0:00

Hey,

0:01

guys. Real excited about the show today.

0:04

Can't can't we do it? Yeah. It's a great

0:07

great topic. I am excited to

0:09

do the show. Great.

0:13

And then I that sales gets started. Right?

0:15

If everybody's ready to go, normal thing to say.

0:17

Uh-huh. We should just get into it. You

0:19

Goddamn

0:19

it. Fuck. No.

0:21

You're right? I got it. I got it. I got it.

0:23

Uh-huh. No. Yeah. They're over the

0:25

they're over the cliff. They're on they're on they're

0:27

at two thirty five. That's two

0:30

thirty five.

0:31

Heather, Are you are you ready?

0:33

Did you press Yeah. Go. I'm ready. Are you recording

0:35

on your end?

0:36

Yeah. I've got my headphones on. You can see that. I've got

0:38

my headphones on. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to play.

0:40

I mean, those aren't your normal headphones. It's like

0:42

a headset.

0:43

Yeah. No. I'm using a different mic here.

0:45

No. No. I wasn't talking to you. No.

0:47

I'm talking to I'm I'm

0:48

I'm doing it from a production standpoint.

0:51

I just

0:51

There's, like, guys. No.

0:53

No. No. No. It's all good. No.

0:55

Just these assholes that I have a show with. It's

0:57

fine. Okay.

0:58

That's clearly about Okay. Also,

1:01

if you're gonna switch microphones mid record, you

1:03

should just let me know. Like, just as like

1:05

Oh, of course. As a Of course.

1:07

Of course, Matt. Yeah. No problem. No

1:09

problem. Get up on the top of the blimp.

1:11

Yeah.

1:12

No. It's a Okay. So a blimp. she's

1:14

talking about that ad, like, the clips. She's she's talking

1:16

about fucking Fortnite. She's playing Fortnite instead of

1:18

playing Fortnite. playing Fortnite. What were Fortnite?

1:20

I'm not playing Fortnite. I'm not

1:22

No. You are just rallying. you guys. I'm playing.

1:24

Don't no. I'm just going down. I'm not playing.

1:26

You heard all No. We you're clearing

1:28

everything yourself. Speaking. to a microphone.

1:30

No. You're speaking into a microphone.

1:33

This is called this is called the the

1:35

Sony Elite. I think

1:37

it's called the Elite. It's not Mike.

1:39

It's a it's a it's a gamer's accessory.

1:44

Look, I understand that sometimes, like, hey,

1:46

you're in the middle of a match and you have something

1:48

scheduled. I mean, we play games, so we get it. So,

1:50

like, if you just wanna wrap this round up -- Yeah. -- and

1:52

then we can get into the episode. Yeah. Okay. Great.

1:54

Yeah. Of course. Of course. Of course.

1:56

So, okay, you are playing. Mhmm. See, if you get

1:58

you are playing. Yeah. Let's

1:59

start another round. They just gave me permission

2:01

to start another round. We did know we said

2:04

if you said wrap up, you could have

2:07

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna put gonna put them on

2:09

mute so that I can focus.

2:13

she's gonna mute us. That's this is

2:15

gonna be No. It's it's but

2:17

also it is unworkable. I haven't been

2:19

able to recover when she said

2:22

that I was speaking into a microphone because she

2:24

was right. Yeah.

2:27

She really fucking got us there.

2:29

Look, let's just get into it. Boom.

2:30

The headshot.

2:35

We settle up our favorite video game

2:37

Anna Pals as

2:38

we create our Triforce of Mounts this week

2:40

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what could be said. There's not another show

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certain

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that some of these shows,

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if

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not all of them have more listeners

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than us. Our audience

4:00

Hey,

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we Is some of the they're some of the best fucking

4:03

people. I've I I I've

4:05

been hanging out on our

4:06

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they're great people and I'm

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I'm just happy when it's like good Twitter.

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It's like good guy Twitter. It's nice.

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There's Yeah. It's like

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it's like current Twitter. We finally have a good

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guy in charge. So it's good. Yeah. No. It's yeah.

4:21

It's like current Twitter. I I

4:23

was I didn't

4:23

was talking to you guys about this? I can't

4:25

remember. Maybe I

4:25

was talking about this in the office the other day.

4:28

Like the like the way I feel on Discord

4:30

versus the way I've I feel on Twitter is

4:32

so much different because I feel

4:34

like Twitter is not really a conversation.

4:37

Right. Like, Twitter is, like, anybody

4:40

can come and yell at you. Like,

4:43

it is sort and you're just, like, in the town

4:45

square and they're gonna you know, they're ready

4:47

to call you a piece of shit. Right. But in Discord,

4:49

everyone's chatting, and then you can just it feels

4:52

more like a community, more like a conversation, actually.

4:54

So it's I love it. I love it. It's great. I'm

4:56

glad you did. there's

4:57

also there's also just and and

4:59

this is a a thing that, you know,

5:02

moderation teams have found and website

5:04

providers have found with or

5:06

or people who have websites rather than website providers.

5:09

People who have, like, a news site

5:11

is that if there's one

5:13

extra layer for

5:16

making a comment or for being engaged

5:18

in community that like reduces trolling

5:21

by like ninety percent. not that there

5:23

are discord servers that are toxic, but just

5:25

the fact that, like, okay, I have to sign up for a discord and

5:27

then I have to I have to join a specific server.

5:30

that one extra step serves as enough

5:32

of a of a gatekeeping mechanism

5:35

to keep people from just like spewing garbage.

5:37

Yeah. So so when

5:38

you think of that, like, extra step,

5:40

it's, like, eight dollars a month. Is that what you're

5:43

thinking?

5:44

Should we oh, yeah. Yeah. mean, that's that's the

5:46

kind of thing that would be good for any website.

5:50

One hundred percent. Yeah. I know you guys are joking,

5:52

but I think we should do it. And

5:56

that Discord now has a

5:59

has a custom link. So

6:02

it's easier to find it's more easier

6:04

to find than ever, discord dot

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g g slash get played.

6:09

There you go. Boom.

6:11

That's the kind of discord link

6:14

you expect from the premier video

6:16

game podcast. Yeah. I've heard some

6:17

of these other video game podcasts. their links

6:20

are a fucking mess.

6:22

They're disaster. Yeah. Using,

6:26

like, tiny URL or whatever. It makes

6:28

me sick to hear some of these links. Ours.

6:30

Ours is really good.

6:33

Nice and clean. Yeah. Discord dot gg

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slash get played. Is there a pod there? Or is it just

6:37

get played? Just get played. Okay.

6:39

I was I was gonna say the yeah. A very wholesome

6:41

community we have. A lot of sweeties in the discord

6:43

also. I feel like our twitch channel is is

6:45

is all sweetie. Yeah. It's been nice. It's it's

6:48

It's III you like it when the listeners

6:51

or people that you would that you're like,

6:53

oh, okay. This is this is good. This makes

6:55

me feel better about myself that we're not attracting a

6:57

bunch of dip shits. Yes. And,

6:59

also, call the action. If you're a dip shit

7:01

and you're accidentally listening to this, third the fuck

7:03

off. We don't want to hear. Find one of those

7:05

other video game podcasts. Yeah. Just playing

7:08

out there. No dipshit's allowed. You

7:11

know, I'm I'm finishing up work

7:13

this week at my day job. I'll

7:16

still have work that isn't my

7:18

job job, but my

7:20

schedule's about to

7:22

sort of

7:23

evacuate some time.

7:25

Mhmm.

7:26

Or what

7:27

yeah. What? Whatever. Mhmm. And

7:29

I'm willing to commit

7:32

that I'm gonna scream

7:34

some Fortnite unto him. Wow. Wow.

7:38

This

7:38

is he it's happening. Because

7:40

because I'm gonna be playing.

7:42

So

7:43

why not have a camera on me

7:46

making me stressed out while

7:48

playing? III

7:50

think of it as an additional layer of difficulty

7:53

that makes the combat more intense, then it's

7:55

fun. There

7:56

you go. There you go. Yeah. And look

7:58

maybe you look maybe you

8:00

So maybe we'll all squad up --

8:02

Oh, Mike. -- or something. Maybe that's the Oh,

8:05

fuck. That would be great. I've

8:06

been swatting up late. I should be

8:09

waiting for the segment. I shouldn't just be like spoiling

8:11

my lunch here. Let's

8:12

get into it. Whoa.

8:15

Because, you know, hey, this is the premier video

8:17

game podcast. That's right. And as

8:19

part of that each week, we like to update

8:21

each other on what video games we've been

8:23

playing. For fun or for

8:25

work or what have you. So I put this question

8:28

to the panel. What are you playing? I

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10:26

Oh,

10:27

that got that got my ass. That was

10:29

good. That

10:30

that was good. I I just didn't you know,

10:32

I was looking at another window, making sure

10:34

I had something going And

10:37

the residential former

10:40

Former

10:42

former former Residential former

10:44

merchant knocked my socks off with that.

10:46

That was great. Well, hey, I mean, you're still you'll

10:48

always be the resident evil four merchant

10:50

even if you've been recast in the remake. That's

10:53

true. Michael Keaton's still Batman. There

10:55

you go. Thanks, man. You're welcome. Hi.

10:59

the

11:01

Last night, I was

11:04

I was trading

11:06

I was I was

11:08

trading voice over work for us

11:10

I was stuck in dick to do some voice

11:12

over work Oh,

11:14

sunset Boulevard. Wait.

11:16

What was the exchange?

11:18

I'll

11:18

suck your dick if you let me do voice

11:21

over work. That's what

11:22

was happening.

11:24

Yeah. Yeah.

11:26

I didn't know that not everyone has

11:28

the opportunity to give you. No.

11:30

Well thought out. No. very

11:33

few takers.

11:33

And the truth is

11:36

the

11:36

ones that did it was a hundred

11:38

percent

11:38

scams. Sure. I didn't

11:40

get a single gig out of it. Yeah.

11:43

I mean, you're just opening yourself up to

11:45

fraudsters if that's Yeah. Yeah. your

11:48

promise. The easiest thing to say after

11:50

that offer is, okay, sure. Sure.

