1
00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,600
Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the twenty twenty four side Quest

2
00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,440
Game of the Year episode. I'm your host Dolmason with

3
00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,920
me the holiday man, Kirklan Patzer for the first time

4
00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,079
fully joining me on a Game of Year episode, which

5
00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:32,600
is very exciting. How are you doing today, my friend.

6
00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,520
Speaker 2: I'm doing very good. I didn't realize it was such

7
00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,280
a special occasion, you know, like because I feel like

8
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,399
I've recorded things for the end of the year, so

9
00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:42,359
it makes me think that I have done an episode before,

10
00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:45,359
but no, this is this is history and the making here.

11
00:00:45,399 --> 00:00:46,079
I'm happy to be here.

12
00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:48,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's shifted over the years because for a while

13
00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,439
there I was doing it with Dante, and you know,

14
00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,280
he hasn't been to join me this year. Last year.

15
00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,159
Last year I just did on my own a little

16
00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,920
little solo Game of the Year thing. But this year

17
00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,840
you kind of had some good some good Jews to

18
00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,520
talk about it, and I mean, you're kind of the

19
00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,799
main side Quest co host at this point, I feel like,

20
00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,439
so it's it's kind of it's kind of perfect. So

21
00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:08,159
I'm glad that you've kind of promoted to these the

22
00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,920
Game of the Year chair at this point because this

23
00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,079
is always a very fun episode. Yeah, So that's what

24
00:01:12,079 --> 00:01:14,640
this episode's gonna be all about. No game's been playing anything,

25
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:16,799
just all about the Game of the Year. We're gonna

26
00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,000
do our top lists. We're also at some point, Taylor

27
00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,319
he recorded his Game of the Year thing that's gonna

28
00:01:22,359 --> 00:01:24,879
get edited into the episode somewhere at some point. And

29
00:01:24,879 --> 00:01:26,719
then if you want to go back Travis we I

30
00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:28,920
talked about this with Travis on his last side Quest

31
00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,439
episode before he went on his little pat Leaf hiatus here,

32
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,120
so you can go back and check that out. I

33
00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,719
think I timestamped in whatever that last episode he was in,

34
00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:37,959
so if you want to hear Travis as you can

35
00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,760
go back and do that. So that's what that's what

36
00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:41,439
this episode is all about. Just a couple of quick

37
00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:45,239
shoutouts here. I released a new YouTube video which might

38
00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,239
be of interest to the side Quest listener. Is a

39
00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,920
weird hybrid of Hitman and Chess. I'll just put it

40
00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:52,719
that way. I'll put in the description. You go check

41
00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,959
it out if you want. In terms of other things

42
00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,120
to check out, there are you know, just a million

43
00:01:57,159 --> 00:01:59,799
TV shows going on right now. Dexter Star Wars, What

44
00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,040
If review is gonna come out this week Creature Commandos.

45
00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:05,000
You guys are crushing that. I've been sitting back. I've

46
00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,840
been relaxing hard. But Taylor and kirkl have been going crazy.

47
00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:08,000
Speaker 3: You know.

48
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,479
Speaker 1: It's for auto review. You guys just recorded. Uh so

49
00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,719
that's out on the feeds now. So yeah, and then

50
00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,719
really this this week. In the next week kind of

51
00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:16,360
just getting back into the regular swing of things. We'll

52
00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,240
probably a newscast next week, I imagine. So yeah, lots

53
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,919
to check out. Any any shout outs on your end

54
00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:23,919
neck of the woods there, Kirklam.

55
00:02:24,039 --> 00:02:26,240
Speaker 2: Uh no, I think you. I think you hit them

56
00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,159
all a lot of reviews. Crazy are coming to the end

57
00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:30,960
of December. It's been it's been a jam packed, yes,

58
00:02:31,159 --> 00:02:32,439
but we're almost at the end.

59
00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. Uh yeah. So other than that, you know,

60
00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:38,840
hit up patroon to get episodes early and ad free.

61
00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,240
Last week's episode, for example, was up a few days early.

62
00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,759
Uh And then yeah, who wants to listen to ads?

63
00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:45,639
No one, So go check out the patron to get

64
00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,360
the best version of the episodes. And then I just

65
00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,280
wanted to, you know, also throw a big thank you

66
00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:53,639
out to everyone for listening to side Quest this year.

67
00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:56,080
I feel like this year maybe had a little less

68
00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,960
of like an overall identity. I feel like last year

69
00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,759
was really like the Arcane retro is big deal for me,

70
00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:02,840
and then the year before that, I think was like

71
00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:04,840
the first Side Quest year, maybe the second one. But

72
00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,159
I feel like this was just kind of business as you'll,

73
00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,879
just kind of same old stuff and maybe target it

74
00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:11,919
more to like the games we've been playing, less talking

75
00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,840
about just like news things, So maybe that's of anything

76
00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:16,879
like that's kind of behind the scenes that has been

77
00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,400
more my focus. So hopefully that's resulted in a good

78
00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,719
listening experience for everyone. But yeah, thank you to everyone

79
00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:23,919
for listening throughout the year. It's been another fun one

80
00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,680
and yeah, can't wait. January always kicks it off big

81
00:03:26,719 --> 00:03:29,719
with like previews and making the draft and stuff like that.

82
00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:31,280
I should have had the draft numbers ready to go

83
00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:34,199
for today, but I don't, So we'll cover that on

84
00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:37,560
next week's episode. Something like that on Side Quest here.

85
00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:39,639
But yeah, let's get into this a little bit. So

86
00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:44,199
game the year twenty twenty four. The year is officially up. Kirkling,

87
00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,400
how did you think about this year overall? Was it

88
00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,280
was a great year, midyear and okay year, bad year.

89
00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:52,120
For games you, how do you look back on it?

90
00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's funny. I feel like it's not until a

91
00:03:56,039 --> 00:03:58,719
moment like this is happening where I'm like not forced to,

92
00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,400
but I'm direct to look back on the year and

93
00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,360
like like yeah, and like I feel like maybe I'm

94
00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,000
just getting older now. I tend to like splice like

95
00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:12,520
the last two years of game releases together. Like there's

96
00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,479
so many games that when I was making this list,

97
00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:15,919
I'm like, oh, yeah, I add that one on there,

98
00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,800
and I'm like, oh wait, twenty twenty three and I'm like,

99
00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:20,199
what the hell? Thinking back, and I'm like, oh wait,

100
00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,000
it's like March of twenty twenty. Like it's not even

101
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,879
like it was like the tail end of twenty twenty three.

102
00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,600
Maybe it's just what was the early.

103
00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:28,560
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three one?

104
00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:32,079
Speaker 2: I think that one was No Mortal Kombat, was the

105
00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,279
Fall one? I can't Oh, I can't remember what one

106
00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:34,560
it was?

107
00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:34,839
Speaker 3: Now?

108
00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,879
Speaker 1: It was was Balder's Gate one of those for you

109
00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,279
as well, We're like, yeah, definitely Balderskate because I just

110
00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:43,079
didn't jump into it super until way later, right, And

111
00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:44,000
I don't know.

112
00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:47,319
Speaker 2: I just feel like games that are talked about really

113
00:04:47,399 --> 00:04:49,519
highly like they have the longevityes and then in my

114
00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,439
mind it just makes because people have been talking about

115
00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:52,920
it for so long, makes me think like it came

116
00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,000
out and I feel like recently that.

117
00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,600
Speaker 1: Happens offered for us too, where like I feel like

118
00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,079
our when we have our winter break little time off

119
00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,759
from work, we like binge play bunch of different games.

120
00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,480
We might play like something from the previous year. It's

121
00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,959
like I wasn't on my Game of the Year list,

122
00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:07,040
but like it should be now. So I think that

123
00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,120
that happens sometimes too.

124
00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,639
Speaker 2: It was Tara Nille that was the game, uh that

125
00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,959
I thought came out this year, just because I don't know,

126
00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,759
did you play it last year like you told me

127
00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:15,800
about it.

128
00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I played it. Yeah when it came out.

129
00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:20,680
I played it in this summer, but yeah, yeah, there

130
00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:21,000
you go.

131
00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,360
Speaker 2: Anyways, Yeah, no, just looking back on it, I feel

132
00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:27,879
like I feel like it was kind of mid I

133
00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,600
don't know for me specifically. There was some big titles

134
00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:32,600
that came out, but when I think of like a

135
00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:36,199
great video game release year, I feel like it's like

136
00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:39,879
multiple like heavy hitters that could really be up for

137
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,399
the Game of the Year, Like I know, we had

138
00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,279
some good releases this year, of course, you know games

139
00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,439
that I've played, maybe I'm focusing a little bit more on,

140
00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,639
but yeah, it just it just seemed like like there's

141
00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,879
like Astrobot final fantasies I'm never really on, so like

142
00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,639
those are kind of just in like a great area

143
00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,439
in my mind. But yeah, no, I just didn't really,

144
00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:00,000
I guess, get my hands on those big, juicy titles

145
00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,800
that would make me think that it's like a much

146
00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,759
better year than it is. But I'm sure this is

147
00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,240
gonna happen where next year I like finally jump onto

148
00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,639
like Astrobot and these twenty four games, and then I'm like, man,

149
00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,639
twenty twenty five is the best year of games. Yeah,

150
00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:14,800
but yeah, overall pretty pretty mid And I don't want

151
00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,759
to say that how it's like super negative, like like

152
00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,000
there was still some really good games, but if I'm

153
00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,399
just looking at it, like on the the ocean of

154
00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,639
video game releases, for me specifically, it's yeah, a little

155
00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:26,120
bit lesser.

156
00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,839
Speaker 1: I do feel like we are cued up for just

157
00:06:28,879 --> 00:06:32,319
a absolutely brutal in a good way twenty two five

158
00:06:32,399 --> 00:06:35,399
with with you know, Next Gta, Ghost of Yo, Taie,

159
00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:39,240
Death Stranding, two. The New Switch is coming out, so

160
00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,560
I'm sure that's gonna have some big banger games with

161
00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,160
it avowed for me personally, Civilization seven, Outer World's two

162
00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,439
is coming out. I'm sure like some indie games like

163
00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,120
maybe Hollow Night, Silk Song will finally come out. Maybe

164
00:06:51,199 --> 00:06:54,800
the Celeste developer, what's their next game called, like earth Blade,

165
00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,120
I think like that's probably coming out next year. The

166
00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:58,920
next game from the shovel Light team thing's coming out

167
00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,959
next year. So there's there's a lot of things that

168
00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,360
will potentially be coming out, and it's gonna be a

169
00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:05,560
heavy year. So I think that's kind of just the

170
00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:06,959
way the cycles go. And I think, you know, a

171
00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,720
couple things did seem to get maybe delayed out of

172
00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:10,959
this year, so naturally that just kind of fills up

173
00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:13,560
next year's calendar. We'll see what happens there, but obviously

174
00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,040
we'll cover all that in the preview. Should be should

175
00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:18,199
be very exciting. As for myself, I think I'm in

176
00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:21,040
a similar boas you. I think overall was a fairly

177
00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:23,920
mid quality year, and that means that there was still

178
00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,720
a ton of great games. It's just how many games

179
00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,000
come out on a yearly basis. But when I look

180
00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,000
at my list, I was like, Okay, I always kind

181
00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,600
of break my top ten down into like the tiers

182
00:07:32,639 --> 00:07:34,519
of it, and like, I have a top three and

183
00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,839
that tier is like insane. Those are amazing some of

184
00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:39,319
my all time favorites. But then like I kind of

185
00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,240
struggled with, like what do I put four through tenh Like,

186
00:07:43,319 --> 00:07:45,680
I'm not like I'm passionate about of these games. I

187
00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,319
love a lot of them, but I do feel like,

188
00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,439
compared to some other years, it was like I was

189
00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,480
kind of just having to sneak things into different slots.

190
00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:53,360
So overall, I think it was kind of mid and

191
00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,040
I think part of that for me is like maybe

192
00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:56,560
early on the year I didn't play a whole lot

193
00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,600
of things, and a big part of that was because

194
00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:01,040
I released Potion Problem. This year, I finally kind of

195
00:08:01,079 --> 00:08:03,240
got on the other side of things and released a game,

196
00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,319
and so that was a big part of the gaming

197
00:08:06,399 --> 00:08:08,120
year for me. It was releasing that, did a couple

198
00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,439
of game jams, released a couple other smaller things as well,

199
00:08:10,879 --> 00:08:12,879
and so yeah, it was it was cool to finally

200
00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,040
get Potion Problem out in the wild here people play

201
00:08:15,079 --> 00:08:17,439
that and see how that goes, and so yeah, that

202
00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,920
was definitely the first few months of the year. I

203
00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,399
was just maybe I was doing so much development that

204
00:08:21,399 --> 00:08:23,839
I wasn't like playing as much, just like, you know,

205
00:08:23,839 --> 00:08:25,759
playing the odd thing to have something to talk about

206
00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:28,199
on side quests. So yeah, it was. It was an

207
00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:32,200
interesting year. It was overall a decent good year, but yeah,

208
00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:34,639
not like an all timer necessarily for me. But yeah,

209
00:08:34,639 --> 00:08:37,360
my top three is a pretty pretty strong top three,

210
00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:40,159
I'll put it that way. In terms of I always

211
00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,360
like to break it down my stats a little bit here.

212
00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:47,200
According to my list, I've played forty nine games this year,

213
00:08:47,399 --> 00:08:50,559
six DLCs on top of that, and then I since

214
00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,399
I did a couple game jams this year, I played

215
00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:55,399
a bunch of other people's game jam games from that,

216
00:08:55,759 --> 00:08:57,720
so I had a total like fifty four games I

217
00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,480
counted that I've played from those jams, and so you know,

218
00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:02,399
a lot of those are like maybe three minutes long

219
00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:04,799
or something like that, but some of them are bigger

220
00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,039
of that I've considered complete or like rolled credits on

221
00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,039
twenty four games overall, so pretty pretty solid, but you know,

222
00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,559
definitely like less than fifty percent of like the actual

223
00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,120
overall games I played, And I always like to look

224
00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:19,840
back at, like, hey, is there anything that came out

225
00:09:19,879 --> 00:09:22,360
this year that I didn't get around too or really

226
00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:24,559
wanted to. I just didn't have time for that kind

227
00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:25,799
of thing that I feel like would have been the

228
00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,360
top bid in, like a Top ten contender. I actually

229
00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,720
didn't have many of those. I feel like I did

230
00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,240
get around of the games that I wanted to play,

231
00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,399
and of course I did miss like Final Fantasy, as

232
00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:36,600
you mentioned, Infinite Drag or Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

233
00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,799
looks really cool, but like you know, I've never played

234
00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,440
any of those games before. Who knows if it would

235
00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,840
have been Top ten contender. Really. The one I had

236
00:09:42,879 --> 00:09:44,960
that I wanted to shout out was Fallout London, which

237
00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,080
was like that mod for Fallout four, which seemed huge,

238
00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:49,879
like it was a whole new city, ton of quest,

239
00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,440
tons of voice acting, whole bunch of new stuff. I

240
00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:54,679
downloaded and tried to get that thing a run for

241
00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,120
like multiple hours, and I could not do it. There

242
00:09:57,159 --> 00:09:58,559
was so many hoops he had to jump through to

243
00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:00,559
get it to work. And I think think a big

244
00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,000
part of that is that it came out like right

245
00:10:02,039 --> 00:10:03,960
when they did like the next gym Pad for Fallo four,

246
00:10:04,039 --> 00:10:06,600
so it really screwed that mod over because all this

247
00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:08,840
work that done, it was now like kind of janky

248
00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,000
and kind of food bard. So that is like the

249
00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,799
big one that I really want to play someday and

250
00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:14,799
I just love but that's the thing so much and

251
00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,679
that sounded so good. So that's really the big omission

252
00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,639
for me. But other than that, I'm I'm pretty happy.

253
00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,639
Is there any other big ones that you miss that

254
00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,559
you feel like, I really wish I got around to that.

255
00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,759
It probably would have been like a top top five,

256
00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:26,879
top ten contender for you.

257
00:10:28,639 --> 00:10:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. I feel like the biggest one is probably Blatro. Honestly,

258
00:10:36,039 --> 00:10:38,600
I feel like that that one. I kind of regret

259
00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,320
not getting my hands on to at least talk about

260
00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,840
it for this episode, just because like obviously you were

261
00:10:42,879 --> 00:10:46,399
ranting raven about it, and I've seen like all the

262
00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,799
praise it was getting the Video Game Awards. But just

263
00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:52,039
like other friends that like, I know, they play games,

264
00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:54,039
but they're not like hardcore gamers. They're just like, man,

265
00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,240
you have to try Balatro. It is it is the

266
00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,639
game of the year, and they're just like, yeah, they're

267
00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:01,519
going off about it. I'm like, man, like I gotta

268
00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,519
get my my grimmy little myths on that one. So

269
00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:09,559
Blatro for sure, Astrobot would be the other one. Probably

270
00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:12,039
UFO fifty as well would be like my third if

271
00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,000
I had to choose. Metaphor was on my radar again.

272
00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:16,360
Speaker 1: Just because I heard from I would love to hear

273
00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,399
you talk about that, Okay, maybe like deep sale, you'll

274
00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:21,039
pick it up and talk about it exactly.

275
00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:22,639
Speaker 2: It was one of those situations where like I was

276
00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,559
looking at that and like Stellar Blade and then I'm like, okay,

277
00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,639
well I'm gonna I'm gonna choo Stellar Blades. So that's

278
00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,240
that'll be my my big video game purchase, and don't

279
00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:33,679
regret it because that was a fantastic game. But definitely

280
00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,600
it seems like it hits a lot of categories of

281
00:11:36,919 --> 00:11:39,639
my little check boxes that I like in games and

282
00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,799
just looks really unique and wild and very anime, which

283
00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:43,879
is usually on my own.

284
00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:47,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice. Yeah, those are those are good. I

285
00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,840
funny talking about Blotro. I got that for my dad

286
00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:53,320
for Christmas to play on his iPad, which because he's

287
00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,240
always playing like little poker games like just janky little

288
00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,480
free to play things on his iPad riddled with ads.

289
00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:00,480
I'm like, you need to play an actual D game,

290
00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:02,639
and if you are, like, Blotro is one that you

291
00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,519
could at least like there's a lot of layers to

292
00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,639
it beyond poker, but at least he knows poker well

293
00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:08,559
enough that Yeah, I think you all understand. So I

294
00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:10,399
had a couple sessions playing with him over the holidays,

295
00:12:10,399 --> 00:12:12,639
which was which was cool. I feel like the text

296
00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:14,240
is very small. I feel like he was struggling to

297
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,639
read some of the stuff in there, But that was

298
00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,519
cool to kind of have a because I haven't played

299
00:12:19,519 --> 00:12:21,440
Blotrone in a few months, so it's funny kind of

300
00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,919
see that again through his eyes.

301
00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:26,600
Speaker 2: It's funny. You just reminded me of a very quick

302
00:12:26,639 --> 00:12:29,559
little Christmas story my my buddy in his family. He's

303
00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,559
doing secret saying it and for his brother. His brother

304
00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,440
really wanted Skyrim, which is a random, random ask and

305
00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,639
I feel like I feel like it's a very like

306
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,159
accessible game to get. It's just it's available on everything.

307
00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:42,399
You know, the old meme goes you can get it

308
00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,360
on your fridge now, like it's just you can get

309
00:12:44,519 --> 00:12:48,519
any most accessible games of all. But he very specifically

310
00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,799
wanted a physical copy and he wanted it on the

311
00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,279
switch which is just two wild things that I've heard.

312
00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,000
Apparently it's extremely hard to find. My buddy had to

313
00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:59,799
purchase it. He had to purchase it on eBay wow,

314
00:13:00,159 --> 00:13:03,960
and like super long delivery time. It ended up arriving

315
00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:06,200
like literally like I don't know if it was Christmas

316
00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:08,440
Day or like Christmas Eve, but like like right when

317
00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,720
they're about to open gifts, like it just showed up.

318
00:13:10,759 --> 00:13:14,080
So it's a little Christmas miracle there that is revolving

319
00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:14,879
around Bethesden's.

320
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:15,639
Speaker 1: That's interesting.

321
00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,080
Speaker 2: It just felt so random, like very specifically. I wanted

322
00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,679
to play Skyrim in the year twenty twenty four almost

323
00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,960
twenty twenty five, twenty eleven game, but yeah, it's wild.

324
00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,480
Speaker 1: It's funny. That's one that has yeah been on my

325
00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,720
Switch wish list since it got out of the Switch,

326
00:13:29,759 --> 00:13:31,559
and I've just never made the purchase because I'm like, God,

327
00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,840
do I really do I would I actually play this

328
00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,960
or do I just want the novelty of like Skyrim

329
00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,559
on the go? So I've never actually bite bit the bullet.

330
00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,279
And it's funny too. I go to so many used

331
00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:41,799
game stores and always look at stuff, but I don't

332
00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:44,679
really look at the switch section. So I don't really

333
00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,240
have a perception of how rare Skyrim is. You would

334
00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,080
assume it's kind of everywhere. But maybe it's just one

335
00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,559
of those things people don't sell. I guess, like if

336
00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,240
they buy it, they just kind of want it forever.

337
00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:55,879
So maybe that's why it doesn't end up back of

338
00:13:55,879 --> 00:13:57,480
the stores. And maybe they didn't print a whole lot

339
00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,039
of them. They're so yeah, people will get a digitally

340
00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:03,639
who cares. Yeah, But that's that's a funny, funny situation. Okay.

341
00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,960
I have four honorable mentions here before we get into

342
00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,399
the top ten. Two that I kind of have like

343
00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:12,960
a little award category for them is like, these are

344
00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,200
definitely top ten if they weren't so damn buggy. And

345
00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,399
those are games I talked about recently, Stalker two and

346
00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,360
Metal Slug Tactics. I really enjoyed both of what those

347
00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,440
games are doing. Metal Slug Tactics I raved about on

348
00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,000
side Quest for like almost an hour. I really love

349
00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:27,759
a lot of what that game that game is doing,

350
00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,240
but it was just too buggy. I was losing progress

351
00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:31,720
at the end of like hours long runs. I'm like, caw,

352
00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,200
I'm gonna put this down come back to it later.

353
00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:36,120
But I legitimately still considered it putting in my top

354
00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,559
ten just because of how much I enjoyed what I

355
00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,679
did play. And then Stalker two is like, Okay, this

356
00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,000
is kind of like a Pothesta game, but with more

357
00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:44,720
survival mechanics a little bit different setting, so it's right

358
00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,480
up my alley and I really enjoyed it, but also

359
00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:48,679
like that game is just super duper buggy. So two

360
00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,759
games that I feel like quality wise and interest wise

361
00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:53,840
would be top tens for me, but just I'm gonna

362
00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,639
come back to them later, so maybe I'll maybe I'll

363
00:14:55,679 --> 00:14:57,960
regret that in the future, but I feel like they

364
00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,120
pretty much released it early access this year is on

365
00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,440
how I feel about these games, so shout out to those.

366
00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,240
Another one is Siege Breaker, that tower defense game that

367
00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:09,720
I talked about a few months ago. I didn't this one.

368
00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:11,879
It probably is once again top ten terms of quality.

369
00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,159
The reason I didn't put it in there is I

370
00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:14,879
just feel like there's too much bias. Like my friend

371
00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:17,240
made it, I did play testing for it. My name

372
00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:19,919
appears in the credits. Technically the music is from Amanda,

373
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,679
who does the music for my game and the side

374
00:15:21,759 --> 00:15:23,840
quest theme. Like, there's just too much bias. I feel like,

375
00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:25,639
you know what, even though I love this game a lot,

376
00:15:25,639 --> 00:15:27,120
and I you know, played through the whole thing took

377
00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:29,639
me twenty twenty five hours plus like all the play

378
00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:31,759
tests I've done over the years, I really love the game.

379
00:15:31,799 --> 00:15:33,759
I think it's a really great, interesting tower defense game,

380
00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:36,759
but just for bias reasons, decide to keep it off

381
00:15:36,759 --> 00:15:39,240
the list. And the last one, I don't even know

382
00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:41,080
what to say about this, but it's Harold hallib It.

383
00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,559
It's a game that came out a few months ago.

384
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,639
If you forget this one, kirkl and definitely give it

385
00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:47,840
a quick google. It has a really weird, unique art style.

386
00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,720
It's kind of made with like clay mation and like

387
00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:53,639
stop motion, but it looks like a regular game. Like

388
00:15:53,679 --> 00:15:57,919
it's really interesting, but like really visually really weird and cool.

