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Hello, I am Daniel

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Bloodworth, we are Easy

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Allies, and this is the

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Easy Allies Podcast. This

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week I'm joined by Michael Huber. June

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Part 2. Michael

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Damiani. Advent

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Children Complete. There we go. And

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Meghanil Hoppin in the control room, we got

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Don Casanova. Chris Blade Billboards.

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There it is, there it is. Along

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with Gaby Puttin up with us. Ayla's

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out this week, so yes, another

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one of those contributing

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factors to things, we're

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trying to figure out technical things and like

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we don't, yeah, this thing, that thing, whatever,

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we gotta fix. I hope she's watching Dune

1:04

2 somewhere. Oh

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yeah, she's taking care of it. I hope so. She's

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taking care of it, it's fine. Friends, we

1:12

are here to talk about what's new, what's

1:14

news, and what we've been playing. We

1:17

got that Nintendo Direct finally. Everyone's

1:20

talking about it, it's finally happened. I

1:22

don't think I'm gonna have to dress up as Wario this

1:24

year, Damiani. Direct.

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Remember the last minute delay, it

1:29

seems like. With

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that we got the confirmation on those

1:35

Xbox games, the exact

1:37

games that are going to switch

1:39

into PlayStation. We

1:42

also got a look at the Elden

1:44

Ring DLC. Don't

1:47

make me watch it. Don't make me watch it. You

1:50

didn't watch it yet? No. Okay.

1:53

That's why we have to break. Okay, what? There's a

1:55

space for you to watch that. Spoilers, baby! You're,

1:57

we're gonna be playing it. You're gonna be playing it.

2:00

be talking about it but okay

2:02

these two have been playing Final

2:04

Fantasy 7 rebirths so we're gonna

2:06

talk about that for a good

2:08

while I've been ridiculously obsessed

2:11

with ultra so we'll talk about that I've

2:13

got stories from dice we got Pacific Drive

2:16

but before we get started we

2:19

must answer the wrong question

2:23

with too many players logging

2:26

up those hell divers 2 servers

2:29

which of these ps3

2:33

online multiplayer games should Sony

2:35

bring back to

2:37

lower players away from hell divers mag

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defiance or

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dust 514 I mean it's

2:47

mag this is a

2:49

massive action game is the most

2:51

legendary title for a

2:53

multiplayer game ever made in the

2:56

history of multiplayer

2:58

I mean this this this was just ahead of

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its time yeah it was ahead of its time

3:03

it was before memes were even a thing like

3:06

that's not true the memers wish

3:08

they had access to

3:10

mag mag

3:14

mag all day any

3:17

thoughts don't know

3:19

about yes

3:21

I mean well maybe maybe

3:23

you can do the reason

3:26

hardly any memes compared to now

3:29

come on the memes

3:31

from 2024 new manuma to like new manuma you

3:35

remember dancing banana remember

3:37

dancing baby you come on like

3:39

what do you remember the 2000s

3:42

with mag the original fortnight shadows

3:44

wondering humor okay but could we would

3:47

be now remaster remake that's what

3:53

we're asking basically the science

3:56

is a funny one to throw in there because they

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did that I don't know how it's doing But they

4:00

did bring Defiance back not that long

4:02

ago. You reviewed it. I reviewed

4:04

the original Defiance. Yeah, I remember this. I

4:06

didn't touch the new one, I don't think.

4:09

Because it was the show and everything, and

4:11

as a film and video game lover, I

4:13

was obsessed with that idea blood. Oh yeah,

4:15

I kept watching that show until it was

4:17

done. Yeah. It was a cool show.

4:19

Yeah. But yeah. I

4:22

played the game for a good while. Yeah, you did. I

4:24

remember it. I remember vividly. But

4:27

they brought it back. The last

4:29

year or two, something like that. I remember there

4:31

being a story for them bringing Defiance back, but I

4:33

don't know. If it's still

4:35

out there, I don't know if it

4:37

lasted. Just 514. I

4:41

remember the name. I don't remember anything about it. It

4:43

was tied to Yvonne Light. Remember,

4:46

it was like they're out there doing stuff on

4:48

their ships, and then somehow you're on the ground.

4:51

And then you interact somehow. Totally. I

4:54

don't remember all the details. I totally remember that

4:56

now. That question was submitted by Jason Wojnar. Thank

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you, Jason. Yeah,

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let's get into the Nintendo Direct,

5:04

and we'll tag the Xbox announcements

5:06

onto that because they basically

5:09

happened at the same time because they

5:11

started with grounded, Huber. First

5:14

thing out the gate is grounded. Great

5:16

game. Yeah. Even

5:21

on the lower thirds, listed by

5:24

Xbox Game Studios. They

5:26

didn't say Obsidian. They said

5:28

Xbox Game Studios. Yeah. Was

5:31

the footage shown for the Xbox version

5:34

or the Switch version? I'm pretty sure

5:36

it's the Switch version. Okay. Yeah, it

5:38

looks Switch for sure. Yeah, it looks

5:40

like it scaled down for sure. It

5:42

looks Switchy. Looks, how you knew your,

5:44

go ahead. That's for you, Domiani. That was

5:46

for you. But

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I think it works. I think the style works in

5:51

its favor. I think this is all right. I agree.

5:53

It's all right looking. You're sampled. It's

5:56

gonna have, they said this about all of this

5:58

stuff, that they're gonna probably. prioritize cross-platform

6:01

play and cross-save What's

6:05

exciting about this first of all is

6:07

a great game being? Available

6:10

to more people first and foremost, but

6:12

second of all Getting

6:15

in a room and being able to place something like

6:17

this Handheld sure

6:20

with other people you

6:22

could all play together in the same room Like

6:24

we have the luxury of being able to

6:26

do our little LAN sessions sometimes for games

6:31

But being able to easily LAN

6:33

for grounded on switch is just

6:35

such a win and I think that's a great

6:37

way to play that game Yeah, that's

6:40

coming April 16th The

6:46

The next one I Don't

6:48

know if we need to go into it too much But yeah We'll probably

6:50

we'll probably like tap on all of these and if we want to talk

6:52

more about them We can but the next one is that? Ender

6:55

Magnolia bloom in the mist. It's

6:58

a sequel to Ender lilies. I know lilies

7:00

for sure like which I remember that name

7:03

I think it's like a Metroidvania. Yeah, yeah,

7:05

yeah, yeah, yeah, scrolling action adventure. Yeah, you

7:07

have this thing kind of like It's

7:11

funny. This is the thing that I remember is an example

7:13

because I'm pretty sure Castlevania games have done this too, but

7:16

Like evaneezer, you remember how you're like collecting

7:18

ghosts Different powers. Mm-hmm.

7:21

So this is Sort

7:23

of a similar thing to where it's like

7:25

you you find homunculi Hmm, and those are

7:27

the like different attacks and stuff that you're

7:29

in. So there's guys with swords There's some

7:32

Hawkeye with a gun Hawkeye with a gun.

7:34

There's a wolf that looks like you could

7:36

even ride around on. Yeah Cool

7:39

with that. Yeah, and your lilies

7:41

a underrated gem there and Ender

7:44

Magnolia. That's cool. That's Leia's lilac

7:46

That seems so quick That's

7:49

super quick blood coming sometime this year Wow

7:52

dummy on your very good at least I know you got into some of

7:54

the other stuff No, no, Ender Lily.

7:57

No What's

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up next though So Arranger, a

8:02

role-pluzzling adventure. This is a

8:04

cool looking thing. It's

8:07

like you're navigating an environment through

8:09

like slide puzzle things and

8:13

solving puzzles and things like that.

8:16

And the artist is the guy from, one

8:18

of the guys from Braid. Totally

8:22

Braid vibes. Yeah. And then

8:24

they also got a guy

8:26

who's worked on Carto and

8:28

then people that worked on Ethereal and

8:30

Paraspora. So pretty cool

8:33

little team of guys working on this.

8:36

Their new indie team because this is the first

8:38

game from them working together called

8:41

Furniture and Mattress. Okay. Cool.

8:46

And yeah, they say gameplay

8:48

takes place on a unique interconnected

8:50

grid that spans the entire world,

8:52

snappily uniting movement, exploration, and combat.

8:55

When Gemma moves, the world moves with

8:57

her creating both a playful sense of

8:59

chaos and a regular stream of small

9:01

thoughtful puzzles that twist and

9:03

play with the central mechanic. That's awesome.

9:05

Bloodworks, do you think they'll ever, devs,

9:08

do you think they'll ever run out

9:10

of ways

9:13

to have

9:15

us interact with puzzles? Isn't

9:17

that crazy? When you think about it, you know? I

9:22

don't know. I mean, just her moving

9:24

on the grid is like, okay, I haven't

9:26

really seen that before. Right. There's

9:28

just another new way. And then there was that one

9:30

that they were doing with the page flipping. Remember

9:33

that one where you could fold the page over and

9:35

then it's another thing on the other side and it

9:37

may pass that way. So cool. Forgive

9:40

what that was saying. And I know you love Viewfinder.

9:42

You know, that's friggin... Yeah, Viewfinder is sick. Yeah, dude.

9:45

So in addition to Switch, that one's also on PC, PS5,

9:48

and Netflix. So

9:52

Spread the Love, you'll be able to get that one

9:55

on your Netflix account. Sweet. For

9:58

cookies, we don't need to dig into them. too

10:00

much unicorn overload that's

10:03

coming out very soon nothing no where

10:05

no yes it is yes yes

10:07

pay attention pay attention unicorn

10:10

overload pay attention everyone vanilla

10:13

where strategy RPG yes from vanilla

10:15

where yes dude coming out March

10:17

8th which right around the corner

10:19

yes and then they got they

10:21

got a demo right after

10:24

the direct mm-hmm and then that that demo

10:26

is also gonna be coming to PlayStation and

10:28

Xbox on the 23rd which

10:31

is tomorrow when we're shooting this but yeah most

10:33

of you that'll be yesterday five-hour

10:36

demo Wow that's what

10:38

they're legit predicting so

10:40

get a good look at that game

10:42

every single vanilla

10:44

where game I've played

10:46

has been great straight

10:49

up every single one I've played has

10:51

been great what

10:54

about you dummy honey you always are you

10:56

thinking you get into this you play fire emblem and all that yeah

11:00

it looks pretty cool I mean

11:02

strategy games are always you know like

11:05

these types are kind of fun to

11:07

play so I will admit

11:09

I have not really gotten into a lot

11:11

of vanilla wares previous efforts despite their high

11:13

praise but

11:16

we're sorry I've just been playing

11:18

a lot of other Odin sweeter do you

11:20

play Odin through dummy I'm

11:22

not looking forward to another like massive game

11:24

at the moment for up for like I

11:27

need like a nice like palate

11:29

cleanser like chill game you

11:31

need an uncharted dude revving up for like I

11:34

need something because like yeah we're like weeks away

11:37

from like Rises Ronin and the dragon song which

11:39

I'm like geez is this this train isn't like

11:41

that does it but like this

11:43

is these are great games but I'm like I'm not looking

11:46

forward to any of playing any of these right now I'm

11:48

like slow down like oh my god

11:53

monster hunter stories the first game the

11:55

3ds game is getting ported to switch and

11:59

also PC and PS4, it's

12:01

getting fully voiced HD graphics. That's so

12:04

interesting. And a new museum with artwork

12:06

and stuff like that. My take is

12:08

like, Monster Hunter is something you get

12:10

so invested in for so

12:13

long term that like

12:16

sandwiched in between

12:19

Worldrise and Wilds seems

12:24

like I wouldn't commit to that.

12:26

But it's different. You know, it's different. You know, stories

12:28

is turn based RPG. It's a different style. It's not

12:30

like a normal Monster Hunter. So it's

12:32

cool. I mean,

12:34

it shows that Stories 2 was successful, right?

12:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's port the first

12:38

one. That's pretty good. Totally. Yeah.

12:41

All right. It's time here for

12:43

Epic Mickey Rebrush. Remake

12:48

of this game. Nope. Coming

12:50

this year. Hard no. Hard no.

12:53

For Switch, PC, PlayStation, Xbox. This is the

12:55

most bait-changer. This is the most bait trailer

12:58

for anyone who didn't actually play Epic Mickey.

13:00

This game is in my top 10 disappointments

13:02

of all time. Ooh. Two

13:05

is even worse. You're thinking. Epic Mickey 2.

