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Hello and welcome to an only episode of Freeze Frames per second,

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the little video gaming spin-off podcast from anime brain freeze.

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Uh, yeah, we...

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We have been saying we're gonna do these sporadically whenever time is available and when we want to do it

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and when we have played enough games and we have done that

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over the past weeks, months, whatever, so it's about time we do another one of these because otherwise

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these these games are gonna pile up and I will at least I will have forgotten all about the ones I

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played. It's gonna be hard already in this one, so yeah. Yeah, I mean same on a save up for getting

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stuff. Yeah, which is not a problem really unless it's a story having... Hey, I'm gonna like wait,

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what was this again? We're... but also you could argue then it didn't make a lasting impression

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or whatever, which is also part of a review, I guess. But anyway, yeah, let's just get right into

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the play buffet. [Music]

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John will start us off with a couple of retro pickups from local conventions if I'm not mistaken.

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Yeah, I like going to some local conventions like...

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There's a few big ones I like hitting. I'm not going to say the names of the local ones

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for my own peace of mind, but I like going to Pax East, going to New York anime, they changed

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the name of it. It used to be called New York Anime Fest and I think it's just anime NYC,

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that's what it's called now. Much to the chagrin of me not liking what Crunchyroll does, but it's,

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you know, one of the vendors that I like goes there and they have lots of lots and lots of retro games.

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Didn't pick anything up from them this year, but one of the local ones I went to, I found a whole bunch

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of good stuff. I got some super Famicom games. Final Fantasy's 4 through 6 and say condense,

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that's 2, 3, the dude was so long, dirt cheap and it was pretty hard to say no for two $10 a pop.

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I assume those came without the box and the manual and whatever.

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Yeah, just the cartridges, which is fine. I mean, I have a lot of loose cartridges sitting

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around now and I need to figure out a solution for that because...

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I mean, there are options for that. I remember even back in the day, I had like these plastic folder

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thingies that were suited for a Super Nintendo game. Yeah, I just need to do something about it.

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That's the issue. I need to do it. Again, you've been playing lately Soul Blazer.

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Yes, that is not in my playlist because I just finished it today.

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And also, it's part of a playthrough of the Quintet trilogy. I guess it's five games that

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kind of are somewhat related to each other but I'm only playing the three that are related to

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illusion of Gaia, which was the actual game I wanted to replay and I was like, "Hey, I've never played

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Soul Blazer. Hey, I've never played Teranigma." So, yeah, played Soul Blazer for the first time.

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Like that, gonna talk more extensively about the next time we do this enough of the other two games.

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Yeah, the through line on those games is pretty clear. Actory, so one and two are sort of

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tangentially there. Yeah, they all have the master, right? And an angel coming down from heaven or whatever.

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You being the master yourself and whatever. But again, we're gonna talk more about this when

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we talk about the three games that I'm playing right now. Super Adventure Island too, which is a game I

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sort of touched on off through emulation, but I was like, yeah, I want a copy of this because it's

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very much a departure from the rest of Adventure Island in that it's more Metroid-ish where you're

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going around various maps, getting upgrades and whatnot. It's not like the Street Forward platform

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or all the other Adventure Islands are, which is cool. And Rockman 4, because you know, add another

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Rockman cartridge to the pile. Last year, the full series now, or are you still missing some of the

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original ones? I have four and five, I think. I wanted to get three at one point. This show I went to

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last year, they had three, four and five. And I wanted to just nab all of them, but they didn't take

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card. So it's like, and I didn't have any cash on, but you're like, hey, you can just venbo us and I was like,

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cool. So I paid for that one. I got it. I got in my hands and now I've got that I still haven't put

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any of those card-credits into my poly mega yet to install the ROMs on there, some so I can miss

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around with them, but you know, me, if not this weekend eventually, I will. So, yeah, those were the

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major name pickups from this this convention season as it were. I think, I think at packs, I picked up

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a couple of things. What was I think it was a couple of the level five games on PS2. I think I picked

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up a copy of, oh, God, what was that one action or row galaxy? Yes, I think we talked about this

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the last time. Did we? Maybe we did. I don't remember, Galaxy, and I mentioned that I remember liking it a

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lot, but I don't remember anything about the story. Right. It was rogue Galaxy and then something else.

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So it's man, I probably said it then, but level five came out swinging with the first few games on

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the PS2, like both the dark clouds, Dragon Quest 8, rogue Galaxy. What a stack to line up.

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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's pretty much all of that. Cool. Yeah, I didn't go to any

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conventions, pick up any retro games. I mean, I played a couple of retro games or retro style games,

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and now currently playing actual Super Nintendo games. So looking forward to more of that, because

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definitely wasn't the mood for some nostalgia stuff, but we also played both of us, some modern

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games, some very modern games actually, and shockingly modern. Shockingly modern. Yes. So the first

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couple, I guess, duo that both of us play is Mario Kart World, the first Mario Kart

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since Mario Kart 8 deluxe, I guess, and the first launch title for the Switch 2.

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And also the new Sonic Racing game that came out, Sonic Racing Crossworlds.

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I guess two very comparable games that they are kart racers and have a very similar-ish flavor,

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or very comparable in certain regards. Of course, also I have the differences and stuff like that, but

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you could see the influence of Mario Kart in Sonic Racing. And I believe

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well, you could also argue that Diddy Kong Racing had some influence later,

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later, installments of Mario Kart in terms of what you were able to do there, and the same

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had influence on Sonic Racing. Yeah, I mean, I never played a whole lot of Diddy Kong racing.

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I feel like Mario Kart looked at the way that game did drifting after Mario Kart 64, and was like,

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yeah, that looks pretty good. Yeah, because drifting in any game, well, I'm Super Mario Kart,

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and Mario Kart 64 drifting in those games was rough and frustrating, you might as well have

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just driven straight through every curve. Yeah, that's true. Which is a lot of like,

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a lot of general racing games that are not kart racers, I feel like I have a problem with the

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drifting mechanics where I feel like they should handle differently, they should handle more

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arcadey and you're just running into wall over and over again, you have to break a lot, and that

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doesn't feel satisfying to me. Which I feel like these two games don't do, so they're usually very

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much to my liking, just in terms of base mechanics. You know, you got your boots, you got your drifts,

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you've got the item pickups that have pretty much the same flavor across both games, just in different

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variations, you know, you have your rockets, you have your minds, whatever. And yeah, that is the case

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here as well. I guess two new things, both of them have, like, or each one of them offers a new

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new thing that wasn't really in the series before. And Mario Kart World is open world now, I still

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don't know, I suggest. And Sonic Racing Crossworld has you like being able to drive through portals

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and switch from racing tracks to different racing tracks to different worlds, basically.

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And I don't know, you feel about these two features just in general, John.

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What, how do you feel about them? Like, I think, I think it's better executed in Sonic

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Crossworlds. I would agree with that because yeah, you're going through different portals and,

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you know, but you are, it boils down to, it's still a bespoke track that you are racing on. And,

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you know, it's got different obstacles and different, different, different, Mario Kart World,

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you're racing on highways. Yeah. Wow. Whoa, look at this street line to this street line.

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The actual, the tracks that are actual tracks are neat, but they're so few and far between.

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And I guess people found a way to be able to race on them online if you picked random.

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And then Nintendo was like, no, no, no, that's not how we want you to play the game you paid for.

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And they patched that out, which is like, for what purpose? And then the open, and then the open

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world maps, like, yeah, it's big and you can explore it. And yeah, that's pretty much it.

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Yeah. I was expecting when they were like, hey, this is more like, oh, okay, so you can't,

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I have to normal tracks, but you can also go off track and free row mode and just have activities

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everywhere, like you usually have no more games. You maybe have some trick sections, you can maybe

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on the usual tracks, do some other stuff, not just the races, you know, like burnout, maybe,

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where you have like the crash courses, you have the racing courses, there's the elimination stuff,

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stuff like that, right? The elimination races and things like that. And I was expecting something

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like that from Mario Kart World, and also like, hey, here's some secret sitting, maybe some costumes

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hitting. And technically that is in there, but that's also on the tracks because the additional

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costumes you can pick up during the races, if you get the right item, it is easier in free row mode

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where you can just go around and spawn that shit over and over again, if you still missing one

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costume, but technically, technically, you can also pick them up on normal tracks.

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Some of the characters you unlock are so weirdly specifically, you have to be in a race at a

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specific position, hope someone spawns Camac, and then he has to zap you and hope you turn into that

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character, which one's like, it's like, that's stupid man, come on. Here we is this game coming out in.

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Yeah, for that, the free row mode is definitely better.

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Like if it works, like if, if, if, I don't know if that works for all the costumes you need to get,

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or if you have to get some of them in actual races, I think some of them you do need to be in actual

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race, like the Camac ones, so great. Okay. But I think the main problem and you already touched on that

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for my card world is that due to the open world nature of it, all or a lot of it's racing is

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lacking an identity, like there are no, like, I don't, or there are a couple of identifiable,

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identifiable tracks, but a lot of them are merging into each other where you like, you have to one track

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that is kind of closed, but then it's open up, so, and you drive through the new one, and that

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becomes the next race. And so all of these tracks are kind of blending into each other,

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and you don't have that many differences between them, and also the music constantly switches,

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it's not, switches is not one specific, music track for one specific race track. I guess the music I

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have less of an issue with only because it, this is like a smash brother style soundtrack where it's

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like, can you think of a song from a Mario game? It's in there, and it's a really cool version of it.

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Yeah, I get it, but then the thing is, okay, then I'm going to listen to that as a soundtrack while

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working or whatever, or doing anything else. When I'm doing the race, I want specific songs,

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like, that are geared specifically towards that race track, because I don't know, that just belongs to

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me in this kind of, in this kind of racing game. I get you, that's true. That's, that, that just

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bothered me, because it felt like I'm just going through the motions, there are a couple of, like,

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the first mushroom couple, or whatever, at the end, the Donkey Kong level or whatever it is.

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That was pretty identifiable. Everything that came before that was just like, okay, I don't even remember

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which was which, and the tracks are very wide, because now you also have an increased

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amount of drivers on the track, so the road needs to be wider, so everyone fits, needs can fit on

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there, which makes it feel slower, even the higher CC ranks and whatever. So I just, it wasn't really my

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thing. I played the shit out of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I played, played through all of the, the different

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cups and all the different leaks or whatever, up to 200, I think. I don't know if I perfected them all,

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got three stars everywhere, but I at least got gold everywhere that I know.

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Said I didn't do. I just raced on everything and then when someone was like, hey, let's play

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Marriacar, okay. Yeah, but I really love that game. There were so many tracks that I enjoyed, like I think

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that version of Mount Wario was one of my favorite tracks, and that's where the music stuff

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plays into it, because I think the music was so well employed in that, in that, in that particular

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track where you go down the slope, on the snow, and everything, and then the music really picks up for

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the third lap, and it's like really this high speed downhill race, and it's super exciting. I think

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that is one of the perfect Mario Kart tracks and perfect Mario Kart music tracks and everything.

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And I love that. And Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I love that shit. And in Mario Kart World, I mean, I haven't

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played it as much of course, and really went through all the cups only once in 50, I think. And after

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that, I was like, okay, I think I'm done. Yeah, I think I only did one or two of the GPs and 100 CC.

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I'm going to go back and eventually just do them all just to have all the tracks unlocked, because

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there's a final GP though in locks, have to be all the others. So, yeah, I didn't, yeah, I didn't play

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eight quite as extensively as you, but man, eight is crazy, because it's basically at this point,

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got two and a half games worth of content. Yes, yes, that's that. I mean, work can still get there. I

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don't know if it will. I feel like a lot of people have cooled on it pretty quickly after it's released

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from what I could go together. But now that race is cool. Yeah, sure. I don't even know if I've

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played much of that, but yeah, the idea is I played it a whole bunch, and I got my one win, and I was like,

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I'm done. Let's go. Yeah. But it looks pretty. Let's, you know, it's a pretty smart, you know, of course.

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It's very pretty. It looks good. It sounds good. Set the soundtrack is asus, even though I'm missing

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just the the track specific music and everything, but people for weeks were still finding new songs in

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there. I think there was a playlist with like 300 songs and it's like, how did you fit this much in?

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Hear what? Like the memorial paint songs in there. What? What do you mean?

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Yeah, sure. Everyone is here, even cows for some reason. Yeah, I don't get that, but okay.

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Hey, they were in all the Mario Kart games before, I guess, or in a lot of them, so why not make one

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of them a driver makes that I guess. I guess. I guess. But yeah, I don't know when if I would go back

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to it, maybe if I'll take the switch on a road and have like, have like someone around to play against,

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maybe I'll play some of the other GPs or whatever, we'll see, but for now I'm not itching to

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pick up Mario Kart World again, which wasn't the case for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for me. But I'm itching

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to play a pick up Sonic racing cross-welds again, because I had a really good time with that one.

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I think their track designs are cool. That also has a bit of a problem with track identity,

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but like you said, it's more still, it's still singular tracks that have just two different variations.

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But it still feels like, you know, a singular track that is not bleeding into another one.

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It's just, or two singular tracks that are mixed together, but they're not bleeding into any other

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one in the same cup after that. Except for the final one that you do in every

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cup is a mix-up of all of them, I think, but I think I actually need idea, but it also feels a little

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bit like a cup out. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they could have just, you know, reduced the numbers of

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cups and just put, you know, one more in each of the cups and feels like, hey, you're gonna get more

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cups down the road, maybe or whatever. So that would have been so being fine. Like, look, the

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last one would be like, this best off of the tracks you just raised just before this feels kind of

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like an, okay, you could maybe have done this in the last one where the last one is like maybe longer,

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not just three laps, but I don't know, however many, just all the tracks that you just played and

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you have to really get your stamina in or whatever and to a lap for each of them. That would have

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been neat, but that would be a heck of a race. Yeah. So that you could have done that, but yeah,

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if I ever lamented on a recording that in regards to Mario Karton different tracks, that they are a bunch

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of cowards for not making a great breeze that is entirely rainbow roads. I thought that they,

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I mean, you know, cowards. Yes, but, but come on, Nintendo, Nintendo, come on. Yeah, don't be cowards.

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Rainbow Cup. I mean, maybe do this one. And I want to say the, the cross, the drive up in Maracot

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World 2 rainbow road was pretty, kind, pretty epic. Like that felt pretty cool. You could just

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launched up into space and whatever. That, that was pretty, pretty neat. But, yeah, you're right.

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Like, they should maybe do Mario Kart, where it's like just rainbow roads like, or maybe some day.

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I haven't played all of Sonic Racing Crosswalls yet, not all tracks because because I was like,

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Mega Man is going to, it's not going to be long until our blue, blue main man is in the game. So

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I'm just going to experience it. The rest of the tracks, I only play through one cup, I think,

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with, with, with, with, rock, when he is released. And they really put, I was so happy. I was,

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before they confirmed that I was like, hey, if they don't put his cart from battling chase in there,

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what are we even doing? And then they did it. Yeah, that would have been like, what, come on.

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What do you mean you didn't do that? But, I mean, I remember when the leaks were, like, there was,

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there were some people at some event and they've got some promo material and the Mega Man logo is

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on there and everyone was like, what, what do you mean? Hold on, hold on. What? And then that kind of

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forced Sega's hand and they were like, here's a trailer. So that was cool to see. Is

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you coming in general or something? If Capcom won't do our boy right, someone else will.

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At least we're getting collections. I guess the only one still not announced at this point is

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a legend's collection. We'd see if that is actually going to happen. I mean, the insane amount of

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cope when people were like, is pragmatas secretly a Mega Man? Shut shut what do you shut up? Stop, stop it.

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No, it's a role game because, you know, the girl is actually role. Oh my god. The guy is

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doxelied. Yeah, I would see. I doubt that as well, but it was funny listening to that.

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I don't know if I'll ever play pragmatas because it sounds too much like a puzzle game and like

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it would be really stressful, but also people have said it's super fun. So I guess I'm going to check out

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the demo or whatever before I buy it. Yeah, it looks cool. I'm going to check that out. But yeah,

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terms of the two card races we played, I definitely would recommend Sonic Racing crossroads over Mario

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Cardworld unless you are a diet Mario fan and hate Sonic, which, okay, fair. But I feel like the two

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fandoms are so intertwined at this point though. That's true. I mean, they've been in each other's comics

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at this point. There's been, no, this is the next big crossover. For again, there's another

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crossover, come after this where there's supposed to be Sonic levels coming to Pac-Man world

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repack too, which is awesome. They showed a trailer for that deal. I was like, what do you mean I'm

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running a running Green Hill as Pac-Man, huh? Yeah, sure. Why not? But yeah, the rival rivalry is long

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that. I mean, that has been relegated to the Sonic at the Olympic Games, I guess maybe, I don't

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even know if Mario appears in that. Sonic at Mario at the Olympic Games, right? Yeah, I don't.

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I think the next Sonic Olympic Games is supposed to just be Sonic characters, so I think

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if they'll put Mario in the switch version of Sonic Racing Cross Wars, I don't want Mario and Sonic

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to have had a falling out after all this time. That would make me actually really sad if they're like,

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oh, Mario and Sonic can't cross over anymore. So come on, really? Why? Yeah, I don't know. But

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yeah, definitely in terms of these two games, I would recommend Sonic Racing over Mario Kart World.

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And, you know, I love Mario Kart at Deluxe, but I also love Sonic Racing Transform, which is also

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next to Mario Kart. Yes. Probably my favorite card racer and they might be on the same level. And

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I was disappointed with Sonic Team Racing, so I'm glad that Sonic Racing Cross Wars definitely

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goes back into more of the Transform thing, even though I'm missing Sega All-Star's bit, which

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a bit is in there, of course, now because we have crossover characters from other games, so it's

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not just Sonic characters anymore. Yeah, so see, it can race as Ichiban and races as you can race as

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Hatsune Miku can also race as Joker from Persona, so there's some stuff in there and

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Megaman like we said, so that's cool. I just, if it's only the Sonic characters, I'm like, okay,

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whatever, but if it's more guest characters and stuff, I'm all on board.

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It feels like Sonic Racing is the proper successor to like Mario Kart arcade GP.

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Which was the big crossover game they had. I love Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as well. I'm still a little

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disappointed. They didn't lean further into it and make it more like smash cart just bring in everyone.

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Like at one point, I remember there were rumors like Kirby is going to be a playable character.

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I was like, put him in. Yeah, sure. That made it.

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And we'll see, maybe they'll do that in world because there are already so many outlander's

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characters in there, but it's all just Mario characters like in 8 we had the villager in Link and

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we had who was bluefell. It was about. Yeah, that was nice.

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We did have a Falcon, right? We only had a, just, just,

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had the car, big blue and, oh god, there's the other true, mute city. That's a, yeah,

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I want a new F-0 to everyone does, but the title won't give it to us. Yeah, we'll see.

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Hey, you can now play Mario Kart, Mario Kart, F-0GX on, on Switch Online on the GameCube.

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That, that's nice. That's not what people want. Yeah, it's a proper remaster.

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It's that we're getting Kirby, our, our writers. I want to talk about that for a quick second.

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We didn't put it on the docket, but I played a little bit of the network test last weekend.

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That game's pretty fun and I think it's going to be a really good.

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I think there's another network test either right now or later on today.

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Yeah, I'm interested in it. The thing is, I heard this game is more about this city,

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free-rome thing and I've more into normal, the normal racing stuff, so I don't know much

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that game will be for me. Well, I think you'll still be able to do regular races.

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Yes, you can, but it's not the main focus. But I mean, yeah, city trial will be the big focus,

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but you just want your, your regular old, did that regular old race? You could just,

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you can go do that and I'm sure there will be plenty of people playing that mode.

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People have been so starved for Kirby, our writer since when did it release on the GameCube?

