doesn't fit in. Like I agree with Dean, 1506 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:46.239 where it just feels easier Hitman always, especially the new ones, 1507 01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:49.039 do feel like a challenge. So I think they just 1508 01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:51.199 put that in there as like the spy aesthetic. But 1509 01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:53.280 that's something that if you're gonna do it in the 1510 01:04:53.320 --> 01:04:54.880 second game, if they do a sequel to I think 1511 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:56.840 they will so far it's selling well. Is I don't 1512 01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:58.320 think you have to be as hard as hit Man, 1513 01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:00.840 but maybe just up a a little bit with the 1514 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:04.280 scenarios and the sneaking around and the stelf and we 1515 01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:06.159 again we joke about this on after Night. You'll you 1516 01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:10.599 can destroy fifteen people in a very not even within 1517 01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:12.519 the rooms, like within the same area, and just walk 1518 01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:14.599 over the still guys like yeah, man, I took my 1519 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:16.760 wife's dog to the ved and everything. It's just there's 1520 01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:19.840 no kind of power scaling for the stealth. So I 1521 01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:21.480 think they just do it in there because like, oh, 1522 01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:23.360 you want to feel like a spy, but it's not 1523 01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:25.400 like Hitman or not even like the Batman games. The 1524 01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:27.119 bat like not the Lego when we talked about that 1525 01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:30.639 was gone, but Lego Batman was very sometimes very strict 1526 01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:32.840 on the stealf and like if you've been seen, you're 1527 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.800 gonna die. It's gonna go anti where this is you 1528 01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:38.960 can get at stuff quite easy, so it kind of 1529 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:41.159 feels like a in between. That's where when I was 1530 01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:43.199 playing the whole time, it did feel like Hitman light, 1531 01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:45.559 you know, like missing the sugar free is the sugar 1532 01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.840 free version, so which is fine, you know, but. 1533 01:05:48.119 --> 01:05:51.239 The eavesdrops was like really just well, yeah, the laser 1534 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:51.559 to the. 1535 01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:52.840 Eye very appalling. 1536 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:55.000 I just chose to not do that because it just 1537 01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:58.519 felt weird to me, even though like just stabbing them 1538 01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:00.400 with like the poison, Like it's no differ front, right, 1539 01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:01.800 Like you can make a noise and then all of 1540 01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:03.519 a sudden you like instantly pickpocket and it. 1541 01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:06.000 Doesn't matter if anyone's around you, like like nobody sees 1542 01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:06.400 it happen. 1543 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:08.800 Yeah, so that was super basic. But for me, it 1544 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:11.119 was like the eavesdrops because it tells you who the 1545 01:06:11.119 --> 01:06:13.440 person to eave drop is and it shows you where 1546 01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:16.239 to go, so it's just like you're going. 1547 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:17.920 To hit a to get the information. 1548 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:21.400 Like like it just didn't seem like I like, like 1549 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:23.760 give me an option to just disable that on the hut, 1550 01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:25.480 you know, like maybe if I just randomly get into 1551 01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:27.480 the right spot, like okay, now I can eavesdrop there, 1552 01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:29.199 or if I happen to, like because that would happen 1553 01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:30.760 in hit Man, right like if you're in the right 1554 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:34.360 place at the right time, Like like I maybe there's 1555 01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:35.400 an indicator or. 1556 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:37.280 I just think that doesn't work because in this game, 1557 01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:40.480 you like have to do that to get past that 1558 01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:43.159 section in certain situations. Right Like, it isn't that free 1559 01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:45.239 form of a game where it doesn't matter if you 1560 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:47.519 don't find that thing because you like weren't because you 1561 01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:49.880 were looking very hard. It's like the game is just 1562 01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:53.000 linear enough that you except for small sequences where there 1563 01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:54.960 is more like freedom and how you solve things. But 1564 01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:57.920 it's like you got to get this this security bracelet 1565 01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:00.159 and there's really one way to do it. Maybe be 1566 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:02.519 two ways, but like it is kind of limited in 1567 01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:06.719 that way. But yeah, I mean I think that's like 1568 01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:09.320 I love the gadgets. I think they're fun. They feel 1569 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:12.360 very powerful. I do think it's ridiculous how publicly you 1570 01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:14.599 can do them, as we just mentioned, and it's funny 1571 01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:18.519 to me. Like the most powerful tool in hit Man, 1572 01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:21.400 like the Hitman recent hitm Man trilogy is the seeker 1573 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:23.960 like poison dark gun where you shoot someone with the 1574 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:25.480 thing it makes them sick and then they go to 1575 01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:27.840 the nearest bathroom or garbage and puke it up. And 1576 01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:30.239 that's like the best way to isolate a target or 1577 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:32.960 regard or whatever it is, to reband in their posts 1578 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:35.199 or go somewhere like a bathroom that's like a hidden 1579 01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:37.800 place where you can just execute them without it being 1580 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:41.920 seen in public. But and the limitation of hit Man 1581 01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:43.920 is that if you bring down the mission, you get 1582 01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:46.639 two shots with it. It's pretty hard to hit because it 1583 01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:49.280 like falls with gravity super quick because it's a dark gun, 1584 01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:52.000 not like a big pistol or something like that. And 1585 01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:53.639 that's it. So you get two shots, you gotta make 1586 01:07:53.639 --> 01:07:55.639 them count and they might not go where you want 1587 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:57.719 them to. But the fact that in this game you 1588 01:07:57.760 --> 01:07:59.760 pretty much have like infinite use of it. Obviously you 1589 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:03.079 got to like collect resources and whatnot, and it's like 1590 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:06.800 does not alert people in public is insane to me, 1591 01:08:07.039 --> 01:08:10.679 Like it's just you've taken the most overpowered not overpowered 1592 01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:12.800 like they've balanced it, but you've taken the most powerful 1593 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.760 tool in the recent Hitman games and made that just 1594 01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:18.600 like twelve times better and more free to use, which 1595 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.520 is which is just crazy. And then like the laser 1596 01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:22.119 beam is like just as good in terms of getting 1597 01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.000 through doors and things like that in a public way 1598 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:27.520 or stunning people. And honestly, there's things like I the 1599 01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:30.199 camera flash one, I use it in the mission, you 1600 01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:31.359 get it, and then I like took it off and 1601 01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:32.640 never really put it back on. So I think with 1602 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:34.800 the tax sims is when I'll start to actually experiment 1603 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:36.880 and like figure out some of these more mechanical things 1604 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:38.560 because it just makes more sense. But it's like I 1605 01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:40.640 always needed the laser things. I gotta get through doors, 1606 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:43.159 and then like I love I love my dark guns. 1607 01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:45.000 I'm my poison Dark and I'm gonna use that too, 1608 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:47.039 And so I feel like that they need to add 1609 01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:49.199 I don't know why they limited it so you can't 1610 01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:51.399 can only put on three, well, it starts with two 1611 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:52.960 and then you eventually get a third slot you can 1612 01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:55.640 put on later. I don't know why they did that. 1613 01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:57.239 I even after beating the game, I can't think of 1614 01:08:57.239 --> 01:08:59.159 a why the reason why they would limit that. And 1615 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:01.880 there's just like buttons, but you know, Hitman, you can 1616 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:04.079 carry forty eight items in your pocket, and like they 1617 01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:05.840 find a way to make that work. So I feel 1618 01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:08.680 like they could have done the same here. But yeah, 1619 01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:10.479 I get so for anyone doesn't played the game, like 1620 01:09:10.479 --> 01:09:13.239 I guess that's how the mechanic works is you have 1621 01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:16.760 certain tools that are on like electric resource, and some 1622 01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:20.039 that are on like a chemical chemical resource, and then 1623 01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:22.880 as you go around the level there's you know, bottles 1624 01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:25.880 of spray everywhere, phones, drills. You can pick up these 1625 01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:28.640 things and it fills that specific dial and then you 1626 01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:31.319 can just use those things pretty much freely, and normally 1627 01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:32.840 you can get like one or two shots off of 1628 01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:35.760 the thing before you got to recharge. But I think 1629 01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:37.840 the problem with it is like that could make it 1630 01:09:37.920 --> 01:09:40.760 a much more free form, open system than Hitman. But 1631 01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:42.359 I think the reality is like when they want you 1632 01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:45.399 to do a specific thing like laser through this door 1633 01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:48.159 or poison dart this guy so you can pickpocket him, 1634 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:51.720 like they will just put the chemical or the drills 1635 01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:53.319 on the table right next to the guy, and so 1636 01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:55.600 it never feels like ooh, I was like I did 1637 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:57.119 this in a smart way. It just felt like the 1638 01:09:57.159 --> 01:09:59.119 game wanted me to do this specific thing, and I 1639 01:09:59.199 --> 01:10:01.479 just did what it wanted too. So I think it's 1640 01:10:02.119 --> 01:10:05.479 an interesting evolution of like Man's mechanics of like putting 1641 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:06.960 things all in your pocket and putting them on like 1642 01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:10.239 a reshared resource. But I think it honestly just screws 1643 01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:13.039 the balance and it makes makes these things a bit 1644 01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:15.520 too powerful. And I again, I think that what I 1645 01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:17.560 was hoping for from Hitman fan is like I just 1646 01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:20.920 wanted to feel smart or clever from doing a thing, 1647 01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:22.840 and I just never really felt that way with the 1648 01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:24.920 with the gadgets and gameplay mechanics like that. 1649 01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:27.640 Yeah, did Mike did tell us in the discord that 1650 01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:30.000 playing on the hardest difficulty and then when he swapped 1651 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.760 over to the intermeet or they Intended, he did say 1652 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:34.880 like the gadgets were a lot easier to find those 1653 01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:37.359 resources and he felt more powered up. So I do 1654 01:10:37.439 --> 01:10:38.760 want to play on the harder one and see if 1655 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:41.880 that is more of a punishment system where okay, you 1656 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:44.239 can do the start here, but now he might be 1657 01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:46.039 out for a little bit. And that's where he did. 1658 01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:47.880 He may sound like he was very surprised. I think 1659 01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:50.600 he said, like the hand hand combat didn't change much 1660 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:52.800 for him, but the gadgets were something so awesome. We 1661 01:10:52.800 --> 01:10:55.199 all played on Intended, so we don't know what that's 1662 01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:57.439 like for everybody else, but I, you know, intend yeah. 1663 01:10:57.439 --> 01:10:58.880 He Also one of the gadgets is just like an 1664 01:10:58.920 --> 01:11:00.479 explosive miss all. 1665 01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:03.880 The pen. Yeah, I love the pen. Yeah, might go 1666 01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:05.880 to is the laser the pen. And then it was 1667 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:08.319 I love the earbuds that were the bombs. I loved 1668 01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:09.279 spamming those. 