WEBVTT 1 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.800 Hello, and welcome to Games. For After Dark episode ninety seven, 2 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.079 I am your host tomorro Hussein, sitting in a extremely 3 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.439 hot love conversion. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have swamp. 4 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.079 But joining me is Michael Hyam. How are you doing? 5 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:40.039 What's your What they do? 6 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:40.479 Baby? 7 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.759 It's it's yo here in San Francisco. It's been like 8 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.039 a consistent sixty degrees. There has been win advisories and 9 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:49.079 it's been windy as ship for the past three months. 10 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:51.200 And it's not great here. 11 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.479 I come here and it gets hot while I'm over 12 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:56.679 there in San Francisco it's hot. I'm like, where's the 13 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:59.039 British weather? I would love some of that. 14 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.200 Man's not hot, Man's not hot. 15 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:04.760 Also, joining us is always perpetually hot. 16 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:10.719 Jean looks ay, oh, yeah, I've been working out. That's 17 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:18.239 not true. Yeah, you know. I it's hot, but I 18 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.120 got a C in here, so I keep myself nice 19 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:21.560 and nice and cool. 20 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.799 You got a c I can't even hear it was 21 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.719 I turned it off during recording because you would definitely 22 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:29.159 hear it. 23 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:30.560 It's literally right there. 24 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.159 Yeah. And that final alluring voice was the voice of 25 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.599 Jordan Remee, who I imagine was hot, but has now 26 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.879 cut his very luxurious afro and it's probably less hot. 27 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.200 How you feel, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful feeling. I 28 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.120 can go outside and feel the breeze on my scalp again. 29 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.040 It's so cool and wonderful. 30 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.680 You see you look like a different person. I'm like, ah, 31 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:54.920 I miss it. I missed Jordan when he was ninety 32 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:55.640 percent afro. 33 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.159 It's one of those weird things that I'm like, man, 34 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.480 for the first twenty six years of my life, this 35 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:06.480 short buzz cut is what I rocked. And then for COVID, 36 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.879 I grew my hair out over the pandemic, and I 37 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.479 met a lot of people online during. 38 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.599 That past year. 39 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.039 They don't remember you, and so like a lot of 40 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:18.400 people are like, oh, dude, you cut your hair. 41 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:20.560 That's such a different look for you. I'm like, what 42 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.639 do you mean? This is this is my look, this 43 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:23.800 is my normal look you. 44 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:27.479 They're like, who you Just tell them, tell them they're racist. 45 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:28.199 That's all you gotta do. 46 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.879 Damn damn, Yeah, that'd be that'd be a messed up 47 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.080 thing to say to my girlfriend who met. 48 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.520 She's like, I've never seen She's like, I've never seen 49 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.080 the side of you. Before I'm like, no, this is 50 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.719 what normally. 51 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.479 Oh again spicy here in the early mornings of Tuesday. 52 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.080 Also getting spicy is the next two weeks, because we 53 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.919 are in E three season baby, and we are gonna 54 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.439 have a discussion about it. I don't think. I'm not 55 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.560 one hundred percent confident that it's gonna be a structured 56 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.879 discussion because under the topic section there is E three 57 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:11.080 followed by it looks like twenty eight exclamation marks, which 58 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.000 is about as much thought as we've put into that 59 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.080 part of it. But we'll figure it out. This is 60 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.400 how we do. We keep it loose, we keep it breezy. 61 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:20.840 But before we get there, we're going to do what 62 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.080 we've been playing, and we're gonna start with Jean Luke, 63 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:28.240 who has been playing a little video game called Ratchet 64 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:29.919 and Dank Us. 65 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.560 Yeah. I've been playing that Ratchet and dank It's solid. 