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Jesus, I don't know, but it's been a minute and you know, and it was a big,

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cult favorite and I never played it back then. Me neither, which we'll talk about in a,

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in a little bit that now I have no reason not to, but now that there is a new game coming out and

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it looks really nice and it plays really well, I'm actually really excited for it.

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Yeah, I'll definitely look into it. I mean, there are a lot of other games coming

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out that I want to play one in two weeks for, I think, when is Metroid Prime for coming out?

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Like two, two, three weeks? It's the first week of December. So I need to be done with

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a illusion of Guy Antara and Nigma until then because then it's going to be all Metroid, baby.

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I, yeah, I'm putting that on my Christmas list, so I'm not getting it right away. So,

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yeah, I hope I can, I will do my best to avoid, but I mean, I don't know about you, but I use

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Twitter and Blue Sky so sparingly nowadays, avoiding spoilers just seems really easy for me.

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I do it way too much, but I feel like people spoiling shit on Blue Sky is not as bad as it was on Twitter.

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It's like they're less intentionally as foolish people around to try to slide into comments of

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people posting about the game and then posting screenshots of end-game stuff and, you know,

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importancies from movies that are constantly on Twitter on Blue Sky, I have encountered that,

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I don't know, never. Just someone maybe accidentally just talking about it without thinking about

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that is an end-game thing that they're talking about. So, and if it's, if I'm too incessant on,

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oh god, I don't want to know anything about the story of this game, I'm just not going to use it

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until I've played the game, I just not going to use social media, but just in general, good idea.

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Don't use social as much if at all. But John, you have played a couple of other games. What's the

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next one you want to talk about? I guess we'll talk about a couple things I can knock out real quick,

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a couple of mobile games I've been looking at. Well, one mobile game I can mention is that I

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stop playing Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket. I feel like I got to a point where I was like,

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you know, this game is still neat, but I feel like I've seen everything it has to offer.

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And then they started making really weird decisions with it after I quit. So I was like, oh,

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okay, I hit the eject button at the perfect time then. Like they started offering this one card

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pack that's like, oh, it's all high-rarity cards, but there's like, I forget how many cards were

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in the pack. It was like some absurd amount that you would have to whale like an idiot in order to

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get all of them in. And then sometimes, and it was like other sets combined, but sometimes you

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wouldn't always get the card you wanted for the set you were trying to complete. And the developer

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at one point were like, oh, well, we're gonna be rolling out a fix for this in summer of 2026. And I'm

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like, what do you mean it's gonna take half a year for this? Why? Huh? Seems to require

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extensive, extensive buckle, whatever. I don't know, but it seems like a long time for a fix

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like that to come out. So I was just like, I'm sitting back seeing, like I see a couple of our

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friends still play in training back and forth. And I'm like, I'm glad y'all are still enjoying it,

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but I'm just like, nah, nah. I wanted to move on and try some other stuff.

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Understandable. Because Uma Musume released, not only an anime forum, I don't think it's a game

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for me. Oh, okay. Surprise. But I think it's a neat game because it's more of a management game where

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you're trying your best to help the girls, you know, up their stats so they can win races and move

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forward. Like every time you select, you just like, oh, I want to do a career. You're starting fresh.

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So it's kind of rogue-like-ish on each run, but you were carrying forth stats from your other

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racers and you have these support cards that you can use to put into up your stats. You could borrow

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a support card from a friend and that sort of stuff. And it comes down to a lot of RNG for a long time.

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And there's this website called Game Torah that people were using to be like, because there's

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at certain points in the career where it's like, it's also largely visual novel-ish where they present

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you a choice. Each choice has a different effect. And now with the latest patch that they rolled out,

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you can see the effect of each choice without having to go outside the game and it makes the game

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infinitely more playable. Yeah, sure. Sounds like it. Which is fantastic. And it'll even tell you,

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like, oh, this choice will lead to this. This choice may lead to this or this. And you kind of have

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to balance in your head, like, okay, well, this one is guaranteed, but this one I might get something

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good, but it might do something bad. So there's that. It's also a game of balancing out your character stats,

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because like, when the game launched, it was kind of in a place where you could just mash the speed

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button all day long and your character would max out their speed and just win every race.

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I took, I took Sakura Boxing, oh, all the way to the end of her career just by mashing the speed,

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but now I was like, wow, this is great. It's a win button. Yeah. And then I tried taking Hado Udada to the end

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of her career, which I managed to do. So basically you get to the end of a character's career.

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There's not, well, now there's two different career modes. There's like a, forget how they were

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free. It's like a team mode to the other one. And I haven't done it yet, but I've seen a little bit

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of it. But the other one is you have to race to the end of their career. And then after you do that,

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there's like an overtime segment where it's, you can race in the URA finale and try and become the

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the number one, uma in the school sort of thing. And I managed to do that with Sakura Boxing,

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oh, and poor Hado Udada, I couldn't get her to the end of the URA finale, but Udada doesn't,

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technically, doesn't have to win a single race, because if you know her history, she never won a race

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in real life. So, but it is, it is possible if you know the strats to win her final race and get a

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different ending, which is neat. It is a game where you have to think a lot of steps ahead. And it's like,

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well, I need to have this many fans by this day, the stat spread needs to be like this so that I can

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win different race, because you have different race like you have your Pacer or so you have your,

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the, the ones who come in at the end, you have the ones who want to also easily lead the pack and you have

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to keep that in mind when you're standing out each girl, they, they're going to race differently.

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But it sounds like a lot of time. It's, it's neat, but it's also a lot. So you have to go into it with the

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mindset that you need, you can't just mash one button and win now that it's been patched.

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You have to understand how each character wants to race and you have to build around that.

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That's a bit too involved for you. I think a little bit like I started a career the other day.

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There was one girl in particular. I wanted to pull and I got her and I was like, all right,

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I'll start a career with her and I started and I just haven't finished yet. So here has been

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on hold for like three days, but I want to get back to an eventually try and finish it. So, okay.

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It's, it is a neat game and it takes a special kind of brain to want to constantly grind it out.

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But between that, there was also this new game that were these called Stella Sora and it is a

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grinders game because the idea behind it is, I'm not quite sure how to describe it because a lot of it

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is just centered around grinding. There are these things you do call the sentience and you're going up

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this tower and it's kind of also roguelikeish in that your character stats are fixed. Like outside

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of the tower, you are leveling them up and you're boosting up their skills and whatnot. Like that is

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all fixed. The tower climb itself is the team that you bring in as a whole levels up and you gain

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different skills and you kind of are building out different kits that you can use in other modes

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that you can play. When you reach the top of the tower, what you do is you save that run as a record

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and then you take that record into the other like, like I said, the other modes and you're like, well,

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I'm going to use, I think the way the characters are kitted out like this will be better for this

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situation. I think the way they're kitted out like this will be better for this situation.

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So it's neat in that, you know, you can save up the party of three characters in several different

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ways and then try and experiment around with that. And I just, I need to level up more characters.

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So I have a little bit more versatility, but there's, there's like six different elements that you can

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build teams out of. So one type of element might be more geared to something than another and it's

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like, eh, they gotcha component to it because of the many team members or whatever.

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Yes, and the full rates are kind of terrible.

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So if you're looking to get a specific character, you're going to be pulling a lot, a lot, a lot,

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so I think it's neat. And I played it for a few weeks now. And I mean, I like it. I don't know

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how much longer I'll keep playing it, but at least like enough to have explored, you know, to explore

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what it's got going on for it. So I think it's pretty cool for what it is. But yeah, that is most of

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the gotcha corner kind of, I have one other free to play a game that I looked at, but you know,

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let's talk about that in a little bit. So what do you got next for us?

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Yeah, I mean, I talked about this the last time. I think, I don't know if I was still a process,

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or if I just finished it, I was revisiting Blaster Master Zero, you know, the kind of remake,

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kind of sequel, kind of reboot of the Blaster Master game of the NES. And that had two sequels,

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and I had already before that revisit played Blaster Master Zero 2. I hadn't placed Blaster Master Zero 3

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yet. So that was the first time. And in the previous episode, I talked about how I like Blaster Master

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one more because it felt much more connected, Metroidvania-ish, and you have a lot more

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planet hopping in the second one because it's set in space, and not, you know,

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you dig in underground or whatever, in on earth. And the weapons are also shit in that. At least the

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ones for Jason, the main character, when you go into, you know, the Blaster Master Zero games are like

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you have the overworld stuff where you move around in your tank, and that is Metroidvania issue,

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get more abilities for your tank, like driving up walls or whatever, or being able to hover,

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being able to swim underwater, whatever, and you can get to other parts of the map. And that is

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the case in both Blaster Master Zero 1 and 2, into it's just more relegated to you being able to

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access parts of different planets, so it doesn't feel as interconnected as in one. I also felt the

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music wasn't as good in 2 as in one, like I was not super happy with the game, like I like parts of it.

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It's, you know, it look good and it still played well. It's just, you know, the parts where you,

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the other part, not the overworld part, where you get in the actual dungeons and you move around as

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Jason, you also have a, you know, specific weapon set, and I did not, the first time I played Blaster Master Zero

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2, I didn't like the weapons for that because they were, they were much more diverse, but the problem is

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they all kind of sucked. And the problems when you get hit in that game, you lose basically a weapons

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slot. So if you have a level leveled up your weapon to the max and you get hit, you get downgraded

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a level and so on and so on. So the more times you get hit, the weaker you get. And the problem is

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in Blaster Master, I mean, in Blaster Master 1, you have at least a couple of weapons before the

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final level that are still okay in Blaster Master Zero 2, kind of every weapon before the final

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max one sucks. So I still hadn't finished too. I was kind of getting frustrated with the whole

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dodging thing that you had to do sometimes. That, that was kind of like, I didn't quite grasp that

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the first time I played it. And that was the thing that really opened up for me on this playthrough

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where I really leaned into the counter stuff and the different versions of the counters you had

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for different, for the specific situations that you could equip. And that made the game a lot more

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enjoyable and playable. Once I actually gave, oh, I should be using this counter here instead, the normal

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one and this other counter makes more sense for this boss and whatever. And the game is really

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geared towards you like just abusing that counter mechanic. And if you don't do that, you're gonna have

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a bad time. So once I actually got myself invested in it and stopped playing Blaster Master Zero 2,

387
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like Blaster Master Zero 1, I had this time a lot more fun with it. Enjoy it a lot. And I was like,

388
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oh, this is no, this is actually good. It's not as good as the first one, still in my opinion,

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because like I said, it doesn't feel as interconnected and more level based, which I don't mind. But in,

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you know, when the first game is set up like it was that the second game, not having that particular

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flavor, it's like, okay, I don't know if I want that from this game. But I like the new characters

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that you get, you know, the other Blaster Masters that you that you have that you meet on the different

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planets, they're all quirky and fun with their own, every one of them having like the little Android

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body, like you do with everything. And, you know, you have a mission of saving here or whatever.

395
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You know, that was cool. Like I like the story more in the second one than in the first one,

396
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because it was more involved, I guess. Although I already liked the planting the first one. And

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it has a great finale and everything and really epic and everything. And then I went to Blaster

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Masters 0 or 3 and I think that's my favorite one, which doesn't necessarily happen always in the

399
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trilogy, I guess. But I think this is was just putting together the best parts of one and two. Yes,

400
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you still have it be a bit more planet topping, but it's also more connected metroidvania,

401
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:10,800
ashtand 2 was. So it feels like they were really trying to blend parts of one and two. You got better

402
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weapons. I think it's been that's the problem talking about it's been too long since I played this.

403
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I think the counter mechanic is still there. I don't know if it I think they added some stuff to that

404
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,800
and some different counters. But you meet new characters and everything. The levels are damn cool.

405
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And the story really went places at the end, which I did not expect. It got really out there,

406
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really anime and was pretty fucking cool and there were some nice twists in there at the end and

407
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a really Jesus Christ fucking hard boss fight that is not skippable like that's not an optional boss.

408
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:53,680
I won't give give it away against who that fight is, but small spot is it's a returning character

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from the second game. And it's Jesus fuck that really like until I understood what I had to do.

410
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Like the first couple of times I thought that was like what am I supposed to do here? I'm just dying.

411
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:14,480
Like I haven't even taken down half of his health or whatever. What am I supposed to do? And then

412
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you know after doing a couple of things and trying to do things I was like oh okay I get it now

413
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which is kind of like the best kinds of bosses when I feel like it's hopeless and then I discover

414
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the one thing when like oh this is how you're supposed to beat the guy. And it's still super hard

415
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:34,480
don't get me wrong but it's doable and I was like okay I see the light at the end of the tunnel here and

416
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:42,000
yeah that was that was one of those really like when you beat that fucker fists in the air and like

417
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yes I got you bitch and that was really good and that also all leads to a very satisfying finale

418
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:58,240
in terms of story. It's not a final boss fight that is so hard that was actually kind of easy I

419
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think but the one right before that and you know everything that comes after that and then you have like

420
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and this this really cool credit sequence and a thing at the credit sequence so there's I

421
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the problem is I don't want to spoil it but I also don't want people on missing out on a key thing

422
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:24,960
at the end of the game. So when you think the credits have rolled and the game is just lingering on

423
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a specific shot try pressing a certain button or something on the d-pad again please because otherwise

424
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:41,120
you're missing out because that is the ending is a bit interactive and so I won't give away

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what it is and what it does but if you if you've seen the cover of of three of Blastamas 0-3 or at

426
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least of the version that I have I was the entire game was like wait when is that gonna happen

427
00:45:54,240 --> 00:46:01,920
I feel like we're still missing that and so the ending gave me that but that really happens at the

428
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tail end of the credit and it was really nice it's kind of a bittersweet ending in a way but also

429
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:14,960
really cool and out there and sci fi and everything so I did not expect that from that game

430
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:22,080
and I mean I've played a lot of inter-create games and I feel like the story in in the gun vault

431
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:28,880
games is kind of like okay all right it's okay but I was really happy with how Blastamas 0

432
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wrapped up and I hope they don't give a fourth one because this ending feels or do a fourth one

433
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because this ending definitely feels like a definitive ending like is a full story from one which they

434
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:46,960
maybe didn't even think they would do it two in three at that point how that wrapped up but

435
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:52,240
two definitely feels like okay there's more coming in three definitely feels like this is it this is

436
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:56,960
like the ending we had envisioned for this and this is how we wanted to wrap this up and like I said

437
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,920
it was much more elaborate and I expected it and much more emotionally engaging I was really like at

438
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:08,080
the end oh that was really nice it was really cool so didn't expect that to get that from the

439
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serious like in terms of story and everything because you know it's basic to the platform a game and

440
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but man they really went there and some really cool shit so yeah I can only recommend if you're into

441
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into your 2d Metroidvania thingies or whatever to go for that series and if you don't or not like I

442
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said if you don't like too that much try to really figure out the counter mechanic and really try

443
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to use that and abuse that and just to get to three and three is obviously worth it in my opinion

444
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:46,080
and yeah I had a really great time with this I was really happy how it wrapped up so yes last

445
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:54,240
semester zero good serious definitely one of my now ranking very high in one of my in my favorite 2d

446
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:59,280
serious platformer thingies that that I've played over the years especially when it comes to you

447
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:07,200
know doing new games retro style cool stuff John what what else have you played

448
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:15,040
it's a couple things so touch on that I've started or one that I started one that I sort of just

449
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:24,640
looked at out of curiosity um took a look at sonic rumble it's basically sonic fall guys

450
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:35,120
oh yeah okay I mean it's goofy it's silly for what it is I was I won my first match and I was the

451
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:44,560
ultimate sonic fall guy champion dude I heard it's kind of bad but I haven't played it so I mean it's

452
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:51,360
it's it's okay I guess I don't know whether or not say it's good or bad but like I said I started

453
00:48:51,360 --> 00:49:00,560
up out of curiosity and I was like okay sure it's it's very derivative very derivative but you know

454
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:09,520
I don't know really what to say beyond that but if you're really that much of a sonic super fan and

455
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you know me I don't know if I would continue playing it but you know every once in a great while

456
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:22,640
it might be fun to be like hey I want to play this to stomp on the stupid kids who are playing this

457
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:32,880
but that is what it is there's an indie game I started messing around with uh called

458
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:45,440
bounty star the morrow stale of graveyard klem that's a title it is uh and it's very very descriptive of

459
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what the game is about it's about this uh woman named klem mckinney who's like this she's like this war

460
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veteran and she is it helps protect this town with this other group of people and they have these

461
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:12,480
mech suits like I'd probably say the size of it is probably on par with something like a nightmare frame

462
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like less so than like a Gundam because of the side the relative size of it it's not like a huge

463
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:23,840
machine uh but I think the type of gameplay they were trying to go for when I was messing around with it

464
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was like armored core like the old armored core not like four five and six which are

465
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faster and a lot more explosive and reactive because it's a bit more slower paste and deliberate and

466
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I mean granted there are some enemies who can do some crazy stuff but uh the whole conceit is that

467
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you playing as klem have you know just driven these bandits out of town one night and then on their way out

468
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:04,560
they decide you let them free and they decide on the way out hey that was real neighborly of you

469
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:11,280
we're gonna blow up your town anyway so yeah this is sort of like a story of

470
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:20,400
klem trying to get back to what she was like his that the people of the town might still be out there

471
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you know obviously you know there were a lot of people dead there were a lot of people just like got

472
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out of there when they could and now she's out there doing a whole bunch of bounties and you have

473
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:38,080
this base that you're building up that you or sort of like building it's this homestead you can

474
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have livestock you can grow plants you can cook meals before you go out on missions they give a

475
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:50,880
different buffs to you and the robot and there's a whole lot of customization to the robot as well

476
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:56,880
like different weapons different accessory different types of armor and frames you can put on it so

477
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:04,320
it's really neat for what it is and I've only played a little bit of it so far but I'm

478
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:08,160
looking forward to messing around with it a bit more and I just think it's really cool that it's

479
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:16,720
not it's not trying to be the big robot game that armored core six was and I think armored core six is

480
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:24,720
a great game but this is you know much smaller scale it's more level like it's a lot more level in

481
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:29,280
mission based like armored core yeah there are specific missions out there but it feels a lot bigger

482
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:36,000
in scale than this is and I just think it's really neat so I'm looking forward to playing more of it

483
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:41,360
and I think it's cool and I hope other people check it out because it's definitely a smaller budget

484
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:47,040
game it's not like your big 60 70 80 dollar game it's 25 bucks if you're interested so

485
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:54,000
and the publisher Ana porna they they like putting out a lot of you know publishing a lot of really

486
00:52:54,000 --> 00:53:02,320
cool stuff so glad to see that glad to see the tradition continues and with that kind of genre actually

487
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:09,600
I didn't expect Ana porna to go and do that but yeah yeah I just felt like I'd put those two together

488
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:15,600
just because you know I haven't played quite as much from yet and I have a bit more stuff to touch

489
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:23,520
on than you so what else you got I after Blasoma's massive zero I think I was still in the process of

490
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:29,440
finishing up also trials of mana the remake but that I already talked about previously so I don't

491
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:36,240
have to bring it up but I was always trying to sprinkle in 2d games so I think a semasa zero came

492
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:44,160
before the second run or whatever and I also the played berserk boy which is a mega man like

493
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:53,200
different flavors has a bit of mega man zero in it has a bit of mighty number nine in it

494
00:53:53,200 --> 00:54:00,400
I mean or I mean but it's it's good because I played a little bit of the demo so yeah maybe not

495
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:09,280
even mighty number nine maybe it's more luminous of enter x I guess or x you know you you don't shoot

496
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:17,120
the bad guys you dash into them mostly I mean you get other powers too and have other ways to kill

497
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:23,680
them too later you get which is the most imbe- fucking imbellen skill like overpowered skill later you get

