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Hello, I am Daniel Bloodworth,

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we are Easy Allies and

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this is the Easy Allies

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Podcast. This

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week I am joined by Isla Hink. Hi!

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Michael Huber. He's beginning to believe. He's

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beginning to gun-brel. Michael

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Damihani. The

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Matrix has you, Neo. Yes,

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dude. And making it all

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happen in the control room, we've got Don

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Casanova. Hello. And

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Gabby, back there watching us. You

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don't remember that line from The Matrix, Isla? I

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do, it's on the monitor right before it says

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The Matrix has you. It says

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knock knock Neo. Friends,

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

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and what we've been playing. Did

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you come up with that, Blood? That's my favorite thing, by the

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way. That's really good. That's my number one. That

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is like as good or

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better than anything Bossman ever did or

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said on the podcast.

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He would be jealous of that. Okay.

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Like 85% of everything he did,

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right? Sure. 85%

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of what Bossman did on this podcast was a 10 out of 10. The

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other 5% was a 4. Or

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whatever the fuck it was you were saying. Insane

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humor, Matt. This week

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we got a new look at Star Wars

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Outlaws and some more news

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and impressions from that. There's

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a whole lot of cool

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stuff shown at the Triple

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Eye Initiative, including that rumored

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Prince of Persia roguelike. Yeah.

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Darkest Dungeon Blood Wars. Yes,

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we got that too. Ayla's

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been playing Children of the Sun. I

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have. You just put a little bit of

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time into save your list. Just a sample, but

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more importantly We finally got

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him Bellatro

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Bellatro according to the trailer

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Trailer and I was like wait a sec

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what yeah, I'm getting loud on the horn.

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Yeah. Yeah Ballotro ballotro. That's

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a Mario. Yeah, I like a

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lot. You know it's a lot

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better. Yeah looking it up It seemed

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like Bellatro seems like it should be fine. Yeah,

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I don't know If

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people pronounce that Bellatro would have gotten

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10% fewer I agree. I'm not even

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kidding. I believe

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it So yeah, let's

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go ahead and roll that I would I'd

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score it lower. Yeah, if I found out

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it down a point Yeah, Ballotro. Yeah, get

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out of town So

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Star Wars outlaws is launching August 30th big.

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Yeah, that's the biggest news. We have a

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date. Yeah, I'll get 30. Yes All

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right a second half game. Yeah, and Then

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it's a Ubisoft Star Wars game

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from massive massive, baby Make

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the division to me Right

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now it used to be Ubisoft Montreal was

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the a-team Okay, and then maybe like Ubisoft

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Quebec was right there massive massive

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to me is a plus for sure

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What do you think of this trailer here? I? liked

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it um I Liked

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it I Like all

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of the characters though except the

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main character. Oh, I'm not

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super sold on her yet. Why not?

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Uh just she's got like the a

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little bit of the Marvel quirk Just

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kind of like the the scoundrel

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Character just just the classic

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archetype. I mean in Star

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Wars scoundrel is the argument. Yeah, exactly exactly,

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so I need I need a little bit more of her, but I I

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I'm excited Guess

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too cuz I really like the huts

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and like the criminal element so

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like all the other characters They look like

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really really awesome the aliens look phenomenal they

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do and I'm like that makes it hard

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for any human character Yeah, and my main

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man job is there yeah, so hyped Just

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to do missions for the hot Like

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the quality of her model looks lower

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than that But then you're right like she's

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competing with with things that can

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just have glossy textures and like that are

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just that look better Yeah, right Some

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of this yeah this shot here too with the jumping

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over the roof It was like a

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little weird and stiff looking like it didn't

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connect fully But I know

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we've seen just like gameplay demo before was better Yeah,

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but her in the ship I think looks a lot

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better than some of the other shots So like I

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think some of the some of what people were pointing

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out is like some of this stuff is like lighting

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issues Even weird lighting sometimes

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and the trailer was doing a lot of

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heavy lifting on the whole cast and the

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whole premise and So

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much other stuff where it's like yeah She's

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the main character, but also in this trailer

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it didn't like fully go into her and

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what she's all about So

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I need to I need to like you know

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dive into that obviously when I also wonder if

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you can customize her hair and

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her outfits and stuff and that might That

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could be part of why like lighting hits her

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a little different because it's like I think you

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can do her outfit I don't know about her

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hair for sure Hmm Got

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us all spoiled. Yeah, well, I'll test this

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on show. Oh, yeah. Yeah the ton of

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different hairstyles and stuff. Yeah Yeah,

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yeah, I am excited

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we are coming off of Some

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excellent Star Wars games as of late Some

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pretty good shows as well like Star Wars is

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I feel like kind of on the rise a

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little bit again post Palpatine

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somehow returning um

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and I Love

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the premise because I always love the guy as I

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said, I'm I'd love a job at the heart. I

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love the criminal Organized crime

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like underbelly side of Star Wars

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the most yeah like the Imperials

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and the rebels and the Jedi's

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I like way less than the

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cartels So I'm

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excited just for the basic premise, and then I

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just love what massive is done division two is

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Incredible I love the division two and

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they supported that game for so long

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It's just it was it was like my most

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played game that year when it came out I

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put like 200 hours in the division two I

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didn't even know how I did it it was

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just so addicting and the gameplay loop was so

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fun And then of course

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Don will speak to avatar. You

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know they're coming off of of avatar So

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I think they're they're primed right now

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with licensed games Yeah, and

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open world games as well. Yeah, I'm mostly

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looking forward to just getting out and exploring

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yeah And zooming around and

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going through cities and stuff mm-hmm Some

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of the things that they brought up with this Basically

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the setup is that like there's this one

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crime boss named like sclero weird name.

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Yeah, what a Star Wars? and

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so You're trying to like

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form the alliances with these cartels so you can

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basically like it sounds like you're pulling

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off the ultimate heist So

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they're like he basically doesn't have any

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money to pay your bounty Yeah,

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that's awesome the premise is It's

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uh I always get confused so I made

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sure to look it up 15 times I

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never know when the hell because every single

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Star Wars thing is in between two other

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Star Wars they cow Yeah, which is in

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between power. It's in between Empire and the

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Jedi Jabba

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ain't dead. It's before Jedi. Yeah. Yeah, they

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were playing the hits on that yeah Locations

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will show up at some point. I'll

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be honest. I'm afraid of like Luke

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or Han and yeah, I'll gonna fly

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by It's

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gotten to the point with Star Wars where and

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or is my favorite Star War maybe ever And

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I love the original trilogy,

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but it's gotten to the point where

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I dread a Jedi showing up. Like, I

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don't want to see a lightsaber. Unless it's

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Cal Kestis. Sure. Cal

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Kestis is a... Yeah, that would be wild. I will

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die. I will die. Is

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that time period right? Yeah, that could work.

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It could happen. It's some years after, but

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yeah. It'd be like nine or so years

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later, I believe, was the number. So I'd

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be okay with that, but like, or BD-1

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showing up. You'd think. Which

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I think he did in something else, but like, yeah.

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Yeah, some of the locations, which I'll be honest, like,

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I don't know Star Wars rule enough to like, recognize

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most of these. Tatooine, baby, we're going back. Tatooine is

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there. They've got that for

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sure. Kanto Bight. Oh, okay.

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Uh, Kijimi? Akiva? I

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know there's some new ones. Akiva sounds familiar.

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And then the new one is Toshara,

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which is a savannah-like planet that they

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came up with. Great. Okay.

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Yeah. I need to

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see more of the open world stuff because this

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was just a story trailer because that, you

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know, you throw, you throw

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Ubisoft and open world into the

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same sentence and sometimes it can

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be a little concerning. You

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know, the bloat, the

9:15

repetition, you know, they're, they're very

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guilty of that. Well, that's one of the things

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that's interesting about this because so Brian Shea from

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Game Informer, he got to do a hands-on preview.

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Yeah. He was trying to play for a little bit.

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And he was talking about the city

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in Toshara called

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Miragana. The devs are

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saying that they made it more dense and

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compact. So you have a lot of activities

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in a smaller space rather than

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just wandering around a bunch of empty streets, trying to

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see if there's anything there or not. Yeah.

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Division two. Sorry. I was just going to say,

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like, if this game is like for a normal

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play through, like not trying to be a completionist,

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but not speed running it. Like if it's like

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22 hours. Yeah. I'd

9:55

be like 20 to 50 completely. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Shout out

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to Division's world building.

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They're so good at that. So

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that is also something I'm looking

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forward to doing this hopefully, is

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carrying that world building over just

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environmental storytelling, really good documents

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and cutscenes and mission structure to lend itself

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to the narrative. Like they're really good at

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that. Did you hear about this reputation system

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though? No. So this is what's crazy. So

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there's four main crime syndicates there, right? You

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got the pikes and the huts. I'm all

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in with the huts. I will

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betray everyone for the huts. You

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gain and lose reputation with them based

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on different things. Oh yeah, a huts.

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And one of the things is like, because

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you're all a bunch of scumbags, they

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know that sometimes you're going to do something that

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crosses them, but

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they might still end up working with you

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later because mutually beneficial or whatever. It's a

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hive of scum and villains. One of the

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things that they're saying is that like, when

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you're like in a mission inside

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of enemy territory, like that's

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one of the things where stealth matters. Because

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if you get through stealthily and they never

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knew it was you, then

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your reputation doesn't make it. That's cool.

11:12

But then if you start getting into

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firefights and stuff, then you might be

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on their bad side. That

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makes sense. I love

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that. That is

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very encouraging. Yeah,

11:25

because that's always annoying in a game where it's like,

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you like do a crime or

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whatever and then like, they

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immediately just know it was you and you're

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like, how do you know that? Yeah, I'm

11:36

wearing a full mask. Like no one saw

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me. Yeah, exactly. Another

11:41

thing that they were talking about that's kind

11:43

of cool with the infiltrations is that, you

11:46

know, because she's got her blaster,

11:48

right? Right. But

11:51

you can pick up a lot of enemy weapons that drop or have

11:53

your little pet nicks

11:56

run out and get stuff for you. But

11:59

if like, if you... Pick up an enemy weapon like

12:02

it's a more powerful weapon, but you can only use it

12:04

until it runs out of ammo Right cuz

12:06

you're not just running around with piles of every

12:08

kind of ammo on yeah, that's cool I'm gonna

12:10

be awesome playing without a Star Wars game without

12:12

a lightsaber. I feel like it's been a very

12:16

long time Since I

12:18

ran around in a Star Wars game, you know,

12:20

obviously there's a lot of taking that more kind

12:22

of deliberate like Almost deus

12:24

exer like we have to be like kind

12:27

of intentional about how you're going into these

12:29

places Yeah, actually manage your ammo

12:31

and stuff like that. That'd be pretty cool. And

12:33

they were saying too with that is Adventurer

12:37

survival making decisions on what to do with

12:39

stuff so that like the one base that

12:41

he went through He

12:43

stole this surveillance footage and

12:45

it's like and I guess it showed like

12:48

Someone like betraying that crime boss or

12:50

whatever and it's like you

12:52

can either give it Like to that

12:54

faction or you can sell it to the other

12:57

faction that sent you You know,

12:59

and so again, it's like whose reputation

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do you want to raise right

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now? I am gonna be the

13:05

huts most lethal and ruthless enforcer.

13:07

The galaxy has ever known bloodwurst.

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Let's go And

13:19

Brian also like the way the speeder bike

13:21

felt You got the right speeder bike a

13:23

little bit sweet. So any

13:25

word on ship combat? I know it's in this

13:27

game and the idea in there about we haven't

13:30

like I don't think you got to

13:32

play it I feel like I feel

13:34

like Star Wars and like ship

13:36

combat have been so separate

13:39

for so long obviously we have Star

13:41

Wars Battlefront which had both but like

13:45

Multiplayer quadrants little different been a

13:47

while since the quadrant was just

13:49

ship combat I mean the

13:51

idea of being on a planet

13:53

open world riding around doing whatever

13:56

and then flying into space. I

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Want to see how all that? Yeah plays out

14:01

which is a good time to ping down. He

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only because I know he likes that. Yeah, I

14:05

don't be on Are you thinking ping? Hmm

14:10

Star Wars fatigue hitting him hard.

14:12

Yeah, he's Yeah, like

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I'm sorry. I can't get I

14:16

can't get excited about Star Wars I'm

14:19

I'm I think this game will be good and I think

14:22

I'll enjoy playing it and I do want to play it

14:24

but Yeah,

14:26

I mean I actually didn't get I just watched

14:28

the trailer as you guys were playing it cuz

14:30

I just been kind of too busy To see

14:32

it and watching it like has cool

14:34

scenes It's like how do I don't know if

14:36

there's gameplay that a company is it but how

14:38

does it how's it gonna play?

14:40

I know you're describing it from the preview that

14:42

they got hands-on with but Yeah,

14:45

I don't know like I didn't I haven't

14:47

played the division like I didn't play avatar

14:49

So like I don't know their work. So

14:51

like personally so I don't have that level

14:53

of trust and I

14:55

know you're speaking highly of it Huber, but

14:58

there been so many times They've been Star Wars

15:00

premises that look cool Like the trailers make it

15:02

look cool and that does not You

15:05

know pan out when you get your hands on it

15:07

or when you're in like theaters seeing it like whatever

15:09

it is around the screen No show whatever it is.