1669 01:11:09.439 --> 01:11:11.439 I barely use those, that's that's fun. So I gotta 1670 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:11.960 check those out. 1671 01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:13.800 Yeah they were. They were just great until I got 1672 01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:16.000 the missile because the missile pen comes later. Those were 1673 01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:19.399 just great, like cloud like crowd clearing things. If you 1674 01:11:19.399 --> 01:11:21.479 get to the shootout, there's three guys together, throw one, 1675 01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:23.560 they all get days. Then you can easily just hit 1676 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:24.680 your combos and whatnot. 1677 01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.960 So and the taxiing stuff too, like you have to 1678 01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:30.479 buy the gadgets, which honestly did not take me that long. 1679 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:32.920 But then there is also like not skill tree stuff, 1680 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:34.800 but there is like further upgrades you can get on them, 1681 01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:37.399 which I think reduces like the cost to use them, 1682 01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:39.520 and maybe some other benefits as well. So it maybe 1683 01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:42.359 seems like it evolves some of them the gadgets too, 1684 01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:43.920 So I have to explore some more of that one 1685 01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:46.000 I've gotten in there, because you you got like currency 1686 01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:48.279 from beating missions that you can then use to unlock 1687 01:11:48.359 --> 01:11:51.199 things like that. Yeah, yeah, Kirktly, But do you have 1688 01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:54.279 a favorite gadget or a fun gadget anecdote or something 1689 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:58.000 like that? Uh, the pot like the poison dart phone. 1690 01:11:58.199 --> 01:12:00.600 That was just I mean I really love that one, 1691 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.840 and it's it's very hip men like just poisoning people 1692 01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:05.239 to get them to the like the the shit or whatever. 1693 01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:07.359 They go puke and then you just garrot them. 1694 01:12:07.600 --> 01:12:09.640 Uh and yeah, it it just I. 1695 01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:11.800 Don't know that that one's see like it's still ope, 1696 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:14.079 but it seemed less opy than just lasering people. You're 1697 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:17.159 kind of forced to use the laser and it's just 1698 01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:19.600 it's it's kind of crazy, like like the effect when 1699 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:21.720 it goes off to is like how does nobody fucking 1700 01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:22.880 notice this thing going off? 1701 01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:24.279 It's photon ray? 1702 01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:28.600 And then just I'm a sucker for the little smoke screen, 1703 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.479 so I always brought that with me. It was good 1704 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:32.359 when shit hits the fan, drop that and then you're 1705 01:12:32.399 --> 01:12:35.000 just you're like Batman, just just get to a different area. 1706 01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:38.600 It's yeah, I I I will say I just doubling 1707 01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:40.239 up on it. I had so much fun, just like 1708 01:12:40.760 --> 01:12:43.119 in those moments like shit hits the Fan, and you 1709 01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:45.279 like bum rush one guy and then it kind of like. 1710 01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:46.079 Settles the situation. 1711 01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:49.079 Sure, it's like, okay, how do people not really hear 1712 01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:52.119 me just dismantle this guy? But like that stuff happens 1713 01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:54.399 in Double of seven movies all the time, right, like 1714 01:12:54.399 --> 01:12:56.199 like he just beats the shit out of this guy, 1715 01:12:56.319 --> 01:12:59.159 smashes his head on like against the wall, and someone 1716 01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:02.039 right around the corner even hear them. But all all 1717 01:13:02.039 --> 01:13:03.720 of that stuff was really fun, like like whether it's like, 1718 01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:06.520 holy shit, I think stuff's gonna hit the fan here, 1719 01:13:07.079 --> 01:13:09.600 and then you drop some smoke screen or whatever, like 1720 01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:14.560 just re route and yeah, balancing with the gadgets was 1721 01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:17.439 really fun on top of the hand to hat hand 1722 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:18.159 to hand combat. 1723 01:13:18.439 --> 01:13:21.760 Mm hmm. Yeah. And maybe with that we'll actually let's 1724 01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:26.680 take our last ad break. We'll be right back. Okay, 1725 01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:30.920 we are back. Yeah. I kind of want to segue 1726 01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.359 this into talking about the first bigger mission of the game, 1727 01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:37.319 which is the the Chess tournament car pathon Mountains that 1728 01:13:37.720 --> 01:13:39.680 that whole section which I think I talked about this 1729 01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:42.680 when we did that coverage of that showcase, but I 1730 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:45.239 really like that this is the first i'll say, major 1731 01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:48.479 mission of this game. Carpathian Mountains because the last mission 1732 01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:50.920 and hit Man three is the Carpathian Mountains. It's a 1733 01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:53.720 very different kind of mission, but I just really like that. 1734 01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:55.920 I think that's just a very cute, little kind of 1735 01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:58.319 Easter egg moment. And also it's like the setting is 1736 01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:00.800 like a chess tournament, which like there's a a mission 1737 01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:02.520 or two and hit Man that is kind of all 1738 01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:04.760 about chess and taking out like a chess guy and stuff. 1739 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:06.640 So I don't know, there's just certain things that felt 1740 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:09.159 like kind of going back to some of their favorites. 1741 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:13.000 I mean, even the club is extremely reminiscent of the 1742 01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:16.239 underground nightclub mission in hit Man three in Berlin, so 1743 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:18.000 that was kind of fun as well to have like 1744 01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:20.479 a different variation on some of that stuff. 1745 01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:22.920 They love the nightclub missions because there's one of blood 1746 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:26.880 Money too. Yeah, it's a staple, and even Kana Lynch 1747 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:29.680 has I think there's one big set piece too, because 1748 01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:31.800 I know, you just murder everybody's cane. So yeah, they 1749 01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:32.920 love their nightclubs. 1750 01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:36.479 So yeah, yeah, and then yeah, I mean this mission is, 1751 01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:37.960 like I said, kind of the most hit manny and 1752 01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:39.840 that there's like it starts out with how do you 1753 01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:41.560 get in the building, and you have like multiple ways 1754 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:43.279 you can do this. You can go like a key card, 1755 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:46.000 grow it through security, you can sneak around the one side, 1756 01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:48.600 and like you can start a fire to distract people, 1757 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:50.239 and then like climb through these things on the side, 1758 01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:52.039 so you can do all these fun different things, and 1759 01:14:52.079 --> 01:14:54.479 then it feels like you can have a few options, 1760 01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:55.640 Like at one point you got to get down to 1761 01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:57.279 the laundry room, and there's like a few different ways 1762 01:14:57.319 --> 01:14:59.039 you can kind of sneak in to get in there 1763 01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:01.560 as well. And so this mission is definitely the highlight 1764 01:15:01.640 --> 01:15:03.560 for me, definitely my favorite in the game, maybe not 1765 01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:06.279 like visually, although visually it does a gorgeous cool map. 1766 01:15:06.319 --> 01:15:09.560 I think there's just more unique locations. But I did 1767 01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:12.800 really enjoy this one thing too. Like in Hitman, they 1768 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.560 have the enforcers of like the NPCs that can see 1769 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:18.119 through your disguises are always kind of keeping out for you. 1770 01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:21.439 I really like thematically how you're not you're supposed to 1771 01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:23.000 be to the chauffeur, you're not supposed to be in 1772 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.920 this building. And so the enforcers on this map, other 1773 01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:29.000 than like like guards and like prohibited areas, are like 1774 01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:31.159 your members of the team. You're I six members and 1775 01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:33.119 they're just around the party and you're not supposed to 1776 01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:33.760 walk past that. 1777 01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:34.199 That's fun. 1778 01:15:34.479 --> 01:15:36.279 So I just I love that idea. I think that's 1779 01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:39.880 that's a really cool, a cool thing. And yeah, in general, 1780 01:15:39.920 --> 01:15:42.560 I just I really love this mission. It goes all 1781 01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:44.920 sorts of places, whether it's going to the upper floors. 1782 01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:47.199 The laundry room is a you know, it was a 1783 01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:50.079 fun section, but then there's a one of the tax 1784 01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:54.239 Sims is a heightened, even harder version of that launder room. 1785 01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:56.840 And now only Io can make me a huge fan 1786 01:15:56.880 --> 01:15:58.720 of a laundry room sequence in a game, because now 1787 01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:01.000 I've really grown attached to the level designing there is 1788 01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:04.159 so intricate and really great, so excited to see what 1789 01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:06.720 other ones in Taxims really gives me more appreciation for 1790 01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:09.079 what felt like a small, like nothing area before, but 1791 01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:12.359 it's now like a really interesting lead designed level. But 1792 01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:14.880 I mean from start to finish, like you know, after that, 1793 01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:17.920 obviously there's the car chase, the plane sequence, all that stuff, 1794 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:19.920 which kind of was in the trailer to be fair. 1795 01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:23.439 You get the fight in like the wine cellar as well, 1796 01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:26.640 which I was just run around spamming wine bottle throwing. 