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Video Game Metacritic Draft 2025 Rounds 4 through 10! · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Oh hey, that's that's a good sign.
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  Cell 5. Yeah.
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  Pat on the back. Oh boy, oh boy, Oh boy.
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  Well, hello everyone, welcome to the Boss Rush podcast.
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  A great place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, the piece of muscle race.
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  No sleeves this this week because people were complaining
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  about it last week for Ron Dawkins.
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  Welcome back to the Boss Earth podcast.
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  I love you guys. Join me tonight is my wonderful,
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  wonderful group of Co hosts. You, you know all these people,
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  but I'm going to introduce them anyway.
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  First off, the Med pharmacist, Stephanie Klimov.
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  Hello girl. Hello, I'm back.
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  Yes, welcome back. Welcome back.
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  Don't you ever keep us again. Never.
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  Don't do that. For what it's worth, I've got
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  some wonderful spotlights as a result.
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  OK, whatever. Yes and and another one needs a
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  stern talking to for going away. Corey, Derrick, What?
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  What the hell, man? Hey I leave for a week and you
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  just mess everything up. What am I supposed to do?
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  I mess everything up. I mess everything up.
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  Yeah, sure. You're not being here.
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  You're not being here is the reason why it got messed up.
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  It was messed up when you left. This whole thing's messed up.
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  Anyway. Yeah, yeah.
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  But you know someone who's not messed up?
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  PK Power, Pat Klein. He's the only person here that's
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  got it all together. The only one.
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  Exactly, you know my my 2 month vacation, put it all back
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  together again. You know, just like a little
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  jigsaw puzzle. It's like the lyrics I'm.
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  Missing a piece? No pieces are missing.
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  That's good. That's what I like to hear.
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  Get it, get it right, get it tight.
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  Jesus. Am I right?
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  How's everybody getting? Loose what?
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  What'd you think? What?
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  I'm asking you I. Didn't say a word.
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  Yeah, not going to lie, though, last week was chaotic.
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  Holy shit. You you get.
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  You leave Lauren and myself, and then you bring in Eddie Anstoy.
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  Anstoy. Yeah.
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  Hey, that's on you. The story is on me, that is
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  true, but Eddie is on someone else.
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  And then the fact that we all had to gang up on Eddie because
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  Eddie makes it easy for it. Look, it's not, it's not my
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  fault he likes the yo-yo game, OK?
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  Just let him enjoy his yo-yo. Oh, it's.
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  Not just that, he's got, he's got a, he's got a red Cape and
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  white hat. Everything Nintendo, Come on.
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  It it, it was fun. Like within the 1st 5 minutes,
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  you know, I got him all riled up with what what we get him riled
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  up on. It was game carts and oh.
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  Yeah. Super Mario All Stars 3 DI was
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  going to say. Something Nintendo related.
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  Yeah, that's what he always gets riled up about.
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  You. Shouldn't you?
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  Shouldn't You shouldn't poke the bear, you know?
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  It's not that. It's not that we go and we it's
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  not that we go and we poke the bear.
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  It's like it's like the bear is always rummaging in our trash
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  cans. With a big poke me sign.
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  Yep, and then we take the stick and we poke it so that we move
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  it away from the trash can where we put our Nintendo stuff in.
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  Oh yeah, wow, stop leaving your Nintendo stuff out at night.
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  Wow, wow boy. So.
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  Interesting. Love you, Ed.
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  Don't, don't look to the copy editor of the group.
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  OK. I see how I am against AI golly.
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  Oh boy, I didn't use. That to write this boy I this is
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  all regular non intelligence. You can't replicate the contents
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  that come spilling from Corey Derrig's mind.
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  Yeah. There's no replicating this.
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  So get cracking. Yeah, Pat doesn't want to have
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  to sell his feet pics anymore, so come on, man.
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  I don't know, they're starting to get sexy.
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  I was going to, I was going to say something, but I'm not
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  because like, because like I don't want, I don't want, I
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  don't want all the pets fans like coming at me for sexual
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  harassment. I was going to give you a
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  compliment though. I can probably hold him back for
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  a little bit. I'll save him for after the
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  show. I'll save for after the.
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  Show Hey can I watch? Are we?
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  Going to. Be exchanging feed picks.
