WEBVTT 1 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:29.000 Hello everybody, and welcome to Game Spot After Dark, episode 2 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.719 ninety nine. We're all we're so close. Just just one more, 3 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:36.359 one more and we hit that. We hit the hunt it, 4 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.280 we hit the hunted. When we're syndicated, we don't have 5 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.000 to worry about it anymore. We get the three runs. 6 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:43.840 We can phone it in after that. 7 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:46.520 We do anything special for one hundred Do we know 8 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.600 that yet? Are we just going to phone it in like. 9 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:54.799 A thing plans? I don't know how impressive it'll be. 10 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:02.000 That's a little rude, but but I'm gonna chat with 11 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.640 the others and see if there's anything else we can do. 12 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:05.640 But I got at least something, a little. 13 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.280 A little something something, Okay, Okay. 14 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.799 So I am John Luke. You're not usual host, and 15 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:13.840 that is because once again Tam and Lucy, they have 16 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.280 been very busy this week with our charity streams. In fact, 17 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:20.959 they are like prepping to do one right now as 18 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.400 of the time of this recording. If you haven't checked 19 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.200 those out, you should. We're raising money for able gamers 20 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.519 all week. I think the last charity stream with Giant 21 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.480 Bombs should be happening as the time of this podcast 22 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.040 going up. But we'll talk more about that later, but 23 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.599 for now, I am joined by a couple special guests. 24 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.040 I've got mister E three himself, Michael. 25 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.480 I am, Yes, I came back last week, but yeah 26 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.439 I am. I am mister three. I was anointed the throne, 27 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.439 so y'all will address me as such, m h. 28 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:00.239 And of course I am joined by Jorge it in 29 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:01.879 where is Silk Song? 30 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:08.520 May starting this morning off with pain Pain every day. 31 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.680 And for the first time on the GameSpot after dark 32 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:23.360 proper Uh Phil lor master of Destiny, uh Hornshaw I 33 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.840 forgot your last name for a second going through it today, 34 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:33.319 It's a lot, really, it's been a long week. Who 35 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.759 would know that doing a bunch of charity streams right 36 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.560 after E three would be very tiring. 37 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.000 John Look's been a champion. You all everyone listening to 38 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.560 this should like go give him all the love in 39 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.520 the world because he's made sure that Play for All 40 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.599 didn't implode on itself following E three, and he also 41 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:52.319 made sure that E three didn't implode. 42 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.800 He made sure he made sure we played for all. 43 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.439 I appreciate that, guys, thank you, But we're here to 44 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:06.479 talk about what we've all been playing. And well, actually, 45 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.800 first Phil because I forget. Because so you've probably heard 46 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.960 Phil if you've done any of our spoiler casts. He 47 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.680 was on our final Fantasy seven to one. He was 48 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.479 on our Medium one that we did at the beginning 49 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.280 of the year with me and Jordan. But Phil, this 50 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.400 is your first time on the podcast proper, which means 51 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:27.240 we have to do the Chris from Dayton, Ohio segment 52 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:34.719 Chris basically summing up Phil. A guy named Chris messaged 53 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.120 us on like our second or third episode and said, Hey, 54 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.240 you guys are great about know who the hell y'all are, 55 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.439 so tell me who you are. So now, every time 56 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:44.759 we have a new guest on, they have to tell 57 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.199 Chris who they are and what they're about. So, Phil, 58 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.080 why don't you tell Chris and the rest of the 59 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:50.919 audience about yourself? 60 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.439 Makes sense? Hey, Chris, my name is Phil. 61 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:55.240 I a. 62 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.360 I was a freelance games journalist for like ten years 63 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.000 before I joint game Spot. 64 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:01.599 So I've been around. 65 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:07.319 I'm in Los Angeles. I like story games and indie 66 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.840 stuff and horror things, and uh, I played a lot 67 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:11.360 of video games. 68 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.199 I don't know man play a lot of video games. 69 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.439 I think Phil plays the most video games. I think 70 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:19.879 Phil's mister video games. 71 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.879 Oh man, I play a lot. 72 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:23.639 Of video games too. 73 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.079 It's upsetting. I don't want to be mister video games. 74 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.600 Do you play do you play Destiny? Do you play 75 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.040 Destiny like Phil does? That's true, no one does. So 76 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:33.959 like who are we to who are we to call 77 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:34.800 ourselves gamers? 78 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.920 Destiney paid my bills for a long time. I've been 79 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.720 covering that game since the first day, and for a 80 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:45.560 long time nobody wanted to do it. So whenever I 81 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.360 was just like bouncing around between outlets being freelanced, I 82 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.199 was always I always end up being the Destiny guy, 83 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:52.639 and I was like, damn fuck Destiny. 84 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.279 It's good now. 85 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.800 So it's like it finally paid off. I'm really into 86 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:00.279 it now. But for a while, there's like. 87 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.920 It's so weird. Game Spot doesn't have any beat reporters, 88 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:10.160 but we do, like unofficially have beat reporters. Like whenever 89 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.879 like Kevin logs like here comes like a Pokemon Go article. 90 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.000 Whenever I see Phil slide into the new Slack chat, 91 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:22.160 I'm like, here comes something about Destiny too. That people 92 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:23.120 cover certain stuff. 93 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:30.399 Here's Michael at three am talking about Final Fantasy Unjapan. 94 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:30.759 Time. 95 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.199 It makes sense, man, That's how you get You gotta 96 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.800 be up for those uh those hot live streams they 97 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.120 have at like what two in the morning. 98 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.879 Hell yeah, hell yeah, disgusting. 99 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.240 All right, guys, well we're gonna get into what we've 100 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.680 been playing. Why don't Why don't we start with the 101 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.279 big one that a couple of us have been playing. Jordan, 102 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.519 I see you said you didn't have to talk about it, 103 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.360 but honestly, I'd rather you, you and Michael talk about it 104 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.319 more than me because I think you guys can express 105 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.680 what makes this game just so darn amazing, and that 106 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:05.240 is Chickery. 107 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.560 Yeah. I want to I want to hear what Jordan 108 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:09.279 has to say about you. 109 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.319 Because Jordan's been saying it's his game of the year. 110 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:13.680 Hell yeah, so good. 111 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:21.519 I would say, like shout out to Natalie Flores, Like 112 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:25.319 Michael's already talked up a bunch, so I don't need 113 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.720 to add much other than the fact that Chickery was 114 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.879 already on my radar. They put out a very good 115 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.000 review on fan bite and I read it and I'm like, 116 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:38.839 uh shit, it's E three. I can't play this now, 117 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.720 but I'll play it at some point. E three passes 118 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:45.480 I jump into this game and like a god damn it, 119 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.720 they were right. They were one hundred percent right. 120 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:49.240 This game. 121 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:55.639 It's fantastic. So yeah, for folks who don't know, Chicker 122 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.800 is a game that launched like right in the throes 123 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.079 of pre E three, so it didn't get too much 124 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:07.079 coverage unfortunately. But it's this game where you're in this 125 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.079 world where there are Wielders, people who ensure that the 126 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.839 world stays and color and everything is beautiful all the time, 127 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.240 and you play as a janitor to the current wielder 128 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:20.560 who keeps their home clean. And then all of a sudden, 129 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.800 all the color just disappears one day and you find 130 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.040 the brush abandoned, and you kind of take it upon 131 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.759 yourself to be the next wielder and color everything in. 132 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.240 And so it sounds very childish, very cute, see, and 133 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.759 it is in that way in some respects. But man, 134 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.680 that game like goes to some dark and interesting places 135 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:44.480 dealing with the facts of depression. I think a little 136 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.759 bipolar disorder in there, the struggles of being an artist 137 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.040 and trying to figure out if you're doing things for 138 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.399 yourself or if you're doing things for the people around 139 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.279 you who expect great things from you, what it's like 140 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.319 to be a mentor or a peer in that world. 141 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.439 It's it's really really good and the story is surprisingly 142 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.959 way better than I thought it was going to be 143 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.800 when first looking at the game, and I'm like, oh, 144 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:14.560 it's just kind of a cutesy game where I get 145 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.439 to color everything in, which doesn't sound bad. I'm totally 146 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.319 down for playing a game where I'm just get to 147 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.519 relax and decide what shade of green I want the 148 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.759 grass to be. But the fact that you add this 149 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:33.919 incredible story on top of it, and I won't spoil it, 150 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.279 I have now beaten Chickory and so now it's like 151 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.240 officially like barring like a surprise release of Silk Song 152 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.840 or something like that. I think Chickery is going to 153 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:48.000 be my game of the year. Like it's it's a 154 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.840 damn good game. The music too, Oh my god. 155 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.559 Like hell, yeah, wants to talk about that? 156 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.559 Yeah, Like, I don't want to go too and much 157 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.279 into this. You know a lot of us have played 158 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:00.919 it and we should all get a chance to say it. 159 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.519 So I like I will just say. 160 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.240 Like Lena Rain, like the composer for this, she had 161 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.360 to once again create a song during a mountain climbing sequence, 162 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.360 and I was worried for her, and I'm like, she's done, Celeste, 163 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.600 She's done mountain climbing music before knocks it out of 164 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:27.480 the park like easily, like a flying Colors. So it's good. 165 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.200 It's good music, really good. Boss Battle music too. Oh 166 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.879 my god, Michael, please like take this from me so 167 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.159 I don't keep guessing about this for like forty five minutes. 168 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.279 Oh the Boss Battle music is wild though, because you 169 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.039 play the game, yeah, you kind of get introduced to 170 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:43.879 the world where it's it is cute to like it's 171 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.240 like so I said this too, is that it's like 172 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:49.240 a coloring book. Sometimes I just treat the game like 173 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.000 a coloring book. It's like, oh, here's a new scene, 174 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.879 you know what. I just want to relax some. I'm 175 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.200 just gonna like, okay, I want the trees to be actually, 176 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.000 like Jordan was saying, I want to be this shade 177 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.000 of green like the ground. Oh, this little steppy steps here, 178 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.879 don't make that like like like a gray like a granite. 179 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.200 I'm like, oh my gosh, she's so cute, and what 180 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:07.440 what outfit color is this person? Because you can color 181 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.440 in every person's outfit to like, Oh, We'm gonna put 182 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.120 a little red shirt on them. Oh my god. It's 183 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.000 so much fun. It's so much fun. But so the 184 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:19.000 thing about the Boss Battle music is that throughout the game, 185 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.759 it's it's very a very very uh how do I say, 186 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:25.120 It's very happy vibe. A lot of the music is 187 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.639 very cute, it's very uplifting. I didn't realize that there 188 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.159 was gonna be like combat sequences, so I was like 189 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:34.360 surprised the first Like in the first fight, I was like, 190 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.480 oh ship and I. 191 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.600 Was jamming out, man, they're trying to kill me damage. 