498
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:30,240
like a grenade launcher or whatever and that is just killing everything so you also have that

499
00:54:30,240 --> 00:54:36,880
but in the beginning your main berserk power is just dishing into the bad guys and killing them that

500
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:41,680
way and bouncing off them and using the dash also to get the ground also it's your main

501
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:48,720
tool of mobility and everything and you go through different levels they have different flavors

502
00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:55,840
I wanted them to be a bit more diverse because they all feel kind of a bit like okay you know

503
00:54:55,840 --> 00:55:00,640
still kind of an attack environment in a way so they're not that visually distinctive I believe

504
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:06,160
there's enough and they are definitely you have your eyes fire or whatever but still some parts

505
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,240
of the levels looked a bit sameish and it didn't help that the map wasn't super great

506
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:16,240
when it comes to you having to try collectible stuff because you have to save base members which is

507
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:21,360
kind of like a mega-man zero thing right but you also have to collect medals and everything and

508
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:26,160
for that you have to teleport between certain things there were since it's an indie game

509
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:33,920
there were not that really good like if many good FAQs out there when I played that and I had to go

510
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:40,480
through a long play let's play off someone off of the game and check out all their picked it up

511
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:47,040
so at least I found something on youtube um it was fun the story is nothing to write home about like

512
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:54,800
it was okay but it was very basic but you know the gameplay was fun it was well thought out it had some

513
00:55:54,800 --> 00:56:00,960
some wonky stuff on certain parts when it came to movement where it just the flow the gameplay

514
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:05,840
flow on the floor if you go to the level didn't feel as good a couple of sudden deaths sudden death

515
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:12,480
a moment that were not super fair which feels like it's it's also part of the mega-man stable I guess

516
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:18,400
what I feel like in a lot of those games except for the really shitty ones that is more balanced

517
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:23,680
Berserkro had some moments where it's like oh god this is annoying do we have to do this now and then

518
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:31,680
the you know the the uh respawn points are not necessarily great where it's like oh god I have to

519
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:41,040
go through all this entire part again are you kidding me um but it was still like 90% of the time it was

520
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,840
super fun for me and it was like yeah this is a really good mega-man like so I can recommend that if

521
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:52,000
you are into that series uh it looks really good like really big sprites sprites I don't even know if

522
00:56:52,000 --> 00:57:00,160
they're proper sprites or if they are like drawn over you know uh normal CG models or whatever and

523
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:06,160
how they actually designed but it looks really nice it looks really Saturday morning uh cartoonish in

524
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:10,480
terms of design what you agree John I mean you played the demo how did you feel about this

525
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,400
yeah definitely has that salary morning cartoon you look I think

526
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:21,360
when I get tell when I was waiting it just looks like sprites I mean I don't know

527
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:29,600
how much it'd be drawn over or anything but you know it looked like they were just trying to go for a

528
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:36,880
a hand-drawn look yeah it did and it works absolutely and the music is great I like that a lot too

529
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:42,080
how did you feel about the gameplay when you checked it out I thought you know just pre-fast and

530
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:49,680
can I click you were describing like I just I need it's on the list the list ever grows I mean it's a

531
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:55,600
quick game and I think by the time you get to it you will also have more uh people who actually

532
00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:00,560
show you where the collectible stuff is because some of that stuff is pretty well hidden or it's like

533
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:06,480
wait there that's where it was Jesus Christ how am I supposed to find that so I mean you don't have

534
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,000
to do it I don't even remember what you get if you get an alternate ending if you collect all

535
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:16,480
metals or whatever or different power I don't remember I remember it being worth it for some reason

536
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:23,360
so otherwise I wouldn't have done it but uh it was a fun time absolutely so definitely recommend

537
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:32,880
you checking that out as well what else you got captain tow treasurer tracker yes which is a port I guess

538
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:38,400
I kept putting it off from the Wii U version I eventually sat down and wanted to play the switch

539
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:48,480
version and that games neat uh frustrating as heck toward the end but okay the the puzzle solving

540
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:56,560
element is pretty cool um I know the fact you know all the stages are different dioramas basically

541
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:03,440
isn't it obviously this was the concept that they took from mario 3d world and decided let's just

542
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:12,800
make a game out of it uh yes sure neat that's fine um some of the stuff they expect you to try and find

543
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,680
while you're playing like look for this little dot on the screen basically like the little

544
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:24,400
pixel toads or the like you have to rip these posters off the walls it's like you have to really

545
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:33,760
like pay attention and it's weird because the game is geared around the touch screen which means it

546
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:41,600
doesn't work as well it's what I wonder because you know it coming off the Wii U on the Wii U

547
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:47,520
originally I think there wasn't some kind of interaction between the the gamepad and the main

548
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:56,480
screen right yeah it's definitely better geared toward the touch like playing in portable mode with

549
00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:05,760
the touch screen like there are ways some of the things do work in uh docked mode but it's like boy

550
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:14,400
they stay sure didn't intend for it to be played this way so why the switch port exists is actually

551
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:21,680
kind of a mystery to me but it's because nobody owned a Wii U there is that

552
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:30,000
but it's still it feels like they could have maybe figured things out a little better than they did

553
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:37,120
like it for some of the parts were just like cranks you can hold down like z-r on the joy kind of like

554
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:44,000
use the motion control to actually twist it around and sometimes it works um sometimes it works

555
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:50,400
so what does it was that the frustrating part to what's and you were talking about or was that

556
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:55,280
related to something else I mean there's that but then there's also some levels toward the end of the

557
01:00:55,280 --> 01:01:03,200
game there are like there's one stage where is there's a lava all over the place and there's these

558
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:10,080
speed booster pads that you have to run on and trying to find the pixel to toward the end of the

559
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:17,680
stage is like it is quite literally a spotting pixels because it's so small and it blends in with

560
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:26,160
everything else and I must have redone that stage like 50 times at least trying to do that

561
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:33,920
and then the final stage is a real pisser because it's like oh you need to clear the stage with

562
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:39,040
I forget how many coins it was it's like either a hundred and fifty or two hundred and the way

563
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:46,080
they hide coins in the first half of the stage for you to get to the boss is dvs like you have to

564
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:51,200
scrape through the stage to find all them the nice thing is there's a checkpoint before the boss so if

565
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:57,840
you lose a life you go back to the checkpoint when you go back to the checkpoint your coin count

566
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:05,280
resets to zero oh Jesus Christ so you have to do it clean from beginning to end and it's like

567
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:11,600
I got to I did all of the objectives in every other stage except for that and I was just like no

568
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:18,320
yeah that feels like it's trying to waste your time and I was like that's it I'm done and the

569
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:24,320
fun thing is after you finish the game they're like here's like 30 more levels I'm like what are you

570
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:31,600
doing to me that's it no I kind of you know it might be my increasing age at this point but I

571
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:38,400
get very sick of games that are that finish and then they're not over because they still have a

572
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:44,800
post game thing or like Jesus Christ why I get it you need longevity in everything and people need

573
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:49,920
to get the most out of because games will get more expensive and everything I get it but when the

574
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,960
credits roll I kind of want to be done with the game and not have like oh there's here this

575
01:02:54,960 --> 01:03:00,160
fucking here 10 hours more of this this shit and I'm like yeah I liked it but not that much

576
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:07,440
I want to play something else the next thing I'm gonna talk about did that as well but with this one

577
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:14,080
they did two credit rolls in Captain Toad one one after episode one and one after episode three which

578
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:19,440
is the intended end of the game because you get that you see the full ending sequence and say

579
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:26,080
yay the game and then they I believe I believe please don't quote me on this I believe the levels

580
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:33,040
they drop on you after the end of the game are supposed to be like some of the DLC levels from the

581
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:43,440
Wii U version I think but I'm not 100% on that but it's still like brother please brother

582
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:53,440
please calm down no I get it and I'll talk about the game at the tail end of this that also kind of

583
01:03:53,440 --> 01:04:01,360
did the same thing so I think it's neat but it's also a lot of game and I was just by the end of it I

584
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:07,040
was so frustrated with like the last three to five levels I was like I want to be done please let

585
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:12,400
me be done like I start I touched on some of the other levels a little bit and I was like

586
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:20,880
I could I could spend another probably 20 hours playing this game and I probably just be sitting there

587
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:27,520
like we miss it over yeah I'm so I just kind of walked away from it I have the Wii U version I

588
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:34,880
touched at once and I was like all right I don't like puzzle games I didn't abide this that's

589
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:40,800
like that's like the remake of Mario versus Donkey Kong that they released on Switch like so

590
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:45,600
after you finished the game they're like here's the plus worlds is there new and they have an extra

591
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:51,680
challenge and I'm like that's neat okay and apparently after you beat those there's another set of

592
01:04:51,680 --> 01:05:02,720
stages and I'm like Jesus stop too much yeah so I'll never play this I won't get the the the

593
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:09,120
Switch version of this but hey I'm glad it's except for it being too much and the final levels and

594
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:14,320
so on I'm glad to hear that it sounds fun it just was just the most interesting thing to me was like

595
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:20,400
wait how are they gonna actually do the thing that they did on a Wii U on the Switch because you know

596
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:26,480
it's a different system it works differently this is also the thing I'm thinking about if they ever

597
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:33,760
bring over Starfrog zero like how will they do that like you can use the right joy con

598
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:43,360
like a Wii U remote and point at the screen to interact with stuff but the joy con also works

599
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:49,280
differently than the Wii mode because the Wii mode had you know the infrared sensor the joy con

600
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:56,400
only has the gyroscope so if it's pointing in the wrong direction you're constantly having a

601
01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:04,000
reset its position but with a lot of games like this that have that feature they actually thought

602
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:09,360
of that in reciting the position is just push a button on the controller and it's like okay at

603
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:15,120
least you got that figured out really interested to see I got myself X and I'm glad Chronicles X

604
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:20,560
which I will eventually play about first X and I'm glad Chronicles 3 now that's gonna finally run at

605
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:27,440
a stable 30 probably on Switch 2 and there is a feature in that game where I very much

606
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:33,120
that was very much geared toward or Taylor toward the Wii U experience in you having

607
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:38,320
this tablet with a touchscreen in your hand as well it's not as integral in terms of actually having

608
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:43,920
to move around but it's like this map where you can do specific specific tasks like do this this

609
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,080
management system with the notes that you planned all over the world and that you can quickly

610
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:53,760
teleport teleport between notes and you didn't have to open like a map screen for it was just on

611
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:59,440
your tablet the entire time and not having that I wonder how that will play out on the Switch version

612
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:05,200
it's not it's not problematic to port in terms of you just have to probably hit a button and then

613
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:11,600
you get that but that additional button might actually you know make the experience worse than

614
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:18,160
it was on the Wii U because you constantly have to switch screens to actually use that thing so I

615
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:25,040
wonder how this will work so interested to see it eventually but it's yeah that's the thing I'm

616
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:32,000
always interested to see when they do ports of Wii U games that actually did a bit more a heavier

617
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:39,840
made heavier use of both the main screen and your Wii U gamepad in connection to with each other

618
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:45,600
I'm always interested to see how they worked that out for the Switch and if it's actually playable

619
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:52,000
yeah I'm not sure about that either but I mean but it seems to like they at least got it kind of

620
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:58,960
working for yeah yeah that's good and I'm being apparently people seem to have been fine with

621
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:03,840
Xenoblade X on Switch so yeah so apparently the runs good I'm looking forward to revisiting that game

622
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:09,440
it's been a long time I hope now we're gonna get the second one off that because the ending is

623
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:17,840
very open so about the 60 FPS patches for that in the other Xenoblade games yeah yeah

624
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:26,640
like people data mined out is 60 FPS mode in Xenoblade X so now then I don't know

625
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:32,720
they might they might do a switch to version of that and then you know release that and next year or

626
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:38,320
whatever yeah no idea if monolith soft is working on that or if they're working on their next big

627
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:45,760
thing whatever it may be then oh yes remake I wish that'll never happen because Xenoblade

628
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:55,600
years is so tied up in legal red tape between square and band i namco and that's a bummer that game

629
01:08:55,600 --> 01:09:00,240
deserves to to get a full release with all the missing content that they weren't able to implement

630
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:09,520
because of the mismanagement I keep saying that after Final Fantasy VII remake three comes out

631
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:15,920
do you see no gears but that will be a little probably never happen yeah I mean there's not that much

632
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:24,000
legal tape red tape with Final Fantasy VII because it's still with the same people and also

633
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:31,680
Xenoblade was not as successful like it is a cold hit for a lot of people but it is not like this

634
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:37,280
blockbuster super hit that Final Fantasy VII was so I don't know if it will actually justify that

635
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:47,280
in the other hand you don't need to make it as big of a remake as well Fantasy VII make it a fucking

636
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:51,840
HD remaster in the style of that what they're doing right now with dragon quest and you know the

637
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:57,920
octopath traveler style whatever just do it like that only with with Xenoblade years and

638
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:03,120
all the content in there that wasn't in the original game but was intended to possibly I mean there's

639
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:08,320
a whole book for that shit that they can use to you know that would be that would be neat but

640
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:18,880
part of me yearns for a big budget remake of Xenoghears but I know I know that that won't happen John

641
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:26,640
I can't see that happening unless Nintendo is like hey just you know the Xenoblade Chronicles games

642
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:32,720
have been pretty successful for us most of the guys who worked on that are with monolith and

643
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:38,480
whatever are there the people who worked under them and whatever so just give us the rights to

644
01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:46,240
that shit and we're just gonna do a remake of that I can't see anything I I don't think this

645
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:51,200
will happen but it would be nice it would be nice I recently replayed that game I enjoyed it very

646
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:56,640
much and I'm listening to a podcast like going through the entire story of the game and talking

647
01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:01,120
about the background stuff and I didn't know that so much was missing from that game I mean it was

648
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:10,480
evident because of how disc 2 pants out but yes but but but I wasn't aware like with all all the all

649
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:17,440
all the stuff that was missing that was intended to be real dungeons and whatever and not just a

650
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:26,320
boss fight so yeah I have one friend who's a massive mega super fan of Xenoghears and he had

651
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:32,400
talked about all of that at length in me a long time we're gonna say Jesus they really just

652
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:40,000
chopped this game down to nothing oh they had they they had two choices they could have just ended

653
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:46,160
it at a very very inopportune time which probably would have kept them from actually making the second

654
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:52,320
part of the game or at least that was their assumption because that would have been like right

655
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:59,040
after Solaris or whatever with the super open and it not really a finale ash feeling and then

656
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:07,040
they could have you know speculated on being able to make its proper second game as intended

657
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:12,640
but the one the path they chose was like no we just want to tell a finished story so this is the

658
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:18,560
only option we see for that and I can see why that tap it just it was an inexperienced in experience

659
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:25,040
team that did that and it was just bad planning and shit happens I mean we still got a great game out

660
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:32,400
of it so that's that's kind of the the saving grace for all this but it's always like it always makes

661
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:38,640
you wonder what could have been so I mean David's also super ambitious because you finished the game

662
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:44,880
and it says I think it's there are like oh Xenoghears part five and it's like it's intended to be like a

663
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:51,360
seven part story yeah and then Xenosauga happened and like barely anyone like Xenosauga so yeah

664
01:12:51,360 --> 01:13:00,160
like I think Xenosauga one is okay two is kind of three is pretty good but on the whole the

665
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:06,800
badding average of Xenosauga was like mmm I'm gonna touch those games I was like I like Xenoghears a lot

666
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:13,680
a whole damn lot but I was like Xenosauga sounds like much more of a mixed bag

667
01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:22,240
it really is yeah but I still have not touched Xenoblade two or three but I loved Xenoblade one so

668
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:29,040
you I think you were really like to I feel like that game is geared towards you in a many different ways

669
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:33,840
and it also does some it does some things differently like then one definitely

670
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:40,000
but yeah it hurts some things but I don't know the details because I haven't touched it for myself

671
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,040
but the story is really interesting so I recommend you getting there rather sooner than later

672
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:51,600
and yes I get it super big games but I'm looking forward to finally playing three in the not

673
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,800
too distant future after Metroid probably you know interjecting a small game after that you know

674
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:00,720
pellet cleanser and then I'm probably gonna go to Xenoblade probably because

675
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:08,800
but I played another really big RPG and we already talked about this so

676
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:16,480
I don't want to recapitulate all of that but I played the remake of Persona 3 Persona 3 Reelout

677
01:14:16,480 --> 01:14:23,440
my second Persona game technically I mean I watched someone else play one or two for a bit

678
01:14:23,440 --> 01:14:28,400
back in the day but the first one that I really played for myself was five so the most recent one

679
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:35,200
technically I mean one and two might as well be a difference yes so I've heard or so I remember

680
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:44,240
but I fucking loved five it's up in the pantheon pantheon of my favorite RPG at the RPGs at this point

681
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:50,880
definitely just blew me away so much so that I played it through the back to back twice

682
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:55,760
like I played through the whole game and then I went right back into it for new game plus and

683
01:14:55,760 --> 01:15:01,760
played all over it again like I think I've never done this with an RPG and five was like this was

684
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:07,600
over I wasn't able to max out all social links and I was like I'm not done with this I'm gonna do

685
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:15,120
this again and use a guide and get everyone like max out and whatever and I try to do this for

686
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:29,040
Persona 3 Reelout 2 I was like okay I'm just gonna use a guide hope it's non-spoiler and that guy

687
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:37,200
fucked me because there were several errors in that so I wasn't able to max out all the social links

688
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:43,360
at the end oh no yes and I noticed that too late at a certain point I was like wait wait

689
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:50,720
these don't match up like it always said what level you reach in the you know in the social

690
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:55,600
interactions in the guide so I said now you're at level so on so I was like wait but I'm missing

691
01:15:55,600 --> 01:16:01,040
two levels how did that happen and I went back and they actually they fucked up some of the

692
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:06,560
planning in that guide so and didn't notice it themselves apparently and just jumped for one or

693
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:11,120
two characters from level six to level eight without actually doing the lack work in the guide to

694
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:15,520
tell you that you need to have the interaction with these characters at specific days they just

695
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:20,720
forgot to put them in there apparently and they focus so much on the beginning to get your

696
01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:27,280
social stats so your you know to the stuff you need to get into certain buildings or to get good

697
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:34,800
rewards in school or whatever that I didn't have enough time to max out everyone at the end and

698
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:44,400
that made me really fucking angry I even commented on the guide and they removed my comment I was nice

699
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:49,520
I was nice in the current assess I was just please to everyone who's reading this

700
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:55,680
don't use this guide because of these and these reasons I didn't insult anyone and they removed the

701
01:16:55,680 --> 01:17:04,800
fucking comment oh my god that is scummy wait let me let me actually yes it was the persona three

702
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:13,120
calendar a reload calendar guide from game rent shows me to use something that game rent does

703
01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:18,320
okay maybe that was my mistake but just for you people out there who intend to play persona

704
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:24,000
three reload and want to do it with the guide so you can max out all your social links don't use that one

705
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:30,560
because that one is bugged and there's shit missing and you're not gonna be able to mix max out all

706
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:37,840
your social links and if you're trying to find my comments under that that article that says the same

707
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:45,680
thing it's not there anymore so I don't know if the author of the guide removed that or if someone else

708
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:54,080
from the site did it but there is definitely there's definitely several errors in that guide and

709
01:17:54,080 --> 01:18:01,280
if you follow it closely you will not be able to make socials that's your social links so that was

710
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:07,440
a bit of a bummer by the end there that kind of I mean it doesn't completely ruin the game because

711
01:18:07,440 --> 01:18:13,200
the game is great it's a great story it's a very dark story I mean persona five was also very dark

712
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:20,480
story but that had a very much more uplifting ending which this one doesn't it is it's also kind of