15:11

So I'm I'm

15:14

like how people I think feel about Marvel's like how I

15:16

feel about like Star Wars I'm like, I just feel like

15:18

it needs to go away for a while and like not

15:20

come back for a few years But every

15:23

year we're still getting stuff and I know it's

15:25

a huge property But I again I think

15:27

this says a lot of potential and I think

15:29

this might be one of the good things

15:31

to come out with Star Wars branding in a

15:33

while and I

15:36

will be honest like I'm rooting for

15:38

it. I just it's I just cannot

15:40

get personally excited about this. Yeah, I feel

15:43

that one thing about

15:45

the open world

15:48

Like I'm playing Jedi survivor right now. Finally,

15:51

and I love that game so much but

15:54

each planet still feels like a

15:57

video game adventure

16:00

Yeah, it's like open field. Yeah,

16:02

it's just all the platforming how

16:04

it's all set up It doesn't

16:06

always feel like I'm actually on

16:08

a planet Yeah so

16:10

I hope Star Wars outlaws is really just

16:13

really leans into like yo this actually feels

16:15

like I'm on Tatooine or Just the exploration

16:17

I want to feel a little

16:20

more natural. Yeah to kind of echo what

16:22

dummy I mean was saying like my You

16:25

know, I'm not like Line in

16:27

the sand hard out on Star Wars, but I'm

16:29

definitely like tired of it. Like I didn't watch

16:31

Ahsoka or whatever Can't

16:34

be bothered man, but like What

16:36

it was good? but um,

16:39

I loved and or you know and like what

16:42

had me excited about this is That

16:45

it is more Akin to

16:47

that were you know, and and so the

16:49

criminal element is true Yeah, but this trailer

16:51

leaning on the like member berries kind

16:54

of more than I wanted to Has

16:57

me a little concerned cuz I'm just like what

16:59

I want from Star Wars is just like Deep

17:02

side shit. Yeah, like like I want

17:04

job as son. Yeah, or like Nothing

17:08

to do with anything like that's what I like about

17:10

and or is he's getting sucked into stuff that he

17:12

has nothing to do It right. I want like You

17:15

know some of the Star Wars visions stuff had like

17:17

kind of cool ideas where it was like Okay, these

17:19

are people just like way out here doing whatever, you

17:21

know Like show me something on the outer rim just

17:23

had nothing to do with anything You

17:25

know who like maybe slightly dips into

17:28

the the lower stuff You

17:30

know, we're just crazy that they like it feels

17:32

like they're just incapable of doing it. It's

17:34

very wild. There's And

17:39

it's gotta have Jedi's we got we have

17:41

to mention or connect to a Skywalker Yeah,

17:47

like to me it's like just make like

17:49

if they're nervous about it Not like having

17:51

to perform if it has to perform right

17:53

just make it cheaper Yeah,

17:55

make like make like make three

17:58

less planets Be

18:00

like a more intimate story. Yeah, you know, I

18:02

don't know but you know We could

18:04

we could talk Star Wars till the cows come home Like

18:07

I'm ever hopeful for the return of Star

18:09

Wars. I like cuz I mean I was

18:11

a mega fan of Star Wars Robomian

18:14

he's a person you can't just put bottled

18:16

water on its shoulder Huber

18:21

you kind of brought this up but as

18:24

is the way now when

18:26

we announce a release date You're gonna play

18:28

a game our game

18:30

editions. I know this is her.

18:33

Yeah There's a gold edition

18:35

and an ultimate edition. I won't say about

18:37

this. She was standing up Yeah, I know

18:39

for listening because what am I most hyped

18:41

about for this game board worth? Jabba

18:43

the hut. Yeah, tell me what's in

18:46

that that second edition. That's like 80

18:48

or 90 bucks Yeah,

18:51

I wish it was 80 or 90 bucks a

18:53

hundred and ten dollars for the gold edition. Okay,

18:55

and 30 season

18:58

pass Comes with

19:00

it including two DLCs the

19:03

job is gambit exclusive mission at

19:05

launch Holding

19:14

that hospital runner cosmetic

19:16

pack Yeah,

19:20

it is the prime textbook example

19:23

of Publishers weaponizing their

19:25

IPs to take advantage of fans. It

19:27

is 100% like I Love

19:31

the job of the strategy exactly

19:34

I want to do the job of content

19:36

and you're gonna charge me an extra 50

19:38

bucks for what is probably some like 25

19:41

minute mission Oh, right. Yeah, right It's

19:44

like a bounty you can yeah Do

19:47

we really need to pay wall

19:49

that mission the one that reminds

19:51

me of Hubert was the infamous

19:53

second son Remember there's like

19:55

a pre-order mission or something like that where

19:58

you like you had Cole and Z in

20:00

there from the old games totally

20:02

and because I reviewed that game

20:05

you guys I didn't have access

20:07

to that mission and it

20:09

was not available separately for I don't know how

20:11

long so it was like sometime way later when

20:14

I was finally able to play that Wow and

20:16

then it ended up being just like the

20:18

most like throw away mission yeah like there's

20:20

really nothing going on like you had like

20:23

a portrait of them and some audio log

20:25

kind of conversation and yeah that's

20:27

I mean that's what's so funny about these

20:29

and like I've seen through them since the

20:31

start but like they

20:34

necessarily cannot be good

20:36

because they're not gonna put in

20:38

enough effort to you know to

20:40

make them worthwhile and you

20:43

know so it's like they buy their very

20:45

nature can't be worth anything so like it's

20:47

always so funny when they're like oh you

20:49

get this mission or this like bonus item

20:51

or whatever it's like it literally can't be

20:53

good yeah or it would throw off

20:56

the game it would

20:58

break everything and committing that early

21:00

to a season pass is like well

21:03

yeah but I mean you don't even know what's gonna

21:06

be in the yeah we'll see like if it was

21:08

if it was Resident Evil I don't even know if

21:10

I would commit to like $150 season

21:12

pass edition it's like I'll get it when it

21:14

comes out in a year it gets

21:17

it gets into weird like almost like

21:19

Kickstarter kind of territory it's like what

21:21

if a game comes out has like

21:23

massive technical problems or is a financial

21:26

failure like you know this is rare but

21:28

like it could conceivably just like

21:31

they would abandon it before more stuff would

21:33

come out you know like obviously not for

21:35

this but like it could

21:37

happen where you get the season pass early

21:39

for nothing like nothing ever comes out yeah

21:41

you know it

21:45

also comes with three days early access here we

21:47

go they're charging

21:49

for you know that people pay for

21:52

and then above that there's the ultimate

21:54

edition which is a hundred and thirty

21:56

dollars which includes all that same stuff

22:00

Dragon's dogma as micro

22:02

transaction Yeah, you can buy a

22:04

pork ritzel for $4 $2,

22:07

whatever That also comes

22:09

with the Sabacc Shark Bundle Which

22:11

includes more cosmetics for Kay,

22:14

her blaster, for Nyx, for her speeder

22:16

Sabacc Shark, it's like poker sharks, Sabacc

22:18

is that card game And

22:21

the Trailblazer spaceship I'm

22:23

lazy, they're coming for it And then

22:25

there's another set of cosmetics called

22:28

the Rogue Infiltrator Bundle And

22:31

then there's a digital art book Digital,

22:33

cool, that hurts Give me that

22:35

physical art book Including

22:38

unique cinematic storyboards Oh my

22:40

god Wow

22:43

Really hyped on the game though All these editions

22:45

are going to tell I did

22:48

actually copy and paste it, I probably should have But

22:50

I guess they were also saying Well

22:52

if you get Ubisoft Plus, you can get all of

22:54

this for $17.99 per month Yeah,

22:57

yeah Good

23:01

It's a Game Pass situation It's like hey, if I'm

23:03

going to burn through Star Wars

23:06

Outlaws in one month and never play it again I can

23:08

pay $18 or I can buy the Nona for $70 I

23:11

mean, I... Just

23:14

whatever I mean, I've

23:17

paid for Game Pass and I haven't turned on my Xbox

23:19

in three months Yeah,

23:23

I will assume that

23:27

Jeff Keighley has a big trailer

23:29

locked and loaded Oh yeah Locked

23:33

and loaded, Star Wars is Keighley

23:35

Core Oh, Gamescom is going to blow

23:37

up in Gamescom Where does it come out? August

23:40

30th, it's going to be after Gamescom But yeah,

23:42

it's under Game Plus, there could be something too

23:44

Maybe both Oh,

23:47

actually we'll have a Ubisoft conference too It

23:49

would probably be a big part of that

23:52

Yeah, definitely I mean, it's Star Wars,

23:54

so it's in Ubisoft games Mostly

23:56

sell pretty well, I feel like Take

24:00

it back to the end to be one of the biggest

24:02

games of the year the e3 days like the booth would

24:04

have a big Presence for this the

24:06

just dance dancers would do a Star Wars

24:08

dance. Yeah All

24:14

right moving on to something a little smaller Isla

24:17

you got to put a little bit of

24:19

time into children of the Sun the crazy

24:22

sniper puzzle one bullet game Tell

24:25

us about this houses. Yeah, you're the

24:27

near murderer of easy allies Look

24:29

at you That

24:33

that's part of what

24:36

I want to talk about with this game because it yeah,

24:38

all right, so This

24:42

is a very cool premise I really like the

24:44

idea of this game the style it's you know very

24:47

stylized You play

24:50

as the girl in all caps

24:52

awesome taking out the cult in

24:54

all caps take them out this

24:57

is the kind of game where I was like the

25:00

vibe is so intense and like

25:03

Like I had I like I like put

25:05

it on pause and read interviews with the creator

25:07

just to be like what angle are we? Are

25:11

we glorifying this like what? Okay,

25:15

but the game is it's kind of

25:17

neat the way it controls you basically

25:19

mostly use the mouse You just scroll

25:21

left and right to walk around the

25:23

perimeter of the levels like that and

25:26

then for viewers and then you click

25:28

to Look through the scope

25:30

you know and you can line up your shots you

25:32

mark your targets So you can keep track of how

25:34

many there are there's a number in the corner that says like six

25:36

and you're like okay I need to find six people and you have

25:38

to like rotate around until you can

25:40

see all of them and then it

25:42

introduces you know

25:45

the kind of the evolution of the gameplay is

25:47

really interesting because like Fifth or

25:49

sixth mission will be like breakfast time. You

25:51

know it's got a very like hot hotline

25:53

Miami. Yeah vibe to it And

25:56

you know the mission is like breakfast time. It's like

25:58

okay. There are no targets besides fish and

26:00

birds. And it's teaching you,

26:03

you can target fish and birds to

26:05

get like a bird's eye view because

26:07

everything shoots something. The bullet

26:09

stops at that target and you can like, you

26:12

know, line up to the next one. And if

26:14

one of the birds is a target or a

26:16

gas tank, you can pause from

26:18

there and line up your shot. So like a

26:21

lot of times in later levels, you know,

26:24

you know, the number will say eight or

26:26

whatever, like levels like the one being shown

26:28

right now, you can't

26:31

see everybody from... Can't

26:33

see out there. And like sometimes you

26:35

can't circle the whole level, you

26:37

know, like there are logs or something blocking

26:39

your way. So like, you'll have to use

26:41

these elements to

26:44

find all your targets. That adds a huge layer.

26:46

Yeah, and then it starts adding, you know, the

26:49

story is kind of interesting, you know, it starts

26:51

adding some powers that you have. Yeah, why does

26:53

she want to take this cult out? Do

26:55

we know? It's told wordlessly. Okay.