11:52

I'm a producer. Yeah. Yeah. I

11:54

know that we're some b o gigs. Yeah.

11:57

I

11:57

tried it. I tried it. I

12:00

that that is what I mean, you maybe

12:03

I

12:03

one of you guys might have been there. don't know.

12:05

I was was not. I would No. We are. is

12:09

not. was e it'd be easy to trick

12:11

you. It was not me. I did not go to sunset

12:13

Boulevard to be sucked off by an old man.

12:15

No. And to to just speak think

12:17

shit. It's easy doesn't mean it would be you should

12:20

do it. No. Shouldn't you take anybody into

12:22

sucking you off. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

12:26

Yeah.

12:26

It's been a rough week. IIII

12:30

paid eight dollars to get verified on

12:32

Twitter as resident evil four merchant.

12:36

But apparently, since

12:38

I'm not official anymore, I

12:41

had to put parity.

12:43

Oh, boy. Right. I

12:45

just don't watch degrading. I

12:48

I threw my

12:49

I have AA2 thousand

12:52

one Macbook. Yeah.

12:54

And I threw it in the Los Angeles

12:56

River. I was so angry. You

12:59

know, old hardware can sometimes

13:01

have some good resale value these days. There are

13:03

people who like vintage stuff. Honestly, one of

13:05

our one of our our third hosts, Heather,

13:08

really like she might like one or two thousand one.

13:10

Yeah. You should maybe you should tell me that

13:12

before I throw it in the river. Well, I

13:14

didn't know you're gonna impulsively throw laptop

13:16

computer into the LA River. or so. Nice.

13:18

And also we have a, you know

13:20

You shouldn't be doing that. Yeah. Don't do that.

13:22

That's e waste. You should Yeah. A minimum take

13:24

that to proper facility. know. And,

13:26

you know, depending on I told

13:28

you where is they're gonna get you in big trouble.

13:30

Oh, no. I told you been banned from stores

13:33

I can't go in stores anymore. I gotta

13:35

do all my business on the street. You

13:38

guys

13:41

I guess, I guess, we

13:43

can just ask. What

13:45

are you playing?

13:48

After all that, it feels

13:51

trivial to even talk about video

13:53

games. Just, you know, like,

13:55

yeah, we've been playing games with. I just I hope

13:57

you're okay. Hang in there.

14:00

Yeah. I'll I'll pull it together.

14:03

Okay. I've got an idea of

14:05

how can Oh,

14:07

I can really turn things around.

14:10

I honestly I don't like

14:12

how that sounds. Phenomeness. Yeah.

14:16

I figured I figured out a couple of things

14:18

that maybe maybe

14:20

get get put a new spin

14:22

on things. If you know what

14:24

I meet. This is, like, what the Joker

14:27

says before you're He becomes

14:29

the Joker. Where

14:31

Yeah. Who's who's this?

14:34

Oh. Oh, boy. One of I mean, one

14:36

of those famous characters in

14:38

comic books, the Joker, the Batman

14:40

villain. An iconic V. O. performance

14:42

from Mark Hamill as well. Yeah.

14:45

Might

14:46

have might have run into Hamill at a panel?

14:48

I

14:49

wonder I wonder how he'd handled it if

14:51

I became the Joker.

14:52

There's been plenty there's been a lot of

14:55

them. Yeah. I'm here. joke. your number again. Oh,

14:57

okay. Don't rub it in. recorded. Don't

14:59

you don't do it right without me. a nice man.

15:01

Salt it. So much of it is just

15:03

like his own attitude. Why are you playing?

15:05

I'm asking where are you playing? Matt,

15:07

let's start with you. What are you playing? Okay. So

15:10

look.

15:11

III

15:16

okay. So as of

15:18

now, god

15:20

if we're ragnar out at Ragnarrock

15:22

has been out for a day.

15:24

And he came out it

15:25

came out yesterday, as of this recording.

15:28

as of this recording. Great. It's

15:30

been out for a day. And and

15:34

I've messed with it a little bit. I

15:36

won't I'm not gonna get into anything. I'm

15:38

not gonna do so, you know, put your cowboy hats

15:41

down, take off your boots with

15:43

the spurs, We're not

15:45

doing any of that.

15:47

It's fucking great. Wow.

15:50

It yeah. Of course.

15:51

Of course, it's great. I've only

15:54

I haven't played it for very long because

15:56

I I I'm I'm limiting

15:58

myself to, know,

16:01

III obviously wanna play through it and I

16:03

want to spend a lot of time with it. But

16:07

I am spending all of my waking

16:09

free time playing

16:12

persona five, which

16:15

sounds for any for any

16:17

other, you know, assignment. Yeah.

16:20

Would be a slog.

16:22

But honestly, persona five, fucking

16:24

great too. Really, really

16:26

fun. So,

16:29

I mean, those are the games I've been playing. That's like I that's

16:32

really all I have to say about them. That they're both

16:34

really great. They're really fun. And

16:38

I gotta say Yeah. I mean,

16:40

God of war, Ragnarok looks

16:44

fantastic. on the

16:46

PS5 Yeah. I'm sure it

16:48

does. Has great dual sense

16:51

the

16:52

controls to some nice some

16:54

nice resistance

16:57

on that on those triggers with the Leviathan

16:59

x and stuff. Oh, that's fun. Yeah.

17:02

Think about that. Some some that

17:04

feels great. I

17:06

was really struggling last night

17:09

before

17:11

I was going to sleep. I was like, okay. Maybe

17:13

I'll play little bit of a game in bed.

17:15

And I was like, I

17:18

can't play Ragnarok on my backbone.

17:21

I can't. I was like, I can't do it.

17:23

Yeah. I just I just can't. That's I gotta save

17:26

that for the the big screen. So that's sort of how

17:28

I'm splitting my time is that I'm

17:32

I'm basically like at a spot in God

17:34

of War or with God of War right now

17:36

in my play, where I'll do

17:38

like one thing, one small thing. Like,

17:41

well, I'll I'll get

17:43

to a story beat, stop my

17:45

play, get back to persona five.

17:48

and I'm playing that lot more

17:51

extensively. Right. And then, like,

17:53

even earlier today, I was like, oh, I'll just do one

17:55

thing real quick and got a war. Got to a

17:58

story beat.

17:59

stopped. And that's

18:00

probably just what I'll that's how I'll squeeze it in

18:02

probably this morning. Right? Do

18:04

you I'm I'm curious, man, I haven't played

18:06

it yet. I I'd actually have my my

18:08

copy. I picked up my pre order from GameStop

18:10

yesterday, my video will copy, which I fuck it. I'll just

18:12

open it on the show. But I'm curious about the

18:15

still in shrink-wrap. The how

18:17

does it balance? Because this is always the issue

18:19

with sequels of,

18:21

okay, your character. And we talked about this

18:24

a little bit on the God of War App so'd -- Mhmm. --

18:26

would would when we just kinda cover the franchise

18:28

holistically, how do you do

18:30

you handle this character is

18:33

OP by the end of the first game

18:35

and then they start the sequel and

18:38

they have, like, you know, how do you strip down

18:40

their gear? How do you make so that they style

18:42

room to grow from there. Well, I've seen the

18:44

opening two or three minutes of the game.

18:46

Mhmm. And it starts with kratos

18:49

walking out of his bathroom,

18:51

and he says to his

18:52

son, I forgot everything.

18:55

Interesting.

18:55

Okay. So, yeah, I've

18:58

I was gonna I didn't wanna spoil that.

19:01

Yeah. That's a big swing.

19:03

I mean because, like, well, here's the thing too

19:05

that, like, you saw that probably

19:07

online that was leaked. But in the actual

19:09

game, he, like, slips in the shower

19:12

and, like, boxed his head. Yeah.

19:15

That's why he forgets. So it's kind of like a

19:17

slapstick thing. Like, it's kind of like a slapstick, like,

19:19

a sort of, Hannah Barbera sort of sound

19:21

effects to like a very hollow tone. Oh,

19:24

no. That's

19:26

a point. I mean, it's the

19:30

twenty eighteen kind

19:33

of war, I think sort of

19:35

lends itself better to that sort

19:39

of like gaming like trope

19:41

Right? Like, whereas, like, at the end of every

19:44

of the other god of war games,

19:46

you're like, you have all these different powers

19:48

and they have to rectify why you don't have

19:50

these powers anymore. You don't really have

19:52

that in god of war twenty

19:54

eighteen. Like, you have more, like, skills

19:57

and, like, fighting, like,

20:00

Styles? Right. Yeah. And

20:02

this one, you just decided, like, so

20:04

far, it's just sort of like,

20:06

hey, you don't have that but you have a couple of different

20:08

things because there's been a little bit of

20:10

a little bit of time between

20:13

games. Well, you also do get

20:15

like like the, you know, you start with just the

20:17

ax a Leviathan accent, got a war one, and

20:19

then you eventually unlock

20:21

the what the fuck are they called? The blades of chaos.

20:23

Slades of chaos. I was gonna call them the chains of agony.

20:26

that's not quite that we unlock the blades of chaos.

20:28

I've never been more serious in my entire life. They're

20:31

called the blades of chaos. So

20:35

you just just have them both at the start

20:37

of Ragnarok? Is that how they handle it?

20:40

Or is that are we getting into spoiler country?

20:42

It

20:43

It's

20:45

not a I feel like the way I'm scampering,

20:47

making it is making it seem like it's

20:50

like a spoiler or not. You have both. you

20:53

you start the game with both. But

20:55

it's I feel like

20:57

it's it's a it starts off with a bang.

21:00

It's wow. It's great. It's really, really

21:02

fun. I can't wait

21:04

to play it more, but And

21:09

you know, we're gonna have to talk about

21:11

this. What we're gonna

21:13

do? But persona

21:16

five also very

21:18

different kind of game. Sure.

21:20

But what a joy? Wow. It it's

21:22

great. I've

21:24

slept about twenty hours into it.

21:26

Wow. Wow. Okay. So you made some progress.