713
01:18:20,480 --> 01:18:28,560
nice and fitting ending very much in in tune with the theme of the show of the show with in tune with

714
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:37,120
the theme of the game it totally fits it makes sense the thing that bumped me out and that was the

715
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:44,560
another fall of the internet because I believe that I guess or didn't uh didn't research it thoroughly

716
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:51,920
enough so it was maybe my fault you have you can romance girls in these games uh and I was looking for

717
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:56,880
okay who is the main girl for this in terms of story like what makes the most sense in terms of

718
01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:04,560
the main plot which girl you know you end up with at the end uh and there were several people

719
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,920
who are like yeah you can romance all of them there's no punishment for that there's like I don't

720
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:12,800
care I don't want to build a haram I want to have the relationship that makes the most sense in terms

721
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:19,040
of the story of the fucking game uh so they named two characters that were the intended demands uh

722
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:24,160
that seemed like they were intended to be the mains uh also you know emphasized by the OVA

723
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:28,560
by the movies that came out the anime moves or whatever and that those are you curry and agus

724
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:37,760
it's definitely agus just for absolutely like it makes like it's no sense in terms of story to go for

725
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:43,360
anyone else the problem is I went for you curry because of who is you know I was worried because I was

726
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:51,680
also a god uh who uh will I even be able to to max everyone out and laugh and uh so I remember with

727
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:56,800
you curry so I also you get a special event on Christmas uh that you can spend with the person

728
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:02,080
you're romancing a romancing in the game and uh agus is unlocked uh her roman's option is unlocked

729
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:09,200
very late in the game so you couldn't even have her take part in that so I went for you curry problem

730
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:15,840
is story-wise go for agus because she is absolutely absolutely the girl the main character is supposed

731
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:23,280
to end up with like the whole ending credit scene like is totally about her and that character the whole

732
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:32,080
DLC uh the answer is about her which I haven't played yet because I'll get to that but um like if you

733
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:38,880
want to go for the in the girl if you can go for any girl you want to I don't want to like dig

734
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:45,120
day to you but if you want to go for the person that makes the most sense in terms of story and

735
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:51,520
character relation everything to the main character then go with agus because see she is absolutely

736
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:57,040
after a sec a certain point a second main character of the game and you know in the DLC even more so

737
01:20:57,040 --> 01:21:01,760
so feel free to go for anyone else but if you want to get the most out of the most satisfying

738
01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:08,320
ending and the most emotional and personal ending go with her and I didn't do that and so that hampered

739
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:14,880
the experience a bit and I think a person of five that is not much of an issue really because

740
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:23,760
there is not that much of a clear main girl there I feel like you know I don't even know who who

741
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:30,400
would it could be there but I feel like it's more open there and in but in three it's definitely her

742
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:36,960
it's definitely her so that was kind of like that does work all like these little detracting factors

743
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:43,600
and I was like oh I didn't didn't get the the the the perfect a quote-unquote story ending in terms

744
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,920
of character relationships and I wasn't able to max on all the social links so that hampered my

745
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:54,080
experience with the game a bit doesn't have to be the case for you just use a different guide and

746
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:58,880
also if you don't give a shit about mixing everyone out and getting like the perfect ending then

747
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:04,480
that also won't bother you it's just it for me outside of these misgivings I had a really good time

748
01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:10,320
with persona three reload not as good of a time just in general as with five but that might also

749
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:16,160
be because five was just my first real persona game and I had such a good time with that and such a

750
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:23,920
great experience with the story and everything and so yeah but the story in three is great the characters

751
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:31,840
are great it has best best boy Kuro Maru and he was great Jesus Christ that dog is overpowered

752
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:39,280
yeah he is so fucking good I was happy I was glad I kept him in my party pretty much like after the

753
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:45,200
half-word point for the entire time because he was just like the the best solution to everything also

754
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:50,240
has the ultimate debuff at the end the ultimate debuff magic that you get from I mean I had that

755
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:55,520
with with my main character too but it was nice to have a side character who can do that so

756
01:22:55,520 --> 01:23:02,880
debilitate or whatever it's called and yeah he he's great all the other characters are great

757
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:11,840
I mean Junpei is an idiot but even his he's called stupid for reason yeah even his story was good

758
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:20,400
and sweet by the end and I like that too and I think he was fun like he was probably he made me laugh

759
01:23:20,400 --> 01:23:28,080
the most because he's like this like this dream boat right every girl kind of is like or looking at

760
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:35,120
him oh my god he's such a star whatever but he's such an awkward dude like who doesn't even notice it

761
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:42,000
because he's so focused on working out and training and being good in class and whatever he

762
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:49,360
isn't mean or anything he's just a bit weird but there are so many moments where he behaved like if

763
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:54,720
somewhat robot even more so than Aegis that made me laugh out loud like he's a really fun character

764
01:23:54,720 --> 01:24:04,960
also my main in persona three arena persona for arena and yeah he's he's super fun and I like all the

765
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:11,280
other characters I like Mitsu Mitsu I like Fuka I like Yukari she's super fun give everyone a lip

766
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:18,640
and whatever give everyone lip and whatever Ken was fun too and I'm not that big on like kids

767
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:24,560
in in these kind of games with this kind of cast but he wasn't annoying in any or anything so

768
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:29,600
and his story with his relationship to one of the other characters which game you could have

769
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:37,680
warned me about that I put a lot of a lot of my additional you know stat boosters into that person

770
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:46,000
yeah yeah yeah but his relationship their relationship is cool and like I said Kuro Moro is amazing

771
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:52,560
and Aegis is fun too you know it's kind of a bummer that you unlock her you know her social links

772
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:58,400
stuff so late I would have liked to have that sprinkled more in between from beginning from the beginning

773
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:04,960
but you know her story is also cool there's more of her in the DLC which I haven't played yet because

774
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:12,080
after credits wrapped on that I was already in a pretty like somber mood because of the ending

775
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:18,800
and because of some of the stuff I missed and then the DLC is kind of just a grindfest as I've come

776
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:26,800
to learn and the game does the cardinal sin of basically unleveling your character like you suddenly

777
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:31,200
can't use your high level personas anymore your magic and the more you level you know all your

778
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:36,640
skills are gone and everything I was like so you're basically rebooting all my characters and I have

779
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:42,960
to do the shit all over again and I mean don't get me wrong the gameplay is fun but I already did all

780
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:51,200
of that and now you want me to do just that again and apparently the story is not that elaborate in

781
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:56,560
the DLC it's mostly just fights and so I was like I'm probably just gonna watch that on YouTube

782
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:01,520
someone else play through this for the story parts if they're not that many in there anyway

783
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:08,800
and yeah so I'm probably gonna do that because that kind of annoyed me it's like hey okay this

784
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:13,600
might be like a new game plus ish thing where it's like hey you get a bit more but you have your

785
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:18,080
super uploaded characters maybe a bit stronger enemies which would be the way to go for me in my

786
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:26,320
opinion like have you really like use your your your your level up personas and everything

787
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:36,080
and yeah I also like didn't fight the optional boss of the main game because that's some puzzle

788
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:43,600
puzzle bullshit yeah yeah yeah yeah and since I didn't wasn't able thanks to the shitty guy to

789
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:48,640
max out on my social links I wasn't able to get the ultimate persona which makes that fight

790
01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:55,120
apparently much easier and since I didn't have that I was like nope I'm not gonna go out of my way

791
01:26:55,120 --> 01:27:02,160
and try to do this shit for like one or two hours or whatever long that fight is gonna take

792
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:06,640
depending on how I have to set up my other personas and whatever it's like this is too this is too much

793
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:12,000
work this this is supposed to be fun and this sounds like work so I'm not gonna do that but everything

794
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:18,240
else else in the game I loved I think the persona games are just kind of made for me in that they're

795
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:23,840
very anime issue of course they're you know the way they're set up and the way the magic system

796
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:29,040
works with the elemental weaknesses and everything and the you being able to knock out the enemies

797
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:34,720
and then doing an all-out attack if that is successful and you know one of the reasons I like five more

798
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:40,640
than three was that five has actually dedicated dungeons which three doesn't have yet it's just a

799
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:46,720
tartarous thing which is like this randomly generated dungeon and so it all looks kind of same as

800
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:52,160
all the different levels of tartarous have a style a different style to them but just in terms of

801
01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:56,880
moving around in these dungeons and the layout and everything because it's procedurally generated

802
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:03,200
and randomly it all looks it all felt kind of same or so I like that more about five five also has the

803
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:09,040
the random dungeon stuff as well but it also has dedicated dungeons which I really appreciate it

804
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:14,640
which were you know which all look different from each other and play different from each other

805
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:22,800
and has specific little quirks and gameplay mechanics in them that the other dungeons don't have

806
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:29,920
and that none of the things in persona three really have so but I like like I said I just like the

807
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:37,840
persona games and I'm really looking forward to the remake of forer I heard the story is only so so

808
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:46,560
John from what you said yeah I mean it's kind of predictable but the social length stuff is really

809
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:55,440
really good and I hope and they have more bespoke dungeons instead of the randomly generated ones

810
01:28:55,440 --> 01:29:01,200
that they did from the original because I mean I feel like it kind of works for tartarous because

811
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:08,080
it's like ooh it's mysterious ooh it only pops out at the midnight hour and they get that kind of

812
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:15,360
gives them a little bit of leeway on that but in four it's like no I don't think it really works as

813
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:25,280
well for that okay yeah but hey I'm looking forward to to becoming friends with these characters

814
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:32,560
learning all about them and it's just it's just a fun RPG and I don't don't know or haven't played

815
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:39,840
that many RPGs that are just feel like classic turn-based RPGs JRPGs but are but are set in like

816
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:46,080
current time that are not as straight fantasy tale or sci-fi tale or whatever and that's just set at a

817
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:50,800
goddamn fucking Japanese high school and then you go around and have all the social stuff in there

818
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:56,160
and fantastic music and presentation I haven't even talked about that yet because that's one of

819
01:29:56,160 --> 01:30:01,440
the best things about persona persona five just the way it looks just blew me away and three does the

820
01:30:01,440 --> 01:30:08,400
same thing like the opening credits are so amazing and all the menu designs and the music in that in

821
01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:17,440
those games it's just so goddamn good five definitely set the precedent for hyper stylized menus

822
01:30:17,440 --> 01:30:23,360
because I mean look at metaphor look at three reload like they just kind of carried that forward

823
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:29,520
yeah I'm sure I'm sure four what are they calling for remake whatever they're calling it

824
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:35,840
they'll probably end up doing the same sort of thing I hope so because I just love how much style

825
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:42,080
this these versions of these games are oozing like like I said five just blew me away in terms of how it

826
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:49,920
looked and it's and three does the same thing just a different theme because five was red three is blue

827
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:56,880
and four is yellow and we'll see what six is gonna be probably maybe green maybe orange maybe purple

828
01:30:56,880 --> 01:31:03,840
we'll see there's still some some primary colors left I guess so yeah I could definitely see green I

829
01:31:03,840 --> 01:31:09,200
mean I think about purple and it feels close to blue and orange feels a little close to red like you

830
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:15,520
could make those work but I feel like green is the likely candidate yeah I mean technically we already

831
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:22,720
have green in the midnight hour and persona three right but it's only like yeah this is all scream yeah

832
01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:28,240
it's not the yes splashes of green it's not aggressively blue like the rest of the game yeah I mean

833
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:33,120
that could go for different flavor of green so what's the app I'm just I mean I don't know when we'll

834
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:39,840
get six four is gonna come first definitely and but I'm looking forward to whenever we're gonna get

835
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:46,720
that big big shiny new one and I'm gonna play the shit out of that hey at least on all modern

836
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:54,480
platforms you can play the entire persona series one and two what's that persona started at three

837
01:31:54,480 --> 01:32:02,240
might as well have but maybe I'll find a way to go back to one and two

838
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:07,440
so I don't feel like that's quite as deranged as the people who unironically say

839
01:32:07,440 --> 01:32:16,480
Castlevania started at symphony of the night it's like shut up no that is absolutely not true

840
01:32:16,480 --> 01:32:23,280
like the people who unironically say it like with persona yeah because one and two are like

841
01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:30,960
they said are there so vastly different like I I think they got remade on the PSP why not port those

842
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:37,120
forward at some point like I mean I remake would be cool a modernize them but like me make

843
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:44,240
them available somewhere man and maybe they will we'll see but yeah what what else did you play

844
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:52,320
may have last like game proper because the rest of it is some early there is some other stuff that

845
01:32:52,320 --> 01:33:00,400
they could be mentioned in other parts of our talk today but the last big one is Pokemon legends

846
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:07,600
Archaeus not the one you thought it was gonna be I bet about to say not the one everyone is thinking of

847
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:22,480
yeah I'm a little little behind so Archaeus is they definitely this was definitely them trying to

848
01:33:22,480 --> 01:33:26,640
open world this year is because this released before Scarleton Violet yeah

849
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:37,760
and this game is cool because it's you know very certainly different time compared to when you would

850
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:44,720
think is like all the Pokemon games are usually pretty like contemporary to whatever current

851
01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:51,600
time is you know it feels like it would could take place concurrently with whatever year it was

852
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:56,080
released and right you know but uh this they're like now we're gonna throw you back in time several

853
01:33:56,080 --> 01:34:03,040
hundred years before Sinnoh was Sinnoh and you're just gonna have to survive being literally

854
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:14,000
Esekide so you start your own Pokemon journey out of your own home world and it's you're basically

855
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:22,000
going around the map like trying to sneak up on Pokemon and catch them stealthily and add them

856
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:31,280
to your party and by catching them and seeing them do different things you quote unquote research them

857
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:38,000
and that adds to like this thing where the higher your research level the stronger your Pokemon are

858
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:45,120
allowed to be and the further you can progress the story and it's kind of cool because they expanded

859
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:51,840
on some of the Pokemon by giving them regional variants so I went through and I was like I like

860
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:58,480
to play each game like I want to use stuff that's native to that region or stuff that I haven't used

861
01:34:58,480 --> 01:35:08,080
before which a little tough now that we're uh nine generations in and a lot of the big name stuff

862
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:16,640
has been used so I decided to go for a lot more of the Hesuiian regional variants and that was

863
01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:26,880
neat to do but uh the the I like the idea that they are laying the foundation for what diamond and

864
01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:35,440
pearl and platinum were but boy oh boy they go out of their way to be like well you have to do this

865
01:35:35,440 --> 01:35:44,080
researching and it drags the game down to like it's like you could speedrun your way through

866
01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:53,200
this one like any given section of story and then like wait hold on how many stars do you have

867
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:59,200
and the stars indicate your research level and say well I have I have the one star will you need to

868
01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:09,520
how do I get the second go back out in the field catch more Pokemon a lot more Pokemon a lot more

869
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:16,720
fight more of them try and see the different actions that they do and it's like

870
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:26,560
it's a big roadblock to retain urine across it which it kind of serves a purpose to let you level

871
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:30,960
up your team because you need to be a little bit higher level to finish this game than some of the

872
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:36,560
other ones like I eventually got to a point where I was like okay we're gonna stop and get to level 70

873
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:40,720
before I even think about finishing the game which that took a minute to do

874
01:36:41,440 --> 01:36:46,880
but um the game is at least kind enough to in the polka decks to be like

875
01:36:46,880 --> 01:36:53,120
well if you do these sorts of things you'll get more research points out of them and you'll be

876
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:59,840
able to level up slightly faster and even then that still takes a minute to do because I got

877
01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:06,720
I guess I got to a point where I was like decently leveled enough to get through it certain zones

878
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:14,240
and just be like hey I'm done no you're not JK it yet so I'm seeing there for like two to three hours

879
01:37:14,240 --> 01:37:20,160
at any point just a roaming the map catching what I can fighting what I can and it just like

880
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:24,320
slows the game down to a crawl and from what I understand

881
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:32,160
Zay is a little bit better about that it lets you keep moving and keep moving forward and making progress

882
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:37,120
which I'm kind of looking forward to that aspect of it like I know people have some other issues with

883
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:47,600
Zay will probably talk about that when I eventually play it but like I said I enjoyed taking some

884
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:53,680
a couple of the older Pokemon that I had caught in other games and be like well I'm gonna try

885
01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:58,960
racing this version of it because like everyone knows growl with an arc and nine because they were

886
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:06,800
in the original game but now it's double type it has it's fire and rock type and it has access to

887
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:11,440
other moves and it can do you know other things and now there's these Pokemon that you can

888
01:38:11,440 --> 01:38:17,760
you come in with during parts of the story if you use them to ride around the map and

889
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:23,680
climb areas that normally wouldn't be accessible and this and that and the other thing and the

890
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:28,640
and I think the flavor of the game is really neat because then they have these other fights where

891
01:38:28,640 --> 01:38:36,880
it's like there are these enraged Pokemon where you have to actually engage directly with them as

892
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:41,760
the trainer not as you know if fight them with your Pokemon where you have to throw these balls at

893
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:48,960
them to calm them down so then you can eventually if you have an opening send out your Pokemon to

894
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:54,880
fight them to weaken them a bit so you can continue the process and then you can calm them down so

895
01:38:54,880 --> 01:39:01,440
then they're like oh I'm not quite as enraged as I was five minutes ago and they could just go

896
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:10,320
back to doing their thing did you in general which type of because this has a more active battle

897
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:18,320
style like you just described did you did you did you prefer that one over the normal turn-based style

898
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:25,680
stuff or well there is that which is exclusive to like the like I forget what they're called like

899
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:33,840
the totem Pokemon were in Sun and Moon like the whatever they're called in this game that's when

900
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:39,680
you engage them directly like that the other rest of it is like the turn-based normal stuff but

901
01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:47,520
they added in as Pokemon level up in us they use moves more and more they can master

902
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:54,400
the moves and then you can use them in different ways called agile style and strong style which uses

903
01:39:54,400 --> 01:40:03,200
more of the power points but in agile style the move power is reduced but you get an extra turn

904
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:09,280
after it so you can sort of strategize with that a little bit be like well if I do this I can

905
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:15,920
get a turn back and then hit them later on harder and then strong style gives up a turn but it hits

906
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:22,000
harder I believe the power differential is like I think it's like 20% is it 20% I believe between

907
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:28,960
20% upper down depending whether you select agile or strong and it can give you an edge like if you

908
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:34,400
want to finish a fight now you can hit with a strong style move but if you want to reclaim an extra

909
01:40:34,400 --> 01:40:38,960
turn and then hit them twice in a row you can use agile style so I think that's a neat way to do it

910
01:40:40,960 --> 01:40:47,920
this game also does away with the TM's that a lot of other games have as you increase your research

911
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:54,480
several there's this woman in the training grounds Zisu that you can go to and be like hey I want

912
01:40:54,480 --> 01:41:02,160
to learn new moves you can pay her and you can add moves to your Pokemon moves move pools this

913
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:09,520
did the thing that carried over into Scarlet Scarlet Violet and I believe into ZA where as your

914
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:16,800
Pokemon learn moves they get put into a pool of moves that they have accessible any given point

915
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:22,400
you can only take four at a time into a battle but you can be like oh I want this this Pokemon to

916
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:28,160
also know these two other moves and you can switch them out situationally at no additional cost

917
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:35,760
the only thing about moves that you learn from Zisu is that they don't naturally master them so

918
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:42,880
you need to acquire items called seeds of mastery and then later on you can use those to force a

919
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:51,760
Pokemon to master and move that it wouldn't normally have otherwise so and then in the later in the

920
01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:57,120
games after that they did away with the additional styles but keeping the additional moves you can

921
01:41:57,120 --> 01:42:03,840
switch on in a in an out on the flight is such a good idea dude because for so long you'd either

922
01:42:03,840 --> 01:42:08,880
have to override you would either have to override a move and lose it forever or you'd have to go to