26:58

I'll just say, because it's right up front, like

27:02

they were in the cult and this

27:04

girl is the survivor of the cult and

27:07

maybe lost her parents to the cult. Like

27:10

maybe they died. Some

27:13

kind of kill bill type. I

27:15

mean, I don't want to

27:17

get too much into it. But like, you know, her

27:20

family's dead and she's going in to get

27:22

revenge against this cult, right? So cult bad

27:24

you girl and

27:26

you have a sniper rifle. Cult bad you

27:28

girl. Yeah,

27:33

so it has

27:35

a lot of interesting kind of stuff. So and

27:37

it introduces those kind of mechanics in

27:41

universe ways that make sense. It's like, okay, I've

27:44

gone hunting for breakfast and then, you know, it

27:46

cuts to her like cooking the birds and

27:48

fish for her breakfast. But it's

27:50

like, okay, now I understand that every bird is a

27:52

resource and I can get a whole new bird's eye

27:54

view. And every level, as you can sometimes

27:56

see in the footage we're showing has kind

27:59

of a subtitles. like a sentence and

28:01

it'll say like you can see them all or something like

28:03

that and that's a subtle or

28:05

not so subtle sometimes hint at what the

28:08

challenge like hidden challenges for some most of

28:10

the levels have this so like if you

28:12

like target ping

28:14

every every enemy that that

28:17

subtitle will show up for you can see them all

28:19

and it'll get crossed off okay I found what it

28:21

was talking about optional

28:25

challenge they're optional yeah and

28:27

then yeah it introduces like weak spots and

28:29

if you hit two weak spots you can

28:31

re-aim you can bend the bullet somewhat in

28:33

the air is one of your powers but

28:35

like wanted very very like wanted very

28:38

limited for like spinning a bowling ball

28:40

yeah like that it's showing

28:42

it right now but it's you know only

28:44

like a 20 degree cone in front

28:46

of you because it's a bullet it's going

28:48

incredibly fast yeah yeah and

28:51

the way they evolve the story it's

28:53

really cool I definitely found

28:55

this game you know making

28:58

me kind of depressed like it's sort of

29:00

I mean it's a very grim topic and

29:02

it's very grim game I

29:05

really enjoyed the the puzzle-solving elements and

29:08

the gameplay of it the

29:10

theming and the like violence

29:12

of it kind

29:15

of bothered me more than a lot of games

29:17

like I'm not I'm not really a slouch to

29:20

violence oh yeah it's interesting

29:29

looking game it's a really cool game I just

29:31

found myself kind of like I

29:33

don't know gross that I mean like you know life brings

29:36

with it a lot of changes over time and it's like

29:38

I'm more aware of mortality than I

29:40

used to be and stuff like that so you know

29:42

I'm maybe more sensitive than I used to be but I

29:46

looked up quotes after

29:49

so there's a part like 10 or

29:51

20 missions in where you're cleaning your

29:54

gun in a motel and then a minigame

29:56

pops up that says I just killed a

29:58

man now I'm horny whoa And I was

30:00

like, where are we coming at this

30:02

from? That is weird. And so I looked into

30:04

like a... Tonal shift?

30:06

Yeah. So I looked into like an

30:09

interview with the creator and it seems like he's coming

30:11

at it from the right angle. He said, one man's

30:13

dad team by himself, which

30:18

is pretty impressive. People are crazy. And

30:21

he said like, nobody should be violent, guns are

30:23

shit, nobody should own a gun. Like if

30:25

you even think about owning a gun, like what the fuck

30:27

are you doing with your life? And later he's like, but

30:29

I don't know. It's like, there's just

30:31

something very interesting about violence and

30:34

games. It just works well in

30:36

games, unfortunately. And so I'm like,

30:38

yeah. Like if it bleeds, it leads, you

30:41

know, it sells. And so like,

30:44

it's kind of an interesting case

30:46

because I think I

30:48

really enjoyed the mechanics of it, like

30:52

I was saying, but the vibes of it were

30:54

very intense. And so like, I would say, you

30:57

know, your mileage will vary

30:59

maybe on that. I

31:02

guess I'm more sensitive to this now than I used to be,

31:04

but like, I enjoyed it. I really

31:06

liked it, but it made me depressed. Also

31:09

be sure to turn off replay tutorial,

31:12

this little checkbox, because

31:15

if you like fail or want

31:17

to restart one of the missions and you have that

31:19

checked, you'll have to do the tutorial before, if it

31:21

had a mission tutorial before that, you'll have to

31:23

do that again. Took

31:26

me like once and I was like, oh, gotta

31:28

turn that off. I'm watching live gameplay right now

31:30

and someone literally just did it after they failed

31:32

the first attempt of a mission. So that explains

31:34

why, okay. The one question

31:36

I had, sometimes I'll see people with like these

31:38

like spheres around them.

31:41

Yeah. What's that about? So different enemy types

31:43

get introduced as the game goes on. So

31:45

you get like shield guys, you get

31:47

like psychic guys, you get like, so

31:50

it's stuff like that. Okay, so they have psychic powers like Sheeda.

31:53

Yeah, different like enemy types and stuff like that.

31:55

Got it. And it's

31:58

interesting like the way that they... ramp

32:00

up, I haven't beaten it yet

32:03

but I played a good amount of it but the

32:05

way they ramp up the challenges and

32:07

the kind of like the

32:09

power set is really interesting and

32:12

how they introduced all the tools in

32:14

your toolkit it's really

32:16

well done and like the pacing of it is good

32:18

it's like five hour game you know yeah yeah they

32:20

said three to five hours yeah so I think

32:23

it's chill I think I don't know check it out

32:25

if you're into it but you know

32:27

if you're sensitive to ultra violence

32:29

you know maybe you

32:31

watch a stream first cool

32:35

well along with

32:37

indie games like that we

32:40

got the first ever triple-i

32:43

showcase they took

32:46

it and they ran with it made a whole

32:48

showcase out of triple-i games and this

32:52

was just like a coalition of a

32:54

bunch of different independent developers I

32:57

think that evil Empire might have been

32:59

like one of the spearheads and they're

33:02

the ones behind this new the

33:04

rogue Prince of Persia which is the

33:06

first one we'll talk about yeah it

33:08

closed out the show but yeah a Prince

33:12

of Persia rogue like

33:15

yeah coming out at us

33:17

just right after another Prince

33:19

of Persia game pretty wild

33:21

yeah super hyped because dead

33:23

cells is a very

33:25

excellent video game yeah they worked on that

33:28

sales for people I feel like the rogue

33:30

light element will transfer well into this in

33:32

that so just that's just announced a different

33:34

that's motion twin who like the main Deb

33:36

but I think like help with some of

33:38

the additional content and stuff like that I

33:41

don't know the exact relationship um but yeah

33:43

it's an embarrassment of riches bloodworth

33:46

I haven't even played the last

33:49

Prince of Persia so I can't eat

33:51

I want to play it it's installed

33:53

yeah I can't be excited about this

33:55

because that last one has had such

33:58

good reviews such

34:00

good word of mouth that like I'm

34:02

all in on when I have time

34:04

going back and playing that one So

34:07

it is hard to be excited about Another

34:10

Prince of Persia when I haven't even played one that came

34:12

out a couple months ago Yeah So there

34:14

is that kind of that that overlap that to

34:16

me is hurting it which is shocking because it's

34:18

like You know Prince of Persia was gone

34:21

for a little bit there and yeah, it's Silent

34:23

Hill situation Yeah, bring it back like this There's

34:26

five of them yeah, but then now at the same

34:29

time I'm feeling like well I can't keep up like

34:31

I need to play that other one because I've heard

34:33

such good things. Yeah, so What's

34:35

interesting is those that's why these guys? They

34:39

pitched Ubisoft on it so

34:41

it didn't it didn't come the other way

34:43

around whereas yet lost crown

34:45

was internal But

34:49

yeah, they started talking about it at GDC and

34:51

then they started talking to Ubisoft and they're like,

34:53

all right Let's let's do this thing

34:56

I mean, I would say I dig the style is different from

34:59

the other one and also like The

35:01

time rewind power is like a perfect fit

35:03

for a roguelike. Yeah. Yeah, so they said

35:05

that they're definitely And

35:10

you have the Prince has this like this

35:12

Bola That protects

35:14

him. Yeah, and they kind of say like

35:16

that's even like why he's like was able

35:19

to get all of this agility And everything

35:21

because if he screwed up, well, it

35:23

was like, oh, well it would just rewind time for

35:25

him You know, and so he could try, you

35:27

know To be like spider-man

35:29

and jump off a building. It's like oh, I

35:32

didn't make it that time. So let me try Stuff

35:36

I like that idea. That's cool And

35:39

then this second clip is they after the

35:41

showcase they actually did some some gameplay live.

35:43

Oh cool Oh, you get to see a little bit

35:45

more of it here. I kind of love that like it

35:48

Second I kind of like the style.

35:50

Yeah, they're like more pastel kind of

35:52

Mobius. Yeah, like softer colors. Yeah It's

35:56

Mobin time open time I knew you were gonna

35:58

I was waiting for for you to say that. Yeah,

36:02

like even his skin tone is like very

36:04

pink, purple. I

36:07

know in the trailer I was like, why is this

36:09

character purple? Which I kinda like. Yeah, me too. It

36:11

reminds me of... Thanos.

36:14

No, well yeah. It reminds me of

36:16

like regular show or like... Grimace. Infinity

36:19

Train. And

36:21

also those. Little

36:23

bit of Scavenger's Rain, which like bring back Scavenger's

36:25

Rain dude, season two, come on. One

36:29

thing that they showed like with the

36:31

combat stuff is that

36:34

you can kick

36:36

enemies. So like you can actually

36:38

knock them off ledges with a swift

36:40

kick. Yeah. And then do a bit of fall

36:42

damage. You can also slide under them, which is

36:44

kind of a staple thing. And

36:47

then one of the things that they brought back

36:49

is the kind of the wall

36:51

run. So you can kind

36:53

of like run up the wall and then

36:55

bound over to like the poles sticking out.

36:57

And there's like a lot of little platforming

36:59

bits that are like that. Domiani, man, I

37:01

know you're into the lost crown, but how

37:03

are you feeling on this? Cause I know,

37:06

are you into rogue lights? I

37:09

mean, this looks awesome. Yeah. I'm

37:12

like surprised that

37:15

we're getting one so soon, but like, it's

37:17

also funny because like a month or so

37:19

ago, we were talking about like, oh, like

37:21

what are the two go-to things for franchises

37:23

that need to like revive themselves or need

37:26

like a different way forward? It's like Metroidvania

37:29

and rogue lights. And it's like, it's

37:31

literally doing both in a year. And

37:34

I'm like, all right, well, I mean,

37:36

that's great because if they can't make

37:38

those, you know, the

37:40

3D action platformer ones anymore,

37:43

and they have to stick to

37:45

like a side scrolling perspective, then

37:48

I mean, it's the hotness. Everyone's

37:50

either making a Metroidvania or they're making a rogue

37:52

light. And it's like,

37:54

the easiest like advice you could give any

37:56

companies, like your franchise is stalling out right

37:59

now or needs. like, you know, something

38:01

to rejuvenate it, try one

38:03

of these two things. And it's like, first of

38:05

all, let's go now, go now, like strike while

38:07

the iron is hot. And I do think it's

38:10

good because I think people are like, Oh, lost

38:12

crown was like good, but like, I

38:14

feel like a lot of people have moved on from it

38:16

since. And this

38:18

just looks like very easy to get into

38:20

also, you know, a little

38:22

bit relying more on the, uh, the,

38:25

you know, like the same amount

38:27

of platformers. I'd be like the running up to

38:29

like the wall thing I'm seeing is like,

38:31

and like, that's like so simple, but like, that's

38:34

what I feel like, you know, maybe it was

38:36

like a missing a little bit. And like

38:38

in the lost crown is that you have all

38:40

these great traversal mechanics, but you don't have like

38:42

wall running like that. You don't, you don't really

38:45

necessarily have like those things that you had

38:47

like in sands of time. And this is still

38:49

me able to capture the essence of that a

38:51

little bit with those, those sequences and the

38:53

slowdown and the possibly, you know, the time rewind,

38:55

so that's pretty cool. And yeah, this

38:58

art, like it looks so different. Yeah. This

39:00

in lost crown looks so drastically different than

39:02

I think it's going to help it a

39:04

lot that they're, they're willing to, this is

39:06

what, this is what it

39:08

means to like, put some effort into like your,

39:10

your visual identity, you know, the aesthetic, the art

39:13

direction, like this is, you know, Indy

39:15

or whatever. It doesn't have to like all

39:17

look the same. Like this is like, there's

39:19

a very, very talented like art

39:21

team behind this and it shows. Hell

39:24

yeah. Yeah. I wonder if like,

39:26

if this game like gets a

39:29

good foothold and a lot of people start to play, cause

39:31

I know like, you know, people really like rogue, like, I

39:34

wonder if it would bring people

39:36

back to lost crown who maybe overlooked it.

39:38

And, uh, dead cells had, you know, blood,

39:40

you joke around dead cells was supported. For

39:46

like years. Yeah. Yeah.

39:48

So one would assume that, uh,

39:51

this game is, is just to getting started.

39:54

I mean, it started yet. Right.

39:56

So took me a second with the title,

39:58

but now I really like it. The rogue. Prince of the

40:00

Rogue Prince of the Rogue Uh, Huber,

40:02

the uh, so when you

40:05

do get killed and the

40:07

bowler sends you back you have this place called

40:09

the Oasis Here we go And it's

40:11

very much like Rogue Legacy 2 Yes, yes

40:13

Sort of like you kinda like build up

40:15

different facilities Ooh, I'm addicted to that

40:19

I'm addicted to it I'm streaming till 6am That's

40:21

what we're here for dude Don't at me Yes

40:24

But this is the only early access the date

40:26

we have right? Yeah, I think

40:28

they only show it here Yeah, I'm a

40:30

release date this year This is early access

40:32

Yeah, I wanna correct my, yeah I

40:35

wanna correct myself that mine actually launched this year,

40:37

so Yeah, okay, okay, okay I'll be there when

40:39

the real deal comes out Hey, that gives me

40:41

a chance to uh, play Lost Crown then Yeah,

40:43

sweet No rush here Yeah, excellent

40:46

Um, some of the weapons they lay

40:48

out in the email Um,

40:51

there's the Twin Daggers,

40:53

spears, broadswords, axes And

40:56

then secondary weapons include

40:58

shields, bows, grappling hooks

41:01

There you go Accent and grappling

41:03

hooks While we're seeing this loading, a

41:05

little inside baseball I recently learned is

41:07

that that's a requirement from Sony to

41:10

get certified is that the loading screen has to

41:12

have some kind of moving element to let players

41:14

know that the game is still trying Oh, that

41:17

hasn't frozen, yeah Yeah Ohh

41:19

I never knew that I never knew that

41:22

That's some real good inside baseball That's cool

41:25

They also mentioned Huber that there are like lore

41:27

rooms along the way Ooooh Where

41:29

you talk to different characters and get parts

41:31

of the story Yeah So

41:33

that's like part of To not To not

41:35

to not to roguelike as they do Uh,

41:37

yeah, moving forward and unlocking new biomes and

41:40

stuff Excellent I'm also

41:42

curious that they have, I mean, just

41:44

trying to like, you know, like, hit in chests,

41:46

all that All the stuff you're talking about sounds

41:48

good Uh, like, any kind of

41:50

like, boss fights? Like, are they gonna go that

41:52

direction or is this more There was a boss

41:54

fight they fought against General who was like a

41:56

big minotaur He had like ground fights coming out,

41:59

throwing rocks around around in a ground pound

42:01

and stuff like that. One

42:04

of the other mechanics is a little

42:07

ton of games that do this with

42:09

medallions. And so

42:11

you have four medallion slots. Okay.

