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He's ASKING For Swampass | Uncharted 1 | Part 1 · Replay Reviews

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  In this episode, is this our first barefoot firefight?
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  And there's blood everywhere. And soup. I'm confused
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  as well. Thank you for coming back for more replay
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  reviews. My name is Leah. And my name is Kathy.
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  We are two friends who are here to replay, review,
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  and analyze your favorite video games. And since
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  Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
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  me view them through her fresh eyes. Almost like
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  I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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  We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
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  New game. Welcome to November. I'm excited for
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  this game. I think it'll be a good one. Glad
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  you're liking it so far because this is Kathy's
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  pick for the year. For the season. Let's get
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  into it, I guess. Scene one. It starts out, we
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  get it like a camcorder POV and a woman saying
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  that they found the coffin of Sir Francis Drake.
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  And we quickly learn that Nathan is a descendant
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  of Sir Francis, but she is not very quick to
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  believe him. And it makes sense that it's maybe
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  some inside information being passed down through
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  generations that would lean to him instead of
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  another outsider. She doesn't believe him because
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  her research. Indicates that he never had children.
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  So she has that, but Nathan has Sir Francis Drake's
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  ring. I totally missed it because my next note
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  is that he has a ring around his neck. Is it
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  a dead fiancé? Is it a dead fiancé? So far off.
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  So next, they pull, they winch, I think is the
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  proper term. They winch a coffin out of the ocean.
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  But it's empty, except for a small lockbox containing
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  a journal. And in this scene, we learn that her
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  show funded this expedition. And then they get
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  attacked by pirates. And I have a note here.
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  Why is he taking me off a little bit? Because
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  he didn't get a permit to be here. So they can't
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  call for help. I'm more concerned about how this
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  partnership began and why she relying on him
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  so much when he seems like the type that isn't
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  going to be doing things through the right channels,
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  which obviously he proves is correct. So I don't
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  know why she didn't. do some of the permitting
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  and how is there not a team that supports her
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  if it's for a show that's sponsored by someone
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  else she is on the phone with someone later so
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  i i kind of would say it's more on them for not
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  dotting their i's and crossing their t's but
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  i could also see nathan kind of like sweet talking
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  around it you know like not lying about it but
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  not outright saying yeah so we don't have a permit
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  but either way put her in a bad position So they're
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  rescued from the firefight by someone named Sully,
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  who Nathan seems to know, obviously. And then
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  we learn that the woman's name is Elena Fisher.
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  Who's Sully? Is that the third person in their
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  team? Can we rely on him? Yeah, it'll seem more
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  like Nathan knows him than Elena. So I'm not
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  sure what that relationship is. Like, he doesn't
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  seem to be his father or his uncle or anything,
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  but he seems significantly older. I would like
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  to know how that came to be, that partnership.
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  Also, during the whole fight with the pirates,
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  do pirates just normally lurk in the sea? I know
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  they're in the middle of the ocean and whatnot,
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  but the coincidence of them meeting pirates as
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  soon as they were able to fish something out
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  of the sea, and how were they able to do that?
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  I'm a bit confused. Everything's happening quite
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  quickly. Yeah, I could see them having. radar
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  capabilities at this point, but you're right,
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  the timing of them just pulling the coffin out
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  is suspicious. In this plane that Sully flew
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  in to the rescue, they board and we learn that
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  the diary they found is Drake's lost diary. Nathan
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  says that he faked his death and was onto something
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  big, and he thinks the something big was Eldorado.
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  However, the last page was torn out of the journal.
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  What a coincidence that it's gone. What they
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  need is gone. I don't quite understand why this
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  diary is in a sealed box, which is in another
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  bigger box. Yeah, is whoever left this here hoping
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  like, oh, no one will disturb a body in a coffin?
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  Maybe. And if you're trying to hide it, either
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  you're coming back for it or you don't want anyone
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  else to find it. And if that's the case, burn
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  it. So my inclination is that someone was coming
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  back for this. We'll never know. Any notes before
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  they ditch Elena? No. Do you want to describe
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  that scene or should I? You can go ahead. I didn't
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  write good enough notes. Okay, I didn't. All
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  I have is they ditch Elena. So they're safely
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  docked somewhere. Nathan and Sully are discussing
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  what to do while Elena's on the phone with her.