923
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:14,560
the move delete or the move remember and it's like oh and at the move remember you need to spend a

924
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:19,280
heart scale and heart scales are very rare and hard to come by and it's like Jesus Christ

925
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:27,440
it's so much better now than it was and I'm glad that they have gotten into their heads yes this is

926
01:42:27,440 --> 01:42:34,400
a better way to do it scarlet and violet the throw away the idea that TM's were infinite use after they

927
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:40,480
introduced that idea in black and white which was the best change in that game but then they brought

928
01:42:40,480 --> 01:42:47,680
that back again for Z.A. as far as I understand which is like okay okay we're finally in a good spot

929
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:54,080
you can keep it like this this is great and you know obviously they're gonna try and find a way to

930
01:42:54,080 --> 01:43:00,800
innovate the game moving the games when we for a coast there was god there was the big game freak

931
01:43:00,800 --> 01:43:08,000
leak that happened wasn't a month or two ago I forget when exactly but it sounds like you know

932
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:13,440
they have plans for another legends game after this one gen 10 is in the works

933
01:43:13,440 --> 01:43:20,320
there's no remake of black and white in the blueprint so sad that's the one thing I wanted most

934
01:43:21,280 --> 01:43:28,000
maybe it was having eventually maybe but I was really hoping that after legends EA that would be

935
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:37,280
the next one but it was like okay all right but I think on the whole legends archius on the battle

936
01:43:37,280 --> 01:43:44,000
side set a really good blueprint for the games moving forward on the exploration side it was

937
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:51,200
definitely definitely a first step towards the way that games are now because scarlet and violet

938
01:43:51,200 --> 01:44:01,440
were definitely less of a slog in comparison and I sort of I kind of ruined this game a little bit

939
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:08,240
because I played scarlet violet first in spite of scarlet and violet's downsides when it

940
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:13,520
because it launched in a state and it got it got better is it went along and now the ideal way to

941
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:19,440
play is if you have a switch to because it plays so much better on them now and they're a lot more fun

942
01:44:19,440 --> 01:44:25,040
than they were like they don't run like they're on a potato anymore so I've heard

943
01:44:25,040 --> 01:44:31,760
and there's just a lot better now but legends archius is a neat for what it is but you have to be

944
01:44:31,760 --> 01:44:38,240
willing to overcome some weird humps to get to the good stuff but I think it's said of neat blueprint

945
01:44:38,240 --> 01:44:49,040
moving forward yeah I mean you're gonna have a second taste with that with or off that with the

946
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:57,120
Z a right so yes I play pokemon games in a weird way though because I like to look at the entire decks

947
01:44:57,120 --> 01:45:02,480
when it's released and I'd be like okay how am I gonna build my team and I look at that and I'm like

948
01:45:02,480 --> 01:45:07,840
okay I want my team to be this and then I look at the move pools and I want the move pools to be that

949
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:13,840
so it's gonna be a minute of researching what I want my team to be before I actually sit down

950
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:18,960
and play it and like I said I like to do different a little bit different teams each time I play but

951
01:45:18,960 --> 01:45:26,320
there's so much overlap in the decks this time around in Z a because it's a lot smaller than it was

952
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:30,880
before so I'm just gonna have to at some point probably throw my hands up and be like all right

953
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:40,000
there's just going to be repeats in here because because my boy Marie Pneumferosa in there and I love

954
01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:44,720
that pokemon so much I'm just like all right maybe you're gonna be on the team again if you were in

955
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:53,360
heart gold so yeah I mean pokemon is what it is and I'll probably keep playing them in spite of

956
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:59,520
what the games are and I know there's a lot of there's a lot of criticisms to be leveled against them

957
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:05,520
but you know after everyone made a big stink about the reduction of the size of the pocketexon

958
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:15,120
sword and shield well that game still sold I think like uh 26 million copies so I have it one of the

959
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:20,400
few Pokemon games I have no that's not true I have Arches as well but I have not touched it yet

960
01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:26,000
so it's like one of those like well clearly other people didn't want to speak with their wallets

961
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:33,200
so sorry guys I mean I'm guilty of it too I bought sword and I I really enjoyed it so

962
01:46:33,840 --> 01:46:39,360
but I also get where people were like I get where people were like uh but it was

963
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:44,800
the the the the the the the the the the the wild areas were definitely the blueprint for what Arches

964
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:52,160
and then what scarlet violet would become so yeah yeah I get it I understand but I'm I'm still here

965
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:59,440
being stupid consumer so but yeah like those Arches is cool like I said it it definitely walked

966
01:46:59,440 --> 01:47:06,320
so the games after it could run so yeah it's pretty much that about that what you get

967
01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:15,680
after the giant as RPG that I played I was like okay I need to do a smaller um to D game again and

968
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:25,200
thankfully a fucking great remake of a stellar or reboot or whatever you want to call it of a

969
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:33,040
of a franchise hits hit the gaming shelves and that is the new shinobi game shinobi art of vengeance

970
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:39,760
and that game was a blast I don't even know how much to say about that it's just a god damn good

971
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:46,560
side scroll action game just just a joy from beginning to end to play like the mechanics are fantastic

972
01:47:46,560 --> 01:47:54,800
the game looks incredible like a fantastic art style uh you know the story is super basic but

973
01:47:55,440 --> 01:48:00,080
it's it's fine it has everything and you want in there is enough fan service in there I guess because

974
01:48:00,080 --> 01:48:05,280
I am not super familiar with shinobi games I didn't play any of them really because I didn't have

975
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:12,480
Sega consoles until the dreamcast and uh so this is my first real shinobi game that I played from

976
01:48:12,480 --> 01:48:17,920
beginning to end played a bit of shadow dance or any arcade arcades but that's about it and a bit

977
01:48:17,920 --> 01:48:25,200
of the ps2 game but this one was just fantastic just so much so much fun to play the bosses are

978
01:48:25,200 --> 01:48:29,840
really well thought out and the different things you have to do it's very metroidvania ish

979
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:36,560
you have to unlock skills to later revisit certain levels and find more secrets and everything and

980
01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:44,880
there are some the optional sort that does more damage is hidden behind these these obstacle courses

981
01:48:44,880 --> 01:48:52,960
and challenge rooms you have to do and some of those are brutal but doable I did all of them

982
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:58,560
if you look at my gaming profile if you for some reason search that out I hope you don't

983
01:48:58,560 --> 01:49:04,720
and don't find the game there that's because I had to play it on my uh us account profile because for

984
01:49:04,720 --> 01:49:10,880
some reason did the dlc I got with it when I ordered from the drone games was fucking region blocked

985
01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:16,480
I couldn't play it on my german account because the dd I couldn't unlock the dlc there for some reason

986
01:49:16,480 --> 01:49:22,720
that's so weird what super weird I don't know why that happened but yeah so I had to use my

987
01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:29,440
us a PlayStation account for that so it's the I'm glad I don't give a shit about trophies otherwise

988
01:49:29,440 --> 01:49:37,440
I would probably be angry but that's why that game is on there no but fun breezy game uh long enough

989
01:49:37,440 --> 01:49:44,240
for the game it like I said looks incredible the the fighting mechanics are just so much fun it's so

990
01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:50,880
it feels so good to play that game it has just such great movement such cool comment mechanics and

991
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:57,440
variations that you can use and how you can play it and so on um yeah it's it's so well thought out

992
01:49:57,440 --> 01:50:06,480
it's so much it's the music is fantastic and uh yeah I had a fantastic time from beginning to end

993
01:50:06,480 --> 01:50:12,880
like if you're in the mood for a super good action game like in the t2d space just get there I'm

994
01:50:12,880 --> 01:50:18,640
gonna play through a lot of ninja games in the coming months because this is the first one then we

995
01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:25,280
have the new ninja guidance 2d game rage bound yeah yeah I have that as well that looks also fantastic

996
01:50:25,280 --> 01:50:30,000
judging from the trailers I'm gonna play that next and then I have a cyber shadow which is more 8-bit

997
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:35,840
style ninja guidance I forgot about that game I'm gonna play that as well so you're gonna get a lot

998
01:50:35,840 --> 01:50:42,000
more ninja games from me in the next episodes of freeze frames per seconds that's for sure but

999
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:51,200
shinobi is art of vengeance is a tough tough one to beat because that's just fantastic came from

1000
01:50:51,200 --> 01:50:56,640
beginning to end it's so good it's super hard it's brutal some of the bosses are insane and to

1001
01:50:56,640 --> 01:51:06,640
challenge courses are really really just holy shit some of them anyway some of them are super easy

1002
01:51:06,640 --> 01:51:13,200
which is like how is that the final one there was just too fucking easy but uh one of them in the middle

1003
01:51:13,200 --> 01:51:19,920
there good lord uh that really tested my platforming skills like they haven't been tested in a long

1004
01:51:19,920 --> 01:51:27,040
while so I really enjoyed that that sounds good I mean this is on my list I had played the demo of

1005
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:34,480
ninja guidance so like this is on the list uh ninja guidance on the list cyber shadows on those

1006
01:51:34,480 --> 01:51:39,600
the messenger I still haven't finished I played a ton of that but I still haven't finished that game

1007
01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:48,320
is longer than I thought actually so I got me I don't know exactly how far I am in the game but I

1008
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:53,760
had gotten all of the upgrades and thought I was relatively close to the end but the game was like

1009
01:51:53,760 --> 01:52:02,240
just kidding idiot so I I want to actually wrap that up before I look at all these other things but

1010
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:09,040
yeah no I had only heard good things about uh Shinobi and ninja guidance so I heard the new

1011
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:14,960
ninja the new new ninja guidance and she forzo so pretty decent too supposed to be good too nice to

1012
01:52:14,960 --> 01:52:21,840
hear off three was not that great so I flat it's a platinum did it right uh yeah they've worked on

1013
01:52:21,840 --> 01:52:27,920
it with a team ninja I believe nice cool cool looking forward to playing that eventually as well

1014
01:52:27,920 --> 01:52:33,040
uh resisting that's here that's here is the 3d version of that but uh ragebound is first

1015
01:52:33,040 --> 01:52:42,400
so and that seems to be a much more uh uh much different style but also really cool uh so yeah

1016
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:49,520
forward to that john what else do you have left I got a couple quick things and I think that's it for me

1017
01:52:51,360 --> 01:53:00,320
so I was a thumb-on through youtube the other day and I saw Caleb Hart the speed runner was playing

1018
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:09,120
some mega man X like he does but it was a little different than what I was expecting he was playing

1019
01:53:09,120 --> 01:53:17,520
the thing called the root matrix randomizer uh so this is a thing that was put together by this

1020
01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:25,760
japanese rom hacker pude saabay maybe if you put a mega man for minus infinity I have I don't know if

1021
01:53:25,760 --> 01:53:33,760
all is this a pet but yeah yeah that is one that is probably one of their big magnum opus rom hack works

1022
01:53:33,760 --> 01:53:41,520
because they're so minus infinity is insane and if you were sick of playing mega man over and over

1023
01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:49,360
you want something drastically different oh oh oh oh four mi has got it but um

1024
01:53:49,360 --> 01:53:59,360
what the root matrix randomizer is it takes the roms for rockman x1 2 and 3

1025
01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:05,680
and puts them together and it randomizes the items you can get across all three roms

1026
01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:12,160
interesting I wonder how they avoid breaking the games with that well there's there's a lot of

1027
01:54:12,160 --> 01:54:18,320
different settings and I think so you can download a utility and use it on your desktop but there's also

1028
01:54:18,320 --> 01:54:24,480
a website with a lot more customization options and I think there are certain things that are

1029
01:54:24,480 --> 01:54:31,840
done to prevent like soft locks in there so I think it's pretty much free of anything that where you

1030
01:54:31,840 --> 01:54:39,840
could potentially run across a game ending sequence of events but what this randomizes is literally

1031
01:54:39,840 --> 01:54:45,120
everything the weapons you get from bosses the the static items in each state you know how in some

1032
01:54:45,120 --> 01:54:50,480
stage or like oh there is a one-up that is always here oh there is like an energy you think there's

1033
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:58,880
always here those can be anything so you can pick up and be like oh this one-up is now just a pellet

1034
01:54:58,880 --> 01:55:04,720
of energy this subtank this thing that was a subtank before well now it's a I don't know it's the

1035
01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:14,480
it's the shotgun ice and yes yes and the way it works is on the stage select for each game it

1036
01:55:14,480 --> 01:55:20,080
actually has a list of all of the items you can get in each stage and it will highlight them as you

1037
01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:25,600
pick them pick them up so you know whether or not you have quote unquote completed a stage and

1038
01:55:25,600 --> 01:55:31,680
from the stage like you hit the select button and it will drop out the game it was save the state

1039
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:38,960
of the game recurrently by drop it out and cycle to the next game in sequence so the way versus you

1040
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:46,560
won't necessarily have to complete the game but you the objective is to get sigma keys so you can

1041
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:53,360
unlock the end game stages and the game is good the game is considered over once you have beaten sigma

1042
01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:59,600
at the end of each game okay sounds very interesting it's all in it's a lot and you can do all sorts of

1043
01:55:59,600 --> 01:56:07,840
weird toggles like you can randomize weapon properties oh wow okay so when I was watching Caleb

1044
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:14,160
Hart like the the chameleon sting was a coded weapon for his playthrough like it was slicing through

1045
01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:20,960
every enemy in every boss the game also has a toggle where it's like well since this is going to be a

1046
01:56:20,960 --> 01:56:27,360
bit tougher since it's a randomizer well you can choose to start with the dash boots and x1 okay

1047
01:56:27,360 --> 01:56:31,360
okay that's you know that makes things a little bit easier but you can also choose to not start with

1048
01:56:31,360 --> 01:56:37,520
that so which will make you going through x1 considerably more difficult you can also have a toggle

1049
01:56:37,520 --> 01:56:44,960
where all bosses start at half health and then every four bosses you beat their life meter increases

1050
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:52,880
and I believe it caps it like I think three full life meters so boss fights can get much longer

1051
01:56:52,880 --> 01:56:58,800
in much more intense compared to the vanilla games like one of the neat things when he was playing

1052
01:56:58,800 --> 01:57:06,960
x3 that I know that he figured out was that the boss fights that you have to redo like in particular

1053
01:57:06,960 --> 01:57:11,760
in the end game Doppler stages that one room where you have to refight the bosses before you go

1054
01:57:11,760 --> 01:57:17,040
fight Doppler you can skip that room entirely because you because it's designed so it's that you don't

1055
01:57:17,040 --> 01:57:21,680
get anything from those bosses in the original game so it's like why do you need to refight them the

1056
01:57:21,680 --> 01:57:26,480
game will just say okay okay you could just go one through and it's just a real neat way to mix up

1057
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:32,160
playing these games because I mean there are some rom hacks out there for the early s games but not

1058
01:57:32,160 --> 01:57:39,120
all of them are in my opinion all that interesting like you have your kaizo s1 search is like

1059
01:57:39,920 --> 01:57:47,200
really goofy with stupid stage layouts and it's like oh man that's not it so I hadn't finished a run

1060
01:57:47,200 --> 01:57:54,160
of this yet but I've gotten a decent way into it but I think this is a great way to make the first

1061
01:57:54,160 --> 01:58:00,400
three games a lot more replayable and I think if you if you're tired of playing the original games

1062
01:58:00,400 --> 01:58:06,160
the way they are it's definitely worth checking out the thing is you have to set it up in a very

1063
01:58:06,160 --> 01:58:12,800
specific emulator biz hawk which I think is one that a lot of people use for like task runs

1064
01:58:12,800 --> 01:58:19,760
and then you have to set the emulation core to a certain one and then you have to run the game not

1065
01:58:19,760 --> 01:58:25,520
from the boot rom but from the Lewis script I say all of this because I would have figured this out

1066
01:58:25,520 --> 01:58:31,280
easily if I looked at the read me because I was like I was trying different amulators I tried z-sness

1067
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:37,600
I tried s-ne-s-9-x I tried b-sness I tried aries I was like why are any of these working well you have

1068
01:58:37,600 --> 01:58:44,480
to again biz hawk with the foused s-ne-s core with the Lewis script and I was like oh I feel stupid now

1069
01:58:44,480 --> 01:58:52,080
shoot well I mean an honest mistake to make I wonder if we'll see this at a game stand quick events in

1070
01:58:52,080 --> 01:58:57,680
the not too distant future all of that yes that worked great because like Caleb was playing it like

1071
01:58:57,680 --> 01:59:04,160
max difficulty with like of course basically all of the buttons pressed and I was like okay I just

1072
01:59:04,160 --> 01:59:12,640
try this out first and slow things down a little bit so fun fun way to re-experience these games

1073
01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:18,880
in a different way oh no yeah for sure so definitely and it's also you know super replayable because

1074
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:26,160
you can get a different seat every time so yeah yeah then the other quick thing was I spent some money

1075
01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:35,760
on something so I have a steam deck and I like it but it's it's been out for a few years now it's

1076
01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:43,840
getting a little long in the tooth and I wanted an upgrade and I put an ROGX box ally X and it's

1077
01:59:43,840 --> 01:59:48,480
neat you know it definitely has the extra power that the steam deck is lacking because I was

1078
01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:58,560
interested in this or the MSI claw a eight but MSI is being really cagey about a US release of it

1079
01:59:58,560 --> 02:00:03,600
because you have they have all sorts of promotional materials and it's out in China and I think most

1080
02:00:03,600 --> 02:00:09,600
of Asia and it's out in Europe and it's like hey guys I'm just gonna raise my hand over here and ask

1081
02:00:09,600 --> 02:00:20,400
about the US no it's not okay so I got the Xbox ally X and I think it's pretty cool and I got it

1082
02:00:20,400 --> 02:00:26,320
with the intention of okay so this whole windows thing that they have on it with the Xbox full screen

1083
02:00:26,320 --> 02:00:33,680
experience looks neat and I'll try it out for maybe a week or two and see how I like it now I got

1084
02:00:33,680 --> 02:00:38,800
it off there and I put bad light on it immediately I saw people having to install T an

1085
02:00:38,800 --> 02:00:44,960
install teams from the fucking gaming hand Ted and I laugh I mean because it's just windows

1086
02:00:44,960 --> 02:00:55,040
for better and for and for worse I think the I think the way the Xbox full screen experience

1087
02:00:55,040 --> 02:01:02,240
got what a stupid name I think it is a good first step and I think it's neat for what it is

1088
02:01:02,960 --> 02:01:10,240
it's not there it is not there okay and every time I was like well I just want to play games on steam

1089
02:01:10,240 --> 02:01:16,880
and you know you could drop out of it and go into steam big picture mode but you can't you just

1090
02:01:16,880 --> 02:01:22,720
don't get this steam experience as it's intended because everything on the gamepad is

1091
02:01:22,720 --> 02:01:31,040
understandably geared toward windows and what what it wants to do underneath so eventually I was

1092
02:01:31,040 --> 02:01:36,640
just like okay we're gonna scrub windows off this we're gonna put bad light on there which is

1093
02:01:36,640 --> 02:01:43,040
basically steam OS and all but name and we're gonna try that and I love it it's so much better

1094
02:01:43,040 --> 02:01:50,720
with steam OS on there like you you can put the official valve steam OS in there but they explicitly

1095
02:01:50,720 --> 02:02:00,640
state on the steam OS page this is in beta form for ROG ally hardware so please be aware of that

1096
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:06,960
whereas bad site is like yes we have we have gone through it and we have tailored it to work a bit more

1097
02:02:06,960 --> 02:02:16,080
a bit better with the ally hardware like there's this one youtube channel that I watch sometimes I

1098
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:22,560
think is what's it called David does tech stuff that's it yeah and he was talking about his experience