21:29

Yes. Yeah. You're you're in the fifth of the

21:31

way there. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

21:34

I'm on the second palace, which you

21:36

you'll learn about when

21:39

you guys started. Yeah. I'm excited to play

21:41

some. I I have a by the way, just

21:43

in my Ragner rock and I do have a physical

21:46

disc. I wasn't sure I honestly wasn't sure if they just

21:48

were like fuck at no discs. You just get a code,

21:50

but there is a physical disc for at least the

21:52

the launch edition, the non special edition.

21:54

The the collector's

21:56

editions come with a

22:00

a steel book case with no

22:02

disc. Yeah. Which is bananas. It's

22:04

insane. Yeah. because honestly,

22:06

I maybe would have thrown down for a collector's. just

22:09

because I'm a big fan. I like that steel book?

22:11

Why not? Yeah. I like steel book too,

22:14

but no disc is is is is baffling.

22:16

Anyway, no disc. No dice. Couldn't

22:19

have said better myself. Heather, what are you playing?

22:22

ah

22:24

I'm a little nervous that

22:26

I'm just one thing.

22:29

ah And

22:30

that's

22:31

I I have a crippling

22:33

I resent being on the

22:35

show right now. No. I have a

22:37

crippling addiction to Fortnite.

22:40

Why?

22:40

it

22:42

I had to do a bunch of bullshit this morning

22:44

and got done with

22:46

everything at twelve fifteen. We recorded

22:49

twelve thirty. I thought,

22:52

should I lie to the boys

22:54

so that I can get in around? And

22:56

then I was like, that's a line I don't

22:59

wanna cross. I'm

23:02

level

23:02

ninety seven.

23:05

Wow.

23:06

ah

23:08

I have had

23:10

almost half of my victory

23:13

royals in the last

23:14

week. Like,

23:16

I doubled my victory royals

23:18

in the last week.

23:19

with not a touch playing time.

23:22

ah

23:24

This last week in Fortnite

23:26

was Star Wars Week. So

23:28

I got to be Kylo Ren, my

23:31

favorite Star Wars character. And

23:35

you can get for

23:37

for this last week, the the events over,

23:39

you could also get lightsabers. And

23:42

I made it my

23:45

personal life's work

23:48

to rush at people as Kylo

23:51

only wielding lightsabers. and

23:55

it was so satisfying

23:57

to cut some because

23:59

it's also an extremely powerful

24:01

weapon. like, it takes

24:04

one or two hits to knock down a wall,

24:07

whereas, like, your normal your

24:09

normal pickaxe or whatever that that

24:12

they use to break through walls

24:14

or barriers. You know, it's like,

24:17

hit hit hit hit hit hit

24:20

and you're through. But with the lightsabers,

24:22

and then the wall's

24:24

gone.

24:26

Which is I think also part

24:28

of why it is only a weeklong

24:30

event. There were also stormtroopers

24:34

in the game that would hire you for

24:36

bounties to go hunt other players.

24:39

and Vader was in the game.

24:41

He lands in his ship and you

24:43

can go face him.

24:45

But I would

24:48

only go Neil in front of him

24:50

as Kylo

24:50

in

24:52

case somebody would see.

24:58

the

25:00

I

25:01

I loved this last week

25:03

in Fortnite so much.

25:05

I've been squatting up with friends of

25:09

so it's like, I

25:10

knew, like, two or three people who played Fortnite,

25:12

I joined up with them. They had people

25:14

that they party with. And so I added

25:16

those people to my friend's list. And

25:19

I've been squatting up with those people

25:21

who I don't know but are also

25:23

somewhere in the LA industry.

25:26

Like, I don't even know their real names. It's like,

25:28

you know, ruthless Badger

25:30

and, like, trigger

25:33

fifty one. I don't know who the fuck these people

25:35

are. I know that

25:35

they're in the industry because they'll be like, oh,

25:37

fuck it's my manager. Hold on. And they'll

25:39

take a phone call. Maybe

25:42

they're in sports, but that's

25:45

been fucking incredible. Wow.

25:48

It's so good to squad up with people. But

25:51

yeah, I I wish I was not

25:53

on the podcast right now, and I wish I was

25:55

instead playing the

25:56

game. that

25:59

Mary

25:59

Mary said,

26:01

I think you're addicted to Fortnite.

26:04

And I said,

26:05

yes. That's

26:10

all I've been playing. And and

26:13

in persona five,

26:17

early on in the game,

26:19

you eat a good bowl of curry in that in

26:21

in persona five. And so I ordered a bowl

26:23

of curry and I ate it.

26:25

because that's how susceptible

26:27

I am to any form of advertising.

26:29

but That's

26:31

fun. I don't

26:33

know when the last time had a bold curry was,

26:35

but I was just like, oh, oh, god. I meet that.

26:37

Yeah. That's what I've been playing.

26:40

Wow. What

26:41

have you been playing? Well, thank you for asking.

26:45

So

26:45

speaking of hopeless addiction, I am still

26:47

playing a lot of Marvel Snap Well, I've seen some

26:49

Marvel SnapPC, and I've been

26:51

playing

26:51

it on my but mostly been playing it

26:53

on mobile, which is it's the only game I've had on

26:55

my phone since I had

26:57

to delete Pokemon

27:00

Go. The fuck is the Pokemon Walkaround.

27:02

Yeah. People want to go. go. Yeah. I don't know

27:04

why I second guessed that. add to delete Pokemon

27:06

Go because that was just, like, it's again, it's so

27:09

addictive. I don't like trying I try not trying

27:11

to be on my phone less. I've been very successful

27:13

with that. this fucking game has me on there.

27:15

It is really It is it is a great design. I'm gonna

27:17

try not to repeat anything as of the previous two weeks.

27:20

I'll

27:20

just real quick. I don't think I've explained the snap

27:22

mechanic. to anyone who isn't

27:24

playing the game. But the

27:26

the the snap mechanic, the way it works is basically

27:29

you are you have cubes that you are

27:31

wagering on each

27:33

particular match. And

27:35

it starts off where it's just like basically like

27:37

you're wagering one and the the winner wins

27:39

two. at a certain point during the match, you

27:41

can choose to snap. And a

27:43

snap will either be a You can you can

27:46

do it. Either, like, I'm powerful. I'm feeling

27:48

good. I think I'm gonna win some a snap, so I'm gonna

27:50

double my wet my bet. I'm essentially gonna

27:52

double down. You can also

27:54

use as a bluff, obviously, just like in any just

27:57

like in any, you know, casino game, any table

27:59

game.

27:59

the The

28:01

the other thing though is that

28:03

that if you get snapped on or if you

28:06

snap on your opponent, that person can

28:08

snap back and double it again

28:10

from so now it goes, you know, it's it goes from

28:12

two to four to eight. So it all so

28:14

all the, you know, the stakes are much much higher.

28:17

By that point, they've been quadrupled. And

28:20

that can be And also, if you retreat

28:22

from a match, you only lose half the

28:24

cubes. So basically, like, it reaches

28:26

a certain point where it's like, okay, if I did bluff

28:28

think I'm gonna lose or I get to, you know, a later

28:30

turn before this player your snaps,

28:33

maybe I'm gonna retreat now, so I don't

28:35

lose it out on more cubes. which is it just it just

28:37

creates a fun dynamic to the matches where it's

28:39

not just like, well, I'm just gonna keep going till I

28:41

win or lose or rage quit or whatever. It

28:43

just adds a an additional, I'm gonna strategy,

28:46

which is really great. So a

28:48

a great game, great card, card battler. You don't

28:50

have to spend any money. You progress by

28:52

unlocking as you as you get more

28:54

cubes, that lets you basically increase

28:57

your collector level, which also

28:59

I can't I think that's how it works. There's so many

29:01

fucking currencies in this game. I I get confused.

29:04

But that that but you you increase your overall

29:06

collecting level, which is how you unlock cards. You're

29:08

not buying cards from a store, so it's not

29:10

pay to win in that sense. The things that are better for

29:12

sale are you know, things to to

29:14

upgrade your cards aesthetically or

29:16

or alternate, you know, alternate art

29:18

for your cards. So I I I'm really

29:20

enjoying it. Great to sign. But the game wanted

29:23

to talk about specifically

29:25

this week is the case of the Golden Idol,

29:28

which I played about, you know,

29:30

I I played the first forty minutes of on

29:32

stream, and then I played the

29:34

next act. There's basically they're

29:36

they're divided into or chapters, I think.

29:38

They're divided into chapters in each chapter as three

29:40

x. So I played the next chapter off stream,

29:43

and the difficulty ramps up high in this in

29:45

this game. But

29:47

First off, shout out to the the the

29:49

actual premier video game podcast triple

29:51

click, which is -- What? --

29:54

which has been talked about this game. No.

29:56

What? No. No.

29:59

There are

29:59

friends, past guests in the show. Yeah. Friends.

30:02

Yes. Friends. Yes. a

30:05

hundred percent.

30:06

Love those guys. The

30:08

but but they've been talking about they've been talking about

30:10

this game and I I trust their taste and

30:12

so I checked it out. And this is developed by color

30:14

gray games. what I can say is

30:16

this will probably be on somewhere in

30:19

my year end list. It's just it's fucking great.

30:21

I'm loving it. I'm I'm my best in

30:23

the year list, and Heather would hate

30:25

this game. How great would fucking

30:27

hate this shit? It's it's

30:29

one hundred percent puzzles. It's

30:32

all puzzles. There's no combat.

30:34

Here's what basically I'll I'll share my screen

30:36

because the art style is a little bit hard to describe,

30:39

and maybe the two of you can articulate better what

30:41

you're looking at. But I also really IIII

30:44

was thinking, okay. If we did cover this game

30:46

for an episode, Heather would strain define

30:48

something positive to say, and think what she would

30:50

center on is is

30:52

the music. because the music is nice. I'll I'll share

30:54

some of that as well.

30:56

So one second here.

31:04

Okay.

31:04

So Nick is showing us a picture

31:06

of a crossword

31:06

puzzle. So

31:11

you see, I'm not sure if you can hear this music here.