192 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.000 I was talking a blessing about this yesterday, he's like 193 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.320 laying up like it felt. It felt like she was. 194 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:50.480 She went back to the her Celeste bag and then said, 195 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.080 you know, fun, I'm gonna go ham again and make 196 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.360 a make a dope ass like electronic jam out here. 197 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.679 But this the thing about Chickory's music is that it's uh, 198 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.879 it's it's so soothing and it's really warm in a 199 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.799 really weird way where out like just coloring the scene 200 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.919 and there's like this very comforting song to it almost 201 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.240 brought it to you to my eye. It's like chick 202 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.120 or you felt like it feels like a warm hug 203 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.519 that tells you know, it's it's it's okay to to 204 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:18.360 feel things. It's like the the opposite of near, but 205 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:24.000 it evokes like a similar feeling for some reason. Like, yeah, 206 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.600 it's it's really cool. And so I didn't I wasn't 207 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:28.440 sure what the format of the game was, but it's 208 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.279 like an old school Zelda where it's like the tile 209 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.720 tile based world north in like the four Cardinal directions, 210 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:39.519 and it's heavily puzzle based. I think the puzzle coloring 211 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.360 in as as a puzzle is pretty it's pretty fascinating, Like, Okay, 212 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.919 when you when you color the cave this way, the 213 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.000 environment reacts in this way, and this is how you 214 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.840 get to that area. It's not like too complicated, but 215 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.039 it's just enough to kind of, you know, get the 216 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.559 wheels turning in your head. And yeah, they do some 217 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.519 really fascinating mechanics with the different types of paint brushes 218 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.919 that are types of ways you can color the world. 219 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.000 So it's it's it's really cool. It's really creative. Uh, 220 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.600 and it's just so cute. Oh my gosh, the dog 221 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.000 you play. I was just so cute. Everyone was so 222 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:13.759 cute in this game. 223 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.080 What's your guys, what's what's your dog's name? 224 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.600 Tosino Bacon, Yeah. 225 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:26.799 State they I love. I am on board with any 226 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:28.919 game where they're like it's all animals and they're all 227 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:32.759 named after food. Playing like another game, Uh that was 228 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:34.799 like part of the like Xbox Summer Games Fest, and 229 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.879 they did the exact same thing, like, uh, the main 230 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.919 character's name is like Senyle Seed or something. And I 231 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.200 was like, yeah, like let's go like all these cute 232 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.559 foxes and dogs named after food. 233 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.159 Oh, because the game asks you, like what's your favorite food? 234 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.559 I'm like, uh, ship, all right. 235 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.799 That actually fucked me because it's like what's your favorite food? 236 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.720 And like it begins with capital letter and then it's 237 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:05.120 lowercase lowercase lowercase. In my like grammar base brain, it's like, well, 238 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:07.600 if someone asked me what my favorite food was, I 239 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.879 wouldn't do capital B bacon, Like Bacon's not a proper noun, 240 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.519 And so I purposely went into the settings and changed 241 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.320 it to lowercase B. And then like it got like 242 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.559 five minutes into the game before I was like, oh shit, 243 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:22.600 they're asking me what my name is supposed to be 244 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.200 so I'm not the only person in this world who 245 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:29.000 doesn't have like a proper name name, and so I 246 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.960 had to I just exited out and started. 247 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:32.200 A new game. 248 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.919 I refuse to go through this because, like I just knew. 249 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:38.960 I'm like, it's probably fine, but I'm like, no, three 250 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.759 hours go to this, I'm going to be really annoyed 251 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:43.399 that I deed to do this. 252 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.320 I think I think I had a similar thing in 253 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.879 a PERSONA four. I think it was because I think 254 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:51.720 it asked you your name and I put in reverse 255 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.919 because if your first and last name, and then in 256 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.240 Japan like obviously like it's flipped. So then I did 257 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.679 the opposite. I'm like, shit, I'm ten hours into this thing. 258 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.360 I thought I was going to get over it, but 259 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.120 you know what, I'm not because everyone's calling me by 260 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:08.440 my last name and it's weird. So I have it's like, 261 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:09.320 fucking I'll do it again. 262 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.759 As any of y'all played a Chickory co op, because 263 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.240 I played through the entire thing single player. 264 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:15.480 That's what I was going to say. That was that 265 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.120 was gonna be my contribution. I pretty agree with everything 266 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:19.480 you guys have been saying, but I've been playing it 267 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.759 with co op with my partner and it is fantastic. 268 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.200 It's just like the game. It doesn't change the game dramatically, 269 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:32.000 Like essentially the co op partner just gets another paintbrush 270 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:37.360 and like I still control the dog steak and uh, 271 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:41.120 but like they have the exact same like complete freedom 272 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.039 in terms of like color and what they can do. 273 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:47.240 So you just kind of it's like to go back 274 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.159 to the coloring book thing. It's like when you're coloring book. 275 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:50.720 You're doing a coloring book with a friend where it's 276 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.679 like all right, like I'm gonna do the house and 277 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:54.960 you're gonna do the trees and we're gonna like tea 278 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:59.960 tag team this together. So uh, it's just it's just 279 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.240 really wholesome. It's just like it's like the there's like 280 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.559 no stakes to it at all, like except for like 281 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.759 you know, there's like some obviously there's some like combat 282 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:10.559 stuff out there, but when you're just like wandering around 283 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:13.200 and you're just like painting stuff in, like you just 284 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.159 I think the problem we have with the pacing is 285 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.399 that we're like we have to color in everything. Uh, 286 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:24.120 so we're a little like okay, like new new new area, 287 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.240 let's go like all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna get 288 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:32.399 the grass. You do this? Uh man, God send finding 289 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.039 out that you actually could just hold the button to 290 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:37.159 like do like a rapid fill for the grass because 291 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:40.519 we were like at the beginning, we were just slowly, 292 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.480 like manually like scrubbing in like every little thing, and 293 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.279 we were trying to like perfectly do it through the lines, 294 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.399 and like sometimes when you do the house like it, 295 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.200 it'll just go barely off the edge and it's like, 296 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.279 ah no, So if you're like very like if you're 297 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:55.200 that kind of person with your coloring book, this game 298 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.120 might drive you insane. Uh, don't play it that way. 299 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.840 Kind of had to learn that, but uh yeah, I 300 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.240 mean just the co op, it's, like I said, it 301 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.799 doesn't bring anything necessarily, Like it doesn't dramatically changed the game, 302 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:14.480 but it just it is I think, like a perfect 303 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.440 example of like a couch co op style. Like we 304 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.360 both feel like we are heavily contributing, and it doesn't 305 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.159 feel bad that like she doesn't get to like also 306 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:27.399 control her own character, because like controlling the character is 307 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.120 like kind of the least interesting part, Like the paintbrush 308 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.360 is sort of like the main thing you're doing all 309 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.200 the time. So the fact that like she's also able 310 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.799 to contribute, Like, yeah, it just it feels good. We're 311 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.399 painting this world together and it's really wholesome. 312 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.519 I love to see it. I think the last thing 313 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:48.120 I'll say about is that it's surprising how much a 314 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.919 like how much you color in the world, affects your 315 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.399 perception of the world, and that like I was when 316 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.759 I started painting, like entire scenes, like this looks like 317 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.679 a different world than when it's black and white, or 318 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.600 if if someone else colors it a different color, it 319 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:08.920 gives off a very different environmental feel. So yeah, I 320 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.599 just I just thought that was a really interesting thing 321 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.359 where I color in this whole town and like, oh, 322 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.640 that's that's my vision of this town. That's how I 323 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:21.599 see the town. It's probably different from somebody else how 324 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:23.440 they painted in the town, or even if they do 325 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.559 paint in the town. So it's a story about how 326 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:28.960 color affects your world. You know what you know, I'm 327 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:30.960 gonna say with my chest at the beginning of the game, 328 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:35.039 it's about white supremacy. White's taking over the world, and 329 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:36.680 you got to bring color back, you know what I'm saying. 330 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.799 I'm like, yeah, let's fucking do this and cut that 331 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:41.519 out of the podcast. 332 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:46.480 Is so it looks like that's extra work. 333 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.480 For that. All right, Well, moving on, let's go over 334 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.799 to Phil. Phil, you've been playing a little bit of 335 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:01.440 See a Thieves New a Pirate's Life. Is that what 336 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:05.240 it's called? The Yes, the Jack Sparrow Update. I didn't 337 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.200 realize that was like immediately coming out. I assumed when 338 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.759 an outset that was like later this year, But dang, 339 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.039 that thing is out. How is it? 340 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:15.680 It's pretty good. 341 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.279 So I've really enjoyed See a Thieves over the years. 342 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.920 But the thing about Sea Thieves is you need other 343 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.839 people and you need to dedicate like three whole hours 344 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.039 to play the game because everything takes forever, and there's 345 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:30.759 a real good chance you're going to run into some 346 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.640 other people, you know, halfway through whatever it is you're doing, 347 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.200 and they're gonna be completely annoying, and then you're fighting 348 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.039 them for an hour and you're lucky if you sink them. 349 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.720 If you don't, then it's a chase for a long time. Anyway. 350 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:45.839 It's just like all these things are what make the 351 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.039 game cool, but at the same time, it takes a 352 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.000 long time to do anything, and it's not really a 353 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.039 game you can play alone. I mean you can, but 354 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.000 then you're just at a huge disadvantage all the time. Right, So, 355 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.599 what's about the new Jack Sparrow themed stuff is that 356 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:09.079 it's mostly story and they added a while back these 357 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.640 story sections called tall Tales that you can just like 358 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:16.759 they're just like long missions that usually are full of 359 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:19.880 riddles and you know, you're like tracking somebody through the 360 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:21.799 Sea of Thieves and trying to find out what happened 361 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.559 to them whatever. Those are really fun, but again, like 362 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:26.839 you kind of need other people to do them with 363 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.319 because they have checkpoints, but you're probably gonna get dumpstered 364 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.799 along the way anyway. So so okay, So the thing 365 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.880 about the Jack Sparrow content is that most of it 366 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.640 is instanced or at least takes place kind of away 367 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:45.440 from everything else, so the chances of running into somebody 368 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.640 else and getting harangued by them is really much lower 369 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.240 than the normal game. So I was able to play 370 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.079 through all of it alone, and that's kind of nice. Like, 371 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:55.839 see if Thieves doesn't have really yeah, it doesn't really 372 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:59.319 have any solo content and you can just kind of 373 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:02.920 like pop it at least two of the five Tall 374 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.920 Tales that are part of this update, which is free, 375 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:08.440 are instanced, so there's nobody around, like it's whoever you 376 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.720 take in with you, and you know, you're just like 377 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.519 following story around. You find like a skull guy, it's 378 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.640 just his head. He talks to you a bunch like, 379 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:18.839 then you carry him around, you put him on other skeletons, 380 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:21.599 and like self puzzles, it's stuff like that. It's very 381 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.279 like puzzly and story oriented, and Jack Sparrow is walking 382 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:29.240 around talking to and stuff. So you can play it 383 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.599 by yourself, which is just super nice, and it also 384 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:35.200 feels like onboarding kind of content. It's the sort of 385 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.960 thing like if you're jumping into Sea a Thieves because 386 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:39.640 you like Jack Sparrow. The game is gonna teach you 387 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:41.319 how to play it pretty well and you're not gonna, 388 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:43.960 you know, have a hard time with other people, so 389 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.720 all that's fun. It does kind of feel like not 390 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.960 what See of Thieves is most of the time, because 391 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:55.079 it is that sort of single player story oriented puzzly 392 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:57.880 like it's like going through levels. It's like a much 393 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.880 more traditional version of a video game than See If Thieves, 394 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:03.400 ever is See If Thieves is about getting on a 395 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.640 ship and sailing and like, oh, we're gonna go dig 396 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:07.519 up a chest, but then you run into other people 397 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:09.920 who murder you. Like that's that's what the actual Sea 398 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.839 of Thieves game is, and it doesn't really play like 399 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.960 you're like exploring this town and like climbing up on 400 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.000 stuff and using police to move boxes so you could 401 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.640 make platforms, and it's like Skate's not really especially good 402 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.839 at platforming. It's not really especially good at like close 403 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.000 quarters combat with AI enemies. There are a bunch of 404 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.640 those things, and those are things are fun, but like 405 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.079 you fall off them a lot, and combat's a little weird. 