1099
02:02:22,560 --> 02:02:30,080
with bad site on the Xbox ally actually and he said it was a bit rough but then I guess the bad

1100
02:02:30,080 --> 02:02:35,680
site team were like basically like the next day or the week after we're like we hear you and we fix

1101
02:02:35,680 --> 02:02:40,640
a whole bunch of things and we encourage people to try it against like all right this will be my

1102
02:02:40,640 --> 02:02:45,520
first port of call and I put it on there I'm like this is great this is awesome there's a few

1103
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:50,720
weird little hangups like the start-up sound like does some weird stuff it's a little funky when

1104
02:02:50,720 --> 02:02:57,520
it starts up and I'm like I don't think it should be sound like that the back buttons on the

1105
02:02:58,560 --> 02:03:04,560
unit don't seem to work properly unless you switch the controller type back and forth which

1106
02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:11,040
that also might be a me issue because I opened the unit up to replace the hard drive and the

1107
02:03:11,040 --> 02:03:17,040
ribbon cable that connects the back buttons to the main board came loose and I had a time getting

1108
02:03:17,040 --> 02:03:24,960
it put back in so skill issue on my part but if you go into the controller settings and you toggle

1109
02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:31,840
the control because you can have it recognize the buttons on the unit as an Xbox controller a

1110
02:03:31,840 --> 02:03:38,000
steam controller or a dual sense and if you toggle it to one of those we'll start detecting the

1111
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:44,480
rear buttons again so it's like okay cool because I also I also screwed up when I was putting it back

1112
02:03:44,480 --> 02:03:50,880
together and it wasn't turning on and I was like oh god what did I do wrong the thing I did wrong was

1113
02:03:51,360 --> 02:03:56,960
so on a steam deck when you want to do work on it they encourage you to discharge the battery to a

1114
02:03:56,960 --> 02:04:01,600
certain amount then go into the bio settings and then put it into what's called battery storage

1115
02:04:01,600 --> 02:04:10,640
mode so then the unit cannot turn on unless you actually plug it into power and the ally X does not

1116
02:04:10,640 --> 02:04:17,280
have that setting but it does it on its own if you disconnect the battery which is you kind of need

1117
02:04:17,280 --> 02:04:23,440
to do it gets the hard drive slot on it so then I was like what wait am I an idiot do I need to plug

1118
02:04:23,440 --> 02:04:30,880
it back into wake it back up the answer is yes I was stupid so it got working after that and now it

1119
02:04:30,880 --> 02:04:37,600
seems to be working mostly as intended and I'm having a real good time with it and you can tell

1120
02:04:37,600 --> 02:04:43,280
there is a big difference in power from the steam deck going from I forget what exactly is a

1121
02:04:43,280 --> 02:04:50,080
class of the APU is in the steam deck but the ally X has the Z2 extreme in it which you know AMD is

1122
02:04:50,080 --> 02:04:56,160
really pushing and we'll be probably talking about AMD and some of their other hardware in a little

1123
02:04:56,160 --> 02:05:03,040
bit just a touch on it but yeah it's a neat unit and I'm glad you know I've got it working

1124
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:11,760
a way that I like so I know obviously it's a pretty steep price tag and I went into that with

1125
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:19,920
that understanding my credit card hurt for a little bit but I decided I was just like I know I

1126
02:05:19,920 --> 02:05:25,120
can't see done this I just have to pay it off so I don't know if it was the right time to buy it

1127
02:05:25,120 --> 02:05:30,480
after I got into a fender bender and my car had to get repaired but I thankfully I think insurance

1128
02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:37,840
will cover that so yes it was it was it was an expensive toy and I'm looking forward to messing around

1129
02:05:37,840 --> 02:05:44,640
with it a bit more well I wish you a lot of fun with it I hope it works out yeah you did you have

1130
02:05:44,640 --> 02:05:52,240
anything else yes I have one more game left gonna get too deep into it we're because we're running a

1131
02:05:52,240 --> 02:06:02,960
bit low on time so I also played the new Donkey Kong game Donkey Kong Bonanza on Switch 2 which is

1132
02:06:02,960 --> 02:06:08,560
by the Mario Odyssey team and that is very evident when you play it because it definitely feels like

1133
02:06:08,560 --> 02:06:14,240
that game just with Donkey Kong in a way and it's where you can tell from like all the trailers and

1134
02:06:14,240 --> 02:06:21,440
promotional material and that is not like that's not a slight towards the game or whatever like that

1135
02:06:21,440 --> 02:06:28,480
is actually a good thing I mean I like Odyssey not as much as Mario Galaxy but I still like the game a

1136
02:06:28,480 --> 02:06:34,320
lot of the movement in that game in the movement in this game is fantastic as well and you know you

1137
02:06:34,320 --> 02:06:39,520
go around the Donkey Kong you dig down to the planet core you make friends with a little stone

1138
02:06:39,520 --> 02:06:48,880
that is obviously the little kit version of Pauline which makes this a prequel I guess to the Mario

1139
02:06:48,880 --> 02:06:58,960
games I'm not sure how the the lore works out there but yeah she is there's this evil cooperation and

1140
02:06:58,960 --> 02:07:03,360
they want to get to the planet core and do some bad things there and they're stealing all the bananas

1141
02:07:03,360 --> 02:07:10,160
and Donkey Kong is all about them bananas and he's gonna try to get them back and not my bananas bro

1142
02:07:10,160 --> 02:07:16,640
yeah and Pauline helps him with that because she's also a special power that can help

1143
02:07:17,520 --> 02:07:23,280
Donkey Kong getting decay then nobody calls them Donkey Kong in that game everyone calls him just decay

1144
02:07:23,280 --> 02:07:31,360
and help decay get where where he needs to be and you know you got you punch a lot and the most

1145
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:35,120
fun thing I guess about the game is that you can punch the and most of the environment and just

1146
02:07:35,120 --> 02:07:40,480
punch yourself through there basically you can punch a hole in pretty much everything and just

1147
02:07:41,840 --> 02:07:48,960
unearth shit like treasures and whatever and gold and get to get to these big bananas that give you

1148
02:07:48,960 --> 02:07:56,800
skill points but you can also you know use treasure maps and buy them and find them in in in

1149
02:07:56,800 --> 02:08:02,800
chess and stuff like that and then try to find stuff through there and you also unlock a special

1150
02:08:03,680 --> 02:08:12,800
berserk modes in a way where you get special abilities you can turn into a con version of yourself

1151
02:08:12,800 --> 02:08:17,920
that can punch harder and shit like that and can punch through surfaces that normal decay can

1152
02:08:17,920 --> 02:08:25,360
punch through can turn into an elephant version of yourself a snake version of yourself basically

1153
02:08:25,360 --> 02:08:29,200
all your elemental friends that you had in the Donkey Kong Country games before or at least some of

1154
02:08:29,200 --> 02:08:36,480
them you can turn into you can turn into a rhino but ramby is in there running around with cranky

1155
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:41,520
and you can find them and he'll give you special something for that too if you can find them in every

1156
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:49,040
stage and yeah so the gameplay loop is basically get to a new layer towards the planet core and then

1157
02:08:49,040 --> 02:08:58,800
find a lot of shit and find the bananas a skill where you can transform into a new

1158
02:08:58,800 --> 02:09:07,440
animal version which looks super freaky like if you ever wanted it to to know what a or if you didn't

1159
02:09:07,440 --> 02:09:13,600
want to know what a what an ape crossed with an ostrich looks like well that game is gonna give

1160
02:09:13,600 --> 02:09:21,520
it to you anyway oh no so but it's fun and it gives a lot of gameplay variety not all the forms are

1161
02:09:21,520 --> 02:09:28,240
as useful like the the zebra form I didn't use as much because it is fast but it's very

1162
02:09:28,240 --> 02:09:33,280
contextual and otherwise it's a bit finicky to control so I wasn't a super big fan of it but I used

1163
02:09:33,280 --> 02:09:38,320
to snake version a lot I used the especially the the elephant version a lot because it has super

1164
02:09:38,320 --> 02:09:43,680
useful skill when it comes to collecting items and everything and eliminating environmental hazard

1165
02:09:43,680 --> 02:09:48,720
so I use that a lot and the fun thing is there's always a different theme playing because a lot of

1166
02:09:48,720 --> 02:09:52,880
that game is also about music and singing with poline and everything because she's a singer right

1167
02:09:53,600 --> 02:09:58,960
and so a different music is playing when you have a different form a different animal form

1168
02:09:58,960 --> 02:10:05,520
and all of these tracks are bangers and uh yeah it's super fun like it's it's basically like

1169
02:10:05,520 --> 02:10:12,080
differently coded Mario game uh just with a different character but also special abilities and everything

1170
02:10:12,080 --> 02:10:20,160
and a lot of stuff to explore very weird quirky side characters that you can uh engage with and

1171
02:10:20,160 --> 02:10:28,400
everything a lot of things to find and uh to dig for and uh lots of secrets and so there were a lot

1172
02:10:28,400 --> 02:10:34,160
of moments uh also special challenge rooms and everything where you have to find three bananas

1173
02:10:34,160 --> 02:10:39,200
in rooms and and and stuff like that or beat enemies in a certain amount of time whatever

1174
02:10:39,200 --> 02:10:45,120
and all of that is super fun like the the game is a blast from beginning to end is super enjoyable

1175
02:10:45,120 --> 02:10:50,720
it's it's pretty beefy like there are enough worlds in there and there's also a part where you can do

1176
02:10:50,720 --> 02:10:55,360
go through two different routes but you can return to the other version of the route as well if you

1177
02:10:55,360 --> 02:11:06,480
want so uh or you should do that actually so uh yeah it's just it's a really good adventure game and uh

1178
02:11:06,480 --> 02:11:12,080
with entertaining uh with with nice sympathetic characters and everything and cool worlds very

1179
02:11:12,720 --> 02:11:19,120
varied worlds that look very different and are very big uh cool atmosphere and everything i really

1180
02:11:19,120 --> 02:11:24,960
enjoyed that game i enjoyed it even more than Mario Odyssey uh really really fun time great outing

1181
02:11:24,960 --> 02:11:30,960
for for a decay game like like he's the main star now of the show like it really feels like they put

1182
02:11:30,960 --> 02:11:36,560
a lot into that game and it definitely feels like okay he's won now am he in the way he always was but

1183
02:11:37,440 --> 02:11:45,120
i feel like he that this is this is the big outing he has been deserving of for a long time and it's

1184
02:11:45,120 --> 02:11:50,000
just like believe the hype like everyone gave this high ratings for a good reason it's just super fun

1185
02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:57,200
and uh i can't recommend it enough like it's super good the only fit it downside at this this is where

1186
02:11:57,200 --> 02:12:02,960
we get to the beginning of the section right at the end uh right when i finished it with was

1187
02:12:02,960 --> 02:12:10,000
was a super satisfying finish like the the final stretch of that game the finale is insane

1188
02:12:10,000 --> 02:12:16,160
like it's so much fun and it's so intense and such a climactic finale thing i didn't expect that

1189
02:12:16,160 --> 02:12:21,760
from this game it just feels like holy shit it's kind of like the but the the the section in the

1190
02:12:21,760 --> 02:12:28,800
at the end of Mario Odyssey where you turn into Bowser uh but like longer and just insane

1191
02:12:30,480 --> 02:12:36,320
it's just crazy it's just super intense and really good in terms of gameplay uh mechanics you have to

1192
02:12:36,320 --> 02:12:40,720
use yeah like you have to implore all of the different forms that you have been collecting so

1193
02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:48,560
none of them are like forgettable in that regard or you did collect them not for nothing so

1194
02:12:48,560 --> 02:12:54,560
it's just like holy shit we're in the end game now she's just getting real but it's not super

1195
02:12:54,560 --> 02:12:59,440
difficult as well so it's not frustrating i had a really good time with that but after that and after

1196
02:12:59,440 --> 02:13:04,640
you are done with the amazing credits and everything here is a little bit extra and you could do go

1197
02:13:04,640 --> 02:13:09,040
back underground and do this stuff and this stuff and roll and i was like no i'm good

1198
02:13:09,040 --> 02:13:15,280
i'm just like this was a perfect ending i don't need more of this i guess it's good great for the

1199
02:13:15,280 --> 02:13:20,160
people who want to spend more time there's also dlc i don't want any of that that game had the perfect

1200
02:13:20,160 --> 02:13:26,480
length when the credits end i think that's where they should end and that's where the game should end

1201
02:13:26,480 --> 02:13:33,200
i don't need more of this this was just the perfect game and yeah i just don't need more of this i'm

1202
02:13:33,200 --> 02:13:38,960
fine it's great it's great the way it was and i don't need to have some additional shit tacked onto

1203
02:13:38,960 --> 02:13:45,200
that uh it just felt a bit weird to just go back and then have some one of the characters be like hey

1204
02:13:45,200 --> 02:13:50,720
i'm back again and uh for this and this reason and you also get don't get aside from you know a couple

1205
02:13:50,720 --> 02:13:54,800
of additional challenges and so on you don't get that much out of it in terms of story apparently

1206
02:13:54,800 --> 02:14:02,000
just a jpeg at the end and special ones like i'm not gonna do it for that sorry uh i didn't do it

1207
02:14:02,000 --> 02:14:10,160
for uh for hideys and i'm not gonna do it for this so uh but yeah super fun time i still think it's

1208
02:14:10,160 --> 02:14:17,600
funny that uh they hinted at this with uh dk's new look and mark it well i guess new old look in mario

1209
02:14:17,600 --> 02:14:26,880
cart world and it was like well why did they change it from the dk seal oh so i think a lot of people

1210
02:14:26,880 --> 02:14:34,800
were hoping the dlc would be a little bit more because i know the big dk fans were like you know

1211
02:14:34,800 --> 02:14:43,840
dk64 is the game that it is but cong island is super iconic and it they kind of reduced it down to like

1212
02:14:45,120 --> 02:14:50,880
in the dlc which is sort of unfortunate but you know i guess it's cool that they're at least acknowledging

1213
02:14:50,880 --> 02:14:56,880
that it's still somewhere out there i guess yes but yeah i hey if you like nintendo games you're gonna

1214
02:14:56,880 --> 02:15:02,000
play this anyway but this is definitely one of the best ones in recent times that i've played like i

1215
02:15:02,000 --> 02:15:10,960
incredible amount of fun with this game so just great a from beginning to a and at least a

1216
02:15:10,960 --> 02:15:18,400
if not s so yeah cool fun time and with that's we're are done we are done with the playbuffer a very

1217
02:15:18,400 --> 02:15:26,560
beefy one we're stuffed and we're gonna move over to a couple of quick news bits and now ladies and

1218
02:15:26,560 --> 02:15:34,560
gentlemen a bit of news so we're gonna try and roll through at least the first few of these real quick

1219
02:15:34,560 --> 02:15:40,860
the last one is actually interesting to me yeah um for sure i don't know what micr

1220
02:15:40,860 --> 02:15:47,340
soft is doing it xbox right now nobody does really i think yeah because a lot of weird decisions are

1221
02:15:47,340 --> 02:15:53,340
being made because this is an xbox that's an xbox i i just talked about something that i bought that

1222
02:15:53,340 --> 02:16:00,700
was bringing in xbox because it is also an xbox so when everything is an xbox is nothing an xbox

1223
02:16:00,700 --> 02:16:07,580
yeah and also making the the game pass more expensive like very a lot of very weird decisions

1224
02:16:08,380 --> 02:16:13,660
so all of this to say is what is going on with their quote unquote next generation of hardware

1225
02:16:13,660 --> 02:16:20,220
because they keep saying oh it's gonna be the biggest um leap in generational processing ever at my guy

1226
02:16:20,220 --> 02:16:27,260
do i need to show you the jump from the ps1 to the ps2 that was galactic

1227
02:16:27,260 --> 02:16:35,020
everything else after that was like diminishing returns like even even though the ps3 and ps4 were

1228
02:16:35,020 --> 02:16:39,980
crazy in compare it's still crazy in compared to the ps2 i still feel like the biggest jump that

1229
02:16:39,980 --> 02:16:46,220
i ever witnessed was from ps1 to ps2 i don't know about you probably i mean you could argue from

1230
02:16:46,220 --> 02:16:53,020
from the six-bit era to the twenty twenty two-bit era right yeah i guess you could yeah a little bit

1231
02:16:53,020 --> 02:16:58,460
of that but i just i don't know there's just something about going from ps1 to ps2 or heck even

1232
02:16:58,460 --> 02:17:04,060
n64 to game cube yes i mean eventually we're gonna talk about it in our game we personal gaming

1233
02:17:04,060 --> 02:17:10,380
histories but yeah definitely these generations like sixty-buty thirty two uh uh uh bit and thirty two

1234
02:17:10,380 --> 02:17:17,340
bit two whatever ps2 game cube and first Xbox were that that was definitely the big biggest

1235
02:17:17,340 --> 02:17:25,900
leaf after that the upgrades were noticeable but more more cosmetic um but yeah that leaves me to be

1236
02:17:25,900 --> 02:17:29,580
like well they keep talking about there's gonna be new hardware and they're like oh what's going to

1237
02:17:29,580 --> 02:17:37,580
be premium it's going to be a curated experience which makes some people are like oh the

1238
02:17:37,580 --> 02:17:43,500
curation is good and i sort of sit there and i say what does that mean for backward compatibility

1239
02:17:43,500 --> 02:17:49,020
that's what i think how much and how much is the next Xbox gonna be because then let's not make any

1240
02:17:49,020 --> 02:17:55,500
bones about it the next Xbox is just going to be a branded pc sure i mean that's what it's gonna be

1241
02:17:55,500 --> 02:18:04,620
in their time while i mean yeah i mean the the Xbox one in the series consoles are definitely

1242
02:18:04,620 --> 02:18:11,660
running on a windows kernel that's for sure like there's no bones about that but you know the next one

1243
02:18:11,660 --> 02:18:15,980
is just going to be a pc and when they're talking about oh you could put different launchers on

1244
02:18:15,980 --> 02:18:24,220
there so so like my computer this is what you're talking about so i just i have this feeling that

1245
02:18:24,220 --> 02:18:30,220
the next generation of Xbox is just gonna be DOA man i don't know how much longer they can go

1246
02:18:30,220 --> 02:18:35,100
especially when they're talking about oh it's going to be premium how much is premium is that

1247
02:18:35,100 --> 02:18:41,420
going to be a thousand dollar machine is it going to be 1200 because they are so i was talking about

1248
02:18:41,420 --> 02:18:48,380
this with some friends on a different discourse or like because a lot of people are out of touch on

1249
02:18:48,380 --> 02:18:56,300
what an entry level pc should cost so this this thing is going to be stupid expensive like you

1250
02:18:56,300 --> 02:19:04,060
probably even more than the Xbox aliex let's see i mean if maybe eventually they don't have a strong

1251
02:19:04,060 --> 02:19:12,540
setting in Japan maybe eventually they will go down the second route and only be a game's publisher

1252
02:19:12,540 --> 02:19:18,620
of the stuff they have dirty doing that though because gears and halo you know it's going to save

1253
02:19:18,620 --> 02:19:26,300
x-Fosh games studios putting gears of war and halo on playstation yes no it's like no it's not yeah

1254
02:19:26,300 --> 02:19:31,660
they're panic in a bit definitely because they don't know what to do with that brand really

1255
02:19:31,660 --> 02:19:39,580
anymore but we'll see where it goes yeah the next one is ub soft is definitely entering its death spiral

1256
02:19:39,580 --> 02:19:45,260
it feels like it they were they canceled like some investor meeting and they're not releasing

1257
02:19:45,260 --> 02:19:54,700
their numbers and it's like oh you guys are like in huge trouble aren't you which for ub soft the

1258
02:19:54,700 --> 02:20:02,140
corporation good for all the developers there i feel for them because their teams you know in spite of