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  There's a general, there's a general admission fee for that.
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  Oh my gosh, what's going on? OK, so so you know what, you
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  know what guys? And I want to thank Stephanie
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  for mentioning this because we are overdue to update to revise
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  our Metacritic draft. Weird.
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  Super way mega overdue. Yeah, we, we, we missed the
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  entire quarter, so. It's so bad.
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  That none of us got Expedition 33 on our list.
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  I know, gosh. That's a shame, yes.
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  I got it on my body. Yeah.
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  That's your is your body. Is your body ready for Corey?
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  You need a tattoo. You need to get the 33 armband.
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  We should all get the 33 arm band.
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  I actually. Wait 33?
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  I thought it was 34 on their arm.
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  No. It's 33.
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  One of the threes position 33, one of them is on the band in
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  the game. The one of the threes is very
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  straight. Is that like the round part?
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  It's it's more but like an angle straight line.
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  OK. That might be where I'm getting
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  the four from then. OK.
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  Also, there are also several other numbers in the game that
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  you will find if you play it long enough, which I'm.
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  Yeah, yeah, I know that. Yeah.
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  But I felt, I felt like three of them so far.
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  Oh, the game is so good. Yeah.
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  I don't know if I don't know if I'm looking hard enough or I'm
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  just, or, you know, because I'm enjoying the game, you know, I'm
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  doing, I'm doing enough exploring, whatever.
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  We're not talking about that right now.
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  We're just. Saying, well, if the game is so
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  good, it should have been on one of our Metacritic, but it
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  didn't. We last.
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  We did game of the year and we don't, yeah.
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  To be fair, this game came out in April and we did the first
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  round in like January, January. We did in January.
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  And. And we and we were just, yeah,
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  we just kind of like just flung out there, you know?
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  Sorry, but we're going to rectify that today.
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  But the but the brush up but the brush up.
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  Anybody is new here? The Metacritic draft is where we
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  where we basically we do it once 1/4 and the panel makes their
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  choices and tells their scores on upcoming games, upcoming
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  games that once they're released, like we just go to
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  Metacritic, see what they scored and whoever at the end of the
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  year has the highest score based off their based off their their
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  choices, they get a prize. They they get a prize.
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  I'm still I'm still waiting for my my my stream deck plus.
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  But yeah, it's a metaphorical prize.
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  Yeah, what love and adoration. I don't need any of that from
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  y'all. Oh, side note, that doesn't
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  really mean anything because we have plenty of games to choose
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  from, but the latest in the rumor mill?
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  Dang, I keep hating how my screen freezes.
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  Is that Nintendo's going to have a direct in July?
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  Which, who knows? It's Pokémon.
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  Is it is Well, I know Pokémon Presents but they were thinking
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  announcements like metaphor coming to Switch.
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  Which again, it's one of those things where I read it and kept
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  moving on, but who knows all. Right.
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  So we need a recap. We need a recap of where where
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  we were, where we were at, right?
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  I can do that. Last time, please critic.
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  Yes, last time on that. Thank you for that opening.
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  So Lauren's three games was Monster Hunter Wild, which came
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  in at it 28 Death Stranding 2 on the beach, which it's official
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  releases in two days. But because there was like a
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  pat. What's the word for it?
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  Like pre? Release is it?
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  Yeah, pre release and an embargo.
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  Embargo was. The embargo lifted.
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  So technically it is actually sitting at a crisp 90 right now,
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  so. I'll take it.
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  Kudos to you, your third game has not come out yet, but
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  Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. We'll see where that goes,
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  Corey. You.
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  Had. Sidebar, Sidebar, Nintendo, you
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  better release that game on time.
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  You better really say game on time like I'd like.
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  I, I will not say I will be culpable if if your buildings
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  burn down if it doesn't come out on time, but.
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  I mean, I think it's coming out in either September or October.
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  Yeah, your buildings. Your buildings may burn down
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  that this game does not come out in 2025.
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  Wow, Pokémon. Pokémon is there.
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  September or November? October goes to Pokémon.
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  Right, I forgot that Legends is coming out in October.
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  Pokémon is usually reserved for November.
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  I'm kind of surprised. Nintendo of Laurent's opinions
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  do not reflect that of the Boss Rush Network.