31:13

Mhmm. But

31:15

it's got you know, you're

31:16

showing us an image of

31:18

a man being burnt alive -- Yes. --

31:20

and the presidents of the United States,

31:23

like, angry about it. Yeah.

31:25

So it's this period sort of thing where

31:27

it's it's kinda set in the eighteenth century.

31:30

And pretty much all the

31:32

the way it works is that you've gotta tablet you're

31:35

looking at. It's very over again where you pretty

31:37

much got a freeze frame of a death.

31:40

And then you can just click around for clues.

31:42

And as you're going, you're trying to fill out a dossier.

31:45

I finished this level so you can you guys can see it's

31:47

already solved, but you've filled out a dossier

31:49

where you try to identify everyone. It's

31:51

like fucking like, he's showing us

31:54

what looks to be like the menu to a restaurant.

31:56

guess,

31:58

like, look at this. Doesn't this

31:59

look like fun? Here's his men you?

32:01

Yeah. It's it's seriously things like, look,

32:03

I'm opening up this family tree of

32:06

people who are inheritors on

32:08

a will. And I'm trying to use that as a clue

32:10

to try to identify all these people,

32:12

including this guy who is burning alive.

32:14

So it's you

32:16

know, it's it's it's extremely

32:18

my shit. I think the puzzle design is really

32:20

nice. It's one of those things where when you're

32:23

And I I don't know if you if the two of you could can

32:25

figure out a way to describe the art because it

32:27

is very distinct. It's kind of, you know,

32:29

it's retro, but it's not like identifiably retro.

32:32

I guess it kinda looks a PC game from

32:34

the nineties, but it but it's not

32:36

that pixel not as pixel y. So

32:38

I, you know Yeah. I'm trying I'm trying to think

32:40

about, like, Well, it's it's

32:42

very unique looking, though, as well. Like a

32:45

Yeah. It it's like it's reminiscent

32:47

but unique. Like, maybe like

32:49

an amiga game. It seems like it has like a

32:51

like a like a like, you know, like a thirty two color

32:53

palette or something like that. Yeah. It

32:55

looks like it looks like an amiga

32:57

game drawn by Mike

32:59

Judge. That's what it looks like.

33:01

It's sort of It's sort of It doesn't look like you're right. You're kinda

33:03

like that. It looks like

33:06

Honestly,

33:06

like, AI art.

33:08

Yeah. A little bit.

33:10

But I I think for listeners,

33:12

the just

33:13

Google it. Yeah.

33:15

Google it. To Google it. You'll get a sense.

33:17

It's it's a little hard to describe. It's pretty

33:19

unique. And I

33:20

can see people not liking it, but I like it. But basically,

33:22

yeah, you're you're exploring an environment, you're clicking around,

33:24

you're seeing, like, I'm gonna click all these characters.

33:27

Okay. This guy is has a note

33:30

that has a spell on it. He's also got

33:32

a ring this other guy has a dagger,

33:34

you know, and so you're trained to and he's got

33:36

some tobacco. So, you know, maybe that informs

33:38

who he is. Yeah. It it's it's again,

33:40

it's very overdone if you if played that game,

33:42

which in terms of, like, we're we're looking at a tableau,

33:45

we're looking at a moment in time, we're trying to use

33:47

that to divine exactly what happened, who

33:49

killed, who, and what the motivation

33:51

was. And, you know,

33:54

the nature of these things, it's it's it's gotta be

33:56

extremely tough to design. I mean, I'm I'm very

33:58

impressed by the design. But

33:59

because it's all circumstantial evidence, it's not

34:02

cut and dry, it can get a little bit obtuse. And

34:04

there can be moments where you're like sort of like, okay, I

34:06

feel like I just kind of backed into you

34:08

know, what the solution was supposed to be.

34:10

But that it's not necessarily, I feel like, as self

34:12

evident as maybe, you know,

34:15

it it it could be. But that but, you know, again, think that's

34:17

just a challenge of making this fucking game.

34:19

So yeah. The nature of it is that it can

34:21

get a little bit, you know, you're dealing with circumstantial

34:23

evidence. sometimes it feels like there are multiple suspects

34:26

who could fulfill the parameters that

34:28

are, you know, available to you in terms of figuring

34:31

out who did what And then when

34:33

you get the actual suspect, you're like, oh, I guess

34:35

that makes sense. But fewer of those

34:37

moments than, you know, it's

34:40

it's not like you're always blunt forcing it and

34:42

feeling like, oh, okay. I guess that solution. There are

34:44

some real moments of satisfaction here. So I

34:46

I really, really really enjoy it. And

34:48

I like how the story is told. And,

34:50

you know, because they're all these self contained little incidents,

34:53

but they string together a narrative with some of

34:55

the same characters. So yeah, case

34:57

of the Golden Idol, if you like point and click,

34:59

and if you like puzzle solving, and

35:01

you got a you got a PC or a steam deck, check

35:03

it out. Oh,

35:04

steam deck. Hey, you're playing

35:06

on the same deck? Yeah.

35:08

then

35:10

Well, do I need to add another game

35:14

to my dance card? Another thing I've

35:16

heard is that the game's not super long. It's

35:18

like, you know, it's it's

35:20

six to ten hours, I think, on how long to beat.

35:23

not super long. I'll definitely

35:25

wish list it. Yeah. So that I wish

35:27

list it. Why not? That's the best thing. Oh,

35:29

go on sale or maybe I'm able to show up on Game Pass.

35:31

Who fucking knows?

35:34

well Let's

35:35

get to the let's get to the business at hand,

35:38

which

35:38

is this

35:39

week we're discussing the Triforce of

35:42

mounts. This

35:44

is the type of stuff you get

35:46

from the premier video game podcast. You probably

35:48

didn't think you're gonna hearing about mounts on

35:50

any of these other shows that you listen to.

35:53

Right? And I'm pointing. I'm pointing at the camera

35:55

because I want my audio to

35:58

sound like I'm pointing.

35:59

It's coming across that way. Okay. Great.

36:02

I just wanna make sure that Nick is

36:04

on the same page about what mounting

36:06

something is.

36:07

Okay.

36:09

it Just

36:11

wanna make sure that we're not about to, like,

36:14

go down some fucking alley or

36:16

he's, like, characters

36:18

that he, like, wants to Yeah.

36:21

Princess star finger from

36:24

from

36:24

fuck

36:26

fuck planet

36:27

Hyper panties. Yeah. Kirby.

36:49

I was going to begin with a definition of terms.

36:52

With

36:52

mounts, you I we were thinking of like a writable

36:54

character. Right? Like a care but but, like,

36:56

not like we, you know, that that I guess

36:59

there may be certain mechanical creations

37:01

that could satisfy this term, but

37:03

by and large, these are these are biological beings

37:07

that you can ride in a game.

37:10

Yeah. I I guess

37:14

I wasn't thinking about it in terms of

37:16

biology, but Sure. Yeah.

37:18

I I definitely have something

37:21

in my list a potential mount

37:24

that is not biological. I

37:26

think that's I

37:27

think that's reductive. I think you can

37:30

think you could mount say, like, a

37:32

mechanical

37:35

Horse. Well, that's why I wanted to have the

37:37

discussion because I think I think there are yeah. I think

37:39

if it has some sort of sentence as maybe

37:42

they require Right? Like like, is it,

37:44

like, a talking motorcycle could

37:46

potentially satisfy this. Mhmm.

37:48

I mean, I wanna play whatever game that

37:50

is. That sounds fucking awesome. It sounds

37:52

great. Yeah.

37:53

That would be Keno's journey for

37:55

I think the -- Wow. --

37:57

the

37:57

DS.

37:59

as a

38:02

as a rideable

38:04

I don't even know if that was made into a video.

38:07

Talking motorcycle. If I was to talk motorcycle,

38:09

but now you gotta look it up. Let's say, Kenos,

38:12

Journey, Video Game. Is

38:14

there one? There

38:18

is. It was -- Wow. -- PS two.

38:20

Wow. Wow. So,

38:22

yes, you can ride a talking

38:24

motor's guess I should just change this to

38:26

my first.

38:26

Wait.

38:29

No. I want it. The

38:32

point is we're not talking vehicles. We're talking

38:34

things that that that have a personality.

38:37

Park,

38:37

I wonder if there's subtitles for this. I wonder

38:39

if you can play

38:41

Kino's journey is

38:43

subtitled. Let's see. Video

38:45

game subtitled. Let's find out. Game

38:47

subtitled. this is what you get on the

38:49

Premiere anime -- Yeah. -- video game podcast.

38:52

Googling.

38:53

ah

38:55

It does not look like there is a current

38:58

fan sub

38:59

of the video game. Oh, boy.

39:01

But you could still hear that motorcycle

39:03

talk talk like this.

39:05

Hey,

39:06

Will you better be careful? They're gonna they're

39:08

gonna shoot you in the head. It's a real

39:11

dark

39:11

show. Wow.

39:12

But the talking motorcycle's there.

39:15

Alright. Well,

39:17

we we can get into

39:19

a debate. If any of us

39:21

bring up amount that isn't amount

39:25

consentience, like, what

39:27

the fuck? You

39:28

can write a fish and it's a it's

39:30

not thinking anything.

39:32

Like

39:33

fish -- I don't know. -- I think I think

39:35

fish -- No. -- or maybe some of the most complex

39:37

thinkers of our time. No. No

39:40

way. Anything with eyes on opposite

39:42

sides of its head? Can't think anything.

39:44

It's probably big in I wonder what's going

39:46

on over there.

39:51

Who wants to go first?

39:53

I'll go. Go

39:55

for it, Heather. Alright, great. So

39:57

I'm I'm going in hot because I want to

39:59

make

39:59

sure I get this mountain

40:01

because I'm afraid there's gonna be some overlap.

40:04

Okay?

40:05

Okay. And that's I'm going right

40:07

out of the gate with

40:09

Argo from Shadow of the Colossus. Wow.

40:12

Wow.

40:12

So your horse

40:14

in shadow of the cloth, this is a necessary

40:17

sidekick to be able

40:19

to beat these giant colossal that

40:21

you are fighting in order to bring your dead

40:23

wife back from the dead?