389
00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:00,320
I like the story. I like the voice act. The

390
00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:03,639
characters are all really funny. It's just a it's a

391
00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:06,000
very long game, or at least long for what this

392
00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,240
genre feels like. It's a very slow paced game, and

393
00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:10,799
I just I just couldn't stick with it. I tried

394
00:16:10,799 --> 00:16:12,320
to come back to it a couple times, but it's

395
00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:14,519
just a little too sluggish, a little too long. It

396
00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:17,399
has more of like a TV show vibe to it

397
00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,840
more than a game, Like it is walking sim ish,

398
00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:21,600
like there's not a lot, it's mostly just walk around

399
00:16:21,639 --> 00:16:24,440
talking to people, but it's it's a really interesting game,

400
00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,440
and it's one that I wish I could have put

401
00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:27,519
in the top ten, but I just feel like I

402
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,440
hadn't played quite enough of it. But yeah, I think

403
00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,159
I might like watch a play through the second half

404
00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,639
because I kind of want to see what happens in

405
00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:36,399
the story. I'm really curious, but I don't really want

406
00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,879
to like walk around this station for another like seven

407
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,399
or eight hours or whatever it's going to take me

408
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,279
to get there. So shout out to Harald Hall. But

409
00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,200
it was it was close on my list. Those are

410
00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,000
my honorable mentions. I guess do you want to, yeah,

411
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000
throw your honorable mentions now we talk about we kind

412
00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,960
of have like different lists going on, but yeah, go

413
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:53,320
for it.

414
00:16:53,399 --> 00:16:56,559
Speaker 2: My total collective list is about eleven games, so okay,

415
00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,000
I'll sprinkle some in here. Starting to right at the Ball.

416
00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,519
Big honorable mention for WW two K twenty four and pick.

417
00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:08,799
Shouts out to Travis for basically just putting I don't

418
00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,759
know some focal attention on this game, and this is

419
00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:14,640
what the genre is. I I love sports games, like

420
00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,440
throughout my whole life. I always loved sports games, but

421
00:17:16,519 --> 00:17:20,079
like specifically like management type mode games. I was going

422
00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:23,680
really hard on F one Manager last year, going like

423
00:17:24,039 --> 00:17:26,720
you know, college football, GMO, like like all of those

424
00:17:26,759 --> 00:17:30,720
types of managing just game modes in these sports games.

425
00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,319
I'm just such a sucker for And I had no

426
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,440
idea what you could really do in this GM mode

427
00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,480
and WW two K twenty four didn't play like a

428
00:17:39,519 --> 00:17:41,680
whole lot of it. I was mostly just like feasting

429
00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,200
off of Travis and then like after the stream, I

430
00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:47,960
was doing a run and ended up not going well

431
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,960
about halfway through my season. So I he makes it

432
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,319
look easy, but I need some pointers huch knowledge, Yeah,

433
00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,680
because I'm like, I'm like remembering what he was telling

434
00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,039
me and then again into situations that isn't what he covered,

435
00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:00,400
and I'm like, I don't know what to do, Like

436
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,839
this wasn't covered in the tutorial, but no, I wanted

437
00:18:02,839 --> 00:18:05,119
to shout that one out just because it's never a game.

438
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,480
I never it's never a game. I thought I'd really

439
00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:10,759
be trying out or have anything in there to pull

440
00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,200
me in, but yeah, great GM mode and wild online

441
00:18:14,279 --> 00:18:17,160
rosters of like custom characters and stuff you can recruit,

442
00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,839
so shouts out to ww.

443
00:18:19,079 --> 00:18:21,480
Speaker 1: Yeah they do. So there's been like multiple deep sales

444
00:18:21,519 --> 00:18:23,359
of that game since the stream, and I've wish listened

445
00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,960
it since then. I keeps worth twenty six dollars. I'm like,

446
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:28,640
I don't know if I don't know I want to

447
00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,119
buy the Bullet yet, but someday I will pick that up,

448
00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,119
and I'm excited to get the GM mode more.

449
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,440
Speaker 2: It was a PlayStation monthly game like literally that month

450
00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:40,759
of the stream, so it perfect timing. But yeah, that

451
00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:44,640
is a perfect time. It's just WWD. And then another

452
00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,200
one I wanted to shout out for twenty twenty four

453
00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:49,640
release game that I had a lot of fun with,

454
00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,480
but I just didn't get enough time in it for

455
00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:54,519
me to like really throw it on my top five.

456
00:18:54,559 --> 00:18:57,160
But I think it had potential just because the fun

457
00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:02,519
that we had together with it. LS Trials really really

458
00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:05,799
just fantastic addition to that genre and series and not

459
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,799
something I thought you could really do, Like I didn't

460
00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:10,359
think you could do a cooperative game mode in an

461
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,279
Outlast game and still make it scary. Obviously it's it's

462
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,039
pretty goofy, but like still it hits on the scary

463
00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:19,640
elements and just playing around with the stealth and the

464
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,680
lighting and everything. Really really great systems, and I feel

465
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,559
like they the feel of the Outlast games. They were

466
00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:27,400
able to capture it and like transfer it over to

467
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,160
the multiplayer setting. So yeah, I had a lot of

468
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,039
fun with that and just wish I jumped into it more.

469
00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:34,319
I know you guys were having some set.

470
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've had a couple updates since I last played,

471
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,279
with some new levels and new villains and stuff like that.

472
00:19:39,279 --> 00:19:41,400
A couple of people know new perks and equipment and

473
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,559
those kind of things too, So yeah, we should definitely

474
00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:44,519
jump back in at some point.

475
00:19:44,839 --> 00:19:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, So yeah, those are my twenty twenty four

476
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:48,680
shout outs.

477
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the way we're gonna do this is Kirkland

478
00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,839
has a top five and then you also have I

479
00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:56,480
guess four non twenty twenty four games that you want

480
00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:57,720
to shout out, and I have a top ten. So

481
00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,599
we're gonna kind of go back and forth that way.

482
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,400
It'll a little weird, and then we'll get into the

483
00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:02,880
and then we'll get into the top five where we're

484
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,200
kind of matched up there. But how will we take

485
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,640
our first break of the show. We'll be right back

486
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,680
and then we'll get into the top ten and top

487
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:16,759
five ish lists. Okay, we are back. I'm gonna kick

488
00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:18,920
it off. I'm gonna go through my number ten and

489
00:20:19,039 --> 00:20:21,160
nine here, and I always like, as I mentioned, I

490
00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,000
like to break my top ten down into kind of

491
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,839
like tiers just to give a good idea of it.

492
00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:27,319
And I actually my nine and ten are kind of

493
00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:30,160
in the same tiers, so they're kind of interchangeable, but

494
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,759
I'll stand with the rank and I'm giving them here today.

495
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,519
Number ten is where I'm gonna put and oh actually, okay,

496
00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:38,319
a little little backstory to roll overall back here. I

497
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,079
kind of have like multiple places I'm keeping track of things, right,

498
00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:43,039
Like I use backlog dot Com. That's great, I can

499
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,480
keep track of things very visual, but I also have

500
00:20:45,559 --> 00:20:47,319
like an Excel sheet where I just have tons of

501
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,359
random info all the games I'm playing, because you know,

502
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,240
there's a lot of things the game jam games I'm

503
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,279
playing or other things that don't aren't really on backlog,

504
00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,160
so I kind of keep a list outside of that too,

505
00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:58,480
And I every once in a while. I do like

506
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,240
throughout the year, Like I think as soon as like

507
00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:02,240
July this year, I was like, I'm gonna make a

508
00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:04,480
top ten. See what my top ten list looks like currently,

509
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,240
And it's fun to I kind of look back because

510
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,759
I keep track of this. I can look back at

511
00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:09,359
the archive and say, well, what was my top ten

512
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,960
a few months ago? And at some point I totally

513
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,160
messed up how my Excel sheet was formatted, and I've

514
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,599
just been for the last few months making like a

515
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,160
top nine list of the year. And so it was

516
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,920
kind of like in the last couple of weeks when

517
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,920
I was really getting, you know, coming down to the

518
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,359
brass tacks. You're like, let me make this top ten

519
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,000
that I'm gonna etch into the podcast here in a

520
00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:28,480
couple of weeks, and I was like, oh, I kind

521
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,359
of have like an extra slot because I've been making

522
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,720
a top nine forever and so now I have this

523
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,599
tenth bonus slot. What am I gonna give it to?

524
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,960
And so that's where Indiana Jones kind of sneaks in

525
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,720
here at the tail end. So I want to talk

526
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,400
about this too much just because me and Taylor did

527
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,759
the review a couple of weeks ago, it's still pretty fresh.

528
00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:46,720
This is a game that at moments is outstanding. It's great,

529
00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:49,359
and then Moments was really drags and I really kind

530
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:50,799
of hated it. And then it kind of runs the

531
00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:53,279
gamut of everything in between there, and that's where I'm

532
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,160
kind of it kind of ends up falling towards the

533
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,880
bottom of the list, but still sneaks in there at

534
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,799
the end. Really the highlights great story, the acting and

535
00:21:59,839 --> 00:22:02,720
the characters, the cinematography of it, like all that, like

536
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,160
as an Indiana Jones movie, just super duper good. And

537
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,359
then in terms of like the gameplay really varies, like

538
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,720
the things, a lot of things like still that Moments

539
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:12,880
is really great, but other times it doesn't really make sense.

540
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,400
Combat is like really funny and slapstick, but it also

541
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,759
gets like too confusing and weird and like unruly to

542
00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:21,920
actually really engage with. And then you know, just the

543
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,960
different areas that you're going to really varies in terms

544
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,839
of quality. Some areas really sucks, some of them were fantastic.

545
00:22:28,279 --> 00:22:30,279
And I forget if I messages you to Kirkland or

546
00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:32,599
if I just was talking to before a podcast or something,

547
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,480
but I mentioned you, like this game has given me

548
00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:37,200
dishonored vibes, and I think, you know, I can I

549
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,759
can say now at the end of the experience, like,

550
00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:41,039
ah okay, that kind of wasn't the case. By the

551
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:42,119
end of it, I think it was just like the

552
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,559
first first main area, you get to, the first open

553
00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:47,279
worldly sort of zone, it's like very reminiscent of the

554
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,400
Dust District from Dishonored to in terms of the vitality,

555
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,960
in terms of how expansive it is, in terms of

556
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,359
the visual style and so, and in terms of the

557
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,759
freedom like those immersive sim elements of the game, and

558
00:22:57,799 --> 00:22:59,680
so it's really giving me dishonored vibes early on. That

559
00:22:59,759 --> 00:23:01,640
kind of faded as I as I went along, but

560
00:23:01,759 --> 00:23:04,599
still like if you're even giving me dishondered energy, then

561
00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:06,920
like you know, you're already doing a great job as

562
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,960
a game. Visuals and music are fantastic. So overall, had

563
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,319
a really good time with this game. It just had

564
00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:14,839
some moments where it really dragged, but yeah, still happily

565
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,039
putting it in the top ten there. And then number

566
00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:19,839
nine for me is Gonna be Animal Well, which is

567
00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:21,200
a game that was really high on my list for

568
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,160
most of the year, and then just kind of has

569
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,839
steadily dropped, and I think that's just because as it's

570
00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,720
almost like anti recency bias, whereas it's gone along, I'm

571
00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:32,200
kind of forgetting. What were the moments I love the

572
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,839
most in this game? And I can I can think

573
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,759
of distinct like the mysterious vibes, the art styles fantastic,

574
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,640
the sound effects, like it's just such a weird, interesting world,

575
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,200
and I really love that part of it. And as

576
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,400
far as Metroidvanias go, I like that this is this

577
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,880
isn't Metroveina, but like the items, you can get them

578
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,680
in different orders and they all kind of have multiple uses,

579
00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:54,880
but none of that's really trautorialize. You're kind of just

580
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,759
figuring these things that you go along, and so it

581
00:23:56,799 --> 00:23:58,839
just feels like like a much It finally feels like

582
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,279
what I like. Metro Advenia has old been a tricky

583
00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:04,680
genre for me to really get into, but this is

584
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,400
like the perfect one where it's less like okay, you

585
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,839
have to go here to get double jump and then

586
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,759
go back here and jump up here to get the missiles.

587
00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:13,240
Then you know, it's less like specific orders and more

588
00:24:13,279 --> 00:24:16,119
just free form, and I really like that part of it.

589
00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:18,839
Uh And yeah, I think it really, it really stood

590
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,640
strong with me. The parts where it maybe drops a

591
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,759
bit is that some of the bigger mysteries or bigger

592
00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:28,039
challenges and puzzles are things that like not one person

593
00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:30,480
is supposed to solve. The most supposed to be like

594
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,400
community things where you're kind of compiling and full looking

595
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,680
for things together. Some games that works for me, like

596
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,440
Death Loop, I remember doing a lot of that, like

597
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,640
talking to community members and discord servers and trying to

598
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,920
figure things out. But for that this game it didn't

599
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,359
really have that for me. So I think there's some

600
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,319
crazy things I heard this game does that I just

601
00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:49,480
never really experienced, and some of it like only happens

602
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,480
on PC as well, whereas I was playing on Switch.

603
00:24:51,559 --> 00:24:53,359
Like one weird thing that I've heard is like if

604
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,640
you get to a certain ending or moment, and if

605
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,200
you like are playing on PC and you have a

606
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,400
printer plugged in, it'll like print out a sheet of paper,

607
00:24:59,519 --> 00:25:02,119
just like with asking, and like that's cool and interesting,

608
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,960
but like, yeah, I played on Switch, so I guessed

609
00:25:04,039 --> 00:25:08,079
some mothers inc. But it's like I don't know, I

610
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,720
just played on Switch. Like there are certain things that

611
00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:11,880
just I just couldn't really experience with it. I suppose.

612
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,759
I don't know if there is some weird switch thing

613
00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:16,079
that they did, but I did not encounter it. So anyway,

614
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,799
really cool, interesting game. I'm really excited to see that

615
00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:21,400
developer does next. It's definitely one of those ones. Or yeah,

616
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,359
whatever he makes next, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick up

617
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,359
and play. But yeah, there you go. There's my number nine.

618
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,400
So Kirkle, do you want to start with your I

619
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,240
guess one of your non twenty twenty four games Game

620
00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:32,160
of the other year.

621
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,599
Speaker 2: As absolutely game of the other year. I guess yeah.

622
00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:40,960
I'll just talk about these two together because I kind

623
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,680
of forgot that Steam does Steam raps. You know, we

624
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,119
have the Spotify raps every year. You and I like

625
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,559
talked about them on like a Game of the Year

626
00:25:47,559 --> 00:25:49,400
in the past or something like that, and then I

627
00:25:49,559 --> 00:25:52,160
can't remember how many years ago that was. But I

628
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,079
was very shocked by my by my results this year,

629
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,680
and mostly about the share, like the spread of the

630
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,279
amount of games or lack thereof that was really preoccupying

631
00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:07,039
my Steam time. Apparently sixty eight percent of my games

632
00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:10,559
played on Steam this year was literally just total war

633
00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:12,400
Warhammer too, like like I thought.

634
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,799
Speaker 1: You were gonna not say Total war and that was

635
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880
then no, I'm like, oh, okay, that makes sense.

636
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: I just feel like I haven't played that game, and

637
00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:21,359
like a couple months now, I you know, watch Nosferatu,

638
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,119
go check out that review. But like a lot of

639
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,000
like Warhammer elements are in that movie and in a

640
00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:30,519
weird aspect, so it got me wanting to jump back

641
00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:33,920
in there and play one of two different campaigns. But

642
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,720
and of course it like shows you like the months

643
00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:39,160
that you're really popping off on. And it's like right

644
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,720
before summer was like that was the only thing I

645
00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:44,839
was doing, like June, June, July era maybe, and then

646
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,720
for the summer like I was doing munch a Home Rehno,

647
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:49,759
So I like wasn't really playing much. And then like

648
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,400
September it just spiked again because it's like as soon

649
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,079
as my rehnods were over, I was just ready to

650
00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:57,759
go back in Total Warhammer. And then basically since September

651
00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:00,000
till now, the rest of the time has just been

652
00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:02,400
Project Zomboid. Like I have just been going on a

653
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,039
tear on that game. I know you and I haven't

654
00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:05,279
jumped into it together.

655
00:27:05,319 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: We really struggled. I could play tonight if you're around tonight, but.

656
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: I might be I might be available tonight.

657
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: Maybe tonight happen.

658
00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:16,079
Speaker 2: Let's link together. But no, I was going super super

659
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,039
hard on that game, and those were kind of like

660
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,039
my two games on Steam, like of course there was

661
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:23,000
like a couple other ones that just bounced in here

662
00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:23,640
and there.

663
00:27:24,519 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, tell you how many hours you had in

664
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,759
Total War just this year or does it only show

665
00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:30,400
you playtime?

666
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe i'll maybe I can pull it up.

667
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you put in at least another hundred or

668
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:36,960
two hundred hours this year on that game.

669
00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:42,799
Speaker 2: But maybe, yeah, let's I would say a couple couple hundred.

670
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,519
If it's sixty eight percent of like my total time played,

671
00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:48,079
I feel like that's a good because even Project Zomboid,

672
00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:50,640
I feel like I put in like, yeah, true, over

673
00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:53,480
forty five hours on that game Alan, which is double

674
00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:55,799
what I had like before then, so gotcha. Yeah, I've

675
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,599
been going hard on it. And uh, there's been a

676
00:27:58,759 --> 00:28:01,359
long anticipated big update on that game is called Bill

677
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,720
forty two, which is like you know, air quotes, It's

678
00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:06,799
gonna be changing the whole game, Like there's just adding

679
00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:09,599
like so many different elements, refining the whole crafting system.

680
00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:13,079
And it's in what's it called unsteady mode or some

681
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,119
unstable mode. That's what it is right now, so like

682
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,279
you can play it, but you just might get a

683
00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:19,920
lot of bugs. But we're getting close to the actual release,

684
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,599
so a lot of people are frothing at the mouth

685
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,720
for that one and a little word because I feel

686
00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:25,799
like I've learned the game a certain way, but now

687
00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:29,119
they're like changing a lot of different elements, so it'll

688
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,200
have to be always sketchy. But that game is just

689
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:35,319
so fantastic. I can't wait to jump in there with you.

690
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,759
But yeah, I think I'll throw those as my non

691
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,359
twenty twenty four games of the years. Total War will

692
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,319
probably be in there as long as I live until

693
00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:47,519
they do Total War Warhammer four, if they ever do that,

694
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:53,039
or there's rumors around like what next IP Creative Assembly

695
00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:54,880
is going to get to do their next Total War game,

696
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,000
because of course Warhammer is like a separate entity. A

697
00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:00,440
lot of people have like just been hinty at Lord

698
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,799
of the Rings a lot of the years, which of

699
00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:03,559
course would get my money, but like I also feel

700
00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:08,079
like Warhammer Fantasy is pretty close to that already. I

701
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,119
was on the subred at somebody was talking about like

702
00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:11,880
a Star Wars ip I don't think that.

703
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,759
Speaker 1: Well, I guess they're back on Alien now because they're

704
00:29:13,759 --> 00:29:14,799
making Isolation.

705
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 2: Too, right, Actually, wow, I totally forgot about that. Yeah,

706
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,200
that's that's a good point. I always forget that Creative

707
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,559
Assembly did that, and it's.

708
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: Such a weird zar. Yeah, we'll just think one FPS

709
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,200
horror game in our career and it's just one of

710
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,160
the people's favorites of all the time.

711
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: And then we'll just go back to playing like Total

712
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,400
War only games, which kind of was the same and yeah,

713
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:38,279
same anyways, Yeah, I'll mention those two games as my

714
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:39,720
four ones.

715
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,839
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, moving on then next up, we're jumping up.

716
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,319
I'm just calling this the solid tier, which may be

717
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,359
a generic title for it, but this is definitely a

718
00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:50,160
tier up from the last two games we talked about.

719
00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:52,519
Number eight for me is going to be Pacific Drive.

720
00:29:52,599 --> 00:29:54,359
So I talked about this recently. I have a lot

721
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,640
of recent games on my list. Just as a little

722
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,480
little spoiler there, but yeah, I finally beat this game.

723
00:29:59,519 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: Now.

724
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,079
Speaker 1: It took like over twenty hours to beat, like one

725
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:05,359
run of it, which is not what I expected because

726
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:07,079
it is kind of a roguelikey game. I kind of

727
00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:09,480
thought it would be shorter runs then, like there's so

728
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,880
there's like eight different difficulty tiers in the game, so

729
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,720
I thought the idea would be, like, do a shorter

730
00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:17,680
run then kind of keep bumping up that difficulty. Not

731
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:19,279
quite the case, so a little bit different. I think

732
00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:20,839
at some point in my life I'll definitely go back

733
00:30:21,039 --> 00:30:25,119
and play a higher difficulty level. This is a weird

734
00:30:25,119 --> 00:30:28,359
game where it doesn't have any super high highs, but

735
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,079
it doesn't have any low lows either. It's just a

736
00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:33,400
consistently good time through that twenty hours. I think by

737
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,359
the end, I was really trying to just get to

738
00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:37,160
see the end of it. But I think that's part

739
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,720
of it is just because of the difficulty I was

740
00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:40,920
on too, Like I wasn't being challenged as much anymore,

741
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,039
so there wasn't really anything stopping me. I didn't need

742
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:45,680
to keep upgrading and grinding for hours to just get

743
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,319
to the endgame content. There are some really cool moments

744
00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:50,039
at the end of that game, Like there's some certain

745
00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:52,319
missions you have to do. We have to like race

746
00:30:52,359 --> 00:30:54,920
through these pylons and you're like on a timer, but

747
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,640
then there's so many things attacking you and striking you

748
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,119
as you do it, that are trying to stop you.

749
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,319
And if you're like, you know, if you bump into something,

750
00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:02,720
that might mess up your time and you got to

751
00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:05,480
restart the thing now. But then like the level's collapsing

752
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:08,039
in on you, Like it just gets totally chaotic. So

753
00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:09,920
that was really cool. Some of the later areas get

754
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,119
really out weird and mysterious. I really I love the

755
00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:15,720
just gameplay loop of it. Go out on these levels,

756
00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:19,519
hunting around, searching for things, and then always that intense

757
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,640
escape from the mission was always good every single time

758
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,839
I did it, and then getting back to my shop

759
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,880
and just like upgrading, putting decorations up in my shop,

760
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,319
upgrading the car, switching out my parts, turning the radio on,

761
00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:35,079
just putting fueling up the car, sitting back, relaxing, like

762
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:37,240
I just had so much fun with it. The customization

763
00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:39,160
of your car is really really great and in depth,

764
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,000
and there's so much stuff on the quote unquote skill

765
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,319
tree that I didn't even get to by the time

766
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:46,640
I was beating the game. There's just so much in

767
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,119
there that you could keep going and doing. And I

768
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,359
think something that really surprises me too is like I

769
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:53,640
really enjoyed the story, the voice acting. You never like

770
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,240
see another human, but there's voice acting in there, people

771
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,799
talking on the radio, firewatch style, and like all the

772
00:31:58,839 --> 00:32:00,960
performances are really good. It's it's got me excited. Like

773
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,119
they just announced it they're making a TV show for

774
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,880
Pacific Driver, which is a really random ip to get

775
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,279
a TV show, but like, based off the level of

776
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:10,880
performances and the kind of weird, mysterious story, it feels

777
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,200
a little Alan Waki like, I feel like that will

778
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,400
be a good fit for this potentially, So I'm looking

779
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,200
forward to see how that how that show comes along.

780
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,759
But yeah, I just had a great time with Pacific Drive.

781
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:24,400
I really really solid time. I definitely want to want

782
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,680
to revisit at in the in the future as well.

783
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,160
There's there's a lot to it. So show us to

784
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:33,279
Pacific Drive. Sorry, did you have other games? Show out?

785
00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:35,200
So we go back and forth or should I just okay, cool?

786
00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:37,039
Speaker 2: I think we would sprinkle them in.

787
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:38,039
Speaker 1: Yes matter.

788
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: Next one, I'm gonna shout out, uh, you know, big

789
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,960
credit to you hit Man. Here finally got my grimmy

790
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,799
little mits on it, and man, what a time it's been. Yeah, no,

791
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,519
it's been long waited. I played a little bit of

792
00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:54,079
like the first iteration of that game, but now having

793
00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:57,359
like the total collection, uh that of course, I haven't

794
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,599
you know, fully gone through yet, but I'm glad I

795
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,839
got it and on the PlayStation and just what uh,

796
00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:04,519
I mean, we've talked about it so many times. I

797
00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:06,279
don't want to just repeat that what I've said in

798
00:33:06,319 --> 00:33:08,640
the past, but yeah, what a time it's been. And

799
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,640
you know, if you're like me and you think it's uh,

800
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,519
you kind of missed the boat. You never missed the boat.