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  If he independently burns your buildings down, please don't
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  come. Oh, I didn't.
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  Say I would. I didn't say I would do it.
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  I, I just, I just feel like there might be a Guy Fawkes Day
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  that happens, you know, on, you know, on Nintendo's
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  headquarters. I'm not saying I'm going to be
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  responsible for it. Oh, it got delayed once, so
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  let's hope you know, it's just that.
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  Well, I have a well, I have a terrible history of Nintendo
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  games. They always get delayed.
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  You know, past like past like. Anything is reasonable.
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  Oh, like high tangent? What's that one I can see?
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  The cover of it. In my brain, Advanced Wars.
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  Advanced Wars 1 and 2. People's.
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  Yeah. Side tangent, I finally watched
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  the Donkey Kong direct. Yeah.
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  This game, What is happening in this game?
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  Isn't it awesome? It's, there's, it's crazy.
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  It's like, it's like Mario. It's like Mario Odyssey turned
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  up to 1111. It's it's.
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  It's Red Faction. Red Faction, Red Faction
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  gorilla. Yeah, Yep, I've heard that joke
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  plenty of times around. I just said Red Faction.
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  I didn't say anything about Gorilla, but you know, you said
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  it, so thanks for thank you. I set you up.
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  So there you go. You're welcome.
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  Have a great day. I will.
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  It's. Bananas, time to split.
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  BAN. My daughter My daughter enjoys
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  the Pauline songs. By the way, by the way, by the
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  way, is this D Pauline? Like, where does she fall at in
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  the timeline? Yeah, does ain't Mario Addison
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  to Pauline though? Because huh.
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  You had What does this fall in Donkey Kong lore?
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  I know the Donkey Kong lore but but like this is like a Kitty
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  version of Pauline so I didn't know where this falls in line
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  with the well it's. Clearly a prequel to Mario
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  Odyssey. Never mind, never mind.
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  Yeah, it's prequel to Donkey Kong too, apparently.
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  It can't be, though, because Donkey Kong Cranky Kong's the
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  original. Don't.
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  OK. Wait, Cranky Kong, the original
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  don't make sense. Wait, are you?
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  Wait for real? Yeah, Cranky Kong is the
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  original Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong The DK you play as
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  now is Donkey Kong Junior. Is junior, I know that well, but
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  it shows how much I care about. Donkey Kong.
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  But Cranky Kong is in this. But Pauline is a kid.
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  Yeah, and Cranky Kong is also in this and.
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  He's who knows? Also, who cares, Miyamoto's
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  probably hot somewhere picking Pikmin out of his fake garden.
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  Listen, listen. It's just like Zelda.
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  There's a split timeline, like the Fall of Mario.
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  When Donkey Kong dies, all converge at Odyssey.
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  Nintendo Exactly. Pauline Kidd timeline versus the
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  Falling Adult timeline Nintendo. You will make a lot of money.
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  There's a timeline where Donkey Kong wins and he falls in love
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  with Pauline. And so, you know, there's one
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  timeline, but then there's the timeline where Mario wins.
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  I hate all of. This and.
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  Nintendo doesn't realize how much money they will make if
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  they just drop a book that just puts all this, you know, just
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  flushes it out. It doesn't have to make it all
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  make sense. That means Nintendo will have to
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  flush it out themselves, and they don't want to do that.
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  The Nintendo multiverse. Oh.
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  My gosh. Smash Verse.
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  That's what we need. We need, you know, you know how
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  like every year like Marvel and DC make the make those, the, the
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  encyclopedias and stuff like that.
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  Nintendo need to start doing that.
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  Yeah. Well, with that being sense, I'm
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  sure someone will mention Donkey Kong at some point.
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  Corey, you have Assassin's Creed Shadows, which did pretty well
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  for an Assassin's Creed game, all things being said at an 81,
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  Doom, the Dark Ages at an 83, and Judas which is still TBD.
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  That's getting delayed. I know I'm surprised I didn't
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  hear anything at games. During Summer game Fest, yeah.
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  Well, I mean, I've, I heard, I was listening to an interview
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  with Ken Levine earlier this year and he said it'll come out
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  when it comes out. It might come out this year,
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  might not, he said. Oh.
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  I'm so glad he mentioned that that.
