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Monday Mini: Gaming Update, Part 1 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha. We're welcome to steff
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  Speaker 1: I ever told your prediction if I heard you.
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  Speaker 2: And y'all for this Monday Mini, we're taking some time
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  Speaker 2: away from psychoanalyzing myself and all of you, Amy do You're.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to talk games.
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  Speaker 2: So we're coming back around because I feel like every
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  Speaker 2: now and then we need to talk about this, and
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  Speaker 2: it's been a minute since we've updated y'all, and especially
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  Speaker 2: my abouts of trying to get into gaming outside of
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  Speaker 2: just phone games, which, by the way, let me just
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  Speaker 2: take a quick second and say, I am playing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of phone games, and can I ask what the
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  Speaker 2: hell is happening in this industry?
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  Speaker 3: Like I think I talked.
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  Speaker 2: About it a little before, which I mentioned about celebs
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  Speaker 2: are now doing all of these ads. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: Pedro Pascal and Kathy Bates being in one of the
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  Speaker 2: merge games and making it like a five minute movie clip.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have now j Lo has hopped on
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  Speaker 2: from like this dice game which another game took her
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  Speaker 2: acting and just bleeped like covered her talking about that
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  Speaker 2: one game and covered it with the other game like
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  Speaker 2: obvious AI cover of the game name it was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this can't be legal, can't it? No?
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  Speaker 2: Are are they the same company? They just like, we're
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  Speaker 2: just gonna use this. It was quite funny, but it
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  Speaker 2: was similar games. But I was like, huh, so that happened.
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  Speaker 2: And then Sarah Jessica Parker was on a solitaire ad
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  Speaker 2: and she literally has like the same similar jingle for
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  Speaker 2: sex in the City, and like, I was like, wait what.
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  Speaker 2: And then Drew Barrymore is on a bingo so I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what is happening?
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  Speaker 3: Are they are they? Are they? Do they need money?
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  Speaker 2: They?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they won't say no to money.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess we could to, Like we definitely
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  Speaker 2: did ads for one phone game, two phone games.
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  Speaker 3: We did it for two phone games. I just remembered that.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes, right, we're not celebs, but I'm just saying I
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  Speaker 2: get us doing it. That's why I say this. I
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  Speaker 2: get us doing it. I get like YouTube people. I'm
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  Speaker 2: seeing YouTube people doing it. I just don't like the
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  Speaker 2: celebs who were literally Oscar nominated people coming on on
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  Speaker 2: like huh not j Lo, She's not, is she? I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so anyway. And also the weird ads are
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  Speaker 2: still happening, and they are so sexual for the most
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  Speaker 2: mundane things. Again, a solitaire game has like undressing a girl.
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  Speaker 2: For every like game that pieced you, I was like, what.
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  Speaker 3: The hell is this?
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  Speaker 2: Whoa and it says rated to eat and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I doubt this game has this feature. One and then
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  Speaker 2: another one was about toilet aliens, the weirdest toilet aliens
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  Speaker 2: that came and invade the earth and takes over things.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I just saw the ad. I screen recorded it because
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what is this? If anybody's played that game,
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  Speaker 2: tell me why and what is it?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: And then I need both of those things because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what is happening? But anyway, So phone games have really
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  Speaker 2: gone out of hand, and I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Still playing for you. There are several things that I.
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  Speaker 2: Have seen, and y'all tell me what is the scam?
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  Speaker 2: The whole like paying people to download specific games, and
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  Speaker 2: like if you play certain them down like certain amount
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  Speaker 2: of times, they give you free cards. And I've done
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  Speaker 2: it and I've gotten about like one hundred dollars worth
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  Speaker 2: of a gift card. But it takes your data, so
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  Speaker 2: I probably shouldn't. Oh true, I know, I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: on a fine line, but every now and again I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, it's nice to buy these extra pieces.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, back to the new game.
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  Speaker 2: Such as for Switch or for Steam, I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about one specific game called Snuffkin Melody of Movement
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  Speaker 2: that let me tell you this descriptor from the creators
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  Speaker 2: of the game themselves. Snuffkin Melody of moomen Valley is
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  Speaker 2: a story rich musical adventure game about Snuffkin restoring the valley,
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  Speaker 2: helping the quirky and memorable characters and critters calling it home.