1259
02:20:03,100 --> 02:20:11,260
i feel like the teams at ub soft make good games in spite of what the decisions at the top brass

1260
02:20:11,260 --> 02:20:21,740
make for them yes oh so i feel for them on that like i am not i am not going to lay issues with games

1261
02:20:21,740 --> 02:20:27,180
directly at the feet of developers you know when it's clear it's not their problem

1262
02:20:27,180 --> 02:20:32,540
like like an actual game design thing i might be like i'm not quite sure the developers for

1263
02:20:32,540 --> 02:20:38,140
thinking on this but you know on stuff like DLC structures and like releases on like

1264
02:20:38,140 --> 02:20:43,740
the different tiered releases that a lot of games have now where you need a spreadsheet to figure

1265
02:20:43,740 --> 02:20:50,300
out which version you want to buy that's on the actual hot rubs and it's stupid and that needs to

1266
02:20:50,300 --> 02:20:56,060
stop man. Absolutely and i mean they're not the only ones like i feel like a

1267
02:20:57,100 --> 02:21:03,820
depending on how that private equity thing will turn out might also go down the drain in the not

1268
02:21:03,820 --> 02:21:09,420
too distant future because usually we know how these things pen out usually i mean as far as i'm

1269
02:21:09,420 --> 02:21:15,420
concerned EA or dead they don't exist to me and like for a while it was like yeah EA aren't great

1270
02:21:15,420 --> 02:21:20,540
but they still have some good games out there but now it's just like now it's like oh they're owned by

1271
02:21:20,540 --> 02:21:26,060
Saudi Arabia now okay they're they're out of the picture i don't care anymore i'm glad i

1272
02:21:26,060 --> 02:21:30,700
wasn't a big devotee to battlefield like there are some good battlefield games there i

1273
02:21:30,700 --> 02:21:37,580
and much like call of duty i like the one that everyone hates so hey at the reason i star wars

1274
02:21:37,580 --> 02:21:43,180
a Jedi games were great i haven't played the game yet but i really like phone order so

1275
02:21:43,180 --> 02:21:48,700
yeah i got some good games i heard those are both really good i and in spite of itself i hear people

1276
02:21:48,700 --> 02:21:53,420
are having a good time with battlefield six which is like okay i'm glad you're having a good time

1277
02:21:53,420 --> 02:21:58,780
with it i will look back at hard line and be like you know what that's the one i enjoyed

1278
02:21:58,780 --> 02:22:04,380
the last bad news before we get into good news is AI slop is a problem

1279
02:22:04,380 --> 02:22:12,460
yeah no kidding and and now now it's a problem in the games sphere because

1280
02:22:12,460 --> 02:22:18,380
hoi overs is implying it in a lot in a lot of their games and they have job listings they're like

1281
02:22:18,380 --> 02:22:25,260
oh you need to be proficient in AI prompts so you mean typing a sentence yeah they're using it in

1282
02:22:25,260 --> 02:22:31,820
call of duty like clearly like it's bad in black ops 7 like a really bad and some of the textures

1283
02:22:31,820 --> 02:22:38,140
is something like banners and some of the menus it's like oh and then it was used for voice acting

1284
02:22:38,140 --> 02:22:47,340
in arc-raders which i get i guess what they did was and this is is this bad yes but this is the

1285
02:22:47,340 --> 02:22:53,340
least offensive i feel like to me because they actually paid people to be like hey can we sample your

1286
02:22:53,340 --> 02:22:59,500
voice so then later on down the line when we need extra stuff to put in for like an item description

1287
02:22:59,500 --> 02:23:06,140
or whatnot that we can do that with your voice if it's restricted to that the problem is like the

1288
02:23:06,140 --> 02:23:14,380
contract airtight in that regard that i can't abuse that i mean i don't trust them that's that's

1289
02:23:14,380 --> 02:23:20,460
what i'm hoping for like i want to hope it's the best of that but like if they keep it restricted and

1290
02:23:20,460 --> 02:23:28,220
locked down to something like that then okay i guess but like pay your pay your actors pay your

1291
02:23:28,220 --> 02:23:35,980
developers man the last bit is good news valve announced new hardware they're actually doing something

1292
02:23:35,980 --> 02:23:41,260
that's crazy i mean they already did something with the steam deck and that seems to have been a

1293
02:23:41,260 --> 02:23:48,300
big success for them so now they're going into well everything else i mean they did release a

1294
02:23:48,300 --> 02:23:56,700
a VR headset before which they're doing again with the steam frame i guess yes yeah i mean the

1295
02:23:56,700 --> 02:24:04,060
index was neat but it was a little cost prohibitive and it was clunky to use so the steam frame just

1296
02:24:04,060 --> 02:24:11,020
sounds like it's a better version of the uh meta quest three yeah yeah yeah so i'm just like hey if you

1297
02:24:11,020 --> 02:24:16,620
can if you can get it at the right price maybe i'd be willing to get rid of my quest three for that

1298
02:24:16,620 --> 02:24:23,420
because it will also just play steam games because they touted that any games you have on an

1299
02:24:23,420 --> 02:24:28,380
SD card that you could put into this new steam machine that a lot of people are affectionately

1300
02:24:28,380 --> 02:24:33,900
dubbing the Gabe cube or that you could put into a steam deck you'll just be able to put into your

1301
02:24:33,900 --> 02:24:39,340
steam frame you can play the game using the vice or regardless of whether or not it supports VR

1302
02:24:39,340 --> 02:24:44,220
it's like that's cool that's awesome that sounds really nice i might actually consider it as well

1303
02:24:44,220 --> 02:24:48,860
yeah because the other two things i'm a little less interested in because i think the steam

1304
02:24:48,860 --> 02:24:54,620
controller two looks a little clunky but i know people are funny edit where someone put a moway face

1305
02:24:54,620 --> 02:25:02,220
on oh my god because i know there were big fans of the steam controller one and you know this has

1306
02:25:02,220 --> 02:25:06,460
the touch pads right from the steam deck and you know people really like those and they

1307
02:25:06,460 --> 02:25:13,020
and i've seen a lot of people make good use of it so i'm like hey if you make good use of it and you

1308
02:25:13,020 --> 02:25:18,860
and you can get over the way the thing looks cool more power to you but i don't think i'll be buying it

1309
02:25:18,860 --> 02:25:23,740
which is the same as i don't think i'd be buying the steam the new steam machine because i don't

1310
02:25:23,740 --> 02:25:29,740
really have a use for it i have the small pc that i built and i have my main computer so it's like

1311
02:25:29,740 --> 02:25:35,900
i wouldn't really have a place for it but for the people who want something like this this

1312
02:25:35,900 --> 02:25:39,980
that's great that's awesome i think this is a really cool solution i'm really interested to see

1313
02:25:39,980 --> 02:25:45,580
about the price points of these things i mean controller i think yes but i wonder if steam

1314
02:25:45,580 --> 02:25:49,260
machine is going to be actually more expensive than people anticipate because this just really

1315
02:25:49,260 --> 02:25:55,660
feels like it's going to be uh no if it mid-tier or high and this gaming pc which is steam OS on it

1316
02:25:55,660 --> 02:26:04,060
probably and those are not necessarily like you just talked about you know with the Xbox stuff

1317
02:26:04,060 --> 02:26:11,980
necessarily cheap so with what's it i think how it plays off but i'm also like i'm not going to get

1318
02:26:11,980 --> 02:26:17,740
the controller and the steam machine but i'm interested in the frame so yeah i mean i think some

1319
02:26:17,740 --> 02:26:23,420
people are theorizing that the cube will probably be between six and eight hundred dollars which

1320
02:26:24,140 --> 02:26:30,300
if it's delivering on the promise of the performance that i'm talking about which is to be around

1321
02:26:30,300 --> 02:26:36,780
the ps5 range which you know trying to get to that on pc is a bit more costly because you know obviously

1322
02:26:36,780 --> 02:26:41,660
play state obviously like playstation x-box and the tendo hardware that's all subsidized so they can

1323
02:26:41,660 --> 02:26:47,580
knock down the costs a little bit yes but for something like this that would be a i think a good

1324
02:26:47,580 --> 02:26:54,780
praise range for someone who wants a living room box i can play you know just pc games and it

1325
02:26:54,780 --> 02:27:00,780
sort of heartens me a little bit to see that pc games are a bit more on the rise than they used to be

1326
02:27:00,780 --> 02:27:08,460
because you know everything costs so much now and it's just like yeah and so if the pc is a reliable

1327
02:27:08,460 --> 02:27:15,580
source to get games cheap very quickly because the the steam sales are just very good in terms of value

1328
02:27:15,580 --> 02:27:21,980
for the customer mostly so if this can cause even a little bit of disruption i think that's great

1329
02:27:21,980 --> 02:27:28,060
i mean they could be that could be actually the x-box killer right like if that thing takes off

1330
02:27:28,060 --> 02:27:33,820
because ste steam is just such an is just a well established storefront that has a lot of people

1331
02:27:33,820 --> 02:27:40,140
and if the price point is on par with the x-box but just with this incredibly big library that already

1332
02:27:40,140 --> 02:27:48,220
has a lot of micrassame with soft games in it then you get you got the thing the real competition

1333
02:27:48,220 --> 02:27:54,300
for that and also technically a lot of not all of them but a lot of PlayStation games are on that now

1334
02:27:54,300 --> 02:28:00,540
as well so we'll see what vav does with that but it's gonna it's it's herelding interesting times

1335
02:28:00,540 --> 02:28:06,700
it's definitely a shake up yeah there's this youtube channel mores law is dead talks about a lot of

1336
02:28:06,700 --> 02:28:12,700
tech stuff i mean if i think you and i both listen to digital found redirect and they reference them a

1337
02:28:12,700 --> 02:28:19,420
lot yeah had a video i think either today or the other day is saying valve might price x-box out of

1338
02:28:19,420 --> 02:28:26,940
gaming no i think x-box might price x-box out of gaming at this point like like i'd get the point

1339
02:28:26,940 --> 02:28:33,420
they're trying to make by saying that but like if the steam box comes in at what i suspect might be

1340
02:28:33,420 --> 02:28:41,500
half the price of the next x-box it's over yeah probably i mean x-box is still an established brand

1341
02:28:41,500 --> 02:28:47,500
and i don't know how much overlap there is between the call of duty bros and you know who don't

1342
02:28:47,500 --> 02:28:53,180
have a pc and just get their x-box for that and that is still a use customer base i guess and if they

1343
02:28:53,180 --> 02:29:01,820
will you know spring for a valve hardware but i must imagine speed steam has been around for so long

1344
02:29:01,820 --> 02:29:07,340
and it has been such everyone who is in the games we will have heard about it at some point so i

1345
02:29:07,340 --> 02:29:13,900
think that will have enough power to if they advertise this properly through all their channels

1346
02:29:13,900 --> 02:29:20,540
for people to realize okay there is this new thing now and it's gonna give you a lot of

1347
02:29:20,540 --> 02:29:28,860
fantastic games with really for not super affordable but on an acceptable level

1348
02:29:29,900 --> 02:29:36,140
with good power and everything and a good like really good ecosystem now because now you have the extra

1349
02:29:36,140 --> 02:29:41,580
weird controller you have a vr headset that works flawlessly probably with that you have

1350
02:29:41,580 --> 02:29:46,860
like this thing and you have the steam deck that also is kind of integrated with that

1351
02:29:46,860 --> 02:29:52,620
like that whole ecosystem and it all kind of works probably together with by employing steamOS

1352
02:29:52,620 --> 02:29:59,420
in a good way so that sounds like something that if it all works like it's supposed to

1353
02:29:59,420 --> 02:30:04,060
that's it's gonna have a lot of pull but again i'm not an industry as expert i'm just very

1354
02:30:04,060 --> 02:30:10,780
interested to see how this will work out for valve i hope it doesn't i hope it causes you know

1355
02:30:10,780 --> 02:30:17,420
again some disruption in shows you know hey the pc space is viable and you can get in on it you know

1356
02:30:17,420 --> 02:30:21,660
you don't have to spend two thousand you also don't have to spend two thousand dollars to build a

1357
02:30:21,660 --> 02:30:27,740
computer like i see videos all the time where people like i gave myself a budget of six hundred dollars

1358
02:30:27,740 --> 02:30:34,300
and you can build a respectable gaming pc for that amount you don't have to buy the top of the line

1359
02:30:34,300 --> 02:30:38,540
graphics card you don't have to max out your RAM you don't have to buy the best processor

1360
02:30:38,540 --> 02:30:45,020
just comes down to what you want to do with it and then you can build around that yeah i think

1361
02:30:45,020 --> 02:30:50,460
that covers pretty much all of the i mean there's obviously tons of other new stuff out there

1362
02:30:50,460 --> 02:30:57,260
that we could have gone into but shout out to the youtube channel inside games where Bruce

1363
02:30:57,260 --> 02:31:01,900
Lawrence and Bryan are all doing their best to cover the gaming news day by day and there's a lot

1364
02:31:01,900 --> 02:31:08,540
of gaming news day by day oh yeah we could just for that we could do this more on a regular basis but

1365
02:31:08,540 --> 02:31:19,020
also there's too much there's too much yes speaking of which we still have one little section left

1366
02:31:19,020 --> 02:31:25,580
and we're gonna quickly get to that one up for discussion our personal gaming histories

1367
02:31:26,460 --> 02:31:38,300
all right yes this is the slash edit this the editorial section or whatever section

1368
02:31:38,300 --> 02:31:46,380
and i think in the first episode we did some games we look forward to this year and now since last

1369
02:31:46,380 --> 02:31:53,180
episode we started talking about our personal gaming history so the consoles or whatever we had

1370
02:31:53,180 --> 02:32:00,700
what we gained on and what games we played and i originally intended to have this a bit bigger

1371
02:32:00,700 --> 02:32:06,300
in this episode but i miscalculated a bit so we're gonna have only two small sections for this

1372
02:32:06,300 --> 02:32:14,540
first i forgot to mention last time when we talked about the NES era two of my favorites like

1373
02:32:14,540 --> 02:32:20,940
crabby's adventure i played that game from like two like i don't know 10 times or something i

1374
02:32:20,940 --> 02:32:27,100
play through that 10 times or or or more i don't know it like game is so good oh it still holds up

1375
02:32:27,100 --> 02:32:31,900
you know it's wild to me about Kirby's adventure everyone is like oh that's the first Kirby game

1376
02:32:31,900 --> 02:32:37,340
no you idiot Kirby's dreamland was first like so when people say that i'm like you're

1377
02:32:37,340 --> 02:32:41,980
painly wrong and a lot of people probably don't even know about dreamland two and three so

1378
02:32:41,980 --> 02:32:50,380
but yeah adventure i just love the shit out of that of the game because in dreamland Kirby

1379
02:32:50,380 --> 02:32:57,100
couldn't you know still adopt the abilities of the enemies he was consuming and that came in

1380
02:32:57,100 --> 02:33:00,940
Kirby's adventure and i love that because you know that's one of the things i also liked about

1381
02:33:00,940 --> 02:33:06,540
like about mega man like copying the abilities of your opponents or whatever and now i've got your

1382
02:33:06,540 --> 02:33:12,220
power yeah exactly and Kirby does the same thing here and it's just a fun game it's breezy and i

1383
02:33:12,220 --> 02:33:18,620
played through it through with you know when you through hot mode as well and then you can unlock

1384
02:33:18,620 --> 02:33:23,820
the super hard mode and also the music player and whatever and i did all of that shit and i love

1385
02:33:23,820 --> 02:33:29,100
that game and what i also forgot to mention were the capcom disney games on any as in we're gonna talk

1386
02:33:29,100 --> 02:33:34,700
about those more also next episode probably but those also all worth or not all of them but a lot

1387
02:33:34,700 --> 02:33:39,580
of them were really good duck tails duck tails too played the shit out of those games the chip and

1388
02:33:39,580 --> 02:33:48,060
Dale games also a little fun with so i missed those games like almost entirely wow okay like i

1389
02:33:48,060 --> 02:33:57,740
put i played the duck tails remaster but i i think there is like a disney collection of games

1390
02:33:57,740 --> 02:34:04,620
and i started to touch on that but i didn't really play too much of it but like back in the day i

1391
02:34:04,620 --> 02:34:10,380
like i missed those entirely um i know they're this is skipping ahead a little bit but i know there was

1392
02:34:10,380 --> 02:34:15,500
a bunch of those magical adventure Mickey games on the super Nintendo apparently those are all

1393
02:34:15,500 --> 02:34:21,180
really good so like i would like to sit down and like touch on those at some point which i'm

1394
02:34:21,180 --> 02:34:26,700
no excuse now emulation is the thing oh god don't let me tend to cure this emulation like it

1395
02:34:26,700 --> 02:34:31,980
just rereleased the fucking games for fuck's sake no but all of that that would be on capcom so that's

1396
02:34:31,980 --> 02:34:38,540
true i mean not all of them are great i think tailspin was super good uh dark wing duck i really enjoyed

1397
02:34:38,540 --> 02:34:43,340
that was a fun that was a fun thing i'm in like uh i think i never finished this because the game is

1398
02:34:43,340 --> 02:34:51,100
fucking hard uh but that i enjoyed yeah i played the first magical adventure like Mickey's magical quest

1399
02:34:51,100 --> 02:34:55,660
mystic quest or whatever it's called on the super Nintendo uh i really liked and played the other two's

1400
02:34:55,660 --> 02:35:02,300
allotted but we get to those in the next episode so this episode uh we're just gonna quickly talk about

1401
02:35:02,300 --> 02:35:11,900
the some early pc experiences i guess and uh gameboy and gameboy is very gonna be very quick for me

1402
02:35:11,900 --> 02:35:19,580
because i didn't own one i only played uh on the gameboys of friends uh all of my friends had some but

1403
02:35:19,580 --> 02:35:24,380
i didn't get one because i went from any as right to super Nintendo and i'm not a big mobile game in

1404
02:35:24,380 --> 02:35:30,060
general not even today like i play my switch pretty much exclusively docked i only play them

1405
02:35:30,060 --> 02:35:34,860
it more by when i'm like i don't know visiting at my parents or when i'm on vacation and otherwise

1406
02:35:34,860 --> 02:35:41,820
that thing stays in the dock and uh so i say i happen i didn't even get a game but i got a gameboy

1407
02:35:41,820 --> 02:35:46,460
advanced but not many games for it didn't play a lot on it and i didn't get a ds i got a 3 ds

1408
02:35:46,460 --> 02:35:50,780
didn't get that many games for that either so i'm just not a big mobile gamer and

1409
02:35:51,500 --> 02:35:57,660
to start off not being that was me not owning an original game but i mean at least a nice suit the 3

1410
02:35:57,660 --> 02:36:03,900
ds and gba is they were both fully backward compatible she could play whatever on them it doesn't matter

1411
02:36:03,900 --> 02:36:09,740
now yeah that's true but yeah i played a couple of games on the games on the gameboy like on the big

1412
02:36:09,740 --> 02:36:16,300
gameboys of friends i remember playing of course a lot of tetris because that's just came with the thing

1413
02:36:16,300 --> 02:36:24,060
the the three super mario games that came out for this my favorite probably being either super mario

1414
02:36:24,060 --> 02:36:30,620
brothers super mario land two or super order or warrior land i don't know which of those two i

1415
02:36:30,620 --> 02:36:37,180
would prefer probably warrior land i think i play through that more often when i borrowed that from

1416
02:36:37,180 --> 02:36:45,020
from a friend and uh what were some other big ones ones think do you have play through the first

1417
02:36:45,020 --> 02:36:53,580
guy girls quests i think so yes i think i i recently revisited that even i played through quests and

