WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.640 You're listening to episode seventy five of GameSpot After Dark. 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.200 This week, Jean Luke shares his early thoughts on hip 3 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:08.720 Man three. We discuss some of our favorite games we 4 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.039 played over the holidays, and we dig into the fake 5 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:23.640 Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven rumors. Hello and welcome to episode 6 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.920 seventy five of GameSpot After Dark, or twenty five away 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.679 from one hundred. Can you believe that this is also 8 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.039 the second year or the third year we started this 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.640 in twenty nineteen. We did this through dout twenty twenty, 10 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:39.960 and that's twenty twenty one, So games Would after Dark 11 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:43.840 now spans three years, not three years entirely, but we 12 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.399 have been a thing for three different years. But anyway, 13 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:52.320 joining me today is Tomorrow Hussein. Hello everyone, Jean Lukesiki, 14 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.920 how do you? And Jordan Remay glad to be here. 15 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.679 Thank you all for joining me. Today is a little weird. 16 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.640 Normally we record this show on Wednesday, but yesterday shit 17 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.319 kind of went crazy in the United States. A lot 18 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.879 of people are scared. There was a lot of frankly 19 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.400 frightening stuff that happened. Now, I've been thinking a lot 20 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.760 about how to talk about this on the podcast, even 21 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.599 if we should talk about this on the podcast, because 22 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:21.920 I do realize that, you know, a lot of people 23 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.480 tune into game Spot after dark, checkout GameSpot stuff in 24 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.040 order to get their mind off a lot of this 25 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.239 stuff that happens. And if youar not, we will be 26 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.799 talking a lot about games today. But I just wanted 27 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:37.239 to bring that up and just remind people help out 28 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:39.599 those in need, be an ally to those who need it, 29 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:42.280 stay safe. I mean, there's still a pandemic going on. 30 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.079 Numbers are the worst they've ever been in the United 31 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.000 States especially, There's a lot of scary stuff going on, 32 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:55.079 and we want to we want to make sure we're 33 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.480 at least a part of that conversation in some way, 34 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:59.680 and we want to support those who need it. 35 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:05.079 And lift each other up. There's time when, for various reasons, 36 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.759 people need to support each other. You probably have friends 37 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.919 and family around you that are hurting for one reason 38 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.800 or another. Take that anger, see if you can try 39 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.879 and convert into something productive, See if you can nourish 40 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:25.080 others with it. Let people lean on you and lean 41 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:25.759 on others. 42 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:32.199 Right now exactly very well said you too, And now 43 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.120 it's probably a good time to talk to family members 44 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:38.719 about what's going on, though you may not see eye 45 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.080 to eye with because I mean, what happened yesterday was 46 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.120 a disgrace, and there's been a lot of things that 47 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.199 have happened recently in the last year that have been 48 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:50.120 a blight on this country. There's been a disgrace, but 49 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.800 I mean it kind of hit a I don't want 50 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.479 to say it hit a breaking point because there's so 51 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.560 much terrible shit that happened last year, but now's the time. 52 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.960 I mean, things need to change, and I think people 53 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.240 are aware of that, so do your part. But like 54 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.360 I said, also stay safe because there's still a pandemic 55 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.280 going on. But anyway, with that out of the way, 56 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.520 I do want to go over some plans for twenty 57 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.879 twenty one for the podcast. I think a big thing 58 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:18.919 we're going to try to do is get more guests 59 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.479 on this show. It's something we did a lot when 60 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.960 we started, but we're kind of going back to that, 61 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.199 but we're doing it with a different frame of mind. 62 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.599 So the idea right now is to alternate guests from 63 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:33.439 outside of GameSpot every other week, so we should be 64 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.520 seeing a lot of new and fresh faces on this show. 65 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:36.879 The other thing I want to try to do is 66 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.479 I want to try to get some smaller creators on 67 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.319 the show, people you may have not heard of, in 68 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.120 order to get different opinions, different perspectives, and maybe hopefully 69 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.719 introduce you to other great podcasts, great content, whatever it 70 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:51.719 might be, because there's a lot of great stuff out 71 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.319 there that we want to share. But don't worry. The 72 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.080 core cast of people, the people you see here, the 73 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.800 people like Callie, Lucy and whatnot, are still going to 74 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:05.199 be regulars on this show. But things will shift when 75 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.759 we get other guests on. I think I can say 76 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.280 next week Gav Murphy from RKG will be joining us, 77 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:11.960 which is exciting. 