40:25

As

40:26

opposed to your live

40:26

wife back from the life. Mhmm. Right.

40:29

and you

40:32

steer the horse in

40:35

kind of a like, you're pulling it

40:37

as opposed to, like, just driving it

40:39

around. Like, you're not just moving your stick

40:42

in order to move the horse. You have to like,

40:44

tap it

40:45

with the x button

40:48

and that sort of like gently kicks

40:50

it so that you can get it up to a gallop

40:53

The horse is fucking awesome. You

40:55

care about that horse?

40:57

It's

40:57

a great fucking horse. Wow.

41:00

And

41:00

that's that's my lead mount.

41:02

for best mounts in video

41:05

games. In which time force piece was this?

41:07

Fuck it. It's fucked.

41:09

This one's wisdom.

41:12

because it's a smart fucking call for me

41:14

to be choosing this horse. Okay. Wow.

41:16

Nice.

41:17

So we're all do it. So we starting with wisdom.

41:19

Let's start with wisdom. That's -- Yeah. -- Triforce of wisdom.

41:22

I didn't I didn't ascribe a Triforce

41:24

piece to any of these people figuring this out as we

41:26

go. So Triforce of wisdom, Argo or

41:28

I see

41:30

wander in the game says, Aragul.

41:32

hundred

41:34

Aragul. I'm

41:35

gonna have to play this game sometime, because this

41:38

horse sounds so fucking it's

41:38

so fucking good, dude. I can't believe you haven't played

41:41

it.

41:41

Maybe I'll finally get over at nine eleven when

41:43

I when I play it.

41:45

That's a reference to the Adam Sandler

41:47

movie, Rain over me.

41:49

That's right. A deeply

41:51

forgotten film. But

41:53

I was right there for you. I'll put that right

41:55

back. Thank you. Yeah. No. It's it's

41:58

like the one thing I know about that movie.

42:00

her

42:01

One thing I like about about

42:04

that game is that at the end, you

42:06

get to see pictures of the cast and

42:08

then the real life people they were portraying.

42:11

So you're like, oh, hey, look who?

42:13

Ben

42:13

Affleck looks a lot like that

42:15

guy.

42:18

No. did

42:20

a good job. Not that Argo. What?

42:23

That's a different Argo. Yeah. You have to

42:27

Enjoy Ben athletic playing like

42:29

a Mexican guy in

42:32

something else.

42:35

Tired, I'm tired, You

42:37

could be playing I should be playing Fortnite. I should

42:40

be playing Fortnite. Okay.

42:42

Who's going next? Who's going next for wisdom?

42:44

Nick, do you want an extra second? Because No.

42:47

No.

42:47

I'll I'll go. I'm happy go. I'm happy

42:49

to go because you mentioned Argo and,

42:51

look, hey, talking

42:52

about horses that you have a bond with.

42:55

that.

42:58

Oh, boy, you know, there

43:00

might be a little bit of a gut punch at a certain

43:02

point. don't you do this? Your host

43:04

your host from ghost of Fukushima. Oh,

43:06

few.

43:07

And

43:10

now you get to choose your name of your horse.

43:12

Mhmm.

43:13

You

43:15

get to choose from, like, three prompts and

43:17

My memory is I pick Cage, which

43:19

means shadow. I believe that translates

43:21

to shadow.

43:22

Heather may know for sure. And

43:25

and Kage is just

43:28

a just a great horse, just a great mount,

43:30

great to ride around, you

43:31

know, and also has

43:33

some narrative importance, which I

43:35

like. Mhmm. Like, it's a big moment when you get

43:38

your horse and

43:39

and it's

43:40

a big moment when you reunite with your horse.

43:43

and some other stuff that's

43:44

pretty consequential involving

43:47

your equine companion. So

43:50

I think because Argo was mentioned, I think

43:52

Kage fits in that similar slot as

43:56

the Triforce of Wisdom Peace.

43:59

of my mount

43:59

collection. Matt,

44:01

let's go to you. Alright. Well,

44:03

first of all, I just wanna point out

44:05

The whole

44:07

list is not gonna

44:09

just be horses. No.

44:12

It's probably horse heavy.

44:14

Yep. Sure.

44:17

Maybe there are still horses to come,

44:21

but you can mount other things

44:23

in games. And we'll just explore

44:25

that. But not right now, Nick,

44:30

Let me

44:30

get some of my other picks ready. Oh,

44:33

no.

44:34

a Okay.

44:38

My wisdom Tri

44:41

Force Mount -- Mhmm. --

44:43

is I feel like the

44:45

reason III put this one in

44:48

wisdom is because I feel like there are times

44:50

when you have to really think about

44:52

when it's advantageous for you to

44:54

use this amount. it's a given,

44:56

you know, it can be for traversal. It

44:59

can be for maybe

45:03

jumping a little higher. than

45:06

normal, or it also might

45:08

be a good way to get

45:10

away from an enemy quickly.

45:13

or in between their

45:16

attack cycles. If you're getting

45:19

on your horse, not gonna be able to

45:21

hit you in the same way. So my pick

45:23

for wisdom is

45:25

torrent from Eldon Ring. Nice.

45:27

Great pick. great pick. And this isn't just recency

45:29

bias. Torrance is an all time horse. It's

45:31

like one of the best courses in games,

45:33

period. Like, it is such a good -- Yeah. -- that double

45:36

jump is good. Yep.

45:37

Also,

45:39

can we say, not maybe

45:41

not really a horse. Right? To your

45:43

point. I who's today? It's kind of a joke.

45:45

weird creature with horns? It's it's it's

45:48

in your ring.

45:49

Yeah. Right. Isn't that what it

45:51

is? Like or is it like

45:54

is it any like, yeah, you have it in your ring or something

45:56

and you it's he's more of a summon than

45:59

anything. And honestly,

45:59

if we do a Triforce summons, he

46:01

might be on the list. That's part of what's awesome

46:04

about him, though. Because it's just, like, the

46:06

the thing like, the problem of it

46:08

it it's just I I feel like that so much of what I admire

46:11

about the design is, like, elegant solutions

46:13

to common problems in

46:16

in games where it's just like, okay. Well, open

46:18

world design you need to summon your

46:20

horse. How do you solve that? It

46:22

feels like the modern solution has has been

46:24

like, okay. Well, we'll just make sure your your horse is

46:26

kind of nearby off screen

46:28

and they'll just run-in, you'll be able to to jump

46:30

on them. And they're just like, what if your horse is just a fucking

46:33

spirit? He appears underneath your legs when

46:35

you want. It's fucking great. it's so

46:37

good and like and,

46:40

yeah, just the way that he the the

46:42

way that traversal really

46:44

opens up after that. too. When

46:46

once you get torrent, it's great.

46:48

Like like we were saying, like, double jumping and stuff

46:50

like that. Sure. But then there are Other little

46:53

things you can do in the game like land

46:55

from very high up on those certain points

46:57

with torrent or jump up really

46:59

high with torrent on those like big

47:01

dust That's huge. That's such

47:03

a fun -- It's great. -- it's so touring.

47:06

It's such a fucking good answer, alpadocca.

47:08

It's such a good answer. Hey thanks. I just came up

47:10

with it because I was worried about one of the other ones

47:13

that I that I originally picked because

47:15

as soon as biology came into

47:17

play, oh boy. Your boy was

47:19

looking at an incomplete list. This

47:23

is this is a real we I I feel like we

47:25

started we we're all in similar territory. And

47:27

just sort of like the the realities of each of these

47:29

game worlds is kind of like this bleak,

47:31

you know, everyone is doing what they can

47:34

to survive towards your protagonist. Yep.

47:37

So, you know, we'll we'll see

47:39

where we go totally moving forward, but

47:41

heather your next pick for Triforce amounts.

47:43

Well, this is going to be the Triforce

47:46

of

47:48

power. Wow. Wow.

47:51

And

47:51

it is

47:53

the

47:54

what I'll call the killable horse

47:58

from Red Dead Redemption two.

47:59

mom

48:02

the

48:05

the

48:07

I'm not certain these horses have names.

48:10

but

48:11

they do have destinies. And

48:13

those destinies

48:15

are to be ridden into the center

48:17

of towns

48:19

executed in full view

48:21

of as many people as possible

48:23

so that you can hear

48:25

people go

48:26

Hi, Daddy. Right. No.

48:28

the

48:34

And you are whatever the red

48:36

dead redemption wanted level

48:38

escalates immediately because

48:40

it is a crime against

48:42

God to shotgun or worse

48:45

in the middle of a town.

48:47

put

48:49

it

48:51

I mean, like,

48:55

it would have been okay to not

48:57

make it so that you could kill the horse.

49:00

Yes. Like nobody would have

49:02

bat an eye. It's like you can't

49:04

kill kids in games. Right?

49:06

Like

49:06

Or yeah. NPCs that you need.

49:08

Right.

49:09

Right. Like, it seems it

49:12

seems like there was a

49:15

a desire to satisfy

49:18

the sort of

49:20

sickest

49:21

amongst us. The the the

49:23

the most

49:25

the most divorced from reality

49:27

game players that there could be. If

49:30

I ride a horse out in the middle of the desert and I

49:32

gotta do a mission, I'm always gonna

49:35

kill the

49:35

horse. because

49:36

I'm not gonna let it starve to death.

49:40

Dude, you're doing it a favor. Yeah. I go

49:42

home. I am. That's what you do to

49:44

a horse if you're you don't just abandon

49:47

a it's a hill. Like, you can't

49:49

just

49:50

no. That's horrible. It's

49:51

horrible. You wouldn't take your dog to

49:53

the desert

49:55

and leave it there. Right? You'd

49:56

be Oh, no. I hope not. That'd be that

49:58

would be monstrous.

49:59

Yeah. And in this same methodology,

50:02

if you ride your horse to the desert, In

50:04

red dead redemption, you have to gone it down.

50:06

So

50:08

though

50:10

So not

50:12

even shoot it. Cut it down.

