WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:11.599 Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grub, 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:15.480 your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in. 3 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.839 In this episode, we're going to be talking about another 4 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.440 set of glowing reviews for a new game, and a 5 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.280 Nintendo direct is happening this week. It's gonna be a 6 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:26.600 good one because we have Jeff Bakolour on the show. Jereff, 7 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.280 how are you doing? 8 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.320 I am doing swell. Thank you for having me. It's 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:32.560 good to be back. 10 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.280 On the GMM. 11 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.960 Yeah, we're making it happen for sure. We were talking 12 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.200 about pinball before we got started. What was the first 13 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.719 like great pinball machine. Is there like a one where 14 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.679 it's like, oh, this is when they really figured it 15 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:45.159 out in like the eighties or whatever. 16 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.520 I mean, I'm sure there's, Yes, there's stuff from the eighties. 17 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.159 Terminator gets a lot of that credit for me personally. 18 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.399 There was a game I think it's called Top Speed, 19 00:00:55.439 --> 00:01:00.880 which is like a police cruiser game. But you know 20 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.679 that was like my first like bowling alley game for me. 21 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:08.159 Adams family just sort of owns that. You know, it's 22 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.480 the best selling pinball game of all time. Uh, that 23 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.439 one just I think spoke to an entire generation in 24 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.959 a way that has been you know, lasting, unlike anything 25 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:22.280 like it. 26 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.040 It's uh, it's it's like, it's weird how Adam's families 27 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.840 like cultural footprints, spreads out so much wider than the 28 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:31.359 than the show or whatever. 29 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.040 Where it's right that Fester's quest. 30 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.359 On the ns everyone had that everyone had this Adams 31 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.280 Family pinball table. 32 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:38.879 Uh. 33 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.760 The movies actually were fantastic. I haven't watched the new 34 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:44.719 animated ones. I wonder if those are any good. 35 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.840 I've heard decent stuff about the the the new animated ones. 36 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.400 I've heard they're okay, which you know, as long as 37 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.680 it's somewhat new Adams Family content, we're being well served. 38 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:58.599 But yeah, those two nineties ones are just they've aged 39 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.480 so well. Also, like, uh, they're they're immaculate. 40 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.599 Also, we might have had fishing week a bit too early, 41 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:06.799 right are you gonna have Are you gonna have a 42 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:07.719 fishing week here in your life? 43 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:08.840 Pretty soon you think. 44 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.479 Yeah, I'm getting all these photos of my son going 45 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.240 fishing in Sleepway Camp and he's catching all kinds of 46 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.159 fish that I cannot place a name too, because. 47 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.120 I yeah, we can't identify. 48 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:20.080 And we were looking at him like I said, a 49 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.240 perch man, I don't know you, but you said perch. 50 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.120 I didn't know a fish call it was they perch. 51 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.560 That's I just know, like trout and like you know, 52 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:29.759 I don't know something. 53 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.280 I taught with a blue Gil that didn't look like 54 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:32.599 a blue Gil. That's all I know. 55 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.680 No, it had read in it. So yeah, yeah, it's amazing. 56 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.439 He's a he's a fisher person. Uh it's it's incredible 57 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.000 to see. 58 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:39.800 Uh. 59 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.360 I bet I bet you this grub. I bet you 60 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.520 he's not taking him off the line though. 61 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:46.280 I bet he's a lot of help with that. 62 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.759 Yeah, you know, professional with gloves or something. 63 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.719 I can get that him. I don't do the little 64 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.080 work that's for you people. 65 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.879 Yeah, you pay someone for that. 66 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.120 That's that's what we're paying for. 67 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.680 Uh. I think I was definitely like at that age 68 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.639 when I was catching fishing boy scouts, was like, I 69 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.000 need some help with this, especially putting the worms on 70 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:06.719 the hook. I was never good at that. That was 71 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.840 difficult for me and also a little icky. All right, 72 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.280 let's explain ourselves. We're giant bomb, We're a bunch of 73 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.240 internet video game dufaces, and we're gonna keep hanging out 74 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.000 here with your help. 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I think got 85 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.199 something to be pretty excited about because it really enables 86 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.639 us to do some even weirder and stranger stuff on 87 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.280 that show. I'm very excited about it. That has been 88 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.840 a lot of fun so far. You're looking forward to 89 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:57.719 getting back in there? 90 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:02.400 Yeah, I'm looking forward to donning the outfit, is what 91 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:06.240 I'll say. Uh, I've heard it on the weekends for 92 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:07.759 just for just for shits and. 93 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.360 Giggles, recreational purposes. 