13:07

Okay, I was about to ask. Are you thinking of 2 or 1? No, Epic

13:10

Mickey 2. Because 2 is not good. Epic Mickey

13:12

2 is actual trash. Actual

13:14

trash. Epic Mickey 1 is

13:17

almost swimming. These

13:20

are not good games. Everyone is so hyped because they're

13:22

like, oh, I missed it. I didn't get to play

13:24

this. You don't want to play this game. I'm

13:26

sorry. I'm

13:29

going to have to replay it now because I

13:31

don't remember it being that bad when I played

13:33

it when it came out a wee back on

13:35

game trailers. I remember playing through it. I

13:38

remember being disappointed it didn't live

13:40

up to its potential. Like the

13:42

decision making thing about destroying or

13:45

building didn't ultimately have the big

13:47

payoff and didn't even drastically

13:49

impact the moment to moment gameplay

13:51

other than the puzzle

13:54

solving. But everything else

13:56

about it I seem to kind of enjoy. So

13:58

that's what I remember. I'm definitely

14:00

gonna pick this up and jump back into it

14:02

and see if oh man I Does

14:06

not hold up I'm

14:08

I am more. I'm I am now

14:10

hyped that this is coming out so

14:13

that you can re-examine it That's all I

14:15

care about now You

14:17

tell me the one holds up whatever

14:19

what was the thing? It was the Mickey Mickey

14:21

is just like there's nothing about Mickey I remember

14:23

being so hyped about like dude We're gonna get

14:26

to play as Mickey and like there's gonna be

14:28

some epic just like Mickey

14:30

Mouse lore or like Mickey like I get to

14:32

be Mickey Mouse one of the most iconic Characters

14:35

that has ever been created There's

14:38

just nothing. He's just a hollow

14:40

story wise the hollow just Mickey

14:43

There's nothing and then just

14:45

the gameplay itself was so average

14:48

on top of other things

14:50

being less than average or a disappointment

14:53

the overall package was It

14:56

wasn't quite good enough

14:59

to be swimming in sevens But I

15:02

was happy at the time that it existed because

15:04

then oh well now I'm hyped about the next

15:06

one Like Oh epic Mickey to

15:08

oh can be sure yeah Everyone thought

15:10

to is gonna redeem it like one

15:12

okay I can give one the benefit

15:14

of the doubt like it was the

15:16

first one You know I didn't really

15:18

care for it that much, but it was you know if I'm

15:21

being forgiving like it was okay Let's let's

15:23

all be hyped for the next one, and

15:25

then the next one was even worse So

15:28

then I was like dude. I think Mickey sucks Yes,

15:31

it's funny here because I when I was watching

15:33

this trailer like yeah immediately I thought oh they're redoing

15:36

epic Mickey Give this another one I remembered it being

15:38

really disappointing But it'll be a perfect one to give

15:40

it a new chance and then as pretty much the

15:42

whole trailer is just that Cinematic and I said

15:44

oh oh and then they just show like a

15:46

tiny bit of gameplay and as soon as they went

15:48

to the Gameplay I was like oh no that doesn't

15:51

even look at like like the reskin or whatever

15:53

they're doing doesn't even look at the Like it

15:55

doesn't even really look stunning or anything in any kind

15:57

of way, so I was like but

15:59

I had the same reaction is Damiani where I was like I

16:02

want to give it I'm curious to give it

16:04

another run just because I remember being massively disappointed

16:06

but at the same time it's been so long

16:08

that I'm like you know I'd be gentler

16:10

with it now I don't know would it

16:12

be simple fun or something I don't know

16:14

you guys are so right because I love

16:16

cultural re-examinations so you

16:19

know if anyone or the

16:21

masses say like hey Epic Mickey's great

16:24

I will dip my toe back I don't probably

16:27

not gonna ask yeah I don't see what everybody yeah

16:29

I will say that I remember

16:35

one of the other disappointments being like the

16:37

all the key art and concept art being

16:39

shown in the lead-up to it it

16:41

didn't really fully capture that essence or

16:44

even that aesthetic about these these long

16:46

forgotten abandoned attractions and characters and like

16:48

Oswald it's like yeah like that was

16:50

the whole thing about you discover this

16:52

lost Disney lore it's not necessarily about

16:55

Mickey perhaps we could have like find

16:57

out stuff about all these old things

16:59

related to Disney and it's kind of

17:01

like you know a Disney enthusiast you

17:03

know potential like dream to see like

17:05

these you know get the spotlight and

17:08

in the end I think it was like held

17:10

back by potentially the Wii hardware I mean it

17:12

was a deal that they made and to bring

17:14

it on there so this getting the chance

17:16

but I will say when I saw like the gameplay I'm

17:18

like I don't even remember if it ran at 60 frames

17:21

in the original version like it does look it runs at

17:23

60 at least but I

17:25

guess I was expecting something a little bit more

17:27

drastic because the cutscene part

17:29

looked like okay it's a cutscene it looks

17:32

good it's that's running at 60 so that

17:34

looks very nice but then the gameplay I'm

17:36

like it does look like we

17:38

we HD me like yeah I was like

17:40

I don't know maybe I need to see it

17:43

in action like so like from that part

17:45

of it when I use the word remake

17:47

in the description of this video like this

17:49

is just like a visual update I don't

17:51

like like I need this like see it

17:53

in action and be like alright how does

17:55

it like look if they like put a

17:57

lot of effort in it because this

18:00

Yeah, again, we all talked about it also like Warren's

18:02

back. This is Warren's back. That's probably the next thing

18:04

I was gonna say man. It's like I had maybe

18:07

Unreasonable expectations because Dave sex is one of

18:09

my favorite games Ever

18:11

made so then I have

18:13

this like loyalty towards Warren Spector So

18:16

when he has his name attached to this and

18:19

it's Mickey Mouse. I'm just like

18:22

yo sky expectations But

18:24

I remember being disappointed Yeah,

18:26

so he was consulting on this but

18:29

it's coming from THQ

18:31

Nordic and specifically purple lamp who

18:33

did the spongebob games nice So

18:35

the you know the the remastered

18:37

bikini bottom bottom height and the

18:39

one last year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

18:41

Yeah, so that's good and They

18:45

also said that they're they're tweaking

18:48

the the gameplay too, so Advanced

18:51

gameplay with new abilities and

18:53

enhanced visuals He

18:56

has new moves such as a dash a ground

18:58

pound and the ability to sprint I

19:00

mean a dash a ground pound and a

19:03

sprint seem like they're game-changing Yeah,

19:05

so that does seem significant. Yeah. Well,

19:08

I totally missed that part. Yeah, that's

19:10

pretty interesting So

19:12

maybe maybe maybe you let me

19:14

know of you were yeah, I should Slash

19:17

Domiani. What about the visuals Dom? Yeah

19:22

Yeah, I mean we're yeah as I

19:24

said I mean need to maybe play

19:26

it or see like direct feed gameplay,

19:28

you know Not like in a compressed

19:31

YouTube. So really judge it. Well, yeah that

19:33

I did catch the line about in the

19:36

about the new gameplay things

19:39

and Whether I mean it's the ones

19:41

you described or like okay that might make it like

19:43

fun for moment like Basics

19:45

up the maybe should have been there from beginning but I'm

19:48

curious and I doubt they're gonna go

19:50

anything as drastic as the whole ink

19:53

system is gonna be completely overhauled and

19:56

Actually have more of an impact this time

19:58

other than Remove this

20:00

wall from a building so you can find

20:02

the switch in here that you need to

20:04

flip to go over here and then Repaint

20:06

back over it and like like you can't

20:08

be like evil Mickey and like there's all

20:10

people like in dip like in Roger I

20:13

was going to my head when I first talked about

20:15

this game was like, you know, it's like the green

20:17

ain't gonna be like Why do I feel like epic

20:19

Mickey is about to sell 2 million copies? Why do

20:21

I just feel that way? Because

20:32

it's a life is game Which

20:34

yeah, it's about to sell millions get

20:36

ready. Yeah. Yep And

20:39

it's been long enough that this one actually can

20:41

like already appeal now to younger kid people Yeah,

20:43

exactly. Yeah, get ready to know we'll see. Yeah

20:52

Shin Megami 10 say five vengeance

20:57

This is this really is making me Feel

21:01

like I just should not try to play Atlas

21:04

games when they come out like why

21:06

should I be looking for? A medical

21:08

review when I can just get whatever

21:10

the thing after it is I miss

21:12

royal cuz I played for some of

21:14

five day one, right? Yeah. Yeah the

21:16

same thing with me I never got

21:18

around to royal. Yeah, I mean thankfully

21:20

I guess I didn't play SMT 5

21:23

And so now there's a better SMT

21:25

5 out. There you go brand new chapter

21:28

get wrecked early adopters SMT 5 was also

21:30

remember it was stuck on the switch and it

21:32

was like Kind of

21:34

frame II had some issues. It's also

21:36

on PC. They've said it's on PlayStation.

21:39

This is on Xbox crazy And

21:42

I think that's the big one Yeah,

21:44

at least realizing that day one putting

21:46

on everything like what really helped at

21:49

least on PC Yeah,

21:51

so there's a new chapter It's

21:53

gonna have the whole original story, but the new

21:55

story path that was not there before It's

21:59

also quote, massively

22:01

expanded with new areas,

22:04

new demons, never play the original, new

22:06

music, uh,

22:08

more accessible gameplay, improved battle

22:10

system, new demon experiences, I don't

22:12

know what that means. So like Shin Megami 5.5. And

22:17

greater field exploration. Okay. So,

22:20

it's just a better game all around now.

22:23

Yeah. Hilarious.

22:27

I mean, at least I don't though,

22:29

I mean, I know that this is all but

22:31

officially confirmed about the DLC for reload, for Persona

22:33

3 reload, but that was the one I was

22:35

like very sure of like, this is probably not

22:38

getting a brand, brand new like Royal Edition. Right.

22:41

It's very likely just going to tack on the

22:43

extra stuff and it's like the core base game.

22:45

It's like, you

22:47

had to play it anyway because they add the female main

22:49

character. It's like, you need

22:51

to play through that as a separate thing, you

22:54

know, that's something you want to like do. But

22:56

yeah, I want this, the message that Atlas is

22:58

sending loud and clear, it's that, if

23:01

you want the most complete definitive version of

23:03

their game, you wait like one year. Yeah.

23:06

Like for like 18 months. Yeah. And

23:08

you will get that. Forget like the six month patch

23:10

window, Huber, for waiting for all these big releases for

23:12

six months. With Atlas, it's like, it's like 12 to

23:14

18 months. For like the full version

23:17

of the game. Oh,

23:19

patches. Yeah, yeah. If you

23:21

want to play this game one time.

23:23

Yup. Wait. If the

23:25

game has 70 plus hours, I'm

23:27

probably only playing it once in

23:30

10 years. And then maybe I'll come back

23:32

to it like 10 years later. Yeah. I

23:36

feel like this mentality stems from

23:38

older days where they had the

23:41

core consumer base that wanted to like,

23:43

would buy up everything they would offer.

23:46

So that was the standard thing where you put out

23:48

a first version and then come out with this. It

23:50

wasn't just them, like a lot of companies were doing

23:52

it. Yeah. I remember with the,

23:54

especially for in Japan, like Kingdom Hearts getting like

23:57

in Final Fantasy, getting like those extra additions. Yeah.

24:00

What? What the hell? Oh my god.

24:02

Okay. Two ganyani was in

24:04

Japan when they had the two final mix.

24:06

It was like, it debuted the week

24:09

I was in Japan. It was insane. Oh

24:13

my god. So that being, it's just a thing

24:15

they had been doing. And I think Atlas

24:17

is like the last one to like kind

24:19

of fully embrace like maybe, I mean, they,

24:21

they, they know what works for them. So

24:24

but I do wish that there

24:27

would be a different path forward where if you

24:29

only written a new original version, there could be

24:31

some kind of discount, but you will be laughed

24:33

off the face of earth. You

24:36

will be laughed off the face of the earth right now

24:38

if you suggest or hope that's going to happen. I

24:40

mean, I mean, last of us did it. Like I know,

24:42

you know, last of us really only added like last of

24:44

us for two only added like the no return mode, but

24:47

still it was a generational upgrade

24:50

in terms of visuals and everything. Like I know

24:52

everyone's like, Oh, it looks same, blah, whatever. But

24:55

it was still PS4 to PS5. And you

24:57

know, that was only 10 bucks. Yeah,

24:59

like, and it had a whole

25:02

new mode in there and extra features and Atlas should

25:05

do the same. What's up? Except

25:08

you can't pay 10, $10 and go from

25:11

upgrade from your switch to your Xbox

25:14

version. But the nice

25:16

thing about that is though, those

25:19

Xbox PlayStation PC versions, hopefully

25:22

they'll run really well because if it was like

25:25

optimized, they best stick the best they could for

25:27

the switch. Now you bring them on

25:29

as something more powerful than it's like, okay, make

25:32

it a little bit more complex. But chances are

25:34

the frame rate will be a lot, lot better.

25:36

Yeah. So June

25:38

21st on that one. June

25:41

21st. Okay. Yeah, it is the

25:43

year of the RPG. I

25:45

keep saying this. Everybody knows that it

25:48

is what it is. I feel like it's the same day as

25:50

something else. Oh, yeah, we'll get to that later. Probably.

25:54

Next up one. I mean, I did

25:56

not see this coming. Star Wars Battlefront

25:59

classic. collection yo

26:03

Go Let's are we streaming

26:06

this are we squatting up? Yeah, 10 out of 10. I

26:08

never played the Like

26:13

the retro online Jump

26:15

in for a little bit land cafe

26:18

anybody should we stream it from a

26:20

land cafe? Load

26:24

up the trunks a Battlefront

26:28

it owed kind of shocking. Yeah.

26:31

Yeah, I did not expect

26:33

this as well. This came out of nowhere I

26:37

love Battlefront. I love Battlefield

26:42

So much battlefield is like my

26:44

favorite multiplayer Franchise

26:46

anything so when Battlefront came

26:48

out I was I was all in I

26:50

was like dude. It's like battlefield, but Star

26:52

Wars And I

26:54

know the new ones kind of disappointed people you know

26:57

especially with like the pay-to-win shit I remember

26:59

battlefield Battlefront to the new one Was

27:03

actually pay-to-win everybody memes and oh right

27:05

the first yeah Yeah, the first one

27:07

everybody memes and jokes like oh, this

27:09

is pay-to-win This is pay-to-win like Battlefront

27:11

to the new one was actually Pay

27:15

to win it was it you pay more

27:17

you just get stronger things They

27:19

patched it whatever they changed it out,

27:22

but those originals are just so

27:24

clean So crisp

27:27

I just remember like battling on some bridges

27:29

and shit Yeah,

27:32

I thought actually some some tweet about

27:34

that bridge something about that bridge it

27:36

brought everything back It was like Aztec

27:38

in Counter-Strike. It was that same bridge.