50:17

So my

50:19

Oh, there's such an edge lord. She kills

50:21

her horses. It's a game. It's not happening.

50:23

I'm not doing it in real life.

50:25

Day fingers off your little anymore. It's

50:27

funny to do it in a game

50:29

because it's

50:31

there's no world in which I

50:33

could do that in real life. I No. I was

50:35

in the apocalypse

50:37

And I was starving to death and my option

50:40

was kill my horse and eat it or

50:42

die -- Yeah. -- I would die before I would kill a

50:44

horse in real life. Yeah. But I'd give the horse

50:46

the gun. In the game, fucking

50:48

jump that horse onto a balcony and

50:51

fucking like, shoot

50:53

it in full view of the

50:54

of the town. I

51:00

love horses in real life. love animals

51:02

in real life. Yeah.

51:04

I've been a vegan for years

51:06

previously, not anymore. Turns

51:09

out, I give me a bad iron deficiency.

51:12

Yeah. But It's a tough day. But but

51:15

but like I've tried.

51:16

Mhmm. You

51:17

know what else I've tried? What

51:20

happens if you ride your

51:21

horse off a cliff and jump? Look,

51:26

I would I would, you know, build

51:28

Sims environments specifically

51:31

to watch by housemates burn

51:33

alive. So build

51:36

a build a room with no no exits

51:38

and eight ovens and just

51:40

wait for people to start fires. So

51:44

I I got no judgment. Well,

51:46

then

51:48

neither do I.

51:49

Killable

51:51

horse. My my

51:54

mouth of power

51:57

in Red Dead Redemption two.

51:59

Wow.

52:02

Here's here's my

52:04

my try for of of power

52:06

choice. I thought

52:07

about a few different options, and I thought about a couple of

52:09

super Nintendo franchises, both that have

52:12

great horse great horses, great

52:14

mounts. I won't say the other one because someone

52:16

else might pick it, but you can probably figure

52:18

out what it is. It's one of the most well

52:21

known mounts in all of gaming. but I'm gonna

52:23

choose a more powerful answer.

52:25

I'm

52:26

gonna choose and this is this is maybe the two

52:28

of you know how it's pronounced. because don't think it's vocalized

52:30

in any the games, not even tropical freeze.

52:33

Is

52:33

it Ramsay or Ramsay?

52:35

From

52:36

Donkey Kong Country? I always thought of as Ramsay.

52:38

but maybe it's rambi like bambi. That's

52:40

what I was sort of thinking because

52:43

it was gonna be my pick. No.

52:46

Oh my god. Alright. I'll pick the other one. No. No. No.

52:48

No. I'll pick the other one. No.

52:49

I'll pick the other one. Do you have a backup? Look,

52:52

I'll figure it out. You

52:54

can take Ramsay. No. I'm not taking Ramsay

52:57

anymore. Yeah.

52:57

What's he gonna do? Say the same word

52:59

again? Fucking like You

53:02

took it. You ruined his dreams and you ruined

53:04

his day.

53:04

Well, you just ruined my life. You can

53:06

run with Ramsay now and I'll take a different

53:08

one. No. But I have a backup I have no longer

53:11

you guys talk about this the less time

53:13

I have in daylight to be able to play

53:15

Fortnite. No. You're right nozzorist.

53:17

They're not too rambi. Ramby is

53:19

fine. And Ramby is very powerful

53:21

and, you know, with the, like, in terms of bopping

53:24

things with its horn as it

53:26

as it blast through a level, Ramby, Ramby,

53:29

guess

53:29

it's supposed to be rambo but

53:31

with a with rambo but

53:33

rambi.

53:34

Rambi? I always

53:35

say it as Rambi like Rambi, but maybe it's

53:38

Rambi like Bambi. Either way, you

53:40

guys know it's gonna be powerful.

53:41

Ramy, like, Ramy? Yeah.

53:44

I always thought it was it was an i, not an

53:46

e, but however you pronounce it, that rhino

53:48

is fucking powerful and it's fun to shit to ride

53:50

and you have a great sense of velocity and

53:52

also you just get to plow through things.

53:55

So that's my answer. Well,

53:58

good for you, Nick.

54:00

Good

54:03

for you. Look.

54:05

We

54:08

have to pick the other guy.

54:09

We

54:12

we we have to. We have to address Because while

54:14

he is playable character in his own right,

54:16

in his own franchise, in

54:18

certain games in the Mario franchise, he's

54:21

amount.

54:23

Sure.

54:24

And I think he

54:25

is actually quite powerful himself because

54:28

not unlike torrent, he can get you

54:31

to where you need to go at

54:33

a quicker speed. And he also can

54:36

jump a little better, but I I know

54:38

often And Heather knows

54:41

a bit about this as well. I

54:43

believe -- Yeah.

54:47

-- some

54:47

people might use him

54:50

just to get from one jump to the other and ditch

54:52

him right in the right in the oh, yeah.

54:55

Yep. In the little fall area.

54:58

In this

54:58

in this show, we call that a killable

55:01

horse.

55:01

This is a killable horse from Nintendo from

55:04

Mario. Yoshi.

55:06

is my pick for power.

55:09

And

55:09

I said sound go. It's like Great pick.

55:11

and

55:13

It's great. Mhmm. Yeah. That is

55:15

really good. That that that was, like, that's spot

55:17

on too. Thank you. You're

55:19

welcome. Yoshi you

55:22

know,

55:22

he likes to eat apples, but he's he got that,

55:24

you know, I hear people asking,

55:28

what

55:28

that tongue do? I know it does

55:30

with Yoshi.

55:31

Good god.

55:33

What the fuck?

55:35

He's eaten apples and he'll

55:37

he'll use his tongue to eat

55:39

you up. You can

55:41

spit it out and make you an egg. Yeah.

55:43

You can spit out fire. It's also I like

55:45

the the different yoshi's. That's another element.

55:48

Blue Yoshi, yellow Yoshi with

55:50

power stomp, the red Yoshi breathes fire. Blue

55:52

Yoshi is the fire. Of course, the blue flier.

55:54

Yeah. Sort of sort of the sparky kiss of

55:58

of Mario. I'm Yoshi. I'm

55:59

Yoshi.

56:02

They're all yoshi. They're all yoshi. So

56:04

that's my pick from power, yoshi shaped choice.

56:08

Back

56:08

to you, Heather. Well,

56:09

I wanna say one of my favorite parts about

56:12

Yoshi. Pleasure. When you

56:14

when you get on him in Super Mario World,

56:16

they add a little drum.

56:17

Oh, yeah. To the soundtrack. That's

56:24

so good. Yeah. Things get a little funkier when

56:26

Yoshi's around. Yeah. It's

56:28

a it's a it's a good a

56:30

good killable horse then, Yoshi, here's

56:33

a horse you can't kill. My

56:36

final pick for the

56:39

Triforce of courage

56:41

is the opposite of

56:43

courage. from final

56:45

fantasy eleven. Final fantasy

56:47

eleven was the first online final

56:49

fantasy developed by Square Enix.

56:52

and it was brutally fucking

56:55

hard. There has been a interview

56:57

done recently with the designers on the game

56:59

and they were like, why did you make this game

57:02

so fucking heart. And

57:04

the answer was really compelling and interesting

57:06

to me, and it was because we thought it would foster

57:09

community. we thought

57:11

if a game was impossible to solo,

57:14

that it would encourage relationships. Because

57:16

the only way you could get out of, like, even

57:19

the closest areas

57:22

in the game was to team

57:24

up with other people. Otherwise, you

57:26

were fucked. because the game was

57:29

ruthless. I know that now

57:32

the game has been

57:34

it's still running

57:35

what? Twenty years later? Twenty

57:37

fucking years later? This game is still

57:40

on. But

57:42

they've simplified and and eased up on sort

57:44

of those requirements for for

57:46

players who

57:48

are who are playing now, you can like level up really

57:50

quickly. That was the other thing. You can fucking

57:53

love it. everything took so long.

57:55

And it was so hard, but I did create great

57:57

relationships in that game because

57:59

of how difficult it was.

58:02

the only way that you could

58:06

have a shot at,

58:09

like, making your way through an area

58:11

was on the final fantasy mount,

58:14

the chocoboe.

58:15

And in this game, it was almost

58:17

a necessity. Like, if you're like, hi, I gotta

58:19

get to this other city,

58:20

Okay.

58:24

Alright. I'm gonna do it on the bird

58:26

and I think you could still be like

58:29

attacked

58:29

on the bird and knocked off. It

58:31

was just a way to, like, run around

58:34

shit. But the

58:36

chocabot theme, which is omnipresent in

58:39

all final fantasy games was particularly

58:41

delicious in final fantasy eleven.

58:43

We have a sample of it here. It was very

58:45

smooth, very quiet.

58:48

very good sound.

59:09

The rules. This is great. Really,

59:11

really chill. That little shakers would

59:13

do some real that. And

59:16

a lot of the chocobot themes over

59:18

the course of all the games, I'd like to

59:20

let it go a little bit. Yeah, please.

59:22

Because, like,

59:25

There's

59:25

very few relaxing things

59:27

in Final Fantasy eleven. So

59:30

like you're on your chocobol, and this is like the

59:32

relaxing music playing. You're like, oh,

59:34

my god. Okay.

59:37

I I'm gonna be alright. It's gonna

59:39

be okay. I'm gonna make it

59:41

to Juno from Bistock.

59:46

And this song's plan. Also, How cool

59:48

is it to have music that plays when

59:51

you ride at something? Like, that was one of

59:53

my favorite parts of I Yoshi's, it changed music.

59:55

Same with the chocobob. So that's my pick

59:57

for the for

59:59

the

59:59

try force of of courage, the

1:00:02

opposite of courage riding

1:00:04

the chocoboe in final fantasy eleven.

1:00:07

Choco Bo was also on my list, not from Final

1:00:09

Fantasy eleven specifically, but That's okay.