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  production company, I guess. So it convinces
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  Nathan, like, they have to ditch her. So they
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  just leave her. I appreciate them not killing
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  her, because I thought that's the other way they
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  were going to go about it. I don't know exactly
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  how ethical these mean characters are quite yet,
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  so I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to
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  just kill her, but I'm kind of glad they didn't
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  go that way. Anything else before chapter two?
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  Nope. All right, so using the journal or the
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  diary, Nathan and Sully begin their search for
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  what they believe is El Dorado. They find some
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  sort of temple, but they don't find the treasure.
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  And Sully gets frustrated. And here's where we
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  learn that he's in debt. And he's, like, depending
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  on finding a lost ancient treasure to pay down
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  his debt. He's taken too many risks in his life
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  because why would you rely on something that
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  may or may not exist to cover all your debt?
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  Mm -hmm. Seems stupid, maybe. Don't be gambling
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  and going to brothels if you don't have the money.
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  Seems to me he could just run away to a new island
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  and just leave his debt behind, but to each their
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  own. How old is Nathan supposed to be in this
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  game? Because he looks mature, but he doesn't
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  quite act that way. So I'm a bit confused. I
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  was wondering that. Let's Google it. But he does
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  look really good. I made a comment while we're
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  watching it. Something about the shoulder harness
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  really makes a guy look great. There's something
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  about a shoulder holster that just looks good.
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  He, according to Google AI, so asterisked by
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  this, he was supposed to be 31. So farther in
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  this temple thing, they find a spot where they
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  think what must have been El Dorado was, but
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  it's now missing. They think it's a golden man,
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  he says. I don't know. And then they decide to
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  follow the drag marks from when it was taken.
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  They lead to a ship, a German U -boat, stuck
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  on a waterfall. Nathan's like, oh, it must have
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  come up here in flood season and got stuck. Does
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  the water rise? A thousand feet in flood season?
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  I was going to ask that question, too. I think
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  it's very clever to commute by boat during flood
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  season, but what kind of area floods so much
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  that it would do that? Right. I find it interesting,
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  but we'll let it slide. That's my last note on
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  Chapter 2. Are you ready for Chapter 3? One more
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  comment on Chapter 2. I'm feeling kind of nervous
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  about... Nathan Drake just blindly trusting Sully
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  to hold on to his journal. I don't understand
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  why he gave it to Sully to hold on to. I guess
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  because he had to jump in the water, maybe? What
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  if Sully wasn't there when he had the journal?
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  What is he going to do with it? Yeah, I felt
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  like he should have been prepared for that. Like,
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  you could have had a dry bag on you. Okay, chapter
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  three. Nathan makes his way onto the ship. He
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  walks on and... Sully's like, what do you see?
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  Or something. And Nathan's like, there's blood
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  everywhere. And soup. What? So I'll show you
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  because I don't understand. I'll go full screen.
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  What does that mean? I think there's maybe cans
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  of soup. And all I can think of the relevance
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  is like, they left food here, right? So it's
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  like, maybe they all died because if they got
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  stuck here, they would have eaten all the soup,
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  right? irritated at Nathan in this scene for
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  not having great communication skills with Sully
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  because he talks about him and then Sully will
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  say something and he just doesn't respond because
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  if I'm Sully, I think something killed Nathan.
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  Well, he does find a dead person which they have
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  a Spanish coin on them. He also finds the missing
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  journal page which is a map and figures out where
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  it indicates to go. based off of a map on the
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  ship, a German map. So we're communicating with
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  Sully, telling him what we found, and then all
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  of a sudden he goes silent. Nathan exits the
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  boat, but not before tripping a torpedo. He continues
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  to swim where the torpedo would hit him. I know.
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  He couldn't move a little bit to the side. He
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  gets out of the water, where we see Gabriel Roman.
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  Who looks like... Ah, what's that guy's name?
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  Band of Brothers. McDonough. Neil McDonough.
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  If that's how you pronounce it. Yes! I was...
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  Right? It's so funny you say this because for
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  me, this guy, I was going to say that he looks
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  like Sean Cahill, which he is the lawyer in Suits.