1418
02:36:53,580 --> 02:37:01,180
and adventures or goggles quest two and demons crest so yeah so those and

1419
02:37:01,180 --> 02:37:10,540
the last big one that is not super obscure i guess mystic quest so the first second in zz2 game

1420
02:37:10,540 --> 02:37:17,500
uh definitely play play through that as well so i think the name adventure in the us i think right

1421
02:37:17,500 --> 02:37:26,780
they were so confusing with the names on those yeah and like the i'm still angry at square i mean

1422
02:37:26,780 --> 02:37:33,100
obviously this was early days but it's like you could have a little bit of faith in your branding

1423
02:37:33,100 --> 02:37:39,020
guys like even because like the final fantasy adventure of why didn't you just call it the final

1424
02:37:39,020 --> 02:37:43,980
fantasy saga so then there would be the line between like oh that's what this was

1425
02:37:43,980 --> 02:37:53,180
and it got even worse when i liked it uh another thing on the super internet had the same name

1426
02:37:53,180 --> 02:37:58,940
over here it make those sense whatever but uh yeah that's that's i think for the big haters for me

1427
02:37:58,940 --> 02:38:03,980
the Kirby streamline of course as well but i think i didn't play that much more on the game

1428
02:38:03,980 --> 02:38:11,420
i played a couple of games with obscure scuro ones with my friends like i think a version of

1429
02:38:11,420 --> 02:38:21,420
wwf raw for some reason because we were big into wrestling back in the in that day and i played

1430
02:38:21,420 --> 02:38:28,860
skate or die which was on the game by more of an arcade game than a sports game because

1431
02:38:28,860 --> 02:38:34,780
you were fighting enemies with your skateboard that was fun and spider man game the first spider

1432
02:38:34,780 --> 02:38:41,020
man for the game boy a game for the game for that was also fun and Batman the animated series the game

1433
02:38:41,020 --> 02:38:46,220
for that that for the game boy so yeah those were the more obscure ones but that was it's pretty much

1434
02:38:46,220 --> 02:38:50,780
my history for the game boy is john i assume for you was a lot more because you're old one right

1435
02:38:50,780 --> 02:38:58,060
yeah and right i still have my game boy and i actually bought him a mod kit for it because i

1436
02:38:58,060 --> 02:39:03,580
want to install a new screen and put it in a new shell to make it seem a little bit more modern

1437
02:39:03,580 --> 02:39:10,780
but that i have all the pieces i need for it i just need to actually sit down and do it um

1438
02:39:10,780 --> 02:39:18,700
yeah i remember getting i think i got the package that came with super mario land two

1439
02:39:18,700 --> 02:39:24,220
i think that was the one i got and i played the heck out of that and you know then

1440
02:39:24,940 --> 02:39:32,060
got tetris and i played all of the mega man games on there sure those i of course all

1441
02:39:32,060 --> 02:39:37,820
well not really though i played one at five i think i skipped all the other ones because i didn't

1442
02:39:37,820 --> 02:39:44,700
own the thing and five was the only one that was different so of course i played that uh but

1443
02:39:44,700 --> 02:39:52,620
i assume you had all of them at different points yeah i mean the i mean the game boy and mega man games

1444
02:39:52,620 --> 02:40:00,380
are weird there's a whole history behind that but you know uh those those are all really fun

1445
02:40:00,380 --> 02:40:08,540
cool times so please i can't put the heck out of them um and i even ended up buying some

1446
02:40:08,540 --> 02:40:14,380
rebying some games that i one point had and then end up getting rid of got a stack of game boy games

1447
02:40:14,380 --> 02:40:20,700
over here i'm not gonna grab him and have him follow all over the place but yeah i played my game boy a

1448
02:40:20,700 --> 02:40:27,020
ton of you know again Kirby's dream land mine aren't got for me when i was very young and i didn't

1449
02:40:27,020 --> 02:40:34,140
when i was young i was real stupid stupider than i am now and i thought every video game was like a

1450
02:40:34,140 --> 02:40:40,380
mario game and then you just that you just stopped on an enemy and ran to the right and i it took me

1451
02:40:40,380 --> 02:40:47,180
a real long time to go oh no you just you eat them and then you just you go and you do the thing and

1452
02:40:47,180 --> 02:40:56,700
sometimes sometimes into the going right you go up or you go left what is this what the sauce is

1453
02:40:56,700 --> 02:41:06,140
for you sometimes you go down but down is bad but yeah i had a heck of a game boy library and then

1454
02:41:06,140 --> 02:41:11,180
i got a game boy color in a bunch of games for that i don't know if we want to save that as a

1455
02:41:11,180 --> 02:41:21,660
discussion for another time but i i was stupid in my youth and ended up selling my super NES in a whole

1456
02:41:21,660 --> 02:41:26,860
ton of games to get a game boy color thinking oh this gonna be the new big thing and then i was like

1457
02:41:26,860 --> 02:41:34,700
why did i do that i'll say but i have started to use when you're a kid let's just i started

1458
02:41:34,700 --> 02:41:39,980
rebuilding my super Nintendo collection a bit and you know it's i do have an s and s and like i

1459
02:41:39,980 --> 02:41:47,820
said i have the poly mega which will play a whole bunch of other stuff too so i have tried to rebuild

1460
02:41:47,820 --> 02:41:54,460
but you you you had a good time with the game boy oh yeah for sure like in spade of not being

1461
02:41:54,460 --> 02:42:00,060
able to see that thing even in direct light do you have a favorite i don't know vacation

1462
02:42:00,060 --> 02:42:04,220
memory or something where you took the game boy along because it's a mobile gaming device

1463
02:42:05,420 --> 02:42:16,700
oh man i honestly i'm not sure i do because you know i just i had i still have this big gray carrying case

1464
02:42:16,700 --> 02:42:22,860
so you could put the game boy and like six or seven cartridges in it had a spot for like an

1465
02:42:22,860 --> 02:42:29,020
adapter so you could plug it into a wall and i had like one of those stupid accessories where you

1466
02:42:29,020 --> 02:42:34,780
could plug it onto the top and it would magnify the screen and it had a light on it and it didn't

1467
02:42:34,780 --> 02:42:42,940
work very well but it was i still had it and i used it and i contribute that to probably using

1468
02:42:42,940 --> 02:42:52,460
that a lot to my declining vision which i am now i now have to wear glasses so but you know

1469
02:42:54,300 --> 02:43:00,780
young and dumb and i still liked that thing and it sat alongside my game gear which we'll probably talk

1470
02:43:00,780 --> 02:43:05,580
about at some point too but i didn't have near these many games from my game gear but you

1471
02:43:05,580 --> 02:43:12,540
it was color whoa the game boy didn't have color at least a lot to later

1472
02:43:12,540 --> 02:43:18,940
but the game gear screen was also terrible because it was ghosty and awful and got that

1473
02:43:18,940 --> 02:43:29,100
version got that version of sonic 2 on there was so bad but yeah early early portable gaming days were

1474
02:43:29,100 --> 02:43:34,220
weird and you know obviously it evolved from there of the game boy color and the advanced and then

1475
02:43:34,220 --> 02:43:40,460
all the weirdo stuff that didn't release outside the Japan outside of Japan like i was always

1476
02:43:40,460 --> 02:43:47,500
curious about the wonder swan but i never had one and all of the other things like Nintendo was

1477
02:43:47,500 --> 02:43:57,420
trying they had like that pokemon mini thing like sure guys okay but yeah i had a game boy and

1478
02:43:57,420 --> 02:44:02,460
with probably too many games for it i'm pretty sure you know i had played through most if not all of them

1479
02:44:02,460 --> 02:44:11,420
but then i ended up losing my old gb at one point and most of my game boy library so i had to end

1480
02:44:11,420 --> 02:44:18,940
up doing some rebuilding but you know i think i have most of what i wanted to recover like my most

1481
02:44:18,940 --> 02:44:24,060
prized game boy games that i still have a copy of mega man 5 and that's probably one of the best

1482
02:44:24,060 --> 02:44:30,540
games on there so sure sure i'm glad that we recently got a remake and color on that for that

1483
02:44:30,540 --> 02:44:38,620
no thanks to capcom yeah remember the promise of mega man main and that was supposed to release on

1484
02:44:38,620 --> 02:44:46,620
gba and all the games are in color now and then that didn't happen in that mega man world dx 1 through 5

1485
02:44:46,620 --> 02:44:53,660
you just and you could just go play them and they're great yes really glad that that fans actually got

1486
02:44:53,660 --> 02:44:58,780
to that because it was one of the things that definitely was missing from the game boy games

1487
02:44:58,780 --> 02:45:05,660
but yeah fun time and also have some memories of take borrowing a game boy from a friend and playing

1488
02:45:05,660 --> 02:45:11,900
that one of my good friend i think that was actually david who was with us on the gunner episode

1489
02:45:11,900 --> 02:45:18,460
recently on anime brain freeze who lent me his game boy when i when i um

1490
02:45:18,460 --> 02:45:24,540
tore my ligaments on my right foot during basketball in school

1491
02:45:24,540 --> 02:45:33,180
like a triple tear and and i was in the hospital for a while and he brought me his game boy and i

1492
02:45:33,180 --> 02:45:37,980
think that's actually where i played um musiqués less final fantasy adventure oscillation second

1493
02:45:37,980 --> 02:45:45,180
that's that's who uh for the first time so not not necessarily a happy memory on the side there but

1494
02:45:45,180 --> 02:45:53,020
that was a good part about that just i had a lot of time playing game boy games there so and yeah so

1495
02:45:53,020 --> 02:46:00,860
there there there's that uh but yeah last couple of for last five minutes or so let's just quickly

1496
02:46:00,860 --> 02:46:09,420
talk about early pc experience because i didn't really own a pc myself but my dad had one for work

1497
02:46:09,420 --> 02:46:16,540
but also for gaming so i actually got uh he also played a couple of things but he was more into puzzle

1498
02:46:16,540 --> 02:46:22,380
games and stuff like that and some like the the thus era i'm still glad that i know the basic

1499
02:46:22,380 --> 02:46:27,580
does commands because of that because my dad introduced me to all that shit and i was you know

1500
02:46:27,580 --> 02:46:34,460
taking a long uh because he was watching me uh on on been during the summer vacation or whatever

1501
02:46:34,460 --> 02:46:41,260
summer holidays and that's when he for his new um uh workplace he took some courses on pc because

1502
02:46:41,260 --> 02:46:49,820
that stuff was kind of new i guess but uh he you know that that way i got to experience the birth of

1503
02:46:49,820 --> 02:46:54,860
windows like the windows was two point oh whatever

1504
02:46:57,020 --> 02:47:02,860
and then three point on three one and what and i i got i got to witness all of that shit

1505
02:47:02,860 --> 02:47:08,620
and with that came of course a couple of games and even before that on does so commander keen was my

1506
02:47:08,620 --> 02:47:14,860
first big pc game playing in out of that i'd really love to see a good new commander keen game i think

1507
02:47:14,860 --> 02:47:20,780
we recently got one mobile one but i don't want that this just was a really good size scrolling

1508
02:47:20,780 --> 02:47:26,460
a commander keen game again yeah wasn't it like a port of commander keen four or was it something else

1509
02:47:26,460 --> 02:47:31,500
i think we had something else as well there was a new one but that wasn't the poor a port of four and

1510
02:47:31,500 --> 02:47:37,180
i don't even remember four was particularly good but i would just one would like have a remaster of all

1511
02:47:37,180 --> 02:47:41,340
all those one all because i only played the first one and the first one and the fourth one

1512
02:47:41,340 --> 02:47:49,500
and i liked that and the first that my dad was weird about violence in game so i didn't get to play

1513
02:47:49,500 --> 02:47:54,940
all this standard stuff like the the very first two d size scrolling new new game games

1514
02:47:54,940 --> 02:47:59,100
i didn't get into play for a long time because when my dad found out that they were on the pc

1515
02:47:59,100 --> 02:48:05,260
he just fucking killed them let's just uninstall them and i couldn't reinstall them anymore because i

1516
02:48:05,260 --> 02:48:14,940
didn't have the the the disk for them anymore and there was some other stuff command share which was

1517
02:48:14,940 --> 02:48:24,620
like this this helicopter shooter thing i was also was only allowed to play the first level where you

1518
02:48:24,620 --> 02:48:29,660
blow up oil tanks but i wasn't allowed to actually fight against other people so against other

1519
02:48:29,660 --> 02:48:35,500
helicopters or or airplanes or tanks i did that in a sneaky way anyway though when he wasn't around

1520
02:48:35,500 --> 02:48:47,020
sorry dad but uh yeah that was some of my first experiences and uh yeah after that just a couple of

1521
02:48:47,020 --> 02:48:54,140
more uh windows windows games i guess there was uh indica i played one of the indica racing games

1522
02:48:54,140 --> 02:49:00,140
i played the game for uh that was called stunt island that way you had to recreate like shots from a

1523
02:49:00,140 --> 02:49:07,260
movie in a specific way to succeed it was very fun uh flight simulator definitely a big one uh for

1524
02:49:07,260 --> 02:49:16,060
me and the first mist game and yeah those just the just the early pc game days for me uh that i

1525
02:49:16,060 --> 02:49:23,580
can remember the games that i played before later when i got my own pc i got into more of stuff like

1526
02:49:23,580 --> 02:49:30,540
unread tournament but that that was way later down the line uh so but yeah early dust games they were fun

1527
02:49:30,540 --> 02:49:35,740
they were weird and there was a lot of weird shit happening and i not any manuals or anything i

1528
02:49:35,740 --> 02:49:40,460
didn't know what to do in half of these games oh one more i forgot that i really loved one must fall

1529
02:49:40,460 --> 02:49:46,780
which is this robot fighting game yes twenty ninety seven let's go great great open a great

1530
02:49:46,780 --> 02:49:51,900
theme music and also very fun to play actually even with a keyboard like head street fighter command

1531
02:49:51,900 --> 02:49:56,700
thingies with quarter circles and whatever and back and forth but it worked also very customizable

1532
02:49:56,700 --> 02:50:02,220
robots and everything which i always like uh customistic carlers and head in the adventure mode

1533
02:50:02,220 --> 02:50:08,220
and an arcade mode was really good i wish they would do a re-release of that i mean they tried to

1534
02:50:08,220 --> 02:50:13,580
do a remake of it with uh battle grounds and it was sort of me at the end of the day which is

1535
02:50:13,580 --> 02:50:20,460
unfortunate but uh them back in the day john what did you play uh

1536
02:50:21,420 --> 02:50:28,620
your earliest pc gaming memories my earliest pc i remember it had a you know

1537
02:50:28,620 --> 02:50:33,180
probably the same as you the the family computer as opposed to you know

1538
02:50:33,180 --> 02:50:40,220
had a monochrome monitor was running was it one those three point oh or three point one

1539
02:50:40,220 --> 02:50:47,260
one of the two um a lot of the stuff that i ended up playing with then was like

1540
02:50:47,980 --> 02:50:54,140
the the adjutainment stuff like i had this this weird game with you was called like clowning around

1541
02:50:54,140 --> 02:51:01,420
it was like this numbers game did you have lemmings no i don't think i did that's also uh just

1542
02:51:01,420 --> 02:51:06,700
remembered but yeah i had a lot had a lot of those like learning company games like operation

1543
02:51:06,700 --> 02:51:13,980
Neptune and midnight rescue and outnumbered mario is missing i had mario teaches typing

1544
02:51:13,980 --> 02:51:20,780
ah wait did i have mario's i think maybe i had mario is missing as well yeah there was mario

1545
02:51:20,780 --> 02:51:27,500
i think i did right that was also one no there was mario's time machine that's what i had okay there we go

1546
02:51:27,500 --> 02:51:34,140
because there was like a huge difference between the pc and the super Nintendo versions of that

1547
02:51:34,140 --> 02:51:40,140
game and i think mario was missing it was slightly different as well but yeah mario's time machine sure

1548
02:51:40,940 --> 02:51:49,100
was a game you could play i don't know how much i learned from it probably nothing the pc version

1549
02:51:49,100 --> 02:51:53,900
was materially different because it was like oh well you can make as many mistakes as you want

1550
02:51:53,900 --> 02:51:58,940
trying a piece to go so you could just like click on everything until you figured out a puzzle whereas

1551
02:51:58,940 --> 02:52:04,220
in the super Nintendo game was like oh you made three mistakes we got to go back to bousers castle

1552
02:52:04,220 --> 02:52:09,420
and then you have to go on the surfing thing again we have to collect enough mushrooms to actually

1553
02:52:09,420 --> 02:52:13,340
do the time travel and it's like this sucks it sucks i hate this

1554
02:52:13,340 --> 02:52:22,540
it felt jank and bad and you know but there was that and then you know when like real windows iE 95

1555
02:52:22,540 --> 02:52:26,940
started rolling around you know that was when the actual gaming started and i remember wanting

1556
02:52:26,940 --> 02:52:34,220
the pc version of final fantasy seven but the computer i had at the time definitely could not run

1557
02:52:34,220 --> 02:52:40,940
it so the one thing i wanted was a graphics card for it and i ended up getting a

1558
02:52:40,940 --> 02:52:50,540
2-3-3,000 to put in that thing uh-huh for those you can remember glide powered graphics cards none of

1559
02:52:50,540 --> 02:53:01,020
this g-forcer rx stuff out there sheesh god that was the wild west of video and audio drivers

1560
02:53:02,540 --> 02:53:10,060
but yeah i mean i didn't do as i mean i obviously had the pc but didn't do nearly as much pc gaming i

1561
02:53:10,060 --> 02:53:17,180
had like an eos and my super NES so yeah absolutely i like for myself i didn't get it a pc until

1562
02:53:17,180 --> 02:53:25,340
was about graduate about to graduate high school and i was mostly for work for and then only later like

1563
02:53:25,340 --> 02:53:31,820
you know i got uh i got it for like games on there actually so

1564
02:53:31,980 --> 02:53:37,420
mmm took a while so these these first experiences were all thanks to my dad and because he

1565
02:53:37,420 --> 02:53:43,500
needed a pc and was like the kids got to play something so it was nice even though he was a bit

1566
02:53:43,500 --> 02:53:48,620
restrictive about what i could play but i found some ways around that so all's good yeah i mean

1567
02:53:48,620 --> 02:53:53,660
my parents were like that with certain games like you're not gonna play mortal combat i go over

1568
02:53:53,660 --> 02:54:01,740
to a franchise being fire up mk the reason to it yep yep as i if i wanted to play in your

1569
02:54:01,740 --> 02:54:07,260
games and stuff like that i just went or or whatever game i could just go over to my friend

1570
02:54:07,260 --> 02:54:12,940
Alex house and we'll talk more about that actually in the next episode because that i already talked

1571
02:54:12,940 --> 02:54:17,260
about when we talked about any s because they had a modded one and already they also had a

1572
02:54:17,260 --> 02:54:25,100
modded super Nintendo so that's gonna come next time uh we return to this merry little show we're

1573
02:54:25,100 --> 02:54:31,500
gonna do super Nintendo we're gonna do Genesis probably game gear and see what was up with

1574
02:54:31,500 --> 02:54:38,380
that uh that because that's that those there were a lot of games on those consoles and a lot of those

1575
02:54:38,380 --> 02:54:45,900
i played oh yeah for sure all right then that's it for this episode of freeze frames per second sorry

1576
02:54:45,900 --> 02:54:52,060
we rushed a bit at the end there but we had we had a lot of games to talk about and uh yeah we're

1577
02:54:52,060 --> 02:54:58,060
gonna have a lot of games to talk about probably the next time uh i hope you had a fun time and we'll

1578
02:54:58,060 --> 02:55:11,020
see you again on the next episode take care everybody bye everyone

1579
02:55:11,340 --> 02:55:19,340
you