406 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.400 It's a little buggy. I've had some issues getting like 407 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:40.720 stuck on boss fights and stuff. Nothing that broke the 408 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.680 game for me personally. So all let's say I've enjoyed it. 409 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:46.640 It's cool, Like it's nice to have it, and I 410 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:48.319 like getting back into Sea a Thieves because that game 411 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.960 is real goofy, like always crazy things are happening. Yeah, 412 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:54.440 and it's nice to have something I can do and 413 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:56.279 see Thieves by myself and like kind of get back 414 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.440 into it. But yeah, I like I would say that 415 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.000 if you're gonna play it like you'll enjoy it, but 416 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:06.920 also you should play See Thieves with some friends in 417 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.240 the way that it actually is, because it's totally different. Yeah, exactly, do. 418 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:16.119 You play with Mike Jo at all? Because I did? Yeah, yeah, 419 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:16.559 I do some. 420 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:18.960 He plays a lot when he gets into when he 421 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:20.880 gets into a game, he gets really into a game, 422 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:23.200 and like, I can't keep up. He's like, oh, yeah, 423 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.119 we're gonna do Arena. I'm a pirate religion. Now I'm 424 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:29.079 like blah blah blahlah. And I got like two hours 425 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.400 a week for this game. Maybe, like I can't. I 426 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:35.000 can't do everything he did all the time. Okay, so 427 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:37.839 they're a separate from the Jack Sparrow stuff. There are 428 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.440 ten other tall tales in the game that are long. 429 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.000 They take a long time to do. He burned through 430 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.480 all of them the other day. He did all of 431 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:48.319 them in a row. 432 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:51.839 Maybe he's just like maybe he's mister video games. He 433 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:52.480 is due. 434 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.880 It was intense, Like he's very good at it too, 435 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:58.160 Like I feel I like playing with him, but also 436 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:02.039 sometimes I'm like, shit, I'm not good enough. I'm really 437 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.039 worried that I'm gonna hold back our team right. 438 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:06.519 Now, this dude's a legend. They sing songs about him 439 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:07.559 on certain service. 440 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.640 He is legitimately like maxed out a lot of that game. 441 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.599 It's damn, this takes forever. That's dedication. 442 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:15.160 I have. 443 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.039 I have one question though, about the Jack Sparrow or 444 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:20.880 about what is it called Pirate's Life. Does does Jack 445 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:24.000 Sparrow ever turn to the camera and say, this really 446 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:29.799 is a s I love. I love that. I don't know. 447 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.559 He doesn't say that in particular, but he does say 448 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:35.279 they say see a thieves a lot. He says a 449 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.319 lot of his like pirates lines, a lot of things. 450 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:40.920 You're gonna you're gonna hear things you recognize and figure 451 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:41.680 out like a fan. 452 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:43.240 Like damn, they. 453 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.039 Sing that Yoho Pirate's Life for Me song constantly. 454 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.359 It is like, here's the ship that you want? 455 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:57.599 Is the actual Pirates of the Caribbean theme, play anymoy oh? 456 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:01.279 Yeah, Like it's it's sort of like woven in, you know, 457 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:02.920 like they do some cool stuff with music. It kind 458 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.440 of mixes in with the Sea of Thieves theme and stuff. 459 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:09.000 So yeah, like it's it's we're calling it, but it 460 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.480 feels like its own thing. But yeah, especially if you 461 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:13.279 like the ride. Like there's a lot of stuff from 462 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:15.119 the movies in this obviously, but if you like the 463 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:19.119 Disneyland ride, a lot of these levels feel single playery 464 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.079 because they're like recreating the ride in a really like 465 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:27.480 sort of a one to one way. There's one tall 466 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:30.000 tale where you like end up in a town where 467 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:34.160 it's being attacked by pirates. It's being attacked by Barbosa, 468 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:38.519 the pirate guy, the villain from the first movie, and 469 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:40.839 they're looking for Jack Sparrow and you look for him too, 470 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:43.039 but you're running around and it feels like you're running 471 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:46.119 through like Disneyland. They're like clutches of pirates like having 472 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:48.000 an auction and a few other guys like singing a 473 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:50.200 song and they're drunk in another corner and. 474 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:52.160 You're just like dunked in a pool of water. And 475 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:54.319 that's the one that happens. 476 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:57.880 Whereas like, we know you haven't been able to go 477 00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:59.440 to Disneyland for the past year. 478 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.559 Yes, it's like, yeah, I assume maybe they cut out 479 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.240 the part where they're like chasing women around. 480 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.079 Like that part's not in it. 481 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.000 They probably probably cut that part out. I assume that's 482 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:12.920 been cut out of the actual ride of this I think. 483 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.079 They probably recently cut that out of the ride. 484 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.400 Yes, I'm amazed that Rare was able to keep this 485 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.519 whole thing a secret and then announce it and be like, oh, 486 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:25.759 and it's coming out in like a few weeks, because 487 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:31.200 apparently they secured this deal back at E three twenty nineteen, 488 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:34.920 which is why they were so excited all those years ago. 489 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.359 And a bunch of people were like, oh, I guess 490 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.920 Rare is just really happy that they were finally able 491 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:44.440 to announce Battle toads Or and it's like, like, why 492 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.920 are all the people at Rare are like so happy. 493 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:49.480 It's like it's just because they had just talked to 494 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:51.920 that Disney. We're doing Pirates. 495 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:54.200 It's legit too, like. 496 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:56.440 They they definitely put in a lot of work and 497 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.519 did like a lot of Disney due diligence, you know 498 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.240 what I mean. It feels like they really tapped into 499 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.240 all the you know, the ride stuff and the movie stuff. 500 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:09.000 A bunch of characters from all those things show up. 501 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:12.799 The guy who the voices Jack spar is the same 502 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.519 guy that voices Jack Sparrow in Kingdom Hearts, and it's 503 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:18.359 like does a really great job, but it's it's it's 504 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:19.839 they put the work in for sure. 505 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:22.839 It's cool, solid dude. 506 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:25.799 Hell yeah, I'm excited. I I'm wanting to check that out. 507 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:28.559 I've been like interested in seeing Thieves on and off, 508 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:30.839 but I've just never had like a group of people 509 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:33.480 to play it with. And I'm like trying to convince 510 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.119 my partner. I'm like, hey, like you want to play 511 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:38.359 some Sea Thieves is free on game Pass And They're like, no, 512 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:44.200 I'm not really interested. And I'm like, okay, so maybe 513 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:46.440 one day I'll find someone to play that with. 514 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.160 Just it's just pets now they have pets. 515 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.440 Oh maybe that'll you know what, that actually might convince her. 516 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.880 I have a I have a monkey and orange monkey 517 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:55.039 called small Charles. 518 00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.599 You know what. Yeah, okay, that'll be my new strategy. 519 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.039 I'll be like, dude, there's something monkey. You can get 520 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:04.160 other dogs. They're like there are dogs now, okay, there 521 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:06.000 are dogs? Yes, all right, I think I can. 522 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.200 You can also get the dog with the keys from 523 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:09.880 the ride. 524 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:15.720 Excellent. Well, all right, moving on, Michael, tell me about anime. 525 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:21.359 So there's Xbox anime. Well just Xbox right, it's it's. 526 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:24.880 I've been playing on PS five. Tom about Scarlet Nexus 527 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:28.519 some real anime bullshit, Oh my god, the new joint 528 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:32.759 from Bandy Namco where anime boy fights against monsters with 529 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:36.680 anime girl who also fights monsters. Uh, it's you know what. 530 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.640 I previewed it. I talked a little bit about it 531 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:43.319 some episodes ago and Holy ship, Yo, Scarlet Nexus is 532 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:45.799 that combat system in this game is fucking wild. 533 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:51.440 It is so good like I was, because it's like wild. 534 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:54.200 Know this, you know this comment system is so cool 535 00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:57.920 like it has it has some so it's it plays 536 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.960 kind of think of it as a sort of Platinum 537 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:04.720 game style action. The only there there are some some 538 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.640 things I some grapes I have with it. It does 539 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:10.599 feel a little sticky, like sometimes inputs don't register when 540 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:13.519 you're in the middle of combos, so it's not exactly 541 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.359 as smooth as a Platinum game. But holy shit, they 542 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:18.960 have like so many different mechanics and systems at play 543 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:22.680 that make it so fascinating. I think like there's there's 544 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:27.039 sort of like this elemental thing where you have electricity, water, fire, 545 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.440 and also ship. But so how how do I back 546 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:31.720 Let me back it up a second, y know, I 547 00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:36.319 am fucked up this morning. So yes, you control a 548 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.519 at the start of the game, you can either play 549 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.599 as the male protagonist or the female protagonist. I chose 550 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.480 to anime girl because she's badass. 551 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:44.000 Yo. 552 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:46.720 She had yo. She has gray hair and red eyes, 553 00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:47.599 and I'm like, that's all. 554 00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:50.720 I played. 555 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:53.799 I was playing the sword art band I Namco's other joint. 556 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.240 I think it was band Namco. They did a sword 557 00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.680 art game and that's I think it's Fatal Bullet. But 558 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.759 I made That's how I made my character. I was like, Yo, 559 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.440 this is my creative anime character right here. If it's 560 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:07.839 not she a, it's a it's an anime girl with 561 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.759 gray hair and red eyes. So yeah, you play as 562 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.480 her and you control or yeah, you control the character 563 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:16.759 and you do like your basic combo stuff like Square 564 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:20.319 Scoresco Square Triangle so shit. But you also have telekinetic 565 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:24.240 powers and you can basically automatically it locks onto objects 566 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.039 in the environment, so you don't have to like aim anything. 567 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:28.559 You just pull the trigger and you start. You you 568 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:31.799 basically pick up this fucking like a brick or like 569 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.960 a big slab of concrete and fucking toss that shit 570 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.799 at these motherfuckers, like uh it is and it feels 571 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.599 good like it feels like it has a lot of weight. 