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Who the Hell is Fletcher? | Uncharted 1 | Part 2 · Replay Reviews

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  There's not that much that happens. Let's just
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  get it out of the way. It's going to be a short
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  episode. A lot of gameplay versus cutscene in
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  this episode. Due to that, the out of context
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  summary is severely lacking. But why don't I
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  just read you what I have? Okay, let's hear it.
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  In this episode, how many crashes can we survive?
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  And is there really not a more direct route?
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  And that's all we got. Thank you for coming back
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  for our replay reviews. My name is Leah. And
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  my name is Kathy. We are two friends who are
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  here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite
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  video games. And since Kathy has never seen the
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  games before, it helps me view them through her
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  fresh eyes, almost like I'm discovering them
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  again for the first time. We hope it will be
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  a similar experience for you. I want our listeners
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  to know how much Leah enjoyed playing this game.
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  She loved these fight scenes. If it wasn't too
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  late for me to return the game. Okay, well, scene
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  one is chapter four. I have one bullet point.
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  We fight through the jungle forever until we
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  find the crashed plane with the map still inside.
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  And how is that map still intact? And how did
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  it not get stolen yet? General rules of airflow
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  lead me to believe that that map should not still
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  be in that plane, but we'll give it the benefit
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  of the doubt. Should we move on to chapter five?
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  Yes. I fight and scramble my way through the
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  fortress, and we eventually find Elena's parachute,
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  and not long after, spot her in the distance.
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  Nathan continues traversing the fortress, trying
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  to track down Elena. My single note was the scene
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  where you have a microphone and Nate just decides
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  to speak into the microphone some gibberish.
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  I don't even know if he knows the language. But
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  why on earth would that be your first reaction
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  to seeing a microphone is to speak into it, not
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  knowing who's on the other side and if it gives
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  away your location? Yeah, I guess he really had
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  to go through that gate. Although it was kind
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  of funny that he... Thought he pulled it off,
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  but he didn't. Yeah. But also, why did they start
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  speaking English? There he is. Get him. Like,
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  why? Where'd that come from? All right. Are we
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  ready for chapter six? We're flying through this.
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  This one has the most notes for me. My first
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  note is that Nathan recognizes a tower from the
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  map, but he gets shot at while analyzing the
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  map. And after some more blasting. And scrambling.
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  He finds a room with an English helmet. He says,
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  hmm, these aren't Spanish, they're English. My
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  next note is that he stumbles across this wall
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  where there's a Fletcher. Yeah, who the hell
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  is Fletcher? He's looking at this map on the
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  wall that says Fletcher. We've gone to the Great
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  Tower. I pray that you will meet us there. Signed,
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  Frances Drake. And then, of course, we start
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  getting shot at. Further on, we find a spyglass,
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  which Nathan uses to spot a familiar building,
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  some sunken ships, and Elena, as well as enemies
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  who are aiming at her. So we shoot to save her.
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  She runs away as the attention is now turned
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  on us. And Nathan gets a grenade launched. Unconscious.
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  Well, also, I do want to backpedal. really quickly
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  though those boats that we see is that the same
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  boat related to the boat we saw in part one i
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  think those are the spanish ships i think he
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  came here looking for the spanish because he
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  says they never left so i think those are like
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  the spanish galleons or whatever they're referred
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  to as yep that's pretty much all my notes okay
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  well nathan wakes up In a cell to rocks being
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  tossed at him. It's Elena. She knows a lot of
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  random info about the structure of this jail.
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  And she uses it to formulate a plan to free him.
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  While she leaves to find something to accomplish
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  this breakout with, this guy, Eddie Raja, walks
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  up. They seem to know each other. It seems like
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  he and Nathan have a history. Maybe Nathan was
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  on his team, just like how Elena is contracting
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  him. Maybe he used to be part of his gang, and
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  then he went his own way, went independent. It
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  does seem like he's a third party. Like, he's
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  not connected to Roman and Navarro, which we'll
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  learn in Chapter 7. So if you have nothing else
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  on Chapter 6, should we move on? Yeah, I only
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  have one note on that. Okay, Chapter 7. Elena
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  busts him out with the jeep. They make a run
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  for it. They make a drive for it, I guess. And
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  she asks him, who was that guy? And he says,
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  just an old business associate, and then gets
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  cut off. So I think you're on the right track
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  with him, them having worked together before,
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  unless he was just BSing her just to give her
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  an answer, you know. In the chase, they end up
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  with the butt of the car hanging over a ledge
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  when Eddie catches up to them. Eddie wants the
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  map. He says, I bet you're working for them,
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  too. Who's them? Is that Roman? Think so, unless
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  there's another group of people on the island.
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  I think so too, but so then working for them
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  too. Who's the other two? Because he didn't say,
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  I bet you're working for them. He said, I bet
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  you're working for them too. So who else is working
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  for them? Maybe another associate similar to
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  Nathan? Like another independent contractor?
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  So we don't know who they are, but anyways, Nate
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  is like, I have a plan. And then he just... launches
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  the car backwards into the water it seems shockingly
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  high for one for two he was like on elena watch
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  out for the cliffs watch out for the cliffs only
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  to by choice reverse off of it and he was emphasizing
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  on hold on tight maybe you could have just mumbled
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  under under your breath that hey we're gonna
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  i'm gonna go backwards give the girl a bit of
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  a notice And the thing is, he also doesn't have
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  a Ziploc bag to put his map into it. So it's
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  going to get soaking wet. So you might as well
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  just have given the map to them. How has this
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  map survived so much? Well, that's all I had
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  for part two. How are you feeling about the game
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  so far? I do wish there was a bit more substance
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  to the cutscenes. I don't know how I feel about
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  Nathan Drake quite yet. He's not like he's irresponsible,
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  but I don't know. We'll see more. He's got tunnel
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  vision. Yeah. He reacts more than he plans. But
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  I don't dislike him. There's nothing that he
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  does wrong that makes me not like him. But there's
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  nothing he does that makes me like him. And then,
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  yeah, I mean, this was obviously a gameplay heavy
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  part. And I wouldn't have so many issues with
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  the gameplay if they mixed it up a little bit.
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  But it's just like every chapter is jumping and
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  shooting. I wish there was just more exploring,
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  less shooting. Yeah, or help me find a grapple
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  gun at some point so I can grapple up walls instead
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  of just frogging up the wall all the time like
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  an idiot. Or would it be better to have a Gatlin
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  gun like you did in Red Dead Redemption? It'd
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  be better because I would turn around and just
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  shoot myself. Oh my god, Leah. That is an intense
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  reaction. So I recorded... four sections or like
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  five groups of four chapters you know i recorded
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  a chunk at a time for this episode for whatever
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  reason it glitched and so the video file of the
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  recording was like just a black screen no sound
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  so i had to replay like four chapters of the
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  game most of which are in this part which might
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  be why i'm a little extra salty in this episode
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  maybe i'm just bad at it i don't know that could
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  be part of it but i just find the gameplay to
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  be really just lacking and repetitive I agree.
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  And drawn out. So I guess my question for our
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  listeners is that if you have played this game
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  before, let us know what you feel. If you like
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  all these shooting scenes or if you agree with
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  Leah that it sucks. Comment below. Send us your
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  thoughts through email at replayreviewspod at
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  gmail .com. With that, I want to end it. Audacity
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  on one. Three, two, one. Thank you for listening,
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  and don't forget to send in any questions, comments,
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  any topics you all want to hear in our season
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  wrap -up episode. We also have a Reddit where
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