78 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:12.159 I know. 79 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:13.800 I just said we want to get smaller creators on, 80 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.599 but he's someone who've been trying to get for a 81 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:16.279 very long time. 82 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.439 He sent me a message and he's like, I'm up 83 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.519 for this, and I said, oh, Jake's going to reach 84 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:21.920 out and he goes, yeah. I spoke to him. I 85 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.720 got a question thought, do I need to wear clothes? 86 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.680 And I was like, nah, you, I mean yeah, people 87 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.240 can wear whatever they want on the show because we 88 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.399 don't do video. I mean, we have videos so we 89 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:33.399 can talk to each other. 90 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:35.439 But you know, Gav's a little filthmonga. 91 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.120 But I think that covers the big topics of the 92 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.959 podcast I want to talk about today. But with that said, 93 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:49.199 we kind of left off last week talking about what 94 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.480 games we plan on playing over the break, So why 95 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.759 don't we get into that two more? Do you want 96 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.920 to start? What did you get into over the break? 97 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:58.759 What'd you play? Anything stand out? So? 98 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.079 I played like a I spent a lot of time 99 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:06.680 not doing anything and like kind of just disconnecting a bit, 100 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.560 which was nice. And then I kind of packed everything 101 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.040 or tried to pack as much as I could into 102 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.680 like two days before we came back, and I watched 103 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.680 all of Mandalorian, which is great. 104 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:21.199 Did that in a day? Two? 105 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.399 Yeah, I watched. Main thing I watched that really stuck 106 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.240 with me is an Apple Plus here. It is called 107 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:33.519 ted Lesso, which is Jason Sudekis, and it's fantastic. It's 108 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:38.399 twenty minutes to thirty minutes per episode. Got former people, 109 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.439 one person specifically that worked on Scrubs, which I'm a 110 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.600 huge fan of, and it is about a guy who 111 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.040 an American football college coach who has success by taking 112 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:56.439 a relatively unknown college team and giving some some giving 113 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.480 them some degree of success, who for some reason is 114 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.160 brought in to manage and coach a Premier League football 115 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:10.639 team in the UK and obviously it's a ridiculous thing 116 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:15.399 to do, and that kind of forms the basic narrative 117 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:21.720 of the show, and effectively it's all about American optimism 118 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.879 clashing with British cynicism to create this feel good, funny, 119 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.800 heartwarming ten episode series about a man trying to understand 120 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:36.160 British culture and in the process kind of breaking through 121 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:42.160 to a bunch of down in the dumps men and 122 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.439 a few other people as well who are trying to 123 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.480 find their self worth. And it's a really stunning achievement. Like, 124 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.360 it's such a good show. I went into there, I 125 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:59.800 don't care about football, American or British, and it was. 126 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.720 It's fantastic. I loved every second of it and like 127 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:07.160 you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll go through all the emotions. 128 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.160 It's it's it's I can't recommend it high highly enough. 129 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.240 It's on Apple Plus. You can sign up to Apple 130 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:16.480 Plus with a seven day trial. It'll take you at 131 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.480 most one or two days to watch through it all 132 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.480 ten episodes, thirty minutes and then you can cancel Apple Plus. 133 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.199 I re foot I fully recommend you do that because 134 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.800 that's exactly what I did, and I don't regret it 135 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:30.160 one bit. 136 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.160 That's definitely the very barrier to entry for me. I 137 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:34.920 saw a bunch of people raving about this show and 138 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:36.079 I was like, Oh, I wonder what it's on. And 139 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.680 I saw I was on Apple Plus and I was like, 140 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.600 I just did this for the Mandalorian with Disney Plus. 141 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.279 I don't think I can do two in one break, 142 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.319 but I do really want to see it. It sounds great. 143 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:46.560 You can sign up to have a Plus on your phone, 144 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:48.720 like if you've got an iPhone. It took me like 145 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:50.879 ten seconds to sign up for it. I was just like, yep, 146 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:52.680 add me to this, and then I went to my subscription. 147 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.560 I was like, cancel subscription. Took two seconds to do that, 148 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.439 and then I watched the entire show and then I 149 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:57.800 was done. 150 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:00.600 The benefits of Apple having all of our data at 151 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.240 their fingertips, yeah exactly. 152 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.839 But in terms of playing I started, I carried on 153 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:09.800 playing Yakuza like a dragon a bunch. I'm still enjoying 154 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.959 that a lot. I played the Last Campfire, which is 155 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.720 a hell of games title little indie game that they made. 156 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.000 I played it based on well, I had it on 157 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:23.519 my PS four and PS five, but Lucy was tweeting 158 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.199 about it and how nice it was, and I was like, 159 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:26.680 you know what, I want something small to play, and 160 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.879 it's very nice. It's got that it's classically indie game charm. 