1797 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:28.960 Oh it's like all I was doing in that sequence 1798 01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:30.800 because I was getting crushed in the hand to hand 1799 01:16:31.319 --> 01:16:35.319 so many wine bottles. So you're talking about, what's that sorry, 1800 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.800 like when you're fighting the twins and then yeah, exactly, yeah, man, 1801 01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:41.359 it's because, yeah, you have to like do like a 1802 01:16:41.359 --> 01:16:43.920 proper combo, like like at least multiple hits on one 1803 01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:46.279 guy to like even break their shield or whatever. And 1804 01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:48.960 what I was at one point, I was literally just 1805 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:50.520 one punch on one of them and then I would 1806 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:52.319 go to the other target and one punch on him 1807 01:16:52.399 --> 01:16:53.720 and they wouldn't go down. 1808 01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:55.760 So I literally was just I'm not even kidding. I 1809 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:57.800 did that for like twenty plus times, and I was 1810 01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.640 just laughing to myself watching the seats where I would 1811 01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:02.760 just punch one of them and then punch the other 1812 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:05.119 one and like it like I've just stunlocked them, like 1813 01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:07.640 like they like they couldn't recover fast enough, so they're 1814 01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:10.399 just like bouncing off and then and then we're getting 1815 01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:13.800 knocked out. It was just such a comical, uh sequence 1816 01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:15.880 of events. And then and then eventually, yeah, you do 1817 01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:17.399 like the the combo to kind of break them, do 1818 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:19.000 or like grab them and then and then give them 1819 01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:21.199 a couple of hits there. But yeah, in that moment, man, 1820 01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:24.079 I was laughing so hard to itself, just just chain 1821 01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:26.439 these punches and they were just knock going down, just 1822 01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:27.800 taking these fists of the face. 1823 01:17:28.680 --> 01:17:31.239 Mm hmm. Yeah. So I mean that that whole that 1824 01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:34.720 whole mission is just fantastic. It's great for me. Is 1825 01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:38.479 the peak of the game. I don't know any any 1826 01:17:38.520 --> 01:17:40.920 other thoughts on that sequence that we haven't talked about yet. 1827 01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:44.079 No, I like a layered That level is like you said, 1828 01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:45.920 like you started, is just the chowfeur and it's like, oh, 1829 01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:48.079 what's that guy doing? And then you investigate and it's 1830 01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:49.520 like okay, I gotta get in there. And then it 1831 01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:51.439 just one thing leads to the other. I like hel 1832 01:17:51.520 --> 01:17:54.119 Monro like ends up helping you out and it's like, hey, 1833 01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:56.119 we can't tell Cressida. So there's like just a bunch 1834 01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:58.640 of layers to things that are going on. I like 1835 01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:00.880 like how it's like, hey, we gotta do this, Like 1836 01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:02.640 this guy is playing a bomb or somewhere, like all 1837 01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.960 of a sudden, it gets like really ramped up the intensity. Yeah, 1838 01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:09.119 I think it's a really really just perfectly paced level. 1839 01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:12.640 Yeah, it's probably the best one story wise too, because 1840 01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:14.680 all of them have story, but you're just getting multiple 1841 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:18.319 layers of bonds starting out all agents out there they're 1842 01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:20.359 looking for Double oh nine. But then there's this bomb 1843 01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:22.319 where they introduce the twins, and there's the twist at 1844 01:18:22.319 --> 01:18:23.880 the end with the bomb. So I think it's the 1845 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.560 one that's propelled the most with the characters in the story. 1846 01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:31.680 So yeah, definitely, And I guess yeah, talk about a 1847 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:34.319 little bit more about the hand hand combat. You know, 1848 01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:36.560 obviously a part of it is it's so environment based 1849 01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:39.760 of like smashing people into walls or into each other, 1850 01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:43.520 or throwing them over ledges, throwing them just over whatever 1851 01:18:43.520 --> 01:18:45.279 it is, picking up things and throwing them like at 1852 01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:47.439 one point you like grab a keyboard and smacky smack 1853 01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:48.920 a guy over the head, which I which I really 1854 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:51.399 like the visual of and just fun Like most spoke 1855 01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:53.840 moments like that's rather than just having like a inventory 1856 01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:55.960 full of random crap like you do in Hitman, it's 1857 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:58.279 just random crap in the environment and you just very 1858 01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:00.720 easily kind of lock onto a and chuck it at 1859 01:19:00.760 --> 01:19:04.880 his head. Travis, obviously, this is a classic kind of like, oh, 1860 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:07.279 when there's a yellow attack, you can parry that one. 1861 01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:09.760 There's a red attack, you can't. You gotta dodge that one. 1862 01:19:09.880 --> 01:19:11.399 But what is it about the combat that kind of 1863 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:14.000 elevated it beyond just so many other games that have 1864 01:19:14.039 --> 01:19:15.720 a combat system that it is quite similar to this, 1865 01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:17.039 Like why did you love it so much? 1866 01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:19.680 Yeah? Like I said, for me, the other the Spider Man, 1867 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:21.359 the Batman, the Lord of the Rings, they feel so 1868 01:19:21.520 --> 01:19:23.520 kind of surgical and then kind of makes sense for 1869 01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:26.560 those characters Superhero these nights, and especially with this to 1870 01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:29.720 its bonds starting out. So in that sense, it's even 1871 01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:33.000 the counters and the movements, it's very people are tripping 1872 01:19:33.039 --> 01:19:34.760 all of each other, they're following. When you can throw 1873 01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:37.560 one guy into another, there is like a little you know, 1874 01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:40.079 kind of ricochet to oh, they bump into each other 1875 01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:42.279 and they're not knocked out, but they just you can, 1876 01:19:42.479 --> 01:19:44.159 if I see a guy's coming, I okay, I go 1877 01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:45.880 to take him out, throw them out over there. So 1878 01:19:45.920 --> 01:19:48.199 I think it just had a sense of realism to it. It 1879 01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:50.239 felt like a guy where those other people I mentioned, 1880 01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:54.359 you know, billionaire Superhero train Forever, Spider Man has superhuman power, 1881 01:19:54.439 --> 01:19:57.000 is a knight that has like this sword and whatever 1882 01:19:57.680 --> 01:20:01.159 Elvin Elvish guy with them. This did feel like, okay, 1883 01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:03.600 it is a trained soldier, but it is also just 1884 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:05.399 a guy, and all these people are just the guys. 1885 01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:07.199 I think that is a little bit difference, where like 1886 01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:09.359 when you fight the Twins, it does feel okay, you've 1887 01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:12.319 got to nail that the timing of the the I 1888 01:20:12.319 --> 01:20:14.520 think they say like the layered counter that type of stuff. 1889 01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:16.239 So there's certain boss spells that do feel like okay, 1890 01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:18.520 it is like a classic fight. But that's what I love. 1891 01:20:18.600 --> 01:20:20.800 Where again they brought that into the Daniel Craig movies 1892 01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:26.000 of it feels very rough and kind of dirty in 1893 01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:29.159 a good way. Yeah, scrappy does not feel so fluid, 1894 01:20:29.159 --> 01:20:31.800 which inspierment. I like where it's like boom boom, and 1895 01:20:31.800 --> 01:20:33.560 Batman jumps over hits that and then he jumps over 1896 01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:35.680 hit that. This is not that sort of way, and 1897 01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:38.800 it feels like there is times where you are not like, 1898 01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:41.119 of course I've lost this Batman Inspiderman. There's times where 1899 01:20:41.159 --> 01:20:43.479 you feel overwhelmed us where like okay, I'd really got 1900 01:20:43.479 --> 01:20:46.119 to just bolt over this like cabinet and just try 1901 01:20:46.159 --> 01:20:48.000 to buy best and look for kit Is there something 1902 01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:50.000 in the throw? Is there not? How am I gonna 1903 01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:51.920 do this? And especially too when you do have a 1904 01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:54.239 combo of the guns and the fighting when people get close. 1905 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:56.920 So yeah, I think that's what is just the realism 1906 01:20:57.000 --> 01:20:59.039 aspect of it, and it's tons of fun and I 1907 01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:01.479 feel like they also make a good job for the 1908 01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:06.000 the actual fighting kind of mini bosses. They put you 1909 01:21:06.039 --> 01:21:08.079 in a fun environment where some games might just be 1910 01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:09.920 like you're just gonna be in a room, like if 1911 01:21:09.920 --> 01:21:11.479 it's a cell, but you're just like in the room 1912 01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:14.239 and cell. But this feels like specifically designed for we 1913 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:16.760 want this fight, even though I think story wise it 1914 01:21:16.800 --> 01:21:19.760 was cheesy, like to fight with Monroe. When it starts off, 1915 01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:22.479 you're in a very close like clauserphobic, a kind of 1916 01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:25.079 like hall closet situation. So when you're fighting, you're gonna 1917 01:21:25.119 --> 01:21:26.640 bang up against the wall. And I think that's what 1918 01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:30.079 was great too. It's just the mechanics around where mid fight, 1919 01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:32.399 it's not like some cool attack you can take a guy, 1920 01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:35.000 throw them over a rail, throw him into something else, 1921 01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:37.239 you can throw them in something it gets electrocuted. Just 1922 01:21:37.479 --> 01:21:39.920 all the environmental stuff that way was working good because 1923 01:21:39.920 --> 01:21:42.439 againy or a character that does kill people. So no, 1924 01:21:42.680 --> 01:21:45.319 again just fluid and some realism to it. 1925 01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:51.479 So yeah, well said, uh yeah, definitely good points. 1926 01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:53.520 I like I think it would. 