94 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.240 Yeah, that's exactly right. No, it's been a lot of fun. 95 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:12.719 That's uh. 96 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.639 That game is real dumb and uh, we're I think 97 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.560 we're having a good laugh making our way through it, 98 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.360 and it's fun. There I said it. I'm having fun 99 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:24.199 playing the bad game, and I hope you'll join us 100 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.879 when that show starts posting. 101 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.199 It is like it has been sort of revelatory for 102 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.279 the rest of us on Blake Club, where we kind 103 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.480 of keep looking left and right, like meet me, Dan 104 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:37.399 and Mike at each other, being like, wait, this game 105 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.439 is still bad. It's still Blake Club, but it's not 106 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:45.600 the absolute utter, like devastating trash garbage we've been giving 107 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.639 to each other. We could be playing Catwoman, and yet 108 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.120 for some reason we keep giving each other space ace 109 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.800 and virtuo. So yeah, and whatever else now, and yeah, 110 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:56.079 don't blame yourself. 111 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:01.360 Don't blame yourselves, Blame the paying all audience. That is 112 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:03.759 who you should be blaming. They what they were doing, 113 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.560 They knew what they were doing. They had every opportunity 114 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.839 to make this bad, and they made it good. So 115 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.160 blame is This is what I always say. I say 116 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.120 this internally, little peak behind the curtain. Blame the audience. 117 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.720 Blame the audience. It's a classic trick here at Giant Bomb. 118 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.800 Get me next time, everyone, You'll get me next time. 119 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:26.680 As far as this show goes, most weekdays, I Jeff 120 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.560 Grub will help piecerr gaming life back together. That includes 121 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.959 breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. 122 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:34.959 For all these topics, I'll get the input of a 123 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.399 bona fide expert who will make me look smart. If 124 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.879 you were watching live on twitch welcome, You can always 125 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.519 listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching 126 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.319 for Games Mornings, or find the RSS feed on giant 127 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.600 bomb dot com. You can also catch the show later 128 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:54.199 with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube, aren't we 129 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.319 have a lot to get into before we do that? 130 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:58.560 Real quick? There's a big walk quick look up every one. 131 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.199 You go check out. We got that going over the weekend. 132 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.800 Sean made sure that was ready to go, So go 133 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:06.639 check that out on the site, go check it out 134 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:07.360 on YouTube. 135 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.319 It's got multiple perspectives, so you. 136 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.680 Can really get a good look at what that game's 137 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.040 all about. We start from the beginning, so there's not 138 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:14.680 like if you kind of just want to check in 139 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.399 and peek in and see what the experience is like, 140 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:18.399 you're not gonna get a ton of spoilers. Because we 141 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.800 didn't know what the fuck we were doing. Jeff Beckard 142 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:22.360 did know what he was doing. He kept it quiet 143 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.639 so we could discover it ourselves. So yeah, you're not 144 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.959 gonna get in there and like actually get spoiled or anything. 145 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.800 So eventually you will, but I know, just check out 146 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:31.360 the first ten minutes and see if you want, because 147 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.600 people are talking good things about this game, and yeah, 148 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.120 Big Walk reviews are end and the game seems to 149 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.000 be doing very well. I'm gonna double check Open Critic 150 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.480 right now and see if they updated with an actual score. 151 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:44.720 So far they have it, but it's got like a 152 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.839 ninety three over on Metacritic. Yeah, very very good. Five 153 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:52.759 stars from Chris Shilling at Eurogamer. The untitled Goose Game 154 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:56.759 Team returns with a funny, exciting, and deeply rewarding multiplayer 155 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.240 adventure that combines knock about fun with some risingly big ideas. 156 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.199 Five stars from Mron Cohn at Restart Run. I think 157 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.600 what Big Walk does that's so compelling is that it 158 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.680 grabs the little part of your brain that is begging 159 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.279 to be enriched by curiosity and interaction and massages it 160 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:16.480 ever so gently with your friends as the background. That 161 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.680 is not something that you can simply drop people into 162 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.720 and hope happens. It is meticulously, meticulously crafted and planned 163 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.519 by expert hands, and then an eight out of ten 164 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.680 from Marcus Kenneth at CG Magazine, Big Walk delivers on 165 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.720 a promise that's rare in in cooperative games. Nothing here 166 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.480 is scripted, and the funniest moments are are ones that 167 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.360 games that the game couldn't have planned even if it 168 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:38.800 wanted to. 169 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:40.680 So yeah, it's kind. 170 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.360 Of like it's an emergent sort of gameplay or an 171 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:49.399 emergent like friend hangout zone thing that is enwrapped by 172 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.120 a sort of multiplayer missed experience where you have all 173 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:57.439 of these puzzles that are just standing there, they're in 174 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.480 front of you, and then it's up to you to 175 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.480 sort of like figure out what can you poke and 176 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.639 product either right there in the puzzle or elsewhere in 177 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:05.680 the world to. 178 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:06.920 Solve that problem. 