161 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.720 You're just walking around this island a series of areas 162 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.480 and solving simple puzzles that become quite complicated, just very 163 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.720 easy to play, kind of somber mood, very like you 164 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.919 know indie game from maybe five years ago, ten years ago, 165 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:49.519 where it was like we're trying to play with your 166 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.919 emotions and have these cute, see weird formless characters. 167 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.240 That was great. Yeah, and. 168 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:00.960 Lucy again and a bunch of other people. I'm Sam McCatty, 169 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.879 I Gan and Stu Taylor works in games PR in 170 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.559 the UK. Suddenly got on pegl and I love pegl 171 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.919 and I was like, I'm sure I have that installed. 172 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:13.039 So I fired up Pegel and started playing pegl a 173 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.399 bit just to kind of occupy my mind. And it's 174 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.799 been good. I've been listening to podcasts and playing Pegle 175 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.080 and finally I started Holler Night again, trying to give 176 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.919 it an honest try, because Jordan loves it so much 177 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.799 and I want to also love it as well and 178 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.679 give it a shot. Only about an hour in, I'm 179 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:34.840 told I need to get the compass because the thing 180 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.279 that I've got a map and it's annoying me, and 181 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.080 I need to wait to get the compass. But yeah, 182 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:41.759 so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep at it, and I'm 183 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:42.639 having a good time with it. 184 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.240 I'm so proud of you. I thought you were going 185 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.480 to skip out on your conement to play over the break. 186 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:48.879 You know. 187 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:49.360 I don't do that. 188 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:50.879 When I say i'm gonna play something'm gonna give it 189 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.879 honest try. What I'm playing on Switch. I'm playing on Switch. 190 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:57.159 But that's how I got it initially. I well, I 191 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.200 got it on PC when it was in early access 192 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.080 or when it first matter early Access, and then I 193 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.320 started playing on Switch. Yeah. 194 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.600 I'm not sure if that's the best version or whatever, 195 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.200 but it seems to function fine, and it's I don't 196 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.200 think it's on game Poss. It might be on Game Poss. 197 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.039 I didn't really, Yeah, it is all right. 198 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.559 It was also on Playsession Plus last month. 199 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.039 I think, hm, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I claimed it. 200 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.200 So I think I've got I have that game on 201 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.679 anything and haven't finished it on anything. 202 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.559 I could have sworn I claimed it, but when I 203 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.440 went to search for it in my PlayStation library, it 204 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:30.720 was like, hey, do you want to buy this Ultimate 205 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.879 Edition version? I was like, no, Okay, I guess I'll 206 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:33.600 just play on Switch. 207 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.679 Well, speaking of Hollow Night, why don't we move on 208 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.320 to Jordan, because you have been playing Hollow Night again? 209 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.919 I take it, Yeah, I'm playing it again. I wanted 210 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:49.360 to try to go for the hard ending in the game, 211 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.440 not the super hard straps you down bends, you over ending. 212 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:57.480 I'm not good enough for that, but I've I've never 213 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.559 gotten the just regular hard ending before, and I'm like, 214 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.960 I've been playing this game for like forty fifty hours 215 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.080 now at this point, they're just pretty much all the bosses. 216 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.600 Several times, I can totally do this. It didn't work 217 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.639 out for me. I basically played Hollow Night where I'm 218 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.840 got to the secret final boss and I'm like, all right, 219 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:26.159 every three or four attempts that I have, I should 220 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.240 take a break and like play Cyberpunk or something like 221 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.120 that instead. So basically, over the break I played like 222 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:39.080 twenty hours of Cyberpunk is what to get the secret 223 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:40.159 boss of that game is? 224 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.759 I haven't made it that far in my attempts, but 225 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.120 I was watching my friend play a while back and 226 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.399 he was at this like arena area and it looked 227 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:50.639 so freaking hard. 228 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:52.080 The Cola Fools. 229 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.399 Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. He was getting so mad too. 230 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.120 I think he was streaming it. It was entertaining to 231 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:00.159 watch him get mad. But I was like, wow, if 232 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:01.840 I'm gonna do I, do you have to do that 233 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:03.960 to beat the game? Or is that like a side areas? 234 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:08.080 It's an optional area that originally you had to do 235 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:12.120 if you wanted to get a hundred percent in the game. 236 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.279 Since now in Hollow Night you can get one hundred 237 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.679 and twelve percent completion, some people do the Colisseum of 238 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:23.519 Fools as a way to boost themselves to one hundred percent, 239 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.600 Like they'll do some of the extra percentages to get 240 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:27.320 to one hundred. 