Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show here at Geekberse. I'm your one and
only host, Dylan Muss. And a little solo episode, which
I don't think I've done in a couple months. I
try and do these every once in a while. I
think it mixes things up. Sometimes I have too much
on my mind and I need to get out of
my mind into you and your podcast listening app. And
that's what's happening today. You know, every year, Game Awards
is coming up in just a few short days. We're
gonna have a second episode this week breaking it all down.
I'm gonna try as well to do a livestream reaction
of the Game Awards. We'll see how I'm a feeling
on that given day if I can to start at
that very time. I forget exactly when that livestream starts,
but just check that out if you want to tune
into that. But yeah, every year of the last couple
years at least, I've done a little solo episode, a short,
little one where I just go through and go through
the game wards. Obviously, as a I'm not on the
jury by any means, but I'm part of that ten percent,
which is the whole entire world that can go on
the website, create an account and vote on the different categories.
So I want to do that, but I also had
so much else to talk about, and since you know,
game Wards is coming up and then this and that
and Game of the Year is coming up pretty soon,
in all these fun things, I just don't know when
I'd be able to talk about some of these games.
I wanted to do it. Well, the iron was hot,
so to speak. So this episode, which was originally one
topic of me doing my game boards votes, it's now
that plus my impressions on the new Hitman em and
m DLC. Also the Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls beta that
I've been playing this weekend, as well as Marvel Cosmic Invasion.
So you're getting hit Man two, Marvel Topics, and game awards,
a lot of fun stuff and yeah, just me to
break it all down for you. So I think I'm
going to start with the eminem hit Man DLC. So
for anyone who's not aware of this Hitman World of Assassination,
one of my very favorite games, which I've talked about
many times on side quest here, and for the last
I don't know. While years. I guess at this point
they've been doing celebrity ets elusive targets. So what that
means is that there's some celebrity storyline setup, whether the
celebrity is playing themselves like Bruce Lee, which happened, you know,
just a couple of months ago, or at sometimes celebrity
coming in as like a fictional character within the world.
And with the elusive targets, essentially you have like a
limited amount of time to take them out. That's generally
for like the main mode of the setting. But then
there's also like the arcade version where you can just
kind of play over and over again, even if there's
like a thirty minute time or cool down if you
fail or something like that. So not quite the regular
Hitman experience. I think these are or I don't love
the way they're framed within the game. I don't like
that limitation of the timing of it, and I don't
like that a lot of these things go away, like
the Bruce Lee one is like disappear from the game now,
and it's like probably because of rights and stuff. It's
just like is not going to exist ever again, maybe
like who really knows, So I don't like that. I
don't like the idea that these wonderful developers that I
want to, you know, play all the content they're making,
and they're spending all this time to make content that
then you know, I can play for you know, a
few days, and then it goes into a vault and
maybe to never be seen again. So I kind of
wish they didn't do celebrity ones and they just had
DLC things. But what comes with this is that typically
they'll take a map that exists in the game, or
they'll always do this. They'll take a map that already
exists in the game, they'll dress it up in some
new way, change it up, change the theming limit areas,
not really ad areas, but kind of just change all
the decoration, different rooms, all the NPC locations. And so
for someone like me who's so invested in like, oh,
I know exactly where this one NPC walks in this
hotel second floor, you know, all of the things are
kind of switched up, and so it makes you have
to think on your feet a little. But some of
them have other weird attributes to them, and this new
eminem owe I'm not really an eminem guy. And I've
heard him a lot growing up because he was so
big when I was in middle school or whatever. Not
a huge fan of his music. I just don't really
listen to it personally. And maybe I would be a
fan if I went and checked that out. But I
think it was a fun concept they went with here
where Eminem is on your side, And maybe this is
a little bit light spoilers, but actually this whole mission
kind of takes place in Eminem's head and you're like
helping him. It's like a dream essentially, and you're helping
him to kill his evil alter ego of Slim Shady.
So your target in this is just slim Shady. This
mission takes one of my favorite maps, which is hook Iido,
the japan kind of hospital map, snowy hospital area, and
turns it into a bit of a like a concert area,
and repurposes all of the kind of doctor facilities, doctor's
offices and like guard buildings and like operation rooms, and
turns the into like a music studio where he's playing
like a live concert. But since it's like this weird,
demented version of slim Shady's mind in Eminem's mind, like
they're all still doctors and stuff, like they kind of
change their outfits around, but they're still doctors helping them
create like the perfect music or whatever it is. It's
like very goofy, very silly, and this one is really
really silly, and I like that for it because Hitman
is inherently quite silly. I don't think you realize facilly
it is if you just see a trailer or hear
people talk about it. But once you're actually playing it,
you kind of just see how goofy it is. People
slipping on banana peels and having shandeliers fall on them
and all this. And you know, I love Hokkaido, one
of my favorite maps in the game, and they've done
a ton to switch it up in here, just totally.
Like the one main area of the map hasn't changed
a whole lot, but even then they change like the
dining hall from like a fancy sushi restaurant to like
this kind of cheap o, like I don't know, essentially
like a mental hospital like cafeteria room, So they change
the whole vibe there. Some parts of this map don't
really get used at all, in like the top floor
of the facility. They just kind of blocked off completely,
but that main area, they change all the inside of it,
how you interact with it, the costumes you need to
get on, the different floors, and little details too, like
there's just this one thing that's typically a window, so
you just can't You can look through it, but you
can never go through it. They just turned it into
like a door here, so just as like this whole
other entry point of the map, which for me as
a nerd and super huge fan of this map in
this game, it's like that changes everything. If there's one
new way to walk into a building that normally takes
three to four minutes to traverse around it in the
opposite way. So love little details like that. And then
where it gets like super freaky is they've taken they've
a lot of the mirrors in the map, and sometimes
there was a mirror and now they've added one. But
even where there was a mirror already, they've turned those
into like portals where you can like shortcut across the
map and teleport through. And that's obviously because this is
not in the real world. It's in someone's dream mind,
so weird trippy things can happen like that. But I
really like that too, and it totally changes how you
navigate this map, and this map in general is one
that is pretty hard to navigate around because there's locked
doors that require certain costumes and things. But with this
version of it, like just totally change it up, so
really fun to navigate around the map. Good classic like
kill opportunities in here. I'm sure there's even some more
freaky ones. I didn't find it like a couple run
throughs of this, and I think one of my favorite
parts about it is that at one point, like the
trippy teleporting sequences, you teleport like a portion of another map.
It's like the basement and house generally of Wittlton Creek,
which is another one of my favorites, which to my knowledge,
is not something they've ever done before with any of
these special missions. Is like taking another section of another
map and fusing into one for one like cohesive experience,
And that's something I didn't know I wanted, and now
I just want that. I just didn't even think it
was possible, Like these maps are already so detailed and huge,
and I didn't think they could do this. I didn't
think they could just stitch two maps together. Now, of
course with the Wilton part, it's like a really small
part of it. You don't even see the outside, and
there's no NPCs in it, so I'm sure it's a
lot easier, but man, that's something that I would love
to see, just because once again the remix factor of it,
of taking these maps that I know and love and
know every last corner of them. Also, by the way,
when I was watching a stream of someone playing this,
they use two little shortcuts that are not new to
this elusive target, but are shortcuts I had never seen
on this map before, and that just blows my mind.