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  Was a three. Do you want an audible that one
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  later? I don't know.
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  We'll see. We'll play it by ear.
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  I'll call Ken later. Speed of audible Pat, We might
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  need to call an audible for GTA six, yeah.
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  Son of a bitch. Yeah, Ghost of Yote to be
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  released, but that's your second pick and your last pick, which
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  we do have a score on, and the best score so far is split
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  Fiction at 91. Yeah.
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  Yeah, you got the highest high and the lowest low right now,
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  so. Damn straight.
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  I am what you'd call a mediocre scorer right now.
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  All three of mine have come out. Elden Ring night rain.
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  I really thought the Elden Ring name would carry me through, but
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  it only got a 77. Sid Sid Meier Sid Siv 7 say that
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  five times fast. I got a 79.
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  I know that came out to kind of an OK reception, and the highest
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  of mine is Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
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  Shout out to War Horse Games 88. So that's where we stand right
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  now. Nice.
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  I thought. I thought dude was going to do
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  better. Yeah, I'm not going to lie to
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  you. I could buy that Xbox tax.
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  Yeah. Oh well, that's fine.
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  Look as long as I don't drop a low like AI don't know 70 it's
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  fine all. Right.
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  Well, hey, if you guys want to get started, technically the Ron
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  goes 1st that the order of what I went went through is the
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  order. I don't know, words are hard.
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  The Ron coin. I should be the last.
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  I should be the last. 10 You're right.
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  Yeah, last year. I don't know why I put you right
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  in me. If anyone needs a list, Game
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  informers list is back and yeah. Here we go, We're.
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  Going to throw it in the chat. All right, so I'm going to go
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  ahead. I'm swinging for the fences
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  right now with Final Fantasy Tactics Evilness Chronicles.
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  Yeah, man. 100 at our hearts. I'm so excited.
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  By the way, did you see they're changing the dialogue in that
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  game like the main version because it was mistranslated on
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  the PlayStation. Yeah, well, historically,
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  historically has been mistranslated historically.
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  I mean. Because they even tried to clean
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  it up in War of the Lions and they still kind of flubbed it.
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  I know, I so did you? Did you see that the War of the
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  Lions content is not going to be in this one?
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  I think I see that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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  whoa. Are you kidding me?
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  Yeah. They said the War of the Lions
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  content or translation will not be available in this collection.
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  It's true. I was so mad when.
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  I saw Oh my God, can I remove this from my list?
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  No, I'm not removing this from my list.
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  Some of them never played the PSP version.
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  I do not know what I'm missing. You can also play it on your
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  phone and iPad if you want. Yeah, yeah.
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  No, no, it's staying on my list because I, I am a, I am a Final
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  Fantasy Tactics purist, I mean. And when I say purist, I mean
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  it's the PS, it's the PSX version, and nothing else
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  matters. Those two sequels that came out
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  on the on the on the on the Gameboy Advance don't matter.
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  La Ron La Ron still plays Final Fantasy Tactics with pre dual
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  shock PS1 controller. Hell yeah.
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  I still have my I still have the original the original edition
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  Final Fantasy Tactics like disc. Man, what a what a time that
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  was. Final Fantasy Tactics is
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  amazing, I love that game so much.
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  Not that bloody greatest greatest hits BS.
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  Yeah, yeah. That's my pick.
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  Evely's, Chronicles, Fontan, statics all.
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  Right. Good choice.
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  All right, Corey, can you follow it up?
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  Man, so debating whether or not I should pick something here.
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  Wait, did somebody pick Donkey Kong already?
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  No, we pick Donkey. Kong, you better picking now?
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  I'm I'm picking Donkey Kong. That seems like a shoe in all.
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  Right, Donkey Kong Bonanza. Bonanza.
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  All right, I am going to go with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4.
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  Sure you want to go that route. Yes, you know why?
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  OK, because the Ninja Turtles are in there.
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  Instant buy for me. It's only the deluxe edition
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  that gets the Ninja Turtles though.
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  We'll see. I know it's definitely high risk
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  but maybe I'll get high reward, who knows.
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  You will. It'll be good.
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  Look, the changes they made the Tony Hawks Pro Skater for are
• 21:29
  going to be good. So I know people are upset that
• 21:33
  they remove the open world stuff, but it's going to be
• 21:36
  good. Fingers crossed anyway.