1927 01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:55.640 Being like a little too hard on the combat because 1928 01:21:55.640 --> 01:21:57.560 I do appreciate the scrappy nature to it, Like what 1929 01:21:57.560 --> 01:21:59.279 you said, I like that you can just grab objects, 1930 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:01.319 throw it at people like that you can just bum 1931 01:22:01.439 --> 01:22:04.039 rush someone, throw them in the wall, grab someone, throw 1932 01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:06.720 them into someone else. When you grab someone and like 1933 01:22:06.960 --> 01:22:10.279 it's just like that that like that pov of you 1934 01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:12.680 just like running somewhere, Like there's not like it's not 1935 01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:15.600 like it's like a static distance that you push them right, 1936 01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:18.359 like you kind of just go until you either like 1937 01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:22.119 lose balance or you just hit something. There's many times too, 1938 01:22:22.119 --> 01:22:23.760 where like maybe you're trying to stealth, you can just 1939 01:22:23.800 --> 01:22:26.279 grab someone and like push them into a door and 1940 01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:27.840 like the door will open, so you kind of just 1941 01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:29.279 like throw them into another room. 1942 01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:31.279 Like I like that layer to it. 1943 01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:33.840 I think just because like man I was doing my 1944 01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:36.079 reps in the taxim, I did so much just like 1945 01:22:36.399 --> 01:22:39.359 identifying those perry timers. No I went to dodge, so 1946 01:22:39.399 --> 01:22:41.720 I just got like so tired of like seeing like 1947 01:22:41.720 --> 01:22:44.119 like the color indicator. I think that's another thing that 1948 01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:45.600 like I kind of wish if you play on like 1949 01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:48.640 the purest difficulty, like you just don't get hut indicators 1950 01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:49.960 like that. I think that would be kind of a 1951 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:53.479 fun challenge. I played on intended, so I can't really 1952 01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:55.840 like talk like it like it's so easy, like maybe 1953 01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:56.119 I should. 1954 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:58.520 They might because they can't remember a spiremen. But I know, 1955 01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:00.399 like the Arkham Games, you could do that where you 1956 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:02.199 could turn them off and that's where you could time it, 1957 01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:04.840 so they might have those, even though I sucked at 1958 01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:08.079 timing the evade. Really that was my weak point was red. 1959 01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:10.119 I just was always getting caught and thrown the. 1960 01:23:10.159 --> 01:23:12.720 Other animation always because they just like all do this 1961 01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:14.279 like football like linebacker. 1962 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:18.720 They're all something like they just take their body transforms 1963 01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:20.600 and something like no one. No one would naturally a 1964 01:23:20.600 --> 01:23:23.600 fight just like like like charge themselves up to jump. 1965 01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:26.239 You would just jump forward. But that would throw me 1966 01:23:26.279 --> 01:23:27.720 off and I'd be like, oh damn it, they got 1967 01:23:27.720 --> 01:23:29.000 me again, you know exactly. 1968 01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:29.000 That. 1969 01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:31.279 That's the one that really tripped me up because like 1970 01:23:31.319 --> 01:23:34.279 when they go into that, they essentially have like super 1971 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:37.199 armor and it takes longer than your punch, so so 1972 01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:39.760 many times they go into that I throw a punch, 1973 01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:42.439 I hit them in the face, but they just kind 1974 01:23:42.439 --> 01:23:43.920 of go right through it. And I think that was 1975 01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:46.079 like my really only issue with the combat system is 1976 01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:48.880 that is a specific interaction, but there's other ones too 1977 01:23:49.239 --> 01:23:51.520 where it just felt like I've hit this guy, or 1978 01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:53.399 like I have grabbed this guy, but then somehow like 1979 01:23:53.439 --> 01:23:55.399 his attack just kind of went through mine. And so 1980 01:23:55.399 --> 01:23:58.680 there was a lack of precision that bothered me sometimes. 1981 01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:00.760 But then I think again, it's like going through the 1982 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.199 taxim stuff and just like learning about mechanics that I 1983 01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:07.720 didn't even know were occurring by like forcing you to 1984 01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:09.279 do them and kind of perfecting them. And one of 1985 01:24:09.319 --> 01:24:11.640 them is like, here, go through this mission and don't 1986 01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:13.439 get hit once. And I haven't done that yet, but 1987 01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:15.840 it's like, oh, okay, I I I that's a fun 1988 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:17.960 challenge to really and you can't shoot in that mission. 1989 01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:20.159 You can use your gadget, but like you really just 1990 01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:23.399 got to perfect the combat system. Uh, And I've gotten 1991 01:24:23.399 --> 01:24:25.720 close a couple of times, and that's like really satisfying. 1992 01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:27.760 So yeah, I think it is the taxi and stuff 1993 01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:29.800 that's really giving me more of an appreciation for that stuff, 1994 01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:32.439 and I'm getting better at recognizing like okay, even though 1995 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:34.159 it is a bit janky that, like I punched this 1996 01:24:34.199 --> 01:24:36.439 guy and he goes through the attack, I am starting 1997 01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:38.680 to acknowledge like when those things happen, and once you 1998 01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:40.359 know when they happen, you can kind of just avoid 1999 01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:42.680 it obviously. But I definitely need to get better at 2000 01:24:42.760 --> 01:24:44.960 dodge timing. And I'm like a dodge guy like in 2001 01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:47.920 Dark Souls. I've never parried once in my life. I 2002 01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:50.680 am a dodger tried, and Tru'm a roller. I don't 2003 01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:52.880 know this the little one either. I do the full role. 2004 01:24:52.920 --> 01:24:55.600 I love a big role, Tolose. 2005 01:24:55.720 --> 01:24:57.399 Yeah, so I don't know why get close skill is 2006 01:24:57.479 --> 01:25:00.239 natural in this game to me, but yeah, I I 2007 01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:02.119 do feel like there is that level of mastery there 2008 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:04.800 and you just yeah, I love the scrappiness to your 2009 01:25:05.159 --> 01:25:09.039 point there, Travis. Yeah, I don't think I've much to 2010 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:11.159 say about the gunplay. Like it's it's fun, it feels good, 2011 01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:13.760 feels much better than Hitman, feels more action y. I 2012 01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:16.560 like you have a very limited AMMO, so you're kind 2013 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:18.000 of busting through things. I love that you can do 2014 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:20.319 the John Wick style chuck your gun at someone's face, 2015 01:25:21.399 --> 01:25:23.840 especially when you combine that with like the way you 2016 01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:26.600 can like run over a ledge, kick a gun out 2017 01:25:26.600 --> 01:25:30.039 of someone's hand, grab a gun, shoot someone, chuck the 2018 01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:32.279 gun at someone else. Like when you combo those things 2019 01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:36.520 together and they flow seamlessly, it is extremely satisfying and 2020 01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:40.159 very cinematic, and it feels like I want that John 2021 01:25:40.199 --> 01:25:42.479 Wick game that is announced to be like this, and 2022 01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:44.640 just like add a few more layers on topic. This 2023 01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:47.720 does very much feel john WICKI in that way like 2024 01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:50.159 chucking guns at people's faces is like, just for me, 2025 01:25:50.199 --> 01:25:51.279 a very john Wick thing. 2026 01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:52.920 So I'm glad you shut it up because there's so 2027 01:25:52.920 --> 01:25:54.600 many times where you get a gun and you're enjoying it, 2028 01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:56.640 but it runs out and they'll do the thing where 2029 01:25:56.920 --> 01:25:58.439 there's always other guns but none of them are the 2030 01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:00.600 same guns, so you're not getting AMMO. But like you said, 2031 01:26:00.600 --> 01:26:02.880 it is especially it's like john Wick Chapter four where 2032 01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:05.239 it's boom boom boom guns out, throw it another one 2033 01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:06.880 boom boom, fight boom boom. 2034 01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:08.319 Like when you have run and pick up a gun 2035 01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:10.079 by kicking it off the ground into your hand. 2036 01:26:10.279 --> 01:26:12.960 Yes, awesome and even stuff like you can vault over 2037 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:14.960 stuff and do a vault kick. Like that's where I 2038 01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:16.640 agree with you. The people that are making john Wick 2039 01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:20.079 for the thatype, the the chaotic, you know, a to 2040 01:26:20.119 --> 01:26:21.920 b what they do for the fighting gun playing this 2041 01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:25.039 it should have that esthetic, maybe even better. But I 2042 01:26:25.079 --> 01:26:27.039 love that. Okay, a couple of clips onto the next 2043 01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:29.079 gun and also has like cause I get that too. 2044 01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:30.319 Where I find a gun, I like it. I'll just 2045 01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:32.359 keep that. But it forces you to play with all 2046 01:26:32.399 --> 01:26:34.079 of a sudden, you got a machine gun, You're back 2047 01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:35.960 to a pistol, you got a shotgun. All you got 2048 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:37.880 is like a bolt action rifles, like, okay, I'll use this. 2049 01:26:37.960 --> 01:26:40.560 So it kind of like it makes a choose your 2050 01:26:40.600 --> 01:26:42.960 own venture, but you're not choosing it. It's just whatever 2051 01:26:43.079 --> 01:26:45.079 is on that And sometimes too you might look around. 2052 01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:47.119 Other times I'm just picking up whatever I can. Like 2053 01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:48.720 there is a couple of times where like there's so 2054 01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:51.079 many dudes I can't think about, Oh would this be 2055 01:26:51.119 --> 01:26:53.039 the gun I want? No, I just gotta start shooting 2056 01:26:53.039 --> 01:26:54.640 some knee caps and move on, you know. 2057 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:58.439 And especially what you guys are saying of the stealth 2058 01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:01.479 and like NPC's hearing stuff. The awareness, I guess is 2059 01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:04.319 not realistic, and it's not like hit Man either, Like 2060 01:27:04.319 --> 01:27:06.159 it's a way more forgiving, and that kind of works 2061 01:27:06.159 --> 01:27:07.439 for me. Sometimes I'll go into the room like, yeah, 2062 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:08.880 I'm just gonna gun through this room because I know 2063 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:11.159 it's not gonna alert every enemy on this map in 2064 01:27:11.159 --> 01:27:13.479 the way hit Man is hit systemic in that way, 2065 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:15.039 one guy will go tell his buddy, and then his 2066 01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:16.880 buddy will tell the other guy, and then you put 2067 01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:18.920 the radar on and you see that there's thirty guys 2068 01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:21.239 that are going against you. Like that does not happen 2069 01:27:21.239 --> 01:27:23.399 in this game. So I feel like more incentivized to yeah, 2070 01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:25.039 I'll just run and gun for a little bit. Or 2071 01:27:25.880 --> 01:27:27.640 I love stealth. I love sneaking up on guys and 2072 01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:30.359 hitting X and getting a free killing them or square 2073 01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:32.159 whatever it is. So I'll do that all day long, 2074 01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:35.000 and especially with Io and their design of stealth and 2075 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:38.119 mechanics and level design and all that. But I really 2076 01:27:38.119 --> 01:27:39.840 feel like I was playing this in a hybrid sense 2077 01:27:39.880 --> 01:27:43.119 of going through and trying things out, and yeah, it was. 2078 01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:46.439 It was really fun with that. The next section of 2079 01:27:46.479 --> 01:27:49.239 the game is the aleft. I think I'm pronouncing that 2080 01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:51.359 section which is kind of in the desert sand areas 2081 01:27:51.359 --> 01:27:54.359 where we've got Lenny going on. There's a section where 2082 01:27:54.399 --> 01:27:56.039 you got to make some money, so you go do 2083 01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:59.000 some some fighting. There's sections on boats later, so it's 2084 01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:01.439 a pretty big section, although it doesn't feel like it's 2085 01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:03.800 designed in that one cohesive Hitman way. It's just you're 2086 01:28:03.800 --> 01:28:06.479 going from set piece