572 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.720 And then throughout the game you get different party members 573 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.640 at different story moments. But yeah, so you have different 574 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.680 party members who are your abilities, so you can duplicate 575 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.200 like your attacks. You can go invisible and do a backstep. 576 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.880 You can also add fire, which also adds an extra 577 00:29:54.920 --> 00:29:56.839 attack to your combo. And then like you see like 578 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.319 some shit blow up. And there's also a and there's 579 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.680 another telekinetic ability that uses mortgage telekinetic powers where you 580 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.079 can at you pull a bigger object and then you 581 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.039 have like qts with it and it's really satisfying. Like 582 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.599 you get like two fucking vending machines and you smash 583 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:16.880 a monster like you sandwich them with it, and you 584 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:21.119 have to like press the fucking the thumbsticks together. So 585 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:24.000 it's like, yeah, it does this, I'm doing it. Uh, 586 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:26.720 It's it's so smart, man. That comment system is like 587 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.000 if they can uh like refine it a little bit 588 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:35.400 for like a sequel or another game. Now, let me 589 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:40.400 tell you about the story. This ship is so whack. 590 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:43.720 Okay, that was give me my big question because everything 591 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:45.839 you've been saying, I'm like, oh, that sounds like pretty good, 592 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:46.920 Like maybe I'll pick it up. 593 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.000 Oh my god, this like this ship is so dry. 594 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.599 Like the writing, the writing and the dialogue in this 595 00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.680 game is so fucking dry. Dog Like, I oh, it's 596 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.759 so because like there's so much potential. The character designs 597 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.519 are really cool, the world building is really cool, so 598 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:10.480 like there's a lot of potential, but the actual dialogue 599 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:15.400 sequences are like, damn, y'all, motherfucker's really talking circles and 600 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.319 they'll they'll have like a five minute conversation and say 601 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.000 absolutely nothing about what's happening in the world, and it's 602 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.599 like very it's so basic, like the oh my god, 603 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.200 why would you betray me? No, I didn't betray you 604 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.839 because secret, Oh my gosh, the secret. 605 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:38.480 It's like it's painful to listen to, which sucks because 606 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:42.039 the voice acting is pretty good, but it's like, you 607 00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:44.960 can have the best voice actors in the game if 608 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.400 the script is dry as shit you hate to hear. 609 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:51.559 You'll hate to hear it. And I don't know. I hope. 610 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.000 I'm like about six seven hours into the game, so 611 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.720 I hope that it picks up, but I am. I 612 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.519 am thankful, Like the game moves pretty fast and like 613 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:03.640 all right, let's get you. Let's get you into some combat, 614 00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:05.839 Like here's his combat, here's his boss fight. 615 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.119 We know this is the good part of the game. Yeah, exactly. 616 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:11.680 So I don't know, maybe there's gonna be like a 617 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.440 big twist or some shit that's be like, oh, that's fascinating, 618 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:17.359 but yeah, I'm gonna keep playing. I'm having a ton 619 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:18.000 of fun with it. 620 00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:21.240 But yeah, it's disappointed about the story because I was 621 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.079 looking forward to it. When because they've been doing mad 622 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:29.480 stuff with Xbox for the past few e threes and conferences, 623 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:33.240 and so when Xbox showed like at their extended thing, 624 00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:37.519 it's like, oh, and uh, Scarlett Nexus, you are playing 625 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.400 us two characters, and like you'll actually see then, like 626 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.799 certain scenes from completely different perspectives if you play as 627 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:48.079 both characters. I'm like, oh, that's really cool. It's kind 628 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:51.799 of almost a Last of Us Part two vibe thing 629 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.119 kind of going on. I would love to see how 630 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:56.960 this at all impacts the story. But the story is 631 00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.880 not good, then yeah, when does it matter? 632 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:03.119 Hold that that kind of ship off all you want, 633 00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:07.720 but it's like that the the script is dry, then 634 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:10.720 then that can't save it. But yeah, like, uh, I 635 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.880 think that the depending on which character you pick at 636 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.440 certain points, it diverges, and like you said, you'll see 637 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:19.680 completely different scenes and then they'll meet up again at 638 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.920 the certain sequences. I think that concept is really cool. 639 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.599 But again, like Jordan said, the story isn't there then damn. 640 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:31.039 But that's a cool idea. I think like conceptually they 641 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:34.279 pull it off. Well, it's just yeah, not not interesting. 642 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.799 Dang. Is it on game Pass or no? 643 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.119 You would think you would think, but no, partnering with 644 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.480 Xbox for like every single showcase that they've done not 645 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:48.160 on game Pass, And I'm like, why did you do that? 646 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:53.359 Like I wanna like hearing about the combat and like 647 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:56.119 like it looks good and I've like heard like that 648 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:58.680 the music's like pretty good, Like there's enough there that 649 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.680 I'm like, oh, like I want to at least like 650 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:03.720 check it out or like support it in like some capacity. 651 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:06.920 But like, like if the story's not there, like that's 652 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.760 hard to it's hard to justify like buying it at 653 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:11.599 full price, at least for me, Like right now. 654 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:16.000 I guess this is Xbox's attempt to because when like 655 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:17.800 I want to say, it's been a year now, maybe 656 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:23.199 it's been two. Uh, Big Phil was like, hey, Xbox 657 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:27.679 kind of once the whole Japan connection that PlayStation has. 658 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.519 I assume that's what this is. 659 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:31.079 That's what it's like. 660 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.880 It's like the beginning of Xbox trying to be like, hey, 661 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:35.320 we can do anime games too. 662 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:42.480 I remember when it is, like I don't know, it 663 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:44.880 was like two thousand and six or seven, when uh 664 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.360 on Xbox is a E three stage show, they brought 665 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.360 out the the Xbox only Naruto game Rise of a Ninja. 666 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:54.280 That's when they were like making their big anime anime push. 667 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.840 Oh wait, is that was that the Ubisoft Yeah. 668 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.199 The u Soft one, the one we were playing in 669 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:01.039 the because that game is a awesome. It is an 670 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:04.199 awesome Naruto game. It was Xbox only and they had 671 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:06.199 it like on the stage show. And that was like 672 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:09.079 during my like peak Naruto fandom. So I was like 673 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.159 fucking so excited. I was like, hell, yeah, like Naruto 674 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:16.119 on Xbox, let's go. I was like, so, so, uh 675 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:18.320 you know, like hey, they want to bring that back, 676 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:21.880 you know, uh maybe, uh. I don't know what's a 677 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:26.760 what's what's like Naruto equivalent? Now? I guess like my hero, 678 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.079 my hero, oh man, they want to like you know, 679 00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.559 get like a big fill wants to get like my hero, 680 00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.800 you know, collab going with Xbox. Yeah, make it not 681 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.199 an arena fighter, yo, make it not an arena fighter. 682 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:41.119 Get someone else to make a game. An open world 683 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:44.960 action RPG from my hero would be fucking fire, Like 684 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.519 let's go. 685 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.519 Like, look, I know you'd be soft. Like they're really 686 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:49.400 excited about Star Wars. But if they want to go 687 00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:54.280 back to anime with all the lessons they've learned and apply. 688 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.760 That, it would be some game as a service division 689 00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:59.920 to something or something, you know what. 690 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.360 It's my hero though, Like, but what if it's like 691 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.079 just like take Marvel's Avengers. 692 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:11.360 Hero, Michael, you don't mean, but like the alternatives like 693 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.639 you have all those like free to play like Asian 694 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:18.079 MMOs that like, in my opinion, are like not much 695 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.000 better in terms of just like grinding nonsense. 696 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.679 Oh absolutely, it's like kind of the same thing. So 697 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.000 I'm like, look like why not why not make it happen? 698 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.320 Yeah, you can make your own anime boy or anime girl? 699 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:32.880 But also I want to play as like buckle Go. 700 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.440 I want to like explode ship you know. 701 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:35.280 Yeah. 702 00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.960 Also I'm sorry, Phil, I realize I keep saying things 703 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.880 like big Phil and it might like, sure you thinking's 704 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.480 like that, I'm talking about you small. 705 00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.760 I know I'm not Big Phil aware. 706 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.920 Big Phil is an idea m sometimes to strive. 707 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:00.719 Big Phill is inside us all. 708 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:11.079 I don't know, Jordan, why don't you tell me about Backbone? 709 00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:12.440 I've never heard of this? What is this? 710 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:17.559 It was another game that came out just before E 711 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:22.599 three and probably will be somewhat buried because of it. 712 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.360 It's I think a few sites have talked about. It's 713 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:32.119 a detective noir kind of style video game in the 714 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:34.960 whole anthropomorphic animal type deal. 715 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:36.599 Yeah. 716 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.159 So it's like you're you're you're playing as a raccoon, 717 00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:47.079 and it's like it's it's a society where the animals 718 00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:51.840 that are closer to humans are like at the top, 719 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:56.239 so like apes, gorillas and stuff like that. There were 720 00:37:56.280 --> 00:38:00.840 like rich white people and so someone like a raccoon 721 00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:09.239 is like, uh, poor black person or Hispanic person. Like 722 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.559 it's it's like very loose connection, but the game like 723 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:17.079 really leans into that and it's like this is a 724 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:23.280 society like just fraught with racism, classism, Like it's just 725 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:29.239 really shitty. And you play as a private investigator whose 726 00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:33.199 very first case is to figure out if this dude 727 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:36.159 is actually cheating on his wife and if he is, 728 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:41.400 to get pictures and it like, I won't spoil it 729 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:44.480 because it is actually really good, but like you, while 730 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:52.480 investigating this case, the case just spirals into something crazy, 731 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.840 like it's whatever you think is going to happen, You're wrong. 732 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:03.400 It like it's just it. It goes to a place 733 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:06.000 where I'm like, damn, I'm in this for the long haul. 734 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:07.440 I'm gonna see this all the way through it. I 735 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:09.960 think it's a pretty short affair. 736 00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:10.480 I am. 737 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:19.320 Each chapter is like an hour and there's five in total. 738 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.800 So unless this each chapter gets like significantly longer on 739 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:24.519 the tail end, I think it's going to be like 740 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.159 a five to six hour game. I'm like two two 741 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:31.000 and a half hours in. It is on game Pass 742 00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:35.559 Ultimates on PC. You can't play it on Xbox the console, 743 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:38.159 but you can play it on the PC version of 744 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:42.880 game Pass. It's the perfect little game Pass game. Get 745 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.880 the good, like five six hours out of it. I 746 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.599 really love how there's these moments because there is this 747 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.719 there's like a few choice driven things like you meet 748 00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:58.800 a journalist and you get to decide what you say, 749 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:01.760 and there's the whole text string on the side that 750 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:04.840 looks very much like disco elysium, and you get to 751 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.239 decide whether you trust her right off the bat, whether 752 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.800 you want to flirt with her, whether you want to 753 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.719 be cold and distant, all these different things, and that 754 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.239 shapes the relationship that you have with her, which then 755 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.760 correlates into something later when you've gathered evidence and you're 756 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.519 trying to make deductions about how certain things connect to 757 00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.880 one another. That will determine how helpful she is with you, 758 00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:30.159 depending on how you treated her like an hour prior. 