27:40

It was like everyone rushes the bridge

27:42

Metro Okay,

27:45

battlefield right that bridge the Metro like the

27:47

subway no better 2023 is the other game

27:51

I don't know what Metro came

27:53

here operation Metro Operation

27:56

Metro and battlefield is like the

27:58

one there's always these chokes Points

28:00

right a battlefront had that yeah,

28:02

yeah 64 players. Oh, yeah

28:07

They have additional characters and maps

28:09

so for the first battlefront they've

28:11

got Java's palace in there and

28:15

Then battlefront 2 they

28:17

have best bin Renvar

28:20

a harbor And

28:23

Renvar Citadel as well as Yavin

28:25

for arena And

28:28

then they've got Two

28:31

other characters a saj ventress and kit

28:34

fisto who is in a trailer? And

28:38

they've also got hero assault where you play

28:40

is like Luke and Vader and all of

28:42

that a saj ventress is like the most

28:44

Like hey, let's let's put a saj ventress

28:46

in there to get The

28:50

Clone Wars fans let's get them all Juba

28:53

do you know that we know when that's coming ones

28:55

are coming March 14th Less

28:58

than a month. Oh my god Stream

29:01

please please I'm begging you stream it

29:03

is now. Can you guess how much

29:05

it cost? This is what I'm extremely curious I'm gonna

29:07

say Would be fair 100%

29:10

fair. Did you just get the first one? You

29:14

know I'm gonna say $29.99 I'm gonna say $19.99 24.99.

29:16

I told you earlier Don It

29:25

is $35 Because

29:29

the the battlefront shoe campaign has

29:31

you play as the 500 and

29:33

first Legion So

29:35

they're charging 3501 text coming with

29:38

a demo of Star Wars 1313.

29:40

I wish Yeah

29:45

Yeah coming from a spire South

29:50

Park snow day was in there sword art

29:52

online was in there Gundam breaker for there

29:54

after four of those now She's

29:56

in there But

29:58

next up Again did

30:00

not see this coming super monkey

30:03

ball banana rumble Monkey

30:06

balls back. It's back. It's a brand

30:08

new game. It's back. Yeah, that's

30:10

right First actual brand new one

30:12

in like what a over a decade. I don't miss

30:15

the last few ones have just been remakes or collection

30:17

Yeah, they did a remake. Yeah, they were touting that

30:20

Yeah, that this is like first new one

30:22

and The monkey

30:24

ball is like real like pure

30:26

super legendary baby fun to play

30:29

like so fun legendary It's

30:31

legendary. It's also kind of in so once you

30:33

get past the first like yeah five world is

30:36

like, oh no Shout

30:39

out to just game cue band Dreamcast.

30:42

Yeah, I just I just want to shout them out It's

30:45

just good vibes. Just shout out. That's all Any

30:48

of you ever played the arcade monkey ball where it has

30:50

a big plastic monkey ball you have not played the Bowling

30:55

ball side monkey ball that you control

30:57

it with Heck

31:00

yeah, dude, what? So

31:02

here is a 200 levels 200 levels 200 levels That's

31:08

a bit much. I don't know because

31:10

he's like you see some of those like entire

31:12

levels Sometimes in the span of

31:14

one of these trailers we had you know how

31:16

to hop that thing we had Janet here Last

31:20

week and she was talking about the

31:22

dopamine of rolling credits slash Deleting your

31:24

game when you hit those credits and

31:26

I can relate to that

31:29

feeling more than anything 200

31:32

levels. I don't think it's as

31:34

much as you're thinking. I think those levels is like 15

31:38

seconds. Okay next level. Yeah. Yeah But

31:42

there's also a new spin-dash

31:44

move Sonic the Hedgehog style

31:47

Spin it up and literally on it.

31:50

It's iconic Sonic to spin-dash. Yeah top

31:52

10 video game moves

31:54

ever It's now in monkey

31:56

ball. It's in monkey ball All

31:59

right 4 player co-op

32:01

local and then

32:03

16 player online

32:06

racing banana

32:09

hunts where you're like you know 60 players

32:11

is unhinged for monkey ball dude what yeah

32:16

there's a lesion there that works because

32:18

isn't it like the

32:20

whole idea that you're

32:25

controlling the board and not the ball yeah

32:27

what there's a spin-dash kind of

32:29

place with that as well but yeah

32:31

I don't know a banana

32:34

hunt where you try to collect the most bananas and

32:37

then there's also robot smash where you're like

32:39

competing that smash robots online

32:43

June 25th right around the corner you

32:46

in Damiani yeah

32:49

we are

32:52

world of goo-choo is in there there's

32:55

some new goo balls with the explosive abilities

32:57

growing and shrinking and all that they've got

32:59

64 levels Huber world of

33:01

two to all right four player local that

33:03

seems manageable the fourth player local is exclusive

33:06

to switch so that's

33:08

crazy new fantasy life

33:10

game from level five coming that's got

33:12

four player online co-op as well level

33:14

five yeah nice fantasy

33:17

life I the girl who steals

33:19

time okay oh yeah I

33:21

at least have to bring this up the

33:23

idea from this game is that you travel

33:26

back in time feel resources and then bring

33:28

them to your island in the present like

33:31

what it's almost dark it seems

33:34

a little dark maybe it is

33:36

dark feeling from the past but

33:38

also like yeah

33:44

that's all the way out in October forget the lot

33:46

oh yeah exactly

33:48

another crabs

33:51

treasure we've been looking at this guy for a while

33:58

I played it last CDC Um,

34:01

finally, finally coming out. April 25th, we're

34:03

getting this game. Coming right up. If

34:05

you've not seen this before, if you're

34:08

not familiar with it, this is a...

34:10

Souls-like crab game, right? Souls-like crab game.

34:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. I

34:14

remember. Your shell gets stolen, and so

34:16

then you're using trash. So

34:18

whatever trash you can find on the bottom of

34:20

the ocean as your shells, and each different piece

34:22

of trash that you end up picking and

34:24

using has different attributes, some of them special

34:26

abilities, all that. Could be a

34:29

bottle cap, could be a soda can, could be

34:31

all kinds of different things. Um,

34:34

Hubert, you know what's nuts? Uh,

34:37

yeah, coffee mugs, one of them. That's

34:39

my main. I did not realize

34:41

this. This is a real

34:43

thing. What? Real

34:45

hermit crabs are going around

34:48

using little bits of trash like this

34:51

for shells. Wow. So, Jeff

34:53

showed me this YouTube video, this guy that goes out there

34:58

and presents the collection of real

35:00

shells to these hermit crabs so

35:02

they can stop living in a crash. And they just hop

35:04

into one. And they take a minute and they find their

35:06

favorite one and they go on their way. Like

35:09

a dragon infinite wealth, Jack. Yes.

35:14

So, yeah, this is a real

35:16

thing that they're bringing attention to through

35:18

their cute little somewhat difficult video game.

35:21

This game will be a quote

35:23

unquote 10 out of 10 if the combat

35:25

is sick. It's pretty good. Yeah.

35:28

Like I said, I played the last GDC. I like what I

35:30

played. Um, I was just like one

35:32

level, one major boss fight. Yeah, definitely takes a few

35:34

tries. Good. I'm

35:36

not professional like you, but we'll see. Just

35:39

from the trailer to the story actually

35:41

looks kind of interesting and like the

35:43

characters and everything. Yeah, you sympathetic crab.

35:45

It was, it looked like a little

35:47

bit deep. It was interesting. All right.

35:49

Yeah. It wasn't just like,

35:51

you know, surface level goofy stuff. I

35:54

got to like a deep plot for crab game. They're

35:57

like, there's a lot of, a lot of character design going on. into

36:00

these creatures I always try to play every

36:02

and it's impossible because there's so many but

36:04

I always try to play every metroidvania

36:06

and every souls like I just try to

36:08

I try to get in there

36:11

get you on that April 25th yeah umami magic

36:13

you can also cast umami magic I

36:17

didn't get examples of what you could do

36:19

really oh and that's

36:21

on game pass as well clutch is

36:24

a switch PlayStation and CC clutch

36:28

a penny big breakaway you

36:31

heard me talk about this just a couple

36:33

weeks ago that I do a February 4th

36:35

podcast go check that out if you didn't

36:37

get that segment the most bossman game that

36:39

ever bossmaned maybe

36:41

I think I will be into

36:43

this oh did you catch when this is out

36:45

obsessed did you catch when it guarantees obsessed you

36:48

know when this is out uh no

36:51

yesterday it's already

36:53

out it's out okay

36:56

I question that decision but yeah why why

36:58

I tell me honey why oh I know

37:00

people are looking forward to that release date

37:02

and felt like they were like it was

37:04

time to announce it but I feel like

37:07

the shadow drop just kind of was a

37:09

little too sudden and abrupt

37:11

um also the timing right now

37:13

I mean I guess there's like no good time I

37:15

was about to say like yeah

37:17

maybe stay away from anything right now but

37:20

it's just I know people are looking forward

37:22

to it and I know people can play

37:24

multiple games but this week has just been

37:26

like swept up in other stuff and I

37:28

feel like yeah like I'll

37:30

have to remember to come back to that game at

37:32

some point and I don't

37:34

know like I feel like maybe waiting

37:37

to seeing this

37:39

go on it was like early March starting

37:41

to now fill up because late March is already

37:44

getting crowded it's like maybe the like first few

37:46

weeks of March like okay no how about April

37:48

it's like all right that's maybe too far for

37:50

some people yeah I don't know but like it

37:52

looks you know it looks fun if it's not

37:55

that terribly long of a game I think actually

37:57

maybe that's fine but I

37:59

don't know Like maybe I'm wrong on this one with

38:01

the with like the shadow drop, but like I

38:03

would have been like hey It comes out like

38:06

tomorrow or like you get some people some time, but like

38:08

we had like well We had a day. We had like

38:10

the Final Fantasy demo dropped that day And

38:13

then you know we had like the reviews

38:15

go up today They couldn't have known that

38:18

but like I'm sorry, but like starting yesterday

38:20

seven like for 72 hour window It's like

38:22

five has been rebirth and five is seven

38:24

and nothing else like good luck like good

38:27

luck going again maybe I can see their

38:29

logic maybe of like You

38:31

know you have your hundred-hour game and

38:34

are like ten or fifteen hour game is a nice

38:36

compliment to it So to me it kind

38:39

of makes sense. Yeah that way

38:41

also I wonder I love to have a

38:43

smaller game balance since the word on the street word

38:45

on the street was that this got delayed because of

38:48

a Xbox shenanigans

38:51

so Was it

38:53

supposed to have shadow dropped last week? Yeah,

38:56

probably right. They probably didn't change

38:58

the trailer or anything. Yeah, well

39:00

the yeah, so I Think

39:03

I think that yeah, they got kids like when I played it

39:05

when I brought it to the preview I'm like this feels like

39:08

a whole game It feels like I

39:10

got the whole game in my hands right now this feels done like

39:12

there's some polish and tweaks They could have done with it, but it's

39:14

like I you know so

39:16

it's interesting like oh nope here It

39:18

is yeah, and I've already started and

39:20

people like with speedrunning videos online like

39:23

oh, okay You guys

39:26

way more advanced I struggled Yeah,

39:34

I'm curious though about the give my hands on

39:36

with the game though like not to like Totally

39:38

down on like the timing of it because like

39:40

it's great That's finally out, but also like yeah

39:42

people who are playing it saying like this is

39:44

you know How maybe 3d sonic

39:47

yeah should take a closer look at how

39:49

they're doing things in this game because they

39:51

get what makes? Potentially 3d platformers

39:54

about Momentum versus speed like

39:56

which is like more important like sense of

39:58

speed or sense of momentum right? And

40:00

how maybe the more recent 3D

40:03

Sonic games just don't get that other than

40:05

I mean frontiers is different But before frontiers,

40:07

you know, it was kind of like always

40:10

going back and forth with the 3D Sonic

40:12

games and Maybe we

40:14

could use something like this, you know to

40:16

infuse it But obviously that this is their

40:18

own thing So this is something you know

40:20

that they could build off of and like, you know Maybe

40:22

this is a better path because this

40:24

was the the mania team correct? Yeah,

40:26

not misremembering right then so Sega

40:29

let this let them go. It's like

40:31

you could have had something like this,

40:33

but so be it, you know Yep

40:38

Another cool little one Pepper

40:40

grinder so hyped on this dude. Yeah, I've

40:43

seen this I have there been multiple chances

40:45

to get hands-on And I just haven't had

40:47

it at the moment to really do

40:49

it yet. Can't wait for there is a demo They've

40:52

had a couple of demos before but there is

40:54

a demo now for sure on switch can't wait also

40:56

on PC This

40:59

game just looks so great. Hell yeah, like the

41:01

art style is fantastic Like it's it's like a

41:03

pixel art style, but it's not like a pixel

41:05

art style That looks like a Super

41:07

Nintendo game or something It's

41:10

it's got a lot of depth to it and a

41:12

lot of big characters. Yeah, I'm hype

41:14

dude Yeah, and it it's

41:17

a game that looks like it feels good. So that's why I

41:19

want to get my hands. Yep. Yep. Yeah I

41:22

just I can't think of any

41:24

games where like digging like that

41:26

is bad Mmm, you

41:28

know, yeah, like what we already did a

41:30

thing like that, right? Yeah, that is seem

41:32

world dig and Super Mario Brothers 2 obviously

41:35

just like Mario

41:37

Galaxy 2 the like drill thing.