42:14

Oh, okay. So look at that. Oh, it's a legacy. That's

42:18

looking good. Yeah, so one of the

42:20

medallions they showed adds poison to projectile

42:22

attacks. Nice. I love

42:24

that. And there's another one that will basically

42:27

start a fire when you kick somebody. Oh my

42:29

God. Comparing stats on

42:31

your, oh, here we go. Yeah,

42:34

I'm hyped about this. So yeah, that wasn't a

42:36

thing in Lost Crown. Lost Crown, everything was like

42:38

picks. You did have like the amulets though, and

42:40

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

42:43

where you could like mix and match. Yeah,

42:45

having actually in the heat of combat,

42:47

pick up a weapon and decide like,

42:50

is raw damage more? Or like, look at

42:52

those secondary stats or like a bonus

42:55

effect on it. Like, is that worth it more? And

42:58

so it's kind of fun. I

43:00

mean, crucially important for a game like this,

43:03

and especially Prince of Persia, the traversal looks

43:05

really good. Yeah. Getting

43:07

around looks real fun. Yeah. Like standing on the

43:09

poles and then jumping is really cool. I

43:12

will say the remedial enemies don't look

43:14

like they're really doing. I mean, they

43:16

swing, but like, yeah, compared to like,

43:19

yeah, compared to like Lost Crown, man,

43:21

like they really push you, but I

43:23

get that's a more like action heavy,

43:25

like, you know, like more like a

43:27

character action type combat system than with

43:30

combo strings and all that, that doesn't look like

43:32

this is what this is focusing on. But

43:34

yeah, we're gonna need like, besides

43:36

environmental hazards, enemies are like making

43:39

your life hell in a rogue light. Like

43:41

the rogue legacy, I'm thinking of like, there's

43:43

constant bullet hell part like sequences where

43:45

like this getting fired at and like, well, don't

43:47

forget they know what they're doing. Right, I was

43:50

gonna say, these are the devs. I know, I

43:52

know, but I still need to like, yeah, do

43:54

need to see it, but premise wise, this is

43:56

great. Yeah. And

43:58

then the other little bit that I... written down from the demo.

44:01

I can't get my hands on those pants. They have

44:03

these little guys running around with big

44:05

bags full of gold. Loot

44:07

goblins? Yeah, so you have to chase them down

44:09

to get the gold. Love

44:12

a loot goblin. Yeah, I will risk it all. Big

44:14

fan of a loot goblin. Oh yeah, overextend. Oh yeah.

44:18

Get the loot goblin. I will take the bait every

44:20

time. This is some spelunky ass

44:22

shopping. Yeah, I like the shops along the way. Especially

44:25

with little kid shopkeepers. Like, hey, we got some stuff

44:27

for you. You want it? I want

44:29

a kid shopkeeper in a game

44:31

like this, or Ballersgate, or whatever. Hyped.

44:35

Nice. Well, we'll keep moving through the rest of this

44:37

triple-I stuff. The rest of this,

44:39

I'm not going to go through every game, and

44:41

some of these will be quicker than others, just

44:43

because some of them, there's just

44:46

a quick update. We know everything, or some of

44:48

them we don't know anything yet. But

44:50

I will get a hype check. Slay

44:53

this fire too, Huber. We got a

44:55

T to the trailer. Yeah! Early access

44:57

2025. Yeah. Early access 2025.

45:00

Um, Slay this fire,

45:02

I put in the same category as Darkest Dungeon

45:05

1 in terms of I will never beat it.

45:07

Oh yeah, I'm terrible at that game. Slay this

45:10

fire 1 is phenomenal. It

45:15

is an A plus video game.

45:17

My only problem with it is

45:20

when a game is that punishing, and that

45:23

brutal, and it all comes

45:26

down to RNG, it's

45:29

like the mental damage is too hard

45:31

for even me. I just

45:33

can't take it. So like, hand of fate, hand

45:35

of fate 2, Slay

45:38

this fire, these games where it

45:40

really feels like there's nothing you

45:42

could have done. Yeah. It

45:44

can be really disheartening. My

45:47

friend Chris. So I wonder if Slay this

45:50

Fire 2 will lean into, you know,

45:52

changing that element of it. My friend

45:54

Chris, Chris Wen, you know, from game

45:56

trailer's days, Slay this fire, like, savant.

46:00

I remember this. Yeah. I

46:02

remember just watching him beat a run and I was just like,

46:04

how? Yeah. How? How?

46:07

I could get to like the third area maybe. Yeah.

46:11

Really, really awesome announcement though. I had no idea

46:13

that was coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

46:16

That was really good to hear. Yeah. That

46:19

was the world premiere that they had there. Yeah. So

46:21

cool. But we don't know a lot about it. We know

46:23

that it's going to be in a new engine. We know they're going

46:25

to have some new features, new visuals, and they're going to expand mods.

46:28

But outside of that, don't

46:31

know. Sweet. Shadows

46:33

of doubt. I don't know

46:36

if you remember seeing this one before. This

46:38

is like a voxel based like hard boiled

46:40

crime drama. Yes. I've

46:43

been going to. This has been really active for about a

46:45

year. I've been waiting, dude. Yes. Is it

46:47

coming out finally? I think so. They said they're coming

46:49

to consoles this year. This is probably when it hits

46:51

1.0. Dude, this was on my

46:53

number one watch list last year because I

46:55

was hoping it was going to come out

46:57

in time for Godi's, but it never was

46:59

officially released 1.0. So

47:02

excited for this game. Yeah. Deus

47:04

Ex vibes. Like Blade

47:06

Runner, hard boiled noir. So

47:08

pumped for this game, dude. When's the date, blood? Give

47:11

me the date. Just this year. There's a

47:13

NASA update that came out yesterday. Okay. It's

47:16

a new kind of like case file to go through.

47:19

Yeah. The sell of

47:21

this game was that the most shocking

47:24

things can just happen in your

47:26

game. Like depending on what you're

47:28

doing, there's a

47:30

lot of freedom and just a lot of

47:32

surprises. Yeah. Yeah. Quote,

47:35

explore fully simulated cities and meet individual citizens,

47:37

each with their own name, job, apartment, and

47:39

daily routine. You can just like follow people,

47:42

Shenmue style. On your hunt to track down

47:44

a serial killer. Yeah. Use a

47:46

variety of gadgets to uncover

47:48

evidence, investigate suspects, and approach each

47:50

case your way. Scan fingerprints, browse

47:53

call logs, read private emails, bribe

47:55

citizens. FCC TV, pick locks,

47:57

break down doors, sabotage security.

48:00

systems multiple ways to

48:02

solve each case and the early

48:04

access players were pretty pretty stoked about it You

48:06

know sometimes early access can be like this isn't

48:08

really working Everyone was like yo,

48:10

this is pretty freaking good. So here.

48:13

Yeah. Yeah, it looks cool All

48:17

right, Don Play this

48:19

here we go on bait baby. Oh this

48:22

one. Yeah. Yeah, so this this is

48:24

this was great because It

48:27

just watching the it's one of those

48:29

trailers are like So well

48:31

because you see the name it spoils the

48:33

premise Because it's like

48:35

okay. Here's this is top-down city builder

48:37

kind of RTS things. Okay, you're building

48:40

your towns You're in England protecting people

48:42

from Vikings. Yeah, and then good wall

48:44

building with all of a sudden He

48:46

is all the Vikings have

48:49

harnessed an ancient evil Oh

49:00

They're just smashing through your ramparts

49:02

and everything and like yeah, it's

49:04

stegothorces like And

49:07

like in the thing is is it a

49:09

lot of these shots it looks kind of

49:12

jank. Oh, yeah But it's like I don't

49:14

know during way. Oh, yeah like

49:17

straw strongholds when it's Hitting

49:19

on all cylinders. This looks like dawn is

49:21

bringing it to holla greats in October. Oh,

49:23

yeah I got a huge You

49:28

got a lot done the huge smile on my face yeah

49:32

For you done for holla greats. We should

49:34

give you a whole holla greats one one

49:36

time Oh my god, your presentation

49:39

takes the whole time And

49:41

we have to judge it. Yeah And

49:45

then I get three votes two

49:47

and a half hour I'll speak for two and

49:49

a half hours Oh, God, everything we have to vote on them

49:54

Don't even order every game I

49:59

like that if John brings Six games and

50:01

then we vote I'm a shoe in I

50:04

love Can

50:10

we do this please Rich

50:16

guys gonna be pissed we're gonna he's gonna have to

50:19

make a whole new page on the wiki for this

50:22

Nonsense Don go mission round, you

50:24

know, go ahead and play the next one We've

50:27

seen this before it has looked sick. I

50:30

think we probably demo or something that I've missed Gestalt

50:33

yeah I

50:37

think the frickin early accent. Yeah, you

50:39

forget about him for like two years

50:41

and all of a sudden it's like

50:43

hey We're coming out. It's like oh

50:45

great style. Yeah, yeah kind of steampunk

50:47

ish vibes very The main

50:49

character looks really huge jacket huge hair

50:51

huge hat like yeah, this

50:54

is a character design right almost

50:56

like neo-geo height characters, right

50:58

not quite that tall but Some

51:01

neo-geo energy. Yeah. Yeah, great call nice mix

51:03

of swords and guns. I think her hair

51:05

just lit on fire It looks great visually

51:08

some path of exile Yeah

51:18

Wall jump some nice like roll behind

51:20

dark souls Don't

51:23

introduce some bullet hell I'm in yeah, if I

51:26

was in fantasy league I'd scoop this sucker up

51:28

quick When's it come

51:30

out May 21st? was

51:35

Don't know if it was an early accident. I think I

51:37

had a demo. I don't think I had early Yeah, I

51:39

feel like it was definitely announced a long time ago Spelled

51:43

differently, but that was my first girlfriend's name. Oh,

51:46

okay But yeah, so

51:48

may 21st the same day as Hellblade

51:51

to the same day as

51:54

paper trail So yeah, we

51:56

just tell the day blood worth just a

51:58

lot going on Um,

52:01

talk about side jobs to earn extra

52:03

scrap Ancient

52:06

enigma threatening the very foundation

52:08

of Canaan nice where steamworld

52:10

dig 3 where they

52:13

did West they did high Well, they don't

52:15

work on this day. Yeah, they're gonna build

52:17

or whatever. Yeah update on build and making

52:19

a lot of other shit They'll come back.

52:21

I gotta happen to build more. Look back

52:23

to it I played a demo and I

52:26

was like, okay steam world 3 will be

52:28

on the first wave of switch to games

52:30

Yeah, let's go. Yeah, dude.

52:33

I love see more big

52:35

two and one and Heist

52:39

to see more big two is one of the best Fucking

52:43

incredible numbers play it if

52:45

you haven't play this done. So

52:47

vampire We go First

52:50

of all, I'm gonna play station

52:52

finally getting out there on that PlayStation Greg

52:54

Miller Yeah, Greg Miller was begging for it. All

52:56

right, here it is. They put a lot of

52:58

funny quotes in here at the beginning But

53:02

then a little later into

53:04

the trailer they start showing like this like there

53:06

are no vampires They're

53:11

in there the garlic looks

53:13

like balls it really does But

53:16

yeah, they start showing this animated sequence and

53:18

it's just like wait, what is what's

53:20

happening? I wasn't even sure at this point

53:22

like is it still vampire survivors? It's like

53:25

oh, yeah, there's sort of

53:27

and then there's

53:29

like robots and there's guys with

53:31

guns and It's

53:33

a whole freaking Contra add-on.

53:36

Yeah, so vampire operation guns

53:38

got Lou God

53:40

now operation guns Oh

53:45

It's a good fit you got your bullet hell with

53:47

your bullet hell. Yeah. Yeah Yeah,

53:50

and after the animation we do get to

53:52

see the little bit of them in action.

53:54

Oh, yeah quick maine-9

53:58

Yeah Oh my god.