• 21:39
  Patrick, your turn. Which one of these two do I grab
• 21:46
  first? Wisely.
• 21:51
  Well, I'm going to roll the die on Pokémon Legend CA Oh I I
• 22:00
  think. That's that's bold.
• 22:03
  I think they're cooking with this one.
• 22:06
  As the young kids say. It's been almost two years since
• 22:12
  we had a Pokémon game. That means they've been at least
• 22:15
  trying to do something. All right.
• 22:22
  You know, I, I, I felt that way with RCS and I think RCS was a
• 22:26
  great game, but I'm pretty sure the Metacritic on that was
• 22:29
  lukewarm, which was unfortunate because I, I loved RCS actually.
• 22:36
  Let me check. Yeah, let's see, Pokémon RCS.
• 22:42
  Isn't that like a similar setup like AZ and RCS?
• 22:46
  Like they're both have the same premise.
• 22:48
  Similar premise. It's all right, Yeah.
• 22:52
  Maybe. RCS had an 83.
• 22:55
  Sucks. That's OK.
• 23:00
  Yeah. All right.
• 23:02
  All right, Lauren, you're up. Back to me.
• 23:05
  Back to me, yeah, Mel Gasol, Delta, I'm putting this.
• 23:15
  I'm putting this back on my list after.
• 23:17
  Game. That was, that was.
• 23:19
  Yours wasn't it. Wait, what?
• 23:22
  Who? I thought that was Steph's game
• 23:24
  last. Year.
• 23:24
  No, that was me last year. Oh yeah, OK.
• 23:28
  Because, because remember, I was like our guys, it's like
• 23:30
  December 15th. Where's the game?
• 23:33
  Yeah, yeah. That was painful.
• 23:35
  That was, yeah, that was another one of your torture delays.
• 23:39
  Yeah. I mean, I was looking forward to
• 23:40
  it too, but. I feel like.
• 23:42
  That's very painful for. You Konami already gives us
• 23:45
  trust issues and they and once again, you know, they they was
• 23:47
  like, yeah, like we're we're dependable on this one not.
• 23:54
  Yeah, all these PlayStation games telling you.
• 23:59
  All right, got that down. Corey pick #2.
• 24:04
  Oh boy, so. I, I think I'm going to, I
• 24:16
  don't, man. I don't know if anybody.
• 24:18
  I was only half paying attention.
• 24:20
  I'm not going to lie to you when you're telling people who had
• 24:23
  who had what. Wow.
• 24:26
  I'm going to, I hope nobody has this.
• 24:31
  I'm going to, I'm going to anger.
• 24:33
  I think I'm going to anger Pat because this feels like a Pat
• 24:37
  game unless he already has it. Because I wasn't listening.
• 24:42
  Because I'm a terrible human being.
• 24:47
  Trails from the Sky the 1st. Yeah, son of a bitch.
• 24:51
  It's all yours. I.
• 24:53
  Did not choose that. All those, all those, all those
• 24:56
  Trails people are going to salivate and impregnate that
• 25:02
  game and. So it's going to get a high
• 25:03
  score, OK. That that pre the pre-orders
• 25:10
  sold like hotcakes very fast, but then again they only made
• 25:14
  like 3000 of them so. All of that, like, really
• 25:19
  limited collector's edition. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:24
  I actually managed to get the Bracer edition because I
• 25:26
  couldn't get this steel book. But then limited run later on
• 25:30
  that day came out and said, you know what, we're reallocating
• 25:32
  some stuff. And so they reopened it again.
• 25:35
  And then I got the steelbook because I really don't want the
• 25:37
  extra stuff. I just want the steelbook all.
• 25:42
  Right, my second pick, I am going to go with Silent Hill F.
• 25:54
  Knew it, son of a bitch. Good chick, Good chick.
• 25:58
  So I you know, they're they're going more of an eastern
• 26:03
  Japanese route, refocusing on the what's they're saying there
• 26:10
  is horror and beauty. I saw more game like from the
• 26:15
  gameplay trailer and I think that it's it's going to be
• 26:18
  fantastic. I mean, Konami's finally, I'm
• 26:22
  very excited just as a side tangent, sort of that Bluebird
• 26:26
  team, which they will be releasing Kronos this year are
• 26:30
  now charged with remaking the original Silent Hill.