179 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.560 And then it like it sort of develops that idea 180 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.959 in multiple directions, but the biggest one being like time 181 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.439 and space, like time space and the way sound works, 182 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.560 and I guess the way lighting works. So you could 183 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.279 split up and start going in different directions, and it's 184 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:29.000 very hard to hear from a distance, so you have 185 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.759 to use like visuals like like storytelling to each other 186 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.480 where you're using your arms, or eventually you get walkie talkies, 187 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.000 but those are like few and far between, at least 188 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.159 early on, so you have to kind of use those 189 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.639 sparingly or like find the right people to have those, 190 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:44.480 and then kind of split up into groups and plan 191 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:47.519 and organize, and then like you're like if you do 192 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.159 get split up and say, I'm like looking out in 193 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.399 the dark and I could see two lights walking through 194 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.799 the woods, I'm like, oh, there's the guys. Let's see 195 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:55.159 if we can, like we should probably just try to 196 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.840 get their attention, get them over here. All this stuff 197 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:02.159 sort of just happens emergently while it is this very 198 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:06.759 like designed island. It is not, for example, like other 199 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:10.559 friendslop games which I always use affectionately. It's where it 200 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:14.120 is procedurally generated and you're getting a different island each time. Like, no, 201 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.720 this is designed and they kind of knew what they 202 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.399 were doing with that. I like immediately was like, Okay, 203 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.039 I'm getting lost in this world and having a great 204 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.080 time figuring it out with friends. So yeah, you played 205 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:25.960 it with us, what do you think? 206 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:26.720 Yeah? 207 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.000 I think what's so amazing about this is you know, 208 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.399 this game took a minute to make too, right, Like 209 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:35.159 this is definitely a labor of love for a while. 210 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.759 And I think it's such a testament to like how 211 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.399 meticulous everything was sort of placed, the sort of tools, 212 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.399 the suite of sort of tools in this kind of 213 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:51.120 sandbox thing is so hard to kind of like, you know, 214 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.639 put yourself outside of what you probably become so close 215 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:59.159 to and so intimate with during the development process. To 216 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.360 just like have that kind of confidence and and uh, 217 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.320 you know, willingness to take this kind of risk is 218 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:10.240 really impressive to me. I really think that sort of 219 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:16.279 careful decision making is something to really be celebrated. And 220 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.159 this is just like what it's amazing about this is 221 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:19.840 like this is just the beginning, right, Like this is 222 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.960 just like a review time. No one's played this in 223 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.799 a way that we are going to start to see 224 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.480 all the amazing clips and all the amazing stuff that 225 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:29.960 is birthed by this game. 226 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:30.759 Uh. 227 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.320 And I do, yes, I remember when we were when 228 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.399 I first saw this game, I was talking with the developers, 229 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.000 you know they you said, you have this affectionate friend 230 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.600 slab genre sort of thing, Like I think they know, 231 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.919 like that can be an affectionate kind of thing. They 232 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.919 definitely were like, oh my god, we can't hear that anymore. 233 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.279 Right, And that's not what you mean, right, No, And 234 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.200 most people when they're they're like and like I've seen 235 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.200 people talk like this is not just friends slop, and 236 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.480 it's like there's a there's a distinction here, is not 237 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.519 for sure feels very different from a lot of those 238 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.360 games to become big streaming hits and stuff like. 239 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.320 Totally and and there's undoubtedly overlap too, like you can't 240 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.639 like you can't decouple those two things. The amazing thing though, 241 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:18.320 is that Big Walk just like carves out its own 242 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.279 little spot in a way not even little like this 243 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.440 own substantial spot that is that none of those games 244 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:29.960 can touch like they are just light years behind. And 245 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.200 that's okay because like the the the the way in 246 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:34.960 which you are sort of meant to play this game 247 