66 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.960 It's a solid, fun video game. I I don't it's 67 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:42.599 a hard one to talk about in the sense that 68 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.719 you play it and you're like, yep, this is exactly 69 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.120 the Ratchet and Clank that Insomniac has been making for 70 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:56.960 what like twenty years now, Like it isn't reinventing the wheel, 71 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.960 and in some ways, I actually like that's why I 72 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.680 love about it is that it feels like because I 73 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.960 because I went back and I actually replayed the original 74 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:09.039 original Ratching Clank on the PS three the HD edition, 75 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.439 and obviously there's like some things that are you know, 76 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.240 improved in better you know, aiming and camera and of 77 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.160 course the graphics, which we'll talk about, but it's like 78 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.560 you play it now and you're like, you know, you 79 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.040 play Rift Apart and you're like, yeah, this is this 80 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:26.000 is still like a PS two style platforming game, and 81 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.439 I think that's awesome, Like, you know, like that they're 82 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:35.439 kind of keeping that spirit alive because I don't know, 83 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.920 like all those PS two era mascot characters are kind 84 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.560 of gone. You know, there's no Jack and Dax Strain around. 85 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.040 It's like Cooper's like Cooper in Around Crash was back 86 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.680 for a hot minute and then that team got asked 87 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:49.439 to make call of duty for the rest of the time, 88 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.800 so you know, that ain't coming back. Like the Rochet's 89 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:54.920 kind of the the one that's that's stuck around this 90 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.279 whole time, and there's something comforting about it where you're like, 91 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:00.959 you know, it's just like, yeah, it's you know, it's 92 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.560 it's scratching and clank. It's not doing anything amazing. 93 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.759 A single piece of your childhood endoors exactly. 94 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.439 It holds up, you know, for the most part, it's 95 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.839 like it doesn't need to necessarily reinvent itself. It can 96 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:15.199 kind of just be what it is. 97 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.920 Like to kind of real quick summarize that kind of feeling. 98 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.839 It seems like that's a sentiment that has hit with 99 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:25.040 a lot of reviews in a bunch of different ways. 100 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.199 Like we gave it a nine out of ten that 101 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.879 was reviewed by very on Steve Watz, who said he 102 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.319 said Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart is flashy and technically 103 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.879 impressive without feeling self important. It's just a silly, sweet 104 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.959 and earnest as Ratchet and Clank series tends to be. 105 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.680 With the new generation of hardware makes this entry look 106 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.439 and play better than ever. Like the heroes and villains 107 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.600 and their dimensional counterparts, this one may appear different or 108 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.279 carry itself with a new accent, but there's an underlying 109 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.160 truth to the person underneath. At its core, it's still 110 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.480 your trusty old pals on another grand space adventure, and 111 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.439 that's what's important. So it does viewers, it's a bangers 112 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.439 this Yeah, yeah, yeah, that kind of hits on the 113 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.319 on the on the way that Jean Luke was talking 114 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.279 about it. And it is what it is and it 115 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.319 does what it does and that's cool. There's kind of 116 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.519 like another take which I really like. This was from 117 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:26.399 Jean Park at The Washington Post, who basically said, in 118 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.600 a time when sneering, ironic detachment remains in fashion in 119 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.839 some games, has created the rare modern masterpiece with no 120 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:37.959 convoluted agenda, no subtext, just so many reasons to smile 121 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.000 and laugh, which is another way to take that same 122 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.720 kind of it is what it is and it's ratchet 123 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:48.160 as Ratchet is. Ratchet hasn't changed, but the world around 124 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.120 it has changed in a lot of ways, Like we're 125 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:52.560 all a little more cynical, we're all a little more like, 126 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:55.439 you know, we're all a little more like dour about 127 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.839 things and the stuff in games that used to uplift 128 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.120 us in that way, the mascot games have fallen away, 129 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.439 but then you have this. Gene. Park also says this 130 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.360 is the best play session exclusive since Bloodborne, which wow. 131 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.600 Relax Campbell, Jean Campbo, Gen wait, so the best one 132 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:15.360 since twenty fourteen. 