759 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.239 And it has like a lot of things like that, 760 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:36.880 where you do something and then forty five minutes later 761 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.360 that thing comes back to bite you in the most 762 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.360 unexpected way. And that's really cool and interesting and fascinating, 763 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:46.400 and I'm hoping the game sticks the landing. I have 764 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:49.519 seen some outlets at a few places say that that 765 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:55.079 game ends on a cliffhanger, implying that there's going to 766 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:57.920 be more coming. I have no idea if that's true. 767 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:01.719 I haven't beaten it, but from what I've played so far, 768 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:04.719 it's really awesome and interesting, and it's got this nice 769 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:11.719 smooth jazz soundtrack, and yeah, if you like detective games, 770 00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:14.079 if you like being that person who's like, I have 771 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.079 all of these papers in front of me and the 772 00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:22.159 game's not going to tell me what clue specifically goes 773 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.360 to what clue on which piece of paper, and I 774 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.599 have to figure out for myself or everyone arounds me 775 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:29.440 going to think that I'm an idiot, because it's like, 776 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:33.239 why would you think that the person who's talking about 777 00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:37.239 science is the president or something like that. That doesn't 778 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:40.559 make any sense the President want to be talking about 779 00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:42.559 science in America? 780 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:44.360 Yeah, he's stupid. 781 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:50.480 So I really like it. I'm really enjoying it so far. 782 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:55.079 It's something that I've just been kind of dabbling between 783 00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:02.519 my frequent trips into an mmorp than I am also playing. 784 00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:05.960 Dude, that sounds I'm definitely gonna check this out now, 785 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.559 Like I am super installing this. Yeah, I like I 786 00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:10.960 looked at the I looked at the screenshots as we 787 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:12.960 were talking, and I was like, oh, like, this looks 788 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:16.639 like my ship. Like I grew up playing like point 789 00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:21.159 and click adventure games like Detective style stuff. I've played 790 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:28.360 every single Nancy Drew, all thirty two of them. Thirty 791 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.920 three of them. Oh god, I don't even it's oh 792 00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:32.159 there was that many? 793 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:35.400 Oh yes, oh man, let me tell you I Nancy 794 00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:36.480 Drew put in work. 795 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:41.199 It's a shame and never got recorded. But uh, there 796 00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:42.599 was a Pax panel if you want to know all 797 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:46.119 about so I just need to go back in time 798 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.320 and go back in time, go to a PAX panel 799 00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:53.039 Packs East or Pats West twenty eighteen. 800 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.119 Oh god, yeah, the one, the one where you were 801 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.320 talking about Nancy Drew. Yeah, ab Abby was there too. Yeah, wait, 802 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:03.320 Pax West twenty eighteen, so like twenty nineteen twenty nine. 803 00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:05.719 Yeah. I was like, if it was past X twenty eighteen, 804 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:08.679 that means you like literally recorded it before I got there, 805 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:18.239 like before I. 806 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:16.199 But yeah, dude, like that kind of those kinds of 807 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.800 games are like absolutely my shit. And you know we've 808 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:25.360 already established my love of anthropomorphic animals, people things. So 809 00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:26.960 I'm all in on this. 810 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.280 If you want to be a degenerate drunk, that is 811 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.920 totally an option for you, Like you can just like 812 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:35.239 waste yourself. 813 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:41.480 I'm gonna clip that with no context. How dare you? 814 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.840 This is a safe space, Michael. 815 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.400 But you've been saying you've also been checking out and 816 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:53.400 he said, an MMO you've been playing is like the 817 00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:54.679 other one you have on the list here? 818 00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:59.719 Oh no, oh no, okay now the Minute of Islands. Yeah, 819 00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:05.039 like real I have. I kind of took a break 820 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:09.840 from Apex. I've had some time to play longer games, 821 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.840 and I'm like, MMO RPGs. 822 00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:23.880 Are you playing the Fantasy is the critical? You claim 823 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.159 MMO rpg with the free try that lets you go 824 00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:28.320 up to level sixty and you get the first expansion 825 00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.119 for free, that one. 826 00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:37.480 So uh yeah, it's free to play. And I've been 827 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.960 having a really good time with a Fantasy Star Online. 828 00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:44.599 New Genesis. 829 00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:54.679 Man, I hate to see it. I respect PSL too. 830 00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:00.320 Is that any good? The New Genesis stuff? I haven't 831 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.760 heard anyone. It kind of like just came out like still. 832 00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:05.400 Yeah also during the three Yeah, no, I. 833 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.519 Haven't heard anyone talk about it. And I'm like, is 834 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:07.960 that good? 835 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:08.159 Like? 836 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:10.760 Should I check that out? It's really. 837 00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.519 I don't think it's if based on everything that I 838 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:21.800 have heard of fourteen, I do not think it's as 839 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:29.320 good as that, But so far I'm enjoying it. It's 840 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.800 weird because like they've done a lot of changes, like 841 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.960 it's not really Fantasy Star Online too. It's like the 842 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.639 graphics are different, the story is kind of going in 843 00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.960 a slightly different direction. There's actually really good voice acting 844 00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:49.599 now for the characters, Like they brought in like new 845 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.639 people and stuff like that, a little bit of new music. 846 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.679 Combat's been overhauled there. The game now takes in this giant, 847 00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:01.599 almost breath of the word wild like world where there's 848 00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:04.440 no loading screens between areas, so you can like go 849 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.039 to the top of a really tall mountain and like 850 00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:09.880 glide all the way back to the main city hub 851 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.039 if you want. It'll take you like two to three minutes, 852 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.000 but you can do it if you want to. And 853 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.519 there's like all these things where like you're just hanging 854 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:19.639 out in the city and all of a sudden, like 855 00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:24.079 the sky turns like dark red, and like alarms start 856 00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.880 blaring in the city and it's like, hey, these really 857 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:31.119 high level enemies are about to attack the city. Everyone 858 00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:34.360 who's like of this power level are higher, like we 859 00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:36.199 need your help. And so like you're in this hub 860 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.880 and you see like a bunch of like newbies like 861 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.079 me like chatting like yo. 862 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:43.960 What the what the fuck's going on? 863 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.079 Like what's happening, and then you see all these like 864 00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.760 really high level characters being like okay, rookies, like just 865 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:52.239 just stay here. And you see like this group of 866 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:55.280 like thirty people like just running out of the city 867 00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:59.159 going to like fight like some giant monster out in 868 00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.199 the world. It's like, oh, it's like three hundred meters away, 869 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:05.280 go this direction to head it off. And I'm like, Yo, 870 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.079 that's really cool. That's really awesome. I love how this 871 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:14.480 is totally not Fantasy Star Online too, because like the 872 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.840 original game does not have any. 873 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:19.639 Any of that. Yeah, you're just having a completely different 874 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.119 game than I used to, so wild. 875 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:26.800 That's really cool. That's really awesome. I love the changes 876 00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:30.280 that they've done to it. It starts off pretty slow, 877 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:33.320 begins in that way. It's like we're gonna teach you everything. 878 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.639 We're gonna teach you combat, We're gonna teach you how 879 00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:38.800 to jump, We're gonna teach you what this shop does, 880 00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:41.519 and what this shop does, and what this currency is for, 881 00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:43.960 and how you level up your character in these different ways, 882 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.320 and how you unlock your subclass and how you can 883 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:49.360 invest more points in the subclass. I'm like, oh my god, 884 00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.320 stop with the tutorials, so that takes a really long time, 885 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.440 and that's a kind of boring ish. And the game, 886 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.760 as far as I can tell, is still in the 887 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.519 kind of oh, we're not really done with it yet. 888 00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:08.679 This is more we've created almost a new MMO RPG, 889 00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:11.000 and like this is the starting point and you're gonna 890 00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:16.480 get more expansions going forward. So I'm interested to see 891 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.960 how it evolves, what it evolves into. 892 00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:19.760 If it's. 893 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:23.079 Something that you're like, oh, I just kind of want 894 00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:26.320 to play an MMO RPG on my own, you can 895 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:27.920 do that. If you want to play with friends, you 896 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.480 can easily do that too. Like connecting with people is 897 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.239 super easy and simple. It's just like here's my friend code, 898 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.159 and they just input the friend code and you just 899 00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:41.760 party up together and it's pretty awesome. It's pretty cool. 900 00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:44.360 As far as I can tell. The community is very 901 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:48.719 welcoming and not toxic from what I've seen so far, 902 00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.400 so that's good. I'm having a good time. 903 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:52.440 So, like. 904 00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:55.480 I'm just kidding. 905 00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:59.760 I feel like any community that was like waiting like 906 00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:03.320 what like almost a decade for like time for the 907 00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:06.320 release the English release of that game was just like 908 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.599 already going to be such a small niche community that 909 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:12.360 they were just naturally probably going to be like really 910 00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.519 chill about it and just like oh, new people come in, Yes, 911 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:20.440 I will happily show you how this game works. That 912 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:24.079 sounds cool, though, I'm I'm I might have checked that out. 913 00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:30.480 It's neat that they are actually like trying to continue 914 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:32.679 and evolve that game, because, like, as excited as I 915 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:34.719 was for PSO two when it finally came out, it 916 00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.320 was like, yeah, this is. 917 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:38.719 A game that came out like eight to ten years ago. 918 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:44.199 Yeah, you're like, oh yeah, wow, yeah, maybe the my 919 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.440 interest in this has waned a little bit, so the 920 00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:49.800 fact that they're actually trying to like revive it and 921 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.920 refresh it is sounds exciting. I definitely want to check 922 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:56.480 out more of that. But Jordan, why don't you tell 923 00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:59.159 us about the last game on your list? 924 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:03.280 For sure? A Minute of Islands another game that came 925 00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:07.599 out during the E three period surprise release. I can't 926 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.960 remember which conference it was, but maybe with Summer Games Fest. 927 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.079 It was one of those where it's like, here's a 928 00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:14.719 new trailer for this game you haven't heard about in 929 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.880 a while, and it's out today, and I'm like, cool, 930 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:19.239 been looking forward to this for a while. Don't have 931 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.760 time to play it now, keep it on my list 932 00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:25.440 until later. And oh my god, I think I took 933 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.719 a screenshot of like the message that pops up when 934 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:34.880 you first play the game. Oh my god, I hope 935 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:38.960 I did, because so I love it was like one 936 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:42.000 of those things. So to give context, Minute of Islands 937 00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:47.880 is this very like cartoon looking child's ish type thing 938 00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:50.480 where you're playing as this girl who's sailing around at 939 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.440 a boat and fixing these machines in order to save 940 00:50:53.800 --> 00:51:04.519 the world and whatnot. Very standard, typical, chosen one type 941 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.159 of thing. Ah, yes, so I did take a When 942 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.920 you first moot up the game, you click new game, 943 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:12.960 the first thing that pops up is content warning. Minute 944 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.480 of Islence is a game that deals with complex themes 945 00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:20.159 such as trauma, anxiety, and destructive behavior towards oneself and others. 