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.679 like demands that you have this thing. I guess the 248 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.519 I guess like, if you don't have any friends, this 249 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.960 is bad, Like get friends, for sure, get like good friends, 250 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.840 because if you don't have good or get a good 251 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.200 get a good friend singular because I because if you 252 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.360 don't this is gonna be. 253 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:56.240 Rough for you, I want to say, right, and I 254 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.080 definitely already feel it's like, man, I want to play 255 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.559 more of this, and like we have all like we 256 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:02.559 have a lot of like excuses to make that happen, 257 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.799 but we're very busy. It's like, can we like get 258 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.440 ourselves together to play this again? And it's already like, man, 259 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:10.879 I hope we can figure that out. If you're someone 260 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:13.559 in life that like stresses about trying to like get 261 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.960 your friend's time and say, hey, let's commit to this, 262 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.440 at the very least, I think you're gonna have one 263 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.360 that most people are gonna come away with being like 264 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.320 that was worth it. Yeah, I'm glad we play I'm 265 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.200 glad we played that. So like this is gonna be 266 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.480 an easy, sort of convincing sort of thing. 267 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:28.039 Well, it's just. 268 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.840 Gonna take a half hour, right, Like it's like you're 269 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.960 gonna pop into this. The onboarding is super simple. I 270 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.039 mean even for the most sort of like casual players. 271 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:40.919 I think you're gonna get onboard to real fast. And 272 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.080 once you realize like, oh what you are kind of 273 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.759 meant to do and explore, I don't see how you 274 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.120 could even play for a half hour. I feel like 275 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:48.919 that first session is gonna be nine minutes and you're 276 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.279 just gonna realize like, oh my gosh, like we're doing 277 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:55.039 this thing together. It's you know, you love to see 278 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.200 it like who is not instantly sort of falling in 279 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.519 love with this thing and the sort of full and 280 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:04.399 careful you know, it's just it's funny. That's I think 281 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.120 that that's like it is. It just gives you all 282 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.039 the pieces to just be so funny and thoughtful. Yeah, 283 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:12.639 I can't enough good stuff about it. 284 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.440 Yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to getting in there and 285 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.399 and spending some more time with it. It's like it 286 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:19.799 has it soaks into me where I'm like, man, I 287 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:21.080 want to solve. I can think of a couple of 288 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.519 puzzles that we came across that we couldn't solve. I'm like, well, 289 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.080 I got we got to figure that stuff out. I 290 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.279 have some theories. That is a lot of fun and 291 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.039 it does like scratch the missed part of my brain 292 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.519 while also being like this is something completely different and 293 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:38.039 and yeah, just goofing off with friends is something that 294 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.679 games are like not just good at, like it's like 295 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.080 very good at it. And we have clearly figured that 296 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.399 out in the last couple of years, a couple of 297 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.759 years since the pandemic and all this friend slap stuff 298 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.919 has happened, and and stuff like Peak has just been like, Yeah, 299 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.840 that is the entire thing we're doing here, and then 300 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.559 now like to take that concept and especially especially proximity 301 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.039 chat and be like all right, now, let's build on 302 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.879 top of that and directions that's what this is doing. 303 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.240 It's like, oh, this is a whole genre that is 304 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.639 yet like it's not even close to being taffed. We 305 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:08.759 haven't really figured out all the things that this can do, 306 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:10.840 and this is showing us. It's like, yeah, there is 307 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.159 space for that, and it's not like some big barrier 308 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.360 that we're putting out a game that requires you to 309 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:18.840 play with friends. That is a that's actually a benefit 310 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.440 and it's probably gonna lead to more success for it. 311 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.039 I think a lot of big studios will be afraid 312 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:24.320 of that. That's why we don't get a lot of 313 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:29.720 games like Joseph Feriss's two player only cooperative games that 314 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.879 is like, oh, people need two people that are two players. 315 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.679 That's like a scary thing like that we're gonna have 316 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.879 to tell a person you're gonna to either get two copies, 317 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.440 and they have voys to solve for that. But I 318 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.679 think they realize that it's like, man, people really like 319 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.000 playing games together. That's almost the whole point for a 320 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.759 huge subset of our audience. So let's serve more of 321 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:48.840 that up and I think this is delivering exactly that. 322 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:50.519 All right. 