801
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:16,240
The servers are still alive on hit Man, so get

802
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:19,319
on there, and yeah, just perfect those kills.

803
00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:22,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been playing that like fiendishly for the last

804
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,759
few weeks here and just like totally back into it,

805
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,519
doing all these things I've never seen before, going back

806
00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:30,759
into freelancer mode, which is infinitely playable. Yeah, it's just

807
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:33,240
so freaking good. I can't get enough of that game.

808
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,960
And so I made a YouTube video on it. A

809
00:33:36,039 --> 00:33:38,599
very random topic, but I just so passionate about it

810
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,240
right now. Show it's a hit Man. My number seven

811
00:33:42,319 --> 00:33:44,039
is going to be one that you had an honor

812
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,240
lntion for and that's our last trials. For me, this

813
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,720
ended up making it into the top ten, and I

814
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,160
think big part of that was like revisiting it recently

815
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,319
and still really enjoying it checking out some of the

816
00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:55,640
new content for it. I think it's always tricky to

817
00:33:55,759 --> 00:33:58,759
rank a game like this, which is like if me, you, Travis,

818
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,000
and Taylor played any four player co op game, I'm

819
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,920
sure we would have had like just as much fun

820
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,039
as we did play it out Last. If you play

821
00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:07,880
a game with your friends, who would have thought you

822
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,719
would have a good time. But I do think out

823
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,559
Last trous is a really well designed game, and especially

824
00:34:12,599 --> 00:34:14,400
after going back and playing out Last one and two

825
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,239
this year as well, just seeing like the differences and

826
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,719
the evolution of some of the mechanics that it does

827
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,679
there too. I love the like saw like setting of this.

828
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,199
I think it's really well designed. Yeah, really scary game,

829
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,039
like the enemy enemy design and like how smart the

830
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:29,760
enemies can be at certain times and like how they

831
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:34,039
just feel like true adversaries. Is really good. Just so

832
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:38,079
many different types of puzzles and like level locations that

833
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:41,079
you're seeing, Like pretty good RPG mechanics always feel like

834
00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:43,079
you're unlocking some cool new stuff in a way that

835
00:34:43,119 --> 00:34:45,000
doesn't make it too easy, because then you can just

836
00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:48,119
ratchet up the difficulty even more. It's it's, yeah, like

837
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:49,639
there's so much here, and it's a game that I

838
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,559
just want to keep playing for the next few years,

839
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,119
Like just every once in a while jump in and

840
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,719
check out a few of the new levels over the

841
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,159
old ones and try them at higher difficulty levels. I

842
00:34:57,199 --> 00:34:58,880
just had a really great time with this, and obviously

843
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,519
it got me so invested in this series that I

844
00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:02,159
went back and played those first two games this year

845
00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:04,400
as well. So yeah, shouted us out. Last Trials is

846
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,880
really just a really solid good time the whole way through.

847
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, hell yeah, I'll show another one here.

848
00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:14,159
Feeling one game has taken up pretty much ninety percent

849
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,239
of my holiday time. This is a big game, one

850
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,760
that I've kind of been putting off for a long

851
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,840
time for no specific reason. We're getting a sequel next year.

852
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,880
I've been getting fully entrenched in desth Stranding this holiday break,

853
00:35:27,119 --> 00:35:29,840
and I must say it is like a perfect holiday game.

854
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 3: They have.

855
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if this has always been a thing,

856
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,159
but like around Christmas time, all the characters are like

857
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:38,039
wearing Christmas hats too, so it just it just feels

858
00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:40,119
a lot more festive when I'm you know, delivering packages.

859
00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:42,800
It feels like I'm just Santa Claust making people's day.

860
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,880
And I yeah, I like, I was up till like

861
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,639
probably closer to four in the morning last night because

862
00:35:48,639 --> 00:35:51,320
I was just like, yeah, I'll finish this run and

863
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,199
then I'll do this, and then I get another order.

864
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:55,199
I'm like, okay, well I kind of want to do

865
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:55,880
this now, not.

866
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,519
Speaker 1: Too far away.

867
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I'm like ninety percent done what I

868
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,960
was building over here so I could do one more run,

869
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:03,559
and like it just it literally just snowballed like that.

870
00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:06,840
And that's been kind of my gaming for the holiday

871
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,960
break and just such an amazing game. Like I'm just

872
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,199
especially I'm still in that early port. Well, I feel

873
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:16,000
like i'm early portion. And I was talking to Hidalgo

874
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,280
about it. He says, I'm about halfway through the game.

875
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,639
Based on like story purposes.

876
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,039
Speaker 1: That's not nothing, man. That game is long. So if

877
00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:23,239
you're halfway through, that's pretty good.

878
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: And I like, I feel like I was on one

879
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,280
specific chapter for a very long time but I kind

880
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,719
of do missions and then I like, I don't know,

881
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,760
I just want to build up my connection level, like

882
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,519
I've been just like five starring a lot of these

883
00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:37,239
places I'm coming through and then just like building up

884
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,280
kind of the roads as I go along too. So

885
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,360
I'm like, I think I'm like right at the end

886
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,719
of the Fragile chapter, which I think is.

887
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: Just yeah three or I can't remember like the name.

888
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,559
I do remember though, that like the early chapters are

889
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:51,679
pretty lengthy, and then I feel like it starts to book.

890
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:54,000
It Like there's the later chapters you like crush them

891
00:36:54,039 --> 00:36:56,360
a lot quicker. Yeah, even if you're not like Mainland,

892
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,199
there's just like a less quest than them overall, so

893
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,760
you'll start to Yeah, I think really pick up nice

894
00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:02,639
yeah in that dack half.

895
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,599
Speaker 2: Because I'm because i feel like I'm still early in

896
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:06,559
the game, Like I'm still getting like new mechanics and

897
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:09,800
new like equipment and stuff, and it's just I'm just

898
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,159
like a kid in the candy store. I get like

899
00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:13,239
something new, I'm like, oh my god, this just changes

900
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,559
my whole transportation like setup or how I can handle

901
00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:20,960
different just roots and whatnot. So it's just I'm just

902
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:24,199
loving it. I'm in my golden era of enjoying this game,

903
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,400
and I've like I still don't really know any spoilers

904
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,039
for the story, so like I'm just I'm feasting for

905
00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:33,119
this game and knowing that this Training two was out

906
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:35,280
next year, I was late to the game this time around.

907
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:36,320
I don't want to be late to the game for

908
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:37,880
next thame too, so I want to be fully caught

909
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,320
up and ready to go. Imagine that's like Fall next year.

910
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I guess I was assumed get

911
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,800
a game awards like trailer and announce date for that,

912
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,119
but we didn't, so I'm not sure when it could be.

913
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:53,840
But yeah, hopefully the sooner the better. I want to

914
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,079
because it's a long one. I want to have Times

915
00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:58,440
one did come out in November, I think, so if

916
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,840
they go for that again, then I guess.

917
00:37:59,639 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: We're like a Fall game, just with the weather and

918
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,599
stuff that you're coming through. You know, the have you

919
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:07,119
been to like snowy sections yet I'm like at the

920
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:10,679
base of a snowy area, I haven't gotten like, I

921
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:12,960
don't know specific like heating gear that I know that

922
00:38:13,039 --> 00:38:16,280
you get. Okay, maybe I'll say that much, but no,

923
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,760
it's it's just it's just so fantastic. I love it.

924
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,960
I love Norman Renas as the player, I love the music,

925
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,039
and I love everything about this game. And I just

926
00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:25,960
it's a travesty. It took me this long to really

927
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:29,199
enjoy it. The last character I was interacting with, I'm like, man,

928
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:31,119
this guy looks familiar. It was Conan O'Brien, and it

929
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:36,480
just totally forgot there's like celebrities in this game. I

930
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,480
haven't seen him yet. I don't think unless he's an

931
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,000
earlier I.

932
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: Think he's a pretty minor, like minor character they.

933
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 2: Usually are, you know, Conan O'Brien. He's wearing like a

934
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:48,119
Walrs hat or something. But no, it's it's fucking amazing.

935
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:51,079
And also, did you ever play the director's addition where

936
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:52,400
they like added some things.

937
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: No, I there's a lot of stuff like beyond the

938
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,039
Santa hats that you're talking about, Like, there's definitely a

939
00:38:57,079 --> 00:38:59,559
lot of things that I remember seeing, like I've just

940
00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:01,800
never even experience, Like they added like races and like

941
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,400
other I was just gonna things that I haven't seen.

942
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,079
Speaker 2: So I just finished, like a racetrack that you build

943
00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:08,639
and I never saw in an area, and I was

944
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,559
like doing time trials and like, what game am I

945
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:13,639
even playing right now? This is so wild and like

946
00:39:14,039 --> 00:39:15,760
I think it's a new addition. You can make like

947
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,119
giant bike jumps and you can do like tricks and

948
00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:18,960
stuff off them.

949
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Like it's just definitely I don't remember that so because

950
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:21,840
this is all fresh to me.

951
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 2: But and I'm playing the director's cut, like I don't

952
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,119
know what was at or whatnot, but it's it's all great,

953
00:39:26,159 --> 00:39:29,519
It's all fantastic, and uh yeah no, I'm I'm loving it.

954
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:30,400
I'm loving it so much.

955
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I love that. The vehicles, I mean,

956
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,440
whenever you get a new type of vehicle, it feels

957
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,559
like such a big monumental moment. But they also are

958
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:41,159
all so limited in certain ways, so it doesn't just

959
00:39:41,199 --> 00:39:43,159
feel like the game becomes a steamroll. Like the bikes

960
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,400
like always running out of juice. Remember, we get in

961
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,119
like a truck or something later and it's like it

962
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,079
can carry a lot of stuff, but this thing sucks

963
00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:50,880
like going anywhere, so you got to like if you're

964
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,719
not on the road, this thing is pretty much useless,

965
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,840
and so it just turns into like chaotic moments where

966
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,599
you're like brought way too much and you can carry

967
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,400
and then you have to ditch your vehicle. Then you

968
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,880
gotta like plan this out. So yeah, they that game

969
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,960
just sprinkles in the new mechanics, so well.

970
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you don't get overwhelmed, right, Like it's not

971
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,239
too much at once. And yeah, I know, I recently

972
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,400
got the truck and it just changed the whole like

973
00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:13,519
crafting of the roads, Cause like early on I was

974
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:16,519
just like like I didn't even have the little traveler

975
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,519
carts with you. So I'm just like building these roads

976
00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:21,199
by going back and forth with like what I can

977
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:23,519
carry on my back. And now it's just I just

978
00:40:23,639 --> 00:40:25,400
pile up my truck with what I can carry. And

979
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,920
then if I get into a situation like you said,

980
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,679
like it's rocky and I can't really get my truck there,

981
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:31,760
I pull out my little my traveler carts, I load

982
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,679
up on my ear there, and I like I just

983
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,800
have such like a perfect system now where I do

984
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,159
like a pre trip checklist of like hey, I got

985
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:40,719
my container repair spray, I got my extra carts if

986
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,960
I need, like I just I don't know, especially like

987
00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:45,039
when you just do so many of them, you realize

988
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:47,400
what you kind of need usually is always need like

989
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,599
two ladders on me, because you never know sometimes you

990
00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:51,920
need you need more than just one. Right, So just

991
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,280
aspects like that, I feel like makes the game just

992
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,639
just like the gameplay loop, just so fun of just

993
00:40:58,679 --> 00:41:02,320
thinking about playing these routes and yeah, I just I

994
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,480
love it. I go on and on. Obviously, I'm like

995
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,000
in the midst of it right now. I was playing

996
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:07,920
right before this cast, like I was just I just

997
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:08,880
want to get back in there.

998
00:41:09,519 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. Okay, let's move along, and that

999
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,480
way we can get you to back to death Stranding sooner.

1000
00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:20,559
Number six for me is a game that I played

1001
00:41:20,599 --> 00:41:22,360
just a few days ago. Kirkland, I don't think you've

1002
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,000
heard of this one. It's called Mouthwashing.

1003
00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 2: You saw it on your backlogged. I'm not often on backlogged.

1004
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,519
I usually going there when we're compiling lists like this

1005
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:31,039
because it's a great resource for that. But then I

1006
00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:33,559
saw it. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Dylan, Yeah, what.

1007
00:41:33,559 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: Is his Mouthwashing game? I know, silly name. So this

1008
00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:38,480
game came out I think in like September or something.

1009
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,639
I remember hearing like on the podcast I listened to

1010
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,519
people praising it then and it was really good, and

1011
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:46,199
then just I think it kind of reminded when I

1012
00:41:46,199 --> 00:41:47,480
was listening to some of the Game of the Year

1013
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:50,679
episodes from other podcasts recently and like, oh yeah, Mouthwashing

1014
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,440
is just like high on all of their lists. So

1015
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,119
it wasn't just like a little flash in the pan.

1016
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:55,880
Oh this is kind of cool. This is like a

1017
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,800
game that is is is a great game, and so

1018
00:41:58,320 --> 00:41:59,960
it's up in my alley, so I was like, okay,

1019
00:42:00,079 --> 00:42:01,440
let me let me pick this up. It's like fifteen

1020
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,639
bucks or something on Steam, pretty cheap. So I picked

1021
00:42:03,679 --> 00:42:05,440
it up last week and played through it. Because it's

1022
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,280
pretty short, it's like two hours long, and it's like

1023
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,800
all narrative and story. So it's hard for me to

1024
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,920
talk about too much about spoiling, so I'll try and

1025
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,079
do my best here. But yeah, it does have a

1026
00:42:15,079 --> 00:42:17,400
silly name. That name does mean something, but I don't

1027
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,639
want to I don't want to spoil what the name

1028
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,679
even means there. But yeah, for anyone who doesn't know

1029
00:42:21,679 --> 00:42:24,519
about this one, this is a first person kind of

1030
00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:29,199
PS two style narrative horror game, I guess would be

1031
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,159
the best way to describe it, and the setting is

1032
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:34,159
that you and this crew are on this space cargo

1033
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:37,519
ship traveling, you know, delivering something, and then you know,

1034
00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:39,840
something goes wrong. You hit like a metea or something

1035
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,599
like that, which throws the ship into disarray, and then

1036
00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:45,280
it's kind of just about like what these people did

1037
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:48,639
you know in the in the months, whatever weeks, whatever days,

1038
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,719
whatever the timeline is. After that. I think one thing

1039
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,679
that I loved about this game that games do not

1040
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,480
frequently do, but it's very common in movies is like

1041
00:42:57,639 --> 00:42:59,559
so many movies. Think about how many movies are improved

1042
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,159
by having like non linear storytelling, right, Like the story

1043
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:03,920
is pretty basic, but because you chop it up and

1044
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,920
tell it in weird ways, like that's why the story

1045
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,320
becomes so good. Like no one's doing that all the time.

1046
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,239
Tarantino's doing it all the time. You know. It's it's

1047
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,639
a very common thing. But like games like almost never

1048
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,599
do that, right because if you have a longer game

1049
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:18,199
and you have like progress and you're getting items, it's

1050
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,679
like kind of weird to like go out of order,

1051
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,119
not I don't have all this stuff. You know, It's

1052
00:43:21,159 --> 00:43:23,159
it's I understand why games don't do it, but because

1053
00:43:23,199 --> 00:43:24,679
you have like a shorter game, like there's only two

1054
00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:27,519
hours long. It like uses that element of it, the

1055
00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:29,760
nonlinear part, super duper well in a way that I

1056
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,239
want to see other games try. I realize, as I've

1057
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,119
just mentioned, like it is hard to do. It's a

1058
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:36,280
big design problem for games. But I think this game

1059
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,960
is like it is very unique because of that. Yeah,

1060
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,360
as mentioned the very story heavy game, very intense. You

1061
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,119
know a lot of topics in here, like like sexual assault, addiction,

1062
00:43:47,039 --> 00:43:49,719
and I feel like one games don't really tackle those

1063
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,559
things very often, or if they do, maybe they take

1064
00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:54,400
in like a much more straightforward way. This feels like

1065
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,000
has some really nuanced takes or perspective on those kinds

1066
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,760
of things that I thought was really interesting. I love

1067
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,079
the art. You know, this is very similar to the

1068
00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:06,079
tartaris key that was like that horror game, horror Puszy game.

1069
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:07,679
I talked to you a couple of years ago, Kirklinn.

1070
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:11,199
So this looks very much like that. The music is outstanding,

1071
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,079
super duper good. It's just a game that really made

1072
00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:17,039
me think about a lot of things in my life

1073
00:44:17,119 --> 00:44:19,280
and myself and like things I want to better about myself.

1074
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,039
Like it was a very introspective experience, even if it's

1075
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:24,320
like a very over the top and like crazy thing

1076
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,480
that I can't really relate to being on a space

1077
00:44:26,559 --> 00:44:29,320
freighter and crashing into a meteor, but like it still

1078
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,440
made me think about a lot of things, and like

1079
00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:34,719
the final moments come together when it drops into credits,

1080
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,559
it just has like this amazing song as the credits

1081
00:44:37,599 --> 00:44:39,719
going by, and I just like had my head in

1082
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,280
my hands and I was just like vibing in the

1083
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,760
music and just like thinking about things, Like it's a

1084
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,400
crazy game that takes you all sorts of different places

1085
00:44:47,199 --> 00:44:48,760
because of all this stuff I'm just talking about here, Like,

1086
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,440
it was a really hard game for me to rank

1087
00:44:50,679 --> 00:44:52,599
one the recency you know, I don't want to give

1088
00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:54,320
it too much recency buys because I literally played it

1089
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,639
like five days ago. But also it's like, how do

1090
00:44:56,639 --> 00:44:59,039
you compare this to like a forty hour long like

1091
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:01,119
Open World RPG. How do you compare to this to

1092
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:04,920
like Last Trials. It's very hard. So I'm happy with

1093
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,440
here being at sixth, But honestly, it could have jumped

1094
00:45:07,519 --> 00:45:10,119
up because this as of six, four or five and

1095
00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:11,760
six are kind of in their own little tier, So

1096
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,960
it could have could have shifted even higher, but I

1097
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,639
felt like I should be careful of some recency bias here.

1098
00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:19,360
But super duper great game. Highly recommended. If what I've

1099
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:23,239
described sounds interesting, it's also really funny and it's weird. Uh,

1100
00:45:24,039 --> 00:45:27,199
It's just a really really great, interesting, weird game. So

1101
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,599
big recommended recommendation for me on on mouth Washing. Don't

1102
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:32,960
let the weird name. I mean, the weird name should

1103
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,360
draw you in, it shouldn't scare you off. But if

1104
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,320
you just look at a couple of screenshots you'll you'll

1105
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,599
see the vibe of this game. But yeah, it's super

1106
00:45:39,679 --> 00:45:40,159
duper good.

1107
00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:42,119
Speaker 2: The cover I just made me think it was a

1108
00:45:42,119 --> 00:45:45,079
gross game because it's like an eyeball or something, think

1109
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:48,519
of like carrying or something like what is this mouth washing?

1110
00:45:48,599 --> 00:45:52,079
Speaker 1: Also is the title all the yeah weird body horror stuff,

1111
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:54,679
so if you're underto that, maybe maybe be warned. I

1112
00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:56,840
didn't find it too scary for the most part. There

1113
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,480
is a couple like jump scary type things, but yeah,

1114
00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:01,920
I'd say it's more more of the vibes, more like

1115
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,599
thriller vibes than like in terms of deep horror, I

1116
00:46:04,599 --> 00:46:06,440
guess would be the comparison in terms of gameplay, like,

1117
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,719
it's pretty basic. You're mostly just walking around talking to people,

1118
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,920
and there's a couple light puzzles things like that. Nothing

1119
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,000
too crazy, it was it was fine keeps you just

1120
00:46:14,079 --> 00:46:17,079
kind of breaks up the story beats. But yeah, super

1121
00:46:17,159 --> 00:46:19,880
duper recommend mouth Washing. Really great game.

1122
00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 2: Yeah cool. I'll give my final non twenty four title here,

1123
00:46:25,679 --> 00:46:27,639
kind of enter in my top five for the year.

1124
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,800
Last one. Spoke to you about it many many times,

1125
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,360
but it would have to be none other than Cultural Land.

1126
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1127
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 2: Kind of rediscovered this one and honestly just had so

1128
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,639
much more fun on a second time ago. And really

1129
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:41,559
it was because Shane and I played together on the

1130
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:45,039
couch co op and it's just a perfect game mode

1131
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:47,519
to pair with that game. And I highly recommend that

1132
00:46:47,559 --> 00:46:50,159
game pretty much anyone, but especially if you are in

1133
00:46:50,199 --> 00:46:52,119
a situation you can play couch go op with someone.

1134
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:54,800
It's it just makes it that much better. And really

1135
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,840
liked all the systems that they added. I wish it

1136
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,519
was a little bit less buggy, but clearly it was

1137
00:47:00,599 --> 00:47:02,320
that good of a game that I just kept going

1138
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,960
back even if I had like crashes and whatnot, like

1139
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,559
it just I love the music in it. I love

1140
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:10,800
the gameplay loop and yeah, no, it's it's fantastic. I

1141
00:47:11,079 --> 00:47:12,760
don't know if we're really gonna be jumping back into

1142
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,079
it because we kind of did everything we can other

1143
00:47:15,119 --> 00:47:17,320
than like going for the Platinum, which is just finishing

1144
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,400
off a couple of collectibles, which kind of is a

1145
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,639
little bit grindy, and I feel like we're just kind

1146
00:47:21,679 --> 00:47:24,559
of past that point of enjoying the magical aspect of

1147
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:26,800
just like looping through because we've just done it so

1148
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,800
many times. But yeah, like I probably like around eighty

1149
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,079
hours we got out of that, which is pretty crazy

1150
00:47:33,079 --> 00:47:35,079
for a game that I've already like played in the past,

1151
00:47:35,159 --> 00:47:37,559
and uh yeah, it felt very fresh and new. So

1152
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,679
that would definitely be my non twenty twenty four twenty

1153
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,199
four game of the Year if I had to give

1154
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:44,079
a ranking.

1155
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,639
Speaker 1: Very very good right on. Okay, so after this, we're

1156
00:47:47,679 --> 00:47:49,679
gonna both get into our top fives of the year.

1157
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,400
But let's take a quick break first. We will actually

1158
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,360
throw to mister Taylor Field. You will all hear him

1159
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,519
and his Game of the Year, and I haven't listened

1160
00:47:57,519 --> 00:47:58,920
to this yet, so I don't even know what he's

1161
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,320
gonna pick, but you will hear from him, you'll get

1162
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:02,920
a little ad break and then we'll come back for

1163
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:09,119
the top five. Will be right back. Hello, Hello, thank

1164
00:48:09,159 --> 00:48:10,039
you for having me. Dylan.

1165
00:48:10,199 --> 00:48:14,679
Speaker 3: Happy to be here dropping my game of the Year pick.

1166
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,840
And of course I've not played a large catalog of

1167
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,639
video games this year, but I do have three that

1168
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:24,719
have made my top three list year, with one in

1169
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:25,360
particular that.

1170
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: Has taken it for the year.

1171
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 3: And I have three hounorable mentions that I wanted to

1172
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,800
shout it as well that I didn't feel like we're

1173
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,800
They weren't necessarily there for me, but they were. They're

1174
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,119
worth mentioning because they're still they were a lot of fun,

1175
00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:39,679
but they just I didn't want to put them on

1176
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:41,960
my top three ranked list because those three are, like

1177
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:44,599
I'm just They're fantastic and I'm having a good time

1178
00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:46,840
with them. So let's get into this. I'm gonna start

1179
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,559
with the audible mentions and I'm gonna roll down from

1180
00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:53,159
least to first of my my ranking. So I have

1181
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,920
autoble mention number one, Skull and Bones. I've gone back

1182
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,000
and played this a few more times and again the

1183
00:48:58,039 --> 00:48:59,800
release date. I had to double check because the release

1184
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,920
date for this has been all over the math with

1185
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,880
delays and whatnot, but it is February twenty twenty four,

1186
00:49:07,159 --> 00:49:10,599
that's its release, Yere, and I just I thought it's

1187
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:12,280
a lot of fun. I like going back to it.

1188
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,719
I'm glad that it kept my progress from the beta,

1189
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,480
and I've gone back a few more times and just

1190
00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:18,920
had a lot of fun with it. It's been cool

1191
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,639
to build up my own ship and a little fleet

1192
00:49:21,679 --> 00:49:23,679
of ships in my character and just kind of go

1193
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,760
explore the high seas as a pirate. It's not a

1194
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,440
game that I feel like it's I'm not dropping seventy bucks.