133 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.680 Then that is talk enough, and technically, Jean says here 134 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.759 that means that Bloodborne is still the best. Yeah, exclusive 135 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:32.240 big up Jean's figure. Michael and Jordan starting with you, Michael, 136 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.480 interested in Ratchet and Clank? You want to play it? 137 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.399 Yeah, dude, I mean I played a lot of the 138 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.839 PS two mascot era games as well, like like Jack 139 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.399 and Dax or Sly Cooper. Ratchet Clake was my favorite 140 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.160 because I thought it was like the most and it 141 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.000 was the most fascinating because it has that element of 142 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.959 sci fi to it, and I just really like Clank 143 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.839 is so cute. So yeah, I do want to play this. 144 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.480 I played the twenty sixteen kind of reboot ish game 145 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.040 that came out on PS four that was that was 146 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:03.560 dope too. But I am fascinated in Rivet because everyone 147 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.040 the whole internet is blowing up about Rivet and how 148 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:07.319 she's such a wonderful charriacter. 149 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:07.920 It's very good. 150 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.920 Yeah, so I'm I want to I want to get 151 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:11.519 to no Rivet. 152 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.600 Yeah, Rivet's great her. She actually, I would say the 153 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.240 game is Steve talks about a pert view. It's primarily 154 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.920 her game. Like the game is split between so like 155 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.360 each planet you'll kind of bounce back and forth, like, ah, 156 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.399 this planet is going to be playing his Ratchet and 157 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.519 this planet he plays Rivet. But if I were to 158 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.920 add up the total like playtime, I'm pretty sure you 159 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.919 play more as Rivet. It felt that way where it 160 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.879 feels like it's it's focused on Rivet. It's really Rivet's 161 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.200 game that like Ratchet and Clank are kind of here 162 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.360 to help set up, but at some point it feels 163 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.039 like she just sort of goes off on her own 164 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.320 and and I think like Jennifer Hale absolutely knocks it 165 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.519 out of the park as her like no surprise there, yeah, 166 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.159 which is like exactly no surprise. 167 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.159 But yeah, our lives. Our lives are just filled with 168 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.960 Jennifer Hale right now, aren't they? Between Mat and Ratchet. 169 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:01.720 It's a wonderful feeling. 170 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.399 Yeah, she does a great job too, Like I mean 171 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.200 she's got such range, like I can go from like 172 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.600 playing Mass Effect to playing this and like you can't 173 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.840 immediately tell it's her because I think she just knows 174 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.559 how to even like a like you think about it 175 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:16.840 and you're like, oh, that's jend for Hale. But It's 176 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:19.000 like there's something about like the subtlety in which she 177 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.480 just like changes her tone and she feels very like 178 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.600 warm and curious in this game in a way that 179 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.559 you just like instantly like her and you root for 180 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.080 her and you're like a like, I want to yeah, 181 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.240 I want to see what's up with Rivit and like 182 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.960 what's going on with her? In a way, we're like Ratchet, 183 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.000 Ratchet's good to you still, but you know you've I've 184 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.240 played I've played a lot of games with Ratchets, so 185 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.600 uh Rid, it's definitely the standout and I would love 186 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.600 for them to just go all out and do like 187 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:47.840 a full Rivit game. 188 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.039 What's what's her her robot counterpart? 189 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:53.799 Isn't it? 190 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:55.759 Doesn't we see Clank on her back? 191 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.559 Like she find is this game? 192 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:00.360 Is this game? Once? 193 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:04.919 This came out the eleventh, the eleventh, Yeah, so Friday. 194 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.480 Okay, well I'm allowed to talk about it. 195 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:08.840 Yeah, it's in the review. It's in the review, so 196 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:09.799 it's kind in the review. 