Because I've played through Japan, I don't know fifty with Freelancer,
probably like fifty times or more. This map, i've played
through it, and I just discovered two new pathways that
I'd never seen before. So that just blew my mind
as well, which this game always does. I'm always finding
crazy new stuff, so I love it. It's super fun.
It's hard to recommend because even if you're listening to
this like a couple of weeks from now, you might
not be able to play this mission anymore. And I
also feel like you get you know, obviously, if you're
being em and m fan maybe you'll just love this
mission for what it is, but if you haven't played
this game, I feel like so much of the value
I get out of these missions is seeing how they've
changed things from the default, and I've spent hundreds of
hours with that default stuff, so seeing the variations as meaningful,
whereas if you're jumping into this kind of cold or
just like, oh, I like Eminem, I've heard you talk
about Hitman before, Dylan. I maybe I'll check with this mission.
I'm sure you'll have good time, but I just don't
know if it'll be quite as many meaningful as it
feels for me. And obviously the time or lockout things
could also be really annoying for a new player. So
but at the same time, I feel like that's why
they do these things. I feel like that is why
they have these celebrity elusive targets like pull more people
into the game, get different audience and stuff. So I'm
not really sure who it's for, but it seems to
be working for them because they keep doing them. So Yeah,
it's been a good year of this, like this one.
Bruce Lee Schifra, you know, Mad's Michelson in there, so
some some and maybe even another one this year can't recall,
but overall like a pretty good year for a game
that's you know, kind of finished development so to speak,
like years ago, and you know, their new games coming
down in like a couple of months, so it's like
the fact that they're still doing really like this is
not just a cheap little skin pack that sounds like
really weird. I don't like the words cheap little skin
pack that I just use, but this is not that.
It's not just like buying eminem costume to use and
hit Man like. It is a really big change. The
unfortunate part again is just the limited nature of it,
but really fun, really glad they added it. Really cool,
and I don't know, it feels like the celebrities they
pick are not Dylan picks. They're not like Dylan nostalgia picks,
other than like, I guess Mad's Michelson. But even then,
it's not even for me like so much from a bond.
It's more just Mad's Michelson and who he is. But
I'm curious to see what the next one is. Hopefully
at some point they pick one that's like gonna blow
my mind in terms of I can't believe they got
this person that is super precious to me. But then
a lot of them also who have been canceled, So
maybe I don't want them to pick people that I
think I like right now, like don't pick Jack Black,
and then that means he gets canceled, Like that would
be the scariest thing ever. So uh yeah, that's I
think I'll have to say about the eminem DLC, and
then I think I'll jump right into Marvel tokon Fighting Souls.
Of course, this is the Arc system Works fighting game.
And actually, if you're watching with me on YouTube here,
I'll pull up some footage just to have going on
in the background. But yeah, this is the fighting game
from Arc system Works. So they do like what's it
called Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball Fighter z that kind
of stuff. This is a new fighting game. And as
I've talked about a lot in the past, like I'm
not a big traditional two D fighting game guy, I
signed up for this beta because I'm very curious about
this game and I want to see more. And I
did have a good time with it. I admittedly did
not play a lot, and I think part of that
is because compared to even just other fighting games like
I've played recently, like mostly Mortal Kombat, I guess, just
like with the GV boys on streams and stuff, this
game is really complicated. There's a lot going on in
terms of some of these systems, and like the tagging
system of you have four different characters, you unlock them
as the fight progresses, you don't actually have access to
all four, and like round one, I think you only
have access to two, and then like as the rounds progress,
you get like more that have kind of been recruited
to your team to help you out. And the weird
thing here that might surprise people and surprise me as well,
is that they all share one health pool. So it's
like it's not like you can use all of Captain
America then you switch to Miss Marvel blow through her
health pool and then go over to Doctor Doom or whatever. Like,
it just shares one. So if you're just super comfortable
with Captain America, I'd probably just stick with him, I guess.
But in theory, you want to get really good before
because then you have a ton of mix up potential.
You have more like combo potential because your characters will
do combo at text with each other. So that's also
a reason why you have multiple but it is a lot,
and so I think for that very reason, I didn't
really want to spend too much time going super in depth.
I did the full tatorial and then played a few matches,
but I just feel like it's not really worth it
right now for me to learn everything about this game
when I'm not going to play it again for a
few months. So that's kind of where I'm at now.
But I did have a good time with it. I
love the art style. I think one of my big
questions with this game is like what's going on with
the roster guys, Like we we've had eight characters announce
from the first trailer and we haven't had anymore since then.
That was like a few months ago, and they've had
a lot of other trailers and stuff, So who knows,
maybe a game awards and just a few short days
we'll finally get that. And I think for me that
actually is kind of the deciding factor at this point,
Like I really I like this game, but I'm also
terrible at it. Because I'm bad at fighting games like this,
it's gonna be a huge learning curve, so I know
it's not gonna be like, I'm not gonna buy this game,
download it, have it pre downloaded Thursday night at nine pm,
booted up, and have instant fun. Like It's gonna take
a while. It's gonna take practice, and I do depend
on when it releases unless it is like the same
day as GT six. I do want to do that,
but I also think that I would need there to
be a good amount more characters in the game for
me to do that, because I think part of the
fun for me is just seen my favorite Marvel characters
and these weird new get ups that they have, you know,
Captain America with a strange vest situation going on Trive,
these different characters, see the different play styles, and really
just see where it goes. And so I think for me,
I need a bigger roster to sell me on this,
and so I know it will have a bigger roster
than eight, but especially when you have to pick a
team of four, like I want to make sure there's
at least four characters that I am in love with
in this game, and I don't know. I'm sure even
with the eight that they have now, I could probably
find that Captain America always fun. He's just a simple
character and like Envy game Ultimate Alliance Avengers, like he's
just a simple character and is fun. I of course
like Storm as I usually do. I think Doctor Doom
was my favorite in here. I just I just found
moving around with him, his powers, his combos seem to
work the best for me, I've had the most success.
And I also really liked Ghostwriter, which I'm sure Taylor
will be happy to hear. He has some just amazing
animations and crazy finishers like bringing out the car and
stuff like that. But then he's seems like a bit
of like a grappler type, and then he's got like
kind of a lot of the mid range with using
like chain chain attacks. Then he has like his grabs
seem to work really well for me. I was playing
against the Captain America, who's just you know, blocking all
day long, but I could just come in here with
my chain grab him, chuck him around and that worked
really well. And the Miss Marvel also a character that's
just fun in any video games. She's always in Ultimate
Alliance Avengers again, like whatever it is, she's always a
good time. So yeah, I think I need to see
pretty big, like probably a roster of at least over
twenty characters, which I don't know if they haven't announced
any others since like the initial announcement, I don't know
how likely or unlikely that is. We'll just have to
wait and see. But yeah, I do I did have
a good time with this game, cool mechanics. I feel
like I cannot break it down on a super deep
level in comparing it to other two D fighters just
because I'm not it's not my genre. I'm not an
expert in that space, but I think for me, it's
the combination of the art style, it's the Marvel stuff,
it's uh yeah, just art system works. And I've I
have played some Guilty Gear Strive really liked that game.