54:00

And I think it's only like $2.50 or

54:03

something like that. Yeah, they're all like a $2. Yeah, it's

54:05

like a super cheap game, right? It's like $10 for

54:07

the main game. No, it's like $3. No, right, right,

54:09

right. Oh. Pepper's really on

54:11

his own cart. Yeah, well

54:14

then what's great is they actually have some

54:16

of the bosses that come in there from

54:18

what they're talking about. Yeah, it actually looks...

54:21

I was about to be a little

54:25

poo pooey on it, because I've played so much Vampire

54:27

Survivors, it's one of those things where I'm like, I'm

54:29

good, I don't need to play it ever again. I

54:31

played for like 50 hours. We

54:33

did all play a lot of Vampire Survivors. I'm

54:35

fatigued, more than any kind of fatigue. I'm so

54:37

fatigued on it, but that actually looks... I strain.

54:40

Yeah, that actually looked different enough, and

54:43

I like Contra a lot, so I was like, hmm,

54:45

maybe I'll hop back into that. Cool.

54:49

Cataclysmo. I don't know if you've

54:51

been paying attention to this. Cataclysmo

54:53

wave of content. Hager's Hope. Hager's

54:55

Hope. What? It's Hagar, but it's

54:57

Hager's Hope. 1G. Yeah,

55:00

so this is from the makers of Moonlighter and the Mage

55:02

Seeker. Oh. But it is

55:04

like RTS tower defense

55:07

style game. Oh.

55:10

And yeah, Spanish devs, but

55:13

it's really interesting the way

55:15

that you construct

55:17

your defenses, because you

55:19

make your towers and stuff brick

55:21

by brick. Oh. And

55:24

then they're showing you putting down the stone and

55:26

the wood and everything piece by piece. I

55:28

just had a panic attack. Same,

55:31

but there's a couple of things with

55:34

that. So one, the more brick that's

55:36

on top of each other and the

55:38

more structure there is connecting it, the

55:41

stronger each individual brick becomes.

55:44

Okay. And the greater

55:46

your disappointment when the enemy tears it down.

55:48

Yeah. And

55:50

then another thing is

55:52

that, because they know

55:55

RTS just kind of inherently comes with

55:57

that stress of like... Yeah. The

56:00

enemy's coming, the enemy's coming. So when

56:02

you're doing all of your planning and

56:04

stuff, you can pause time. That's

56:07

good. You can pause time and lay out where you

56:09

want everything. And it's still gonna take time for your

56:12

units to gather resources and to build things

56:14

and all of that. But you

56:16

can look around and figure out

56:18

what your strategy is. And

56:21

yeah, and oxygen is another resource that you

56:23

have to worry about. Because that's the whole,

56:26

the lore behind this game is this toxic

56:28

mist that turns people into what they call

56:30

horrors. Oh my lord. And so. Is

56:32

this the frost punk of Tower Defense? Yeah. I

56:35

think it's, that's the thing though, Heber. I

56:37

think it's less intense than you would expect.

56:39

Okay. I think it's made to be

56:41

a little bit more open-ended and friendly. The

56:43

fact that, yeah, this map is showing like only one choke

56:46

point, which is nice. Cause like, okay, you just

56:48

focus on this, this spot. Yeah,

56:50

I don't know how that evolved. Because like

56:52

when he built another wall on the side, then

56:54

he, the second night they came at him from

56:56

both sides. Okay, okay. Another

56:59

thing that you have access to is blueprints.

57:05

And so like

57:07

when you make a structure or whatever, you

57:09

can create a blueprint. And so then that

57:11

way you don't have to necessarily rebuild the

57:13

whole thing every time. And

57:15

you can even share blueprints with other players.

57:18

That's cool. That's so friendly. But

57:20

the thing is, is that like,

57:23

they still want it to be like custom

57:25

and to not look like cookie cutter. And

57:29

so like here at this terrain, like you

57:31

can put your blueprint down, but it's not gonna

57:33

fit necessarily where all those steps are. So

57:35

you have to build a foundation to kind of

57:37

augment it and put

57:40

it all together. Cool. And support

57:42

it. And if there's gravity, like would part of it fall down? I wonder.

57:45

Yeah, I don't know if it's that part of

57:47

what would fall down or if it just like

57:49

wouldn't let you like complete that until you've given

57:51

it enough support structure. Sweet. Another

57:53

thing is they're talking about

57:55

the importance of verticality. So your units.

58:01

have more or less effectiveness depending on

58:03

the height that they are at. So

58:05

archers are better from

58:07

a high vantage point and

58:09

they're saying like lobbers are more like

58:12

ground level soldiers. And

58:14

then you have a canoneer where

58:16

they had to like clear space on one of

58:18

their towers. Is there friendly fire with your canoneer?

58:21

Can you check out your own troops? I don't know.

58:24

And so with the canoneers, they had to

58:26

have like a window in the tower but

58:28

then they also had to have like a

58:30

flat space because you needed like a good

58:32

like two by two square for

58:35

them to have space to set up.

58:39

So it's like it's interesting because it's like you

58:41

know this is not really the type of game

58:43

that I get into that much but... I love

58:45

tower defense. Just watching them you know build and

58:47

show off all the systems and stuff. Like it

58:49

does seem like it's pretty cool and it will

58:52

be one to keep an eye on

58:54

for sure. A cool spin on the genre for

58:56

sure. Interesting take for sure. Yeah. They

58:58

said it's a 30 hour campaign. Whoa! Plus

59:02

creative, survival and skirmish modes. Geez.

59:05

Geez a weed. And then I'll be on Steam

59:07

July 16th. Nice. Just

59:09

out? I think so. I could have

59:11

just not written down but I think it's out

59:14

then. Sounds good.

59:17

Undermine 2. Undermine

59:19

okay. Freaking Min Max

59:21

was just telling me about Undermine 1 and

59:23

now I need... Got it. Play

59:26

this game. How did I miss this? I

59:28

blame you chat. You kept this game secret. Wow. I

59:31

didn't know about Undermine 1 either. I was looking

59:33

at this and I came up at the end and I'm

59:36

like what? Why did you keep

59:38

it a secret? It makes

59:40

me think of the villain at the end

59:42

of The Incredibles when he's like you

59:44

I am beneath you but nothing is

59:46

beneath me. I am the

59:49

Underminer. Yeah. This looks so

59:51

up my alley. I am so in for this

59:53

game. I'm gonna play one. I

59:55

probably won't finish it but I'm gonna dive into one to just

59:58

see what it's all about. this

1:00:00

one's co-op and Oh

1:00:02

Like that the idea of just

1:00:04

like a co-op chill stream of

1:00:06

this sounds so Yeah,

1:00:09

I'm pretty big sprites it looks like

1:00:11

it's yeah quite a bit visuals the

1:00:13

roguelite elements like I'm I'm ready to

1:00:15

fully Get addicted to this one Yeah

1:00:19

undermine to Yeah

1:00:24

Every review and everyone that talks about

1:00:26

undermine one is just like it's impossible

1:00:28

to stop playing Huh, but it is

1:00:30

the most addicting game nice. Yeah, yeah

1:00:33

fun co-op dungeon crawler. It's always

1:00:35

like Our job

1:00:37

is to pay attention to game. Yeah,

1:00:39

and it always just blows my mind

1:00:41

when there's a game Yeah, that we

1:00:43

haven't heard of at all, but also

1:00:45

one that's like incredibly popular. Yeah. Oh,

1:00:47

yeah I'm like, how did that

1:00:50

slip through cuz I've heard of most games. Yeah You

1:00:53

know big one like that comes along. It's like wait.

1:00:55

I like I heard about the car. Yeah Yeah,

1:00:58

which is next what the car go ahead and play it.

1:01:01

They put it out a demo last night So I played through that

1:01:03

too So if you're not

1:01:05

familiar with what the car it

1:01:07

is from the makers of what the golf and what

1:01:09

the bad and it

1:01:11

just these crazy quick fun

1:01:13

ridiculous little physics level I

1:01:22

Kind of like with Wario where it's like when

1:01:24

you click on a level like you don't really

1:01:26

know What you're gonna get and then it's like

1:01:29

as soon as you pop out of the cannon

1:01:31

Then it like gives you the title of the level

1:01:33

and it's like, okay, you know, it's like Chair

1:01:36

legs car with legs car

1:01:39

with really long legs. Oh car with

1:01:42

jumps Kari Poppins with

1:01:44

an umbrella There's

1:01:48

a carp when you have a fishtail There's

1:01:51

car on office chairs and you're like what

1:01:53

cars have wheels with different but it no

1:01:55

physics The physics of being on office chairs

1:01:57

feels very good Yeah,

1:01:59

car There

1:02:01

was some of them were just like a Hot

1:02:04

Wheels. Like you're just

1:02:06

like doing loops and stuff like

1:02:08

that and twists. Awesome. Twisting

1:02:10

shit. And then there's one where it's like

1:02:12

I'm just like suddenly I'm like having to

1:02:14

chop veggies. Yeah. I mean like I'm like

1:02:17

chopping a carrot and it's like if I

1:02:20

but I had to like slice it because there's like

1:02:22

a certain number of each ingredient that

1:02:24

you needed in the basket and so you had

1:02:26

to slice it without slicing too

1:02:28

deep in and making too big of a piece.

1:02:31

It was like weirdly one of the hardest

1:02:33

things was just chopping the vegetables. It's tough.

1:02:36

And then they're like little bonus things to find and

1:02:38

like harder to reach parts of each

1:02:40

level. But like so many of these levels it's

1:02:42

like getting that gold thing is like beat

1:02:45

it in like less than 45 seconds or something like

1:02:47

that. These would go by really quick so it's like one

1:02:50

crazy idea after another. Like

1:02:53

car on a bike with a jet pack. But

1:02:57

finally so that's been out on Apple Arcade for

1:03:00

a while. I think I actually

1:03:02

won an award somewhere for a best mobile game. But

1:03:06

it's coming to PC on September 5th.

1:03:09

So free from the

1:03:11

from the Apple subscription. All

1:03:15

right here it's your turn. Darkest dungeon

1:03:17

to kingdoms mode. Dude.

1:03:20

This looks insane. This

1:03:23

looks so good. This is

1:03:25

an entirely new mode

1:03:28

to play Darkest Dungeon 2 one of my favorite

1:03:30

games of all time. It's

1:03:32

still no console release. I'm sure it's coming. Patience.

1:03:35

I'm sure it's coming. Smaller team. Red

1:03:38

hook. This. So the Darkest

1:03:42

Dungeon community has come around to

1:03:44

Darkest Dungeon 2 but there's still

1:03:46

a lot of players that prefer

1:03:49

Darkest Dungeon 1 because 1 and

1:03:51

2 are dramatically

1:03:53

different games. When

1:03:55

they were making 2 they specifically said they were like we don't

1:03:57

want to do the same game again. We want them to. be

1:04:00

just different and kind of coexist. This

1:04:04

entire mode is

1:04:06

a kind of a throwback to the Darkest

1:04:08

Dungeon 1 style about building

1:04:11

your roster, you can

1:04:13

lose your troops, you can

1:04:15

upgrade your inns, so there's like a little more

1:04:17

permanence with the map. And

1:04:21

it's just this giant free mode with

1:04:23

all these new enemy types. They're even bringing back-

1:04:25

I'm gonna make sure people heard that. This whole

1:04:28

new mode is free. Completely

1:04:30

free to campaign. Free! Huge

1:04:32

looking mode to get invested in and

1:04:35

just spend like 50 hours

1:04:37

probably, you know,

1:04:39

just dying and losing over and over again.

1:04:42

I'm so excited though. They even brought back some enemies from

1:04:45

like the Darkest Dungeon 1 DLC, which

1:04:47

I think is a cool callback. And

1:04:50

I can't get enough of

1:04:53

Darkest Dungeon 2. I love that

1:04:55

game so much. So the idea

1:04:57

that there's a completely new way to

1:04:59

play the game and all these new

1:05:01

enemy types and another thing to just

1:05:03

get like so invested and

1:05:05

lost in is just a dream come true.

1:05:07

I'm so excited. I was not expecting it.

1:05:10

I was fully expecting, because they were hyping

1:05:12

up that they were going to be at

1:05:14

the Triple-I initiative, I was like, oh, guaranteed

1:05:17

console release date and like the Houndmaster, like

1:05:19

one new class from the old ones or

1:05:21

something. I was like, no, we

1:05:24

have a full on game

1:05:26

mode. So very excited.

1:05:28

Can't wait to stream it. 10

1:05:31

out of 10 hyped. It looks good. Yeah. Next

1:05:34

up, we have a

1:05:37

brand new game announcement. Raku

1:05:39

Gaki, which is

1:05:41

spelled Arcade GK. Yeah.

1:05:45

Kind of going back to like Furu Kui. Yeah.