to set piece area. But yeah, 2087 01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:08.720 what did you guys? Uh, what do you guys think 2088 01:28:08.760 --> 01:28:10.159 of this section of the game. 2089 01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:14.720 My favorite section of the game everything from doing because 2090 01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:16.680 when they're like all the fighting pits, it's free make money, 2091 01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:18.159 Like I beg get to go on those fighting pits, 2092 01:28:18.159 --> 01:28:21.239 which was crazy to beat the hammer you. I didn't 2093 01:28:21.279 --> 01:28:23.239 know this the whole time. He's playing clean, but I 2094 01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:25.520 accidentally used the gadget on him and I won. I 2095 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:28.199 thought that should be highly illegal to use your watch 2096 01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:29.840 and the fighting pit. But they're just like, you're a 2097 01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:32.039 really good fighter. But it's like I just lasered this 2098 01:28:32.079 --> 01:28:32.800 guy's head off. 2099 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:35.720 But yeah, they give you sixty K to flashbanger guy. 2100 01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:38.079 That feels a little like, yeah, so come on. 2101 01:28:38.399 --> 01:28:38.479 No. 2102 01:28:38.600 --> 01:28:40.520 I love the setting. I love the idea of oh 2103 01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:43.119 you gotta go make this money, whether it's the fighting pits, 2104 01:28:43.159 --> 01:28:45.479 whether it's the jewels, whether it's meeting this like black 2105 01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:50.199 market dealer that's like buying paintings but maybe weapons. I 2106 01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:52.560 enjoyed that because that feels like much like the club mission, 2107 01:28:52.600 --> 01:28:55.600 but that feels like Bond espionage work. Hey, Bond's in 2108 01:28:55.640 --> 01:28:59.399 one situation. He has some like backup, but not too 2109 01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:01.000 much back as far as in my six like you 2110 01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:03.199 can't say everything and the way that ends, as far 2111 01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:05.800 as you're like even when you're doing the bidding and 2112 01:29:05.840 --> 01:29:08.319 you're doing stuff and you're throwing information again, you all 2113 01:29:08.399 --> 01:29:10.319 lead the same point. But I think that was probably 2114 01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:12.880 my favorite level, not just because the lending crowdits meme. 2115 01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:15.199 I just liked the area and I liked that that 2116 01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:17.279 story of okay, it collect some money where you don't 2117 01:29:17.279 --> 01:29:19.760 really do that the rest of the game, Like you mentioned, Dylan, 2118 01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:21.920 there's one layer on where it's like the where the 2119 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:24.319 villa or the resort is like that's super disappointing, where 2120 01:29:24.319 --> 01:29:26.039 it's just like go find three people, talk to them. 2121 01:29:26.039 --> 01:29:28.319 It's like, oh, here's the thing, and you just move on. 2122 01:29:28.319 --> 01:29:30.119 You're like, I didn't need any of this, where this 2123 01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:31.079 actually felt like okay. 2124 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:33.079 That was such a disappointing you know, we'll that in 2125 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:33.800 a future episode. 2126 01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:34.560 Yeah, spoiler. 2127 01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:36.479 That was such a disappointing area. 2128 01:29:36.560 --> 01:29:39.279 I think this mission is the better version of that 2129 01:29:39.399 --> 01:29:41.239 because you it's a similar thing where you're going to 2130 01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:43.560 different places and doing multiple things, but they all have 2131 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:45.239 a different flair and you don't have to do all 2132 01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:47.319 those things either because you can make the amount of 2133 01:29:47.359 --> 01:29:49.920 money and go somewhere else and do something else. So yeah, 2134 01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:52.640 that was probably my favorite other than some like just 2135 01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:56.119 solo action set pieces. That was my favorite overall level 2136 01:29:56.119 --> 01:29:56.680 in this game. 2137 01:29:57.279 --> 01:30:00.520 Oh nice, Yeah, yeah, this was This was a really 2138 01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:04.239 fun sequence. I like, I think there's two chapters in 2139 01:30:04.279 --> 01:30:07.199 this sequence. Like I think like the back half when 2140 01:30:07.239 --> 01:30:12.399 you're doing like the boat stuff, that's yeah chapter, but 2141 01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:16.039 like like just going like where even are like where 2142 01:30:16.199 --> 01:30:18.560 we're in a left? Where is that Egypt? Something like 2143 01:30:18.600 --> 01:30:21.840 that You're you're somewhere in the deserts Yeah, I don't know, 2144 01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:27.439 but just going there on the on what the hell 2145 01:30:27.439 --> 01:30:29.359 am I trying to say? The vehicle I guess that 2146 01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:34.079 you're driving in on with Greenway and like I just 2147 01:30:34.159 --> 01:30:36.399 wasn't expecting to be on a mission with Greenway, Like 2148 01:30:36.439 --> 01:30:38.960 I thought, okay, broken arm, He's gonna be like, hey, 2149 01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:40.680 I'll see you later, and then you never interact with 2150 01:30:40.680 --> 01:30:42.399 that character again until like the end of the mission 2151 01:30:42.479 --> 01:30:42.840 or something. 2152 01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:44.880 It was kind of fun that he's just like with you. 2153 01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:47.039 It's like, hey, you gotta go get one hundred grand. 2154 01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:50.920 It's like, okay, I guess so, and yeah, I just 2155 01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:53.239 wasn't expecting. It's like, oh, my task is to actually 2156 01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:55.279 just make money here, and and that's what you're trying 2157 01:30:55.279 --> 01:30:59.760 to do. And I like the just yeah, how in 2158 01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.479 rereading the areas are I do really like like the 2159 01:31:02.520 --> 01:31:03.920 shipyards that you're going through. 2160 01:31:04.319 --> 01:31:08.039 Yeah, I love that. In that next session classic gameplay 2161 01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:11.680 shooting out gallery like that combo stuff, I yeah, really 2162 01:31:11.720 --> 01:31:13.119 really fun, well designed. 2163 01:31:12.800 --> 01:31:17.800 And just just really beautiful setting. Like I like the here, 2164 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:20.279 here's a here's a pull. This area really reminded me 2165 01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:23.439 of Jack three out of the Jack and Daxter series. 2166 01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:26.479 They're just that world. It just looked like this aesthetic, 2167 01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:31.319 just like desert y, rusty sequences. You're driving around a 2168 01:31:31.319 --> 01:31:33.359 lot in that in that game, and in this you're 2169 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:36.399 like going through the shipyard like in your vehicle, like 2170 01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:39.560 after you get away from the Alligator sequence with with 2171 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:40.239 Lenny when he. 2172 01:31:40.279 --> 01:31:40.720 Lets you go. 2173 01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:44.680 But yeah, all of that and in between was really 2174 01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.800 really fun. Yeah. No, it's just a good balance of 2175 01:31:47.960 --> 01:31:50.279 kind of everything that's that's fun in this game. 2176 01:31:50.319 --> 01:31:51.880 Good, good, good dialogue. 2177 01:31:52.199 --> 01:31:54.560 I thought the cutscenes overall too that I've interact with 2178 01:31:54.640 --> 01:31:57.199 have been pretty okay like that, It's not like the 2179 01:31:57.359 --> 01:31:59.920 really cringey stuff that's going on. I feel like a 2180 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:04.840 really vibing with it. And yeah, Lenny's intro man, especially 2181 01:32:04.840 --> 01:32:06.720 when he grabs the mic, Like he grabs the mic 2182 01:32:06.760 --> 01:32:09.680 and I'm like okay, but I'm like, yeah, he's just 2183 01:32:09.720 --> 01:32:12.239 gonna start to get away. 2184 01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:18.840 Yeah, fun character. Really liked him. My only I agree 2185 01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:20.640 with you guys. I really like this sequence as well. 2186 01:32:20.880 --> 01:32:23.000 I think this is really when you get more into 2187 01:32:23.039 --> 01:32:25.439 extensive like gunplay and stuff, and so yeah, I really 2188 01:32:25.479 --> 01:32:28.680 liked all that. My one complain or annoying section in 2189 01:32:28.720 --> 01:32:30.520 here was when you finally get the money and you 2190 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:34.199 go up and do the auction. I put the controller 2191 01:32:34.199 --> 01:32:36.359 down because you're kind of just watching things occur. But 2192 01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:38.239 then at one point you have to fuck with the 2193 01:32:38.279 --> 01:32:40.840 guy's machines that he gets caught as a liar and 2194 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:42.720 they throw him out, and I didn't know who they 2195 01:32:42.720 --> 01:32:45.880 were talking about. Uh, so I didn't. I picked up controller, 2196 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:47.960 didn't really get it in time, couldn't figure out which 2197 01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:50.079 guy was supposed to use it on, and then I 2198 01:32:50.079 --> 01:32:51.560 had to reload the save and I had to read 2199 01:32:51.640 --> 01:32:57.399 that whole sequence, which something I was so pissed. Yeah 2200 01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:00.760 that's brutal. Yeah, so things like that kind of annoying. 2201 01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:02.920 I think that honestly in general, I don't know if 2202 01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:05.119 this game needed dialogue options, Like, I think I would 2203 01:33:05.119 --> 01:33:07.800 have been fine if it just did did the dialogue. 2204 01:33:07.800 --> 01:33:09.039 I mean, you know, when I'm talking to someone and 2205 01:33:09.039 --> 01:33:10.680 I can ask the multiple questions or I can just 2206 01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:12.760 go to the mission, that stuff's fine. But when it's 2207 01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.560 giving you like options and again it tells you like 2208 01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:17.640 two words, but then he says like multiple sentences, so 2209 01:33:17.640 --> 01:33:19.239 I don't even know what my guy's gonna say anyway, 2210 01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:22.439 just like, just pick the best line and put it 2211 01:33:22.479 --> 01:33:24.079 in the game. I don't I don't need to pick 2212 01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:24.720 man like. 2213 01:33:24.680 --> 01:33:27.199 Just especially if there's not like consequences if you choose 2214 01:33:27.279 --> 01:33:29.880 if you choose it incorrectly, right like, like I like, 2215 01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:31.680 I don't know, maybe I say this and then the 2216 01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:33.720 mission's gonna go a different route, like that would be 2217 01:33:33.760 --> 01:33:34.159 really cool. 2218 01:33:34.239 --> 01:33:36.680 So like I'm not excited to play ability there. Yeah, exactly, 2219 01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:38.199 I'm not excited to play that again and see, oh 2220 01:33:38.239 --> 01:33:40.960 I can't wait to see, like what, It's just not 2221 01:33:41.000 --> 01:33:41.640 that kind of game. 2222 01:33:41.720 --> 01:33:44.359 And there is throughout like whether it's a resort mission, 2223 01:33:44.399 --> 01:33:46.960 there's other things. There is multiple times in this game 2224 01:33:47.439 --> 01:33:49.840 that is very much like the MJ missions and Inspire 2225 01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:52.439 Man where it's like a second play through. I'm not 2226 01:33:52.479 --> 01:33:56.079 really gonna be looking forward to playing this part right. Luckily, 2227 01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:58.079 there is like a chapter select in the menu, so 2228 01:33:58.159 --> 01:33:59.560 I don't think you'd have to be at the same 2229 01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:02.840 time when I replay this would I would likely mostly 2230 01:34:02.920 --> 01:34:06.520 play it from the start again as on the harder difficulty. 