1:00:12

You can put it I'm not gonna pay I'm not gonna

1:00:14

make Choco. III will say that that I was

1:00:16

not familiar with that theme. That theme is great because

1:00:18

they usually aren't like that chill. Usually,

1:00:21

like, the the chocoboboe theme is very high

1:00:23

energy and, like, you know, it it's

1:00:25

it's it's almost like it feels like a like a

1:00:27

game show lightning round

1:00:29

theme. Yeah. And so III really

1:00:32

like that choice. That's a that's a that's a lovely arrangement.

1:00:35

I'm gonna pivot to, you

1:00:38

know, my frame force courage because

1:00:40

what could be braver then abandoning

1:00:44

your

1:00:44

stuffy office job, working

1:00:46

in a cubicle for

1:00:48

major corporation, and

1:00:50

retiring to

1:00:52

the valley, to

1:00:54

a pastoral life, to the

1:00:57

homestead,

1:00:57

and to be a

1:00:59

subsistence farmer. I'm

1:01:01

talking about Stardew Valley,

1:01:04

your

1:01:04

player character's journey, and

1:01:06

You

1:01:07

get a horse in that game. You name

1:01:09

that horse whatever the fuck you want. Because

1:01:12

it's it's your farm. It's your life. You do whatever

1:01:14

the fuck you want. Name your horse weight or whatever you

1:01:16

whatever you want. I in in the my most played

1:01:19

I'm a most played character named my horse Ernie,

1:01:21

after an Instagram dog.

1:01:24

Wow. That's fine. That's valid. You can do that.

1:01:26

Okay. That's nice. It's great fucking horse.

1:01:28

Ernie is a good name. This is a good

1:01:30

ass name. Yeah. It's a great horse. And

1:01:32

you know what? That's

1:01:34

my Triforce encourage pick.

1:01:36

Stardew Valley horse. Wow.

1:01:40

That's a great it's a great pick.

1:01:42

Kill it. know

1:01:43

you, there's actually no animal slaughter in the game

1:01:45

unless you count well, there's fishing. Phishing

1:01:48

is is you you can you can fish. You got

1:01:50

fish. I got you. Didn't I got you? Yeah. You

1:01:52

got me. got you. But the livestock

1:01:54

that you raised. You said fish

1:01:57

fish them souls and the lake Fished us souls. You

1:01:59

were like, they're not even

1:01:59

animals. And then you just cast them aside. Like,

1:02:02

they are nothing. Yeah.

1:02:04

You can get you can catch you have

1:02:06

crab pots and you can do line fishing,

1:02:09

so you can catch seafood. But

1:02:11

as far as the animals you raise on your farm,

1:02:14

you know, yeah, rabbits, ducks, you

1:02:17

you you're just harvesting cows,

1:02:19

you're just harvesting their their their

1:02:21

milk and eggs, and I

1:02:24

guess that's the weird one. The rabbits produce

1:02:27

rabbit's feet. So

1:02:28

maybe you are, like, amputating their limbs.

1:02:31

But they the game doesn't

1:02:33

really handle it that way. They just sort of they just

1:02:35

sort spot. Hey. Anyways, Valley horses

1:02:37

pants. Yeah. Okay. I

1:02:39

don't need this one anymore. Alright? Guess

1:02:41

we'll go sell this to fucking Pierre. Anyway,

1:02:44

that's my that's my Choice Starter Valley always.

1:02:47

Wow.

1:02:48

That's a great pick. Good pick.

1:02:51

my final pick, my courage,

1:02:53

try force peace, my

1:02:56

courage mount. is

1:02:59

so this is this is amount.

1:03:03

It's not your main

1:03:05

like, mode of traversal

1:03:08

in this game. But

1:03:10

but

1:03:12

do you I think when because

1:03:14

we we haven't really talked about this.

1:03:18

in all the other picks, there's

1:03:20

reason for you get on the

1:03:22

mount, and there's,

1:03:24

like, you know or you you can call

1:03:26

to it It's sort of it's kind of optional

1:03:29

even in some cases. Right? Like, you don't necessarily

1:03:31

have to get on Ramsay. You don't have to

1:03:33

get on Yoshi. You don't have to use Torrance.

1:03:35

This

1:03:39

mount only

1:03:41

appears in certain sections of the game,

1:03:43

and it is mandatory.

1:03:45

Okay? So it's

1:03:46

like it's more of a section. don't know if you

1:03:48

if that still counts as amount, but

1:03:51

I picked it anyway. And it's the Pegasus

1:03:53

from God of War two.

1:03:55

Wow.

1:03:56

There's these great fight sequences where

1:03:58

you get on the pegasus and you're in the air

1:04:01

and you're fighting in the air with your

1:04:03

blades. a fucking rocks.

1:04:06

It's so fun. It's

1:04:07

pretty good. Really, really cool. And the pegasus

1:04:10

looks cool. And then at a certain point too, like,

1:04:12

actually, you

1:04:13

know, speaking of killable horses, the pegasus gets

1:04:15

stuck

1:04:16

under a big statue's hand.

1:04:19

And there's

1:04:19

a whole thing you gotta go do. Oh

1:04:21

boy. But

1:04:23

it works out. It's okay.

1:04:25

But so my pick is the

1:04:27

pegasus for courage because

1:04:30

If you told me to get on one of those, I'd say,

1:04:32

you're out of your dang mind.

1:04:34

Wow.

1:04:36

Well, hey, that's the try force of mounts.

1:04:38

So we wanna recap everyone's picks I

1:04:40

had I had the the Stardew Valley

1:04:42

horse. I had a Ramby or Ramby

1:04:45

from donkey kong country, the Rhino, and I

1:04:47

had a ghost of Fukushima horse.

1:04:49

I had Argo from Shadow of

1:04:51

The Closets, killable horse from

1:04:53

Red Dead Redemption

1:04:54

two, and Chocabot from

1:04:56

Final Fantasy eleven. that

1:04:58

and I had torrent from Eldon

1:05:00

Ring, Yoshi from the Super

1:05:02

Mario franchise and

1:05:04

Pegasus from God of War

1:05:07

two.

1:05:08

Wow. It's

1:05:08

good times. Let us know your favorite mounts

1:05:11

on our discord. Or

1:05:13

I guess you could on Twitter

1:05:15

if you are

1:05:16

using that. If you're paying eight bucks

1:05:18

for it, it's the only way we'll

1:05:20

see it. Yeah.

1:05:22

Matt, let's do a segment.

1:05:24

Alright. Here we go. Can Nick

1:05:26

and Heather guess what game is being

1:05:28

described with as little information as possible?

1:05:30

It's time For vague, Rent

1:05:33

Story.

1:05:36

My

1:05:37

favorite segment name, I should just reiterate.

1:05:40

It's

1:05:40

Great segman name. Hey, thank you very much.

1:05:42

It's Ido.

1:05:45

I I felt pretty inspired when

1:05:47

I came up with it. and

1:05:49

because I never played the game, but I remember you

1:05:51

guys talking about it. So there

1:05:54

we go. Fantastic game. It's a

1:05:56

it's a love letter to my two host.

1:05:59

god bless you. Oh,

1:05:59

wow. Okay. Okay.

1:06:02

So here we go. We got a couple I got some

1:06:04

games that I'm gonna describe

1:06:07

you know, with his little info and see

1:06:10

if you guys can figure out what it is. Okay? You buzz

1:06:12

in with your name. k. Pretty

1:06:14

pretty easy. And I only have one clue

1:06:16

each for these. So I can't give you more than

1:06:18

what I got. So

1:06:21

here we go. Here's here's here's the first game.

1:06:23

k?

1:06:24

A man learns what it takes to

1:06:26

become a boss.

1:06:29

I

1:06:29

wrote all these two.

1:06:30

Is the can I can I ask? Yes.

1:06:33

Is there a theme tying together

1:06:35

all of the clues? No.

1:06:37

Okay. These are all just like these are games

1:06:39

possibly from anywhere. Yes.

1:06:41

Can

1:06:44

you can you read it one more time? I

1:06:46

guess the game I'll I'll say,

1:06:48

like, you know, it's I was thinking of games.

1:06:51

So these are all kind of games I like, I guess.

1:06:54

Okay. Okay. Games Matt

1:06:56

likes. Yeah. Great. Oh, here's the

1:06:58

clue. A man learns what it takes

1:07:00

to become a boss. and

1:07:02

I can just say my name

1:07:04

to ring in. That's right.

1:07:06

Heather. Heather.

1:07:11

This is

1:07:13

metal gear solid three. Mhmm.

1:07:15

Okay. Heather's on the board with one. Maybe I made this

1:07:17

one too easy. Okay.

1:07:20

Here we go. That's a drinking bus. verbatim.

1:07:22

That's that's good. I like that. I

1:07:24

put it in there, maybe it's like a misdirect. So you

1:07:26

didn't maybe think, well, he couldn't

1:07:29

But then, you know, the flip side of that is,

1:07:31

it was too easy. And I was thinking, like, ascending

1:07:35

the ranks of the underworld or thinking, or

1:07:38

something. I was like, is this the yakuza game? But, yeah,

1:07:40

Heather got it. It's MGS3 With

1:07:42

the bullet so there you go. One, it heathers on the

1:07:44

board with one. Here we go. Maybe this one will trip

1:07:46

you up a little bit.

1:07:47

k?

1:07:52

A man?

1:07:55

k. A man travels the world

1:07:57

to save his love from being forced

1:07:59

into marriage.

1:08:02

Wigger.

1:08:04

Nick. Super

1:08:06

Mario Odyssey. Alright.

1:08:08

Nick's on the board with what two. This is

1:08:10

this is good. Nick has a nail biter.

1:08:13

This is This

1:08:15

is this is a you know, I

1:08:17

came up with these today.

1:08:18

So,

1:08:20

those are good clues. I I was just thinking

1:08:22

about how Odessey's fucking great, and

1:08:24

then I never got around to playing. And I know this

1:08:27

is three d world, which is also fucking great. never

1:08:29

got around to playing Bowser's I never did it

1:08:31

either. I gotta play that shit.

1:08:34

It's just sitting there.

1:08:36

And

1:08:36

I finished three

1:08:37

d world, and I think three d world's one of my favorite

1:08:40

games ever. Yeah. Never

1:08:42

got into never did Bauzer's fury.