1195
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,400
I'm not paying full price for this game. But the

1196
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,119
fact that it was available on games Pass through Ubisoft's

1197
00:49:37,159 --> 00:49:40,119
online platform Ubplus or whatever it is, it makes it

1198
00:49:40,159 --> 00:49:42,559
a lot more convenient to actually try it and through

1199
00:49:42,559 --> 00:49:45,079
that subscription as well. Star Wars Outlaws that's my other

1200
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:47,519
audible mention. Really really liked the game a lot, but

1201
00:49:47,559 --> 00:49:49,920
there's just certain things that just was a little too

1202
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,880
repetitive for me on the frontier of Star Wars games.

1203
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,199
I was hoping for something a little bit more.

1204
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,119
Speaker 1: It's cool that you have the.

1205
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,280
Speaker 3: Different cartels that you can kind of sign on with

1206
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,639
and build the relationships and whatnot with but I was

1207
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:04,599
just hoping for something maybe a little bit more open world,

1208
00:50:04,599 --> 00:50:06,719
which is ironic because I know something like that would

1209
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,480
take a little bit more time, and time is something

1210
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,599
I don't necessarily have a lot of to indulge in

1211
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,599
video games these days. But I digress. It's a great game,

1212
00:50:15,039 --> 00:50:16,960
and it does a lot of things right for the

1213
00:50:17,039 --> 00:50:19,719
Star Wars universe and for the video game Star Wars franchise.

1214
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,440
My last honorable mention is Call of Duty Black Ops six.

1215
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,360
Holy smokes. Now, I loved Modern Warfare mon Afar two.

1216
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,679
Speaker 1: The re releases as well.

1217
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 3: Those are some peak games and those earlier Call of

1218
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:36,039
Duty Black Ops titles and World of War especially great,

1219
00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:40,079
great great. I can appreciate how they tackle the zombies here,

1220
00:50:40,119 --> 00:50:44,639
and they've like the previous Black Ops titles, they created

1221
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,960
a esthetic and characters and whatnot with the zombies universe,

1222
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:52,880
and those were imported over into Modern Warfare three's open

1223
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,000
world zombie mode. That mode is just, in my opinion,

1224
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:01,159
unchallenged compared to this, like this zombies mode and Black

1225
00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:03,559
Ops six. It's fun to go back to round based zombies,

1226
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:05,639
but to me, it does not compete I'm going back

1227
00:51:05,639 --> 00:51:08,519
to monrow for three Zombies still because it's just an

1228
00:51:08,599 --> 00:51:11,800
absolute hecking good time to play with friends. It's so

1229
00:51:12,159 --> 00:51:15,480
much fun, way more fun than the round based and

1230
00:51:15,519 --> 00:51:17,320
I think there is a place for round based zombies,

1231
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,519
but I don't think it's what black Ops was doing

1232
00:51:19,599 --> 00:51:22,679
here with the six iteration. I think round based Zombies

1233
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,760
needs to go back to its humble beginnings world at War,

1234
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,440
you know, black Ops won that sort of stuff. I

1235
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,840
think that's where it definitely peaked, and it peaked again

1236
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,039
with the open world in one four three, but this

1237
00:51:35,199 --> 00:51:37,039
just kind of feels like a backstep. But that being said,

1238
00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:40,480
the multiplayer is fun except for omni movement. God damn

1239
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:43,599
that sucks. Campaign play a little of that it's enjoyable

1240
00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:46,159
as well. But yeah, so those are my honorable mentions.

1241
00:51:46,159 --> 00:51:50,880
Now my third of the rank list here. I know

1242
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,840
it's a mobile game Pokemon trading card game Pocket Hot

1243
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:59,679
to Molly. I lately have been just going super crazy

1244
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,760
in to Bookemon trading cards this year. It's been a

1245
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,480
great time, just trying to just collect certain cards that

1246
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:08,800
I like. I'm not necessarily building like a master set

1247
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,000
or trying to collect anything for a full a full collection,

1248
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,559
but just going after certain cards I like and Pokemon

1249
00:52:15,559 --> 00:52:17,639
trading card game Pocket is so nice because you can

1250
00:52:17,679 --> 00:52:19,440
get your free packs. I'm not spending money in there

1251
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,519
because it's digital packs, digital cards. You don't need to

1252
00:52:22,519 --> 00:52:25,599
spend real money on that. Just do your daily tasks,

1253
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,840
get the free in game currency, and just buy more packs.

1254
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,760
That way, it's a lot of fun to be ribbon

1255
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,159
packs and building the collection. The battling, too, is great.

1256
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,800
I never knew how to play Pokemon before, but now

1257
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,920
that this app is here, I actually understand the mechanics

1258
00:52:40,119 --> 00:52:42,840
and I'm engaging and building my own Pokemon decks and battling.

1259
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,880
So it's so much fun. I'm having a great time

1260
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,000
with it. It's really addicting. It's awesome. It's awesome. Number

1261
00:52:49,039 --> 00:52:51,840
two Super Mario Party Jeenboree. I freaking love this.

1262
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: I was.

1263
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,679
Speaker 3: I'm a big advocate for the last one that we

1264
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,559
got Superstars. That was so much fun, but it needed

1265
00:52:57,559 --> 00:53:00,599
a little bit more and so with this, While I

1266
00:53:00,599 --> 00:53:02,360
would have preferred the other one to get more DLC,

1267
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,119
this one just it's great that it fits itself as

1268
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,119
standing on its own two feet, is its own game

1269
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:09,599
where you're implementing strategy this time. It doesn't feel like

1270
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:12,639
it's entirely luck based. You can form plans. You could

1271
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,039
really kind of map your way forward throughout this and

1272
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:17,559
really screw over your competitors. It's a great time and

1273
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:20,599
I love playing this with my friends. It's such a

1274
00:53:20,599 --> 00:53:24,079
fun freaking game. The online is great too, So hopefully

1275
00:53:24,119 --> 00:53:26,159
we get a little bit more content and DLC for it,

1276
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,880
and then my number one is no surprise, Indiana Jones.

1277
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,039
This game completely caught me off guard. I really wasn't

1278
00:53:33,079 --> 00:53:37,599
expecting it to be my number one, but after playing

1279
00:53:37,639 --> 00:53:41,840
it and getting to experience this world as Indie, I

1280
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:46,519
am just flabbergasted at how well they captured Indiana Jones

1281
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:48,039
and created this universe.

1282
00:53:48,079 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: It really really caught me off guard.

1283
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 3: And the story is so addicting. I wish that this

1284
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,719
was like we got a movie like this. But I

1285
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,440
mean that being said, I'm happy with the game. It's

1286
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,079
a fantastic game. Really like it now.

1287
00:53:59,119 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: It's not perfectly.

1288
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 3: We're find there are some issues with the i'd say

1289
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,000
with like movements, and with some gameplay mechanics as well.

1290
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:09,039
I've had my problems with some bugs and what not to,

1291
00:54:09,559 --> 00:54:11,480
but I highly recommend it.

1292
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: It's great.

1293
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 3: It's on Game's Pass.

1294
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:16,079
Speaker 1: So easy to access there. It's it's so.

1295
00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:18,519
Speaker 3: Much fun, really really like it. And if you want

1296
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:20,360
more information you can go check out me and Dylan

1297
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:24,360
did a review for Indiana Jones Great Circle, so go

1298
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:25,800
check that out on the feeds.

1299
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 2: But there you have it.

1300
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 3: That is my twenty twenty four wrap up list Game

1301
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,239
of the Year top three do well mention. So thank

1302
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,280
you Dylan and we'll see you next year.

1303
00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: Okay, we are back. What did you think of Taylor's

1304
00:54:40,039 --> 00:54:41,119
Game of the Year good list?

1305
00:54:41,159 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 2: Taylor good list. A couple of picks there surprised me.

1306
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,719
A couple of picks didn't surprise me, So I'll leave

1307
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:47,079
it at that.

1308
00:54:48,639 --> 00:54:51,079
Speaker 1: All right, Right on, let's get into our top five

1309
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,719
top five for the year. Number five for me is

1310
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,480
going to be the legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.

1311
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,840
This is this is a I feel like I have

1312
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:01,960
a different take on this from some people in that

1313
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,280
for everyone who played Tiers of Kingdom last year, they

1314
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:05,480
loved it and that was like their game of the

1315
00:55:05,519 --> 00:55:07,559
year or like easily in their top three. But I

1316
00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:09,119
really bounced off of that game. It did not do

1317
00:55:09,159 --> 00:55:11,360
it for me, and this was almost like, weirdly a

1318
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,320
return to form. This is kind of like what I

1319
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,199
want from Zelda. It felt very fresh, even if it

1320
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,000
is kind of inspired by Breath the Wild and Tiers

1321
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,440
of the Kingdom in a few ways. But I really

1322
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:24,199
enjoyed going back to top down Zelda here, having something

1323
00:55:24,199 --> 00:55:25,199
a little bit more confined.

1324
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 3: You know.

1325
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: Maybe it took me twenty twenty hours, maybe twenty five

1326
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,760
once I got all the collectibles, which I went back

1327
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,800
and did. I really just love the fun, like the

1328
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,639
core mechanic here of grabbing echoes and spawning absolutely whatever.

1329
00:55:36,679 --> 00:55:38,880
It leads to just total jank. It leads to like

1330
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,599
every single puzzle or action beat or any single thing

1331
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:44,920
in the game is going to be dis solved individually

1332
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,199
by someone like differently, and everyone's gonna have their favorites.

1333
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,599
And it's funny listening to some podcasts and hearing people like, oh,

1334
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:51,719
this is my favorite enemy type to you is, and

1335
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,199
like I had very different ones from them, And there's

1336
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,320
so many weird, creative, interesting things you can do. It's

1337
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,159
just such a it's just a fun, cool game. I

1338
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,519
think it has you know, this is geek for side quest.

1339
00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:04,880
This game has amazing side quest design. Almost every single

1340
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,239
side quest was like interesting or cool and not just

1341
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,719
like some boring fetch quest, and there was like quite

1342
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,159
a few of them, and I thought that was like

1343
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:13,679
a really really great part of it. It made it

1344
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,719
really easy to want to go back and do every

1345
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,559
single thing because like every side quest was like giving

1346
00:56:18,599 --> 00:56:20,239
me like, oh, this is now one of my favorite

1347
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,239
quests in the game. Like it just consistently did that.

1348
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,800
I think the puzzles and stuff and all that really

1349
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,880
really well designed. And it also like did kick back

1350
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,960
at me sometimes, like it had some challenging fights, some

1351
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,199
really challenging moments that took me multiple tries to get through,

1352
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,079
and so I'm appreciative of that. I think for the

1353
00:56:37,119 --> 00:56:39,280
most part, it does kind of get somewhat easy by

1354
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,840
the end of it, just because you have so many

1355
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,559
things at your disposal that you can do. And that's

1356
00:56:43,599 --> 00:56:46,280
maybe one nitpick is like navigating through all the items

1357
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,159
can be a bit much. When you have like all

1358
00:56:48,159 --> 00:56:50,719
one hundred and forty whatever items there is, it's like

1359
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,519
a lot to like scroll through and there's no organization really,

1360
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,480
But man, I just had this was just a fun

1361
00:56:56,519 --> 00:56:59,639
game from start to finish. With really low no low

1362
00:56:59,679 --> 00:57:02,519
moments whatsoever. So yeah, I just had had a great

1363
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:04,280
time with Zelda. And it's been a while since I've

1364
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:05,679
fallen in love with the Zelda game, so I was

1365
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,639
really really happy to have this one here. And hey,

1366
00:57:07,679 --> 00:57:11,039
it's cool to play Zelda and dress up in funny

1367
00:57:11,039 --> 00:57:13,079
costumes that she gets and do some silly stuff in

1368
00:57:13,079 --> 00:57:15,840
the world, you know, spawn a horse or spawn a

1369
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,880
horse by like you get a horse by like just

1370
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,039
spawning a carrot. The carrot, the horse will come, eat

1371
00:57:20,079 --> 00:57:21,599
the carr. You can ride the horse, fly on all.

1372
00:57:21,639 --> 00:57:25,800
This just such a fun, weird, interesting game. So yeah,

1373
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:26,960
my number five of the year.

1374
00:57:27,679 --> 00:57:30,199
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Uh yeah, that one, That one was on

1375
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,880
Shane I's radar just for like the cute aesthetic of

1376
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:33,840
the art style.

1377
00:57:34,159 --> 00:57:36,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got that links Awakening aesthetic. And I really

1378
00:57:36,239 --> 00:57:39,159
like links Awakening too, So it felt that that team,

1379
00:57:39,239 --> 00:57:41,519
whatever team is making those two, those two games, I

1380
00:57:41,559 --> 00:57:44,039
really like their little pocket of Zelda games. I hope

1381
00:57:44,039 --> 00:57:44,960
they keep making them.

1382
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 2: I like Ozelda also just has like it's it's almost

1383
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,559
like on Multiverse, but it's like based on like different

1384
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:52,480
art styles, right, Like you have like the tune link

1385
00:57:52,599 --> 00:57:55,559
you have, like the more realistic link I guess from

1386
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,159
some titles like Twilight.

1387
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:01,599
Speaker 1: The Ghibili link with the ghilbliwink. Yeah, so it's alert.

1388
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:06,159
Speaker 2: I like what they have. Okay, So my top five

1389
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,679
game of the year one that uh didn't hit the

1390
00:58:09,719 --> 00:58:12,280
best for like what my expectation was going to be

1391
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,239
for it, But it was still a really cute game

1392
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,239
that was really unique. I got the Plucky Squire here

1393
00:58:16,639 --> 00:58:18,880
number five. I ended up early credits on it. I

1394
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,639
went through and did finish the game. I like the

1395
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,280
like the ending, like the battle with the Last Boss.

1396
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,039
But like we kind of already talked about on the review,

1397
00:58:28,039 --> 00:58:29,639
and you were making a point of emphasis on just

1398
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,880
a little bit lackluster on like the real world, like

1399
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:34,840
when you get out of like the book, I wish

1400
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,000
there was a little bit more mechanics that you had there.

1401
00:58:37,119 --> 00:58:39,920
It just seemed like most of the time it was

1402
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,480
like a bridge to get back into the storybook, where

1403
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,800
like the more interesting mechanics were for me at least

1404
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:47,039
that was my I don't know experience for it. But

1405
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,760
really like the music, I really like the characters, and yeah,

1406
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,320
it was still just like a really cute, unique story

1407
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,360
that well story pun not intended because it's a storybook,

1408
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,719
but just just the adventure I think of these characters,

1409
00:58:59,719 --> 00:59:02,480
and then I thought was really fun but didn't quite

1410
00:59:02,519 --> 00:59:05,000
hit to the the peak like maybe I thought it

1411
00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:07,039
was gonna be where it's like a Game of the

1412
00:59:07,119 --> 00:59:09,239
Year type contender, because like I really feel like that's

1413
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,400
what I got from like the first trailers, because it

1414
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,519
was just so unique and a real original type of

1415
00:59:14,599 --> 00:59:16,199
way to do a game. Sure there's other games that

1416
00:59:16,239 --> 00:59:17,599
have done something similar.

1417
00:59:17,239 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, what did you think? Breaking up some

1418
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,440
a little bit of spoilers here for this, like because

1419
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,800
to me, like once the once, it's like the dark world,

1420
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,920
like when the guy the villain takes over the book

1421
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,639
and it changes the book, like that three D segment

1422
00:59:30,719 --> 00:59:32,679
of like his climbing through his castle, Like I thought

1423
00:59:32,679 --> 00:59:35,039
that part was that was kind of the peak of

1424
00:59:35,079 --> 00:59:36,679
the maybe one of the peaks of the game for me.

1425
00:59:36,719 --> 00:59:38,320
Did you Did you enjoy that whole sequence?

1426
00:59:38,679 --> 00:59:41,119
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, I feel like because it was we were

1427
00:59:41,159 --> 00:59:43,519
going in areas that I wasn't expecting. It's almost like

1428
00:59:43,519 --> 00:59:45,760
a resident Evil eight going into the castle all of

1429
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,559
a sudden, a very different style. But the game was

1430
00:59:48,599 --> 00:59:51,760
but Uh, yeah, I would say yes, because it feels

1431
00:59:52,239 --> 00:59:54,760
maybe like the most mature like the game overall, it's

1432
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,199
pretty simple mechanics, you know, like like I feel like

1433
00:59:57,239 --> 00:59:59,840
it is a game that's pretty accessible to everyone, but

1434
01:00:00,719 --> 01:00:02,400
when you can have moments that kind of shift the

1435
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,440
overall tone. So yeah, I would agree that was probably

1436
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:08,519
my peak of the adventure, especially because I don't know,

1437
01:00:08,559 --> 01:00:11,079
I feel like it peaked early on, and then when

1438
01:00:11,079 --> 01:00:13,920
you're just like replaying some of the not necessarily replaying things,

1439
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:17,480
but just going through like the same situation of handling

1440
01:00:17,519 --> 01:00:20,280
similar mechanics, it kind of plateaued a little bit, and

1441
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,400
then of course with the castle stuff made more intriguing.

1442
01:00:24,159 --> 01:00:27,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that they added recently they added I

1443
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,000
just found an article here the Pluge where I added

1444
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,960
a streamlined mode offering quicker dialogue and less hand holding

1445
01:00:33,599 --> 01:00:35,840
for kind of just move through it quicker. And to me,

1446
01:00:36,039 --> 01:00:38,280
those are like some of my main complaints with it

1447
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,440
is like just a little sluggishness at times, So it's

1448
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,119
too bad. That's like it's kind of like how CEAFU

1449
01:00:43,159 --> 01:00:45,559
added like the easy mode like months later after I

1450
01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:47,320
was kind of already done with the game. Yeah, that

1451
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,760
sounds like that would just greatly improve the experience, just

1452
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:51,719
having a couple of those little tweaks there. I mean,

1453
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:53,760
that's kind of like, hey, they heard feedback is what

1454
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,559
people didn't like about the game. We'll just add a

1455
01:00:55,599 --> 01:00:57,599
mode that like removes the thing people don't like. So

1456
01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,800
that's that's pretty cool that they added them there. Hopefully

1457
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,079
people going forward we'll have just an even better experience

1458
01:01:02,119 --> 01:01:02,960
with that game than we did.

1459
01:01:03,679 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1460
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: Agree, cool? Okay? Number four for me, this is a

1461
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,840
I was very surprised before this game came out. I

1462
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:12,159
did not expect it to even be like a top

1463
01:01:12,199 --> 01:01:15,280
ten contender. Even early hours, I didn't really think it

1464
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:17,519
would be, you know, that high for me. But by

1465
01:01:17,519 --> 01:01:20,039
the end of it, I know, And it's almost like

1466
01:01:20,039 --> 01:01:23,360
a boring, unoriginal pick, and not many people have this,

1467
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,039
but I gotta be true to myself, and this is

1468
01:01:25,079 --> 01:01:27,800
my number four, and that is Star Wars Outlaws. Can

1469
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:29,920
you believe that Kirkland is That isn't that crazy?

1470
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,199
Speaker 2: Me? The Star Wars big a fan of it.

1471
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: I just did another one that I just I think

1472
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,199
I put like maybe thirty hours into it. I didn't

1473
01:01:38,239 --> 01:01:40,480
do every single side quest, but I did quite a

1474
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,519
few of the major side quests, did all the main

1475
01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:45,039
quest stuff, obviously, rolled credits on the game, and yeah,

1476
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:46,880
I just had a ton of fun with this game

1477
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,519
across the board. I think it does a lot of

1478
01:01:48,519 --> 01:01:50,920
things really really well. And this is coming from someone

1479
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,800
who's yeah, not really a Star Wars fan right now,

1480
01:01:53,079 --> 01:01:55,639
not really generally a fan of like the Ubisoft formula stuff.

1481
01:01:55,639 --> 01:01:57,119
I think they had to go a bit of a

1482
01:01:57,119 --> 01:01:59,679
different direction since they wanted multiple planets. Rather than it

1483
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,719
being one huge open world with things everywhere. It's kind

1484
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,599
of like these more smaller distinct areas that are still

1485
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:08,320
like fairly expansive, and I think those vary in quality

1486
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,000
and you get some interesting ones where like the first

1487
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,519
main planet and it's called Toshara Tshata something like that.

1488
01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:15,320
That's kind of like the peak of the game for me.

1489
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,800
But because of the way the game is struck or it's

1490
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:18,639
not like you're going from one open world, Okay, now

1491
01:02:18,679 --> 01:02:20,000
I'm on the second one, now I'm on the thrill,

1492
01:02:20,079 --> 01:02:22,639
You're constantly kind of going back and forth between these areas,

1493
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:24,519
and so it was kind of always wanted us happy

1494
01:02:24,519 --> 01:02:27,039
to revisit. Of course, you have the uh, what's the

1495
01:02:27,039 --> 01:02:30,880
Sandy planet? Called again tatoen, Yeah, tattooing. That's you know,

1496
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,360
that's kind of the one more legacy like Star Wars

1497
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,760
location that everyone knows in love and that that's great location.

1498
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,119
One of them is like a smaller snowy area, and

1499
01:02:38,159 --> 01:02:39,719
that one you don't even really use your bike. You

1500
01:02:39,719 --> 01:02:41,920
don't even go around. It's just like a really dense city.

1501
01:02:42,159 --> 01:02:44,159
And I really like that, just as like Variety's sake

1502
01:02:44,239 --> 01:02:45,880
right in the fact that you're jumping around between them,

1503
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:48,199
so kind of had like a little bit of peaks

1504
01:02:48,199 --> 01:02:49,679
and valleys, but for the most part, is like really

1505
01:02:49,679 --> 01:02:53,800
solid experience. I really enjoyed the combat, and I really

1506
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,559
love the stealth in this game. A lot of I

1507
01:02:55,559 --> 01:02:57,679
feel like every reviewer, every podcast I heard, everyone's like,

1508
01:02:57,719 --> 01:02:59,960
the stell sucks, stealth is not fun, stale is too hard,

1509
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:02,360
all this stuff. But I loved it. I feel like

1510
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:03,880
I play a lot of health games, so I don't know,

1511
01:03:04,039 --> 01:03:06,760
I can't really understand a lot of these criticisms that

1512
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:08,679
people have, but I thought it worked really really well.

1513
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:10,840
There were a couple of missions that I like, you

1514
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:12,679
auto fail if you lose this depth, but I only

1515
01:03:12,679 --> 01:03:15,119
had to redo those like maybe two or three times,

1516
01:03:15,519 --> 01:03:17,760
and you get like a lot of checkpointing. So I

1517
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,039
really like that Nix, who's like your little companion buddy,

1518
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,800
is like a great multi tool where he can like

1519
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,920
distract people or knock people out, or go mess with

1520
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,440
the wiring on the wall, or mess with or distract

1521
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:32,280
this camera so you can sneak by, can go fetch

1522
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:33,679
collectibles for you so you don't have to go do

1523
01:03:33,719 --> 01:03:36,119
all this annoying platform, and you get to stuff, can

1524
01:03:36,159 --> 01:03:38,239
open like levers to get you through like levels in

1525
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,239
the like. It's just such a great multi toool. It

1526
01:03:40,239 --> 01:03:42,239
does so much. And he's a cute little guy too,

1527
01:03:42,559 --> 01:03:44,400
so I think he was a great addition to the game.

1528
01:03:45,239 --> 01:03:47,119
I like the hacking and lock picking minigames, and this

1529
01:03:47,199 --> 01:03:49,079
especially the lock picking one, I think is really fun.

1530
01:03:49,559 --> 01:03:53,039
The faction system is really cool, where there are you know,

1531
01:03:53,079 --> 01:03:56,280
three or four of these these outlall like underworld factions,

1532
01:03:56,599 --> 01:03:57,960
and each question you're doing you kind of have to

1533
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,360
balance like, ah, if I do this, I'm gonna you know,

1534
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,440
earned some favorsome rep in this one, but I'm gonna

1535
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,440
like just dunk my favor with the with the huts

1536
01:04:05,519 --> 01:04:07,480
or something like that. And this kind of constant balance

1537
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,039
that I eve knew and worked really well for me.

1538
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:11,559
And when you're in good standing you can like use

1539
01:04:11,599 --> 01:04:13,840
their shops go through the locations without having to do

1540
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,000
stell sequences. And I for me, it was like a

1541
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,280
perfect balance of constantly these dials going up and down.

1542
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,880
It made it really fun and engaging. I think the

1543
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,519
RBG mechanics are really good. Upgrade in your gear, your character,

1544
01:04:24,639 --> 01:04:26,960
your ship, and all that stuff. I didn't really like

1545
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,920
the ship stuff like that, any of the space combat.