2231 01:34:06.600 --> 01:34:08.239 So there's just section and I think that happens at 2232 01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:11.159 almost not every level, but I say, let's say if 2233 01:34:11.159 --> 01:34:14.039 there's ten, let's say I'll say fifty percent of these 2234 01:34:14.079 --> 01:34:16.159 levels have something where you go if you're not playing 2235 01:34:16.199 --> 01:34:18.399 for the first time, Like even the Dylan there's one 2236 01:34:18.439 --> 01:34:21.159 near the finale. This isn't anything crazy. Here's climbing a 2237 01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:23.239 mountain a lot, but it's nothing challenging. You're just like 2238 01:34:23.439 --> 01:34:25.479 jumping from wedge ledge to climb, and it's just like 2239 01:34:25.920 --> 01:34:27.840 this could be a cutscene, you know, like I have 2240 01:34:27.880 --> 01:34:29.560 a couple of climbs and that's it. So I'll be 2241 01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:32.840 curious on a replay if I'll have that drive boar 2242 01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:34.760 it will just be I'll just stick to the taxims 2243 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:36.199 because I do want to do that. And like I said, 2244 01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:38.439 this would be a perfect Hey when Bond's coming out 2245 01:34:38.479 --> 01:34:40.600 on the mood, I'd love to replay the story. But 2246 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:42.159 is that the stuff that's going to slow me down? 2247 01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:43.560 When I know and it's like, ah, dude, I need 2248 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:46.079 to do all this type of stuff and set up again, 2249 01:34:46.159 --> 01:34:49.039 so it will be interesting how it ages, but also 2250 01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:51.479 in a first run not as bad because your experience 2251 01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:52.359 off for the first time, you know. 2252 01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:56.199 So yeah, I mean that's that's that's why I was hoping, 2253 01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.039 like maybe that's what the tax Siams would be. Is 2254 01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:02.600 like here's the carpet thing, mountain that area, right, and 2255 01:35:02.640 --> 01:35:04.880 it takes away the driving section before and after it 2256 01:35:04.920 --> 01:35:06.720 takes away like the boss fight, right, and it's just 2257 01:35:06.760 --> 01:35:09.159 like here's just the whole building and there's like maybe 2258 01:35:09.159 --> 01:35:10.840 a couple of different ways you can engage with it 2259 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:13.640 and try out these different mechanics. Yeah, that's not really 2260 01:35:13.640 --> 01:35:15.359 what those are either. So if I want to redo 2261 01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:17.399 play that sequence, am I gonna have to like do 2262 01:35:17.439 --> 01:35:20.039 the part where I drive up slowly to the building 2263 01:35:20.079 --> 01:35:22.720 every time? Or can I skip past that? Like I 2264 01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:24.600 am curious to see kind of how that stuff is 2265 01:35:24.600 --> 01:35:26.960 implemented or if that is something they do with like 2266 01:35:27.000 --> 01:35:28.399 I said, with the tax sims, or like once a 2267 01:35:28.399 --> 01:35:31.119 month they added a new thing, which again remember Hitman 2268 01:35:31.239 --> 01:35:33.359 twenty sixteen when it first came out wasn't episodic game 2269 01:35:33.359 --> 01:35:34.880 when they released like one mission a month. 2270 01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:37.319 Or yeah, which is tough because I feel like it's 2271 01:35:37.359 --> 01:35:40.560 almost like how it's off topic but on topic We're 2272 01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:42.800 CEE Project where it was like, hey, which you're four, 2273 01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.319 We're not doing DLC, We're going to bitch you're five? 2274 01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:45.880 Which or six? 2275 01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:46.239 Yeah. 2276 01:35:46.279 --> 01:35:47.760 I kind of feel like that about the Bond thing, 2277 01:35:47.800 --> 01:35:49.159 that maybe they'll get a couple add ons, but I 2278 01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:51.720 think they'll be more interested in, like let's get James 2279 01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:54.000 Bond two out and not the add ons, right, because 2280 01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:57.239 they think there's more like money in it versus it's honestly. 2281 01:35:56.960 --> 01:35:59.640 Just like looking at the menu because you open it 2282 01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:01.640 up in there, like I forget what they're called cloak 2283 01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:03.600 one of them, I think it's called Operations, and then 2284 01:36:03.640 --> 01:36:06.000 what's the other thing in taxim called it's like the 2285 01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:07.680 one that has like the three tiers to it. I 2286 01:36:07.720 --> 01:36:09.640 forget the name they have for it, challenge. It's not 2287 01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:11.880 called the challenge. It's something like that. And those ones 2288 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:14.039 there's like six or seven, like it feels like a 2289 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:18.680 meaty amount, like sorry, sorry, it seems like the perfect amount. 2290 01:36:18.720 --> 01:36:20.960 But then the operations there's two of them, and to 2291 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:23.600 me that was like, Okay, that feels like very small. 2292 01:36:23.760 --> 01:36:26.159 It feels like that they've put that there so they 2293 01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:29.840 can drop in like larger chunks later to and you know, 2294 01:36:29.920 --> 01:36:32.000 not new levels, but just breaking up the levels that 2295 01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:34.880 we've had before, like that one Travis that were hinting 2296 01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:36.600 both hinting at that was the oldest pointing for us, 2297 01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:38.479 Like it feels like maybe there's an opportunity for that. 2298 01:36:38.520 --> 01:36:40.159 So we'll see, we'll see if they end to do 2299 01:36:40.239 --> 01:36:42.039 something like that. If they do, I'll definitely jump back in, 2300 01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:44.279 like the way I constantly come back to Hitman and 2301 01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:47.279 probably play for Freelancer, and I've played, you know, something 2302 01:36:47.319 --> 01:36:51.439 like the Miami level, probably like one hundred times or 2303 01:36:51.479 --> 01:36:53.239 something like I will do that where you know, these 2304 01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:55.560 missions don't have quite that level of depth, but honestly, 2305 01:36:55.640 --> 01:36:58.520 they're so good at adding little bespoke, tiny things that 2306 01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:02.279 change the level so rastically, so hopefully they do some 2307 01:37:02.479 --> 01:37:06.000 things like that. I guess, you know, this is kind 2308 01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:07.840 of just a mini show because there's so many interstitial 2309 01:37:07.840 --> 01:37:10.359 sections between the moments we're talking about, or maybe you 2310 01:37:10.359 --> 01:37:11.720 go back to I six, maybe you go back to 2311 01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:13.359 the lab for a bit, or you go back to 2312 01:37:13.399 --> 01:37:15.399 the apartment. At one point, the apartment like turns into 2313 01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:17.800 a big rooftop chase that leads you into the gala, 2314 01:37:17.840 --> 01:37:19.760 And I think all that stuff is really well paced, 2315 01:37:19.800 --> 01:37:21.399 Like it just it takes you from thing to thing, 2316 01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:23.479 gives you like a little bit of a breather. Maybe 2317 01:37:23.479 --> 01:37:25.760 it's a moment to talk with a character, get some 2318 01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:27.720 backstory stuff, but then you're kind of right back into 2319 01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:29.960 the fray. And so yeah, I mean I like that 2320 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:33.680 that rooftop chase sequence. That was fun. I enjoyed that. 2321 01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:35.720 And I don't even remember where I guess that's right 2322 01:37:35.760 --> 01:37:37.840 before the gala section. But yeah, I just think the 2323 01:37:37.880 --> 01:37:39.399 game is like well paced of like in between the 2324 01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:42.479 bigger levels. Here's like smaller little you know, rather linear 2325 01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:45.000 sections that you know are fun. Probably wouldn't be fun 2326 01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:47.000 a second time, to be fair, but at least through 2327 01:37:47.039 --> 01:37:49.119 the first time through, we're a good little breakup of 2328 01:37:49.159 --> 01:37:50.920 the bigger levels. Yeah. 2329 01:37:50.920 --> 01:37:52.840 I think you're right. I think overall game is good 2330 01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:55.000 pacing only thing and you remind me won't go into 2331 01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:57.000 because it happens more at the end. I think what 2332 01:37:57.039 --> 01:37:58.560 they need to work for in the second game the 2333 01:37:58.600 --> 01:38:01.079 boss battles, because man, there's one boss battle here that 2334 01:38:01.239 --> 01:38:04.840 was one of the most like Kevin McAlister, like, how 2335 01:38:04.840 --> 01:38:05.800 do I beat this guy? 2336 01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:08.760 And yeah our dog Shito? 2337 01:38:08.920 --> 01:38:11.920 Yeah not good? So that that definitely I felt my 2338 01:38:11.960 --> 01:38:14.960 score ticking down when I was playing these battles, like especially. 2339 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:18.239 Like sense either it's like what are what are we 2340 01:38:18.359 --> 01:38:18.880 doing that? 2341 01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:21.760 Then the villains turned into Harry and Marv. They're like 2342 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:24.079 running after a kid. It's like you're grown man and 2343 01:38:24.119 --> 01:38:26.520 James Bond's grown man. Like at that point I'd rather 2344 01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:28.960 just like just make him a harder hand and combat 2345 01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:30.680 boss guy, you know, at that point, just make it 2346 01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:33.079 you got a time your cameras even more so, he's 2347 01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:35.079 gonna throw like five at you. Like, just do that, 2348 01:38:35.159 --> 01:38:37.439 even if it's lame, just go that instead of there's 2349 01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:40.199 one that's super gregious. I don't think has got too yet. 2350 01:38:40.199 --> 01:38:42.800 And it's uh, I've. 2351 01:38:42.239 --> 01:38:44.640 Only done the one, like the one twin that you 2352 01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:47.079 that you just have to not that one. Yeah, yeah, 2353 01:38:47.119 --> 01:38:51.359 just gadgets basically going off and right, I got two 2354 01:38:51.479 --> 01:38:54.039 doubt like there's you have to get him with three gadgets. 2355 01:38:54.119 --> 01:38:58.159 Essentially he's walking like r Kadie and he's walking around 2356 01:38:58.159 --> 01:38:58.399 with his. 2357 01:38:58.359 --> 01:39:02.239 Gun and he just keeps walking around assassin in the world. 2358 01:39:02.279 --> 01:39:04.279 But I like ran at him on the last one. 2359 01:39:04.319 --> 01:39:06.079 I'm like, oh, I could probably just get his bar 2360 01:39:06.159 --> 01:39:09.239 down with like a punch, right like I used two gadgets. 2361 01:39:09.640 --> 01:39:11.000 No, not at all. He just counters me. 2362 01:39:11.119 --> 01:39:13.000 He like points his gun right at my face, and 2363 01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:15.640 then I end up just just turning and running away. 2364 01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:19.039 He shoots you like a couple of times. It was 2365 01:39:19.079 --> 01:39:21.479 just such a goofy sequence, like oh, okay, I'm gonna 2366 01:39:21.479 --> 01:39:23.560 go hide, and then he's like where are you? And 2367 01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:25.800 then he just runs underneath like a chandelier that I 2368 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:28.159 just trigger with my fucking dark You'll. 2369 01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:30.239 Know when you gets it. The other one's worse than that. 2370 01:39:30.359 --> 01:39:32.760 It's if you think that was goofy, there's one that's 2371 01:39:32.800 --> 01:39:35.520 super goofy. And then again, that's where I would honestly 2372 01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:37.600 wouldn't mind if they made the whole game, like I said, 2373 01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:40.039 more silly, because if people like Daln't doesn't know Roger 2374 01:39:40.079 --> 01:39:42.840 Moore's Bond was a very comedic bond. All his movies 2375 01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:45.359 were very tongue in cheek and almost not a parody, 2376 01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:47.359 but like close to it. And that's where if the 2377 01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:49.199 whole game was like that, like Okay, yeah, sure we 2378 01:39:49.199 --> 01:39:51.359 can do this kind of fun. Boss Bat was like 2379 01:39:51.399 --> 01:39:53.159 doing this in the Little hyjriinks, but when it's in 2380 01:39:53.199 --> 01:39:55.399 this world, it's like this guy has nuclear codes or 2381 01:39:55.439 --> 01:39:57.800 an AI machine and this is how you beat him. 2382 01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:00.439 It's like, all right, like I just meagined, I'm sitting 2383 01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:02.319 there watching a movie. It's just because it's in the game. 2384 01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:04.399 I get that. But that's they need to work on it. Plus, 2385 01:40:04.439 --> 01:40:06.920 like hit Man games have that occasion, but they're not 2386 01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:09.600 also like Boss Battle driven, right, it's usually at the 2387 01:40:09.640 --> 01:40:11.119 end or even when I played back in the day, 2388 01:40:11.159 --> 01:40:13.760 it was like one per game, and they could kind 2389 01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:16.119 of make it special. There wasn't it was the mission, 2390 01:40:16.239 --> 01:40:18.880 so it is new stuff for this team, right, so 2391 01:40:19.119 --> 01:40:21.560 I gotta understand that, but uh, you know, they gives 2392 01:40:21.560 --> 01:40:25.439 them stuff to do for the sequel, so mm hmmmmm. Uh. 2393 01:40:25.479 --> 01:40:28.119 And then I think the last two things we can 2394 01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:30.239 talk about without spoiling things for Kirkling, which we don't 2395 01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:33.560 want to do, is the gala, the you know, going 2396 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:36.760 from the rooftop sequence down to here where there's you know, 2397 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:38.520 a musical performance going on, which is fun when you 2398 01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:40.239 ever you go back into the main like ballroom area 2399 01:40:40.279 --> 01:40:42.159 and you can just kind of listen to the music. 2400 01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:45.560 You got to go through, uh, get into some security areas, 2401 01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:48.000 you got to go through, like a IT tech zone, 2402 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:51.279 which is kind of some more stealth, uh, trying to 2403 01:40:51.319 --> 01:40:53.000 think what else happens you go up on the rooftop 2404 01:40:53.000 --> 01:40:54.840 at one point you're kind of going all over this building. 