197 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.440 But they asked you to not get but she does. 198 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.399 There is a because because in the game, everyone has 199 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.600 like a dimensional counterpart, and there is a dimensional counterpart 200 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.639 two Clank in the game okay, and I think they 201 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:23.399 wanted us to not go to in depth on it, 202 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.960 and so I won't. But yes, she has her own 203 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:27.320 dimensional counterpart. 204 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.279 I could totally see them doing a whole Spider Man 205 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.320 situation where they kind of gave Miles his own, like 206 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.639 ten hour separate game that wasn't like, oh, it's not 207 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.879 a full blown sequel. It's like, oh, here's a eight 208 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.879 to ten hour RIVET sequel expansion thing. 209 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.679 Yeah, Jordan, are you interested in this? 210 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:47.440 Oh? 211 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.039 Hell yeah. I was one of those people who, as 212 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.279 a kid played a lot of Nintendo and then when 213 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.159 I was like, you know, I'd like to graduate for 214 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.159 those TEA for teen and m for mature games, I 215 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.879 became an xbox Boy instead of a PlayStation boy. So 216 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:08.840 crash Bly Cooper, Ratchet. I missed all of those games 217 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.080 growing up, Like, I did not play any of those 218 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:15.320 PS two era mascot games. So I'm like, oh, at 219 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.799 least one of them is still around, and this one 220 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.120 is reviewing very well. I'll play this one and I'll 221 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:23.840 finally see what all the hype has been about for 222 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.600 the past two decades. 223 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.799 This motherfucker said, blinks. 224 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:37.080 Blinks, all right, big question. Now kill marry Avoid. No, 225 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:44.960 let's let's do this properly. Fuck Marry Avoid, Ratchel, Crash, Bandicoot, Spiral, 226 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:49.679 Michael your first fuck marry fuck Marry kill fuck Mary 227 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.399 kill shit shit shit shit shit. 228 00:11:53.159 --> 00:12:01.399 Oh killing Crash. Oh I'm killing Crash. I'm gonna smash 229 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.000 with Spiral because that fools. I bet his fire and 230 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.440 I'll marry Ratchet because Ratchet seems like a like a 231 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.120 like a like a wholesome dude to probably take care 232 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:11.320 of me. 233 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.919 John Luke, I was gonna say the exact same thing. 234 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:23.720 Okay, John Luke, Fuck Marry Avoid Sonic Okay, uh Sly 235 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.039 Raccoon Okay, Blinks. 236 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:36.039 Blinks kill Blinks Fox, Sonic, Mary Mary. 237 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.720 You just the whole New Sonic fan fiction. 238 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.240 That will probably only lasts like, uh, he's probably a 239 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.279 one pump chump because he's gotta go. We've all been there. 240 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:58.159 I'm not gonna silence Fox in my head and I 241 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.799 was like, no, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go there. 242 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:01.679 I'm not gonna go there. 243 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:08.720 In fuck Marry kill you get. I can't think of anyone. 244 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:11.200 The zombie you. 245 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:17.399 Got Tie, the Tasmanian Tiger stubs zombie and. 246 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:19.919 Bubby, bob Z. 247 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.200 I do not know who any of those people are, Like, you. 248 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.120 Gotta say them, you gotta sign them later on, see 249 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:27.519 how you did? 250 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.480 So you have to kill Bubbsy? Sure? 251 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.039 Why not kill Bubbsy? And who are the other two? 252 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.480 I can't even remember their names that you said. 253 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.519 Uh Tie the Tasmanian Tiger. 254 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.600 Okay, Stubbs but you don't replace that with replace that 255 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.919 with GAXX. Yeah, that's a better that's a better one. 256 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:47.519 Yeah. 257 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:49.120 I guess I'll marry GaX. 258 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.679 And he's he's gonna cheat on you. 259 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.799 It's fine. I'll divorce him and get half of whatever 260 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:58.240 he has. 261 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:00.440 Do you think he's rich? He does, doesn't have any 262 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:02.440 games anymore. But do you think like. 263 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:05.039 This is a good discussion? 264 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:09.879 Maybe maybe maybe put some of his savings in stocks 265 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.120 and pretty well off? 266 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:13.799 Jordan, why have you been playing? 267 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.279 I've been playing. 