1546
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:31,800
I pretty much didn't engage with that stuff at all,

1547
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:33,400
just like whatever the main quest had me do and

1548
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,320
then I left, and those fine because I didn't really

1549
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,559
have to spend many hours on that stuff. But yeah,

1550
01:04:37,639 --> 01:04:39,239
I just had a great time going around this world

1551
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:43,159
collecting things to get cool upgrades or accomplished in side quest,

1552
01:04:43,519 --> 01:04:46,079
going around maybe playing I forget the name of the game.

1553
01:04:46,079 --> 01:04:47,719
There's like a poker card game that you can play.

1554
01:04:48,199 --> 01:04:50,280
Had a good time messing around with that. So yeah,

1555
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,320
just have a really great time with this game the

1556
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,519
whole way through. And yeah, I think there's even DLC

1557
01:04:54,599 --> 01:04:56,199
coming out. I would want to go back and check

1558
01:04:56,239 --> 01:04:59,239
that out. I played it through. You'bi self play or

1559
01:04:59,239 --> 01:05:01,559
plus that I'm not constantly subscribe to you, so I

1560
01:05:01,599 --> 01:05:03,840
don't know when i'll get to it. But yeah, I'm

1561
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:05,679
really surprised that this is all my list and as

1562
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:07,400
hig as it was, but I just I can't lie.

1563
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,199
I just had a great time with Star Wars Outlaws.

1564
01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:11,760
So there you go. There's my normy pick for the list.

1565
01:05:12,599 --> 01:05:14,079
Speaker 2: Only we can get a movie that was that good,

1566
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:16,440
and you know, just Star Wars movie.

1567
01:05:16,639 --> 01:05:19,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm bummed that this game just bombed, like it

1568
01:05:19,599 --> 01:05:21,920
didn't do very well, and so it's just not gonna

1569
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:23,320
get a sequel. And I think it's too bad because

1570
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:24,719
I think there's a lot of cool mechanics here that

1571
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,639
could have even been better, and like that rep reputation

1572
01:05:27,719 --> 01:05:29,679
system I think could have even been better with the

1573
01:05:29,719 --> 01:05:32,599
sequel with some iteration, and I doubt we're gonna get that.

1574
01:05:32,639 --> 01:05:34,559
So I'm kind of bummed about that, but that's just

1575
01:05:34,559 --> 01:05:35,119
the way it goes.

1576
01:05:35,519 --> 01:05:38,119
Speaker 2: Didn't hit as hard as uh was it Jedi Survivor?

1577
01:05:38,719 --> 01:05:40,079
Speaker 1: I guess so, And I kind of even feel like

1578
01:05:40,119 --> 01:05:43,719
the sequel for that one didn't really move the needle

1579
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,719
a whole lot. It's funny I always forget like the

1580
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,480
title of those games. But I played the first Jedi game,

1581
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:52,800
really enjoyed it and fall in Order, and then I

1582
01:05:53,599 --> 01:05:56,239
borrowed Survivor from Taylor and it was actually over this

1583
01:05:56,239 --> 01:05:57,840
winter break. I was like, oh, I'm finally gonna play that,

1584
01:05:57,880 --> 01:05:59,760
Like I borrowed it from like a year ago, just

1585
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:01,519
having got around it, but I'm still I was like,

1586
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,519
what do I want to play? I have this, went

1587
01:06:03,559 --> 01:06:05,320
to plug it in, realized that he gave me fall

1588
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,480
in Order, and because of how generic the names are,

1589
01:06:08,519 --> 01:06:10,960
I didn't even realize, like I've just had Fallen Order

1590
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,519
to sit on the shelf waiting to go, and I'm like, oh,

1591
01:06:13,599 --> 01:06:15,639
I even downloaded it and everything, and it wasn't ntil.

1592
01:06:15,639 --> 01:06:16,920
I booted up the game and I was like, this

1593
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,079
is the game that I wanted to play. So I'm

1594
01:06:19,079 --> 01:06:20,480
gonna have to wait a bit longer before I get

1595
01:06:20,519 --> 01:06:22,920
to that, but I'm obviously in no rush to get

1596
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:24,599
to it, but yeah, there you go.

1597
01:06:25,559 --> 01:06:26,159
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

1598
01:06:27,519 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: Cool.

1599
01:06:29,039 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 2: My number four on my list, I have Princess Peach Showtime.

1600
01:06:36,079 --> 01:06:39,119
I really really enjoyed this game. I think there was

1601
01:06:39,239 --> 01:06:43,360
certain you know, if you're not aware, there's different costumes

1602
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,800
in different worlds that you that you participate in as

1603
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:49,159
Princess Peach, and it just kind of sets up your

1604
01:06:49,199 --> 01:06:51,599
mechanics for what that world is. And there's some that

1605
01:06:51,679 --> 01:06:54,920
I just didn't love as much as others, but luckily

1606
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,599
there's there's not too much. Like it's it is a

1607
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,840
very family oriented game, like it does, and like the

1608
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,079
mechanics aren't that challenging. But I just had such a

1609
01:07:03,079 --> 01:07:04,719
good time like going through it. I really like the

1610
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,039
music in it, and I just love the different aesthetics

1611
01:07:07,079 --> 01:07:09,800
that they give Peach with their different outfits, and I

1612
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,440
just I'm feasting for Peach games, Like Peach is like

1613
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,960
my favorite Mario character by far, And like Shane and

1614
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:17,679
I were talking about this because she had she had

1615
01:07:17,679 --> 01:07:20,159
a Princess Peach game on the DS. Yeah, I'm pretty

1616
01:07:20,159 --> 01:07:21,679
sure it's the same one that I played like back

1617
01:07:21,719 --> 01:07:26,199
in the day, and really not many other Peach titles

1618
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,400
like like like beyond that. So this is one that

1619
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,239
I was just really hyped for when it was announced.

1620
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,159
Got it. I just had a really great time with it.

1621
01:07:33,159 --> 01:07:35,000
Like it's it's not a perfect game by any means,

1622
01:07:35,079 --> 01:07:37,440
but I really like the story, I like the ending.

1623
01:07:37,559 --> 01:07:40,199
I thought it was a nice cinematic type battle you

1624
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,760
kind of go super Saiyan mode as Peach, which is

1625
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:47,239
always always awesome. So yeah, no, I thought it was

1626
01:07:47,239 --> 01:07:50,360
really fantastic, but it didn't really have enough pizzazz to

1627
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,119
make me want to like go back and replay, Like

1628
01:07:52,159 --> 01:07:54,280
it's kind of just a one, one and done type

1629
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,519
of game, which I mean, it's unfortunate when it's that fun,

1630
01:07:57,599 --> 01:08:00,599
like you just want to have more more time with

1631
01:08:00,639 --> 01:08:02,920
it to sink in. But yeah, no, it's really really

1632
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,719
great and highly recommend it to people. It's it's tough

1633
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,400
at like an eighty dollars mark, I feel like it's sure, yeah,

1634
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,000
maybe not the most value for your buck if you're

1635
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:13,960
I don't know, like it's it's an expensive game and

1636
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,680
intended never does sales, but I don't know, in the

1637
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,039
future if you see how to use game store, definitely,

1638
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:20,600
like I mean picking it up.

1639
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 1: I like that I have the Yeah Zelda game where

1640
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,560
you finally play Zelda and you have the yes is

1641
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:28,600
a Peach game, but like yeah, the Mario game where

1642
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:30,479
you finally play as Peach as the main character.

1643
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, and last thing I'll say too, they're like

1644
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:35,880
there's some really awesome like mechanics that you get with

1645
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:37,720
the different OLP. Like there's like a martial arts one,

1646
01:08:38,079 --> 01:08:40,199
there's one where you're like a fencer, And I'm like,

1647
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:42,880
just get this into Smash like like in some way,

1648
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:45,359
shape or form, whether it's like a different outfit. I

1649
01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:47,800
love Peach, but I never play her in Smash because

1650
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,880
I don't I don't love how buoyant she is, Like

1651
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,960
it fits the character. She's very floaty, but I want

1652
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,760
like a chic type, you know, like like like mechanics

1653
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,279
on that character. So yeah, that's mine.

1654
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:01,279
Speaker 1: I'd be down. I'd be down if they revamped her,

1655
01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:02,560
Like I think you know, they have Daisy in the

1656
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,560
game now, who has the same move set, So like,

1657
01:09:05,079 --> 01:09:07,760
let Daisy have the legacy Peach move set and give

1658
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,199
Peach like this new crazy move set with all this

1659
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,520
all this new potential that she got from this game.

1660
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:15,720
That'd be super cool. And then a at the very least,

1661
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:18,479
all those costumes rather than just having different palette swaps,

1662
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:20,560
Like give us those different costumes. That would be so.

1663
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 2: Cool because even even in the Mario movie, right like

1664
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:26,840
she's she's in a more in your face, kicking ass

1665
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,199
type of way as opposed like a damsel under stress,

1666
01:09:29,239 --> 01:09:31,399
like she's she's using the fire power, like she's just

1667
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,840
popping off in these other media's for the character. So

1668
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,960
it's it's time to evolve the character.

1669
01:09:37,199 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, ditch the dress, like let's just not in the

1670
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,119
nude way, but just like hit her up with like

1671
01:09:41,199 --> 01:09:43,600
get her the striker's outfit, get her the detective outfit,

1672
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,439
super saiyme, like, give her all these cool outfits. Yeah,

1673
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:48,159
because she she deserves it for sure.

1674
01:09:48,239 --> 01:09:50,039
Speaker 2: Absolutely cool.

1675
01:09:50,279 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: All right, we are into the top top three, which,

1676
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,239
as I mentioned, for me, this is the top tier.

1677
01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:58,119
These are the huge, like all timer kind of level games.

1678
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:03,239
Number three for me is Astro Bought. Yeah, I've mentioned

1679
01:10:03,239 --> 01:10:04,680
this for a couple of the games were kind of

1680
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,079
low surprising, you know it's low. I will say top three,

1681
01:10:07,119 --> 01:10:09,159
I don't know, it's it's the game of the year, right.

1682
01:10:09,279 --> 01:10:12,479
Also best Narrative was the narrative, Best game direction, can't

1683
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:14,920
remember best game direction, and then best Family Game. Yeah

1684
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,760
one a few different categories there. Yeah for me, this

1685
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,479
is this is that number three here? Uh and yeah

1686
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,640
this is another one that's like, man, the whole way through,

1687
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:24,560
I just had a great time. There was not a

1688
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:28,039
dull moment in here, it's just constantly giving you new

1689
01:10:28,199 --> 01:10:32,279
crazy upgrades to use and crazy level designs. I loved

1690
01:10:32,279 --> 01:10:35,079
all the kind of PlayStation levels, and I liked all

1691
01:10:35,079 --> 01:10:37,159
the kind of PlayStation shoutouts in there. Of course a

1692
01:10:37,199 --> 01:10:39,000
lot of them went right over my head. But when

1693
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:41,079
I saw Sam porter Bridges in there, I was like, Oh,

1694
01:10:41,199 --> 01:10:43,199
this is the cutest thing ever. I just watch him

1695
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:45,720
do his goofy little animation at the home base and

1696
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:47,640
all this fun stuff. And they even added recently with

1697
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:51,359
the Winter update, they added like a gin outfit like

1698
01:10:51,359 --> 01:10:53,560
from Ghost of Tushima, and so I rocked that. To

1699
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,600
play the bonus level is just the coolest thing. So

1700
01:10:56,319 --> 01:10:59,680
I think the main thing here is that this game.

1701
01:11:00,119 --> 01:11:03,560
I talked about how when I first got and Attendo

1702
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,199
Wii as like, you know whatever, twelve twelve year old whatever,

1703
01:11:06,239 --> 01:11:08,359
howe rolled I was, that was just the coolest thing.

1704
01:11:08,359 --> 01:11:09,920
I just felt like I was engaging with a game

1705
01:11:10,039 --> 01:11:12,800
in like a whole new way. The motion controls all

1706
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:14,159
that kind of thing, and like all the games are

1707
01:11:14,159 --> 01:11:16,920
built around that, And that's kind of what Astrobot feels

1708
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:18,399
like for me, Like I feel like I'm like a

1709
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,039
kid again. The way it uses the controller in just

1710
01:11:22,079 --> 01:11:25,239
like a very fun and creative way. Obviously the like

1711
01:11:25,319 --> 01:11:27,720
PlayStation five and all the things that's capable of, but

1712
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,119
then also just like the things in game when you're

1713
01:11:30,159 --> 01:11:32,560
like building, like every time you're going through main level,

1714
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:34,159
you get like a part that you can use to

1715
01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:36,760
fix the PS five like mothership, and you just like

1716
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,880
do these really fun little tactile robot our movements to

1717
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,880
like pull off the grime, fix it up, dust it off,

1718
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:46,399
put it in, hammer in the in the nails, screw

1719
01:11:46,399 --> 01:11:48,920
in the screws, and like it's just such a fun

1720
01:11:49,079 --> 01:11:53,159
tactile experience. Anytime you get a bot, like your controller

1721
01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:55,199
pops up on screen. Your controller is also like your

1722
01:11:55,199 --> 01:11:58,199
little spaceship, and like where the touch pad is, it's

1723
01:11:58,199 --> 01:11:59,680
like almost like a little hot tub. Like they're all

1724
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,199
just sitting in this little in this little thing, and

1725
01:12:02,239 --> 01:12:04,439
you can just like fling your controller and they'll just

1726
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,199
fly out like a trampoline and fall back in. And

1727
01:12:07,359 --> 01:12:08,880
I just every time I got a new bought, I

1728
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,479
would just like chuck them around a little bit because

1729
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:12,960
it was just so cute and fun, and it's it's

1730
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:14,680
just fun to feel like a kid again playing a

1731
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:17,119
game because it just doesn't. I'm just I'm an old

1732
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:19,520
I'm an old guy. Now I'm almost thirty years old,

1733
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:20,960
you know, I'm old and jaded, and I don't have

1734
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,520
these kind of experiences anymore. But like from just the

1735
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,560
playful notness of it, but then also it just being

1736
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:29,359
a three D platformer collectic on kind of thing, right,

1737
01:12:29,399 --> 01:12:33,359
it feels very like playing Mario sixty four again in

1738
01:12:33,399 --> 01:12:35,600
a new innovative way, but a game that just looks

1739
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,359
insanely good, has really good sound effects, it's really well polished,

1740
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,640
the amount of things on screen, but the game like

1741
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,800
never dropped a single frame, just such an impressive game.

1742
01:12:45,159 --> 01:12:48,039
It's just so fun and bright and cheery and playful,

1743
01:12:48,119 --> 01:12:51,119
and it's just it's just joy for twenty hours straight.

1744
01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:53,119
And then yeah, they added like a new level recently

1745
01:12:53,239 --> 01:12:55,119
went back and played that has a good time. And

1746
01:12:55,199 --> 01:12:57,359
then on top of all that, like they have a

1747
01:12:57,399 --> 01:13:01,920
few really challenging platforming levels in there. I almost wanted

1748
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:03,760
a few more, but I think it's mostly just because

1749
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:05,479
I just didn't want to stop playing this game. I

1750
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,600
just wanted there to be more. It's one that I

1751
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:09,800
went back to, you know, got the Platinum, did everything

1752
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,159
you can and I still just wanted to go back

1753
01:13:12,159 --> 01:13:13,119
and play it some more.

1754
01:13:13,199 --> 01:13:13,279
Speaker 2: So.

1755
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just like every level, you know, as I mentioned,

1756
01:13:16,359 --> 01:13:19,439
kind of in having new bought modes that you're getting

1757
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:22,039
and that's always super fun, especially some of the ones

1758
01:13:22,079 --> 01:13:23,560
like there's you know, God of War level where you

1759
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,439
have Krados's acts and you're using that for a bunch

1760
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:27,680
of puzzles, and that's just that's great. It's so much fun.

1761
01:13:28,359 --> 01:13:31,119
So I yeah, I cannot say enough good things about Astrobod.

1762
01:13:31,159 --> 01:13:34,000
It deserves all the accolades that it's getting. It is

1763
01:13:34,079 --> 01:13:36,840
just the most fun game of the year. I'll put

1764
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,960
it that way. For whatever that means. It's just super

1765
01:13:40,039 --> 01:13:43,239
duper fun and playful and no friction, just great time

1766
01:13:43,279 --> 01:13:43,920
the whole way through.

1767
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:48,119
Speaker 2: Nice, awesome, It's funny. I feel like I'm pretty similar

1768
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,640
to you in the sense of my top three just

1769
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,880
kind of being in a realm of their own. Yeah, yeah,

1770
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:55,800
it's very much. I was just looking at him, like, man,

1771
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:57,720
this is just so much higher than the last two

1772
01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:58,760
that I mentioned.

1773
01:14:00,199 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 1: Number three.

1774
01:14:01,279 --> 01:14:03,159
Speaker 2: It was kind of splitting hairs of my number two

1775
01:14:03,199 --> 01:14:05,840
and number three. I think I am gonna put Hell

1776
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,600
Divers two though in my top three slot purely for

1777
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:11,520
the fact that I, I mean, I was busy this

1778
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,159
summer home runers and stuff. But I feel like I

1779
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:14,800
played the game a lot at the end of the

1780
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,279
year and then just not at all. And then after

1781
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:19,920
kind of getting close to the Game Awards, that was

1782
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:21,720
when I was pop on my radar again. And then

1783
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,279
they had the I don't even think it's a DLC.

1784
01:14:24,359 --> 01:14:25,960
They just had new content that came out with.

1785
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: They didn't have like a kill zone at a kill

1786
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:30,720
zone add on or something like that. I don't even

1787
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:34,840
know that's not out yet they announced it because the new.

1788
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:38,319
Speaker 2: One was with the oh my gosh, I can't remember

1789
01:14:38,319 --> 01:14:41,079
what their name are, but the new species of Threat

1790
01:14:41,199 --> 01:14:45,239
essentially in the galaxy. That's what's out now. They illuminate,

1791
01:14:45,319 --> 01:14:47,520
that's what they are. And uh yeah, I just been

1792
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,399
jumping back in the game again and just it is

1793
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,600
just such a fucking well made game, Like it is

1794
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,760
just so fun to play. I think it's like a

1795
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:58,199
perfect shooter for like where I am in my life

1796
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:02,000
of like not necessarily a grindy type thing like Destiny,

1797
01:15:02,359 --> 01:15:04,680
Like I think it has that like it rewards you

1798
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:06,239
if you really put in time, like you just get

1799
01:15:06,279 --> 01:15:07,920
a lot of unlocks, but it's not like you have

1800
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,520
to get that just to participate in the game. I

1801
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:12,039
was kind of overwhelmed when I came back to it,

1802
01:15:12,039 --> 01:15:14,079
just because I hadn't played a long time. And there's

1803
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:16,760
it is fucking chaotic when you're in some of these

1804
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,279
these matches and you're on like a higher difficulty, which

1805
01:15:19,319 --> 01:15:21,880
means there's like harder enemies, and there's just so much

1806
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,279
going on. And I'm not sure if you remember the

1807
01:15:24,279 --> 01:15:26,279
game well you even played it, but you might have

1808
01:15:26,319 --> 01:15:28,319
seen the game mechanics where like when you call in stuff,

1809
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:30,399
it's kind of like a like a number, like a

1810
01:15:30,399 --> 01:15:33,600
sequencing thing like g cheet code essentially, and you have

1811
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:34,960
to like do them on the fly, and of course,

1812
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,239
but like I just memorize them for like what my

1813
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,840
I did not do that. So like my first game,

1814
01:15:40,039 --> 01:15:42,239
I did on like the challenging difficulty because you get

1815
01:15:42,239 --> 01:15:45,159
more rewards and whatnot. And I was getting bopped, like

1816
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:47,399
you get paired out like you just quick play, so

1817
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:48,920
you just get paired up with whoever. And I was

1818
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,800
with people that are like level one hundred and just

1819
01:15:51,399 --> 01:15:53,720
they were carrying me so hard, and I was just like, man,

1820
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,159
this is kind of unfold because, like, I don't know,

1821
01:15:56,199 --> 01:15:58,960
it's fun to have it a harder difficulty because you

1822
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:01,359
really have to use every thing in your arsenal to survive,

1823
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:04,319
and that's what makes it so such a cinematic game,

1824
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,239
Like when you barely make it out and you're covered

1825
01:16:06,239 --> 01:16:08,560
in bug guts and you have no Ammo left and

1826
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,920
like just Jimmy went flying and you're not gonna recover him,

1827
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,159
like he's just left there, but you have to leave.

1828
01:16:14,279 --> 01:16:17,000
Like those are the moments that just that's like the

1829
01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:20,000
peak of my hell divers experience. Nice, and I feel

1830
01:16:20,039 --> 01:16:21,159
like I kind of want to just like put it

1831
01:16:21,199 --> 01:16:23,039
on like a lower difficulty to go in, maybe even

1832
01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:25,199
just do like a solo run just to like refamiliar

1833
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,520
refamiliarize myself with the mechanics and the like the load

1834
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:31,239
outs and stuff that I'm using, because you have different

1835
01:16:31,279 --> 01:16:34,560
guns played very differently, different load out uh sorry, different

1836
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,079
like kill streaks, air strikes and stuff. They play very differently.

1837
01:16:37,159 --> 01:16:39,720
So I kind of just toned it down the difficulty

1838
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,800
just to you know, kick off the dust in a

1839
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,119
matter of speaking. But uh no, I was talking to

1840
01:16:45,199 --> 01:16:47,279
good ol' holdalgo and he's back on there, so we're

1841
01:16:47,319 --> 01:16:50,399
gonna be jumping in there, and uh, definitely. I don't

1842
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,159
think it's a game pass game, but if ever does,

1843
01:16:52,239 --> 01:16:53,720
we gotta we gotta jump in there and get the

1844
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,800
whole lads together, because it is. It is literally like

1845
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,760
a like an action movie when you when you're in there,

1846
01:16:59,399 --> 01:17:02,079
when you're in there, and yeah, it's hard to like

1847
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:04,640
recreate some of the moments, Like I just feel like

1848
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:06,279
some things that happened in it, it's just hard to

1849
01:17:06,319 --> 01:17:09,000
explain because they're just so chaotic and there's so many

1850
01:17:09,079 --> 01:17:12,520
moving pieces with so many things on screen, and I

1851
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:14,520
never get frame drops or anything, which is just so

1852
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:16,920
nice to have in a game that looks and feels

1853
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:18,960
that good. When it's action packed, you don't want to

1854
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:22,199
be dropping frames and it never is and could be higher,

1855
01:17:22,239 --> 01:17:24,560
but just my lack of playtime throughout the whole year,

1856
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:25,920
I think I had to put it in the number

1857
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:31,000
three slots, but highly highly recommend that game, and yeah, no,

1858
01:17:31,039 --> 01:17:31,880
it's fantastic.

1859
01:17:32,359 --> 01:17:34,239
Speaker 1: That's a good shout out for me, as like one

1860
01:17:34,279 --> 01:17:37,000
that I probably would have loved if I got around

1861
01:17:37,039 --> 01:17:38,880
to it. I forgot to mention that earlier, just because

1862
01:17:39,159 --> 01:17:40,479
you know, when it came out, I didn't have a

1863
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:43,479
PS five or a pcyet strong enough for it, and

1864
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:45,920
I do now. Then it's like, yeah, I was playing

1865
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:47,279
a lot of things in the last few weeks and

1866
01:17:47,319 --> 01:17:49,319
I just didn't didn't feel like picking that up and

1867
01:17:49,359 --> 01:17:50,840
trying to make time for it because I just feel

1868
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,600
like that's not a game I just want to rush

1869
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:55,000
through and play like a bunch in like two weeks

1870
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:56,720
to try and fit it into a top ten. It

1871
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,079
just feels like, well, I should spend more time with overtime.

1872
01:17:59,159 --> 01:18:01,680
So yeah, that's definitely good shout out there, And it's

1873
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:04,520
funny with my number three. Like in astrobout there's a

1874
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,319
mission where you're saving a bunch of the hell Diver

1875
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,960
boss and then like they have their funny little formation

1876
01:18:09,039 --> 01:18:11,479
back at the base and get different little items for them.

1877
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,520
So yeah, good times little PlayStation number three there for

1878
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:19,279
for both of us. Cool. Moving on. Number two for

1879
01:18:19,359 --> 01:18:23,359
me is going to be Blotro. I wish I could

1880
01:18:23,359 --> 01:18:25,640
have the music just come in right here, just like

1881
01:18:26,239 --> 01:18:28,920
ant that up because the music is so good. Yeah,

1882
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,279
this is this is a funny one where I just

1883
01:18:31,359 --> 01:18:33,960
kind of like accidentally put like eighty hours into it.

1884
01:18:34,119 --> 01:18:36,399
It's that's the kind of game it is. Where I

1885
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:38,640
was playing it endlessly, could not put it down, just

1886
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,720
constantly doing runs, want to sneak a run and do

1887
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:43,319
while I'm watching TV. Just I just couldn't put it down.