41:39

Yeah drill dozer back in the

41:42

day, which is what this is probably yeah referencing

41:44

the most Yeah, it's like always awesome Don

41:49

rewind that back pocket card jockey ride on

41:52

are you pocket card? Yeah, what the hell

41:54

about this? I'm not actually this is recommended

41:56

to me and I downloaded the demo because

41:58

I saw it's available Yeah chance

42:00

to play like yeah, cuz I was busy

42:03

playing Operation Galuga I

42:05

have this downloaded. I haven't I haven't gotten to

42:07

try this yet people have recommended this to me

42:09

So I guess it's a long few

42:12

if you I don't know if it's a three

42:14

the third one the series But yeah, it's a

42:16

remaster apparently from game freak

42:19

Originally was on DS or 3DS. I don't

42:21

remember which one but yeah,

42:24

it's a fusion of solitaire and

42:26

horse racing amazing I mean, I

42:28

mean I in the past haven't been a huge

42:30

fan of solitaire So I'm nervous about that side

42:32

of it, but I'm gonna give it a shot.

42:34

I mean, there's still a gambling element Dude, that's

42:36

all that matters But don't talk

42:38

about talk talk about Galuga cuz Galuga was in

42:41

the montage We had we had snuffkin and we

42:43

had tales of kenzirozao, which we talked about recently

42:46

We had the demon slayer Mario

42:48

party game was in the montage.

42:50

Yeah Kingdom

42:53

come deliverance is coming to switch I'm

42:55

okay. Pentiment was in they put the

42:57

pentiment into the montage. That's out. That's

43:00

out now Another

43:02

shadow drop pentiment on switch don't skip

43:04

but Don talk about this operation Galuga

43:07

demo that they got yes I'll say

43:09

so far so good in my opinion. Look,

43:12

I love Contra Contra is literally one of

43:14

the games I that's like one of the

43:16

first video games. I my eyes ever saw

43:18

I got like a three-year-old or something in

43:20

a supermarket I remember was seeing Contra at

43:23

the front entrance right so high stakes of

43:25

this thing coming back But look I think

43:28

I don't think it's too early to say it after playing the demo. Contra

43:30

is Back like

43:32

this felt really good to move around

43:34

the shooting felt good You've got a

43:36

dash with a right trigger You can

43:39

hold down to lock in place then

43:41

you rotate around your aim everywhere So

43:43

they put in everything you need for

43:45

a run-and-gun shooter sort of something to

43:48

satisfy everyone, you know Double jump felt

43:50

good weapons felt good. Everything felt good

43:54

The graphics when I was first visuals are

43:56

okay Dom Huber didn't like the visuals and

43:58

I was nervous about the visuals when I saw

44:00

it in the trailer, but when I was

44:02

actually playing it, I was enjoying it on

44:04

handheld mode a lot, but then Hubert came in and

44:06

saw it in handheld mode and he didn't think it

44:08

looked so good, so I'm not sure what you'll think,

44:10

but uh, for me, I don't

44:12

know, the backgrounds have like a combination of,

44:15

it has a whole bunch of 3D, you

44:17

know, objects, but then in the far distance,

44:19

there's like 2D palettes also, but stuff kind

44:21

of- It didn't look gritty enough, Don. It

44:23

didn't look violent or gritty enough. Here's the

44:25

thing, I mean, you gotta see more, Hubert,

44:27

you've gotta see more. There's some gore. Okay.

44:29

There's legit gore. I mean, by the first level,

44:31

the end bosses that they give you in this demo,

44:33

there's some legit gore in it. Okay, alright. It brought

44:35

a big smile to my face, in fact, I did

44:37

not see it coming, so, give it a little bit

44:39

of a chance, yeah. You've sold me 100%. It,

44:42

uh, the- but the background, kind of like, you

44:44

know, even though you're always on a 2D plane,

44:47

uh, things kind of like shift around, a la,

44:49

what's that game I- Pandemonium?

44:52

Oh my gosh. Alright, lots of other games, but we

44:54

gotta give a shout out to Pandemonium. Yeah, it does

44:56

that 3D background, you know, fake rotation sort of thing,

44:58

which is kind of neat. But, um, I don't

45:00

know, all the weapons felt good. It seems like it

45:03

seemed like, like, obviously got what was great about all

45:05

the old Contras, and something real important that I wanted

45:07

to touch on, uh, Contra,

45:10

the difficulty, right? Often, yeah.

45:12

Autistic difficulty, often unenjoyable, sort

45:15

of unbalanced difficulty. It seemed

45:17

like the difficulty was in a real good place

45:19

on this point, and this one, not too easy,

45:21

not too hard, but it was ramping up nice

45:23

as well, just in the first level.

45:25

So, it seems like, for me, this

45:27

is very satisfying. I would say, just jump on that

45:29

demo, you gotta try it. It's just hell, yeah. Don,

45:31

I trust you with my life, bro, I'm in. I-

45:34

I- Is it $40 satisfying? That's

45:36

the problem, but it's a little pricey, right?

45:38

It's a little pricey, but I'll tell you what,

45:40

honestly, playing through that whole demo, it feels like

45:42

if it continues at that level, which I think

45:45

it will, it will be worth it. But, I

45:47

mean, you can see, they put a lot into

45:49

this. Don, are there- I

45:52

know, I'm thinking

45:54

of Double Dragon Gaiden. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

45:56

I just played through that recently. Being

45:58

a steep cost. But there was so

46:01

much to invest in and so

46:03

much progression does this contra have that?

46:06

It's hard to tell off of just the demo But

46:08

I'll tell you this first of all the level the

46:10

first stage that they let you try is quite Lengthy

46:12

especially for a contra which was nice, so I had

46:14

quite a few I think there's at least four

46:18

Save points because they had a mini boss So I think they

46:20

had like a say one save point between the beginning and the

46:22

mini boss and then they had like Another

46:24

one you know somewhere in between getting

46:26

to the final boss of the first stage So

46:28

it's hard to say you do get like a couple little perks

46:30

that you can have slots for perks you can pick in

46:32

Each level and stuff like so I'm sure there's some of

46:34

that stuff kind of like guide in that you're gonna be

46:36

unlocking and stuff Remains to be seen

46:39

how much replay ability I mean, I think it

46:41

will have replay ability just because you're trying to

46:43

do with contra So it's the perfection kind of

46:45

thing stages without yeah taking a lot of damage

46:48

and all that and falling but uh So

46:50

I would say you know right now on sale

46:53

good thing to point out to chats mentioning right

46:55

now pre-order sale You know so you're gonna get

46:57

10% off check out the demo You

47:00

love it. I for me right now that's feeling honestly

47:02

because I'm a contra pants fan from the past Yeah,

47:04

I'm really very French and it's been for a little

47:06

while right there since we've had a super solid contrast

47:08

to 2d style So you know fingers

47:10

crossed, but this is feeling quite good. I would say

47:12

my Expectations are higher than they've ever

47:14

been off the scene you know much higher than when I had

47:17

just seen the trailers now that I've got my hands on it

47:19

Put it that way yeah shout out

47:21

the contra operation got Luga hell.

47:24

Yeah, nice Next

47:27

up we got five games

47:29

in one announcement humor five Is

47:32

it the second thing dude the hype from

47:34

this we're not playing a music Oh, no

47:36

is this what I think it is this

47:38

troll for to bloodworth soul. How is this

47:41

a troll? Freaking rare putting

47:43

out five games online. I was talking

47:45

about mother three man. Oh, that's a

47:47

different That's a different well not necessarily

47:49

a troll, but they put that out

47:51

all the you personally You

47:53

on the Japanese shop

47:56

you're like our old CEO. Let's fm

47:58

over But

48:03

yeah, so we got, this

48:06

thing was hype because they were playing like the old

48:09

Killer Instinct music. And so

48:11

it just like really ramped up into everything. Tight,

48:14

tight. But yeah, Snake Rattle and Roll on the

48:16

NES. What? Score! One

48:18

that I was not super into, Blast 4 on

48:20

the N64. Let's go! Killer

48:23

Instinct on Super Nintendo. RC

48:26

Pro-Am on NES. Yeah, dude. So

48:29

good. I saw that too, yay! So good.

48:32

And then Battle Toads and Battle Maniacs, which,

48:35

they're fine. Yeah, it's fine. Not

48:37

great. Nice graphics, not great games.

48:39

Yeah. It'd

48:41

be interesting, because I don't think the original Battle Toads

48:43

is on there yet. So it'd be interesting if they

48:45

got that on the NES. But

48:48

nice little pack. Tommy on, you do

48:50

Blast Core hype? Dude,

48:53

I'm so happy people can play it. It's

48:55

not an easy game. It

48:57

takes a little bit. There's so many vehicles you have to

49:00

learn out of the control. But

49:02

stick with that game

49:04

if you can, because

49:06

that game goes places.

49:09

Crazy places. I

49:14

think it came out the year before right

49:17

around Armageddon. That

49:19

might be a reference. I'm

49:24

so pumped to try this. I've been

49:26

recommending this game to me, game versus,

49:28

I remember the GT days, and I've

49:30

never had an opportunity to try. But

49:32

I'm actually extremely pumped for this release.

49:34

Dude, Blast Core is top five rentals

49:36

of all time. I

49:39

will die on that hill. I've

49:42

rented this game like six times. The one thing I'm

49:44

curious about, and I don't know if Chat's going to

49:46

be quick enough to get this answer in real time.

49:50

The Super Nintendo version of Killer Insane.

49:52

That's what I was just going to

49:55

say. I don't know that that's going

49:57

to be released, does it? It's

50:00

like never on a virtual console kind of thing.

50:02

Rarer Replay I don't think had it. They had

50:04

the arcade versions of Killer Instinct With

50:08

Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2. I

50:11

don't think we've seen like the N64 Killer

50:13

Instinct Gold either. Yes, this is true. Chat

50:15

is confirming. Well, I was just gonna say

50:17

that the gold obviously at first when I

50:19

saw the announcement I don't know why I

50:22

just assumed it was gold and I'm like

50:24

when it hit the ceiling so pumped and

50:26

so like, you know Still nice that it's

50:29

the Super Nintendo, but dang it that would have been sweet

50:31

if they had the gold Yeah, gosh, that would have been

50:33

good cuz that's 100% I don't know.

50:35

I played this one just a tiny bit just the other morning

50:37

It was like felt okay, but you know, I'm

50:39

not sure maybe this is a real good port It looks

50:41

great for Super Nintendo, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. No, they did

50:43

a great job on that I had I had friends that

50:46

had the cart back in the day. And so

50:49

yeah Go over there place and play

50:51

it quite a bit And

50:53

then they were kid I was able to yeah I was

50:55

able to get gold on a 64

50:58

and and play that one, but

51:01

it didn't have didn't have the cart myself

51:03

just had you know Those chances to play

51:05

it with them And

51:07

then wrapping it up Endless

51:10

ocean luminous talk about a Game

51:13

to bring back cool classic bro,

51:15

right? I was so this

51:17

is like probably like my first like 3d

51:20

diving game was endless ocean so on

51:22

the Wii And There

51:25

was a lot of rumors going around about

51:27

this somehow this thing had leaked And

51:30

people were calling it like or you know

51:32

a remaster or a remake or whatever But

51:34

at least from what I can tell this feels like a new game And

51:38

not only does it feel like a new game it has

51:41

30 player online What?

51:47

I don't want this Shots

51:53

man, but there's there's too many people in the

51:55

yeah, I liked it when I found just a

51:58

bunch of screen names floating around If

52:00

I'm in the deep ocean

52:03

here it is it's Like

52:07

meditative right now exactly 30

52:09

other people There's a

52:11

people looking around that's weird

52:13

and selfies like Going

52:16

through ships and like I don't know that is

52:18

it they got some bruiser of a shark in

52:20

this honest Domino it looks like

52:22

they're going on a freaking MMO race bro.

52:24

That is the vibe I get here Exactly.

52:27

I was like is this like this like ocean MMO the game.

52:29

I was like, all right Sure.

52:34

I mean, I don't

52:36

know about like the atmosphere though.

52:38

I considering like the original

52:40

one and The

52:43

vibes are going for but I'm sure they're

52:45

still like single player and like go out

52:47

right blood. I'm sure yeah Yeah

52:53

But almost like worried how it's like the

52:55

footage with the Multiplayer look kind of rough

52:57

and I'm like, yeah, I don't know I'd

52:59

want to like, you know play that way

53:02

If we're this type of game, I was like I

53:04

want to just be like immersed in those, you know

53:06

underwater environment and just An

53:10

L cheese, you know chill just have

53:12

some nice chill music like throw the

53:14

we old we shot music in there

53:16

somewhere for me You

53:18

have your water like remix It's

53:21

just wild to see this direct and

53:24

you know, it's not new to this

53:26

one, but it's it's a trend of

53:29

Releasing your game To you

53:32

know 150 million switches

53:34

right sold or what was the number? Oh

53:37

Not quite 150. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so

53:40

30 something million. Yeah. Yeah, you just

53:43

Re-release your game and well, I mean that's you

53:45

have a hundred thirty forty million people Million

53:48

like I'd be curious to do a comparison because

53:50

I feel like it's it feels

53:53

like a new game Even if it were re-released

53:55

like yeah, the amount of like work They'd have

53:57

to do to like upgrade the the models and

53:59

everything is yeah Because they say there's 500 species

54:01

of animals in this thing

54:03

along with extinct

54:06

animals and mythical creatures. Yeah,

54:08

so it just seems like a

54:10

really good business move to re-release

54:13

any game Right on

54:15

Switch. Right. Just period. It doesn't even matter

54:17

what it is if

54:19

it hasn't been released in the

54:21

last decade like put it on

54:23

switch and Hope you sell a

54:26

million copies which out of a

54:28

hundred and thirty forty million Doesn't

54:30

seem that hard. I

54:33

know it is hard, but you've got

54:35

pretty good odds. Yeah Along

54:39

with all of the people that were chattering about this

54:41

there's been a lot of chatter about the the

54:45

the successor the switch to

54:49

Getting quote-unquote delayed. I don't know

54:51

if you can delay something that hasn't been announced

54:53

but delayed to 2025 So

54:56

are you dressing up as Wario then Damiani?