It's cool. I haven't played Dragon Ball Fighters Z, but
I just, you know, people have talked about how these
are kind of the best, some of the best fighting
games on the market right now. Obviously you have your
Mortal Kombat ones, you have your Street Fighter sixes, but
I feel like they're carving out like a different niche
and this just feels like a huge jump up for
this team, and so I'm curious to see what goes
on there. So yeah, hopefully, I you know, can talk
about this game a bit more in a few days
of the Game Awards. If they have a new trailer
with a new character or two, that would be fun.
If not, they do are they do continue to confirm
this twenty twenty six release date, so it should be
coming out pretty soon because we're almost into that new
that very new year. So yeah, I'll keep an eye
on this one, and I think maybe at this point
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think about, THAT i am going to jump into the next,
topic which Is Marvel Cosmic. Invasion so, again if you
forget what this game. Is this was the last game
this team made was TMN T Shredder's, revenge which is
the TWO d side scrolling beat him UP i guess
two point five e in. Away you can kind of
go up and down on the. Screen it's a beat
him up, which, again just Like marvel token like not
my genre, generally BUT i Loved Shredder's, revenge AND i
don't THINK i would have checked that out just on my,
own but at the TIME i was a Game pass.
Subscriber it was on Game. PASS i love the art, styles, like,
yah let me check this. Out AND i plicked through
the whole game freaking loved. It played in some single,
player played some, multiplayer and it was, like oh my,
GOD i THINK i have. POTENTIAL i have room in
my heart to love a beat them up game like
this has not ever been my. Genre i've played it
a ton of them in my, life of, course especially
in like arcades and. Stuff but, yeah it's just not
usually my, bag, baby And i've came to found With
Shudders revenge THAT i think there is a way to
make it. Happen part of it is some of those
gorgeous picks Alart i've ever seen in my, life but
ALSO i think just more fun character move, sets good interesting,
mechanics good level, design good boss, design AND i think
just like little rewards along the way to keep things
interesting and. FRESH i think the right difficulty level as
well also the right yeah amount of like things to
collect and, do like little bonus, objectives just like the
right amount of all that kind of stuff that doesn't
make it feel. Overwhelming and, again they have totally nailed
it here BECAUSE i picked Up Cosmic invasion and have
now beat the GAME i. PLAYED i played through the
whole campaign of, it WHICH i think is like around fifteen,
missions AND i love this. GAME i had a super
great time with this. One, AGAIN i just love that
this team is able to create beat them ups THAT
i can enjoy because this is like a whole news
genre for me in a. Way AND i think there's
probably some other good ones out there THAT i should check,
out but, YEAH i think this one for, me the
big selling point on it again was just the developer's last,
work but also The marvel side of. It i'm a
Big marvel, fan AND i love the roster they have
for this, one right because they have the usual. Suspects
they have Your Captain america's Or wolverine Or Spider, man's
but then they have like all the freak shows in there.
Too they Have, nova they Have Phi LAVEL i don't
know If i'm pronouncing that. Right they Have, phoenix which
is not a freak, show but she just doesn't often
make it into these. Games rocket Without, grow WHICH i
think is always fun to, see and you know venoms
in there is like another. One you Get Silver, surfer
who's kind of a rare. Character does he play playable
in games like? This and so, far like every character is.
Fun of, COURSE i do have my. FAVORITES i don't
think there's really been a character THAT i dislike at this.
Point Maybe i'm BECAUSE i was about to, say Even
beta Ray, bill who's another, yeah weird. Pick they don't
Have thorn, here they Have beta Ray. Bill he's kind of,
slower a bit, clunkier BUT i really like his like
he throws his mule in or, equivalent his acts out
and then rather than just immediately zipping back to, it
just like floats in mid air like spins, around so
you can almost like put it out there as like
a little trap for enemies to walk, into and then
you just like fist fight until you call it back to.
You so he has a fun move set as. Well, yeah,
again this game is, gorgeous looks. AMAZING i think it
for me has a good amount of, difficulty where there
was probably in the like fifteen mission. CAMPAIGN i think
there's maybe four or five in, missions like almost a
third of the. Game it required me to like try
the levels multiple, times some of. THEM i think the
most one took me was like four. ATTEMPTS i think
the last LEVEL i beat on my first, try which is.
Funny you think that's usually like the hardest, thing but
maybe they wanted that to be a bit more of
a layup and close the game out. Strong but there's
a couple missions that were really. Tricky and you, know
this game compared to BECAUSE i don't remember this In Treader's,
revenge but you do level up your characters that each
have ten levels, possible and there isn't like some big
skill tree or anything like. That more so it's just you,
know you get LIKE hp, upgrades you get like passive upgrade,
raids uh get like a costume at their maximum, level
so just little boosts to their. CHARACTERS i don't know
how much the hpup greeds, are like if it's five,
percent ten, percent twenty five, percent like if it's some
big amount or small. Amount but it definitely felt, Like,
okay even IF i failed a mission BECAUSE i was leveling,
UP i wasn't really that pissed BECAUSE i got like
two level. Ups so even IF i redo the mission
with the same, Characters, okay well NOW i have MORE,
HP i have better, stats so it'll probably be easier
next time. AROUND i don't feel Like i'll waste my.
Time and also the mission's like at worst or not
worse at. Long the longest is like ten minutes, long
something like, that ten fifteen maybe if you're going super
slow through. It and so, yeah even if you lose
at minute, seven it's not like losing a fire emblem.
Mission after hour two point, five you, know like it's
not too bad at. All and then, yeah you're getting
you're getting those. Upgrades and then also each mission has bonus,
objectives so there's like a collectible defined sometimes, multiple and
then three bonus. Objectives usually it's like With Captain, america
get five kills with your shield or or With Black
panther hit ten people with your ultimate, ability whatever it.
Is and then usually there's one tied to the level,
specifically like don't get hit by The galactus's beams in
this one level at. All and so even if you
get one of those objectives and then fail the, mission
you'll still get that. Objective so someone's, Like, OKAY i
got My Black panther, objective it's not gonna back. Out
i'm gonna switch to a character that's higher level to
help me be this. Level i'll Keep Captain america in
BECAUSE i haven't got his mission, Yet and so you
can kind of switch things around in that way. Too
you're not locked into which characters to play each, level
although each mission has like a little cut scene that
leads into, it and it does have Like Silver surfer
And Rocket raccoon are like narrating what they're about to go,
do so it just like breaks it a little bit
narratively if you you, know switch to other. Characters but
everyone every level does recommend here's the two characters you
should play for, this but there's absolutely no downside if you.
Don't and THEN i like that the final mission doesn't have.
That it just, says, hey whoever your favorites are at this,
point to go take down an, nihilist like go for,
It like that's that's kind of what you're supposed to
at this, point so really like. That and, yeah because
it's only fifteen AS i, mentioned like fifteen ish missions
and you, know ten ish, long ten ish minutes long,
Missions like that's not a super long. Game but for,
me it is pretty. Replayable even after beating. IT i
immediately went back readed the first few levels to get
the bonus OBJECTIVES i did in the first. TIME i
want to at least get all the characters to level.