• 26:33
  So I think that's a. Sign of good.
• 26:36
  Things. Yeah, that's an interesting take
• 26:42
  on. Silent Hill I.
• 26:45
  Wonder how that's. Going to pan out if people are
• 26:48
  going to kind of accept that or not, but it it's interesting,
• 26:54
  yeah. Yeah, there's a risk there.
• 26:56
  But, well, that we'll see. I'm a I'm a risk taker at least.
• 27:02
  It's different though. Right.
• 27:03
  I mean, I give them credit for trying something different with
• 27:05
  that franchise cause it's kind of been not the same, but it's
• 27:08
  been very similar, right. So in terms of oh, haunted house
• 27:13
  style time loop thing, yeah. They got they got the remake.
• 27:19
  Out of the way, right? And so Yep.
• 27:24
  Exactly. I'm a I'm a big blueber
• 27:28
  believer. So blue.
• 27:31
  Believer. Who do you believe in?
• 27:33
  Pat, I believe in you, Pat, you know.
• 27:38
  You'll believe in me. OK, well I'm probably stealing
• 27:41
  one that was on Corey's list then.
• 27:43
  Uh oh, the. Outer Worlds.
• 27:48
  Two I. Don't care about that game that
• 27:51
  was. Not that that.
• 27:52
  Was not on Corey's list, really. It was not.
• 27:56
  On Corey's list. I don't I don't like outer.
• 27:58
  Worlds. I think that was on the Ron.
• 28:00
  'S list that was on my. List.
• 28:03
  That's scary. Says cities.
• 28:05
  Like I watched the Obsidian like, showcase afterwards say,
• 28:08
  yeah, this is like, this is their magnum opus right now.
• 28:14
  Is how they're considering it. Yeah.
• 28:18
  Yeah, I'm, I'm. Not saying I don't appreciate
• 28:20
  what Obsidian does. Plus it's going to be 80 bucks.
• 28:23
  So that means it's got to be quality, triple, quadruple a
• 28:27
  quality, yes. Anyways, you were saying I
• 28:33
  think. I, I was just going to say I, I
• 28:35
  think the game is actually going to be pretty good.
• 28:37
  I just I don't really care for the Oblivion, Skyrim avowed
• 28:42
  styled RPGs. So.
• 28:47
  Look, if they made nicely Republic 3, sign me up, but
• 28:51
  that's. What I'm saying?
• 28:55
  Well, I think. That's an excellent.
• 28:57
  Pick and good. Pick Pat A good pick Pat Pat's.
• 29:02
  Pick. Patrick's perfect.
• 29:05
  Picks. There you go.
• 29:10
  Lauren, what's going to be your perfect pick #3 Ninja Gaiden?
• 29:14
  40 I was going to go with that next.
• 29:17
  OK, fair. Ninja Gaiden 4.
• 29:22
  Man. That's and 20 fives look like.
• 29:24
  A Goodyear right here I am. Thinking, oh, backlog year.
• 29:30
  No, you mean more. Games to the backlog Exactly.
• 29:36
  All right, Yeah, that one I. Think is a fallish fall.
• 29:40
  Fall release. Let's see.
• 29:42
  I think it's September. I think it's September.
• 29:45
  Because Xbox is this October. 20th Yeah.
• 29:50
  October 20. 4th. First they're they're releasing.
• 29:53
  Like 7 or 8 games within six weeks of each other, which is
• 29:57
  like really questionable, but also it's.
• 30:01
  Xbox, so who knows. I don't know, La Ron.
• 30:04
  Are you sure? You don't want to take Garfield
• 30:05
  cart 2 all you can drift I I. Was really torn.
• 30:09
  On that one actually, because I, I feel like, I feel like racing
• 30:14
  games always get like some really high scores, but you know
• 30:17
  what, not this time. I'm like wild.
• 30:20
  Card it with Ninja Gaiden 4. All right, Catquest.
• 30:25
  Almost got there. Too.
• 30:29
  All right, Corey, will you? Be taking that Garfield Racer 2
• 30:33
  game. Sadly, I will not be.
• 30:37
  I will be sticking with the ninja theme though and I will be
• 30:41
  taking. I will be taking.