1:05:47

But so this is a Mexican dev

1:05:50

team. And

1:05:52

they do say anime inspired, but

1:05:54

it's very based on graffiti. So

1:05:56

they showed in the showcase, they

1:05:59

showed like, like cinematic trailer. And

1:06:01

so, yeah, it's like you put

1:06:04

graffiti out on the wall in the world

1:06:06

in different places, but then you also use

1:06:08

graffiti for attacks and you

1:06:10

use it as like a kind of like

1:06:12

a jet pack just blasting around the world

1:06:14

in like really acrobatic moves and stuff. What's

1:06:18

wild is they didn't

1:06:21

release any gameplay videos,

1:06:25

but I gave John, they gave me

1:06:27

like a handful of gifts.

1:06:30

That show like loops of little

1:06:32

tiny bits of gameplay. And

1:06:35

yeah, this game, it looks pretty cool,

1:06:38

pretty wild. It's like zipping

1:06:40

around big arenas. Like there's

1:06:42

like a Tony Hawk looking skate park

1:06:44

here with just lots of like

1:06:47

big old orb bullets flying around

1:06:49

shock waves on the ground. There's

1:06:52

something that she's like some drone

1:06:55

or something that she's grabbing on to

1:06:57

to like float around a little bit.

1:06:59

Splatoon vibes like covering the ground blood

1:07:01

earth with- Yeah, she's leaving a trail

1:07:04

of spray paint everywhere that she's going. So

1:07:07

I think that's just part of you getting around. And

1:07:09

then yeah, Don, show some of these others. There's definitely like a

1:07:12

lot of like bullet hell

1:07:15

stuff going on in here too, like kind

1:07:17

of returnal vibes with just like big

1:07:20

waves of orbs going around everywhere. Good

1:07:22

game. Orbs. Orbs. Is

1:07:25

the only game of the year? But

1:07:28

yeah, I've got like one quote

1:07:30

here. Cause again, this is like first time

1:07:33

seeing this stuff. Change together, jump stashes, glides

1:07:35

and grinds as you master the fluid and

1:07:37

kinetic platforming action, master routes

1:07:39

and push through enemies like a true rebel

1:07:42

to take down B Corp with speed

1:07:44

and style. B Corp, take

1:07:46

them out. Yeah. Sweet.

1:07:50

So yeah, I wanna see more

1:07:52

of this. It's a pretty cool,

1:07:55

crazy looking game. The music will be key.

1:07:57

The music will be key with

1:07:59

a lot of. stuff they're showing the amount of

1:08:01

precision the controls will be absolutely he mm-hmm

1:08:03

you do not want to have to deal

1:08:05

with a bunch of orbs

1:08:08

kind of looks like that game

1:08:10

fury and shockwave yeah and that

1:08:13

kind of thing without having very

1:08:15

very precise agile controls yeah but

1:08:19

yeah something like sunset

1:08:21

overdrive yeah if we're really like sure sure

1:08:23

sure gives me the the vibes like a

1:08:25

mix of that and jet set radio it

1:08:28

out yeah was the stat on

1:08:30

that they made like seven dollars or something which

1:08:32

one said overdrive oh my god oh

1:08:37

yeah it was

1:08:39

some insane thing there shiver we

1:08:42

don't really have much new here to show but cat

1:08:45

quest 3 they showed

1:08:47

off the opening animation it's coming

1:08:50

in the summer is coming reminded us

1:08:53

that it exists yes the jump from

1:08:55

cat quest 1 to 2 was very

1:08:57

nice so I am anticipating a similar

1:09:00

jump in quality with 2 to 3

1:09:03

to obviously added co-op they added the

1:09:05

doggo see be a cat and the

1:09:07

dog these games like we can we

1:09:09

can meme about it you can not

1:09:11

take me seriously whatever but I promise

1:09:13

you they are so

1:09:16

fundamentally sound and addicting

1:09:18

like the RPG progression

1:09:21

in these games is

1:09:24

really nice just this this

1:09:26

really easy comfy forgiving grind

1:09:30

where the grind is a pleasure you

1:09:32

know you're going into little dungeons you're

1:09:34

finding loot you're getting armor and weapons

1:09:37

it's just so like

1:09:41

playable in short bursts but it's

1:09:43

also this big epic adventure so

1:09:45

it really it really you know

1:09:48

hits that that sweet spot of

1:09:50

being able to get super invested but

1:09:53

also just playing in short bursts looks

1:09:56

John yeah I love cat quest it's

1:09:58

so much fun yeah and the pirate

1:10:00

ship now that they've added the pirate ships the big

1:10:02

one in this one for sure expect

1:10:05

many puns which

1:10:07

cat quest has so many cat puns

1:10:11

but I swear these games are really

1:10:13

really solid even just like

1:10:15

the combat you know there's a lot of like dodging

1:10:18

you know you're dodging you're just it's like almost a

1:10:20

beat them up but you still need to kind of

1:10:23

like dodge out of the way and kind of manager

1:10:25

your mana moves so just just

1:10:27

a really comfy wholesome

1:10:29

time cat quest nice also

1:10:32

just kind of like a reminder that

1:10:35

this exists we got another little gameplay

1:10:37

snippet of a hyperlight breaker oh

1:10:39

yeah which I've been looking forward to

1:10:42

for a while really

1:10:45

liked hyperlight drifter really like solar

1:10:47

ash you know

1:10:49

and this one they're doing it do you remember

1:10:51

the staking Cuba where they're talking about the systems

1:10:53

no there's a big part of like why the game's

1:10:55

taken so long so they can't like re-engineered it so

1:10:58

it's like every time

1:11:00

that you you die it

1:11:02

like regenerates the entire open

1:11:04

world yeah that was insane

1:11:06

I remember that yeah yeah

1:11:08

okay so yeah it's

1:11:10

gonna be wild with this they're really

1:11:13

just focusing a little bit more on

1:11:15

the combat and showing like one of

1:11:17

these mini bosses yeah this is going

1:11:19

into early access in the summer oh

1:11:21

I thought it was already

1:11:25

nope haven't got to play it yet oh

1:11:28

wouldn't it be nice this oh a while

1:11:30

back yeah

1:11:32

yeah yeah

1:11:34

okay settling

1:11:37

settling yeah but

1:11:40

what is out well at least an early

1:11:42

access the lace are off summit Kingdom oh

1:11:45

yeah I don't know if you remember

1:11:47

this it's like yeah city builder but

1:11:49

I like on mountain slopes like

1:11:52

all these very specific challenges to have to

1:11:54

be aware of this one was interesting to

1:11:56

me figuring out how to navigate

1:11:59

I'm interested in and transportation

1:12:01

yeah avalanches who that

1:12:03

yeah it's really neat looks

1:12:06

so cozy yeah

1:12:08

we really don't gorgeous hype

1:12:10

check done done yes it looks

1:12:13

avalanches this looks awesome Gabby's

1:12:20

in yeah you want to know what else

1:12:23

this game is being made by three people

1:12:25

how is it possible how is every game

1:12:27

white okay games quite okay I've like a

1:12:29

game is made by one to three people

1:12:31

or one to two thousand what's going

1:12:36

on and look at this crazy bridge

1:12:38

like man bananas I don't know that

1:12:40

I could live in a village like that I'll be

1:12:42

very afraid awesome

1:12:46

that's cool yeah grab that on early access or

1:12:49

take a look at a little deeper see

1:12:53

next up we have Wizard of Legend 2

1:12:55

which they had announced before but I think they

1:12:57

just had like a cinematic trailer so this is

1:12:59

really like one of the first times they've shown

1:13:02

it in action in gameplay

1:13:04

you know water bending air bending yeah there

1:13:06

are not there to get off to six

1:13:10

elements that your wizard gets

1:13:12

the firebender so yeah you've got

1:13:14

your fire ice wind water and

1:13:16

I think the six is chaos chaos

1:13:21

this is one of the ones that they had

1:13:23

a Haiti energy yeah that a lot of afterwards

1:13:25

after the showcase so you could watch them play

1:13:27

a little bit longer hmm get more of a

1:13:30

breakdown but the overall

1:13:32

it's like I'm really tired

1:13:41

do we have any tea really

1:13:44

yeah Gabby can can I look

1:13:46

at a tea twisted tea I'll go get

1:13:51

one but it's sort of it is a rogue like

1:13:54

it is sort of I think

1:13:56

it's it's definitely got elements of both I love

1:13:59

Haiti Never and

1:14:01

rogue legacy to yeah speaking my

1:14:03

language. What worth yeah big time

1:14:05

so it's top down and

1:14:09

then a slight technical difficulty here on

1:14:11

the stream, but

1:14:14

uh You've got I'm

1:14:17

trying to remember how they so they've got you've got like a

1:14:19

basic attack That

1:14:21

there's different like that. I think the

1:14:23

two there's always like ice blades and

1:14:25

then like like quick fireball And

1:14:28

then you've got your

1:14:30

your signature arcana And

1:14:33

the two that we saw there was with

1:14:36

lightning throws and ice blasts and

1:14:40

then Those have like

1:14:42

a little bit of a cool down, but you can use

1:14:44

them pretty frequently sweet And then you have what they called

1:14:46

which I don't understand why it's named this way They

1:14:49

called standard arcana which are

1:14:51

like bigger spells And

1:14:53

so those have like Longer cooldowns on

1:14:55

them and it's like that's like that big earth

1:14:58

shockwave and stuff that you saw going out Yeah,

1:15:00

like Tara would be the major arcana. Which would

1:15:02

be the bigger one. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure

1:15:04

like the name but When

1:15:07

you but like similar to

1:15:10

Rogalessi when you die You

1:15:12

don't actually come back you pick another name

1:15:15

of it wizard, you know It's

1:15:22

been a minute it's been too great music to Oh Overlooked

1:15:26

video games. Yeah highly overlooked

1:15:29

Mutally overlooked not nominated for a

1:15:31

single thing devastatingly

1:15:33

overlooked Whether

1:15:36

legend who has four player co-op hmm

1:15:38

that's well Gauntlet style

1:15:40

sweet. Yeah, I Put

1:15:42

it apart from Hades as well. Yeah, which is nice One

1:15:45

especially if it has like if the elements

1:15:47

kind of like commingle and work together and

1:15:50

stuff that that could be cool Yeah, they

1:15:52

actually they're like yeah things that you can

1:15:54

combine a little bit there here and there

1:15:57

you can also like You

1:15:59

can upgrade your different arcana and

1:16:01

stuff. And then he's showing too, like he

1:16:03

would find things in the chest and

1:16:06

decide whether you would want to swap him out like

1:16:08

while he was out on a run. There

1:16:11

are also like NPC wizards out there that you can

1:16:13

kind of help and then they'll give you rewards. Like

1:16:16

in addition to the regular mini bosses and stuff, there was

1:16:18

like, there's like this big, like

1:16:22

spiked chest and

1:16:24

it was firing off all kinds of spells

1:16:26

and had the huge life bar, like a

1:16:28

boss life bar. And

1:16:31

so like just like fighting a chest

1:16:33

essentially to get more that's inside of

1:16:35

it. Nice. And then

1:16:38

Damiani might like this. The mini

1:16:40

bosses and bosses have a stagger meter nice,

1:16:42

underneath their health bar. So you

1:16:45

get that stagger meter all the way

1:16:47

up. Classic. Get some free hits. Yep.

1:16:49

Poise damage. Nice. Love poise damage. Block

1:16:52

meter, show that to Jodo survivor. That's

1:16:54

a good game. Yeah. The

1:16:57

one boss they showed was like this big old troll

1:16:59

with like mushrooms growing out of his back swinging a

1:17:01

tree around. Oh, I like that. Last of us. Yeah.

1:17:04

Bloater. Bloater. Jeeber, I don't

1:17:06

know if you're familiar with this. No. Streets

1:17:09

of Rogue Two. It's a game I should

1:17:11

love, but I don't. Really? Actually

1:17:13

the first one, yeah. Streets

1:17:17

of Rouge. Yeah, I couldn't. I remember saying

1:17:19

that. Super get into the first one. Yeah.

1:17:23

I don't know. Jumping in the cart a boat is cool.

1:17:26

River City. I know, I know.

1:17:28

I should. Everything about this game, I should be obsessed

1:17:30

with. Writing a bear for people to wear what happened.

1:17:34

Yeah. There was just a little, there were

1:17:36

too many systems in the first one where

1:17:38

I got super overwhelmed. Because

1:17:41

it sounds like they really want you to be

1:17:43

able to do like anything. Yeah. Gigantic

1:17:46

sandbox. And what was

1:17:48

it? A Hawaii showdown? A visually generated map, which

1:17:50

I could see could go good or bad. What

1:17:52

is that game blood? Hawaii showdown. Showdown Hawaii. It's

1:17:55

like River City and like that. I vaguely know what

1:17:57

you're doing. Yeah. I've tried so hard

1:17:59

to get into these. and I have

1:18:02

not been able to, and just

1:18:04

all these menus and numbers and

1:18:06

items and crafts, there's just so

1:18:09

much here. Like

1:18:11

this just makes me be like, I should

1:18:13

get back into Dwarf Fort. Yeah. Yeah, because

1:18:16

they're like saying like even like the way you can

1:18:19

play, like I wrote down just like a few of

1:18:21

the different jobs that you

1:18:24

can have, like there's like a hacker,

1:18:26

a chef, a wrestler, a werewolf, a

1:18:28

ninja, an alien. A billion investment banker.

1:18:30

What's your job? Oh, I'm a werewolf.