946 00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.039 The game also uses images and language which may be 947 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:26.400 triggering or disturbing to some. And I'm like, huh, that 948 00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:31.559 sounds almost like Doky Doky Literature Club and I read 949 00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:33.760 something like that, and so I started playing, and I'm like, 950 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.480 oh my god, it's one of those games where you're 951 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:41.760 playing as this girl in this world where like global 952 00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:45.320 catastrophe has destroyed the environment and now there's this like 953 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.840 toxis toxic fungus in the air and these spores that 954 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.360 if you breathe them in, they start choking you and 955 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.920 they slowly give you hallucinations and then your brain starts 956 00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:57.920 to moolv on itself and then you just die. And 957 00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:01.280 she's the one responsible for making care of the machines, 958 00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:03.840 to make sure that the air stays clean so that 959 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:07.679 that doesn't happen. But to do that, she has to 960 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:11.639 like live in the most dangerous areas and be subjugate herself, 961 00:52:11.719 --> 00:52:15.280 like to the toxic fumes. And she's pushed her uncle away, 962 00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.559 her sister away, and like her family's like, hey, we 963 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.000 love you, but you're being kind of an ass. And 964 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.519 she's like, I have to be an ass because if 965 00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:28.000 someone isn't fixing the machines, we're all going to die. 966 00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:31.079 And so it's this game about this girl is like 967 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:34.000 being the chosen one. Like it's really cool in the 968 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.880 moment because you have that adventure where you first save 969 00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:37.920 the world, but then for the rest of your life 970 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.199 you're gonna slowly push everyone you love away, harming them 971 00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:46.360 and in a way, harming yourself both emotionally and physically 972 00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:49.880 to ensure that the world stays safe so that everyone 973 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.679 else can continue being happy. I'm like, oh my god, 974 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:58.480 this game goes to some really dark, hard places. 975 00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:01.719 Oh damn ship. I saw I saw the first time 976 00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.719 when I saw it during like a showcase. I was like, Oh, 977 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.599 it's cute. It's like it's like an adventure time yeah 978 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:08.599 style art. 979 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:10.000 Yeah, yeah, that's what it seems. 980 00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:13.559 It seems cool. Oh my god, it's good. 981 00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:18.519 Like I'm enjoying it so far, but holy shit, damn. 982 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:20.840 So like that the anti chickery. 983 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:24.239 Yeah, like the universe is like like you had you 984 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:27.400 had too much wholesomeness from chickory. 985 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:31.639 Chickery was too nice about it. Yeah, it's time for darkness. 986 00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.679 Oh ship, Uh that sounds great. Yeah that was. That 987 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:42.239 was another game that I like, I furiously. I like 988 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.079 made a massive list of like all the indie games 989 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:47.719 that I saw, like during E three that I was like, oh, like, 990 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:49.239 so I wouldn't forget them, And that was one of 991 00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:51.400 the ones I had on my list. Again, didn't know 992 00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:55.360 it was already out or like, so goddamn quick. 993 00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:58.320 All those indie devs out there. I know you're all 994 00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:00.599 listening to us because we're such wonderful people, and of 995 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:03.480 course you're all listening to this podcast. But quick PSA 996 00:54:03.519 --> 00:54:06.760 to Indie deevs. You are allowed to do whatever you 997 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.719 want with your game. It's your game, it's your baby. 998 00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:12.679 I do not care less, but if you could, please 999 00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:16.639 please stop releasing your games in the months of June 1000 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.519 and December, because most of us in the journalism world 1001 00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:23.920 do not have much time to play new games in 1002 00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:27.719 June and December. So like you could just avoid those 1003 00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:30.840 months for the foreseeable future, it would be so much 1004 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:33.280 easier for us to play your games and cover your 1005 00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:38.159 games like it's come on, Like when you're releasing games 1006 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:41.000 like A Minute of Islands and stuff like that and 1007 00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:43.920 Backbone during June, and I look at them, I'm like, 1008 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.159 I want to play them, but at the same time, 1009 00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:48.719 like E three is right there and I have to 1010 00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:51.239 do it. It's my job. I can't just go up 1011 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:53.119 to Tam and be like, fuck E three. This year, 1012 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:54.480 it's about games. 1013 00:54:55.639 --> 00:55:01.599 I'm playing, Chickory. Let's finish off with Phil. Phil. You've 1014 00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:08.960 been playing Final Fantasy, Sevin Remake Integrade inter Mission, right, 1015 00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:09.760 Is that correct? 1016 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:12.159 That's all of it. 1017 00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:12.760 You remember it? 1018 00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:13.079 All of it? 1019 00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.519 Yeah, I did it. How was that? 1020 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:19.880 Yeah, I get I did it for the review and 1021 00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:24.400 it's good. It's more Final Fantasy seven remake, which is excellent, Tellian, 1022 00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:29.360 And what I like about it is that so it 1023 00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:32.880 centers on Ufi. It's this whole like side story, standalone 1024 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:34.519 thing that takes place in the middle of the other game, 1025 00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:37.400 which is hilarious because like, you know, you've got Avalanche 1026 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.039 running around blowing stuff up, and then Ufi is also there, 1027 00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:42.320 kind of off to the side that no one noticed. 1028 00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:45.480 But she's a lot of fun. 1029 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:46.400 Like she's. 1030 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:50.320 Really well realized as a character, I thought, which is 1031 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.599 the thing that I like about remake in general. And 1032 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.679 like I never liked Ufi in the original. 1033 00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:59.719 Gonna say, I've found Ufi really obnoxious. 1034 00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:06.719 Annoy Yeah, yeah, right, like I And it might have 1035 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:08.280 been that she was a side character and so like, 1036 00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:11.039 I don't have any strong feelings or memories about you 1037 00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:12.840 if you except that, like she stole all my ship 1038 00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:17.440 and I was mad about it, like I wanted that 1039 00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:20.800 material back, and but like you pop in with her 1040 00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:24.519 from the start in this and she's like Insector seven, 1041 00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:29.320 you know, in uh miker looking for trying to break 1042 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:31.639 into Chitraun and like steal the ship, which is cool 1043 00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.599 because those guys suck. But she's just like it's like 1044 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:39.679 playing a kid who is excited, really very excited to 1045 00:56:39.719 --> 00:56:44.679 be here, and it's like semi playing pretend the entire time, right, 1046 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.440 Like she's like, I'm Euphie and I'm gonna do ninja things, 1047 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:48.920 and she's like talking to herself. It's like there's no 1048 00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:54.159 one here. You feel like it's a little bit like 1049 00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:58.199 she's exactly but at the same time, like she is 1050 00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:04.440 a legitimate ninja ass kicker, secret agent who is constantly 1051 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.800 trying to convince everybody in the room that like, yes, 1052 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:10.480 she is this cool and but and she's really insecure 1053 00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:13.039 about it, and so because she's so young, right, and 1054 00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:15.480 like it just really plays really well. She's very funny, 1055 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:18.559 Like I had a great time just like hanging around 1056 00:57:18.599 --> 00:57:22.119 with her, and you know she They did a great 1057 00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.599 job of like realizing all these interesting elements of UFI 1058 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:28.199 in a different way than I thought the original game 1059 00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:31.320 did at all. So plus the combat is super good, 1060 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:35.440 Like she's she's real fast because she's got that can 1061 00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:38.400 I think, so she can like fight up close or 1062 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:42.320 throw the the Ninja Star at people, and then she 1063 00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:45.320 can do like all these magic attacks that are weird, 1064 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:48.800 and it basically you just like wallop everybody. You just 1065 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:51.400 pummel people with these like long combos where they're in 1066 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:53.079 the air and they're like bouncing around and you're like, 1067 00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:57.360 I'm stunning him and hitting them with like special Ninja 1068 00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:01.800 magic and like ice and fire and throwing your thing 1069 00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:05.000 and then pulling it back and like zooming around the battlefield. 1070 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.920 Because when you call back the Ninja Star to u Fee, 1071 00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:11.239 it doesn't come to her. She goes to it. So 1072 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:13.400 you can use it to like fly around the battlefield 1073 00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:14.360 and beat the hell out of people. 1074 00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:15.760 It's great, It's super good. 1075 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:16.559 That's really cool. 1076 00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:19.559 I need to get back into it because like I 1077 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.079 have that platinum for a remake and I need to 1078 00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:25.119 like continue knock that out on the list. But I 1079 00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:29.800 suck it for Condor and it's really frustrating. So for 1080 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:32.000 Condor is the other thing. It's like this the new 1081 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:33.679 mini game that they added. It's sort of like a 1082 00:58:33.719 --> 00:58:38.159 board game strategy game. What you do is you like, uh, 1083 00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:40.880 you've got three towers on your side and the other 1084 00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:43.840 person has three towers on their side, and you summon 1085 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.480 like characters to fly over or walk over and like 1086 00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:49.679 destroy the towers. And so they are summoning their characters. 1087 00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:51.800 You're so many your characters. There's a little rock paper 1088 00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:54.840 scissors thing where each character has a class, and so 1089 00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:59.599 like defense characters beat assault characters, but they're killed by 1090 00:58:59.719 --> 00:59:02.159 range characters, you know, like so that sort of thing, 1091 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:06.159 and so you just like run around the world buying 1092 00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:08.920 or finding new figures to put into the game to 1093 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.360 attack stuff. And that's it, Like that's the whole strategy is, 1094 00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:15.719 Like you just summon stuff. You know. There's a little 1095 00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:17.599 timer that says how long you can summon stuff, and 1096 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:20.679 the longer you let the timer go, the more expensive 1097 00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:24.360 or powerful unit you can summon. And so like there's 1098 00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:26.760 strategy in figuring out what to bring looking at what 1099 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:30.840 the other player has, and so you know, Okay, if 1100 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.599 they've got a bunch of defense characters, I want a 1101 00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:35.519 bunch of range characters so that I can uh rock 1102 00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:37.719 paper sisters them to death. But that's like pretty much it. 1103 00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:39.880 And then you just drop them on there and hope 1104 00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:44.280 that they win. And like I ever figured out how 1105 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:46.840 to be good at it. I don't know that there's 1106 00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:51.039 really all that much strategy, and that's kind of like 1107 00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:53.119 the drawback I have for the whole deal sees it 1108 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:55.760 all kind of feels a little thin like that, you know, 1109 00:59:56.840 --> 00:59:59.599 but in general, like it's it's really fun to be 1110 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.440 back in that world. And if I can figure out 1111 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:04.559 for Condor and I can get that platinum, we'll be 1112 01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:07.320 happy about it. But otherwise, like it was just cool 1113 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:11.480 to like beat the hell as some Shinner guys with 1114 01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:13.519 with UFI and the new combat and stuff. Like, I'm 1115 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:15.719 really excited for all this to like link back up 1116 01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:23.360 into the later full remake levels are releases games, I guess, 1117 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:29.719 so it's gonna be yeah, right, exactly one day, one 1118 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:31.880 day when all this links back together and all this 1119 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:33.880 weird like it also has all this weird like Dirgy 1120 01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:37.519 service crap involved too, and like I don't remember any 1121 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:37.679 of this. 1122 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:38.960 I don't know what any. 1123 01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:39.800 Of the stuff means. 1124 01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:42.039 So I'm excited for that to being like an actual 1125 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.119 game with other Final Fantasy characters or f F seven characters 1126 01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:48.400 that I remember and have an idea of like where 1127 01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:49.599 the story is going. I think it will all be 1128 01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:52.880 cool eventually, but like, right, now it's just like a 1129 01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:54.679 bunch of stuff intermission. 1130 01:00:55.519 --> 01:01:00.000 Yeah, how's he how's how's it play? On? On PS? 1131 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.159 I like popped it in for like a second just 1132 01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:04.880 to like see, and I was like, damn that loading 1133 01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:08.239 time is fast, and so that's all I gotta check out. 1134 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:10.360 But it seems like pretty substantial. 