2405 01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:57.800 You know, it's it's a little bit more of an 2406 01:40:57.800 --> 01:40:59.720 open things feels like there are like multiple solutions for 2407 01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:01.520 a certain things. So this is still in the part 2408 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:02.760 of the game where there's a bit more of like 2409 01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:05.359 the hitmanny DNA, and then the sections after this like 2410 01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:07.880 kind of completely do away with any sort of free 2411 01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:10.399 form gameplay, I feel like, but again, I really like 2412 01:41:10.439 --> 01:41:12.520 this sequence. You know, it's not quite as extensive as 2413 01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:16.359 the Carpathian Mountain mission, but I still really enjoyed it. 2414 01:41:16.560 --> 01:41:19.279 That joke really got me. The museum door inspector thing. 2415 01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:21.840 I really like the stealth sequence to Like the office 2416 01:41:21.880 --> 01:41:24.640 area I thought was really really fun. So yeah, I 2417 01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:27.520 quite enjoyed that scene, and like the it feels very 2418 01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:29.199 hit many of the things you gotta like get a 2419 01:41:29.239 --> 01:41:32.319 camera from a photographer and then like take it through 2420 01:41:32.319 --> 01:41:34.960 this area and then obviously I'm just using darts and 2421 01:41:35.039 --> 01:41:37.000 laser beams to get through half the things anyway, But 2422 01:41:37.319 --> 01:41:39.479 you know, still I had a fun time going through 2423 01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:43.279 that that whole sequence, So yeah, shout outs to that mission. Yea, 2424 01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:45.079 any thoughts on that one, guys. 2425 01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:48.640 I really like the setting. I like the just the museum. 2426 01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:51.119 There's a lot of stealth that you kind of have 2427 01:41:51.159 --> 01:41:53.880 to do more so than than other Like, you know, 2428 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:55.399 you got a little of stealth and all these missions, 2429 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:57.119 but I feel like that one was the most, Like, Okay, 2430 01:41:57.119 --> 01:41:59.479 I gotta kind of think about my routes here just 2431 01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:03.680 because the camp are kind of introduced here, I believe, And. 2432 01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:08.239 Yeah, no, just overall, I thought it was really. 2433 01:42:08.039 --> 01:42:10.600 Fun like there is a couple of little different zones 2434 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:13.680 that you have some skirmishes, and uh, there's one that's 2435 01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:16.039 just like a bunch of like it's just near a 2436 01:42:16.039 --> 01:42:18.800 bunch of like artwork and just grabbing people and throwing 2437 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:22.039 them into this priceless you know artifact. 2438 01:42:22.079 --> 01:42:22.960 It's just it's so. 2439 01:42:22.840 --> 01:42:25.359 Satisfying, just just breaking glass of people's heads. 2440 01:42:26.520 --> 01:42:28.199 Yeah, no fun. I think it's just like for me, 2441 01:42:28.279 --> 01:42:31.720 like a similar to the chess one, but just a 2442 01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:33.840 little below that but still good. Yeah. 2443 01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:38.439 Uh and then really we're getting down to it. I 2444 01:42:38.439 --> 01:42:43.600 think my last notes here, Oh one, Hitman World Assassination 2445 01:42:43.640 --> 01:42:45.079 one of the great games of all time. The only 2446 01:42:45.079 --> 01:42:46.600 thing that holds it back from being a perfect game 2447 01:42:47.239 --> 01:42:50.439 is the fuck game always online component of the game. 2448 01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:53.159 And for whatever the fuck reason, they've done that shit 2449 01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:55.680 again here in this game, it's like less egregious that 2450 01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.319 I think you don't. I don't think you lose unlocks. 2451 01:42:58.319 --> 01:43:00.039 Maybe you doing the tax sims, but that's like. 2452 01:43:01.520 --> 01:43:04.119 I didn't play online the whole time because I screwed 2453 01:43:04.159 --> 01:43:06.560 up my sign in, So even when I beat the game, 2454 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:10.079 Taxians was still locked and I had to go sign in. 2455 01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:12.560 But I beat the whole game offline. No, no, no, no, 2456 01:43:12.600 --> 01:43:16.000 Luckily it was it triggered it, okay, yeah, it was like, oh, 2457 01:43:16.039 --> 01:43:18.600 you've beat the game, you're good to go, but yeah, 2458 01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:20.640 you can't play it offline luckily. 2459 01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.319 So it makes no sense whatsoever for a single player game. 2460 01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:26.800 I hate that they've built their games with this framework, 2461 01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:28.920 and it's just gonna at some point these games will 2462 01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:30.880 just be unplayable because they're tied to these servers that 2463 01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:33.359 are some day going to go down. And that is 2464 01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:35.600 so stupid and pissed me off. And it's so annoying 2465 01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:37.000 when you're playing this game and it's like, oh, you 2466 01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:39.520 just connected, you got to reconnect. It's quick, it's quicker 2467 01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:42.439 than load times. I'm dying, but still it's annoying as heck. 2468 01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:44.319 And I hate it so much, and I don't know 2469 01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:46.119 why they do it. And I think all they saw 2470 01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:49.359 was one million people complaining about how stupid it is 2471 01:43:49.359 --> 01:43:50.880 and hit Man, and I can't believe they did it 2472 01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:52.880 again for this game, which feels even more agree just 2473 01:43:52.920 --> 01:43:55.960 to have something like this, just less challenges and online 2474 01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:58.760 sinking and like you know, cross platform stuff like that 2475 01:43:58.880 --> 01:44:03.079 like hit Man has had. So I can't fathom why 2476 01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:05.439 they would do that again, so that obviously deserves a 2477 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:08.399 huge black mark on what is otherwise a great game. 2478 01:44:08.520 --> 01:44:10.199 Is like, I just don't know why the fuck they 2479 01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:11.840 did this stupid always online thing again. 2480 01:44:11.880 --> 01:44:14.119 Yeah, that's funny. I never had to log in or 2481 01:44:14.119 --> 01:44:16.199 anything once I said no at the beginning. It never 2482 01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:18.000 asked me the whole time. I had to physically go 2483 01:44:18.039 --> 01:44:19.720 on the menu and do it myself. So when you say, like, oh, 2484 01:44:19.720 --> 01:44:21.239 you had to every once in a while and that 2485 01:44:21.319 --> 01:44:22.720 reload never happened. 2486 01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:23.960 I mean, maybe maybe it's not as much of it. 2487 01:44:24.159 --> 01:44:27.039 I guess I'm so trained like a fucking dog from 2488 01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:29.079 playing Hitman, Like if I don't do this, I'm gonna 2489 01:44:29.119 --> 01:44:31.800 lose out on on locks and progression and stuff, which 2490 01:44:31.880 --> 01:44:33.640 that sounds like is the case for taxing. So I 2491 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:35.079 guess it's fine if I didn't do it for the 2492 01:44:35.079 --> 01:44:36.479 main game, So I guess I could have done that. 2493 01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:39.720 So that's a good shout out. But uh yeah, just 2494 01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:42.159 ridiculous that they decided to do that again. 2495 01:44:42.920 --> 01:44:45.359 Yeah, I got I got booted offline a couple of times. 2496 01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:48.159 I ended up just going along with it. But when 2497 01:44:48.199 --> 01:44:50.159 it like told like at the fair beginning, when you 2498 01:44:50.159 --> 01:44:52.560 first booted it up. It's like, this is a single 2499 01:44:52.560 --> 01:44:55.039 player game. You can play it offline, but like it's 2500 01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:58.359 better if on your you're online. I'm like, what is 2501 01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:01.680 this be like any level of Like it doesn't tell 2502 01:45:01.720 --> 01:45:06.319 you why there's gonna be like And I think it's 2503 01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:09.479 just because of the taxim unlocks, like you get challenges 2504 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:12.800 on the levels. But yeah, very I guess it's just 2505 01:45:12.840 --> 01:45:15.479 an Iowai thing. So at this point it's just expected 2506 01:45:15.520 --> 01:45:17.840 for all their future titles, but very bizarre. 2507 01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:21.319 Sadly, and that's true. Yeah, I think my last note, 2508 01:45:21.319 --> 01:45:23.680 I'll just say I'll just say Travis one im talk 2509 01:45:23.680 --> 01:45:25.880 About'm gonna say the word lorca if you know, you 2510 01:45:25.960 --> 01:45:30.880 know it's great. And other than that, I think that's 2511 01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:33.000 maybe all my notes. You guys have any other thoughts 2512 01:45:33.000 --> 01:45:34.720 that we haven't talked about yet. 2513 01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:35.880 I'm good here. 2514 01:45:37.680 --> 01:45:40.199 No, Well, watch do you guys choose? Do you remember 2515 01:45:40.279 --> 01:45:40.760 what color? 2516 01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:41.319 Oh? 2517 01:45:42.039 --> 01:45:44.720 I think the red and game red and green. 2518 01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:47.239 I was the second from the right. It was like 2519 01:45:47.279 --> 01:45:49.039 a gray and orange. 2520 01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:51.920 I think I think I did a yellow like I did, 2521 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:54.000 like a black yellow one that kind of just match 2522 01:45:54.079 --> 01:45:56.600 like the it's like the box art of the game, 2523 01:45:56.640 --> 01:45:59.760 almost physical copy, but I just felt like that fit 2524 01:45:59.840 --> 01:46:01.119 the the vibe of the game. 2525 01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:03.479 I kind of thought you're gonna I kind of thought 2526 01:46:03.479 --> 01:46:04.720 you're gonna do that the whole thing, and that you're 2527 01:46:04.720 --> 01:46:07.720 gonna pick your suit and your shoes and everything. 2528 01:46:07.319 --> 01:46:10.119 You get in attack SAMs, you you have a bunch 2529 01:46:10.159 --> 01:46:12.479 of outfits from and you can put skins on your 2530 01:46:12.520 --> 01:46:13.920 weapons and gadgets and stuff. 2531 01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:16.520 That's one critique for me in the main game. Bond's 2532 01:46:16.520 --> 01:46:18.479 on a suit enough. I get it, he's not double seven, 2533 01:46:18.640 --> 01:46:19.520 he's not a suit enough. 2534 01:46:19.760 --> 01:46:23.760 There's a lot of like he's wearing like the finale sequences, like. 2535 01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:28.520 I get why, but it was like, it's I don't 2536 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:30.880 know that that. That's what I think is unfortunate. There 2537 01:46:31.079 --> 01:46:33.800 wasn't any looking here those like iconic, whether you like 2538 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:36.399 it or not, when people see the Spider Man PS 2539 01:46:36.439 --> 01:46:39.079 four logan that they know, okay, that's PS four Spider Man. 2540 01:46:39.439 --> 01:46:42.319 I wish they had some suit or something here that's like, oh, 2541 01:46:42.399 --> 01:46:45.680 that is the first light suit or whatever. They didn't 2542 01:46:45.680 --> 01:46:47.680 really have that here, or even a car or anything 2543 01:46:47.720 --> 01:46:48.079 like that. 2544 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:52.199 So yeah, I love Bond in a turtle neck though, 2545 01:46:52.239 --> 01:46:54.439 and he definitely wears that for at least a mission 2546 01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:56.920 and in attacks him like the first outfit you can unlock. 2547 01:46:57.239 --> 01:46:59.039 I know because I went in there and there's a 2548 01:46:59.079 --> 01:47:01.640 good like twenty outfits in the taxi you can choose from. 2549 01:47:01.720 --> 01:47:03.520 There's there's a lot, but the one that I chose 2550 01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:06.600 was just the turtleneck with the gun holster, because that's. 2551 01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:11.239 Just that's from No Time to Die. That's the Daniel Craig. 2552 01:47:11.399 --> 01:47:13.159 That's the one he dies in. 2553 01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:15.600 Sorry, but yeah, A lot of the a lot of 2554 01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:19.920 the mission chapter titles were clearly references to different movies, which. 2555 01:47:19.800 --> 01:47:23.239 The trophies as well. Too big. They're all like song 2556 01:47:23.319 --> 01:47:26.439 titles or whatnot. So that that was fun to Again, 2557 01:47:26.520 --> 01:47:28.760 that's where if you're Bond fan, this game is made 2558 01:47:28.760 --> 01:47:30.720 with a lot of love, very similar Lego Batman, where 2559 01:47:30.960 --> 01:47:32.800 they know their stuff. And that's where like even for 2560 01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:34.720 my fun, I guess like to say where I am, 2561 01:47:34.760 --> 01:47:36.680 I have no notes, but where I am I would 2562 01:47:36.680 --> 01:47:38.399 put this game at like an eight. I think it's 2563 01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:40.399 like a game I'm probably more like in the seven 2564 01:47:40.520 --> 01:47:43.000 seven point five, But I will say that most time 2565 01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:45.199 they capture the Bond magic, so I give them the eight. 