1888
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:45,079
And then I got to port. It was getting like

1889
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,079
I guess I was getting high enough in the tiers

1890
01:18:47,079 --> 01:18:49,000
that it was getting really hard and almost grinded, like

1891
01:18:49,039 --> 01:18:50,640
I just had to keep restarting and hope I was

1892
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:52,800
getting a good spawn at the beginning, and I was

1893
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:55,680
kind of like, hey, I should just stop playing this game.

1894
01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:58,720
I need to like mindfully tell myself to stop playing it.

1895
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:00,800
You know, you could never like you done with this game,

1896
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,560
because it's an endless roguelike type thing, right, but just

1897
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,640
for the sake of like having a life outside of Balantro,

1898
01:19:07,039 --> 01:19:09,239
like in that Gambler addiction way, I had to be like,

1899
01:19:09,279 --> 01:19:10,880
I have to stopped playing Blotch righty to put this

1900
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,680
game down. I've put eighty hours into it. That is enough.

1901
01:19:14,319 --> 01:19:15,760
And you know, in the last couple of weeks, I've

1902
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:17,600
been trying to play a little bit more just to

1903
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:19,640
kind of I always like to revisit a lot of

1904
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:21,079
my Game of the Year stuff, just to see how

1905
01:19:21,119 --> 01:19:24,359
I feel about it, especially back in December. And yeah,

1906
01:19:24,359 --> 01:19:26,439
it's like the game feel is so good. The sound

1907
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:29,880
effects are Godlike. It's funny too when I mentioned how

1908
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,479
I got my dad to play on his iPad and

1909
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,000
like the game moves so slow because you can like

1910
01:19:35,039 --> 01:19:36,880
turn up like the game speed and I've done that

1911
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,119
over the course of the month. So okay, I'm moving

1912
01:19:39,119 --> 01:19:42,000
along quickly enough. Let me bump this up, bumping up again,

1913
01:19:42,039 --> 01:19:44,079
and so now my game like moves super duper fast,

1914
01:19:44,079 --> 01:19:48,640
but my dad's is like five points, five points, five

1915
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,319
points fifteen, Like it's a very slow roll out now.

1916
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:55,079
But I'm just like in hyper mode, like I'm just.

1917
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 2: Like coming back.

1918
01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's scratch of that same Uno rush itch

1919
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,359
to me. But yeah it's I mean, as far as

1920
01:20:03,520 --> 01:20:06,680
Rogue Legs go, it has so much variety in terms

1921
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:08,720
of the builds and the crazy things you can find.

1922
01:20:09,119 --> 01:20:12,159
I love the vibe. This game is like weird and

1923
01:20:12,239 --> 01:20:16,800
kind of obscure and silly at times too, but like

1924
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,000
it also is never like two over the top silly.

1925
01:20:19,039 --> 01:20:19,199
Speaker 2: You know.

1926
01:20:19,239 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 1: There isn't like characters speaking or whatever, but just like

1927
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:23,520
the design on the different cards and some of the

1928
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:26,880
weird things that you're finding, you know, challenges in there

1929
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,479
to give you specific runs like tearing up all the

1930
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,680
different card all the different decks, which add a ton

1931
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:34,000
of different variety and ways you gotta play. Just in

1932
01:20:34,119 --> 01:20:36,760
terms of roguel like, it just totally nails it. And yeah,

1933
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:38,920
it's really just the vibes. Like this game only has

1934
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,039
one song, but the song is so freaking good that

1935
01:20:41,079 --> 01:20:42,760
you never get tired of it and just puts you

1936
01:20:43,199 --> 01:20:45,199
in that gambler's mood in the same way that like

1937
01:20:45,239 --> 01:20:48,399
casinos have like specific music designed to make it so

1938
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:50,479
you never want to leave. You know, it's like the

1939
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:52,640
same thing here. We're just constantly in the in the

1940
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,159
mood of it. But yeah, it's just like a triumph

1941
01:20:55,239 --> 01:20:57,960
in like game feel like it's just such a juicy,

1942
01:20:58,119 --> 01:21:03,079
good feeling game, really well designed, super duper fun. And yeah,

1943
01:21:03,119 --> 01:21:05,000
I in this last couple of weeks, so like after

1944
01:21:05,039 --> 01:21:06,960
doing one or two runs, I'm like I could easily

1945
01:21:07,039 --> 01:21:09,640
get back into this addiction. Is I constantly play it again,

1946
01:21:10,039 --> 01:21:12,840
trying to trying to stop, trying to hold back because

1947
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,920
eighty hours is enough. But yeah, I just Blotro is

1948
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,319
super duper good and was so impressive. One one developer

1949
01:21:19,359 --> 01:21:23,319
plus one composer. It's crazy that, you know, such small

1950
01:21:23,319 --> 01:21:25,199
scale of a team made like such a huge game

1951
01:21:25,199 --> 01:21:27,880
for the industry. I yeah, I can't say enough good

1952
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,279
things about Blottro. It's just super duper fun and uh yeah,

1953
01:21:31,359 --> 01:21:32,840
number two of the of the year for me.

1954
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 2: Nice hell yeah, Okay, uh top two. This is the

1955
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,960
tricky one for me. I think I'm gonna have to

1956
01:21:43,079 --> 01:21:46,640
put this almost hurts. I'm gonna have to put Stellar

1957
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:49,600
Blade here. That's my number two, now my number one.

1958
01:21:50,279 --> 01:21:53,159
The reason being is because I feel like I kind

1959
01:21:53,159 --> 01:21:55,239
of did this to myself. I was enjoying the game

1960
01:21:55,319 --> 01:21:57,000
so much in the early portions that I just kind

1961
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,359
of committed. I'm like, I'm gonna platinum this game. I'm

1962
01:21:59,359 --> 01:22:02,000
gonna do it. I don't care you go online to like,

1963
01:22:02,079 --> 01:22:06,560
you know, like the trophy walk through whatever it's. Whoever

1964
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,760
makes those also shuts it to these people, because like

1965
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,039
there's just so much in here that I'm like, I

1966
01:22:11,159 --> 01:22:13,439
never would have gotten this platinum ever on my own,

1967
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:17,359
because this game requires multiple like completions to get the trophy.

1968
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,399
And then in this guy, they like break down the

1969
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:21,960
mid Maax way to do it so you don't have

1970
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,960
to play the game four different times. It's like you

1971
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,560
do you basically collect everything you can in the first

1972
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,600
play through, and then you make a save and then

1973
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,640
you like you're able to like kind of redo the

1974
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:33,960
ending without having to play through the whole game ultile times,

1975
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,800
which is just like it's it is a lengthy game.

1976
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:39,359
And also when you're have toing to collect everything, like

1977
01:22:39,399 --> 01:22:42,680
I kind of committed myself to it, it's a slog

1978
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:45,079
at times and again like it's something I didn't have

1979
01:22:45,119 --> 01:22:46,399
to do, but I'm just like I'm gonna do it,

1980
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:48,600
and I'm at the point of no return where I

1981
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,880
I don't want to just progress further on without collecting

1982
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:55,039
everything because I've just made it this far. So that

1983
01:22:55,159 --> 01:22:57,119
kind of like bummed me out a little bit on

1984
01:22:57,159 --> 01:22:58,880
some of the enjoyment I have of the game, and

1985
01:22:59,159 --> 01:23:03,399
it's it's completely self induced. Like the game on its

1986
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:06,399
own is phenomenal. I love the combat of it, I

1987
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:08,920
love the music, I love the world design, just the

1988
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,439
creatures and everything about it. Like they just did such

1989
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,119
a great job with this game. The scale of everything

1990
01:23:14,279 --> 01:23:16,640
just feels so massive in a similar way to how

1991
01:23:16,920 --> 01:23:19,359
Near Automeda does which is some of the battles, it's

1992
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:22,600
just like you're fighting Goliath and you're David, and it's

1993
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:24,159
just like it just feels like I'm on the same

1994
01:23:24,199 --> 01:23:27,399
power level in a certain way. So yeah, I really

1995
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:33,640
love this game. It's just so like well just well made, honestly,

1996
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:35,760
Like like I don't ever get frame drops and it

1997
01:23:36,199 --> 01:23:39,560
looks like it's everything's at four K like all times,

1998
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,600
Like it just looks so beautiful. And that's not just

1999
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:44,920
because the main character, you know, like the world around

2000
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:49,199
it just looks beautiful, even though it's very post apocalyptic

2001
01:23:49,359 --> 01:23:51,399
again in a similar way to Near Automata is like

2002
01:23:51,399 --> 01:23:53,720
they're like everything's like dead in a desert, but there's

2003
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:56,720
still just really there's a lot of beauty in it.

2004
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,479
And yeah, this game is able to capture a lot

2005
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,920
of that same energy and vibe into it. And yeah,

2006
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:05,119
I'm really really loving I haven't rolled credits because I'm

2007
01:24:05,119 --> 01:24:06,880
just on my collectith on trying to get all my

2008
01:24:07,039 --> 01:24:10,319
cans and whatnot, but it's gonna be one that when

2009
01:24:10,319 --> 01:24:11,880
I do get the platinum, I'm just gonna feel like

2010
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:14,159
Frodo tossed on the ring into the Mount Doom and

2011
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:17,159
just feel so happy with it because it's a lot

2012
01:24:17,239 --> 01:24:20,000
harder I think of a Platinum that I was expecting,

2013
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,000
not in the sense of like I have to beat

2014
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,039
a thousand different enemies without dying, but it's just like

2015
01:24:26,079 --> 01:24:29,359
doing everything in an order and like the stick touitiveness

2016
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:33,399
that you need to in order to compete. Come, yeah,

2017
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:36,600
just get over just get over all the collecting. It's

2018
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,199
a little bit challenging. But what a phenomenal game. And

2019
01:24:39,279 --> 01:24:41,239
I'm really glad I picked this one up.

2020
01:24:42,039 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: Very nice. Yeah that's great. Number two, Yeah, great number

2021
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:48,479
two for the year. I'm curious what your number one is.

2022
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:51,039
I have an idea, but I don't know if there's

2023
01:24:51,039 --> 01:24:52,640
a curveball that I'm forgetting about it. But I think

2024
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:56,520
I think I knowed is. We'll see my number one

2025
01:24:57,319 --> 01:24:59,800
for the year. I'll apologize in this events. This will

2026
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,119
probab to be a lengthy see what's talking about this one?

2027
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:04,479
But that's because it's fifty games and one I'm gonna

2028
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:08,000
be talking about you, oh fifty. You know. It's funny,

2029
01:25:08,199 --> 01:25:10,159
as I've been playing this game and I've been thinking

2030
01:25:10,199 --> 01:25:12,239
about my top ten in the last few months of

2031
01:25:12,279 --> 01:25:14,119
the year, it's like, I don't know when exactly the

2032
01:25:14,159 --> 01:25:16,760
point was when this became number one, But obviously, like

2033
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,960
it's just such a big undertaking fifty games and one,

2034
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:21,720
you kind of play them whatever order you want, right,

2035
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,680
So it's like, I don't know at what point it

2036
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:25,680
became my number one, but at some point it's like, oh, yeah,

2037
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:27,159
this is this is definitely my game of the year.

2038
01:25:27,199 --> 01:25:30,000
At this point, I can't put this game down. It

2039
01:25:30,039 --> 01:25:32,319
is so good. There's obviously so much to it. I'll

2040
01:25:32,359 --> 01:25:34,760
give you my my stats here for UFO fifty, So

2041
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,880
I'm at eighty six hours now, and that does not

2042
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:40,039
include some co op I've done, like on other friends

2043
01:25:40,079 --> 01:25:42,239
saves and stuff like that, so probably closer to ninety

2044
01:25:42,279 --> 01:25:46,039
hours as a general thing there. And then the way

2045
01:25:46,079 --> 01:25:47,760
the game breaks it down is like, so when you

2046
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:49,279
boot up the game for the first time, all fifty

2047
01:25:49,279 --> 01:25:50,560
games are right there in front of you. Don't have

2048
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,119
to unlock any of them. They're all just right there,

2049
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,359
and they're all dusty and covered in cobwebs. And then

2050
01:25:55,399 --> 01:25:57,760
when you pick a game you like, dust it off

2051
01:25:57,800 --> 01:25:59,279
and then you start playing it, and then it becomes

2052
01:25:59,319 --> 01:26:01,920
like a blue cartridge that means you've played it. And

2053
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:04,279
then when you've beat a game, you get a gold

2054
01:26:04,319 --> 01:26:07,119
cartridge for it, and then there's like a cherry cartridge,

2055
01:26:07,239 --> 01:26:10,000
And so cherry cartridge is ones you've either beaten the

2056
01:26:10,039 --> 01:26:12,119
game in a harder way. I mean, it has an

2057
01:26:12,159 --> 01:26:13,840
alternative ending. Maybe you beat the game with a certain

2058
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:16,079
high score. Maybe it's getting all the collectibles. It's kind

2059
01:26:16,079 --> 01:26:17,840
of different for every game, depending on what kind of

2060
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:19,520
game it is, right, but a cherry is kind of

2061
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,239
like that's the platinum trophy for every individual game. I

2062
01:26:22,239 --> 01:26:26,640
guess you could say. So right now I have eight cherries,

2063
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:31,279
nineteen gold cartridges, nineteen blue and I think this is

2064
01:26:31,319 --> 01:26:33,239
why I am so confident in this being my game

2065
01:26:33,239 --> 01:26:34,760
the year is I still four games I haven't even

2066
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,079
touched in this collection of eighty six hours. There are

2067
01:26:37,079 --> 01:26:39,520
still four games I have not even booted up. They

2068
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,199
still have collwebs on them on my screen there. I

2069
01:26:42,199 --> 01:26:43,800
haven't even booted them up just to get the call

2070
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,840
webs off. I'm kind of like having something still reserved.

2071
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:48,960
And that's been that way for like probably forty hours.

2072
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:51,359
Like I probably have had just those four games left.

2073
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:53,319
I think that's such a fun part about u FO

2074
01:26:53,359 --> 01:26:56,399
fifty is like how you choose to go through the collection.

2075
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,079
You know, a lot of people they're like, oh, I'm

2076
01:26:58,079 --> 01:27:00,720
gonna start from the first game and go chronology through

2077
01:27:00,760 --> 01:27:03,159
them all. I've been listening to a podcast where they

2078
01:27:03,199 --> 01:27:06,119
literally are dedicating a year to UF fifty and every

2079
01:27:06,159 --> 01:27:09,039
episode every week they're doing one one game the next

2080
01:27:09,039 --> 01:27:11,600
one in the tier. You know, some people will jump around,

2081
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:14,000
maybe some people will go through like certain genres first,

2082
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,239
that kind of thing. For me, I'm really it's just

2083
01:27:16,279 --> 01:27:18,520
going off like pure feel like when I first booted

2084
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:21,119
it up, I just saw a Pilot quest and Pilot's

2085
01:27:21,199 --> 01:27:22,920
character from Splunky, so I'm like, I'm gonna play that

2086
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:25,199
one first, and then it's really just been jumping around

2087
01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:27,640
and everyone saw. I'm like, okay, I need a new

2088
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:29,880
game to play to add in my rotation. Because every

2089
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:31,920
time you boot up You fifty, it's like going down

2090
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:34,159
to have a meal. And I always like to have

2091
01:27:34,159 --> 01:27:36,800
like a little appetizer game, so I play something really

2092
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,000
quick that I don't really think about, and then go

2093
01:27:39,079 --> 01:27:41,239
maybe go to a deeper, longer game than maybe like

2094
01:27:41,279 --> 01:27:42,960
something to close out a little dessert at the end.

2095
01:27:43,119 --> 01:27:44,479
And so I feel like every time I boot up

2096
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:45,880
You for fifty and like Hey, may do I want

2097
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:47,760
like a new game to add in my collection? Do

2098
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:49,119
I want to just like go back to something I've

2099
01:27:49,159 --> 01:27:50,439
played before, or I want to play more of that?

2100
01:27:50,479 --> 01:27:51,800
Do I want to try and get the cherry on

2101
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:53,680
this one game? And so I feel like, yeah, there's

2102
01:27:53,680 --> 01:27:55,640
still four games that I haven't even haven't even touched

2103
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,319
in here. And that's a very exciting thing to quickly

2104
01:27:58,319 --> 01:28:00,239
speak about the package as a whole, Like I I

2105
01:28:00,279 --> 01:28:03,479
love the framing of everything, that everything's given a year

2106
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:06,840
that it came out in this fictional consoles lifespan as

2107
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:08,800
you can, like the first games don't have like a

2108
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:12,760
UFO saff like a developer intro, and then eventually they

2109
01:28:13,239 --> 01:28:15,399
created the developer name, and then that has the intro

2110
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:18,199
for all the games. They eventually start to get like credits,

2111
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:20,960
and they're like a little tidbits you learn about each game.

2112
01:28:21,319 --> 01:28:23,960
And then like in the credits, there's like fictional developers

2113
01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:25,479
that made each of one of these games. You can

2114
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:27,239
track like, oh, this guy directed this game, did the

2115
01:28:27,319 --> 01:28:29,079
art for that one, did the composing for this one.

2116
01:28:29,159 --> 01:28:32,399
It kind of shifts around, and I really love the

2117
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:34,159
framing of all of it. I think that's such a

2118
01:28:34,159 --> 01:28:37,439
fun part about the collection, and then just like the

2119
01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:39,399
things that bring them together, Like they all share the

2120
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:42,399
same color palette, they all have the same resolution. So

2121
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:44,600
even though they're all very distinct different games and they

2122
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:47,119
look and sound and feel very different, they're all there

2123
01:28:47,199 --> 01:28:48,880
is ways that they're kind of tied together. And some

2124
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:51,600
of them are sequels or have certain characters from different

2125
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,600
games in there. So there's a lot of like fun

2126
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:56,920
ways you can kind of put up your really complicated

2127
01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:59,560
map of like yeah, getting out the thread and the

2128
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:01,640
pins and just like how do all these things connect?

2129
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:04,159
What is the story of all this stuff? Is really fun,

2130
01:29:04,159 --> 01:29:07,159
and there's a lot of secrets even deeper beyond just

2131
01:29:07,199 --> 01:29:10,439
the collection itself that I have barely even discratched the

2132
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:12,560
surface stuff. It's like pretty obscure to get to some

2133
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:15,439
of that stuff. And I've like barely, yeah, barely touched

2134
01:29:15,439 --> 01:29:18,640
some of it. So there's a lot of it there. Kirkland,

2135
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:20,880
I'm gonna talk about every game a little bit, so,

2136
01:29:21,359 --> 01:29:22,920
like I said, that's my take, a little bit yere,

2137
01:29:23,239 --> 01:29:24,640
but I feel like, you know, it's my game of

2138
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:26,680
the year. I don't want to praise it, and I

2139
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:28,439
was doing my kind of UFO fifty Game of the

2140
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:31,279
Week thing for a bit there, and I could keep

2141
01:29:31,279 --> 01:29:33,479
doing that. I probably will continue to shadowt games even

2142
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,000
in the new year, but I want to do that here.

2143
01:29:35,079 --> 01:29:37,760
So I've kind of rather than giving like a ranking

2144
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:41,039
of my fiftieth favorite game to my first, because I

2145
01:29:41,039 --> 01:29:42,640
haven't even played all of them me right, I haven't.

2146
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:43,960
I can't really do that. I'm gonna break it down

2147
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:45,319
in the same I'm just gonna have a little tier

2148
01:29:45,359 --> 01:29:47,600
list the same way that the game does. So there's

2149
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,920
the Dusty tier, the four games I haven't played. Those

2150
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:53,439
are Combatants, Quibble Race, val Bras, and Grimstone. And then

2151
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,960
there's the Blue tier. These are games that, like, the

2152
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:57,920
crazy thing about this game is there'sn't a game I

2153
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,520
dislike some of them. I'm like, e, I don't care

2154
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:01,840
much for it, but like they're none They are like

2155
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:05,319
a story of dislike or or dislike playing just in

2156
01:30:05,319 --> 01:30:08,000
a general sense. And then those they'll be So there's

2157
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:09,600
a kind of the blue tiers kind of just the

2158
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:13,159
games that I like. Maybe I'm kind of mid on them.

2159
01:30:13,159 --> 01:30:14,600
I feel like any more time in them, that kind

2160
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:16,760
of thing. Gold tier, those are the games that I

2161
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:20,039
really really love something special I love about them. And

2162
01:30:20,079 --> 01:30:22,159
then the Cherry Tiers like those are like the top tier,

2163
01:30:22,239 --> 01:30:23,880
like the best of the best, the cream of the crop.

2164
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:26,840
So for the Blue Tier, a couple of games that

2165
01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:28,439
I feel like I got any more time with Vanger

2166
01:30:29,079 --> 01:30:31,439
Rock on Island. I just feel like I've barely spent

2167
01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:34,039
time in them. Rock on Islands like a tower defense game,

2168
01:30:34,079 --> 01:30:35,760
I honest is kind of like a SIEV like game.

2169
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:38,680
So obviously there's potential there for me to really enjoy those.

2170
01:30:39,079 --> 01:30:41,800
I just need more time with them. Porgy and Divers

2171
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:44,039
those are two kind of like water, like your water

2172
01:30:44,119 --> 01:30:47,039
exploration games, and they're just a little sluggish, so maybe

2173
01:30:47,079 --> 01:30:48,960
I just need more time in them to get the

2174
01:30:49,039 --> 01:30:52,000
vibe of them, but haven't loved them so far. The

2175
01:30:52,079 --> 01:30:54,159
Great Bell Race, or maybe it's Big Bell Race, so

2176
01:30:54,199 --> 01:30:56,079
I just forget what it's actually called. I kind of

2177
01:30:56,079 --> 01:30:58,039
love this one contextually. There's other games in the collection,

2178
01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:01,079
the Campanella trilogy, and it has this has the same

2179
01:31:01,079 --> 01:31:03,560
controls like your little UFO flying around, kind of like

2180
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:06,720
jetpack controls, but this is kind of like a Mario

2181
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:08,479
Karti type thing. It's kind of like a little a

2182
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:11,239
little racing thing. And I kind of love it contextually

2183
01:31:11,239 --> 01:31:13,880
because in the in the setup of the collection, it's

2184
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:16,359
supposed to be like one of the multiplayer games. It's

2185
01:31:16,359 --> 01:31:18,560
like a launch title with the console that they release

2186
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:20,279
in there, and I almost kind of use it as

2187
01:31:20,319 --> 01:31:22,479
like a training to get better at like Campanella one too,

2188
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:25,239
to like really master those controls. So I love it contextually,

2189
01:31:25,319 --> 01:31:28,279
but like as a game individually, it's just okay. Campanella

2190
01:31:28,279 --> 01:31:30,880
three I haven't fallen in love with yet. Block Kuala

2191
01:31:31,159 --> 01:31:33,279
is kind of like a of course, one of the

2192
01:31:33,319 --> 01:31:35,640
fifty games had to be like a block pushing puzzle game,

2193
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:37,720
and that's what Blockquala is. I haven't found like the

2194
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:41,039
secret sauce to it yet. I've played, you know, eight

2195
01:31:41,119 --> 01:31:42,840
or nine of the levels in there, but you need

2196
01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:46,399
to play more. Planet Zoldath really interesting take on like

2197
01:31:46,439 --> 01:31:49,720
a randomization of like a Zelda type of format. So

2198
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:52,680
it's it's cool, it's interesting, but I gotta maybe dive

2199
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:55,880
deeper in Barbuda is the first game in the collection.

2200
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:58,079
I love it for that because it's such a weird, obscure,

2201
01:31:58,159 --> 01:32:02,399
difficult hard game. It's just a little sluggish to play,

2202
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:04,439
but I have had a lot of fun like creating.

2203
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:06,000
It's kind of like a metro advein and I kind

2204
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:08,000
of had to like do a paper map to help

2205
01:32:08,039 --> 01:32:11,039
figure out everything, so that one's really cool. Paint Chase

2206
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:13,960
really great core mechanic. I think it's just a little

2207
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:16,720
repetitive doing the early levels over and over again. If

2208
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:18,880
you lose a run, you gotta start from scratch, and

2209
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:20,720
it can take It's a pretty slow paced game, so

2210
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:24,199
that can take a while. Devolition is a cool like

2211
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:27,359
chain reaction, like you're almost making like little Rube Goldberg

2212
01:32:27,399 --> 01:32:30,439
machines on this map with like enemies and creating Yeah,

2213
01:32:30,479 --> 01:32:32,880
weird little chain reactions. It's cool. It's just it's a

2214
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:35,520
game that I like accidentally cherried, Like I accidentally got

2215
01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:37,359
like the bonus objective and I was like, oh it

2216
01:32:37,399 --> 01:32:38,880
was I don't want. Took like half an hour forty

2217
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:41,000
minutes to do that, and I was like, okay, is

2218
01:32:41,039 --> 01:32:41,880
there like more here?