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  But I didn't know that he was in Band of Brothers.
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  I... actor from Suits, and I'm like, that's the
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  guy, but I knew you've never seen Suits, so I
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  never said anything about that. Only for you
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  to know exactly who I'm talking about, because
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  he starred in Band of Brothers. Look at that.
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  We actually know the same reference for once.
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  He also has a sidekick, a partner named Navarro.
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  They have Sully at gunpoint, and we find out
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  that Sully owes him money. So is this the debt
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  he was talking about? It has to be, but how did
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  this guy get there? And why so eager that you
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  would travel deep into the forest of, where are
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  they, Brazil? I don't know. Yeah. No idea. Okay.
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  Well, how much does he owe him if they're doing,
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  you know, like you said, that they're going to
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  all this trouble to track them down? Does it
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  have anything better to do with his life than
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  to track him down? I wonder if Sully, if the
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  debt is more than just money. Probably slept
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  with his wife with how slutty he is. So they
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  make him hand over the map, but then they shoot
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  Sully anyway. And then the ship explodes. This
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  diary that Nate gave him, where is it? Did Sully
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  already give it to Gabriel Roman? So it's the
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  map that they're handing over. So as far as we
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  know, Sully still has the diary. Okay. And I
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  don't know if Nathan handed over the map. Do
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  we need to watch it again? I need to know what
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  kind of genes they are to be able to stay dry
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  so quickly. Right? Why would you pick genes in
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  this climate? You're just asking for swamp ass.
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  And trench foot. So I think he took two maps
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  from the boat. Yes. The German one and the missing
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  page. So he probably gave them the missing page
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  or the German map. The German map. Gotcha, gotcha.
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  But yeah, then he runs through the forest where
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  he runs into Elena who rightfully punches him
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  in the face. I like her. In this situation, is
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  it okay to leave Sully to die? Because if Sully
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  survived, don't you think Sully would be mad
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  that you left him to die? Like, we don't have
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  him confirmed to die. It didn't look good. He
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  was just gonna get shot if he tried. So I understand
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  why he left him. I don't think he wanted to leave
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  him. I think he thought he had to. But yeah,
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  he runs into Elena and she's, I agree, I like
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  her. She's like, actually seems to feel bad about
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  Sully. How did they not get caught? The people
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  were just running right past them. Are they blind?
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  And he's wearing white in the jungle. Like, you're
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  gonna stand out. So they shoot and run their
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  way through, back through the temple where I
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  think Elena stashed a jeep. And they use this
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  to make their getaway. But it pisses me off because
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  he gets in the car and then waits. Hit the gas.
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  I think he wants to get shot. They seem to have
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  made an escape and are later in a plane. But
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  they get shot at. So they have to parachute out.
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  Who's shooting at them? Is it Roman's people?
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  I assume so. I'm kind of irritated that he gives
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  Elena the... and then he's like, okay, I need
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  to keep driving this plane. What else? What are
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  you going to do with this plane, Nathan? I think
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  he even is like, what am I doing? They're not
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  going to land in the same spot. How is he going
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  to find her? Right. Which is what ends up happening.
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  We see him hanging from an old statue and we
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  don't see her anywhere. And that's where this
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  gameplay video ends. Yeah. So far, questionable
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  choices from Nathan. He seems a little immature,
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  but I like him. I like him. I like him fine.
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  Maybe this is just because I'm watching Sleeping
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  Dogs, but the vibes I'm getting is similar to
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  Wei. Don't know exactly what or how or why. It's
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  a confidence, I think. They're both confident.
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  Even when they're making mistakes, confident
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  about it. I'm really looking forward to getting
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  to know more about Nathan Drake and doing the
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  deep dive analysis on his character arc. Just
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  because I think it's very promising that maybe
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  he starts out as this immature, confident, slightly
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  egotistical guy. But maybe he's going to do great
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  things and he's going to be protective of Elena.
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  I don't know. We'll find out. We will find out.
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  Well, I'm excited to keep this series going,
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  despite me not enjoying the gameplay aspect of
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  this game. But yeah, next gameplay will be out
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  tomorrow, and we'll be back next week. Sounds
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