54:58

Was that the deal? I

55:01

don't even remember what the- I hit this one on the head

55:03

tonight. I literally- I was like there's no way It's

55:06

still not even official. There's nobody said

55:08

any date. One it's yeah, it's it's

55:10

not official and even if this is

55:12

true It's like this was supposed to

55:14

come out this year, but for a

55:16

certain reason undisclosed still it is

55:19

not making it this year So your

55:21

guess is to get his mind. This will be

55:23

the main topic of solo queue on Sunday We

55:26

were gonna be diving into this as

55:28

well like what we think is going on with

55:30

it But I mean it

55:33

could be anything from like- give us a

55:35

tease- having trouble sticking apart. Yeah, Damiani I

55:37

mean the first party software need more time,

55:39

right? Can we

55:41

talk about- I mean yeah, so like the big announcement

55:43

gonna be it's gonna launch on GTA GTA 6 is

55:45

gonna launch along on every platform and switch to 15

55:48

minutes ago- 15 minutes ago for no reason I

55:52

was like I need to ask him if we can just talk about

55:54

GTA 6 I'm not even kidding. I'm not

55:56

even kidding 15 minutes ago in my brain.

55:58

I was like can- I'm- I was like, I'm gonna

56:00

ask him if we can just talk about it for no

56:02

reason. Now we have a reason. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes.

56:06

Yeah, we'll get into that, but also like why,

56:08

uh, what are they doing the rest of the

56:10

year? We got this, this partner direct, but it's

56:12

like, still got six months

56:14

of the year that are relatively unaccounted for

56:17

and maybe more now if it's being delayed

56:19

to early next year

56:21

switch to it. So it's like Nintendo

56:24

just, you know, what are they doing? Are they waiting for GPA 6,

56:26

Damiani? To

56:28

launch with it? Brand new,

56:30

brand new console launching with GPA 6.

56:32

They're waiting for whenever that is? No?

56:36

Not their strategy, no. No, but they do need

56:38

more time to, to, to animate,

56:41

uh, Mario's

56:44

new, like, talking boots or whatever they've got

56:47

this time. Yo,

56:49

Mario's talking boots or boots at all

56:51

are the best. Mario 3 the boot

56:54

is the culmination. It's,

56:57

it's, I'd be curious to know, because

56:59

you, like it happens a lot, right?

57:01

Like Nintendo delays things quite a bit

57:04

to get quality up to par. Like I kind of want

57:06

to know what are those blockers? What are the things that

57:08

like, dude, Tears of

57:11

the Kingdom, not this year. Don't know

57:13

when, not this year, you know? On

57:15

it, I mean, I, I don't know

57:17

as much as you, anybody, but from

57:20

my perspective, it's you're

57:24

almost the highest selling system of all time. Why

57:26

do you need a new one? You ride it

57:28

out until it's dead. Yeah. You ride it out

57:30

until the wheels fall off. Like Switch

57:32

is fine right now. Switch

57:34

is killing it every year. It's going

57:36

against way more powerful

57:38

consoles already, and it doesn't even

57:41

matter, because it's just doing its

57:43

own thing. So why would you

57:46

come in this year if

57:48

you still have momentum and you're still killing

57:50

it? There's no reason. I

57:52

mean, but the momentum is slowing down for

57:54

their own sales numbers. It's still doing very

57:56

good numbers, but it is showing aerobical proof

57:59

that it is. slowing down and

58:01

you don't run it into the ground

58:04

because you don't want to risk losing

58:06

all your momentum because then consumers either

58:08

a tire of your stuff and

58:10

like alright you guys are like it's not

58:12

exciting anymore and you know they open their

58:14

eyes like I'll move on to something else

58:16

and along that lines be other

58:19

competitors seize that opportunity like a

58:21

ps5 pro comes out before switch

58:23

to now it's like they get to be

58:25

like yo check out our brand new shiny

58:27

hardware and if they actually you know have

58:29

new games there's reports they might not have

58:32

any new first party games but third-party games

58:34

it's like they obviously

58:36

can start touting that and

58:38

it's just there's that

58:40

sweet spot I think they're trying to find of

58:42

where do we want to transition

58:45

into the switch to and

58:47

it sounds like they had that figured out but something

58:50

we do not know what if this is true is

58:52

causing them to make a slight

58:55

bump in that plant that time

58:57

that timeline so very

58:59

very curious what it is yeah gta6

59:02

hmm you sweat but

59:05

down the honey there's also a Pokemon presents coming up on

59:07

the 27th that's right

59:10

around the corner that is true we'll talk about some

59:12

Pokemon games next week so that's gonna be on switch

59:14

for sure yep

59:17

so what do you want to be out of your

59:21

Florida man do what do you want to see out of that one

59:25

thing man one thing one thing I

59:27

don't know I'm not a GTA guy

59:29

I don't know jet skis of course

59:32

what about

59:34

you Domianni one thing at a GTA 6 what do

59:36

you want to see there better

59:39

be a scene where you can like ride

59:41

on blood is a crocs or gators better

59:43

there I mean when it is you're

59:45

gonna I want to okay then

59:47

both one foot on each night

59:51

you're not gonna want to want to croc chase

59:53

baby I speak croc cheese another

59:57

all right I'm

1:00:00

cool with it. Alright,

1:00:02

sort of related to Direct, but kind of its

1:00:04

own thing. We got the

1:00:07

confirmation on those four Xbox games,

1:00:10

which last week was hilarious because it's like,

1:00:13

Phil Spencer didn't want to name them,

1:00:15

I think because the Nintendo Direct deal

1:00:17

probably like starting grounded off, here's an

1:00:19

Xbox game, whoa! So

1:00:22

I think that they were, you know, if

1:00:24

they had that deal done they didn't want to like ruffle

1:00:27

feathers with Nintendo, but it was so

1:00:29

funny because it was like immediately people

1:00:32

that were in the know were just like, it's these four games.

1:00:35

You're the four games. Sentiment,

1:00:39

Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, Sea of Thieves,

1:00:41

after that Direct all four of

1:00:43

those games were confirmed by Xbox.

1:00:46

Not all four of those are coming to Switch. Pentiment

1:00:49

and Grounded are coming to Switch, Hi-Fi Rush

1:00:51

and Sea of Thieves are coming

1:00:53

to PlayStation. Hi-Fi Rush not on Switch,

1:00:55

that's a... For now, for now. So

1:00:57

far, yeah. Okay. Rumor is Hi-Fi Rush,

1:01:00

they needed to be on the successor

1:01:02

to Playwright or something. But...

1:01:05

That's good, Ben. You release that game three

1:01:07

separate times as it deserves to

1:01:09

get hype, three separate times, let's

1:01:12

go. But yeah, so Pentiment

1:01:14

is also coming to PlayStation, Grounded is

1:01:16

also coming to PlayStation, but

1:01:18

so far, Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves

1:01:20

are only PlayStation. Great.

1:01:24

I think that's great. You know, we talked about it

1:01:26

last week or the week before. Yes, both. Yeah,

1:01:29

exactly. Like, you

1:01:32

know, if... If

1:01:35

your console gets a

1:01:38

game six months to a

1:01:40

year before the other one, that's

1:01:44

enough to me. You

1:01:47

are some huge loyalist,

1:01:49

console warrior, whatever. The

1:01:52

more people they get to play, the better,

1:01:54

because then we get to talk about it more with each other, and

1:01:57

there's no, like, crazy animosity. It's

1:02:00

like, we all have access to this game. Let's talk

1:02:03

about it and critique it in a

1:02:06

friendly manner because we all have

1:02:08

access. Um, and

1:02:10

I just think the early access going

1:02:12

forward might just

1:02:15

be the new exclusivity.

1:02:18

Maybe, you know, this console gets it six months to

1:02:20

a year before and then it'll be there and,

1:02:22

uh, Pentiment, they're also doing physical. Cool.

1:02:24

So yeah, Pentiment is awesome. Such

1:02:27

a good game. Yeah. Loved

1:02:29

Pentiment. All right. It's time for

1:02:31

me to stop talking for a minute. It's

1:02:34

time for both of you to tell us

1:02:36

about Final Fantasy seven rebirth. No spoilers. I've

1:02:38

done burned an hour on this podcast already

1:02:40

talking about Nintendo. So no

1:02:43

spoilers. Don't get into spoilers. So

1:02:45

we talked about Queens blood for an hour. Not

1:02:49

quite. No. I

1:02:52

don't want to, you

1:02:54

know, I lie and I always joke about, we always

1:02:56

joke about the

1:02:59

movie parasite how

1:03:01

before that came out, it was like quoted

1:03:04

as the best movie ever made, blah, blah, blah.

1:03:06

The hype was like too much. And then we

1:03:08

saw it and we were like, it

1:03:10

was good. It was great, but like not the best

1:03:13

we've ever made. Like they were saying. So

1:03:15

like hype can be kind of dangerous. Um,

1:03:20

but Final Fantasy seven

1:03:22

rebirth is

1:03:25

like. Love

1:03:28

to my soul. It's

1:03:30

just the reason

1:03:32

I'm on this planet

1:03:34

right now is

1:03:36

to be able to play and share the

1:03:39

love and hype for video games

1:03:41

like Final Fantasy seven rebirth. This

1:03:45

is the reason to be alive in 2024 straight

1:03:47

up. Take

1:03:51

it away. Take it away. A dummy on him.

1:03:56

I mean, yeah,

1:03:58

I just cannot. how

1:04:02

massive this damn game is, I

1:04:05

just could not believe how much stuff I

1:04:08

was coming across in this game. I

1:04:10

was like, as I was getting further along, surely

1:04:12

we were gonna hit a stretch now where things

1:04:14

are just gonna kinda more be a beeline. We're

1:04:17

gonna start getting some focus here, and

1:04:22

not that it needs the focus, they had

1:04:24

to run out of money or budget, or

1:04:26

some reason this train's gonna end and it's

1:04:28

gonna get back to when I think it's

1:04:30

gonna go. It's like, nah, we got more.

1:04:33

We want mini games. I can't lost count of how

1:04:35

many mini games were in there. I'm like, but what

1:04:37

the hell? This quest is a mini game? That's

1:04:41

a mini game. It's like, someone's like, I

1:04:43

don't want fetch quests. So like, yo, you

1:04:45

don't want fetch quests in your side quests?

1:04:47

You are mini games for every quest. Oh,

1:04:49

my God. I

1:04:51

was like, what? Why do you keep doing

1:04:53

this? Yeah, this is the quadruple A. It's

1:04:56

like, Jesus. And like, the

1:04:59

best thing about it is that, yes,

1:05:01

you can skip all of this stuff

1:05:03

if you don't wanna do it. There

1:05:05

is always a path through the larger

1:05:07

open environments, if you just want to

1:05:10

stick to a story focused play through,

1:05:12

that really suits you. But

1:05:14

I was just finding so much meaningful stuff, not

1:05:16

just like rewards, but like, the

1:05:18

activity itself being fun or

1:05:21

enjoyable, and sometimes the story

1:05:23

tacked onto it as well. That's

1:05:25

why I said in the review,

1:05:27

the Proto Relic quest line, there

1:05:30

are some parts of it in

1:05:32

some of the areas, because it's

1:05:34

a recurring quest line that keeps

1:05:37

coming back, that like, starts

1:05:39

fleshing out certain characters, events.

1:05:41

Stuff from the first game gets like, fleshed

1:05:43

out through that. It's like, dude, like, you

1:05:46

put that there, and that, I mean, it's

1:05:48

sick that I did this, but it's like,

1:05:51

they tell people to do this, like, they're gonna miss out

1:05:53

on that stuff. That's like, sick. I

1:05:55

got that development there. And

1:05:57

obviously like, the ultimate payoff for it.

1:06:00

Like, you know, do it. There's like, there's

1:06:02

so many things I want to talk to you

1:06:04

about We won't. That I still can't. We won't

1:06:06

talk to you about. And it's like,

1:06:08

what? Like, I

1:06:11

just want to like see other human beings. Like,

1:06:13

we have these reviews out there now. I just

1:06:15

want to see other human beings play some of

1:06:17

these parts. They're like, they're shitting here. And I'm

1:06:20

like, please? I just want to see someone else

1:06:22

experience this part so I could like see their

1:06:24

face when it happens. I'm like, please. Tell me,

1:06:26

Ani, if you didn't like it, you get to

1:06:28

that point. Hurry up. Let's hurry up. Tommy

1:06:31

Ani's beat it twice and I'm like almost done, but

1:06:33

it's been nice because I've been able to be like

1:06:35

any time. I have not beat it twice. OK, you're

1:06:37

almost there. You've probably lapped me.