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  Speaker 2: A series of hideous parts have cropped up in Mooman Valley,
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  Speaker 2: disrupting the landscape and its harmonious nature. As Snuffkin distract
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  Speaker 2: police officers, pull out signs and knock over misplaced statues
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  Speaker 2: as you vigorously try to restore nature and the inhabitants
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  Speaker 2: home while putting an end to the industrious park keeper's plans.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, it is exactly what you think it is,
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  Speaker 2: and honestly, any this is the one I sent you
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  Speaker 2: a picture of. While I was sitting on the couch
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  Speaker 2: with my otter slippers with this beautiful like animation on
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  Speaker 2: our giant we had just gotten our Giant TV on
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  Speaker 2: this Giant TV and I played the entire game. So
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing and it's an amazing fine. It's so cute.
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  Speaker 2: It's very relaxing and open enough. It's not too open.
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  Speaker 2: You have to like it gives you an air to
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  Speaker 2: be like now you're going the wrong way, but with direction.
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  Speaker 2: Again it's very short though, so from the site moonkin
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Just to explain, the wise adventurer, Snuffkin is
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  Speaker 2: a philosopher and a wanderer who enjoys the simple things
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  Speaker 2: in life, fishing, playing his harmonica, and walking alone at night.
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  Speaker 2: A free spirit with no interest in owning things, Snuffkin
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  Speaker 2: enjoys challenging authority figures such as park keepers. He greatly
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  Speaker 2: values his independence, but returns to Moomin Valley every spring
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  Speaker 2: to spend time with his good friend Moomintroll. Snuffkin is
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  Speaker 2: widely admired for his quiet confidence and self belief, especially
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  Speaker 2: by the smaller and more timid residents of Moumen Valley.
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  Speaker 2: So it's actually based on a legendary Finnish creature called mumans,
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  Speaker 2: and they are super cute and just from the little
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  Speaker 2: research from that same side movement dot com here's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of the story of the creator. Tove Janssen
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  Speaker 2: so Swedish Finnish people. Sorry, I'm trying to do the
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  Speaker 2: correct pronunciations, but she was born in nineteen fourteen and
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  Speaker 2: died in two thousand and one and was a Swedish
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  Speaker 2: speaking Finnish writer and artist who achieved worldwide fame as
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  Speaker 2: the creator of the stories about the Movements, written and
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  Speaker 2: illustrated between nineteen forty five and nineteen seventy seven. Mooman's
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  Speaker 2: stories were originally written in Swedish, though Tove Hansen lived
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  Speaker 2: in Elzingi, Finland. During her immersive career. Tovey Hansen wrote
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  Speaker 2: and illustrated in a total of nine movement novels and
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  Speaker 2: three Mooman picture books. The first novel, The Movements and
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  Speaker 2: the Great Flood, was more like a short story than
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  Speaker 2: a novel. In addition to Mumen's novels, Tove drew Mooman
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  Speaker 2: comic strips from the nineteen fifties to nineteen sixties until
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  Speaker 2: her brother's Lars Hanson started to help her. Besides the
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  Speaker 2: movement books and comics, Tove Hansen received recognition for her
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  Speaker 2: short stories and novels, so it was a legitimate tale,
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  Speaker 2: as in fact, my partner's coworker who lives I believe
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  Speaker 2: in Sweden.
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  Speaker 3: She actually knew it.
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  Speaker 2: She was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I mean I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know Snuffkin And I was like, oh really. So
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  Speaker 2: the animation is exactly from the Hanson's collection. So it's
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  Speaker 2: gorgeous with a lot of detail, and it's a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: look on a lot of the stories. From what I understood,
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  Speaker 2: it says that she was born or alive during the
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  Speaker 2: Winter Wars and she just really felt like they needed
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  Speaker 2: more color and happiness in the world, and so she
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  Speaker 2: created these tales. Obviously this is anti establishment, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit anti authority, and really wanted to preserve the land,
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  Speaker 2: which is a great idea. And again, like Snuffkin hates
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  Speaker 2: posts and signs, and that's one of the first things
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  Speaker 2: you have to go through and take out. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is interesting, and then you have to.