• 30:45
  Shinobi art of Vengeance for the dot in.
• 30:49
  Emu. OK.
• 30:53
  Yeah, this is the year of the. Ninja Man, I know people who
• 30:58
  have. Played it the.
• 30:59
  Game off my list. I know.
• 31:01
  I know people who have. Played it and they said it was
• 31:04
  great and I'm like, I believe you.
• 31:06
  So I'm going to take it. Take it he shall.
• 31:14
  I'm curious to see if. Anyone's going to go for
• 31:17
  Borderlands 4? You know what?
• 31:20
  I'm hearing some. Pretty good things from the
• 31:23
  preview. Yeah, I am too.
• 31:25
  Aside. From Randy's random terrible
• 31:28
  tweet. Oh.
• 31:33
  Randy. Randy Pitchford.
• 31:35
  All. Right, but stuff it's still open
• 31:38
  for. You.
• 31:39
  Oh, shoot. Oh.
• 31:40
  Shoot. Yeah, yeah, you shot.
• 31:43
  It out, you might as well take it right now No, I'm.
• 31:46
  Good. I'm actually going to stick on
• 31:49
  stick on the horror theme train. Whatever.
• 31:52
  I'm going to pick Blue Bears game Kronos, The New Dawn.
• 31:56
  It's releasing fall 2025. That's pretty solid.
• 32:01
  The whole enemy's merging. Together to make mega enemies is
• 32:05
  kind of creepy. All right, I don't.
• 32:11
  Know a lot of the good games are getting scooped up, Pat, what
• 32:14
  are you going to do? You know what I'm going to.
• 32:17
  Go kind of horror, but definitely Indy.
• 32:23
  Give me Mina the Howler. Yes, MENA, the.
• 32:27
  Hollower I'm going to support. Our friends over at Yacht Club
• 32:34
  and say. They're going to make a.
• 32:35
  Fine ass game, damn it, Pat. Yes, snooze, you howl.
• 32:49
  My gosh, I got, you know. I keep.
• 32:51
  I know that was a big, big reveal.
• 32:54
  Finally we have a date for that. It was, you know, that I know
• 32:57
  they've been working on it for such a long time, so.
• 33:02
  Yeah, they get to. Introduce it on the mainstage
• 33:05
  there that's. Aw man, did I chase.
• 33:09
  Corey away. I'm sorry.
• 33:11
  Oh. No, no, I'm plugging.
• 33:14
  I'm plugging something in that came unplugged all right.
• 33:17
  Definitely. Real.
• 33:18
  Real, real quickly for my next. Pick just just recap real fast
• 33:21
  what what's been picked so far. Yeah, sure.
• 33:23
  I was going to ask if are. We just are we doing 4 each or
• 33:28
  shit. Yeah, how many are we?
• 33:29
  Doing I, I was under the. Impression we were doing 7 so we
• 33:33
  could get to 10 games we'll. Probably do.
• 33:37
  One more round, so maybe to be safe we'll do 5 each maybe. 4
• 33:47
  Well, let's think about it, but. Just to recap, La Ron your Round
• 33:51
  2 picks have been Final Fantasy Tactics, I release Chronicles,
• 33:54
  Metal Gear Solid, Delta, Snake Eater, Ninja Gaiden 4, Corey
• 33:58
  your 3 picks, Donkey Kong, Bonanza, Trails from the Sky,
• 34:02
  Shinobi, Art of Vengeance. My 3 is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
• 34:05
  and 4, Silent Hill F Chronos The New Dawn, and Pat.
• 34:08
  Your 3 is or are Pokémon Legends, yay Outer Worlds 2 and
• 34:14
  Mina the Hollower. OK.
• 34:19
  All right. So for my next Vic, because
• 34:24
  Corey, because Corey stole what I feel is like the companion
• 34:27
  game to it. Oh, you're fine.
• 34:30
  Ninja died Rage. Bound.
• 34:35
  On with the ninja. Guidance, yeah.
• 34:37
  Ninjas. Well, no, no, I've.
• 34:40
  Seen I've seen a lot of behind the scenes stuff on rage bound
• 34:43
  actually ragebound and shinobi both like, you know, like I've
• 34:46
  seen a lot behind the scenes on it.