2566 01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:47.439 If you can get that Bond magic of feeling like 2567 01:47:47.439 --> 01:47:50.159 you're in that world watching movie. That's where it goes. 2568 01:47:50.199 --> 01:47:52.840 Not every level play is great and everything goes together. 2569 01:47:53.119 --> 01:47:55.079 I have some issues with the Bond character and some 2570 01:47:55.159 --> 01:47:56.640 of the like we talked about the beginning of the 2571 01:47:56.720 --> 01:48:00.239 villain just even storyline just kind of man, it's very right, 2572 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:03.319 this is fine. There's some few fun sequences I agreed 2573 01:48:03.319 --> 01:48:05.439 to them that I think the back half for the 2574 01:48:05.439 --> 01:48:08.079 most part, is a bit weaker. There's some highlights. Still, 2575 01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:11.079 again there's nothing that's awful. But that's where I'm at, 2576 01:48:11.079 --> 01:48:14.199 like an eight, because that magic there for the Bond 2577 01:48:14.239 --> 01:48:16.960 game and there to the point though where if they 2578 01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:19.439 make the second that make the second one, I'll be there. 2579 01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:21.119 They got my trust there and I hope that they 2580 01:48:21.159 --> 01:48:23.880 can improve on things. But still is a very fun 2581 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:26.000 time overall. So I think as a Bond fan, if 2582 01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:28.359 you've gone this far and you're on the fence, I 2583 01:48:28.399 --> 01:48:30.239 think it's kind of even if you don't have the money, 2584 01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:32.399 then put on your wishless in the future. It's a 2585 01:48:32.640 --> 01:48:35.039 it's a must play if you like the franchise at all. 2586 01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:38.640 So, yeah, it was the Pierce reference early on in 2587 01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:38.960 the game. 2588 01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:39.359 Travis. 2589 01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:42.000 There, Oh, there's a good one. Where it's the second 2590 01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:43.800 time you go back to the Q lab they have 2591 01:48:43.960 --> 01:48:48.079 that the ball that they blow up and avalanche. Yeah, 2592 01:48:48.159 --> 01:48:50.079 and he said, why would I ever be in an avalanche? Like, oh, 2593 01:48:50.119 --> 01:48:54.439 you never know, because that happens. Pierce's skiing and a 2594 01:48:54.520 --> 01:48:56.600 whole avalanche happens, and he has a suit where he 2595 01:48:56.640 --> 01:48:59.000 just pulls like this thing and it makes a whole 2596 01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:01.640 just like foam what whatever ball that is, and it 2597 01:49:01.720 --> 01:49:04.319 saves them of course, right, so there was Again that's 2598 01:49:04.359 --> 01:49:06.960 why it's at eight because if you can put in 2599 01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:09.720 that stuff and you love the franchise even then too. 2600 01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:11.399 They even made kind of a joke about him not 2601 01:49:11.439 --> 01:49:14.640 being James Bond when him and whatever her name is, 2602 01:49:14.840 --> 01:49:16.359 like oh yeah, so they're like, oh, your name is 2603 01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:18.000 Jane Bond. He's like, oh no, it isn't. He's like, 2604 01:49:18.039 --> 01:49:20.720 oh yeah, I didn't think so. Because that's People like 2605 01:49:20.760 --> 01:49:22.439 that theory, which this game doesn't do. People like the 2606 01:49:22.439 --> 01:49:25.479 theory that James Bond all of them are different people, right, 2607 01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:27.560 They're not one guy and it's redone. It's like every 2608 01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:30.640 time you die, if I dined Dale becomes double seven, 2609 01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:32.680 now you get the name of James Bond. Like that's 2610 01:49:32.680 --> 01:49:34.119 what it is, so they kind of have like a 2611 01:49:34.119 --> 01:49:36.159 little like that, and that's never been confirmed, but that's 2612 01:49:36.199 --> 01:49:38.039 like a fun like, Okay, throw that Easter egg into 2613 01:49:38.079 --> 01:49:41.039 this game and we'll go with it. So yeah, there's 2614 01:49:41.079 --> 01:49:42.680 a lot of love in this game, so. 2615 01:49:43.680 --> 01:49:48.520 Totally yeah, kirklam Any closing thoughts here, closing thoughts, Yes, 2616 01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:50.800 of course I haven't rolled credits on it yet, so 2617 01:49:50.840 --> 01:49:55.199 it's an ongoing venture. I don't want to say I'm worried, 2618 01:49:55.199 --> 01:49:58.479 but I'm definitely a little bit interested on what the 2619 01:49:58.560 --> 01:50:00.720 dip is and these next cup the levels because you 2620 01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:01.680 guys said, I don't. 2621 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:03.880 Think it's a mass yeah. 2622 01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:08.640 Bad. I just think it's very generic and like linear 2623 01:50:08.720 --> 01:50:09.560 and kind of basic. 2624 01:50:09.640 --> 01:50:13.199 Right the peak is in the middle, Okay, Yeah, I 2625 01:50:13.199 --> 01:50:15.359 mean it's been good so I've been riding that peak, 2626 01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:20.520 so yeah, I'm still enjoying it. I think, Yeah, like 2627 01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:23.119 after I roll credit, I don't think I would right 2628 01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:25.760 away go through and replay it. But I think it's 2629 01:50:25.800 --> 01:50:30.439 just like a solid spy adventure like action game. I 2630 01:50:30.680 --> 01:50:33.199 think it is really really fun. It's got a really 2631 01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:37.720 good balance of everything that I like out of the genre. Honestly, 2632 01:50:37.720 --> 01:50:39.359 it makes me like want to go play Uncharted again 2633 01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:41.600 because I'm like, man, like these games like we're actually 2634 01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:45.279 really fun going through a story. I think the puzzles 2635 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.920 are better and uncharged too, like just I don't know, 2636 01:50:48.000 --> 01:50:49.960 maybe it's super basic. It's been a while since I played, 2637 01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:52.800 Like I jump back into the first game a. 2638 01:50:52.760 --> 01:50:54.720 Year or so ago. There's a math puzzle in this 2639 01:50:54.760 --> 01:50:56.159 game that fucked me up big time. 2640 01:50:56.239 --> 01:50:59.319 Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean I got I brought 2641 01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:02.239 Emily into the the the number one. 2642 01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:04.960 Is I needed no pad and paper. I needed that. 2643 01:51:05.039 --> 01:51:07.039 Yeah that one right, like number one is one and 2644 01:51:07.279 --> 01:51:09.520 two is yeah, yeah, I brought Emily and they're talking 2645 01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:11.880 about the wars. I'm like, all right, let's let's think 2646 01:51:11.920 --> 01:51:13.520 because at first I fucked it ups. 2647 01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:15.439 Like there is there is a way you can just 2648 01:51:15.720 --> 01:51:18.000 not do it. There's like another way around that sequence, thankfully, 2649 01:51:18.079 --> 01:51:19.399 but I was like, I do want to solve this, 2650 01:51:19.479 --> 01:51:21.079 like I want to I want to practice my mask. 2651 01:51:21.319 --> 01:51:23.319 Hey maybe that's one thing too, with those situations. I 2652 01:51:23.359 --> 01:51:25.640 know you collect like little cards and stuff. Second game, 2653 01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:28.880 maybe make that that you can utlog suits or more 2654 01:51:28.960 --> 01:51:31.920 upgrades to weapons, because they just kind of felt like, okay, cool, 2655 01:51:31.920 --> 01:51:33.840 I'm finding like Deck of cards and stuff, but it's 2656 01:51:33.840 --> 01:51:37.319 nothing like, oh man, I like, I never felt too 2657 01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:39.479 reward of like getting in a say for somewhere where 2658 01:51:39.479 --> 01:51:41.199 it's like, oh, this is a different area, And I 2659 01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:43.319 never got like even though it was skins for guns 2660 01:51:43.439 --> 01:51:45.159 or something. And maybe there is some of that, but 2661 01:51:45.479 --> 01:51:46.600 I just never felt like there was. 2662 01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:49.760 Reward in games like they wanted all that to be 2663 01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:52.439 the taxim stuff. So that makes me wonder how much 2664 01:51:52.479 --> 01:51:55.159 more they're gonna add to that, because even with like 2665 01:51:55.199 --> 01:51:57.840 taxim stuff, it's like, oh, there's like one SMG you 2666 01:51:57.840 --> 01:52:00.000 can buy. It's not like there's like hundreds of weapons 2667 01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:02.359 or anything like it's pretty it's pretty basic. 2668 01:52:02.479 --> 01:52:08.399 But yeah, but yeah, if I like in progress rating, 2669 01:52:08.479 --> 01:52:10.399 I think I'm I think I'm hovering around that eight 2670 01:52:10.479 --> 01:52:12.920 point five eight point seventy five, like in that realm 2671 01:52:13.439 --> 01:52:16.840 not quite good enough to hit the nine. But overall, 2672 01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:19.439 just across the board, I think it's just super super 2673 01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:24.159 solid and uh yeah, very fun James Bond game, which 2674 01:52:24.199 --> 01:52:26.239 is which is great, great to be getting right all 2675 01:52:26.279 --> 01:52:26.960 these years later. 2676 01:52:27.680 --> 01:52:28.119 Yeah. 2677 01:52:28.319 --> 01:52:31.279 Yeah, So when I play that Quantum of Solis game, Travis, I. 2678 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:33.840 Love, Yeah, I love that game, you know, And even 2679 01:52:33.880 --> 01:52:35.760 then it's a third This is a third person bond game, 2680 01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:38.000 which is a bit more rare, like very rare on 2681 01:52:38.039 --> 01:52:39.840 the franchise, right, so right. 2682 01:52:40.760 --> 01:52:42.600 Yeah, I mean it's it's hard for me to give 2683 01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:44.800 a number for this one because I feel like the 2684 01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:48.319 taxi stuff is really like my ball will wax, and 2685 01:52:48.359 --> 01:52:50.000 I feel like I'm just getting into that. So it's 2686 01:52:50.000 --> 01:52:51.880 hard for me to give a number, like even like 2687 01:52:51.880 --> 01:52:54.000 there's fun like speed run challenges in there, or beat 2688 01:52:54.039 --> 01:52:55.880 this mission without like shooting a gun, beat this mission 2689 01:52:55.880 --> 01:52:57.560 without doing any gadgets. It's like, man, are you playing 2690 01:52:57.560 --> 01:52:59.079 these missions over and over again, like trying to do 2691 01:52:59.119 --> 01:53:01.680 them in different ways? That is what I was looking for? 2692 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:03.399 Or like what maybe I was looking for what I 2693 01:53:03.439 --> 01:53:05.520 was hoping for from that Hitman dy and a stuff. 2694 01:53:05.560 --> 01:53:07.319 So I feel like I am just getting into some 2695 01:53:07.359 --> 01:53:09.920 more juicy things in that way. But again, it doesn't 2696 01:53:09.920 --> 01:53:12.079 seem like there's a ton of missions to be done there. 2697 01:53:12.640 --> 01:53:14.520 I'm already you know, I've already done a good amount 2698 01:53:14.560 --> 01:53:16.880 of them, So it's hard for me to put a 2699 01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:21.760 number on this. Maybe I'll chuck a maybe I'll chuck 2700 01:53:21.840 --> 01:53:29.039 like a seven point seven seven yeah double o seved, 2701 01:53:29.119 --> 01:53:31.920 you know, I'll just do seven point zero zero seven. 2702 01:53:31.960 --> 01:53:35.079 How does that sound perfect? That feels kind of too low, 2703 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:36.920 but whatever, it's just with me anyway. I'll update my 2704 01:53:36.960 --> 01:53:40.039 score if I feel like it once we are further 2705 01:53:40.079 --> 01:53:42.720 in this game. But yeah, I'm excited to play more 2706 01:53:42.720 --> 01:53:44.840 of this. I'm definitely gonna go pretty deep on this 2707 01:53:44.920 --> 01:53:47.800 taxim stuff, assuming it has legs for it, and we'll 2708 01:53:47.800 --> 01:53:51.439 report back on all of that. Maybe when Kirkland has 2709 01:53:51.479 --> 01:53:53.840 beat it, we can I don't know when we would 2710 01:53:53.840 --> 01:53:55.319 do it on side Quest. We'll find a time where 2711 01:53:55.359 --> 01:53:58.279 maybe we could talk through, maybe do a little last 2712 01:53:58.319 --> 01:54:01.520 story spoiler section or something like that. And Travis, do 2713 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:03.039 you think you're gonna check out the tax and stuff? 2714 01:54:03.039 --> 01:54:03.920 Sounds like you're interesting. 2715 01:54:04.119 --> 01:54:06.119 Yeah for sure, Yeah, yeah, No, I just wanted to 2716 01:54:06.119 --> 01:54:08.399 get through the story first and I was, and I 2717 01:54:08.439 --> 01:54:10.560 do that in most games. I like to leave, like 2718 01:54:10.640 --> 01:54:12.479 side Quest at the end. I like finishing your main 2719 01:54:12.520 --> 01:54:15.079 game first. And because I can tell myself side Quest 2720 01:54:15.439 --> 01:54:17.520 Taxing that type of stuff, it's like the adventure after 2721 01:54:17.600 --> 01:54:19.520 it's the DLC, it's like, Okay, this is what Bond's 2722 01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:22.840 up till, like till the next adventures. He's just training 2723 01:54:22.880 --> 01:54:24.840 and working on stuff right now. So yeah, i'll definitely 2724 01:54:24.840 --> 01:54:27.079 next time we talk about it, have some experience with taxing, 2725 01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:28.680 and then I'll go to that right away. I think 2726 01:54:28.720 --> 01:54:30.720 eventually I will play the story again on hard mode, 2727 01:54:30.720 --> 01:54:33.199 but I think I'll probably wait a little longer or 2728 01:54:33.199 --> 01:54:34.960 wait to like a Bond movie, and I'm feeling the 2729 01:54:35.279 --> 01:54:38.319 viz with taxims, I will be crossing off, so cool. 2730 01:54:38.880 --> 01:54:41.760 Sounds great. Thank you guys for joining me, Thank you 2731 01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:45.680 everyone for listening, thank you for sending in questions, and yeah, 2732 01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:48.600 we'll be back in probably twenty four hours for some 2733 01:54:48.760 --> 01:54:51.399 state of play goodness. Have a good one, see you 2734 01:54:51.399 --> 01:54:51.800 next time. 2735 01:54:51.960 --> 01:54:53.159 Bye bye,