TEN i want to get all their. Costumes their costumes
aren't actually they're all palette. Swaps but even with, that
they actually are able to pull off a. Lot like
here's one, EXAMPLE i think off the top of my,
head and maybe you don't love this, example but Like,
storm you, know she'll be in like her full white
suit or something like. That and then one of the
palette swaps is like it's like her legs are now,
There so it's even though it's a paltte, swap it's, like,
oh she was wearing pants and she's. Not so maybe
that's like Classic marvel of just scantily clad women or
whatever is going on. There BUT i feel like the
costumes you change a lot of the vibe of these.
Characters you get some kind of fun different, variants and
even if they aren't, changing LIKE i don't know the
different outfits they're, wearing just the colors they are able
to capture a, lot and each one of them has
like a good amount of different. Colors it's always having
fun unlocking those and seeing some of the freaky or
non freaky colors they. Get like For Black, panther you
get a couple that just add this really nice like
red or like green shading to his armor that looks super.
Cool so having a good time unlocking all that. Stuff so,
yeah even Though i've beat it, already Like i'm definitely
gonna go through it. Again there is an arcade, mode
which is like you have to beat the whole game
in one, sitting and even that would not take that.
Long once you've played through the game a, bunch SO
i might try that at some. Point we'll see maybe
WHEN i unlock my, characters but morse or WHEN i
max out the level of all the characters is WHAT
i meant to. Say but, YEAH i think also this
is one That i'm like really excited to whip this
out on the twenty four hour stream next year or
maybe the summer stream or something like THAT gv day.
STREAM i don't know, when BUT i definitely play this
with the boys at some. Point you can do four
player co, op and the way it works is you
always pick two, characters SO i would you, know pick
in this mission on the YouTube VIDEO i have playing
like they you Plick Black panther And ghostwriter as one,
character so you're playing as one of. Them at any,
moment you can hit the left trigger to switch to
the other. Character but then often you can also do
like big combo attack With Black, panther but then call
in your buddy character to do like a combo. Attack
and there's like four or five variations of the ways
they can. Combo sometimes the combos combo them into being
the playable, character and then sometimes they're just coming in
for an, attack but they do like huge. Damage there's
kind of like almost like a mana bar you have
to keep track. Of there's LIKE ammo and stuff for
characters who have shots and, whatnot so there's like cool
downs and things like. That BUT i really like that
it keeps the levels fresh because even If i'm playing
on my, own WHICH i did for the first, PLAYTHROUGH
i did the whole thing single, player at least every,
MISSION i still get to pick two characters and switch
between them on the, fly so it keeps things. Fresh but, then,
yeah if you played with four, players you would each
get two. Characters now you have eight characters in total
potentially flying around. Them WELL i guess four at a,
time but even with combo, attacks you could have something
like eight and. Stuff so it gets pretty it gets pretty,
crazy it gets pretty, OVERWHELMING i think if you have
like all these players in, there but you, know pretty,
fun pretty cool. STUFF i really like. That, yeah character
swapping mechanic is, fun it's, quick it's, fresh and, yeah
this game to me feels Like Ultimate Alliance light in a.
Way you, know it's not quite as in depth as that,
game but it's also maybe a little bit, simpler a
little bit, shorter really more kind OF i guess more
focused has a smaller, roster of, course but the roster
is really, good and, yeah so it's just a super
super good. TIME i think my favorite, Characters Silver surfer
just really. Fun has a kind of weird movement to
him because he's on the board of course all the.
TIME i really Like, nova which is a character THAT
i feel like has never been An Ultimate. Alliance it's
got to be playable in like A lego, game but
that's you, know kind of. Different but, YEAH i can't
really think of a time Where i've played As, nova
And nova's kind of just like A Captain marvel type
kind Of Iron man. E BUT i love. NO i
think he's really. Funny he's also like the tutorial, character
SO i like that he's kind of the first one
they introduce you to in this. Game phoenix super. Fun
any of the, characters there's four of them in here
that you don't unlock from the. Beginning you have to
unlock them throughout the, game and they all start as
a boss fight they have to, do and then you
get them and then, obviously like a lot of their boss,
moves which are, big huge boss, moves end up being
like part of their move, set which is always always feels.
Great so Like venom And, phoenix those characters are. AWESOME A,
ROCKET i really really Like. Rocket he feels a lot
like a snake in Like smash pros to me in
terms of his move. Set but he has like this
fun like combo attack where you can just keep jumping
on people's heads Like mario's, style which is really. Great
Captain america always. Fun IF I lavelle, One i'm really
big fan of just big cool sword and can like throw, sword,
knive knife attacks, whatever like at a, range really fun.
Character really like that one as. Well but, yeah LIKE i, said,
like there isn't a dull character in the mix for,
Me LIKE i literally like all of, Them SO i.
WOULD i Think Shrudger's revenge HAD, dlc AND i don't
know if. THAT i don't know IF i played the deal,
see SO i don't know if that included NEW i
think it had new characters AND i imagine new. MISSIONS
i would love that this game got, that AND i
think whatever it adds to, IT i would buy like
for years to. Come if they just got adding characters
and missions and things like. THIS i don't know what
else they would, REALLY i guess think there could be
like other, modes LIKE i could see like a roguel
like mode or something working for. This but even if
they never had that kind of, Stuff i'm still very
happy with my purchase. Here this game is on Game
pass as, well BUT i Did i'm not on Game
pass right, now SO i just picked it up on The.
Switch it's a good one to play on the. Go
plays well on The switch. Too, SPECIFICALLY i imagine it plays
well on The switch, one BUT i don't. Know maybe
when you get four people in, there two characters each
spam and, ABILITIES i could SEE i could see The
switch slowing, down getting a little. Choppy but so far
The switch too is running pretty well for. Me and then,
YEAH i think the only other thing is like you're unlocking,
collectibles and ALSO i think you just get like a
little jam every time you like be a. Level and
then there's like this big grid which isn't really a skill,
tree but you can go in there and that's where
you can unlock more. Colors you can unlock music tra
and just like lore like a monster manual like compendium
thingy whatever those are. Called so they's just give you
information on, characters fun little backstory. Things for, Me i'm
mostly hunting down the costumes even though it's like completely,
random but that's fun to fill. Out i'm, Like i'm
lik in doing. That so, YEAH i really recommend this.
Game and you, know it's tricky BECAUSE i don't know
it's again Like Marvel. TOKEN i don't know IF i
can recommend it to big fans of the genre Because
i'm not one of those, people LIKE i feel like for,
me this is if you're not into the genre, necessarily
maybe give it a. Shot if you are An Ultimate alliance,
FAN i THINK i think this will scratch that. Itch
it won't be the, same but it's less. Expensive it's
it's pretty chill, comparatively but it still has a lot
of that same. Fun the character move sets are super
super well, done a good character roster, Again SO i
DO i Think i'd recommend it to The Ultimate alliance.
Fans maybe that's the best way to put. It which you,
know we've done a ton Of Ali alliance content on this,
channel So i'm sure a lot of you listening Are
Ultimate alliance fans and have been waiting for that next.