1:08:44

To make you scared. Should we pivot

1:08:46

from persona five royal to Bauzer's fury?

1:08:49

You can't keep doing this every day. No.

1:08:52

Give me a fucking ulcer over

1:08:55

here.

1:09:00

Alright. It's not it up. One piece. Not it up.

1:09:02

One a piece. Here's the third

1:09:04

here's the third game.

1:09:05

Mhmm.

1:09:07

the struggle between a human brain

1:09:09

and

1:09:10

a virus. The

1:09:12

struggle between a

1:09:14

human brain and

1:09:16

a virus.

1:09:19

A wider. Nick on now.

1:09:21

I'm

1:09:24

gonna guess. III

1:09:27

think I'm I think this is this is me being too

1:09:29

cute with this answer. but

1:09:30

I'm against Metroid Fusion.

1:09:33

Nick is incorrect. Fuck.

1:09:35

A human brain and a virus.

1:09:37

Human

1:09:38

brain virus.

1:09:41

Heather.

1:09:44

Heather.

1:09:45

Dr. Mario. Heather,

1:09:48

that's not a bad guess. It is

1:09:50

incorrect.

1:09:51

Do

1:09:52

you guys does anybody have another guess? Or

1:09:54

should I Can we get a clue? Can we get a

1:09:56

hint? Can you get

1:09:58

maybe a platform?

1:10:01

It's on

1:10:03

on It's

1:10:06

on modern consoles except for the

1:10:08

Nintendo Switch. So this is a

1:10:10

recent game.

1:10:11

Yes.

1:10:11

Human

1:10:13

brain and a virus, a

1:10:16

recent game that Matt likes.

1:10:18

Is

1:10:21

it a horror game? No. It's not

1:10:23

a horror game.

1:10:25

Like horror games. How do

1:10:27

you not know that about Matt. I

1:10:28

do know that about Matt. But I just I'm just,

1:10:30

like, thinking. Like, it sounds like a horror premise

1:10:33

and there are exceptions to the rule. And

1:10:35

then there are exceptions to the rule. It is true.

1:10:39

I'm trying to think of another thing I could

1:10:41

say about this without giving it to

1:10:44

much like a way. How

1:10:47

about how about this for a question? Is it like

1:10:49

an m rated game? Oh,

1:10:52

it's in the it's as mature as they come.

1:10:55

So

1:10:55

there's okay. So this is an m rated game.

1:10:58

Recent years

1:10:59

modern consoles. And maybe

1:11:02

no. That might give

1:11:04

it away too much. Brain versus virus.

1:11:07

Fuck

1:11:10

am I missing here?

1:11:11

And maybe you're thinking about

1:11:13

virus in a different

1:11:15

way.

1:11:19

Like, perhaps a computer

1:11:21

virus, possibly.

1:11:24

Okay. You know?

1:11:25

Right in my brain, like, in my case of

1:11:27

the Golden title. Heather.

1:11:30

Cyberpunk two thousand and seventy seven. Heather's

1:11:32

on the board with another point. Cyber

1:11:34

fun. Twenty seventy seven. There

1:11:36

you go. And

1:11:37

you like that game? I forgot. We all Oh,

1:11:40

Mario. I like it. We

1:11:43

all finished it. And then, like Yeah. Like

1:11:45

that. What I'm talking talking about? I

1:11:48

just wasn't thinking out of, like, oh, this is, like, oh, yeah.

1:11:50

Matt's a cyber breakout. Great game an insanely

1:11:53

good anime IP -- Yeah. --

1:11:55

packed it down so fucking fun. think about

1:11:57

all the time

1:11:58

playing it again. Awesome. I All

1:11:59

said and done, cyberpunk fucking

1:12:02

delivered. And when the DLC comes out,

1:12:04

I'm gonna break out my whatever that build is

1:12:06

and have all those guys kill themselves

1:12:07

as I run through the room. I might

1:12:10

I I'm waiting for AAA

1:12:12

steep sale so I can get it on steam deck and

1:12:14

and play through it again on steam deck and III

1:12:16

loved it. I

1:12:18

love that game. Even

1:12:20

though it was stupid. Okay.

1:12:24

Here we go. Here's another one.

1:12:25

A

1:12:27

boy travels many worlds to restore

1:12:29

peace.

1:12:32

A boy travels many worlds.

1:12:35

to restore It could be literally fucking

1:12:37

anything.

1:12:40

Yeah. That's that's

1:12:42

every every game. Alright.

1:12:44

That's a good question. bunch of different buy homes. Just

1:12:46

a balance of the world. Heather. Heather. Kingdom

1:12:49

Hearts. Heather's on the board with another

1:12:51

point. should just

1:12:53

guess that for all of these. It eventually

1:12:55

will come up. And so at this point

1:12:58

in the game, I only have one I only have one game

1:13:00

left. Nick, there's unfortunately no way you can

1:13:02

win. Okay. So I can play for personal play.

1:13:05

Just like life, man. There's no you can play.

1:13:09

But, yeah, we'll play let's let's just do this last clue

1:13:11

because I also this is a tricky one because I

1:13:13

don't think I've ever you played this game.

1:13:16

Great. Here we go. I do.

1:13:18

An

1:13:19

assassin's biggest asset and

1:13:22

enemy is time.

1:13:27

Wigger,

1:13:28

Nick.

1:13:31

I know you're playing those hitman games. They get

1:13:33

assassins. Is this hitman three? Alright.

1:13:36

It is not Heather. Heather.

1:13:38

I even let you ring in because I thought

1:13:40

you'd get it. It's prince of Persia. Oh,

1:13:43

prince of course. fucking sands

1:13:45

of time. You're also wrong. You're

1:13:46

also wrong. It's not

1:13:48

that. It's not that.

1:13:51

I guess he's not really an assassin. No. He's

1:13:53

a prince. Yeah.

1:13:56

And if you say you called him in

1:13:58

a Saturday, he'd be like, no,

1:13:59

that's not how it happened at all. Sassing.

1:14:03

And that's almost a point where they think that was

1:14:05

fine. His

1:14:08

biggest asset and enemy is time.

1:14:10

Biggest

1:14:10

asset and enemy

1:14:13

is time. He's an assassin.

1:14:15

So

1:14:15

some sort of spanning the fourth dimension

1:14:17

sort of thing. It's like

1:14:21

It's like majora's mask. No.

1:14:26

No. No. It's a week.

1:14:27

find out that Matt thinks that Link

1:14:29

is in the Sasa.

1:14:30

No.

1:14:33

I think yeah. Tingle is an

1:14:35

assassin. The this

1:14:38

I put I put this one as the

1:14:40

fifth clue because I was, like, I was convinced

1:14:44

that it was gonna be a tie game. And I was, like, we

1:14:46

gotta have a tie break. And I don't yeah. I

1:14:48

I picked this one because I don't think you guys played this game

1:14:50

at all. So you probably don't even know

1:14:53

probably don't even know. You know what? You we can You

1:14:55

certainly heard of the game. Can we get a hint?

1:14:58

And and and can we get a platform or era?

1:15:01

It is from the

1:15:02

modern era of consoles.

1:15:04

k.

1:15:05

not switch. And

1:15:06

and

1:15:09

something

1:15:09

else say about it is

1:15:12

an assassin's biggest asset in enemy

1:15:14

is time. And

1:15:17

assassin's biggest asset in enemy

1:15:20

is time.

1:15:21

So

1:15:24

something you'll say about it is the same clue you've

1:15:26

already said? Yeah. Just repeated?

1:15:29

Yeah.

1:15:30

k.

1:15:33

It's

1:15:33

gonna make sense once I say what the game is.

1:15:37

Fuckin' no. I

1:15:40

don't

1:15:40

know, Matt.

1:15:41

If if if we're all if we're all

1:15:43

out of guesses, I'm a guess one other thing.

1:15:46

Please. is

1:15:48

the answer killable horse. Okay.

1:15:51

Heather's got Heather wins. But

1:15:54

Heather does win the game. And the answer

1:15:56

for This one was

1:15:58

Death Loop.

1:16:00

Oh, really. Oh, nice. Nice.

1:16:02

Death

1:16:02

Loop is gorgeous. That makes total sense. Yeah. Well,

1:16:04

the fucking time loop game we're killing you. I

1:16:06

I should have thought It's straight. In Tom

1:16:08

Game Pass, I think I

1:16:10

think you both really like it. I think it's really good.

1:16:12

It's it's a you know,

1:16:14

I think it's a fantastic game. that I

1:16:16

got to basically ninety

1:16:18

eight percent of and then

1:16:21

didn't ever finish. But

1:16:24

I but I loved it. And that's

1:16:26

should we I I know we're gonna do bowser's fury for

1:16:28

a replay, you play, but we should we change it definitely?

1:16:34

Let's do whatever is gonna make everybody the

1:16:36

most mad. And

1:16:40

that's that's another installment of

1:16:43

vague Rint story. Love

1:16:45

vague Rint story even when I lose.

1:16:47

It's fun. Well,

1:16:49

a great great segment. And hey, that's this week's

1:16:51

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1:17:01

you play, is persona

1:17:04

five royal because you voted for it. That's right.

1:17:06

It is coming TBD,

1:17:08

we're still figuring it out. So I I don't

1:17:10

wanna commit to a specific date yet because we wanna

1:17:12

make sure we have enough time to play through enough

1:17:14

of the story with the holidays coming up. So

1:17:16

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1:17:18

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1:17:40

Joseph Campbell was speaking to

1:17:43

when he wrote the hero of

1:17:45

a thousand faces. It only

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is one face. That face is

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dengue and

1:17:49

we're covering that story.

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on get animated episodes five

1:17:54

and

1:17:54

six, which Matt just put in the

1:17:56

chat as if to shut me up. No.

1:17:58

It was to help you. because sometimes I

1:18:00

know that sometimes we don't always know remember

1:18:02

Okay. Okay. Okay. Five and six.

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Me wrap it up.

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which is one of one of the best

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