1135 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.119 So I've heard people say that when they play on 1136 01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:18.519 graphics mode the four K mode, it like starters out 1137 01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:19.000 for them. 1138 01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:20.199 I didn't have any issues like. 1139 01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:22.320 That at all. I thought it looked amazing. I thought 1140 01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:24.920 it looked super good. I played the whole thing. I 1141 01:01:24.920 --> 01:01:29.800 played the entire like Don Creneo's Coliseum Hell House fight that, 1142 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.360 like that whole sequence over again in four K. 1143 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:36.440 And I was like, fuck, this is amazing, dude. 1144 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:39.519 It was like the exact perfect thing to like go 1145 01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.360 try it out, I thought. And I was very happy 1146 01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:45.480 to go play through all that again. So I think 1147 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:47.519 it looks great in four K. I think that's like 1148 01:01:48.039 --> 01:01:51.199 the superior version personally, if it doesn't run like shit 1149 01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:55.199 on your machine for some reason. The sixty FBS version 1150 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:59.480 the performance mode also cool, but it feels a little 1151 01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:04.079 too smooth to me, really real cinematic. Yeah, well I'm 1152 01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:07.880 a thirty fps guy. Generally it depends on the game obviously, 1153 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.039 Like we're gonna talk about shooters and stuff, you know, 1154 01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:13.880 different situation. But this game is so cinematic. There's so 1155 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:16.599 many like fast camera moves and like big pans and 1156 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:21.599 like important shots that it feels like things go a 1157 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:24.000 little too quick when it gets up to sixty you 1158 01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:25.400 know what I mean, Like it moves a little too 1159 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:26.280 fast as a little jar. 1160 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:28.800 It's like when your TV has like that like motion 1161 01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:31.480 smoothing and you're like, oh, this doesn't look right. 1162 01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:34.639 It shouldn't be yeah right, like and that might that 1163 01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:37.920 might just be me, but it feels like a little 1164 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:40.920 less cinematic, a little a little different from what I 1165 01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:43.280 think they intended it to feel. 1166 01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:44.599 Like at sixty fps. 1167 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:49.119 But that said, Combat SI sixty fps. 1168 01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:50.320 Is freaking awesome. 1169 01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:57.199 Yeah, yeah, exactly, So they're you know, trade offs, but 1170 01:02:57.760 --> 01:02:58.880 it's cool. Man. 1171 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:02.079 Do you think we see all of remake in this 1172 01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:05.679 console generation? Considering most console generations are eight to twelve years, 1173 01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:07.880 do you think they get all the parts of Final 1174 01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:13.960 Fantasy seven out before the PlayStation six? Like I feel 1175 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:15.639 like they have to, Like yeah, you feel like they 1176 01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:19.480 have to, But will they like and it is square, Like. 1177 01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:23.519 No, well didn't they say that. They were like, okay, 1178 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:25.840 but you know, this first episode is going to take 1179 01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:29.159 a long time to make, but then we'll have all 1180 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:30.519 these assets and resources. 1181 01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:36.400 I know what they said, but then like is that true? 1182 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:38.960 They just recently put out a thing where they I 1183 01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:40.880 forget who it was, but one of them said like, oh, 1184 01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:43.360 part two is going to be like very different from 1185 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:45.679 part one. I'm like what does that mean? Like, like, 1186 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.800 are you completely changed an hour long? 1187 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:49.679 But care? 1188 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:54.000 Could you imagine if like Final Fantasy seven remake becomes 1189 01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:59.039 this game where it just started on PS four and 1190 01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:02.400 it just like caress across like multiple generations, ends on 1191 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:09.000 the station. It's like, oh, part four is finally here, 1192 01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:12.599 and it's like, yeah, he played this three PlayStations ago. 1193 01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:18.480 The gap between part one and part three is the 1194 01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:21.639 same gap between the original Final Fantasy seven. 1195 01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:20.920 And. 1196 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:24.760 Then they'll have to put out a well, I mean 1197 01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:29.360 Integrate is basically a re remastered like seven remake remaster. 1198 01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:33.079 Yeah, and then they finally released like okay, now here's 1199 01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:38.840 the like five disc collection of all the parts together. 1200 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:40.960 Yeah, like five hundred bucks. You know what I'm gonna 1201 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:41.760 fucking buy it. 1202 01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:47.000 Yeah all right, Oh the music too. I just want 1203 01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:50.280 to mention they they Yeah. If you guys like the 1204 01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:54.320 F F seven remakes, yeah, I know, I know you do. 1205 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:56.480 That's why I wanted to make sure. 1206 01:04:57.239 --> 01:04:59.800 So it takes a lot of the music from seven 1207 01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.920 make and like re imagines it again, which is already reimagining. 1208 01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:05.840 Which is super good. 1209 01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:09.079 Like they mix in the Bootie themes in some cool ways. 1210 01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:11.840 So anyway, I bought that soundtrack. I'll let you know 1211 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:12.320 when it goes. 1212 01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:16.599 Thank you, Phil, Phil. Phil hooked us up last time. 1213 01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:17.920 He popped up. What was it like? 1214 01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:19.360 You see? 1215 01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:23.760 Wait? Wait wait wait wait? Why is there a Pillsbury 1216 01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:25.000 dough boy on your floor? 1217 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.360 That is now the Pillsbury dope boy. 1218 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:31.719 That's the ghost ghost marshmallow man ah ship. 1219 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:39.480 Sorry, he exists specifically to when I'm on video to 1220 01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:44.440 block outlets and chords and stuff. That's why he stands 1221 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:45.199 over there in the corner. 1222 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:49.360 It reminds me of what was it, Tim Sweeney? Is 1223 01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:56.639 is uh Popeye's cup just sitting on the floor, because 1224 01:05:56.639 --> 01:05:58.440 I think he that was like the same thing he 1225 01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:00.519 like or no, no, no not Popeye had a Popeyes 1226 01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:05.000 company the orb right, yeah, glowing well I think he said, 1227 01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:06.960 if I get the story right, that the reason he 1228 01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:09.480 put it there is because he's spilt some of his 1229 01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:11.719 Popeyes on the carpet and you need to glover it up. 1230 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:13.400 So he's like, oh, I'll just take this orb I 1231 01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:16.519 have just put it down. I love that. 1232 01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.000 That's great to have that much money. 1233 01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:24.800 All right, Well, why don't we move on to a 1234 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:34.159 little bit of news. There isn't that much going on 1235 01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:36.159 because it's post e three. I mean, like I'm better. 1236 01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:38.199 It's kind of like you better have nothing going on, 1237 01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:42.119 like take a break, relax. But there are a couple 1238 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:44.719 a couple of things I wanted to at least just 1239 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:47.519 touch upon. The first being probably the biggest, is that 1240 01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:50.440 Cyberpunk back on PlayStation. 1241 01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:51.440 Uh. 1242 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:56.039 It's finally been approved. Sony has let the game come 1243 01:06:56.079 --> 01:06:59.280 back on It's part of their Oh what's the exact 1244 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:05.480 patch number. It's patch give me a sec sorpunk. Patch 1245 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:12.159 one point two three is the name of the patch. 1246 01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:14.320 Not as big of a patch is like that crazy 1247 01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:17.840 first patch they did where it was like three pages 1248 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:19.920 long or like whatever. It was like it was like huge. 1249 01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:21.840 This is a little bit of a smaller patch. But 1250 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:25.119 it seems like they're trying to finally get it fixed up. 1251 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:27.519 I personally haven't had a chance to take a look 1252 01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:31.320 at it myself. I just don't know if I care 1253 01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:33.719 anymore to look at it. 1254 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:38.000 That's like the point, like what does this run like 1255 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:41.480 on base PS four? Like it probably still runs decent 1256 01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:44.400 on PS four Pro and probably still pretty good on 1257 01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:47.360 PS five. Like the whole point is like does it 1258 01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:50.599 now work on the PlayStation four console that came out 1259 01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:51.920 like eight years ago? 1260 01:07:52.119 --> 01:07:54.960 So I was watching a little bit of a Digital 1261 01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:57.960 Founderies video about it that they put up. I haven't 1262 01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:00.239 finished it yet though, so this is I'm just like 1263 01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:04.760 throwing half uh facts out here. But from what I've seen, 1264 01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:08.000 it seems like it is like definitely like more stable, 1265 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.559 but they had to cut a lot of corners to 1266 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:16.560 make it happen. So like there's so little NPCs now 1267 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:19.720 in the world, Like it's like night Citi is just dead, 1268 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:24.760 and it's like the vision has to been severely compromised 1269 01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:27.079 to make it like run on that PS four And 1270 01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:31.640 at that point I go like like okay, like you know, 1271 01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:34.760 like in my opinion, that game's okay. It's like it's 1272 01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:37.920 just all right, But I don't think like you when 1273 01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:39.760 you get down to it, like nothing about that game's 1274 01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:42.159 like open world is like that special outside of like damn, 1275 01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:45.920 look how good it looks on PC with a good graph. 1276 01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.199 And so when you're playing it on a base PS 1277 01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:51.439 four and they've removed like you know, ninety percent of 1278 01:08:51.479 --> 01:08:54.119 the NPCs or whatever, and you're like there's no one there, 1279 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:56.279 and I'm just like all you're left with this is 1280 01:08:56.399 --> 01:08:59.439 like kind of muddy like empty open World, and I'm like, 1281 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:02.560 this is really this is really what you want to play? 1282 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:05.479 Is this the experience? Like? Oh, I don't know, Like 1283 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:08.439 I hope people who are waiting for it do have 1284 01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:11.520 a good time with it, but like, yeah, man, I 1285 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:14.720 don't know. Yeah, are you guys like gonna go back 1286 01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:17.720 and check it out or hadn't finished it and we're 1287 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:19.119 like waiting for patches. 1288 01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:21.319 I mean I was lucky enough to have a Series 1289 01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:25.279 X like when Cyberpunk came out, so I was able 1290 01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:28.479 to at least get the oh it runs good enough 1291 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:32.279 version of on the console. Like I don't have a 1292 01:09:32.279 --> 01:09:34.880 gaming PC, so I wasn't able to play it on that, 1293 01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:37.720 but on the Series X it runs fine, Like there 1294 01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:41.479 was still like occasional bugs and like a few. 1295 01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:41.840 Uh. 1296 01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:44.880 I think I crashed like once, but I didn't get 1297 01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:48.439 any of the crazy things that people were posting on 1298 01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:51.880 YouTube and Twitter. I'm like, okay, like playing it on 1299 01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:57.600 Series X, this game runs pretty good, pretty fine. I 1300 01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:01.439 can play this through to poletion and then just never 1301 01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:04.640 have to touch it again unless I really want to, 1302 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:09.760 and like, yeah, that's I'm probably not gonna play it again. 1303 01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:15.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, same. I played it on PC. I 1304 01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:19.000 played it way too much. Honestly, I got like all 1305 01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:21.760 the endings, yeah did as I was doing guide content 1306 01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:22.399 at the. 1307 01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:23.039 Time, and. 1308 01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.159 I'm fully okay with never playing Soberone again. 1309 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:28.359 I got it. 1310 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:30.239 I got everything there was out of it, but didn't 1311 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:32.640 I did. I am I misremembering this. But didn't they 1312 01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:35.479 even say that, like, yeah, it's available on PS four 1313 01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:37.560 now we don't super recommend. 1314 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:44.199 Yeah they said, yeah, man, but I think they said 1315 01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:48.079 we recommend on PS four pro or PS five. So 1316 01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:52.760 basically like without saying it, be like, yo, this ship 1317 01:10:52.840 --> 01:10:53.560 is ass on basic. 1318 01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:58.520 I think that's sort of like, look, this is the 1319 01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.000 best we could do with it. We can't we can't 1320 01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:03.479 really push this thing anymore. So systems. 1321 01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:05.600 Yeah, and at a certain point, you just need to 1322 01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:08.439 be like, yo, would this ship is sailed, we just 1323 01:11:08.479 --> 01:11:11.880 need to like keep move on with our lives in 1324 01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:14.119 a way. So I get it. 1325 01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:17.199 I agree, It's it's just like it's not the kind 1326 01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:19.720 of game that's like it's like, I don't think this 1327 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:22.439 game is ever going to be a you know, a 1328 01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:24.760 No Man's Sky or even. 1329 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:25.319 Yeah, it's not that. 1330 01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:27.279 Yeah, it's just it's just not built that way. So 1331 01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:29.720 it's like the idea of like, ah, this Redemption arc, 1332 01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:31.840 it's like not at this point. Like the best you 1333 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:34.720 can hope for is like maybe the DC they put 1334 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:37.960 out will be like pretty cool, uh, and then you 1335 01:11:37.960 --> 01:11:42.600 know they'll take the lessons learned for a Cyberpunk twenty 1336 01:11:42.880 --> 01:11:47.159 seventy eight whatever, right, Like guess, I don't know. I 1337 01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:51.920 think I'm just ready to stop. I'm excited that they 1338 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:53.840 put it out on PS four, so that hopefully this 1339 01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:57.319 means we can kind of stop talking about cyberpus, right yep. 1340 01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:00.760 And with that, it seems like we're we're all ready 1341 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:04.279 to move on from that one. 1342 01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:07.600 I don't think we'll ever be completely free from cyberpunk. 