2219
01:32:41,920 --> 01:32:42,199
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2220
01:32:42,199 --> 01:32:43,680
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like I've done everything now, so

2221
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,000
it just felt like maybe it was lacking some depth.

2222
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:48,600
And then here like some that I just feel like

2223
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,119
I'm bad at but are really cool. But it's really

2224
01:32:51,119 --> 01:32:52,319
just the fact that I'm not good at them is

2225
01:32:52,359 --> 01:32:54,399
holding me back from like and the more those would

2226
01:32:54,399 --> 01:32:59,560
be fist hel Rakshasa Gulfaria, Kira Mal Caramel, and Starper

2227
01:33:00,239 --> 01:33:01,960
all games that I think I have something really interesting

2228
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:03,760
beyond the surface, but I'm just so bad at them

2229
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:06,239
that like, I just can't. I haven't got deep enough

2230
01:33:06,279 --> 01:33:07,960
to like fall in love with them yet. So those

2231
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:11,279
are the blue tier games. Jumping up to the gold

2232
01:33:11,439 --> 01:33:15,720
tier games. First up, I have Hyper Contender. This is

2233
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:17,000
the kind of the fighting game of the collection, and

2234
01:33:17,039 --> 01:33:18,840
it's like a Smash Bros. Type it. It's a platform

2235
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:21,640
fighter type thing, but like in a more confined arena,

2236
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:23,319
or rather than knocking people off the map, you're like

2237
01:33:23,319 --> 01:33:26,640
trying to knock rings out of them and collect the rings.

2238
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:28,840
Super creative move sets. I really want to play this

2239
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:30,720
one with you and like the other other boys on

2240
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:32,800
the twenty four hour stream when this game comes to

2241
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:35,359
switch inevitably, because it's gonna be really fun to mess

2242
01:33:35,359 --> 01:33:38,399
around with this game. It's really cool. Hot Foot is

2243
01:33:38,399 --> 01:33:40,279
like a dodgeball light game, So like what else you

2244
01:33:40,319 --> 01:33:43,159
gotta say, just like cool, It's like Dodgeball with Hackey sacks.

2245
01:33:43,159 --> 01:33:46,199
So it's just great, super fun. Pin golf is like

2246
01:33:46,239 --> 01:33:49,439
a two D two D golf game. The main mechanical

2247
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:51,520
that like sets it apart from others, because there's a

2248
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,039
lot of golf games like that, is that midway through

2249
01:33:54,079 --> 01:33:56,960
any strike, you can just like hit a button and

2250
01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,560
like we'll dunk the ball like downwards. And so you

2251
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:02,000
can like use like bank it, like bounce it off things,

2252
01:34:02,119 --> 01:34:03,720
or just like get it to like a precise spot,

2253
01:34:03,840 --> 01:34:06,199
or you can like across the map snipe the ball

2254
01:34:06,239 --> 01:34:08,000
and then like try and dunk it into the hole.

2255
01:34:08,359 --> 01:34:09,880
And even if it bounces out of the hole, as

2256
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:11,479
long as it like has touched the hole, then you

2257
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:13,760
get get like it you get that stroke. I guess

2258
01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:16,279
you get the win. And so that's just really fun,

2259
01:34:16,319 --> 01:34:19,520
really satisfying physics on that one. Pilot Quest that was

2260
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:21,920
I'm always gonna be like a bit nostalgic for this one,

2261
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,000
even those games like not that old, I'm already kind

2262
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:25,840
of nostalgic for some of the earlier games I played

2263
01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:28,079
in the collection. As I mentioned, pilot Quest is the

2264
01:34:28,199 --> 01:34:30,960
very first one I boot it up, so it has

2265
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,000
my boy Pilot in there from Splunky, and I like

2266
01:34:33,039 --> 01:34:34,640
this one is like the meta mechanic. This one has

2267
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:38,239
like the you're earning resources like while you're playing other games,

2268
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:40,880
so it's kind of like an interesting meta mechanic to it,

2269
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:44,439
which I really enjoy. Magic Garden just a really good

2270
01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:46,800
kind of arcade style score chaser, kind of like Snake

2271
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:49,359
or something, but with a little some fresh new mechanics.

2272
01:34:50,359 --> 01:34:54,279
Cyber Owls another another gold Cart here. Cyber Owls is

2273
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:56,800
a crazy game. This is the last one in the collection,

2274
01:34:57,399 --> 01:35:00,279
and I feel like it's almost trying to be what

2275
01:35:00,399 --> 01:35:03,479
UFO fifty is as a whole, but like down in

2276
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:05,920
one game, it kind of has like it's it's like

2277
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:09,439
anthropomorphic animals, but it feels like metal gear solid and

2278
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:11,319
like a lot of the vibes of it. And it's

2279
01:35:11,359 --> 01:35:13,319
like five games in one because you have four different

2280
01:35:13,399 --> 01:35:15,640
characters and they all go on like their different mission

2281
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:17,479
around the around the world. You can play them in

2282
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:19,159
any order, and all four of those games are like

2283
01:35:19,199 --> 01:35:22,000
a totally different genre. And then like if someone gets

2284
01:35:22,039 --> 01:35:24,439
if you lose a mission, they like get imprisoned. And

2285
01:35:24,479 --> 01:35:26,520
then there's like this other game that happens when you

2286
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:28,359
can like send someone to go save them, and it's

2287
01:35:28,359 --> 01:35:31,359
like a tactics thing. Uh So it feels like the

2288
01:35:31,439 --> 01:35:33,600
concept of view for fifty boiled down to one where

2289
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:36,479
it's like five genres in one uh, and it's like

2290
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:38,520
the most expansive in terms of like it being the

2291
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:40,680
last game in the collection, like has the most story,

2292
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:44,000
has the most like cinematic camera stuff going on. The

2293
01:35:44,159 --> 01:35:47,159
graphics feel really evolved, like tons of like music feels

2294
01:35:47,159 --> 01:35:49,279
like an evolution. So I really like it as like

2295
01:35:49,279 --> 01:35:50,960
the final game in the collection. I feel like it's

2296
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:53,720
a really well placed there, and it's it's hard, it's

2297
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:57,279
but it's it's really really fun and it definitely has

2298
01:35:57,279 --> 01:36:00,119
like the stealth action element to it, you know in

2299
01:36:00,159 --> 01:36:03,159
the Metal Gear Metal Gear type of way. Shouts to

2300
01:36:03,199 --> 01:36:06,319
that one. We got a lot more here. Kirklum buckalout

2301
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:11,359
Waldorf's Journey. This is a very silly game. It's kind

2302
01:36:11,359 --> 01:36:13,439
of one of those games it has like just really weird,

2303
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:16,199
like intentionally bad controls, and part of the fun of

2304
01:36:16,239 --> 01:36:19,760
it is like getting your positioning just right and getting

2305
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:23,279
your your trajectories and all that. So it was fun

2306
01:36:23,319 --> 01:36:24,840
to get like the goal on it and finally beat

2307
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:26,279
this game. But then it also has like a co

2308
01:36:26,319 --> 01:36:28,880
op mode that is like just a really fun like

2309
01:36:28,880 --> 01:36:32,840
balloon fight esque like competitive thing that you're doing against friends,

2310
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:35,520
which is really fun to do. Moon Cat is a

2311
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,079
really interesting game. It's a two D platformer that the

2312
01:36:38,119 --> 01:36:40,319
controls are just so weird. It's kind of similar to

2313
01:36:40,399 --> 01:36:42,800
Waldorf's Journey in this way that it's like this game

2314
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:44,479
makes you feel like you're playing a video game for

2315
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:46,479
the first time, and that you like have to figure

2316
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:49,359
out how everything works, how like every button, what it does,

2317
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:52,359
how to just move your character properly along the screen.

2318
01:36:52,399 --> 01:36:54,600
I think in terms of like it's really successful at

2319
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:57,359
being that, at being like, here's what playing a video

2320
01:36:57,399 --> 01:36:59,159
game feels like for the first time. You know, I'm

2321
01:36:59,159 --> 01:37:01,680
someone whos played like n of games, but I truly

2322
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:03,920
feel like anyone else playing their first video game here.

2323
01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:06,920
So that's really cool. Mini and Max, this one, I

2324
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:09,720
feel like, is gonna jump up to Cherry the Cherry

2325
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:11,520
tier for me when I play more of it. But

2326
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,039
it is just a huge game. It has that theming

2327
01:37:14,039 --> 01:37:16,119
I love Kirkling of, like shrinking down to be like

2328
01:37:16,119 --> 01:37:19,359
a mini character in a world. But it's what's crazy

2329
01:37:19,359 --> 01:37:21,520
about this is you start out your kid in your bedroom.

2330
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:23,680
You can walk around. It's like only like five or

2331
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:26,000
six tiles wide, like a pretty small bedroom, and then

2332
01:37:26,039 --> 01:37:28,239
you shrink down to like mini size, and now the

2333
01:37:28,279 --> 01:37:31,760
map is like I don't know, probably like thirty screens wide,

2334
01:37:31,800 --> 01:37:33,800
like it becomes a huge map. But then where it

2335
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:35,640
gets like even more insane is that you can shrink

2336
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:38,760
down again to be like microscopic, and so I don't

2337
01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:40,680
even know how many screens it would be. It must

2338
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:43,720
be like a thousand or like hundreds at least, Like

2339
01:37:43,760 --> 01:37:45,920
it is a huge scale, and a lot of the

2340
01:37:45,920 --> 01:37:47,520
stuff you gotta do is like down in that many

2341
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:51,079
tiny realm, so really really crazy, just the scale of it,

2342
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:52,560
and that's where it just feels like this is probably

2343
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:54,880
one of, if not the most expansive game in the

2344
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:57,279
whole collection. But on top of that, there's like tons

2345
01:37:57,279 --> 01:37:59,600
of upgrades you're getting for your character, there's tons of

2346
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:01,760
quests and side quests you're doing around this world, and

2347
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:04,079
obviously because you can kind of go anywhere and shrink

2348
01:38:04,119 --> 01:38:08,600
down in any particular pixel, like you, it's completely nonlinear too.

2349
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:11,479
So just a wild game like like this on its

2350
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:14,000
own could have been sold as like a fifteen dollars

2351
01:38:14,039 --> 01:38:16,520
game probably on Steam, and it would be hugely successful

2352
01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:19,079
just because of how crazy the scale is of it.

2353
01:38:20,079 --> 01:38:22,680
Next up, Onion Delivery is a game that, man, this

2354
01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:25,760
took me so many plays to just like figure out

2355
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:27,920
how to play it. Like you're driving a car around

2356
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,840
the world, but controls are so tight and so difficult

2357
01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:32,680
to get a hold of. But it was so fun

2358
01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:34,960
just getting better at it. It feels like a Simpsons

2359
01:38:35,039 --> 01:38:36,680
hit and run or like a Simpsons road rage, Like

2360
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:38,760
it is kind of like crazy taxi or making deliveries

2361
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,199
around this town. And as you go through the different days,

2362
01:38:41,199 --> 01:38:44,720
like you know, fire hydrants are popping like sludge out

2363
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:47,319
of the sewers, and there's zombies chasing you, and it's raining,

2364
01:38:47,359 --> 01:38:50,800
so there's puddles everywhere. It just gets totally chaotic. But man,

2365
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:52,960
it was really really fun getting better at this game.

2366
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:56,880
Chameleon is a cool like it's like a stealth game

2367
01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:58,600
but like boiled down to a puzzle game, which I

2368
01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:00,640
feel like a lot of stealth games if you really

2369
01:39:00,640 --> 01:39:02,520
think about a Kirkleing, like a lot of Silicons artists

2370
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:05,840
like puzzle games, but in just like a different way, right,

2371
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:07,159
like trying to figure out how do I get through

2372
01:39:07,199 --> 01:39:09,680
this particular room, what's like the specific movements or like

2373
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:11,880
throwing a vase at a wall to distracted guard so

2374
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:13,800
I can sneak behind them, that kind of thing, and

2375
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:15,920
so I be a chameleon. Is really just boiling that

2376
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:19,520
idea down into like a tight way, and I think

2377
01:39:19,560 --> 01:39:21,640
it's a really successful way of doing that. Really fun.

2378
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:25,000
Got the cherry on that one. Elfhazar's Hat is a

2379
01:39:25,039 --> 01:39:28,000
really weird, like top down Zelda like kind of thing.

2380
01:39:28,039 --> 01:39:29,920
I love the theming of it. It's like very magic

2381
01:39:30,239 --> 01:39:32,800
like magician themed. It's very silly, but it has like

2382
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:34,960
a really cool upgrade system where when you're taking out

2383
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:38,000
enemies or de throwing boxes, it'll drop little cards down

2384
01:39:38,319 --> 01:39:40,800
and depend on like the combination of cards you get,

2385
01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:43,319
you'll get like different upgrades. And so it's really fun

2386
01:39:43,319 --> 01:39:45,039
to like figure out what all these different things are.

2387
01:39:45,039 --> 01:39:46,760
And it's like how do I heal? You gotta like

2388
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:48,720
figure out what combo of cards you got to pick

2389
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:50,560
up in order to heal or like which ones you

2390
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:52,800
get to like get better upgrades for your character. A

2391
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:55,520
really really fun game. Really enjoyed that one. And then

2392
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:58,600
Ninpeck is my last gold cart one here and this

2393
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:00,760
one is like my go to app TiSER game and

2394
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:03,159
using that food analogy I said earlier, like every like

2395
01:40:03,199 --> 01:40:05,439
for the first like month or two booting up UFO fifty,

2396
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:08,039
I'd pretty much always boot up like Ninpeck or Velgress,

2397
01:40:08,039 --> 01:40:09,680
which is like a similar thing, and I would just

2398
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:12,000
boot that up. Just have like a fun two D platformer,

2399
01:40:12,199 --> 01:40:13,800
and that would be my appetizer game. I do a

2400
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:16,199
run or two just to get me like warmed up,

2401
01:40:16,239 --> 01:40:19,119
and then I jump into like a bigger experience, but

2402
01:40:19,199 --> 01:40:22,039
super fun game, really tight controls, just super duper fun

2403
01:40:22,159 --> 01:40:28,239
whole way through. Okay, either here and then we'll jump

2404
01:40:28,279 --> 01:40:30,439
into the cherry, the cherry tier games, So these are

2405
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:34,039
the top tier games. First up, Night Manner. This is

2406
01:40:34,079 --> 01:40:37,600
like a point and click adventure horror game. Just love it.

2407
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:42,600
Amazing art, amazing vibes, really great puzzles. I played this

2408
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:44,399
one like a round Halloween and it was like one

2409
01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:46,079
of my favorite horror games of the year. Just really

2410
01:40:46,159 --> 01:40:49,680
enjoyed it. Lords of Dysconia is like a really cool

2411
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:54,199
RPG strategy game where there's like an overrolled map and

2412
01:40:54,239 --> 01:40:56,159
you're trying to plot your root of how you're gonna

2413
01:40:56,439 --> 01:40:59,119
out out fox your enemy. Maybe I'm gonna go grab

2414
01:40:59,159 --> 01:41:00,760
this mine so I can make money. I'm gonna go

2415
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:03,239
to the tavern to buy more adventurers, go to over

2416
01:41:03,239 --> 01:41:05,560
here to grab this upgrade, and like trying to sneak

2417
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:07,880
around your opponent. But then when you actually encounter them,

2418
01:41:08,239 --> 01:41:10,520
you go into like almost like a shuffle board or

2419
01:41:10,560 --> 01:41:13,119
like a pool like tactics game where all your units

2420
01:41:13,159 --> 01:41:16,960
are represented as like these little circular pegs and you're

2421
01:41:17,039 --> 01:41:19,239
kind of shooting them across the board and like bouncing

2422
01:41:19,239 --> 01:41:21,800
them off in like a pool way, but there's so many,

2423
01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:23,520
Like you know, all your units are like knights and

2424
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:26,720
dragons and spiders and vampires and all this stuff, and

2425
01:41:26,760 --> 01:41:30,359
all of them interact and interesting cool ways. It's crazy

2426
01:41:30,399 --> 01:41:33,520
and like the the npcson this, like the computer players

2427
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:35,760
can do like the craziest angles, like they feel like

2428
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:37,720
they're hacking the game, and like somehow you can still

2429
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:41,439
just barely beat them and using like cleverly creative things.

2430
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:44,199
Super duper cool game. I absolutely love it. Somear that

2431
01:41:44,279 --> 01:41:47,119
Attactics is like the it's almost like the top down

2432
01:41:47,159 --> 01:41:50,079
Tactics like fire embloomy game of the collection. But it's like,

2433
01:41:50,119 --> 01:41:52,840
how can we make a tactics game like the fastest

2434
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:55,319
game you've ever played, and so it's like every few seconds,

2435
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:57,800
all the units will shift up on the board towards

2436
01:41:57,800 --> 01:41:59,680
each other in the middle, and so you're just kind

2437
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:02,680
of like quickly replace them, move them, shift the units

2438
01:42:02,680 --> 01:42:04,399
in the right way. And it's very rock paper scissors

2439
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:06,760
in that fire bloom way where it's like, Okay, I

2440
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:08,520
got to make sure, like my spear guy is gonna

2441
01:42:08,520 --> 01:42:10,159
take out the horse, gotta put my archer here to

2442
01:42:10,199 --> 01:42:12,520
take out this night, and it's like all that is

2443
01:42:12,560 --> 01:42:16,039
frantically happening. You can't pause, so it's just constant. But

2444
01:42:16,079 --> 01:42:18,880
I had so much fun, like mastering tactics. Super great

2445
01:42:18,920 --> 01:42:21,720
game bug Hunter, which I talked to you in depth

2446
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:23,920
on side quest about. That's kind of like what if

2447
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:26,199
into the Breach was kind of boiled down to its

2448
01:42:26,199 --> 01:42:28,640
core essence. So I love bug Hunter. That's a great game.

2449
01:42:29,359 --> 01:42:32,479
Party house. This is like the roguelike deck Builder of

2450
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:34,359
the collection. Somehow. This is another game that is I

2451
01:42:34,399 --> 01:42:36,039
feel like could have been sold for like ten bucks

2452
01:42:36,079 --> 01:42:37,880
on its own on Steam and would be one of

2453
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:39,920
the biggest games of the year. It is so good.

2454
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:42,319
It's the goofiest theming of like the goal of the

2455
01:42:42,399 --> 01:42:44,399
game is just to throw the perfect party, and so

2456
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:47,640
you're increasing your rolodex of friends and people that you're

2457
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,680
inviting your party, whether that is yeah, like friends and

2458
01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:53,920
then like you know, hiring a bartender or hiring a

2459
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:57,239
comedian to make your party even better. And it's just

2460
01:42:57,239 --> 01:42:58,880
just a great game. And you know what, on top

2461
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,680
of that, it has like a really fun, like competitive

2462
01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,560
co op mode you can do against your friends, which

2463
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:05,840
is like just crazy. I guess that's the thing I've

2464
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:07,560
mentioned in Passing, like a lot of these games just

2465
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:10,279
have co op too, which is crazy for how ambitious

2466
01:43:10,319 --> 01:43:13,399
this game already was a warp tank really great, like

2467
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:15,640
kind of two D. I don't even know. I guess

2468
01:43:15,640 --> 01:43:18,359
puzzle platform is how you would define it. But it's

2469
01:43:18,439 --> 01:43:22,359
just a really weird game, really great. Every level is

2470
01:43:22,399 --> 01:43:25,640
interesting in some way, and the overworld is kind of nonlinear,

2471
01:43:25,680 --> 01:43:28,399
so you can do things however you want. Seaside Drive.

2472
01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:31,039
There's a few bullet hell games in the collection. I've

2473
01:43:31,079 --> 01:43:33,279
mentioned a couple that were kind of in my blue tier,

2474
01:43:33,359 --> 01:43:35,520
like I just I'm too bad at them, But Seaside

2475
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:37,199
Drive is the one that I was able to get

2476
01:43:37,239 --> 01:43:38,720
pretty good at, and it's kind of themed as like

2477
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:41,600
you're driving this car on this like cool like beautiful

2478
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:44,800
sunset in the background and shooting and like it kind

2479
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:46,520
of depends on where you're moving around the map. Really

2480
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,720
really cool. I really enjoy that one. Bashido Ball is

2481
01:43:49,720 --> 01:43:51,760
probably my favorite co op game in the collection. It's

2482
01:43:51,800 --> 01:43:54,239
like it's like a fighting game, but it's like a

2483
01:43:54,279 --> 01:43:56,520
fighting game tennis game at the same time. Like you're

2484
01:43:56,520 --> 01:43:58,079
just hitting this ball back and forth, but you're playing

2485
01:43:58,119 --> 01:44:01,119
as like Samurais and stuff, and so you're hitting the

2486
01:44:01,119 --> 01:44:02,680
ball in all sorts of weird ways. You figure out

2487
01:44:02,720 --> 01:44:05,039
so many weird mechanics, like if you roll and then

2488
01:44:05,079 --> 01:44:07,079
hit the ball, that'll like do a crazy curve shot.

2489
01:44:07,079 --> 01:44:09,560
You're building up special meter in like a fighting game. Way.

2490
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:11,159
On top of that, it has co op that you

2491
01:44:11,159 --> 01:44:12,680
can do, like you can play with your friend in

2492
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:14,520
a two on two, or you can play against your

2493
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:16,279
friend and a one on one, which is super fun

2494
01:44:17,239 --> 01:44:19,640
and yeah, I just so much fun to play with

2495
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:21,359
a friend. I love this game. And on top of

2496
01:44:21,359 --> 01:44:23,720
it has like a weird rules system where there's like

2497
01:44:24,279 --> 01:44:26,159
technically you can like hit your opponent with it with

2498
01:44:26,199 --> 01:44:28,640
a stick at any point, but like that's against the rules,

2499
01:44:28,800 --> 01:44:30,960
like it's cheating and like sometimes you'll get called out

2500
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:32,800
by the referee on things and sometimes you won't, and

2501
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:34,720
so like, I don't know, it makes for those really

2502
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:36,479
weird system You can also like customize that in the

2503
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:41,239
settings too, So that's great. Kick Club. I don't even

2504
01:44:41,279 --> 01:44:42,199
know what to say about this one. Just a fun

2505
01:44:42,239 --> 01:44:44,119
puzzle platform. You're kicking this ball around. It just has

2506
01:44:44,119 --> 01:44:47,239
a great game feel. Silly enemy designs, like little tennis

2507
01:44:47,279 --> 01:44:49,239
balls that look like Mike Wazowski that are like hitting

2508
01:44:49,279 --> 01:44:52,119
other tennis balls at you, or like basketballs, and like

2509
01:44:52,159 --> 01:44:54,560
ice skates and stupid stuff like that super fun game.

2510
01:44:55,239 --> 01:44:57,680
More Tall one and two a really cool mechanic. I

2511
01:44:57,880 --> 01:45:00,479
talked about that one in depth on Sideway too, where

2512
01:45:00,479 --> 01:45:03,239
More tolls like kind of that seafood thing where're going

2513
01:45:03,239 --> 01:45:05,199
through these levels you're trying to preserve lives to get

2514
01:45:05,199 --> 01:45:09,279
further in just insanely well designed. A great core concept

2515
01:45:09,399 --> 01:45:11,720
that is, and as as I said, there's More Tall

2516
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:14,720
one and two so that that core concept is explored

2517
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:16,279
in two different ways, where one is like a level

2518
01:45:16,279 --> 01:45:18,279
based thing and then one's more like an open world

2519
01:45:18,319 --> 01:45:21,520
setting with like characters that have more in depth move

2520
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:25,359
sets just insanely cool games ones. I'd love to see

2521
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:28,279
that like other developers get inspired by more tal and

2522
01:45:28,319 --> 01:45:32,720
just make games like that. Campanella one and two. Campanila

2523
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:34,600
one is kind of like the Arcady going through with

2524
01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:37,760
these fun jetpack mechanics, and then Split, and then Campanella two.

2525
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:40,800
It's pretty much like Spelunky. It's like the Splunky game

2526
01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:42,479
of the collection. So of course I'm gonna love that

2527
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:44,760
one a whole lot. I finally beat it, finally got

2528
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:46,960
a gold cart. Took me like probably five hours of

2529
01:45:47,079 --> 01:45:49,439
runs just to finally beat the game once. And then

2530
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:50,920
of course I still think of the cherry. There's still

2531
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:53,159
tons of secrets to find in it. So love the

2532
01:45:53,199 --> 01:45:56,720
both Campanella games similar to that Velgress and Overbold are

2533
01:45:56,760 --> 01:46:00,319
the two games that feature Alpha as the main Charactergress

2534
01:46:00,359 --> 01:46:03,000
is like a really fun, juicy reaction platformer, and then

2535
01:46:03,039 --> 01:46:05,760
over Bold is like the risk reward like Battle Arena one.