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  Speaker 3: Be sneaky about it. And here's some reviews.
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  Speaker 2: So from Rockpaper shotgun dot com. Outside of your tasks
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  Speaker 2: and your ultimate goal of finding your pal moom and
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  Speaker 2: Valley is a wonderful place to exist. The soundtrack by
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  Speaker 2: oded Tilset captures the filling of playful springtime walk with
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  Speaker 2: lazy streams and jovial pipes giving way to some pleasing
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  Speaker 2: plinks and plunks. Some headline tracks also feature Cigar Rose,
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  Speaker 2: giving them an extra hit of Rose geminus when the
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  Speaker 2: game's more pivotal moments kick in. So, yeah, take a
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  Speaker 2: pause here. At one point when I was playing this game,
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  Speaker 2: my partner comes down. He's like, wait, wait, is that
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  Speaker 2: Cigar Rose? Like he was very confused, and I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right, and we looked it up and yes,
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  Speaker 2: they are a part of this. So that article goes on,
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  Speaker 2: and the entire thing really is a stunner, all presented
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  Speaker 2: as if you're leafing through snuffkins tails and moonmon valley
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  Speaker 2: leaves off the page. I found myself stopping frequently to
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  Speaker 2: admire the bob of some crabs in the water or
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  Speaker 2: soaking the views, like when the moon lit up the
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  Speaker 2: sky as I crossed the Rickety bridge. There's even some
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  Speaker 2: bespoke spots marked by small towers, each of which exists
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  Speaker 2: purely as spots for Mufkin to relax for a bit,
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  Speaker 2: transforming your screen into a shimmering wallpaper and transporting your
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  Speaker 2: you straight into Snuffkin's happy place, and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the pictures I showed you. Was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, you can sit here and see through the
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  Speaker 2: leaves and see the sun. Or you can sit here,
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  Speaker 2: see you through, see near the water and watch the
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  Speaker 2: list of the fish.
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  Speaker 3: Jonp But what what is this?
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  Speaker 2: What is this?
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  Speaker 3: I was very love.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, and specifically about cigare Rose being a
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  Speaker 2: part of it. From another article from rockpapershotgun dot Com
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  Speaker 2: titled Snuffkin Melody of Mooman Valley going full Nordic by
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  Speaker 2: collaborating with cigare Rose, and they say Melody of Movement
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  Speaker 2: Valley is a gentle adventure game where you played the
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  Speaker 2: wondering nature lover Snuffkin and restore balance to Movement Valley,
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  Speaker 2: which will be ready for you to explore in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, that's when it was released. I'm not being
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  Speaker 2: facetious with my headline either. We want the game to
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  Speaker 2: feel very Nordic, and the sound of cigare Roes has
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  Speaker 2: some of the most Nordic atmosphere I can imagine. We
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  Speaker 2: need quite early on that we I wanted to involve
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  Speaker 2: the band in some way, and I'm extremely pleased to
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  Speaker 2: see the direction this collaboration is heading, said hypergame ceo
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  Speaker 2: our sun Nests. I'm so sorry if I said that wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Music from Cigar Rose's album is going to feature along
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  Speaker 2: with original compositions from composer and sound designer Oda Tilsett.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, they purposely brought in Ciga Roes. I'm like
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  Speaker 2: how and why because I don't imagine cigare Roes for
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  Speaker 2: such a up like uplifting open game. But again, there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of anti establishment comments within the game,
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  Speaker 2: so it makes sense. And specifically about the game from
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  Speaker 2: cmag online dot Com. A lot of the story unfolds
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  Speaker 2: under the assumption that you are familiar with the movement series,
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  Speaker 2: so no characters are really given a proper introduction. And now,
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: while I won't say it's the biggest problem, since the
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  Speaker 2: story gives you enough of an idea of characters quarks
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  Speaker 2: and personalities, I think a glossary or even a little
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  Speaker 2: expositional dialogue would have been a nice way to add
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  Speaker 2: a little context for newbies. After all, these characters have
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  Speaker 2: been around since nineteen forty five, newcomers may need a
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  Speaker 2: lot little extra information, which I was one of those.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait, what, But again, you don't really
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  Speaker 2: need it, so the gameplay is equally as simple, but
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  Speaker 2: it maintains a fun, laid back atmosphere that is consistently engaging.