241 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.679 Interesting. I kind of like shakes up the hundred percent run, 242 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:33.159 doesn't it? 243 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.919 Yeah, the it's I think a lot of people do 244 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.799 when they're going for the achievement to like one hundred 245 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:44.879 percent the game, and like on Steel soul mode, which 246 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.360 is when you die, you basically have to start the 247 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.320 game completely over from the very beginning, so you basically 248 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.440 have one life. And since some of the things are 249 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:57.840 just really stupidly hard to get, it's like, oh, just 250 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:01.879 go to the Colisseum and beat like the first wave 251 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.240 or second wave and get the first few items and 252 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.200 just don't do the final wave. That's really really hard 253 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.840 and requires you to have a hand eye coordination that 254 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.799 I just don't have anymore. 255 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.080 How About I Can Fell. 256 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.519 I Can Fell is a game that I started playing 257 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.919 near the end of twenty twenty, and I just never 258 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:31.039 got around to finishing it before we started talking about 259 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.200 like best Switch games, best Xbox games, And I'm really 260 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.440 angry at myself for not doing that because it's so good. 261 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:45.879 It's like this wholesome game about how you're essentially the 262 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.360 sibling to the Chosen One, and the Chosen One just 263 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:54.679 screws everything up at their magic school, like when they're 264 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.279 really smart, charismatic, they have good research skills, and they 265 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.399 still managed to screw everything up, And so you're coming 266 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:04.799 in after that and seeing the aftermath of this huge 267 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:08.080 disaster and trying to put the pieces together with some 268 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:11.080 of the chosen ones friends who aren't as good as 269 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.120 she is, but each have their own perks and specialities, 270 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:19.679 and so it this really wholesome, queer as hell like 271 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.720 turn based RPG with Honestly, I think some of the 272 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.440 best music in any video game I've ever heard. Has 273 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:30.320 the composers from Steven Universe do the music for it, 274 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:35.480 So it's just like banger after banger for all the 275 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.759 different battle themes, the boss themes, just the music that's 276 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.320 playing as you're exploring the worlds. They'll like hit you 277 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.320 with surprises, where like for the first five hours you're 278 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.840 just getting these solid like tracks of music and you're like, oh, 279 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.559 this is good. This is really good. And then you'll 280 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:55.080 finally face your rival and it's like part way like 281 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.720 through the beginning of the boss track starting up, someone 282 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.320 starts like singing and you realize it's the boss singing 283 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.879 at you, and it's really good, and you're like, Wow, 284 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.000 the vocals for this just came out of nowhere, and 285 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:08.320 I'm having like a really good time and I almost 286 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.759 want to beat this boss so that'll die and have 287 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:12.320 to restart it again to hear. 288 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:16.240 The music one more time, and it's it's just. 289 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:21.080 So good and I love it so much, and I 290 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.720 hope that everyone decides to go out and play it. 291 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.879 It's if you like turn based rbgs. I cannot recommend 292 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.120 it enough. It's it's it's just so good. 293 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.600 I feel like, yeah, you wholeheartedly convinced me. 294 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:36.440 I am. 295 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:37.960 I was like, I have never heard of this, and 296 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.600 I like quickly googled what it looks like, and I'm like, oh, yeah, 297 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:41.679 I'm buying this. 298 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.840 Later, I like, I showed one of the soundtracks to 299 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.279 Matt Espinelle and like he got halfway through the song, 300 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.039 He's like, all right, don't tell me anything else about 301 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:53.639 this game. I'm buying. 302 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.679 That's how you get made if the music's good. He's in. 303 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:03.799 I'm actually, I would say, in as similar boat as you, 304 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.360 but with Risk of Rain two, because I am mad 305 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:09.639 at myself that I did not play that before we 306 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.720 did all of our Game of the Year deliberations, because 307 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.440 that would have been pretty high on my list. I 308 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.279 played a ton of Risk of Rain two over the break, 309 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.080 I think thirty hours, among a bunch of other games 310 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:25.759 that definitely dominated my free time. It is great, it 311 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.120 is so good. I cannot recommend it enough. It is 312 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.399 an excellent co op game. It's an excellent rogue Light. 313 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.519 It doesn't do I would say it doesn't do things 314 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.480 is quite as interesting as something like Hades does because 315 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.240 there isn't like a story that there's a loose story, 316 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:46.159 but there's no like there's not the same benefit to dying. 