2536
01:46:06,359 --> 01:46:10,439
Love both those games, just such unreal games. And then lastly,

2537
01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:13,680
kirkland One more game is rail Heist, which I haven't

2538
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:16,039
talked to you one about this game at all, and

2539
01:46:16,119 --> 01:46:18,079
I think this is by far my favorite game in

2540
01:46:18,119 --> 01:46:20,680
the collection, just as a whole like this is not

2541
01:46:20,720 --> 01:46:22,840
a rankless as I mentioned, but like Rail Heist is

2542
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,239
my number one game, and like, first of all, I

2543
01:46:26,319 --> 01:46:29,279
finally beat this game over the last week here and

2544
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:31,840
it was like nine hours long to like beat the game.

2545
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:34,039
Like that's just one game the collection nine hours long.

2546
01:46:35,159 --> 01:46:38,079
I freaking love Rail Heist so much. The theming of

2547
01:46:38,119 --> 01:46:41,119
this one is Cowboys setting. You're playing as the Outlaws

2548
01:46:41,560 --> 01:46:44,199
and you're on this train, on this rail heist, of course,

2549
01:46:44,239 --> 01:46:46,840
and you're just trying to steal the money from the

2550
01:46:47,199 --> 01:46:49,119
from the guards, like the police that are guarding them,

2551
01:46:49,159 --> 01:46:50,920
and then get out. You got to exfol trade at

2552
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:53,640
the end. But it's like it's kind of like an

2553
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:56,319
immersive sim in some ways, Like it's a boiled down

2554
01:46:56,399 --> 01:46:59,359
version of an immersive sim where everything in the game

2555
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:01,439
is like inner actable in like so many different ways,

2556
01:47:01,439 --> 01:47:03,840
where like even the walls you can like bust through

2557
01:47:03,880 --> 01:47:05,520
certain walls with your fists, other ones you have to

2558
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:07,359
like shoot through, other ones you can like blow up,

2559
01:47:07,600 --> 01:47:09,399
and so like. Even though the levels are designed in

2560
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:11,319
the way they are, it feels like you can go

2561
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:13,520
any which way you want if you're creative enough and

2562
01:47:13,560 --> 01:47:16,000
think about them and out of box ways. Something as

2563
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:18,560
simple as like a box is like, okay, a box

2564
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:20,239
can be used as like platforms. You can make like

2565
01:47:20,239 --> 01:47:22,439
a staircases. You can make walls with them to block

2566
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:24,479
off enemies. You can use them as like a weapon,

2567
01:47:24,560 --> 01:47:27,000
Chuck a box at an enemy. Sometimes there's hidden things

2568
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:29,439
inside boxes. You can use it as like a distraction,

2569
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:31,319
throw a box into the wall to get an outlaw

2570
01:47:31,399 --> 01:47:33,159
to go, or get a guard to go check it

2571
01:47:33,199 --> 01:47:36,439
out and sneak by that kind of stuff. I love

2572
01:47:36,479 --> 01:47:38,920
this for like levers too, Like any you know, levers

2573
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:40,760
are a very generic video game thing. You hit the lever,

2574
01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:43,079
it opens a thing. But in this like levers are

2575
01:47:43,079 --> 01:47:44,920
things you can just like pick up and throw around

2576
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:46,920
as well, so they also become like a weapon. But

2577
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:48,439
then because that you can also use them as like

2578
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:52,079
a staircase. You can shoot them from a distance. You

2579
01:47:52,119 --> 01:47:53,399
can like load up your gun and like shoot a

2580
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:55,439
lever from across the map to like activate a thing.

2581
01:47:55,479 --> 01:47:57,560
So really cool, And that's kind of just the case

2582
01:47:57,560 --> 01:47:59,560
for every object in the game. Is like there's like

2583
01:47:59,640 --> 01:48:01,880
chicken and dynamite and cows and all these things can

2584
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:04,439
be just like interacted with in so many different ways,

2585
01:48:05,319 --> 01:48:08,600
and each level, you know, kind of testing you different ways.

2586
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:11,039
That's introducing new mechanics, And I think what kind of

2587
01:48:11,039 --> 01:48:13,199
puts it over the edge for me is that each

2588
01:48:13,319 --> 01:48:15,600
level has kind of like a dishonored like goal to it,

2589
01:48:15,640 --> 01:48:18,640
where like every level can be beaten non lethally or

2590
01:48:18,680 --> 01:48:21,520
full lethally killing every single enemy, or there's like also

2591
01:48:21,560 --> 01:48:23,840
a speed run objective for every level, and I've now

2592
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:25,560
got the cherry for it, so I've got all these

2593
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:28,600
metals on every level, and man, that just made the

2594
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:30,520
game like every level is well designed. You just got

2595
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:32,239
to get the gold to get out, sure, but then

2596
01:48:32,279 --> 01:48:34,640
like trying to get those objective on every level just

2597
01:48:34,640 --> 01:48:36,199
made me fall in love with it so much more.

2598
01:48:36,239 --> 01:48:38,560
Of like usually the non lethal was the hardest thing

2599
01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:40,279
to do because the game is so zany and you

2600
01:48:40,399 --> 01:48:42,920
just random shots are going off and so easy to

2601
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:45,239
accidentally kill an enemy on top of trying to do

2602
01:48:45,239 --> 01:48:47,960
it without even interacting with them. So like interacting with

2603
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:49,640
every level and figuring out how do I do this,

2604
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:51,960
like every level became just a puzzle multiple ways. The

2605
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,800
speed run objective was always difficult, Like it always came

2606
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:56,920
down to like I had one or two seconds when

2607
01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:59,119
I finally got the perfect series of things of like

2608
01:48:59,159 --> 01:49:02,199
pining it all out and then executing perfectly and then

2609
01:49:02,239 --> 01:49:04,079
full lethal. That's kind of like the easiest one, but

2610
01:49:04,079 --> 01:49:06,680
it still is pretty hard on some levels, just because

2611
01:49:06,720 --> 01:49:09,960
you are a one shot kill for enemies too. So yeah,

2612
01:49:10,119 --> 01:49:11,680
just that was what put the game over the top

2613
01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:13,920
for me. I love rail Heist. I was thinking about

2614
01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:16,079
this a lot, and like you a full fifty as

2615
01:49:16,079 --> 01:49:17,880
a collection, obviously it's my game of the year, but

2616
01:49:17,920 --> 01:49:20,000
like individual games, I don't know how many of them

2617
01:49:20,319 --> 01:49:22,119
would have been like quality enough on their own to

2618
01:49:22,159 --> 01:49:23,800
be like in the top ten. You wouldn't expect them

2619
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,720
to write it's a collection of fifty games. I think

2620
01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:28,319
if you bundled certain things, like maybe the Campanella trilogy,

2621
01:49:28,399 --> 01:49:30,399
maybe that would have been in my top ten. But

2622
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:32,319
like Railheist is the one so far, we're like this

2623
01:49:32,359 --> 01:49:34,560
game on its own, I think it would have been

2624
01:49:34,560 --> 01:49:36,399
top five on my list over up with a year,

2625
01:49:36,479 --> 01:49:38,920
and it's just one game out of fifty. So I

2626
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:42,640
absolutely love reil Heist. Can't praise that game enough. And yeah,

2627
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:44,359
like I said, I love so many of the games

2628
01:49:44,399 --> 01:49:46,359
in here, so there you go. I knew I was

2629
01:49:46,359 --> 01:49:47,800
gonna talk about you a full fifty four all. I

2630
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:50,359
want to give it its its flowers. I love this game,

2631
01:49:50,359 --> 01:49:52,439
and I still have so much to do. As I

2632
01:49:52,479 --> 01:49:54,680
mentioned that I all want to get goals on every game.

2633
01:49:54,680 --> 01:49:56,359
I don't think I necessarily want to get the cherry

2634
01:49:56,399 --> 01:49:58,560
objective on every single game, but I want to get

2635
01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:00,279
gold on every single one of them. So that's even

2636
01:50:00,359 --> 01:50:02,119
take me like two hundred hours. I don't know, it's

2637
01:50:02,119 --> 01:50:04,319
gonna take a long time. And as I mentioned, there's

2638
01:50:04,359 --> 01:50:05,840
other games I haven't even played yet. Oh and on

2639
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,840
top of that, one of the games I haven't played Grimstone.

2640
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:10,600
I think it's called is like set in the same

2641
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:12,600
world as rail Heists, so I have even more like

2642
01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:15,000
finding that world, which is really cool. Even if it's

2643
01:50:15,039 --> 01:50:16,439
not like a direct sequel, it's kind of like more

2644
01:50:16,439 --> 01:50:21,399
of an RPG. But I think that's enough for you fifty.

2645
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:23,600
I love this game. It's so good, and I love Kirklyn.

2646
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:25,520
When you were talking about like games you want to

2647
01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:27,800
play it, you didn't get to You just showed it

2648
01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:32,039
out my top three astroift. So clearly on the podcast

2649
01:50:32,039 --> 01:50:34,039
I've I've talked about this thing is pascially enough for

2650
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:37,279
you to see the joy that I found in them.

2651
01:50:37,359 --> 01:50:39,880
So there you go. There's my number one and there's

2652
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:43,239
my top ten overall. I gotta take a sip of

2653
01:50:43,279 --> 01:50:44,159
water here to take it away.

2654
01:50:44,920 --> 01:50:47,760
Speaker 2: I was trying to as you're going along, because like

2655
01:50:47,880 --> 01:50:49,720
some of these titles you you've just talked about in

2656
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:52,479
previous side, I was just like searching up like images

2657
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,760
and I just I fell. I fell behind hardcore early on,

2658
01:50:56,159 --> 01:50:58,720
but no rail heightst this. I just love the aesthetic.

2659
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:00,600
It reminds me of like something I played on, like

2660
01:51:00,600 --> 01:51:01,600
mini Clip or something back.

2661
01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:04,880
Speaker 1: It's so silly. It's such a slapstick, silly game where

2662
01:51:04,880 --> 01:51:07,560
you have crazy chain reactions of things occurring. It's yeah,

2663
01:51:07,680 --> 01:51:09,760
just amazing, awesome.

2664
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,279
Speaker 2: Okay, well that was a fantastic number one. I feel

2665
01:51:12,279 --> 01:51:15,680
like I've been extremely boring for many different rays, many

2666
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:16,399
different ways.

2667
01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:18,199
Speaker 1: It's always a.

2668
01:51:18,119 --> 01:51:21,560
Speaker 2: Weird thing having an EA game on your number one

2669
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:24,960
for the year, especially if it's a sports title. But like, honestly,

2670
01:51:25,119 --> 01:51:26,720
entering today, I think I had this game as like

2671
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:28,960
my number three, but I would have just been lying

2672
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:32,039
to myself. I have over two hundred hours played on

2673
01:51:32,239 --> 01:51:35,600
College football twenty five, which is just so random because

2674
01:51:35,600 --> 01:51:37,279
it's just a football game, like you know, it doesn't

2675
01:51:37,279 --> 01:51:39,760
even have like the craziest in depth like Arcadie game

2676
01:51:39,760 --> 01:51:42,039
modes or anything like that. But this year has been

2677
01:51:42,079 --> 01:51:43,840
an interesting year for me where this is my first

2678
01:51:43,880 --> 01:51:46,640
year I've actually like followed football. It's been really fun

2679
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:49,760
following it. We have a you know, chat on our

2680
01:51:49,880 --> 01:51:52,640
GV discord, so that's been like popping off every weekend

2681
01:51:52,800 --> 01:51:54,960
leading up to the games. And then because I've just

2682
01:51:54,960 --> 01:51:58,079
been in that football mindset, I've just been playing this

2683
01:51:58,159 --> 01:52:03,199
game clearly a lot. Over two hundred hours honestly, probably

2684
01:52:03,199 --> 01:52:05,159
over one hundred of those hours are like just purely

2685
01:52:05,279 --> 01:52:08,119
in like the it's not even called GMO. I think

2686
01:52:08,159 --> 01:52:11,000
it's called Dynasty mode, where you just you're the head

2687
01:52:11,039 --> 01:52:13,039
of a school and you're just recruiting people and you're

2688
01:52:13,079 --> 01:52:15,520
just trying to make the best recruitments that you can

2689
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:17,520
to make just the best team that you have. And

2690
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:20,119
I don't even play the games at all. It's just

2691
01:52:20,319 --> 01:52:23,239
purely like the strategizing of it and just building up

2692
01:52:23,279 --> 01:52:25,760
and like finding where I'm weak in certain areas. It's

2693
01:52:25,800 --> 01:52:28,640
been such a great resource to pair with this being

2694
01:52:28,680 --> 01:52:30,720
like the first year I've actually follow football because I've

2695
01:52:30,760 --> 01:52:32,800
just learned so much about different Like I know like

2696
01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:35,920
all the positions now because I'm like I'm recruiting individual

2697
01:52:35,920 --> 01:52:38,560
players for like who is gonna be where and what

2698
01:52:39,039 --> 01:52:41,199
kind of stats I want them to have that fits

2699
01:52:41,199 --> 01:52:44,600
the best for my specific skit setup or scheme or

2700
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:47,560
whatever plays that we're doing. So it's just been such

2701
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:50,920
a fantastic pairing and it kind of surprised me, like

2702
01:52:51,159 --> 01:52:52,920
how much of actually played this game, because I feel

2703
01:52:52,920 --> 01:52:55,039
like I'm just like every week, I'm just booting it

2704
01:52:55,119 --> 01:52:56,600
up and just doing a little bit at a time,

2705
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:59,359
and then of course when you do that every week

2706
01:53:00,439 --> 01:53:04,119
to now it the hours clearly line up. But no,

2707
01:53:04,239 --> 01:53:05,960
this has got to be my game of the year.

2708
01:53:07,119 --> 01:53:10,560
It's just the best football game ever made, mechanics wise,

2709
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,439
cinematics wise, Like they just did such a great job

2710
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:18,239
at capturing the elements of like a big stadium field.

2711
01:53:18,239 --> 01:53:22,279
The audio feels so good and yeay, especially for like Madden,

2712
01:53:22,399 --> 01:53:23,960
I feel like it's just had a bad rep because

2713
01:53:23,960 --> 01:53:26,279
it's just like they just recycle the exact same assets

2714
01:53:26,279 --> 01:53:28,960
and this one is actually something new, Like it really

2715
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:31,439
feels different than previous Madden games that I've played. I

2716
01:53:31,439 --> 01:53:33,640
even't played all of them, but I don't know. I

2717
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:36,319
played like two thousand and eight and then like twenty eighteen,

2718
01:53:36,359 --> 01:53:38,039
and it feels like the exact same game. So that's

2719
01:53:38,079 --> 01:53:40,239
never a good sign. But this really feels different. It

2720
01:53:40,239 --> 01:53:43,760
feels faster paced and more arcadie than a Madden game,

2721
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,079
which I think adds to just the overall enjoyment of

2722
01:53:46,119 --> 01:53:50,680
the feel of everything. And yeah, the game modes are fantastic.

2723
01:53:50,680 --> 01:53:52,560
It's funny too, because like I don't even watch college

2724
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:54,760
football at all, Like I don't follow it, but I

2725
01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:56,359
know like all about it now because of this game.

2726
01:53:56,399 --> 01:53:58,199
I know, I know like all the school there's like

2727
01:53:58,239 --> 01:54:00,680
over one hundred plus schools in this game, Like it's

2728
01:54:00,760 --> 01:54:05,560
just the roster is insane, and yeah, no, it's it's

2729
01:54:05,600 --> 01:54:08,279
it's just fantastic. I recommend it to a football fan

2730
01:54:08,279 --> 01:54:11,119
out there. Definitely get this over Madden. It's because it's

2731
01:54:11,159 --> 01:54:13,640
made by the same people like EA Sports, but like

2732
01:54:13,960 --> 01:54:16,159
this one really highly rated, and then like the newest

2733
01:54:16,199 --> 01:54:18,680
Madden is just like awful. Everybody says, don't get it,

2734
01:54:18,720 --> 01:54:20,239
like it's just the exact same thing as.

2735
01:54:20,159 --> 01:54:21,880
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, maybe they didn't have like a time constraint

2736
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,119
on college football they're like, yeah, really, whenever you're ready,

2737
01:54:24,199 --> 01:54:26,119
and so they like took more time and more love

2738
01:54:26,159 --> 01:54:28,079
and caring to it, or is Madden's like you gotta

2739
01:54:28,119 --> 01:54:30,600
hit that deadline maybe, like you know, want to missing line.

2740
01:54:30,840 --> 01:54:33,920
Speaker 2: That's probably that's honestly, probably a good point because I

2741
01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:36,960
think the last college game it was like twenty thirteen

2742
01:54:37,199 --> 01:54:39,840
or something, so's it was a long time between that

2743
01:54:39,920 --> 01:54:43,880
one and now, and uh, yeah, it's it's just fantastic.

2744
01:54:43,880 --> 01:54:46,399
It's wild that a football game is my number one. Yeah,

2745
01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:48,680
and like it's just straight up sports, same game, Like

2746
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:50,800
it's not like it's an arcady, you know, like Madden

2747
01:54:51,279 --> 01:54:56,319
Street or something like that. So yeah, it's it's it's amazing,

2748
01:54:56,439 --> 01:54:58,920
kind of surprising. Even coming into today, I'm like, nah,

2749
01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:01,039
it's not gonna be my top one, but it's kind

2750
01:55:01,039 --> 01:55:03,119
of just would have been lying to myself just based

2751
01:55:03,119 --> 01:55:06,159
on like hours alone, Like yeah, I think, hell, two.

2752
01:55:06,079 --> 01:55:09,119
Speaker 1: Hundred hours, Like that's that's impressive. That means that you

2753
01:55:09,159 --> 01:55:11,479
were just couldn't put it down. And I can confirm

2754
01:55:11,520 --> 01:55:14,079
now that I'm on PlayStation and I whenever I see

2755
01:55:14,079 --> 01:55:17,079
you online, it's like, yeah, he's probably playing college.

2756
01:55:17,880 --> 01:55:20,279
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred percent it's a good like laid

2757
01:55:20,359 --> 01:55:23,039
back game too. Especially I'm not playing the games like

2758
01:55:23,039 --> 01:55:24,399
I just have it open, you know, a couple of

2759
01:55:24,399 --> 01:55:26,600
decisions here and there, go make dinner, come back, make

2760
01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:30,000
up more decisions sim some weeks. Yeah, but yeah, I

2761
01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:31,920
think I'm on, Like I think I'm on like year

2762
01:55:31,960 --> 01:55:34,560
eight or something of my school. And I started as

2763
01:55:34,600 --> 01:55:36,479
like a one and a half star, I'm like a four.

2764
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:39,239
I peaked at four and a half. A couple of

2765
01:55:39,279 --> 01:55:42,680
my seniors graduated, which is never great, but uh, it's

2766
01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:45,640
just it's just so fun and then yeah, it's it's

2767
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:46,199
good stuff.

2768
01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:50,000
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm I'm so happy you want to

2769
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:50,960
have it on your list and having it I like

2770
01:55:50,960 --> 01:55:53,239
at number one because I in listening to some other

2771
01:55:53,560 --> 01:55:54,880
Game of the Year podcast I feel like a lot

2772
01:55:54,920 --> 01:55:56,640
of them have been like, yeah, I heard that college

2773
01:55:56,680 --> 01:55:59,319
football is like actually good, but yeah, I didn't play it,

2774
01:55:59,439 --> 01:56:01,039
and I've heard that so much, and so I'm so

2775
01:56:01,079 --> 01:56:03,079
glad that you actually did play and played a lot

2776
01:56:03,119 --> 01:56:04,720
of it and can confirm that, like, oh yeah, this

2777
01:56:04,800 --> 01:56:06,880
actually they didn't phone it in. Like it's so easy

2778
01:56:06,920 --> 01:56:09,600
to say that for EA because they often do, but yeah,

2779
01:56:09,600 --> 01:56:12,119
in this case, they put their heart and soul into it.

2780
01:56:12,119 --> 01:56:14,000
It seems like so, and it's I love that that's

2781
01:56:14,039 --> 01:56:16,479
not even like the football that you're watching the league

2782
01:56:16,520 --> 01:56:18,479
and stuff, but you're still just that into it because

2783
01:56:18,479 --> 01:56:20,199
of how good the mechanics are. That's awesome.

2784
01:56:20,479 --> 01:56:23,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. I feel like with myself too, because I've

2785
01:56:23,119 --> 01:56:26,079
just I've always played these sports games, Like every year

2786
01:56:26,399 --> 01:56:28,439
I've put like on a game's Game of the Year list,

2787
01:56:28,439 --> 01:56:30,079
Like I probably could have mentioned something whether I was

2788
01:56:30,079 --> 01:56:33,079
playing like NBA two K or NHL like all these

2789
01:56:33,079 --> 01:56:35,960
sports games, but they're never like actually good enough for

2790
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:37,520
me to be like, yeah, right, game of the year,

2791
01:56:37,560 --> 01:56:38,760
even though I might have put in a lot of

2792
01:56:38,800 --> 01:56:41,079
hours just for playing with friends or whatnot. Back in

2793
01:56:41,119 --> 01:56:43,600
the day I was a big FIFA player, But like, yeah, no,

2794
01:56:43,760 --> 01:56:46,079
this is honestly the best game I think I've played

2795
01:56:46,079 --> 01:56:49,319
this year, well for myself at least.

2796
01:56:49,399 --> 01:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I sympathize with that, where yeah, that's

2797
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:54,159
like similar to Star Wars outlallsher. I'm like, I would

2798
01:56:54,199 --> 01:56:56,239
be a cooler person if I put mouth Washing out four.

2799
01:56:56,359 --> 01:56:58,119
But you know what, I gotta be true to myself.

2800
01:56:58,279 --> 01:57:00,279
So I'm glad that you were true to yourself because

2801
01:57:00,279 --> 01:57:02,600
that is definitely your Game of the Year. So yeah,

2802
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:07,600
right on, yeah, quick quick recap. So my list number ten,

2803
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:10,840
Indiana Jones' Great Circle, number nine, Animal Well number eight,

2804
01:57:10,880 --> 01:57:14,319
Pacific Drive number seven, out Last Trials six, Mouth Washing,

2805
01:57:14,399 --> 01:57:18,199
five Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom, four, Star Wars, Outlaws, three, Astrobot,

2806
01:57:18,239 --> 01:57:21,399
two blotro and one Ui Fux fifty. What was your

2807
01:57:21,479 --> 01:57:22,560
top five? One more time there?

2808
01:57:22,920 --> 01:57:26,239
Speaker 2: Top five, I got Plucky Squire, number five, number four,

2809
01:57:26,319 --> 01:57:29,520
Princess Peach, and then I have Hell Divers two, followed

2810
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:32,680
by Stellar Blade and College Football twenty five.

2811
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:37,039
Speaker 1: We have nothing in common. Finally, it's funny how that happened.

2812
01:57:37,039 --> 01:57:40,079
I guess. Yeah, Plucky Squire was not yeah, not quite

2813
01:57:40,119 --> 01:57:42,359
a top ten or for me, maybe in my top twenty,

2814
01:57:42,399 --> 01:57:44,560
but yeah, it would have been the closest one I think.

2815
01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:48,119
But yeah, really really fun. Kirklean, thank you so much

2816
01:57:48,119 --> 01:57:50,279
for joining me. Is so much fun. I always loved

2817
01:57:50,279 --> 01:57:53,399
the Game of the Year episode. And yeah, we'll be

2818
01:57:53,439 --> 01:57:55,640
back next week as we always are with more side quest.

2819
01:57:55,680 --> 01:57:57,680
Thank you everyone for listening. Please let us know your

2820
01:57:57,800 --> 01:57:59,720
game there. I want to hear what other people had

2821
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:02,000
for their favorites out there. Let us know and YouTube comments,

2822
01:58:02,079 --> 01:58:04,359
Join the discord and tell us there, or you know,

2823
01:58:04,439 --> 01:58:06,720
leave it in a review on a nice five star

2824
01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:09,600
review of Apple or Spotify or something like that. That

2825
01:58:09,600 --> 01:58:11,199
would mean the world to us too. So thank you

2826
01:58:11,239 --> 01:58:13,800
everyone for listening to this episode and the whole year

2827
01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:17,159
of side Quest, and we will see you again next time.

2828
01:58:17,279 --> 01:58:45,880
Bye bye,