1:06:40

But any time I get to a high part,

1:06:42

I'm just like, dude, Tommy Ani. Tommy

1:06:45

Ani, dude, it's ours. I'm like, I was

1:06:47

very happy to see Hubert message me about

1:06:50

parts. I'm like, yes, I knew he was going to message me about it.

1:06:52

I knew he was going to message me about that. Yeah,

1:06:55

and this like, we're telling you, we're not even

1:06:57

talking about spoilers because we don't even need to

1:06:59

get into spoiler stuff for this amount of enjoyment

1:07:02

and good stuff. This

1:07:04

is without even talking about that stuff. That's

1:07:06

like a whole other layer that we'll get

1:07:08

to someday to talk about that because most

1:07:10

of the people who are at the place

1:07:12

are this. It took me over

1:07:14

100 hours and I didn't finish

1:07:17

every single thing. There are

1:07:19

some things I did not get to finish yet that I

1:07:21

will still be working on. And

1:07:24

it's like, OK. And because

1:07:26

I know how many people are going to

1:07:28

be like, really into playing so much of

1:07:30

the stuff in this game, the side quests,

1:07:33

the mini games, that they're probably also going

1:07:35

to take that long. So it's like, holy

1:07:37

crap. I get anxiety

1:07:39

if I had any game, Tommy Ani. If

1:07:41

I have side quests or stuff to do,

1:07:44

I cannot move on with the main quest until

1:07:46

I close those out. Tommy

1:07:48

Ani, I know you said it was limited, but one

1:07:51

of the things I do really like that I

1:07:53

didn't know was in this game until your

1:07:55

review is this stuff where you

1:07:58

have these traversal mechanics. like

1:08:00

red 13 running up grappling stuff

1:08:02

and yeah I was

1:08:05

about to talk like that was

1:08:07

my next like point if looking for

1:08:09

places like where they could go further

1:08:11

you know gameplay wise that would like

1:08:13

I would like to see more of

1:08:15

going like further is expanding

1:08:17

upon those like the character

1:08:19

specific traversal mechanics they added

1:08:21

in here because they're only

1:08:23

utilized in certain parts it's

1:08:26

all I'll say they're not

1:08:28

like persistent throughout the entirety

1:08:30

of the game so maybe

1:08:33

if they could craft the world in a

1:08:35

way that they're utilized a little bit more

1:08:38

frequently and more consistently that would be like

1:08:40

that would just be mind-boggling because I

1:08:43

mean that yeah this

1:08:45

world is so big and

1:08:47

I mean they said it in the

1:08:50

they said they already said themselves I'm

1:08:52

saying seamless seamless

1:08:56

they're not joking I

1:08:58

cannot state it's like it is seamless holy

1:09:01

crap like I like

1:09:03

I understand the image quality is coming

1:09:05

up a lot in performance mode they

1:09:07

obviously did that in recent patch yeah

1:09:09

it's like graphics mode got a nice

1:09:11

touch up from that I will say

1:09:13

performance mode I do see people asking

1:09:15

for a little bit more from that

1:09:17

because there's still time before the release

1:09:19

for maybe to push one more update

1:09:21

out to maybe try and do that

1:09:23

but you talked about it to Huber

1:09:25

behind the scenes with me the floating

1:09:27

the objects the unrealness you're kicking up

1:09:29

objects like from remake is back Oh

1:09:32

debris yeah like knocking it all over

1:09:34

the place like that's still there I

1:09:36

will say I'm always performance mode well

1:09:38

9.9 out of 10 times

1:09:41

I will say performance

1:09:43

mode has been running like a

1:09:45

dream but also I've

1:09:47

noticed it's one of the biggest visual

1:09:51

downgrades from a

1:09:53

quality mode to a performance mode like when

1:09:55

you compare them side by side like graphics

1:09:58

mode looks Really you

1:10:00

really good performance. Takes a

1:10:03

hit visually but it runs

1:10:05

like a dream. So

1:10:07

it's just what you prioritize Like Like

1:10:09

again, I. A guy that personally

1:10:11

I think. For. My eyes

1:10:13

sixty frames just looks better because of the

1:10:16

way it's running and everything. Like maybe if

1:10:18

you look at the pixels and like if

1:10:20

you're just still. Obviously. Graphics

1:10:22

looks better. But. In

1:10:24

motion like the graphics mode telling

1:10:27

Disney and Acres. But

1:10:30

if you standstill, like visually, it looks way

1:10:33

better than. Performance: On display at

1:10:35

a Dye Eggs at Ice Ice. I

1:10:37

do think potentially that this is something that

1:10:40

the Pc version and or died on Cs

1:10:42

Five pro his gun of more fully realize

1:10:44

the technical aspects of this again like I

1:10:46

did not watch the state of play till

1:10:49

after I finish the game because I tried

1:10:51

watching like ten seconds of it when I

1:10:53

was in the middle of playing this game

1:10:55

and I was like wait was like fifty

1:10:58

six hours in the game first ten seconds

1:11:00

they replace spoil the week or so. Much

1:11:05

sixty hours in the game I I'm safe the watch

1:11:07

this. right? No I'm like sit out some

1:11:09

waiting for i've been i've and for am

1:11:11

an avid him worth around for math up

1:11:13

like sometimes if you bought something. You.

1:11:16

Know before the fact and Zazis flies over

1:11:18

your head. But if you're in the game,

1:11:21

And. His eyes and well, I that blood. Yeah

1:11:23

Yep. It was one hundred percent

1:11:25

that big of a my oh I know

1:11:27

more I have more context. I'm like nope

1:11:29

nope nope stuff stop up But yeah like

1:11:31

the performed going to pour same to sustain

1:11:33

the state a plate they they emphasize the

1:11:35

world a seamless and it's like. I.

1:11:38

Didn't realize that to a certain point later in

1:11:40

the game and I'm like, oh, Okay,

1:11:42

this is probably why some of the

1:11:44

tactile isis of the game are like

1:11:46

being held back because. They. This

1:11:48

is like. This. Is not as one

1:11:51

guy environment. It's multiple. As like that,

1:11:53

as as like oh okay, maybe that's

1:11:55

it. Obviously you know they're doing some

1:11:57

like you know. Zoning. things

1:11:59

like everything's probably not loading at

1:12:01

once, obviously, but I

1:12:04

get why, some of it is maybe being

1:12:06

held back by that. Because

1:12:08

while it's not probably the biggest

1:12:12

environment, it's still very, there's so much

1:12:14

going on in it, I feel like,

1:12:17

and I do feel

1:12:19

like the PC version,

1:12:21

PS5 Pro version performance modes, I

1:12:24

would wager that you're gonna see

1:12:26

the image quality naturally, but maybe

1:12:29

potentially drastically just be better in

1:12:31

those, on top of running. And

1:12:33

additionally, the graphics mode benefiting from

1:12:35

that as well. And

1:12:38

I think the thing I noticed most about image

1:12:40

quality was it did look like things were a

1:12:42

little bit blurry, like the image quality is

1:12:44

a little bit blurry, is the best way to play it.

1:12:47

Closeups of characters faces from, sorry,

1:12:50

not from a closeup, but when they're

1:12:52

just running across fields or in town

1:12:54

walking, when it's not a cutscene where

1:12:56

they clearly are doing a little bit more under

1:12:58

the hood, but just like

1:13:01

natural gameplay, traversal or battle, their

1:13:03

faces and features looked a little

1:13:05

blurry. And that's what I could tell.

1:13:08

There were some moments where I walked up to

1:13:10

a texture, wasn't a door, but there was one

1:13:12

early on when I walked up to something, I

1:13:15

walked up to something and I was like, I don't think they

1:13:17

loaded the texture for that object. I

1:13:19

don't think it's there, but this is

1:13:21

very early, so maybe they will fix

1:13:23

this, so I think

1:13:25

it's okay for now. Queen's

1:13:30

Blood is one

1:13:32

of the greatest mini games in video game history.

1:13:35

Please be excited for Queen's Blood. Fort Condor,

1:13:37

is this their own, okay. Dude,

1:13:40

Fort Condor, also one of the greatest

1:13:42

mini games of all time and Queen's

1:13:44

Blood is- Is the Proto Relic just

1:13:46

Fort Condor or is it different? No,

1:13:48

it has a, I will say this,

1:13:51

it's a unique set of mini games per

1:13:53

region for that quest line. Please

1:13:56

be excited for Queen's

1:13:58

Blood. I'm definitely

1:14:01

doing a video on some Queenswood strats if

1:14:03

you need them. Okay It's

1:14:06

the best. I yeah, I'm one who

1:14:08

is just obsessed with card games first

1:14:10

up card games 10 out of 10

1:14:14

Gwent has been the gold

1:14:16

standard for so long you

1:14:19

go back and I

1:14:22

mean you could maybe say the same thing about Queens

1:14:24

of blood in like a year or so like Gwent

1:14:27

Definitely has a pretty soft

1:14:30

meta where you can really

1:14:32

take advantage of it You know the decoys

1:14:34

and the spies GG But

1:14:40

Queens blood definitely took the

1:14:42

best elements of

1:14:44

Gwent and Not

1:14:47

only has a Complex card

1:14:50

game that you can get invested in

1:14:52

for the whole duration of Final Fantasy

1:14:54

7 You can you can always go

1:14:56

back to Queens blood There's

1:15:00

just so many variety in the cards and

1:15:03

you know the missions surrounding that

1:15:05

it's it's very amazing and

1:15:07

I encourage Everyone

1:15:10

to to dive in to Queens. What

1:15:13

don't skip it. Don't skip it is

1:15:15

what I'm saying. I will Add

1:15:17

on to that all much by saying Another

1:15:20

tease about it beyond gameplay that

1:15:25

questline narratively Goes

1:15:27

places nice. I mean if it's fun to like going

1:15:29

place. I just want to say this I just want

1:15:32

to say this I just want to say I love

1:15:34

I love eight. I love eight Whatever

1:15:37

you want to interpret that to be We're

1:15:40

trying to mention something that I love and she was

1:15:42

like Tommy honey, what are you

1:15:44

doing? I was like what are you gonna make me play this

1:15:46

game? I'm like now and I'm like, okay Nice

1:15:53

Anything else that you want to

1:15:55

get into we're in our non-spoiler

1:15:57

territory, Um, it is I mean. Fuck

1:16:00

an incredible excuse my

1:16:02

language. Ah, seriously. This

1:16:05

is. The. Reason to be

1:16:08

alive. I'm not kidding.

1:16:10

This game is amazing. Everything about

1:16:13

it I say like most things

1:16:15

you know. It's. About

1:16:17

the journey, not the destination like

1:16:19

settle in there. There's gonna be

1:16:22

any time a huge game comes

1:16:24

out like this. there's this huge

1:16:26

rush and arms race to you

1:16:28

know, get through it, burn through

1:16:30

a mix of videos about it.

1:16:33

Whatever. And. I

1:16:35

say you know, take your

1:16:37

time, get invested especially considering

1:16:39

the first one was made

1:16:42

door and now we're let

1:16:44

loose just to add to

1:16:46

explore this world and to

1:16:48

partake in the multitude of

1:16:50

many games saw It really

1:16:52

encourages you. To.

1:16:55

To take a knee and take your

1:16:57

time And. To. Invest

1:16:59

not only in the scope of it. But.

1:17:02

In the intimacy. Of

1:17:04

the party so. Just

1:17:06

there's really not. There's no rush, take

1:17:08

your time and and enjoy the ride.

1:17:10

Obviously we got done on a second

1:17:12

interview that we should talk about that

1:17:15

little it to the party stuff like

1:17:17

that synergies and move. C.

1:17:20

O The bonds landlord How bonds

1:17:23

are incredible. I mean age as

1:17:25

encourages you. Are on

1:17:27

on every step of the way,

1:17:29

whether it's by player choice or

1:17:31

their choice both. They.

1:17:34

Are. Giving

1:17:36

you a character can to control.

1:17:39

To make you more invested

1:17:41

in them or your using

1:17:43

other characters in combat to.

1:17:46

Level. up one of a one

1:17:48

of their weapons you sound or maybe

1:17:51

you're locked out of choosing your party

1:17:53

so it's like hey you can use

1:17:55

these three or four people every step

1:17:57

of the way the game is guiding

1:17:59

you to use and

1:18:02

engage with every single party

1:18:04

member, and

1:18:06

it just makes everything

1:18:08

more impactful and meaningful because of it. Yeah,

1:18:13

one of the best things also

1:18:15

is the synergy, how it mechanically

1:18:17

works, because this battle system is,

1:18:20

you know, a very good battle system, but

1:18:22

I do see some people who struggle to

1:18:24

maybe grasp it at first, trying to treat

1:18:27

it like an action game, when it is

1:18:29

meant to be a modern reinterpretation of the

1:18:31

turn-based system, where you need to control, jump

1:18:34

between controlling your different characters. So synergy

1:18:36

further encourages you to do that because

1:18:38

to build up to a synergy, you

1:18:40

need to be using multiple characters to

1:18:42

build up their synergy meter. So you'll

1:18:44

see actively, like, oh, they're lacking a

1:18:46

single bar, I need to switch over

1:18:49

to them. So it's like another further

1:18:51

kind of nudge of like, hey, don't

1:18:53

forget you have other party members, and

1:18:55

they have different utilities, and they definitely

1:18:57

complement it. Like, I'll say

1:18:59

like some of the same bread and butter

1:19:01

stuff is still there. Like when you stagger

1:19:03

an enemy, you want Tifa going to town,

1:19:06

building up that, like, increasing the stagger damage.