1:18:33

So. Full time? Oh

1:18:35

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, nine to five. And

1:18:38

like what that shot that just like, he grew

1:18:40

a barrel in and gorillas popped out of it.

1:18:44

What are they doing then? There's just like a lot

1:18:46

of wacky stuff for sure. So

1:18:48

yeah, I can see how like maybe if there's like

1:18:50

a lack of focus, just like, oh

1:18:52

cool, you can do anything, but maybe it's

1:18:54

not necessarily always fun. It

1:18:57

looks really good

1:19:00

though. It looks like a big

1:19:02

time evolution of the first one. So if you love

1:19:04

the first one, I bet people

1:19:06

are freaking out about this one. Yeah. I

1:19:09

could see a game like this having a high

1:19:11

learning curve and then like once you get it,

1:19:13

you're like, I could see you spending a lot

1:19:15

of time. Yeah, because to be fair, when I

1:19:17

hopped into one, it wasn't the game I was

1:19:19

expecting. Right. Now I know what to expect. I

1:19:22

remember that. Like when we, when we went into

1:19:24

it, just expecting it to be a beat them

1:19:26

up. Yeah. And it was this insane

1:19:28

thing with all these systems. I remember you bouncing off of that. Yeah.

1:19:32

Oh yeah. This thing. 33

1:19:34

Immortals. Sick. We got to see

1:19:36

some gameplay on this guy. I

1:19:40

had forgotten that this game existed to be

1:19:42

honest. And it was like, it was making

1:19:44

this one. This is Thunder Lotus. They

1:19:47

did a Yotan and Spiritfarer. That's right.

1:19:49

Spiritfarer people. And this is a

1:19:51

co-op roguelike with 33 players. Wow.

1:19:56

I forgot about that element. Yeah. Crazy.

1:20:00

here too where people are comboing attacks. It's like

1:20:02

somebody sets up a thing, and then there's

1:20:04

two points for other players to hop in

1:20:06

and join whatever thing that they're

1:20:08

casting or whatever. Georgia Chambers. But

1:20:12

yeah, they essentially talk about it being

1:20:15

a pick up and play version

1:20:18

of an MMO raid, essentially.

1:20:20

The concept is incredible. I

1:20:24

love the idea of just being able to group up

1:20:26

in this kind of setting with a ton of people.

1:20:29

You were just saying a raid, the mini raids going

1:20:31

on. You have a reliquary.

1:20:33

I love how there's a shot in

1:20:35

here with two treasure chests, and each

1:20:37

one of them has three players working

1:20:39

together to unlock the chest. I think

1:20:41

as the game looks so intimate, you're

1:20:45

in there, combat looks really

1:20:48

focused, but then there's also 33 players?

1:20:52

It's a cool balance. Yeah, what's interesting

1:20:54

about that is I haven't seen too many

1:20:56

shots where it looks like there's that many

1:20:58

people on screen. Well, they were just showing

1:21:01

a map, which was interesting, and there were

1:21:03

people screaming. So I think there could be

1:21:05

some cool emergent moments in this where you

1:21:07

and three other people are working on a

1:21:09

giant skeleton, and then six

1:21:12

people roll in and help you kill it. That

1:21:14

could be really cool. Yeah,

1:21:17

lots of those little path

1:21:20

markers and stuff. We're

1:21:22

so used to four player come up. It's

1:21:26

like four players or a big

1:21:28

battlefield, 64, MMOs, like

1:21:30

hundreds, whatever, but 33. Well,

1:21:33

that boss looks like the camera zoomed way

1:21:35

out too, so it's like there must be

1:21:37

moments that are like, OK, everyone

1:21:39

beat all the parts of this level, now

1:21:41

converge on the mean boss. The boss room

1:21:43

is open. Yeah, you divide and conquer, and

1:21:45

then you all come and get a full

1:21:47

boss. I'm sure that there'll be notices like,

1:21:49

OK, something has happened in the

1:21:51

Northwest or whatever that everyone has to go on. Very

1:21:53

cool idea. Or something like that. It's neat.

1:21:56

Yeah, and they've got a closed beta coming to sign

1:21:58

up for May 25. 4th

1:22:03

here we go what do you mean here we go

1:22:05

I saw the next trailer oh

1:22:07

here we go yeah be rising here

1:22:09

we go yeah I could be a

1:22:11

castlevania update what do you know they'll

1:22:13

do they'll do anything except the elves

1:22:16

to make a game they'll do any

1:22:18

I'm like skipping this out of general

1:22:20

principle in protest yeah yeah just make

1:22:22

a game straight up skipping it

1:22:24

out of protest yep so this

1:22:26

is coming may 8 alongside

1:22:28

the 1.0 release of the looks

1:22:30

cool we're I think what's it yeah I

1:22:33

played be rising did we I don't

1:22:35

remember I feel like somebody's

1:22:38

played the rising but I don't know if we've ever

1:22:40

screamed it I can't remember for sure I mean this

1:22:43

area looks cool yeah I like the

1:22:45

rich deep color it looks the deep

1:22:47

rich color yeah and the the architecture

1:22:49

yeah so there's a couple of things

1:22:51

going on here so you're

1:22:53

seeing here this trailer starts

1:22:55

off with like basically just chilling

1:22:58

in the castle yeah and then he started

1:23:00

to see some of these other characters that

1:23:02

they've got in there but

1:23:05

then yeah flea man is in

1:23:09

there of all things but

1:23:12

then there is the

1:23:14

battle with Simon

1:23:16

Belmont Simon Belmont comes

1:23:18

knocking and

1:23:20

he doesn't knock and

1:23:24

oh yeah turning into the wolf is another one

1:23:26

of the things to that that's there but

1:23:29

so if you defeat Simon Belmont

1:23:31

then you can get the secrets of

1:23:33

his iconic weapon and

1:23:36

it seems like that fight

1:23:38

and and reward are free

1:23:42

all this other stuff pays yeah $20 cosmetic

1:23:44

pack hmm

1:23:47

so you for that you

1:23:50

get the the castles based on

1:23:52

Castlevania you could get to

1:23:54

traverse the open world with the soul of

1:23:56

the wolf dawn a la cards outfit and

1:23:59

body Maria to

1:24:02

move unnoticed among the realms

1:24:04

of man bring your Fantasy

1:24:06

to life because that's all it is now is

1:24:08

just a fantasy. It is a fancy Or

1:24:12

springs of the air than a stevia's flea man

1:24:15

You could play a flea man Sick

1:24:19

move unnoticed through the realms of man

1:24:25

Then there's two songs For

1:24:29

the castle Simon's theme and

1:24:31

bloody tears Play

1:24:40

you bloody tears on YouTube later.

1:24:42

Yeah reimagined by the v rising

1:24:44

composer Like

1:24:47

I say glass half full

1:24:50

Got a pulse Castlevania's got a

1:24:52

pulse got signs of life signs of life

1:24:55

proof of life. There's always hope it's Weezing

1:24:57

and coughing up dust coming out of

1:24:59

the crawlspace into the house. Yeah But

1:25:03

it's there nice So

1:25:06

yeah, so that wasn't everything from

1:25:08

triple-i but that was my highlights great

1:25:10

stuff There lot

1:25:12

of bangers. Yeah, that was a heck

1:25:14

of a lie dude Yeah for

1:25:17

how quickly that thing moved to and how

1:25:19

short it was yeah, that was one of

1:25:21

my Criticisms like there's too many things for

1:25:23

a 45 minute showcase Like I would have

1:25:25

rather like like I had to go

1:25:27

back and watch 33 immortals before I even remembered what

1:25:29

it was It just like was in and out that

1:25:31

fast and like oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah this game For

1:25:36

the minute though also feels like a

1:25:38

sweet spot for the collective streamers Where

1:25:41

it's like it's a good minute by

1:25:43

and you're not fatigued whatsoever Yeah, you

1:25:45

start going over an hour and then

1:25:47

I feel like a little more criticism

1:25:50

a little more fatigue starts to go

1:25:52

down It's like you're in and out. Boom.

1:25:54

It's a it's a good length It's just like with

1:25:57

a lot of these indie showcases, especially like when you

1:25:59

get the whole Also, I was thinking

1:26:01

of holes on Don and I and dummy

1:26:03

I mean I've reacted to wholesome over the

1:26:05

years And it's just like you get so

1:26:07

many like yeah to blend together It's like

1:26:09

three hours long and you're just like yo,

1:26:12

this is the 16th, which were the frog

1:26:14

farming game Yeah, and I

1:26:16

just need I need an aperitif here.

1:26:18

I needed sorbetto Yeah, cleanse

1:26:20

my palate for I thought it was getting

1:26:22

a little bit of that with the city

1:26:24

builders and the roguelike With

1:26:27

this one, you know Hannibal Sorry,

1:26:29

we're going off. Yeah, we're going off over

1:26:31

here. Yeah, we're losing our goddamn money Yeah,

1:26:33

there's a lot of a lot of content

1:26:35

there. What a good stuff. Yeah,

1:26:38

I'm except great day for video games. Yeah

1:26:41

Yes Fastas yeah,

1:26:43

it's been a good day. You know

1:26:45

eyes going Free

1:26:47

darkest dungeon content. What more could you

1:26:50

ask for just an actual castlevania game

1:26:52

in actual castlevania game? Yeah, yeah, I

1:26:54

would ask for that. Yeah, I agree.

1:26:56

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you. I'm willing to bet

1:29:05

my life the next time we see Castlevania, it'll

1:29:09

be a character in Dead by Daylight. Dracula

1:29:12

in Dead by Daylight. Hey,

1:29:15

could be. Yeah. I don't know how they

1:29:17

would get Belmont

1:29:20

or somebody in there who would be a survivor. I

1:29:22

mean those are just skins. They're

1:29:24

not. Oh no, they have abilities.

1:29:27

That's right. You could

1:29:29

put a Maria and the

1:29:31

Belmonts in there as survivors. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

1:29:34

But they'd be like OP. You couldn't do Alucard, he'd be

1:29:37

OP. But you could balance,

1:29:40

you know. Balancing a

1:29:42

Belmont would be a little

1:29:45

tricky. Yeah, they're humans though.

1:29:47

Mostly. Alucard, but the map

1:29:50

has sunlight. Oh no, that

1:29:52

doesn't make sense. Daywalker. You're

1:29:55

a flea man. You're a

1:29:57

flea man in Dead by Daylight. You

1:30:00

have to jump lock. Huber,

1:30:02

I know you haven't got a lot of time

1:30:05

in this yet, but don't worry about save your

1:30:07

list. You got like an hour in or so?

1:30:09

Barely not even. Okay. So brief. This came out

1:30:11

this week or last week. Yeah 2d

1:30:15

action platformer I

1:30:19

haven't really got into the like Metroidvania-ness

1:30:21

of it. I don't even know if

1:30:23

it is like Metroidvania The

1:30:25

beginning is really slow. That's why I'm I'm

1:30:28

bummed. I'm talking about it today and not

1:30:30

next week because I Hardly

1:30:32

even got to combat really.

1:30:35

The premise is storytelling, which I really

1:30:38

like the the there are these you

1:30:40

know Like

1:30:44

What sort of looking for they look like

1:30:47

there are gods or something I guess

1:30:49

there's like these godlike people talking about stories

1:30:52

and like what it means What

1:30:55

what is the story? What is the meaning

1:30:57

of a story? And okay, it's like the

1:30:59

the person is like yeah the narrator has

1:31:01

complete control over the story and we

1:31:04

don't want the hero to win, but then the other person

1:31:06

is like They're like

1:31:08

what good is the story if the hero doesn't prevail?

1:31:11

and then you like play as this this character

1:31:14

and The goal

1:31:16

is to get to this island and to

1:31:18

become a savior, which I don't even really

1:31:20

know what that entails yet The

1:31:24

art style is really nice it controls very well

1:31:26

the Beginning though

1:31:28

for a little while is very

1:31:30

simple puzzles. You know you're flipping

1:31:33

levers. You're pushing boxes You're

1:31:36

avoiding like spikes and

1:31:38

enemies What I didn't

1:31:40

really know was that there are multiple

1:31:42

playable characters Oh, I got

1:31:44

to a second playable character that

1:31:47

was just like this weird

1:31:49

floating Beast type

1:31:52

character and then all of a sudden.