Game and, YEAH i think this is a good way
to like fill that. Niche in the, meantime it feels
like it fits that fills that, void even if the
gameplay perspective is a bit. DIFFERENT i, MEAN i guess,
technically like the Handheld Ultimate alliance, games like THE gba
versions were kind of like, THIS i think they're more TWO,
d whereas this is kind of two point. Five but,
YEAH i think that's pretty much all there is to
be said of this. Game i'm loving, it really really
having a good time with. It i'm gonna keep playing
it even Though i've already beat, it SO i will
close that part out of the, episode and that's gonna
take us into the final, part which is just me
doing my Game awards. Votes so let me bring this
up on screen. Again and, yeah so game. Wards we've
already talked about it. Twice when these categories first came,
out me And travis did like a first. Impressions but
then of course last week we did actual predictions with,
Me travis And taylor who we think is gonna win each.
Category we also did predictions for announcements and things like,
that and now we're just like a few short days.
AWAY i don't know when they cut, off like the fan,
vote like how hot into the? Show do they cut this?
Off if it was going to make a difference at that,
point like the fan vote the ten percent to like
actually like write the things on the cards and print
those out and give those the. Presenters BECAUSE i don't
know Because i'm coming in here on the seventh when
the show's on the, eleventh And i'm putting my votes
in AND i hope they still. Count maybe it's just
for fun at this, POINT i don't. Know i'm gonna
start from the bottom up here because we've done it
the other way the other, times and so this hopefully
this will work with out the website being. Weird best esports,
team you, KNOW i have no skin in the game.
Here i'm gonna go with Team. VITALITY i did not
really watch much Counter strike this, year even THOUGH i
am a big. Fan But i'm just gonna go with
this to vote for my boy Counter. Strike so let's
go With, vitality and THEN i will go over To Esports.
Athlete i'm gonna follow the same thing here And i'm
gonna go with The counterstrike boy In, zaioo WHO i
have seen some clips from and this guy is, crazy
so you, know shout outs to. Him and then this.
ONE i THINK i mentioned this on the predictions or oh,
wait this is esports game, First Sorry esports game, again same.
Mentality i'm gonna go for Counter strike, here show its to.
Valve maybe we'll see them with halfway three at the game.
Boards all, right content creative the. Air SO i wanted
to shout this out because typically when these are, ANNOUNCED
i don't know who most of the people. Are usually
like a couple of Them i've usually heard. Of in this,
case there's only one That i've heard. Of it is
Moist critical also known As charlie is his, Name And
i'm a big fan of this. Guy AND i got to,
SAY i don't watch his content these, days AND i
haven't watched his videos in a long, time BUT i
used to watch his videos like probably ten years ago or.
SOMETHING i feel like it was in like high, school
And i've long class high school at this, point so
long before he ever revealed his face and is doing
whatever kind of content he's doing. Now but he seems
like a cool. Guy he's. Funny he is very funny
from the old VIDEOS i used to watch of. Him
SO i like to see. This this has happened With valkyrae as,
well WHERE i remember stumbling upon her stream when she
was like a tiny little baby, streamer and then you,
know years later for her to be like one of
the biggest content creators in the. World it's just cool
to see, that you. Know it's cool to see people
who seem genuine and actually nice and people who have
like interacted with the chats and stuff to like get
to this, huge monolithic. Level so hopefully Moist critical gets.
IT i feel like he kind of peaked like a
year or. Two i'm kind of surprised it took till
twenty twenty five for him to pop up here in
the game all whard. Stuff there must have been some
big stream or something he did this YEAR'S i feel
like that's usually the kind of thing that that peaks
the jury's. Curiosity shouts to Moist, critical interesting picture that got,
Frohim like you don't need a, smile but he just
looks like he's almost surprised or something in this. Picture
so BUT i guess they're all, like, KAI i don't
know what face that. Is that's like. Amusement and then
one of these guys is a, peanut so we don't
worry too much about that most anticipated. Game now here's
the thing with when it comes to my, Vote i'm
not necessarily picking the thing THAT i if it's game
of the, Year i'm not necessarily picking WHAT i is
my game of the. Year, REALLY i have such a
small margin of vote, here right Because i'm like in
this ten, percent which is a ten percent of like
millions of people or whoever however many people vote on,
this and So i'm just trying To i'm just trying
to turn the wind sway the wind a little. Bit,
uh you, know when you're playing like we sports and
you can see the little WIND i can up there
when you're doing. Golf i'm trying to like change like
one or two degrees on. There that's ALL i have
the power to. Do most, ANTICIPATED i. Think, Okay so
OBVIOUSLY i am very excited for all these, games even
which are four WHICH i have not really played a
lot of The witcher, games BUT i have read put
on the books, recently so who, knows maybe by the
Time witcher four comes, Out i'll jump into that. Game
i'm excited for all these. Games WHAT i probably am
most excited for is LIKE gt, six which is kind
of like boring to answer that, way because, like of
course it's like everyone's most anticipated. GAME i think that
is just gonna win no matter. What but you know,
WHAT i Think i'm gonna be boring and vote for.
IT i was, thinking, like AM i AM i more Anticipating?
WOLVERINE i THINK i need to see more about that.
Game you know. What, Actually i'm gonna give it To.
Io i'm gonna give it To Io. INTERACTIVE i talked
about eminem in this. Episode this is not gonna win
this vote by any, means But i'm gonna give them
my vote just to show THAT i. CARE i feel
like they probably have something where if you vote for
them with the game, wards they'll give you like a
limited Edition duck in Hit. Man so give me that
limited Edition, Duck, io give it to. Me. Adaptation, So
i've only Seen last Of us And Minecraft movie, here
both of which covered in the podcast. Extensively both Things
i'm not a huge fan of, Necessarily Oh, Boy Devil
May cry Until dawn Splinter. Cell this is, tricky, Right,
ACTUALLY i forget WHAT i predicted for. This DID i
Pick last Of us Or? MINECRAFT i can't even remember
WHAT i picked just merely one week. AGO i don't
know what's. LIKE i want to vote for the little guy,
here BUT i don't know who the little guy is
in this. Situation these are all huge. Companies i'm just
gonna go With Jack. Black Maybe i'll vote For Minecraft.
Movie you can get mad at me if you, want
but this is a pretty weak crop of votes things
to vote, for So i'm gonna go with that. ONE
i feel already weird about. THAT i can change, it
But i'm gonna leave. It best. Multiplayer what HAVE i played?
Here not? Much Only Split, fiction which is a good multiplayer. Game,
uh it is a good Multiplayer i've not Played. PEAK
i kind of want to v Over peak because it's
like the fun underrated indie, game AND i haven't, WELL
i have not Played. Peak i've been playing a lot
of those kinds of games recently with R v There,
yet which you're talking about the podcast With. Jessica we
also played one this weekend called a co Op Kaiju Horror,
cooking which was an awesome, game AND i feel like
it's in the same genre here As, peak AND i
kind of want to go for the little guy. Here,
Uh and you, Know Eldon, Ring you've won enough, awards
So i'm gonna go With. Peak this one could. WIN
i feel like there's a chance it gets the UNDER
i feel like it could get the the ten, percent
or like a good chunk of that ten. Percent fan
vote shout outs To peak was Best sports And. Racing
So i've only Played Mario. Kart ACTUALLY i played a
rematch as. WELL i didn't really like rematch a whole.
Lot but to be, Fair i'm just So Rocket league.