1:19:08

Stagger master. Yeah, I

1:19:10

had that 300 plus damage, like the same way

1:19:12

in Remake, I used that same strat, and

1:19:14

like, was like thrilled that

1:19:16

it was back, but there are other ways

1:19:18

to do that now. But also, yeah, just

1:19:21

getting like Red 13, Kate

1:19:24

Sith, it is the in game, they say Kate

1:19:27

Sith, they say it multiple times, it's Kate Sith

1:19:29

in game, so, yeah. Yeah,

1:19:31

yeah. Kate

1:19:35

Sith is probably the most unique, you know,

1:19:38

controlling of them, with their mechanic. Dude, Kate

1:19:40

Sith has a drop kick, so, hardy. Dude,

1:19:43

let's go. Yeah. They

1:19:45

have like their normal, like you play

1:19:47

as them in their, like, your cat

1:19:49

form, and then they can, like one

1:19:51

of their skills, the ATB bars, summons

1:19:54

the white thing, the cat, whatever the thing

1:19:56

is, like the moogle, whatever it is, yeah,

1:19:58

below them, and then. that you can

1:20:01

like dismount and then remount. It's like,

1:20:03

oh crap, like this is

1:20:05

a weird, it was so weird at

1:20:07

first, but like, I was like, this

1:20:09

feels way different than anything else I

1:20:12

was playing, which is like just great that

1:20:14

all of them feel different like that. And

1:20:16

then like, like red 13

1:20:18

with like their, their kind of like vengeance

1:20:20

meter where they have these skills that can

1:20:22

be unleashed when they activate it. And then

1:20:25

they'll get skills that will like, they

1:20:28

buff or unlock or do something on like

1:20:30

Walt revenge or sorry, revenge. I wanted to

1:20:32

see revenge. There's

1:20:35

no revenge. There we go.

1:20:38

Final three, Final Fantasy seven, revenge. They

1:20:42

call it that. But no, but

1:20:45

yes, I mean, they like just stuff like that

1:20:47

where they're just encouraged you to play as the,

1:20:49

you know, the different characters. It's, you know, the

1:20:52

point was like felt bad. I was like, I've been

1:20:54

like using this party for a while. I want to

1:20:56

like change it up. Like let's get someone else

1:20:58

in there. Yeah. Definitely felt

1:21:00

like that need, but also the

1:21:02

game does a very good job of

1:21:04

kind of in certain points, you're

1:21:06

making you mixed up. You don't have a choice

1:21:08

at some points. And at some points you will

1:21:10

be thrown with different groups of people. So like

1:21:13

kind of like, you know, that's kind of like

1:21:15

the guiding tutorial part in some areas where it's

1:21:17

like, try out this composition, see

1:21:19

how it plays. Oh, as the story dictates. So

1:21:21

I think they did a good balancing. There was

1:21:23

never a part where I was like, God damn,

1:21:25

I don't have this character. He's like, shit.

1:21:28

It's like, Oh no, I get to maybe I

1:21:30

haven't used this combination before. Let's, let's try it

1:21:32

out. But I did think about you a

1:21:35

couple of times because we famously

1:21:39

in my brain, at least famously

1:21:41

in my reality,

1:21:44

we always talked about the Witcher

1:21:46

three side quests. Yeah. And how I just,

1:21:48

I was like, dude, I gotta do them

1:21:50

all. Right. And you were

1:21:52

like, no, if it doesn't feel right to like grind

1:21:54

all those out, just like naturally

1:21:57

feel it out. You got to move on. Like

1:21:59

you're not. They're there for

1:22:02

access, but you're not supposed to

1:22:04

do all of them

1:22:06

and like that's a nice That's a fun video

1:22:08

game debate. It's like if all this content is

1:22:10

here Are you supposed to do it all or

1:22:12

is it all here for you to

1:22:14

engage with on like an RP? Level

1:22:17

for what feels right you go somewhere, and there's

1:22:19

there is something to do, but that doesn't necessarily

1:22:21

mean you have to go everywhere I

1:22:24

still think about this blood mm-hmm. I will

1:22:26

say for

1:22:28

Final Fantasy 7 rebirth, and I did look at

1:22:30

you know some of the reviews and some of

1:22:32

the takes of it was that some

1:22:36

of the Repeated open world

1:22:38

activities can be a little fatiguing

1:22:40

mm-hmm. Yeah, and if there's one

1:22:43

thing Only one

1:22:46

that I'll criticize about Final Fantasy 7

1:22:48

rebirth. It would probably be that I

1:22:50

play a lot of open world games

1:22:52

and like it is really hard to

1:22:54

get that balance of focused High

1:22:59

stakes momentum for the storyline in an

1:23:01

open world versus like okay Let me

1:23:03

you know hey the world's ending, but

1:23:05

let me go do you know

1:23:07

20 side quests type thing

1:23:10

There are a lot of

1:23:13

points of interest that you kind of do throughout

1:23:15

each Zone you get

1:23:17

to so like you know that

1:23:21

Did get a little fatiguing

1:23:23

but also on the flip

1:23:25

side it always felt rewarding

1:23:28

So it's kind of this give-and-take of like all right. We

1:23:30

have the open world distractions

1:23:33

and the payoffs

1:23:35

and XP and the story stuff is

1:23:37

fun, but also like before

1:23:40

moving on to the main quest I'm doing

1:23:42

a lot of these like it's giving me

1:23:44

access to so many if maybe

1:23:46

it gave me access to like a

1:23:49

little bit and Then

1:23:51

story mission and then back to more access that

1:23:53

would have been a little better instead of like

1:23:55

all right Here's like no joke

1:23:57

10 plus hours of optional

1:24:00

The the have on. A.

1:24:02

It did feel a little. Kind

1:24:05

of. Disappointing. With pace depending

1:24:07

on how you play that yeah, you

1:24:09

know, like I could just move on

1:24:11

when it feels right and that's that's

1:24:13

that. But I I'm always you know,

1:24:15

enticed to. Be. A completion as to

1:24:17

when it comes to. Specific.

1:24:19

Side quests. That kind of story.

1:24:22

So this. Is one that's

1:24:25

literally the only. The only maybe criticism

1:24:27

I have this ten on it's and

1:24:29

videogame. Smith. Done

1:24:34

Anything to add a zoo is a recent she

1:24:36

move on and save the rest for another time.

1:24:39

Death. Please hurry up and bolland

1:24:42

our baby know we could talk about

1:24:44

Spoilers oil I rode her her her

1:24:46

weight that yeah please I need to

1:24:48

talk to some people about some stuff

1:24:50

from a very pleased to know your

1:24:52

the Emmy to net zo her. Absolutely.

1:24:58

Swell. I guess. Speaking of spoilers, zebra

1:25:00

apparently consider this existence of Israel Oilers.

1:25:02

Well what about? it's too late now.

1:25:04

Yeah, lots. it. Of

1:25:06

the elder ring. Finally,

1:25:09

Got it? a trailer for the thing shadow

1:25:11

the urge rape. Put that thing on there.

1:25:14

Ah, Are. An army coming in

1:25:16

as little I've watched chatting them zero and

1:25:18

twenty first with having for Damiani was giggling

1:25:21

about whatever the other June twenty for us

1:25:23

because I have as much as essence he

1:25:25

vengeance of case doesn't If I ventured audit

1:25:28

I know that I would you would do

1:25:30

We knew this was gonna be the deal

1:25:32

see. Yeah. We knew that

1:25:34

the mix Mccullough. Idea.

1:25:37

My mouth and mode though make us by

1:25:40

area waivers. Alec me as out again and

1:25:42

I make it more obvious. Thank you for

1:25:44

half Ass! I see it. it. I

1:25:47

mean what scare everyone? Everyone

1:25:49

knows, everyone knew. Yeah.

1:25:52

Guides. It's interesting that they're like

1:25:54

outside of the trailer though He:

1:25:56

there's almost no information. Like.

1:25:59

barriers physics video game on

1:26:02

the website it just it just

1:26:04

has like it's all it looks almost like a poem

1:26:06

it's like the land of shadow

1:26:09

a place obscured by the erd

1:26:11

tree where the goddess America first

1:26:13

set foot a land

1:26:15

purged in an unsung battle set

1:26:17

ablaze by mesmerous flame it

1:26:20

was to this land that Mikkola departed

1:26:22

divesting himself of his flesh his

1:26:25

strength his lineage of

1:26:28

all things golden and

1:26:30

now Mikkola awaits the return

1:26:32

of his promised Lord so I

1:26:39

will just say I will just

1:26:42

say that from

1:26:45

software DLC is

1:26:49

the best in the biz like

1:26:51

rate up artorias of the best

1:26:54

yeah like sometimes the old hunters

1:26:56

games dude the the freaking

1:26:58

Dark Souls dark oh my god

1:27:01

get out of town dude seriously

1:27:05

every single from software DLC

1:27:07

has been a legitimate 10

1:27:09

out of 10 for a

1:27:11

DLC you cannot get better

1:27:13

so considering how long

1:27:16

this has taken considering

1:27:18

what they just the only thing I really saw was they

1:27:20

were like yeah it's our biggest by

1:27:23

volume right you know coming off

1:27:25

of goatee Elden ring

1:27:27

I mean this is

1:27:31

gonna be it's hilarious and

1:27:33

I'm not kidding when I say that this

1:27:35

DLC will be 2024 game

1:27:39

of the year levels of quality straight

1:27:41

up this will be one of the best possible

1:27:44

things you can play in 2024 100%

1:27:46

I don't think you're wrong $40

1:27:48

yeah I

1:27:57

yeah sorry I mean

1:28:00

$40 for $39.99 US dollars? Yeah

1:28:07

Because of that price tag. I think this is like

1:28:10

Go even bigger Huber Yeah

1:28:14

Yeah, okay. I mean they also

1:28:17

know they're worth they know where yeah, Gabi

1:28:19

Adi. I was gonna say like They've

1:28:22

earned it so I'm not pissed.

1:28:24

I'm just shocked Like

1:28:26

what? That is wild they

1:28:28

even have like above that too You know they

1:28:31

have they like this the special edition and the

1:28:33

collector's edition with the stats doing all that for

1:28:35

the for DLC Oh my

1:28:37

god, I mean

1:28:39

again they haven't missed with their

1:28:41

DLCs. They have not missed once

1:28:44

so and And

1:28:47

just the base game as well. So

1:28:49

when you look at you know, their

1:28:51

history and and everything I had

1:28:57

They've earned it. I guess like Wow $40

1:29:00

holy crap so that Considering

1:29:03

they said it was the biggest two. I bet this is like

1:29:08

20 30 hours. Yeah, I'm not

1:29:10

not surprised. Yeah, like a little game Wow

1:29:16

Damiani you played a lot

1:29:18

of Elden Ring yourself. What do

1:29:20

you think in here with this craziness? I forgot

1:29:23

in so much Elden Ring Watching

1:29:26

this trailer. It's like like oh my god.