268 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.440 Not any cool, exciting games. I've been playing a lot 269 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:25.440 of Resident Evil Village. Finally got around and finished that game, 270 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.360 and it's been talked about a lot, so I won't 271 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.840 add too much to the conversation. I feel like I 272 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.360 land where a lot of people do, where I enjoy 273 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:36.120 the first half of that game, a lot more than 274 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:37.840 the second. 275 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.360 Half of that game. Man. 276 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.000 But it's it's been wonderful to play an eight to 277 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.480 ten hour game again. I had forgotten what that was 278 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:51.600 like after playing like Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Assassin's Creed, 279 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.879 Valhalla and Hollow Night and a bunch of games that 280 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.799 are like forty plus hours long. It's been so so 281 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:00.720 wonderful to go back to a game that I can 282 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.720 play and beat an entire weekend. I'm still I'm still 283 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.000 gonna play near Michael, don't worry. 284 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.600 It's just that that gamelay near the game. 285 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.639 The game is not eight to ten hours, and so 286 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:15.919 I'm playing it in slow chunks. I'm playing in slow chunks. 287 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.279 I'll get back to it after I finished Returnal, which 288 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:20.519 I'm all so. 289 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:25.360 Also, yeah, there's there's a lot more coming out this 290 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:28.639 week too, that I know that we're both hyped about. 291 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.559 It's it's, man, It's one of those things where I 292 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:37.080 always am so sad when pr for indie games are like, hey, 293 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.200 do you want to check out this game? And my 294 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.759 answer is a resounding yes. But at the same time, 295 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.759 I'm like, man, there are so many E three and 296 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.679 play for all and appointments and stuff that we have 297 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.279 that there's no conceivable way I can actually check out 298 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.440 your game. God, I want to play Chickory so bad. 299 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:57.440 I want to play Backbone so bad. 300 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.159 Yeah. Yeah, those those two. Those two caught my eye 301 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.080 because chick looks so cute. 302 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.879 It does, and the music sounds so wonderful. Did you 303 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:10.080 check out their music stream? 304 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:11.159 Yeah? 305 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.559 Shout that's yo. 306 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.360 This is so good. I want to play this so bad. 307 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.919 Why are you coming out right when my schedule gets 308 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.360 so hectic that I'll probably play like fifteen to twenty 309 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.399 minutes of this game a day for the first week, 310 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:29.919 week and a half that it's out, if even that. Yeah, 311 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:36.200 Resident Evil Returnal. I have y'all been watching those uh 312 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:42.600 poke tune animation things, because the latest one that came out, 313 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.799 Oh my god, it's it's OK. They're they're like these 314 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:51.919 episodic Pokemon adventure anime type things that are just better 315 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.480 than the Ash catch them chronicles and every conceivable boy. 316 00:16:55.919 --> 00:17:00.200 Like Ash's continuing Chronicles of Failure. 317 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.519 Is he's won a league. 318 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:03.600 Now won a league. 319 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.400 Now he's won a league, and it is a current adventure. 320 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.720 He has like a decent team like Pikachus still there, 321 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.720 probably like level five hundred now, but he's got like 322 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.640 a dragon Knight and a gang guar and I'm like, oh, 323 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.759 look at a ash like having a decent team for once. 324 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.559 But yeah, Like, the latest episode of Poke Tunes came out, 325 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.640 and it's just about this girl who wants to be 326 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.839 a Pokemon trainer and her parents won't let her, and 327 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.599 she wants to be a Pokemon trainer because her dad 328 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:37.119 like lost in the semi finals to be a Pokemon master, 329 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.480 and you like find out that the reason he lost 330 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.319 and wasn't able to go against the champion is because 331 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:46.440 the person he was facing was the girl that he 332 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.519 eventually married and is the girl's mom. And it's it's 333 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:54.480 this cute, adorable, wholesome thing that I love a lot, 334 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.400 And it's just about this girl learning what it means 335 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.559 to be a Pokemon trainer, and it's a better than 336 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.240 anything that the regular Pokemon