323 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.519 There's a new Nintendo Direct dropping tomorrow dedicated to Fire 324 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.720 Emblem fortunes Weave. This is from Dave Aubrey at VGC. 325 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.600 A new Nintendo Direct will be premiering in less than 326 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.759 twenty four hours, entirely dedicated to the upcoming Fire Emblem 327 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:08.440 Fortunes Weave. The presentation will debut at seven A Pacific 328 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.480 time and will be roughly twenty minutes long, detailing new 329 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:14.200 features for the Nintendo Switch to exclusive. 330 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:16.080 These are the times. 331 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.440 They basically list all the times here at seven am 332 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:23.279 Pacific time. That's ten am Eastern. Let's see four pm Ceest, 333 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.279 which I know a lot of people probably live in. 334 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:28.000 There's a whole bunch of other times here, but yeah, 335 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.320 you get the idea. The full announcement post from Nintendo 336 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.919 reads as follows. The heroic games are approaching tune in 337 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:36.399 on August fourth at seven am Pacific time for the 338 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:39.679 Fire Emblem Fortunes. We've direct roughly twenty minutes of new 339 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:44.039 information about the game. They've been doing these like a 340 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.639 little bit more frequently, the game dedicated Nintendo directs. They 341 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.279 probably like they have a lot to talk about in 342 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.159 terms of like their other games, Like we are like 343 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.120 all kind of waiting for more information. 344 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.960 About Zelda, about Dusk Bloods. 345 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.879 Which they're working with frum Soft on, and they did 346 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.080 show a lot of that during the last Nintendo direct, 347 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:04.720 which happened in the Summer Game Fest timeframe, the E 348 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.759 three time frame, and so like a lot of us 349 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.840 are like, when are we gonna get more information about that. 350 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.320 I still think that's probably like a direct or. 351 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.799 Something in September or maybe these games get their own 352 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.159 dedicated directs like this, but this game's coming up much 353 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.000 sooner than that, so they did have to kind of 354 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.960 come out and really give us more information. And I guess, 355 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.399 you know, I'm definitely wondering when it comes to Fire Emblem, 356 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:30.399 what's going to be different this time, because they that's 357 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.120 a series that could be a lot of different things 358 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.039 in the past. You know, it's traditionally just been like, hey, 359 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.879 it's a tactical RPG, a strategy RPG sort of game, 360 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:41.759 But then they always have a layer of like, okay, 361 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:43.360 and here's how the characters interact. 362 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:43.679 With one another. 363 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:46.759 Maybe this time they are they're an army and they 364 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:48.679 can have kids together and those kids come from the 365 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:50.960 future back to the past and you fight alongside them. 366 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.919 Or this one you're in a school and here's how 367 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.799 like the relationships are very different. This one's supposed to 368 00:16:57.799 --> 00:16:59.360 be more of a follow up to the one that 369 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.120 had the school rehouses. There's some character crossover just a 370 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.160 little bit, and so I'm like wondering, how does that 371 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.039 like present, is there school stuff? Is there something that 372 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.599 kind of stands in it that's very similar? And so 373 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.400 people get that information, and then I'm always curious to like, 374 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.440 just tell me how I'm going to be interacting with 375 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:19.640 the strategy element. That is why I show up, and 376 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.640 how's that going to be different? So yeah, twenty minutes 377 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:24.880 on this we'll get that information. And this is when 378 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:26.359 in Nintendo's bigger games. 379 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:28.680 Of the years. So here we are Backlar. What do 380 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:29.039 you think? 381 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.480 Yeah, I mean, you know, is this the first fire 382 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.759 emblem that's gotten this kind of direct treatment. 383 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.839 I don't know, I don't remember. That's a good question because. 384 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:43.519 You know, for me, you know, I've I've never really 385 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.480 gotten into one of these before. And I feel like 386 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.759 when Nintendo kind of like the dedicates this amount of 387 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:51.799 time to a thing, they're sort of like planning their 388 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.359 flag in the ground and making it like a temple 389 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.279 kind of thing that they don't do for everything. 390 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.119 Fire Moment is definitely like a race its profile to 391 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.079 that point. It is definitely one of Nintendo's more top 392 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:05.079 tier franchises. 393 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.839 You know, it's not Mario and Zelda, but it is. 394 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:09.240 It is in that next tier. 395 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.240 It is like it does sit alongside stuff like Splatoon, although. 396 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:13.920 Maybe not sales squads. 397 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.359 Basically, Fire Moville has kind of raised its profile and 398 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:21.039 Nintendo has gotten to a point where they definitely want 399 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.119 to like make that clear, and I think that they 400 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:25.880 want to make it feel special. So I think to 401 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.319