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  Speaker 2: During Snuffkin's search for move Control, players will travel through
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  Speaker 2: Movement Valley, assisting its residents with their problems, which usually
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  Speaker 2: requires Snuffkin to play one of his three instruments. Every
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  Speaker 2: creature helped and puzzle solved will reward players with inspiration,
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  Speaker 2: and with every increased level of inspiration, Snuffkin can tackle
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  Speaker 2: bigger problems. On top of that, players will encounter parks
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  Speaker 2: where they will need to evade patrolling police officers and
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  Speaker 2: remove signs so they have no rules to enforce. Once
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  Speaker 2: the police abandoned the park, nature will be allowed to return,
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  Speaker 2: further rewarding players with inspiration. What it means to be
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  Speaker 2: relaxing in somewhat easy. I do wish there was some
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  Speaker 2: form of punishment for the one place where confrontation could happen,
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  Speaker 2: namely getting caught in the parks. So again, it is
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  Speaker 2: really really easy when you get caught, though, because there
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  Speaker 2: are those moments because I didn't know what was happening.
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  Speaker 3: You just get sit back and start over again.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, as a novice gamer, I really would
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  Speaker 2: appreciated the aspect that I didn't have to start all
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  Speaker 2: over again because I think I would have just thrown
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  Speaker 2: the room, to be honest, because I got caught a lot.
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  Speaker 3: But it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was really really fun. But like I think they
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  Speaker 2: will say in many other games, they wish it was longer,
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  Speaker 2: and I do too, So like you know all this,
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  Speaker 2: the game is very soothing, but it does abruptly end
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  Speaker 2: and is a really short play, which is for me
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  Speaker 2: who have never finished a game.
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  Speaker 3: It doys a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I wish there are more adventures that I wish we
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  Speaker 2: were able to see, like Snuffkin and move Control going
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  Speaker 2: an adventure together defeating other park rangers or the sort.
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  Speaker 2: Because they were super cute. Seriously love the game. It's
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  Speaker 2: completely up my alley.
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  Speaker 3: I will say.
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  Speaker 2: They also had like a Rascal character in there where
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  Speaker 2: she just causes a little bit of trouble and takes
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  Speaker 2: credit for everything, but does kind of assist you get
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  Speaker 2: help from other creatures around there.
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  Speaker 3: It's super cute. I really liked it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I enjoyed what I was getting updates pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I need you to play this is
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  Speaker 2: I think you'd enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't if you'd enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted you to see the scenery because it's
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  Speaker 2: not there's nothing really there's no fighting, there's like like
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  Speaker 2: there's not really anything real big. But the music is gorgeous,
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  Speaker 2: the dialogue is super cue the again. The art is
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  Speaker 2: so pretty, like I loved every bit of it, and
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: it made me very happy to play that game, Like
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  Speaker 2: I was very excited, like I said, and I actually
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  Speaker 2: didn't stop uh playing the entire time I've played paused
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: and they came back, and then I was like, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: I finished. I need another version. I need more adventures.
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  Speaker 2: I think they can do more adventures. They also got
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: obviously the rights and paid for the rights for that,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: because it was it's already very established and had been
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: like published apparently in a hundred different countries all around
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  Speaker 2: the world and very big. I just knew nothing about it,
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  Speaker 2: like I do know anything.
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  Speaker 3: About Moon Controlls or Moon Valley Moons.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I don't think so okay, I was.
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  Speaker 3: The only one listeners.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I would love to know more about
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: this series because it sounds really really sweet. I didn't
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: realize it was a whole novel. Maybe we need to
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  Speaker 2: do that as one of our fictions.
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  Speaker 3: But I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a couple other games when I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I just really want to highlight this one for now.
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  Speaker 2: If y'all have games that are similar to that, if
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  Speaker 2: y'all have experiences similar to that, I need this recommendation
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  Speaker 2: because it was gorgeous and I loved it, and I
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  Speaker 2: want more.
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  Speaker 1: Yes and listeners, you have answered the call before. You've
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  Speaker 1: sent in some wonderful suggestions, whether they be board games
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  Speaker 1: or phone games or any type of games, so please
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