1:31:54

I was like clawing things Clawing

1:31:56

this like boss enemy and the

1:31:59

bad there was history there like the

1:32:01

story and the art style have me committed

1:32:03

also I've heard this game is pretty short

1:32:05

it's like four or five hours so

1:32:09

yeah just the feel of it the feel

1:32:11

of this game is my jam because it's

1:32:14

very melancholic like there is a sadness to

1:32:16

this game and what is going on yeah

1:32:19

there's some freakos in here there's some good

1:32:21

freakos so I'm excited to play more I

1:32:23

just I just barely tasted it yeah

1:32:26

that's where I was that's the part I did that boss

1:32:29

you know just kind of a Mega Man style

1:32:31

where the boss is like rolling at you sideways you

1:32:33

do enough damage then all of a sudden they'll start

1:32:35

like rolling up and down trying

1:32:37

to attack you but yeah

1:32:40

just a just a unique look and

1:32:43

an emphasis on this

1:32:45

mysterious story have me

1:32:47

committed it looks for some

1:32:49

reason it looked like the missing

1:32:52

to me yeah yeah a

1:32:54

little bit yeah which

1:32:57

I love that game I wish I could talk about it more

1:32:59

but that's so you know after an hour that was pretty much

1:33:02

all I did move some boxes pull some levers but

1:33:05

again I feel like

1:33:07

it's going to escalate

1:33:09

because of what I've seen pre-release

1:33:13

and then just like where I where I

1:33:15

ended up playing as that character with like

1:33:17

clawing enemies so yeah I'm excited to

1:33:19

see how it evolves and then obviously

1:33:21

the big thing will be how the story connects because

1:33:23

it is it is just really cool and somber about

1:33:26

like this you know the

1:33:28

definition of what a story is and

1:33:30

what we want out of a story

1:33:32

because that's like you know part

1:33:34

of being a human we love stories so

1:33:37

try to do for that yeah now

1:33:40

let's talk about why you didn't get to play more of

1:33:42

that game yeah let's try you've been

1:33:44

oh my job it is a bit

1:33:46

talk about Bellatro or Bellatro whatever it

1:33:49

is we finally got you

1:33:51

I finally I finally played this since you

1:33:54

started I started I finally

1:33:56

beat it last night I played a

1:33:58

shitload of it Jodi no I I... yo.

1:34:02

I love poker, I love gambling, I love

1:34:04

cards, I love card games, I love roguelikes,

1:34:06

this is all of those things together! I

1:34:08

was so confused when you seemed like uninterested

1:34:10

in playing like this. Well, because I kept

1:34:12

wanting to stream my first play of it,

1:34:16

and it just like hadn't worked out, because I was like working

1:34:18

on other things, I've been watching my grandpa for the last two

1:34:20

weeks, I'm watching him for like three more weeks, so

1:34:22

I wasn't able- Oh, I haven't seen that card! I

1:34:25

was wondering about those, I was like, dude, there's two

1:34:27

like, planet cards! Okay,

1:34:30

so this game

1:34:32

is the most addicting game

1:34:34

of the year. Yeah. This

1:34:36

is quintessential one more run, one more

1:34:38

run, one more run. Yeah, until your

1:34:40

eyes bleed. Until your eyes bleed, it

1:34:43

has the best economy of the year so

1:34:45

far, without a doubt. It

1:34:48

is poker for like one

1:34:51

round, and then it becomes- Yeah, yeah! And

1:34:54

then it becomes just madness and chaos,

1:34:56

and how do I stack this

1:34:59

deck to score

1:35:01

a billion points? Yeah, because it

1:35:04

is score multiplier of the game,

1:35:06

in a lot of different dimensions, so

1:35:09

the poker element is

1:35:11

basically just the familiarity with the

1:35:13

cards, the basic cards, and

1:35:16

the hands, right? So you get your straights and your flushes

1:35:18

and your full house, and all of that, but

1:35:22

it's like, even like, your quote-unquote

1:35:24

opponents aren't really opponents. You're

1:35:27

just fighting to hit a

1:35:29

goal score with things that

1:35:31

are there, like, screwed with your head. There's

1:35:34

bosses with modifiers, but it's not like a

1:35:36

literal boss. Like, one of the

1:35:38

last ones I did was like, you can only play this one kind

1:35:40

of hand. Yeah, yeah, you

1:35:42

can play that one. So like, whatever you start

1:35:44

off with, you just have to do that for

1:35:47

the rest of that round, and you get a

1:35:49

limited number of hands, and

1:35:51

a limited number of discards, and

1:35:53

those can be increased in different ways.

1:35:55

Yes, so let me sell you

1:35:58

on this game if you're like, I don't like cards. Like

1:36:00

first up this is one of the highest reviewed games of the

1:36:03

year if you love games you should at least be curious About

1:36:06

it from the jump like this

1:36:08

is this is taking the

1:36:10

world by storm straight up Yeah, I mean that

1:36:12

point again I played it only because everybody's playing

1:36:15

exactly you're playing it so we're gonna talk about

1:36:17

it Yeah, I decided to jump in amazing. I

1:36:19

don't play a lot of card games There are

1:36:21

some that I've gotten into in the past yeah,

1:36:23

but I picked this up, and

1:36:26

then it's like oh It's four hours later.

1:36:28

This was this game is just time I

1:36:30

guess the music blood the saw the main

1:36:32

theme song is Incredible

1:36:34

I'm addicted, but I

1:36:37

think a sell to to you if you're

1:36:39

not into cards is that

1:36:43

Each run is self-contained.

1:36:46

This is not about Collecting

1:36:49

a million cards and then fine-tuning

1:36:51

that deck and trying to make

1:36:53

this But it's like you're making

1:36:55

your deck each run,

1:36:58

so I feel like that huge

1:37:00

level of like grind and crafting

1:37:04

and all of that is Really

1:37:07

streamlined because like every game you

1:37:09

play you get to a shop, and

1:37:11

it's like okay I just have a couple choices here.

1:37:13

What am I gonna do? Okay next shop? Okay a

1:37:15

couple choices. It's not Overwhelming

1:37:18

at all my other sell Robo

1:37:21

Domiani we just lost on me honey Hmm

1:37:25

What do you do? Tommy I

1:37:27

use back amazing my other cell

1:37:30

is that the amount of?

1:37:33

strategy here Is

1:37:38

exceeded my expectations. I'm blown away by

1:37:40

how many different types of Decks

1:37:45

I had yeah just every time I play

1:37:48

one. It's like okay I got

1:37:50

this card in this card in this card this time. I'm gonna

1:37:52

focus on three of a kind Then

1:37:54

I just started playing like three of a kind three of a

1:37:56

kind three of kind It was scoring huge points, then I had

1:37:58

another deck where it was like If you

1:38:01

play spades, and if you play face

1:38:03

cards you get extra points I

1:38:05

had a card where it was like every card you play

1:38:08

is considered a face card, so it's like

1:38:10

huge Points

1:38:12

going on so just the amount of strategy

1:38:15

is Streamlined

1:38:18

so well where it doesn't feel overwhelming, and

1:38:20

that's my biggest sell on Balachro and white

1:38:22

so addicting Balachro or

1:38:24

balachro as the trailer says right yeah,

1:38:26

yeah, who knows what it is. It's

1:38:29

gonna be a chocoboh situation Yeah,

1:38:31

the yeah the big the big thing

1:38:33

is is the jokers The

1:38:36

jokers yeah, yes, because there's a lot of

1:38:38

different types of cards The jokers are the

1:38:40

simple the big deal so you can have

1:38:42

up to five jokers unless you get a

1:38:44

card that can give you more Yeah, yeah,

1:38:46

but basically like five jokers yeah, and each one

1:38:48

of these things Will give

1:38:50

you certain buffs modifiers

1:38:53

And so it's like it'll be like spade

1:38:55

any spade card is times four multiplier right

1:38:58

like holographic will Automatically like add

1:39:01

yeah rare cards to your multiplier

1:39:03

on your score. Yeah, that's the

1:39:05

thing. It's like the points so

1:39:09

It's funny because it's like there's so many different layers.

1:39:11

It's like simple mine, but yeah Yeah,

1:39:13

but there's like a lot of different layers to

1:39:15

like how you build up your points

1:39:17

And so it's like okay the type

1:39:19

of hand that you play so like

1:39:21

play two pairs Yeah, like that has

1:39:23

a score associated for playing that hand

1:39:25

Yeah, and then you can level

1:39:28

of the hards has a score that adds

1:39:30

to it. Yeah but then

1:39:32

there's also a multiplier and The

1:39:36

jokers can augment all of those different

1:39:38

things yeah, but then there are also

1:39:40

like the planet cards you plan it

1:39:42

cards You can level up a chance

1:39:44

will give you more chips and more

1:39:46

multiplier There's arcana cards when you can

1:39:48

completely stack your deck. It'll

1:39:50

be like change three cards into spades

1:39:53

So I'm like okay I'm gonna I'm gonna get rid

1:39:55

of all my diamonds and make a whole deck of

1:39:57

spades and now I'm playing flushes straight flushes It's like

1:39:59

It is crazy. But then they

1:40:01

also have all these, they create all these special

1:40:04

types of cards. He's not gonna let you do

1:40:06

it. Just let him do it. I think the

1:40:08

biggest part is like, do you like strategy? And

1:40:10

I think such a huge part of any, not

1:40:13

any, but a large part of why humans love

1:40:15

video games, there's a

1:40:17

bunch of reasons. There's narrative, there's music,

1:40:21

there's the visuals. Strategy

1:40:24

is a big one. And this

1:40:27

game's strategy to me is a

1:40:29

10 out of 10. Whether you are

1:40:31

a seasoned poker professional or you have

1:40:33

never played a card game, I feel

1:40:36

like you can pick this game up

1:40:38

and feel like you're one

1:40:40

card away from just breaking it.

1:40:42

And it's so rewarding. It's so

1:40:44

satisfying when you do. I

1:40:47

just, I can't get enough and I'm squeezing

1:40:50

in games just every, every day, every night.

1:40:52

I'm gonna be playing this all year long.

1:40:54

It's funny here because I have a giant

1:40:56

pile of games that I want to play

1:40:58

and so now I'm so happy that last

1:41:01

night I was like, alright,

1:41:04

we're gonna talk about on podcast, I'll do one run before

1:41:06

I go to bed. And that

1:41:08

was the run where I actually beat it.

1:41:11

I got through all eight and ten. For

1:41:13

the first time. The progression is actually really nice

1:41:15

too because again, you're not unlocked.

1:41:18

There are, there's like

1:41:20

150 jokers. You unlock

1:41:22

a lot. You don't build a deck.

1:41:25

You unlock like 20 or 30 possibly.

1:41:27

But all the other cards are in

1:41:29

play from the jump, which I really

1:41:31

appreciate. Again, this is not some BS

1:41:34

Hearthstone crap where it's like, okay, well

1:41:36

I just don't have that card. I

1:41:38

need to like grind and play and

1:41:40

convert all my cards so I can

1:41:42

make that one to make this perfect

1:41:44

deck. It's like, no. Every

1:41:46

run, self-contained, very

1:41:49

little barrier to entry. Again, you

1:41:51

can unlock those a little

1:41:54

more powerful cards, but then that's also rewarding because

1:41:56

it's like, yo, I've been playing. I've

1:41:59

earned that. Card and again, there's

1:42:01

not many of those so I really appreciate that.

1:42:03

Yeah, and then you can unlock new decks as

1:42:05

well So it's just like just

1:42:07

enough Progression just

1:42:09

enough carrot on the stick to

1:42:12

you know Make

1:42:14

it even more rewarding when you finish a

1:42:16

run. Yeah, and the other decks they're like

1:42:18

they're very Specific things that like yeah play

1:42:20

into a strategy or not. Like I think

1:42:22

one is like Plus like

1:42:24

you get extra You're

1:42:28

gonna hold extra cards. Yeah, like one of them

1:42:30

is like you start with ten extra bucks Yeah,

1:42:33

right. Let's go the cash run and

1:42:35

there's like all kinds of weird little strategies. Yeah

1:42:37

shop to you Oh my god more than five

1:42:39

cash then you get interest you get interest So

1:42:41

it's like do I want to spend my money

1:42:43

now? Do I wait? It's like there is just

1:42:47

They're constantly interesting decisions super I

1:42:49

had a satisfying. I think it

1:42:52

was a joker Where

1:42:55

if I didn't use any discards, yes, it

1:42:57

would give me like ten bucks at the

1:42:59

end of the round Oh fun. Yeah, well

1:43:01

my favorite jokers is the one where you

1:43:04

get a 15 15

1:43:07

to your multiplier if you have no discards

1:43:09

left. Yep. So just like get rid of

1:43:11

all yeah I

1:43:13

got in trouble with that one time. I was

1:43:16

like trying to draw my flush. It's a trap.

1:43:18

Yeah It's a trap and

1:43:20

then just other ones where it's like yo the

1:43:22

longer you keep this joker the more valuable it

1:43:24

gets But it doesn't give you any benefits. Yeah

1:43:26

money when you sell it. So it's like, oh,

1:43:29

that's like clogging up a spot Yeah, do I

1:43:31

just want to sell this now and get a

1:43:33

different one? Like it's just constantly Asking

1:43:37

you questions and again, it's like

1:43:40

it's not out of a

1:43:42

hundred, you know, there's not a hundred possibilities for

1:43:44

that question It's like you have

1:43:46

like three possibilities for so it's like, okay, which

1:43:49

which of these I'm gonna do But that happens

1:43:51

every single round every single round every round. Yeah,

1:43:54

okay. How about now? Okay I got that one

1:43:56

last round. So now this next one I'm gonna

1:43:58

start building on top of that So

1:44:00

it's just yeah, it's so simple and

1:44:02

fun the one I want the one

1:44:05

last night here. I had Two

1:44:08

of my jokers were like basically like

1:44:10

they just in kept increasing in value

1:44:12

the longer it went Yeah, because one

1:44:14

it would increase the

1:44:16