317 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.320 But like, the way you can stack abilities in this 318 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.039 game is so much fun because unlike a lot of games, 319 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.080 when you pick up items there basically have a perk 320 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:58.320 attached to them. But the catches is that you can 321 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.279 pick up as many items as you want, so by 322 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.079 the end you have a character with like if you 323 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:05.519 make it to the end, you have a character with 324 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.960 like forty like like twenty different perks, all of them 325 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.240 are leveled up because every time you get a duplicate 326 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.240 it just makes it more powerful. And then when you 327 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.200 combine like the whole multiplayer aspect, in the different characters 328 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.079 you can play as, it just makes for an incredibly 329 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:27.119 addicting cooperative rogue Light that just there's just so many 330 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.680 possibilities in the ways you can play. Like I play 331 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:34.279 one character called I forget his name. He's like engineer, 332 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:38.720 he throws down turrets, he's basically he's your turret guy, 333 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.960 but you can get There's items that drop that normally 334 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:45.880 I looked at and I was like, oh, this is useless. 335 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.160 Like one is like if you hold still for two seconds, 336 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.519 you release a burst of healing, and I was like, 337 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.839 that doesn't seem useful because all the characters in this 338 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.440 game you want to move, like if you hold still, 339 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:58.160 you're gonna die. But it also counts for as turrets. 340 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.720 So I found out that if I kept stacking these mushrooms, 341 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.599 I could basically throw it on my turrets and those 342 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.519 would count as me holding still. So I basically set 343 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:13.680 up two portable healing stations for all my teammates. So 344 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.279 whenever we'd get to the teleporter, which is basically like 345 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.759 the final wave of enemies rush you. You fight a boss 346 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.680 and you have to hold your position, I'd set up 347 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.000 those teleporters and I just I'd set up those turrets, 348 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.039 level them up a bunch, and people would just heal 349 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:31.880 up so fast. I it is. It is so good. 350 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.759 I don't think it would be quite as good in 351 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.240 single player. I know there's a lot of achievements to unlock, 352 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.119 and I know people who've had fun playing it by themselves. 353 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.359 But this game really shines in co op. I I 354 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:45.279 can't recommend it enough honestly. 355 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:47.759 Two player co op or can you do it with more? 356 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.599 You can do four players, four players, and there's there's 357 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:54.599 also a bunch of like modifiers you can get in 358 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:59.119 the game. So like normally, normally these perk drop randomly. However, 359 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.680 there's there's a modifier that you can unlock that lets 360 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.359 you pick what perk you want to get, and that 361 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.279 completely changes how you play through the game, right, because 362 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:09.240 then you can plan on harder difficulties, then you can 363 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.960 have more focus builds and so on. But to answer 364 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.000 your question tomorrow, I've been playing on PC. I also 365 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:17.960 got it on switch because it was like fifty percent off. 366 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.640 Playing this with a controller might be a bit difficult, 367 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:23.960 It's probably a lot better than playing on a switch light, 368 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.839 which is what I was playing on a little bit, 369 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.839 and immediately I was like, uh, I don't know if 370 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:30.559 I can do this. I've mostly been playing on PC 371 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.039 because not that you need super precise aiming, but it 372 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.519 just it just feels better, Like there are certain characters 373 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:41.880 that have attacks that home on enemies you don't really 374 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:45.039 need to aim at all. And their melee characters and whatnot, 375 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:48.680 but that that has dominated my time. Apart from that, 376 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:53.359 I got one ending in Near Automata. I got the 377 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:59.000 first ending and I started the second one as I 378 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.160 don't want to spoil anything, but I started the second one. 379 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.160 Died during the prologue and it set me back to 380 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:04.559 the beginning and I was like, all right, I'm gonna 381 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:05.079 take a break. 382 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.400 You got to get further into that second playthrough for 383 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.480 it to like really like Diverge. It does, like to 384 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.160 be fair, it feels very similar at first and you're like, oh, 385 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:19.160 this is literally going to just be the same thing, 386 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:22.799 but like there is a moment where it Diverge is 387 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.359 pretty hard and you go like, oh, okay, that's what 388 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:26.920 you're doing. 389 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.400 So that's good to hear. Because it's not that I 390 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:31.880 wasn't impressed at what I had played. There were some 391 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:34.680 things that I thought were really cool, particularly like the 392 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.359 whole chipset system. I really like that you can just 393 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.960 uninstall your HUD essentially and be like, no, I don't 394 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.160 need that. I'd rather have something that increases my attacker 395 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:49.640 and autoheel. That stuff was really cool, but like the 396 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.720 story didn't I wasn't super wild about it was it 397 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.359 wins some really interesting places, but I didn't care much 398 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:59.279 for the dialogue or the writing. I thought it was 399 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:01.039 so ham fisted and like. 400 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.720 Wow, you've just angered I think a lot of people. 401 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.119