Pilled that's hard for me to convert to a game
that's so. Similar, Uh Mario kart probably is gonna win,
this AND i don't know if there is a LITTLE
i feel like the little guy here would Be Sonic,
racing Which i've heard really good things, about and a
lot of people want to say it's better Than Mario.
KART i don't know if they're just saying that to
like sound cool in. Hipstory But i'm gonna Pick Mario
kart BECAUSE i genuinely really enjoy that, game even if
it's not as good as eight and everyone can accept
that and still be happy in. Life Best Sam, Strategy i'm.
Okay so there's options, here right SID I sif. Seven
i've played a lot OF i, LIKE i don't REALLY
i actually don't want to reward it here, because AS
i talked about in the review THAT i did this
year With, kirklam this game kind of like falsely released
in early access and there's so much much shitty. MONETIZATION
i don't want to reward them with my vote, here
even though it is a. Game the only GAME i
played on this list and is the ONE i like the,
Most Two Point. MUSEUM i should check out the soundtrack
for that, game by the, way Because Two Point campus
had a banging, soundtrack, surprisingly So i'm Considering Two Point.
Museum The altars had like some WEIRD ai art, controversy
SO i don't want to vote FOR Ai Art Final Fantasy.
TACTICS i would vote for that just BECAUSE i want
to see Weird Little tactics games like, that but since
that's like a remake, Remaster i'm less inclined BECAUSE i
just want to see fresh things in. Here SO i
Think i'm going to go Two Point. Museum shout outs
to that. Team they deserve, it AND i haven't played that,
yet BUT i. SHOULD i how much is that? GAME
i feel LIKE i MIGHT i want to pick that.
Up i've never played a museum sim, game But i've
seen a few of them and they look. Cool best family. Game,
okay SO i have fiction in, here which to me
is not really fitting the family game. Description neither Just Don,
kong But, nanza WHICH i. Enjoyed Mario kart Does lego
Two lego games WHICH i have not, played WHICH i
DO i want to play both of. THEM i Think
i'm gonna go With Mario kart here because to, me
it is the best family game of the. Mix and,
REALLY i just feel like a lot of these games
don't really LIKE i Think Lego party And Mario Kart
world And Sonic Racing you are the only ones that
truly feel like family games to, Me and whatever nebulous,
DESCRIPTION i think family game means moving only the best fighting,
game SO i have not played any of. THESE i
have been Loving My Moral combat. Recently Capcom Fighting collection.
Too that's not the one we played on the, stream, Right,
no because that was a MARVEL i don't even. Know
those collections are so hard to keep track. OF i
think TWO xko looks pretty, cool Fatal i'm gonna go
to two X. Ko i'm gonna go with the new
guy in the. Block that's For. Kirkland i'm voting For
kirklan because that's The league Of legends, game BEST. Rpg
this is where things get. Interesting so we have two
obsidnian games. Here Avowed i've played a lot of and
enjoyed a lot, of but also kind of soured by
the End Outer worlds. Too have not played Yet Monster.
HUNTER i actually did play some of that with a demo.
Situation played a couple hours of. That it was not
my cup of, tea Which i'm going to take a
sip of right. NOW i don't even know WHY i stopped.
Here it's obviously gonna be claar. OBSCURE i got a
vote for. That it's. Funny The clerics here is like
so big, now and it's like in so many categories
that it almost feels like not the, underdog even though
like it kind of is still because it's like a
newish studio with like a totally new. Concept but for,
me it has way BETTER rpg mechanics than A, vowed
maybe no BETTER arpg mechanics Than Kingdom, come just from
What i've heard about that, game but SINCE i have
not played, It i'm gonna go With Claire, obscure but
a good crop. GAMES i like the RPGs to pick
from this year best action, adventure so AGAIN i have
to remind myself combining combat with traversal and puzzle. Solving
so in my Opinion, DESTRAINING i actually do like the
combat in, there kind of but in the. Traversal it's
funny that the game should all be about a. Troversal
it kind of, is but to me it's less interesting
traversally speaking than Destran in ONE i just made up
a word, there and it does definitely does not have
like because it has like problem, solving but not necessarily puzzle.
SOLVING i haven't Played Yo tai Yet Hollo Night's Silk.
SONG i think for, me really good, traversal really good puzzle,
solving and really good. Combat so it's really it's really
crushing it in like the three words that action adventure
means split. FICTION I i enjoy the game is fun
because like playing any game with a friend is, fun
AND i like the co op nature of. IT i
actually don't think it's the best. Game maybe that's a hot,
take and MAYBE i need TO i do need to
finish it, still BUT i just don't think it's like that.
Good in my, opinion it's fun because you play with,
friends BUT i don't think it's that good of a.
Game that might be crazy. Talk and Then Indiana, JONES
i mean this game. Traversal does it have good? TRAVERSAL
i guess it kind of. Does you're climbing up, buildings
you have your boat. SECTION i didn't really like the boat.
Section you don't really drive in that, game, right you
got your whip which is a little bit. Clunky really
good puzzles In Indiana jones fun puzzles and the combat
is fun as. Well so, honestly for, me it's really
between holl Of night And. JONES i also feel Like
Yo tai to, ME i don't know if it really
has THE i haven't played this new, one of, course
BUT i don't know if it really is the. PUZZLE
i think it's got combat on like, lock BUT i
feel like that's okay action category for. That so for,
me it's between a holl Of night And. Jones AND
i THINK i don't think it is, recentcy BUT i
think for Me. Silksong, okay here's an interesting, argument AND
i don't have anyone to bounce this, off And i'm
gonna vote, now So i'm not gonna have time to
think about. This silksong has like a whole nother act
area Section Ladi da THAT i didn't even bother going
for BECAUSE i got credits AND i was out of.
There JONES i played to the bitter, end but IF
i had stopped playing earlier in the, GAME i THINK
i might have been as hot on it in the
action adventure category AS i Was, Silksong so that's like
a weird dynamic to deal. WITH i did not play
The JONES, dlc which actually think is like a nice
little addition because obviously that game came out last, year
but like THE dlc coming out this year is maybe
a good way to keep it, fresh even THOUGH i
don't think people really played THAT. Dlc, ULTIMATELY i am
gonna go With silksong here BECAUSE i think it is
that triple threat and it might be, recncy BUT i
think overall it just has the quality. More there were
a couple of. Areas there was one area and silks
THAT i, hated BUT i think In, jones percentage, wise
a bigger chunk of that GAME i disliked and thought
was uninteresting in the ways That Action adventure is asking
me to vote on it for So i'm going With Silk.
Song now we're back. Over do you to just action?
Game Which ghost Of viota is not? HERE i kind
of forgot about. That what IF i played? HERE i
Played cyinger guid in four again not my. Genre, now
if the team that Makes Cosmic convasion made a character
action like, This i'm Sure i'd love, it BUT i
did not like. It but it's not my cup of.
Tea haites. TWO i didn't Like hades, once SO i
didn't play. That In Dark, AGES i actively did not
enjoy the combat or the game really at. All so
this is. Tricky DO i just go for THE i
feel Like hades two might get a wee bit, snubbed
and it is More indie than some of these other,
Ones SO i don't. Know IF i just vote for
the little guy Here. Shnoby that feels like maybe the
little Guy you know, What. SHNOBY i like this little thumbnail.