anime has managed to produce 337 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:08.200 in like every con Why can you watch these? It's 338 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:15.799 on YouTube? I would say, the original episode doesn't have 339 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.640 English subtitles yet. 340 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:19.240 It's just. 341 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:27.279 On their Pokemon Japan's account, but there's been a YouTuber 342 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.119 I want to say, is their name is Hey, Hey or. 343 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:31.720 Something like that. 344 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:35.599 They've been doing a really good job of translating the 345 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:40.839 poke tune episodes, So yeah, you can do that, or 346 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.799 you can be like me and struggle through the original 347 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:48.880 Japanese version and be like, I watch enough anime that 348 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.839 I can understand anime Japanese enough to kind of have 349 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.400 a loose idea of what they're saying. Is like, I 350 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:59.960 can't speak and understand like real Japanese, but I watch 351 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.039 enough anime that I can understand anime version. 352 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.000 I recognize what that means because I've heard that many 353 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:10.519 times and other media pattern recognition. Yeah. 354 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.759 Yeah, that's that's been my week, playing old dr games 355 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.759 and watching Japanese anime of Pokemon. 356 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.400 Nice Michael hyam hit us. 357 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.319 You you know what the fuck I'm doing. It's Final 358 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:29.119 Fantasy fourteen. What do you want from me? What do 359 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:29.680 you want from me? 360 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:30.599 U yo? 361 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:32.680 Okay? So Ben talked a bit a bit about it 362 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.400 last week. I finally got around to the main story 363 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:39.000 quest of Final Fantasy fourteen Patch five point five to five, 364 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:42.279 and holy shit, that shit is fucking fire, you know 365 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.680 what I'm saying? Because then, like all right, like each 366 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.400 patch has been each patch but obviously builds up to 367 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.079 the next thing, next thing, but this one was kind 368 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.079 of it sets up the beginnings of end Walker, which 369 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:58.599 end Walker is coming out in November. But I always 370 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.240 feel like they're the team is able to do like 371 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:04.319 cool shit within these patches because there's like no expectations really. 372 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.839 But one of my favorite things that they do in 373 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.720 Final Fantasy fourteen is do solo instances where you take 374 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.640 control of other characters. So you play through Final Fantasy fourteen, 375 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:19.480 there's like so many core main characters alongside you, and 376 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.519 it's such a powerful thing when the like characters that 377 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.359 you you've battled with and have been the story since 378 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:29.799 like many many years, and you've watched them do dope 379 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:32.279 shit and cut scenes and when they're like your companions 380 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.119 in battle, but when you get to take control of 381 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.079 them and you get to use their move set, you're like, yo, 382 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:40.039 I am. It's it always comes as a shock to 383 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:42.720 me because they do this sometimes in the in the expansions, 384 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.960 but it always it's always this dramatic moment where like 385 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:47.640 some shit is going down, you kind of don't know 386 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:49.480 where it's going, and all of a sudden, like the 387 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.039 camera does this like this panning thing and then goes 388 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.319 into it goes into you controlling the character, and it's 389 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.160 like boom, now you got to fight as this person, 390 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:58.839 Like I just like lose my shit every time. And 391 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:02.000 so the end of five point five to five has 392 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.200 like this one last big battle uh to set up 393 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.519 the next expansion, and you play as pretty much every 394 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.079 character in the Signs of the Semadon, which is like 395 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:14.599 the core cast, and it's it's really fucking cool man. 396 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.680 They have like this, it's like this board with like 397 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:20.440 these battle plans with like little ambo like figures of 398 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:22.839 each character in the game, and then the camera's like 399 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:25.480 that does like this little monologue thing like, and then 400 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:27.960 the battle took place on this end of the battlefield 401 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000