1343 01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:10.319 If for another reason, I think it's gonna be a 1344 01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:13.279 cautionary tale. To a bunch of Triple A developers, it's like, hey, 1345 01:12:13.680 --> 01:12:17.359 you're making your game for both current gen and last Gen. 1346 01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:20.520 You need to make sure that if you're making it 1347 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.119 for last Gen, it runs on the old ass PS 1348 01:12:24.199 --> 01:12:28.640 four and baseline Xbox One, because people still have those consoles. 1349 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.720 So if you say, hey, this game's coming out for 1350 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:34.239 Xbox One, it's gonna run on that giant ass fucking 1351 01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:37.359 brick of an Xbox One that came with the connect 1352 01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:38.720 like in twenty thirteen. 1353 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:45.760 Cyberpunk effects, that's what I'll call it. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, 1354 01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:48.840 I hope, I hope that isn't the case with I mean, 1355 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:50.800 we talked about it like previously on episodes, but like 1356 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:52.000 Horizon or you know. 1357 01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:54.600 Got War, what Halo Infinite Please Infinite. 1358 01:12:55.279 --> 01:12:57.199 Yeah. I agree with what Michael said during those episodes 1359 01:12:57.239 --> 01:12:59.279 where it's like those are backed by Sony. They you know, 1360 01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:01.760 they kind of know that hardware better. They're building it 1361 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:04.159 specifically for that hardware. So I don't think it'll be 1362 01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:10.520 a cyberpunk situation, but you never know. You never knows. 1363 01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:15.560 Four as hell old man, like, who knows? Other than that. 1364 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:18.920 I just wanted to quickly touch on yesterday they had 1365 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:21.000 the Sonic Last Days of the Time recording. They had 1366 01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:24.840 a Sonics thirtieth anniversary and they had the Anniversary Symphony. 1367 01:13:24.920 --> 01:13:29.920 Did any of y'all listen to that? Michael, you catch that? 1368 01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:30.960 How use about Sonic? 1369 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:35.199 You know, Sonics cool? But I know I lived with 1370 01:13:35.239 --> 01:13:36.680 a rabid Sonic fan. 1371 01:13:37.039 --> 01:13:41.039 Oh yeah, Blessing was going, yeah, he was. 1372 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:45.800 Busting fat nuts like yo, but it's it seemed really cool. 1373 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:47.479 Like I peeped it for a little while because then 1374 01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:52.239 it was like half orchestra half like what's a crush forty? 1375 01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:55.039 So it was like also had like the alternative rock 1376 01:13:55.520 --> 01:13:57.920 element to it and then like encore and mixed both. 1377 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:00.880 Like I was so like, I think that people who 1378 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.760 aren't into Sonic and saw a lot of people gushing 1379 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:06.279 about it, were like, you know what, I'm happy for y'all. Yeah, 1380 01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:10.039 it seems like such a good representation of because Sonic 1381 01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:13.920 music is dope, like legitimately dope. Yeah, and like to 1382 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:16.520 have it to have it represented in that style like 1383 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:19.079 having an orchestra and then having a rock band and 1384 01:14:19.119 --> 01:14:21.479 bringing those two things together, Like I don't know that 1385 01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:24.520 that's that's such a that's such a such a lovely thing. 1386 01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:26.800 Like if I was deep into Sonic, I would probably 1387 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:27.760 be in tears dude. 1388 01:14:27.800 --> 01:14:30.479 So yeah, absolutely, Like I'm not like that level of Sonic, 1389 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:34.000 but like I have played a surprising amount of the 1390 01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:37.359 Sonic games and like yeah, like hearing like even like 1391 01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:40.159 the Orchestra they got to like Sonic O six and 1392 01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:42.840 I'm like, ah, like, you know, I guess they gotta 1393 01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:45.119 do this one because of Sonic. You know, it's it's 1394 01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:47.079 a Sonic game, like they got to cover it. But 1395 01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:49.199 I was like, oh right, some of the music in 1396 01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:52.000 Sonic O six is like fucking dope, Like this ship 1397 01:14:52.159 --> 01:14:55.439 like hits like in the Orchestral is like oh oh, 1398 01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.119 like that cames trash. But like, m like all the 1399 01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:00.199 music I. 1400 01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:02.239 Have, like a lot of three D Sonic games. 1401 01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:05.319 Yeah, I feel like the most consistent thing about Sonic 1402 01:15:05.399 --> 01:15:08.119 is the music. Music is like pretty over the years, 1403 01:15:08.279 --> 01:15:09.760 it's always been pretty great. 1404 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:12.720 Like they could only get the game play to match 1405 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.199 that quality, like they would have one of the most 1406 01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:17.199 popular franchises in the world. 1407 01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:22.960 I mean, Sonic Adventure is fire. I love Sonic Adventure, 1408 01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.319 you know what I'm saying. On Dreamcast was like yo, 1409 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:30.399 this is like yeah, like the next generation of three 1410 01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:32.560 D action, Sonic Adventure was dope. 1411 01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:32.920 I love that. 1412 01:15:33.159 --> 01:15:35.119 Sonic Adventure is one of those things that I played 1413 01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:37.520 like way past after it already came out, so like 1414 01:15:37.800 --> 01:15:42.279 I I just don't have that like nostalgia, and I'm like, yeah, 1415 01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:44.600 this game is like pretty flawed, and same with Adventure too, 1416 01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:47.319 but like there's enough people that like really love both 1417 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:49.000 those games, and I'm like, you know what, like yeah, 1418 01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:51.439 like like I can't, I can't hate on that, like no, 1419 01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:53.319 like you know, good for you guys, Like I'm I'm 1420 01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:56.840 glad y'all really love this game. I don't know if 1421 01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:59.560 it's for me, Like you know, it's kind of yanky 1422 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:03.359 as hell, and I've been in I'm glad that you guys. 1423 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:05.680 Didn't you do the history of Sonic. I did do 1424 01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:08.359 Sonic Yeah, I played. I played like every Sonic. 1425 01:16:09.039 --> 01:16:11.840 So you you are you got Sonic Mania. 1426 01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:14.239 Yeah, I got Sonic Mania. Sonic Mania. 1427 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:15.079 It's good. 1428 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:19.239 It's good. So in my opinion, the one truly good 1429 01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:20.520 Sonic game is Sonic Mania. 1430 01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:23.000 If I were to pick, how dare you say Sonic 1431 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:25.600 Writers exist? You know what? 1432 01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:29.279 I have played Sonic Writers actually, Sonic the Fighters. I'm 1433 01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.399 really looking forward to checking that out and Lost Judgment 1434 01:16:31.600 --> 01:16:37.560 coming later this fall. Oh yeah, yeah, that concert was 1435 01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:39.479 The concert was good. It was really cool. Like the 1436 01:16:39.479 --> 01:16:42.159 the orchestral stuff was like sick. It was really funny 1437 01:16:42.239 --> 01:16:45.439 seeing like Yanks footage of like Sonic O six and 1438 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:48.359 then these like very professional looking you know, like people 1439 01:16:48.399 --> 01:16:51.159 in all their suits and ties like just you know, 1440 01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:55.520 playing their hearts out for this chanky Sonic footage like 1441 01:16:55.600 --> 01:16:57.960 on the background behind them. Like it was hell of funny. 1442 01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:02.079 But then like the Crush forty part was like legitimately 1443 01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:05.279 like hell yeah. Like the the audience for that part, 1444 01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:08.920 like everyone was like really into like the orchestras are like, yeah, 1445 01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:10.640 this is really great and it sounds good. What got 1446 01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:13.119 to the Crush forty? The chat just like lost their 1447 01:17:13.199 --> 01:17:17.600 fucking minds. They were like let's fucking go, like uh 1448 01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:21.560 they ended it on Live and let learn and just 1449 01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:24.640 like the the audience just absolutely lost their shit. It 1450 01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:27.760 was so good. I also think it like perfectly sums 1451 01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:32.000 up the Sonic franchise, where it's like beautiful, sweeping like orchestral, 1452 01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:37.640 like very classy, and then just like attitude attitude j 1453 01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:42.880 rock like just absolute nonsense, like oh it was beautiful. 1454 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:44.720 It was. It's really good. If if you if you're 1455 01:17:44.720 --> 01:17:47.199 interested in that, I think they have it archived up 1456 01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:50.439 on the Sonic YouTube channel. You should definitely check it out. 1457 01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:53.800 If if you like some good some good jams and 1458 01:17:53.840 --> 01:17:55.479 you like Sonic and you didn't get a chance to 1459 01:17:55.479 --> 01:17:58.359 see it, you should check that out. Uh oh right, 1460 01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:00.239 And I think that is pretty much all the is 1461 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:03.840 for news. Normally this would be where we do our 1462 01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:07.760 listener questions. You could always send a question to us 1463 01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:13.520 at GameSpot after Dark at Redventures dot com, but or sorry, 1464 01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:17.119 after Dark podcast at GameSpot dot com. I funcked that up. Wow, 1465 01:18:17.560 --> 01:18:20.079 I said everything and that thing wrong. Completely ignore that. 1466 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:23.920 But we actually don't have any listener questions this week, 1467 01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:26.359 which I think is okay. We can just kind of 1468 01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:28.399 call this a episode. 1469 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:31.720 Jordan's got Jordan's got things to do. 1470 01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:32.880 Jordan Scott things to do. 1471 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:37.479 I appreciate you all want having doing this recording so 1472 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:40.000 early in the morning, do. 1473 01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:42.960 No problem at all. So yeah, I think we're just 1474 01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:46.640 gonna call this and episode that is episode number ninety nine. 1475 01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:52.359 Let's go around and give ourselves all a little shout out. 1476 01:18:52.359 --> 01:18:55.279 Michael Hyam, where can the people find you, yo. 1477 01:18:55.479 --> 01:18:58.239 You can find mister e three at Michael P. Higham 1478 01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:00.439 on Twitter. We can find me and all my shit. 1479 01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:03.600 I don't know. I don't. I don't really, I don't 1480 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:05.920 have video game takes. If you want video game takes, 1481 01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:09.039 they'll follow me. All I do is get drunk and 1482 01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:12.880 tweet about bullshit and I still play Persona dancing at 1483 01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:16.760 two Amy start crying on Twitter about how beautiful Persona's 1484 01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:17.560 soundtrack is. 1485 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:22.960 No arguments here. I canna, Yeah, absolutely, Jordan, Where can 1486 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:23.880 the lovely people find you? 1487 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:27.920 They can find me on Twitter at jm remee With. 1488 01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:31.199 It looks like Apex Legends is going back to og 1489 01:19:31.479 --> 01:19:34.960 World's Edge and King's Canyon next week, So if you 1490 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:37.600 follow me on Twitter, I'm probably just going to be 1491 01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:40.920 talking about Apex stuff for the next couple of weeks. 1492 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:44.439 I talk about other stuff too sometimes occasionally, but I'm 1493 01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:48.520 I'm sorry if you're looking for any opinions on other stuff. Nah, 1494 01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:49.920 just Apex next week. 1495 01:19:50.279 --> 01:19:50.920 Just Apex. 1496 01:19:52.680 --> 01:19:55.039 Phil, What about what about you? Where? Where can people 1497 01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:57.600 hear about all your destiny? Your destiny lore? 1498 01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:07.239 I'm at on Twitter at Phil Hornshaw. I don't talk 1499 01:20:07.279 --> 01:20:09.920 about destiny that much. Everybody has a misconception about me. 1500 01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:14.079 Maybe it's just because I literally am in a discord 1501 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:17.800 chat with you where we constantly talk about destiny every 1502 01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:21.760 single day. So, like I know, with you and Mesty, 1503 01:20:22.479 --> 01:20:24.119 I thought you said slack at first, I'm like, is 1504 01:20:24.159 --> 01:20:30.079 the slack destiny chat still going? We would annoy the 1505 01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:33.159 hell out of that the amount we talked about destiny 1506 01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:36.359 if we actually talked about it in that chat. No way, I. 1507 01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:38.279 Will talk to you about destiny, but it's not the 1508 01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:39.319 only thing I like. 1509 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:48.880 I'm a human being and you can find me at 1510 01:20:49.239 --> 01:20:53.079 John Leake type. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be trying 1511 01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:54.479 to take a break next week. 1512 01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:57.279 Try that's wonderful. 1513 01:20:57.399 --> 01:20:59.800 Man should be good. But I will be back for 1514 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:03.680 next week's podcast episode one hundred. Like I said, we 1515 01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:06.840 got a little surprise. We're gonna have free all but 1516 01:21:07.239 --> 01:21:09.399 hopefully I'll chat with the rest of them see if 1517 01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:10.960 there's anything else cool we want to come up with. 1518 01:21:11.199 --> 01:21:13.439 But otherwise I don't know. Don't don't set your expectations 1519 01:21:13.439 --> 01:21:13.800 too high. 1520 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:16.760 It's just it's it's gonna be a banger. 1521 01:21:18.960 --> 01:21:23.279 We're reviewing every single video game game Spot is ever reviewed. 1522 01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:29.439 On a Oh shit, yeah, we can do that. Yeah, 1523 01:21:29.439 --> 01:21:31.359 I think we can make that happen. Be quick. We'll 1524 01:21:31.399 --> 01:21:34.680 just like rapid fire it, you know, like like okay, 1525 01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:41.319 Michael Persona three go okay? Should we got in? Tennesse 1526 01:21:41.319 --> 01:21:48.119 A three ten ten Final Fantasy ten Tenants Corona Cross 1527 01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:55.079 uh still ten out of ten ship? All right? Nailed it? 1528 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:00.239 All right, guys, Well, we will see you all next 1529 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:04.119 time for episode one hundred, peace 1530 01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:21.800 Dom