1:29:28

I forgot like I was like that area

1:29:30

like I forgot that existed I was like

1:29:32

I'm forgetting names, but I

1:29:34

mean the name that they're saying for

1:29:36

the impaler whatever their name is. It's like

1:29:40

That and then the interview with

1:29:42

Miyazaki about hey remember Millennia

1:29:44

and that boss fight how drove you insane

1:29:47

might be able to like spec something like

1:29:49

that. I'm like, it's this It's gonna be

1:29:51

this dude like this. Sorry. They're gonna be

1:29:54

like Wrecking

1:29:56

you like I'm just like Shuttering

1:29:58

at the thought of Like having to

1:30:00

go through this again. It's like oh, I thought

1:30:03

that was like one per one perform soft game

1:30:05

It's like one one that was like this destroys

1:30:07

you destroys you more than anything You get over

1:30:09

that hump and it's like it's like everything else

1:30:12

this game is not so bad anymore And

1:30:14

but like see but we go back to them

1:30:16

like oh, they still kind of so

1:30:19

bastard this Huber like

1:30:22

just with like like like the spears

1:30:24

of almost like you we're getting destroyed

1:30:26

or like red hair It's just like

1:30:28

triggering. It's like no long Again

1:30:32

turning around dummy turning

1:30:35

around Multiple yeah, I was

1:30:37

like what's that face? What's that? She

1:30:42

had all the likes like the sword spinning

1:30:44

like anime style like it hits you like

1:30:46

if you don't roll the right way like

1:30:48

Catches you and everything for you. It's called

1:30:50

like what's this version of that gonna be? It's

1:30:52

like what drag goon jump that you can't dodge

1:30:54

like one shot. See you I will say I

1:30:56

trained I'm

1:30:58

trained by from software themselves so hard

1:31:02

from Artorias of abyss to

1:31:04

never Go

1:31:06

to new game plus ever in a souls

1:31:08

game until the DLC is out hmm ever

1:31:11

Okay, so many of those DLC is is

1:31:14

like you need to be you know 60%

1:31:17

of the way through the game to have access

1:31:19

to oh yeah in this specific item so

1:31:21

like I beat Elden ring Fully

1:31:25

and was like okay. I'm gonna wait for the DLC thinking

1:31:27

it was gonna be in like Six

1:31:29

months. Yeah, you know here. We are I still

1:31:31

got my Completed game

1:31:34

ready to go. I'm locked and loaded

1:31:36

so Ready

1:31:39

to fly dude unreal I

1:31:42

It's always hard to Dami on e

1:31:45

is to switch weapons in

1:31:47

a from software deal Cuz they always

1:31:49

add the sickest things, but it's like you

1:31:51

know they look sick Yeah, my heavy brick

1:31:53

hammer is plus 10. I'm not switching that

1:31:55

out. They were showing like a machine gun

1:32:00

I want to get a mole, but like I don't you crush

1:32:02

it Dude

1:32:04

I want to go melee monk and it's

1:32:06

like punch the shit out of people like

1:32:09

your melee combo them Yeah, it's like dashed

1:32:11

to them and like roundhouse kicked them away

1:32:13

like dude if I get dashed back and

1:32:15

forth like let's go like

1:32:18

Uppercut fish every single boss give

1:32:20

me some sick like teleport dash

1:32:23

dude. It's over You

1:32:27

Know you're stamina. Yeah, you know to get

1:32:29

away. Oh man,

1:32:32

yeah Yeah, Dodie. I've

1:32:34

just Yeah, this

1:32:37

this year this year Good

1:32:39

stuff this year. We'll be debating

1:32:41

Final Fantasy 7 versus I

1:32:44

mean a lot of people Like

1:32:47

really treated Phantom Liberty

1:32:50

like yeah new game. It's true You know

1:32:52

like yeah, this expansion is just its own

1:32:54

story all of this But you know of

1:32:56

that did need to have the base game

1:32:59

though same with this for sure I played

1:33:01

it I didn't play Phantom Liberty, but I

1:33:03

played cyberpunk just a year before Unfortunately,

1:33:06

I waited so long I feel

1:33:08

like some of the Phantom Liberty hype was because people played

1:33:10

it at launch and then played it

1:33:12

or didn't play it at All so they were

1:33:14

coming in at it from like yo, this is

1:33:17

a completely new game fully because they hadn't

1:33:19

played it in so long I mean Elden Ring came

1:33:21

and it was Already at 10 No

1:33:26

Might be a little different this time around but I know

1:33:28

exactly what you're saying. Yeah well,

1:33:31

or even you know, like You

1:33:35

know the 14 Expansions, you

1:33:37

know a lot of times those get

1:33:39

treated essentially like totally, you know a

1:33:41

new game essentially. Yeah In

1:33:44

terms of how people are giving out awards and

1:33:46

looking at them and all of that One of

1:33:48

these days Damiani 14 will be our Godi Let's

1:33:55

let's roll a trailer for for

1:33:58

ultras here I didn't for

1:34:00

this little guy. Yeah, you are. And it turned

1:34:02

out to not be so little. They've told me

1:34:04

it's gonna be like 10 to 15 hours. You're

1:34:08

30 hours deep. I'm further than 30

1:34:10

hours deep. Oh my God. Yeah. And

1:34:14

I like Metroidvanias. And

1:34:16

there's some interesting things going on. Art

1:34:18

style from El Huervo, Hotline

1:34:21

Miami guy. Nice. And

1:34:24

it looks like when you first start playing,

1:34:26

eventually you adjust to

1:34:28

it. When you first start playing, the amount of colors

1:34:30

is just like wild. It's like, my

1:34:32

eyes can't handle all of this. It

1:34:34

looks like a blacklight poster.

1:34:40

Definitely plays best on drugs. For

1:34:42

sure. No, I don't think so. But

1:34:45

it does have that

1:34:47

sort of air of mystery in it

1:34:52

towards like you start off, you're just dropped

1:34:54

in here, you find

1:34:57

some ghost essentially. It

1:34:59

seems like, you're not even sure, like, because you see

1:35:01

the guy's body, but then he's also like there floating

1:35:03

around talking to you. And you take the sword out

1:35:05

of his body and that's how you get a sword.

1:35:08

But you know, it's like one of those kinds of things. Like,

1:35:10

you know, you start with nothing and you

1:35:12

figure out what you can do, how

1:35:15

all the mechanics and stuff are. And,

1:35:18

you know, I don't know if you could

1:35:20

tell in their humor, it's a very, I

1:35:23

wrote down juicy bursts. Yeah,

1:35:25

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Like a lot of

1:35:27

times when you kill enemies. Every kill looks awesome. You

1:35:29

know, like there's just like blood

1:35:32

everywhere or whatever. Thank you. And

1:35:35

the combat

1:35:38

mechanics, they

1:35:41

really emphasize variety.

1:35:46

So when you're fighting an enemy, you,

1:35:49

when you kill them, you

1:35:53

get like essentially food out of them.

1:35:55

Nice. And depending

1:35:58

on how they. your attacks

1:36:00

are you will either get

1:36:03

like a prime rib or you'll get like

1:36:05

a bloody pulp huh of Stuff

1:36:08

and so if you mash them out pop pop pop

1:36:10

pop pop pop pop up bloody pulp right?

1:36:12

But if you use a bunch of your

1:36:15

move Yeah, if you like dodge behind them

1:36:17

backstab do some double kicks and you know

1:36:20

Uppercut here and there and then yeah, then

1:36:22

you'll get like a prime move or prime

1:36:26

Prime quality meat sometimes bloodwurst when a game

1:36:28

forces me to play a very specific way.

1:36:30

I get a little bummed out when

1:36:33

it's like yo use all these flashy

1:36:35

moves when really The

1:36:37

most efficient way would be to just grind

1:36:40

the thing into a bloody pulp But

1:36:43

I think there's a lot of it where It

1:36:47

generally isn't either like a lot of them have

1:36:49

like a forward guard and so like you do

1:36:51

need to okay Sometimes make that

1:36:53

little slip behind them and and get a

1:36:55

backstab or whatever got it So

1:36:58

now here's I have to like really

1:37:00

be careful about how Deep I

1:37:02

get into this stuff because it gets deep and then and

1:37:04

there's a lot that like I think that People

1:37:06

are gonna want to discover on their own The

1:37:11

so one of the things now

1:37:13

with that meat is

1:37:16

that you have a skill tree that they basically

1:37:18

refer to it as your cortex so

1:37:20

when you you're you're

1:37:23

acquiring skills is essentially that

1:37:28

You get nutrition from eating

1:37:31

meats and fruits and

1:37:33

then when you have enough nutrition Then

1:37:36

you can unlock this certain

1:37:39

spot on a skill tree. So it might be This

1:37:42

high jump towards like oh you jump and then you jump

1:37:45

again and you the second jump is higher or it might

1:37:47

be The

1:37:49

backstab or stealth kill or whatever like that

1:37:51

or it might be that you have more

1:37:53

health or whatever But there's like this web

1:37:56

of skills and like a fog of

1:37:59

war with them So it's like

1:38:01

you don't know what's up there until you get this thing

1:38:03

and then it branches off and like okay And then what's

1:38:05

over here? What's on the side? It's going through your skill

1:38:07

tree now Huber Without

1:38:12

getting too too deep into it when

1:38:15

you do cook when you complete certain

1:38:17

objectives This

1:38:19

guy is like okay these these shamans out there. They're

1:38:21

bad dudes. You got to go kill them all right

1:38:23

Oh, it's what he tells you from the get-go. Can

1:38:25

we trust this person? That's

1:38:28

your question. Well one of your question. Can you

1:38:30

trust this person? I don't know there's other characters

1:38:32

you come across. Do you trust them? Do you

1:38:34

fight them? You know so you

1:38:36

have these these kinds of things that happen throughout

1:38:38

the game that we were just exploring and stuff

1:38:40

and you get into an area and there's a

1:38:43

character there and Maybe

1:38:46

you know this person is

1:38:48

training you and maybe you fight

1:38:50

them. Maybe you don't There's a little

1:38:53

interesting things that happen there Anyways,

1:38:55

but when you kill one

1:38:58

of these shaman guys You'll

1:39:01

get there'll be upgrades that you get That

1:39:04

are are like meaningful like again like

1:39:06

Metroidvania like this thing does it like

1:39:08

this is a thing that's essentially serves

1:39:11

It's like a jetpack nice so it's

1:39:13

like if you're in like this yellow

1:39:15

goo you can jetpack and Fly

1:39:18

up into the air and then but after you're out of the

1:39:20

yellow goo for too long Then it like runs out of juice

1:39:22

that kind of thing That's one of the things

1:39:24

that I can talk about a little bit more easily but

1:39:27

when you kill one of those guys and You

1:39:33

get back to the center where Ultros

1:39:35

is Ultros

1:39:38

basically escapes and You

1:39:42

go into like this you trigger like this time

1:39:44

loop thing and so

1:39:47

the time loop Those

1:39:49

skill trees that you unlock time loops are in

1:39:51

this year through It's

1:39:54

weird though because it Mechanically,

1:39:56

it's it's interesting. So those

1:39:58

skills that you unlocked All

1:40:01

gone. Whoa. Every loop you

1:40:03

have to unlock skills again. However, if you

1:40:06

explore, there are also these brain things.

1:40:09

No light. And so

1:40:11

you can lock in the skills. Lock

1:40:14

it in.

1:40:17

And so then, with enough

1:40:20

of those, eventually you don't

1:40:23

necessarily have to keep going through and unlocking

1:40:25

them over and over again. So

1:40:27

it's interesting how these things play out. Sweet. Another

1:40:31

interesting thing about that time loop is so

1:40:34

it resets you. It resets

1:40:36

other characters. However,

1:40:40

there are other parts of the world that

1:40:43

don't reset. So

1:40:45

one of the things that you do in

1:40:47

this game is you take seeds and you

1:40:49

plant them in fertile soil. Oh, yeah. We've

1:40:51

seen that. And these plants grow. And

1:40:53

the first basic plant is just like a tree. It's

1:40:57

got a trunk and then eventually it grows like

1:40:59

a canopy. And then you can use that as

1:41:01

a platform. Nice. And so

1:41:05

the loop, going through a loop,

1:41:07

actually gives those

1:41:10

plants time to grow and

1:41:12

get bigger. And

1:41:15

so if there's a tree that lets you

1:41:17

get up to the ear, now it grows

1:41:20

and now you can get higher up than

1:41:22

you could before. And there's

1:41:24

all kinds of different plants. It might

1:41:26

be like 10 different plants, eight to 10

1:41:28

different plants, something like that. Do you get to

1:41:31

choose which tree you plant or is it automatic? Basically,

1:41:34

you have to find seeds and

1:41:36

then you choose where to plant them. Very

1:41:38

cool. Yeah. And

1:41:41

so and then you learn throughout

1:41:43

the game, just experimentation.

1:41:45

It's like, okay, what does

1:41:47

this plant even do? How does this plant

1:41:49

grow? How does that benefit me? Like, how

1:41:52

do these things work? And

1:41:54

it is actually an incredibly substantial part

1:41:56

of this game is growing plants. And I know that

1:41:58

sounds weird, but that's part of it. Part of the reason

1:42:00

it ends up becoming

1:42:02

so obsessive is your

1:42:05

mix of this exploration and

1:42:07

then figuring out what can I do

1:42:09

with these plants? How can I use them

1:42:11

and all of that? And

1:42:14

then part of it is that

1:42:16

some of these mechanics can be

1:42:18

a little finicky. And

1:42:20

so it's like sometimes I am burning

1:42:23

a lot of time just

1:42:25

trying to like, I want this plant

1:42:27

to grow this way. And

1:42:29

sort of like, I need it to

1:42:31

go over here, how do I get it over here? There's

1:42:34

things where you can like take a

1:42:37

snippet off of one plant and

1:42:39

graft it onto another plant. And so you

1:42:41

can kind of do that to like sort

1:42:43

of create stairs for yourself in certain areas

1:42:45

and stuff like that. And

1:42:48

sometimes I would be

1:42:51

messing around with that and I would do something and then all

1:42:53

of a sudden I'm like, oh, I just broke

1:42:56

that thing that I just spent all this time

1:42:58

trying to craft. And now I'm like, oh,

1:43:00

do I start over? Yeah.

1:43:04

So lots of interesting crazy stuff like

1:43:06

that. And

1:43:09

then there are mechanics that again, sort

1:43:11

of like a Souls game, like you talk to

1:43:14

somebody, they tell you

1:43:16

about a thing, but because of

1:43:18

the time progression stuff, I

1:43:20

just didn't necessarily always connect the

1:43:23

dots. And so

1:43:25

there were things that I was like, all right, I

1:43:27

want to hunt like with any Metroidvania, like I want

1:43:29

100% this freaking map. And

1:43:31

I'm like, I don't, I don't know how to

1:43:33

get there because to get there

1:43:36

I need something else and

1:43:38

I don't know how to make this work. But

1:43:41

I like, okay, but now I've beaten the game

1:43:43

and I still can't get there. So what the

1:43:45

heck people? And

1:43:47

it like, Huber, no joke. It

1:43:50

wasn't until I had

1:43:53

finished the game and I had

1:43:55

gotten to Vegas and it was like looking through

1:43:57

my footage. before

1:44:00

before I was like had gone to dice I had like

1:44:02

extra time and I was like looking through footage and

1:44:05

I saw Something in a

1:44:07

part that I you know, I remembered from playing

1:44:09

it recently and I saw something From

1:44:12

when I first encountered it and I'm like, oh

1:44:15

crap There

1:44:18

was a whole mechanic that's pretty bad there's a whole freaking

1:44:20

mechanic that I would just Revelation

1:44:22

missing right and there's

1:44:24

so there's stuff in here like that And

1:44:28

even like some of the stuff that I

1:44:30

think is actually Incredibly important to seeing everything

1:44:32

that this game has to offer That

1:44:36

I kind of stumbled on by

1:44:38

accident and it's like oh, oh,

1:44:40

this is a whole this this completely Creates

1:44:44

a whole other dimension to how I'm going

1:44:46

to play this game now and and put

1:44:48

the whole other layer all across the whole

1:44:50

map Wow Yeah,

1:44:54