Thing you're getting my. Vote you're getting my, Vote, Okay
so next up is and you can get mad at
me for that if you want for voting for a
GAME i didn't play over GAMES i did, play but
it's my, vote it's my vote Vr, AIR i did
not play. These i'm gonna go with The i'm gonna
go a Ghost. Town, yep going with Ghost. Town Best Mobile.
Game not my, bag Baby, geez Little. Wheez what's the
little guy? Here you? Know Oh. FUDGE i don't want
to vote For Zonic Rumble Weathering. WAVES i just KNOW
i don't want to vote on any of. These i'm
not voting on this. One that's the first. Category i'm
not even gonna vote In Best Debut Indie. Game so,
Okay i've Played blueprints And Claire, Obscure, Tricky, Tricky, Okay
i'm gonna Actually i'm gonna come back to this, one
BUT i just want to remind myself what's in indie
because indie for, Me Claire obscure and indie feels. Weird
SO i actually don't think i'm gonna vote for it
here BECAUSE i, just in my, opinion in my description
of what an indie game, IS i don't know if
that really. Fits SO i Think i'm gonna have a
Silk song here Because ballpit as, Well, like if you're
published By, devolver are you even In india? Anymore, blueprints
if you're published by Raw, fury are you In india?
Anymore you know WHAT i? MEAN i think these games
are both made by like mostly a handful of, people
so they're small in that. Way LIKE i mean ball
X pit And. BLUEPRINTS i really this is a good,
Crop LIKE i really Enjoy, Ballpit, blueprints Claib, skier And.
Silksong But i'm actually gonna go with Silk song here
because that game's cool and it feels the Most indie to.
Me and uh DO i have another? Reason, no that's enough.
Reasons what more could you ask? For so let's go
back to debut, now AND i THINK i might THROW i,
Mean clarbyski is obviously gonna win, it and in terms
of MY Wi Sports wind, ANALOGY i have no impact
on The wind on this. One i'm gonna throw my bag.
Behind blueprints showed us To blueprints a cool game. Again Like,
SILKSONG i rolled credits and dipped, happily even though there's
a lot of other stuff THAT i could be done
in that. Game best community. Support so this one's interesting
Because Hell divis two is a GAME i picked up
this year because it released on a new, platform and
it has some new updates And halo, Stuff so that's
supporting a. COMMUNITY i DON'T i don't know What Balder's
gate did this, year AS i talked about on our,
PREDICTIONS i don't remember there being any, support but there
must have. Been it's like some patches or. SOMETHING i
guess that game came out At xbox like the end
of last, year came on In. December, YEAH i played
In december last, year so there's probably a lot of.
UPDATES i don't, know Mad, Sky i'm just sick of
seeing it. Here, Fortnite move, along, sir leave some room
for someone. Else Boulders gate. Three i'm kind of surprised
that's in top, Five but you know, What i'm gonna
go with Hell Divers too BECAUSE i feel the most
supported as a community member by that game this. Year
oh this is. Fun i'm having. Fun are you having?
Fun best ongoing? Game, Okay Hell divers? Too on why
into My xbox Account Marvel. Rivals i've. PLAYED i played
it last it came out last, YEAR i, think, RIGHT
i played it last year and this. Year DID i
come out this year or last? Year oh my, GOD
i don't even know. Anymore i'm losing, it. Y'all i'm
gonna go with Hell divers here for Best Ongoing game
BECAUSE i played it this. Year games For, Impact Consuming, Dispolote,
bloom oh my, God Bloom records lost In. Rage, Yeah
i'm gonna go with, That wonderstop And south Of. Midnight
SO i Played south Of, midnight but it did not
This games For, impact But i'll tell you it did
not impact me that. Much, NOW i didn't see it
through to the, end So i'm sure the story goes
places later. On heard great things about Consuming, dispilote So
i'm inclined to want to vote for one of. Those
two of the, Two dispolota is the one that screams
to me, more AND i think would BE i think
it's a GAME i will enjoy on the day THAT
i play, it which is not, today but it is
a day in the. Future i'm gonna vote For dispolote
Right i'm at where AM i? At right? Now i'm
at twenty out of, wait IF i only voted for that,
MANY i don't know how Many i've voted. For Jase
Louise innovation And. ACCESSIBILITY i don't know what's going on.
Here i'm gonna go With Adam fall BECAUSE i really
like that game AND i don't see it in other.
Categories that'd be cool For rebellion to win. THAT i
Like rebellion Best. Performance this is really tricky for. Me
who DO i want to? WIN i on my, PREDICTIONS
i went for the, bake the bake, boy the, Baker Charlie.
Cox how do you not vote for your? Boy But
Jennifer english so good As. MAEL i think she everyone
is so good in that game In Clare. Obscure by the,
way sorry if you you didn't listen to our predictions and.
Stuff i'm not reading out all the all the things
LIKE i have on these previous, episodes BUT i think
you know we've talked about it a. Lot it's on
the YouTube version if you're on. There but, Really i'm
Just i'm just trying to narrow this, down you know
what i. Mean so, yeah forgive me If i'm not
explaining all the categories in, detail Because i've already done
that twice AND i don't want to do it a third.
TIME i Think i'm gonna go With Jennifer english. HERE
i don't think she's won a game. WARD i think
she deserves. It two years in a, Row Shadow Heart
Into Uh Into Clare. Obscure she's. Great i'd like to
see her on. Stage she's so good in this. Game
she's so freaking. GOOD i think she does more for
me than the other. Ones i'm gonna go With. English oh,
No i'm actually almost through. This my vote count cast
thing is weirdly laid out best Audio. Design my prediction
Was destraining, two and you'll notice by the way THAT
i am not voting just for the things THAT i.
Predicted i'm not putting My Wii Sports wind to push
the THINGS i want to, win because once, again wind
ratio is so low That i'm not gonna meaningfully change.
Anything this is just for. FUN i Think i'm gonna
go with Dest raining two, here because, honestly if there's
any category where my wind could, sway maybe it's audio.
Design AND i am in hindsight wondering IF i should
have picked this, one BUT i feel like OTHERWISE i
might Pick Silent hill f which is weird BECAUSE i
haven't played, it BUT i just feel like horror games
probably have good audio, Design So i'm gon to Go
destinting two because that game has good, sounds, fun beats
and bleeps and, bloops scoring, music super great music, Here Silk,
Song Clare, obscure Dest ranting really really, good and those
three have super different vibes to them as. WELL i
do think at the end of the, day, Well deastraining
probably has the most like memorable music just because it's
like a lot of the music in there is just
straight up like radio, songs like rain drops keep falling
on my, head you. Know Whereas Claire, obscure it has
extremely memorable music for a game that doesn't have just
like quote unquote radio. Tracks AND i feel Like Silk,
SONG i do love that, soundtrack BUT i couldn't hum
a couple of bars for you right now LIKE i
could some of these other. Ones SO i think it's
Between Claire obscure and Desk, stranding AND i think ultimately
my pick is For Claire. Obscure here just a, gorgeous gorgeous, soundtrack, heartfelt,
powerful different vibes all. That but if you look at
My spotify, PLAYLISTS i have more Dust stranding music on
my playlists THAN i Do Claar. Obscure BUT i don't
Think i've. LISTENED i don't THINK i considered THAT i
was already On, spotify SO i should listen to. THAT
i should also re listen To Silk, song and probably
listen To ghosts And hades two as, well just to
if they're up, here they're worthy of. Love Art Direction
Claire obscure DEST i need to Tie haites Two Silk,
Song SO i Mean Silk. Song gorgeous game for. SURE
i think this is AND i maybe made this argument
in our. Predictions but for, me with all these being
sequels and none of them drastically changing their artself from
their first, game just being like more, refined better, looking more,
depth more, detail more, polygons to, me like art, direction
part of that is like being fresh and new and.
Clear obscure artistically visually is extremely fresh and new and
innovative in so many. Ways the look of the, characters their,
tattoos their, costumes the look of the monolith and the
enemies and the NPCs and the, world and even just
the weird like unreal engine ness to, it which looks
sometimes not great, honestly but it does look weird and
different and, fresh AND i don't want to spoil, anything
but it just thematically like slaps thematic, Slaps So i'm
gonna go With Claar obscure, here whether you like it or.
Not and then for, narrative So Desk raining, two, uh
weak narrative in my, opinion has some good moments for,
sure BUT i there's a lot of about that. Game
they'll let me. Down even THOUGH i love, it, STILL
i feel very conflicted about that. Game haven't Played Yo
Tie kingdom Or silent f And Claire obscure has maybe
my favorite video game story. EVER i don't even feel
weird about saying. That that's how good the story. Is
it might just straight up be my favorite video game story.
Ever so hell, YEAH i guess best, Narrative best Game,
Direction Claire obscure Desk straining, Too Yo taie hates two
and split, fiction SO i think for, me DEAs straining
two okay again awarded for outstanding creative vision And innovation
In game direction and. Design, like what does any of that?
Mean you know WHAT i? Mean that? Means it's like
nothing and. Everything i'm not gonna give it To ghost
Or haites two BECAUSE i feel like they're the most iterative,
sequels two GAMES i haven't, Played so you, know shoot
me if you WANT i don't do that actually split.
Fiction obviously very different look and story, setup but very
similar to what the studio has been doing. Before so
it doesn't feel like totally new and innovative in that
sort of, way des straining to more of the. Same
but it is so, weird definitely extremely creative, vision it
just doesn't really deliver on some of that. Stuff and
SO i think, Again i'm going to go with Clear
obscure BECAUSE i, MEAN i love the way this game
puts an importance on its story and delivers on. IT
i think mechanically gameplay, wise it takes what can be
sometimes a boring or slow paced combat system and it
makes it like super snappy and quick and fresh and.
Fun and WHEN i was having a good time with
all the way to the bitter, end it's just fucking.
GREAT i think it, also like the arbag mechanics and leveling.
UP i think it needs some work on THE ui
to make things a bit cleaner and, snappier but like
it's just crushing, it you know WHAT i. Mean and
So i'm gonna go Clarip scare for game direction and
this is their last. One oh, yeah votes cast BECAUSE
i skipped mobile game, RIGHT i just didn't even Bother
okay game of The Year Gody, Clarebscure Desk straining, two
DK B eighties. TWO i like DK. B i don't
Think i've heard anyone say that DK. B i like
That hades, Two Silk, song and Can Come. Deliverance SO
i haven't Played hayes two of, course but LIKE i,
SAID i didn't really like the first. One so just
not really worth spending the money on a game THAT
i probably won't. Enjoy Can COME i do want to
play at some point in my. LIFE i did have
it downloaded WHEN i HAD ps plus it's like a
demo of. IT i haven't played that, yet BUT i
don't want to try that game at some point in my.
Life and, honestly the the four Here Claire, OBSCURE, Dkb Desk, Stranding.
Silksong at this point in, time these games are all
in like my top six or seven of the Year
game of the year, stuff so it's, like, Hey, jury
you picked well this, year like you're representing me in
a big. Way so it's. TRICKY dkb for me is
a little bit a step below the other. Ones really fun.
GAME i enjoy it a, lot but it's it's not
gonna be my vote. Here i'm. BETWEEN i think for
Dest raining two as much AS I i, did i
got the. PLATINUM i played so much of that. Game
at some POINT i wasn't even enjoying it, anymore AND
i was JUST i don't even. KNOW i THINK i
was in a, rut AND i was, like you, KNOW
i can just Be Samporter. Bridges i'll just go to.
This i'll just go To australia And i'll just vibe
out and no one can bother, me And i'll spend
one hundred hours deliverom. Packages and WHEN i got the,
PLATINUM i was, LIKE i DON'T i don't even feel
much from being The. PLATINUM i don't know WHY i did.
This something about it drew me into do, That BUT
i think that was more a me thing than a game.
Thing SO i Think i'm gonna disqualify that. One Silk
song really turned me around BECAUSE i played a bit
Of First Holid night and it just didn't stick with.
Me BUT i really Enjoyed Silk. Song it did have
a couple of points in it that were like the Poison,
swamp no, stop just enough of, that enough of. That
some of the boss fights were annoying a couple OF janki.
THINGS i don't really have issues Of Clare, obscure you.
Know and it's just As i've already kind of mentioned
in Every Caliber combat, story acting art, style, music, vibes, smell, sound,
feel it's it's firing on every. Cylinder it's even like
inventing new cylinders to fire on if you. Like, SO
i think The goadie pick for me for my vote
for The Game, AWARD i think it is going to
be Mister Claire, Obscure and you know, WHAT i expect
that one to win as. Well AND i have to go,
back how often does the winner Of game of The
year line up with my personal? Pick AND i haven't
decided If claipce here is my personal pick, yet but
you know it's certainly circling that top three. Spot last
year definitely not the, case because you have. Fifty the
year before Was See If stars My game of The.
YEAR i think so that didn't line. Up year before
that was twenty twenty. Two what the hell came out
in that year was that the year of grounded in triangle?
Strategy was that twenty twenty? ONE i can't remember twenty
twenty Was splunky two for, me which did not, Win
so usually it doesn't line up for. Me usually The
game of The year winner is not line up with
my number. One so we'll see if that happens this,
year if Claip year wins this and IF i pick
it for My game of The, year WHICH i don't
know when that's gonna happen. YET i have it roughly
on the, calendar but stay. Tuned Our game of The
year will probably be a week or two after The Game.
AWARDS i don't know what we'll do for that BECAUSE
i don't think the rest of the boys have played
a lot of games this year new games that, is
SO i might just do me And kirkland, again BUT
i don't think he's played a ton of off to
go look at the calendar and see remind myself what he.
Played but you, KNOW i always have played a bunch of,
games SO i will be doing. That thank you for
listening to. This this is a, fun very rambly, episode fun
four quadrant. Episode WELL i guess three quadrant because we
had Two marvel, topics but hopefully you. Enjoyed and, YEAH
i think that's pretty much it for me. Here thank
you for, listening and we'll see you in just a
few short days with the game wards. Again tune. In
maybe we'll do a watch along for live. Stream at
the very, worst we will cover the, results the, announcements
all that stuff. Afterwards probably put that episode up right,
away so Late thursday night Or friday morning to pin
on your time zone and all that good. Stuff so
thank you again for, listening AND i will see you
all again just a few short. Days bye. Bye