• 34:48
  I was like hell yeah, but they're this is this is like
• 34:51
  nostalgia heaven, you know, for these two dot emu games.
• 35:01
  OK, OK. Corey, your turn for pick #4.
• 35:09
  All right. I'm going to pick a safe.
• 35:10
  One, because I feel like it's going to score relatively well.
• 35:16
  It's too early to feel safe. It's not too early to feel safe.
• 35:20
  Guess guess what video game I. Got that line from.
• 35:25
  I don't know. Something we know.
• 35:27
  We. Monster Hunter.
• 35:29
  Buying a commando just keep coming back.
• 35:35
  Every week I'm going to pick. Jeez, I'm going to pick Gears of
• 35:41
  War Reloaded. Damn man, that was on my.
• 35:44
  List. One of the greatest.
• 35:48
  Games of all time coming back OK.
• 35:51
  I don't even PlayStation phonies can play it.
• 35:55
  I need to look for a pinhole. Camera.
• 35:56
  Because like you guys keep. Snatching games off my list like
• 36:00
  sums up well. Better pick them.
• 36:02
  Sums up I. Hate you all, hey?
• 36:06
  Hey, hey, hey, Stephanie's like I haven't.
• 36:10
  Done this Stephanie's like I have not stolen a single game
• 36:13
  from you this entire year like. Stephanie's like.
• 36:20
  Like keep your name, keep my name out your mouth.
• 36:25
  Oh man. What is it with me in like
• 36:30
  horror At this point? I'm just picking games that I
• 36:32
  like and not what actually might get me to win this year because
• 36:35
  I don't think I'm going to win this year.
• 36:36
  And I'm going with my my buds over at Toge for Whisper
• 36:41
  Mountain Outbreak. Whoa.
• 36:46
  Releasing. In August.
• 36:48
  OK, so. It's so cool is a Co-op I think
• 36:52
  you can play with up to four friends and it's literally like
• 36:56
  a pix pixelated easternized Resident Evil type game.
• 37:01
  OK, you. Shoot, you kill.
• 37:03
  Monsters and you solve Resident Evil style puzzles.
• 37:06
  I mean OK, come on. I played with Pat and it was a
• 37:09
  lot of fun and I was like, it was awesome a while ago too, so
• 37:13
  I can't even imagine how much more complete it is.
• 37:21
  Anyway, stuff. All right, all right.
• 37:25
  Patrick. Are you doing AAA or Indy?
• 37:30
  And this is our last. Choice No.
• 37:33
  We're going to go another. Round.
• 37:34
  We got one more round. Oh sweet.
• 37:35
  OK. OK.
• 37:37
  All right. Shoot.
• 37:44
  OK, OK. What do we want?
• 37:46
  What do we want? There's so many to pick from.
• 37:48
  Oh crap. Oh crap.
• 37:58
  Why? Are there so many?
• 38:00
  Still left, but. Which ones will give you?
• 38:07
  The score you need to win. Do we go bold?
• 38:18
  Do we attempt fate? Do we?
• 38:20
  Yeah. Jurassic World Evolution Fate 3.
• 38:25
  Not that tempting of. Fate.
• 38:30
  I mean, part of me, kind of. Wants to maybe go with Silk song
• 38:33
  talk. About swinging for the fences.
• 38:37
  Talk about swinging. Hey, it's guaranteed to come.
• 38:40
  Out before the ROG, Xbox Ally X. What a name.
• 38:45
  And that's supposed to be this year, right?
• 38:48
  Supposedly. Yeah.
• 38:52
  No price yet. No fresh yet, 1000.
• 38:56
  Dollars. Then there's.
• 38:58
  A game that I would kill myself if I don't ever add it to my
• 39:01
  list. But I don't think any of you are
• 39:02
  going to grab it so I think that would say for now.
• 39:05
  Side note like. You don't have to stop at 5:00.
• 39:08
  If we feel like there's still a ton of choices left, we can go
• 39:11
  another round. I mean there's no hard and fast
• 39:13
  roll, I just figured 5 would be a safe check in.
• 39:19
  Mm Hmm. All right, let us.
• 39:21
  Go with Silk Song will this year.
• 39:29
  Be the year of. Will this be the?
• 39:33
  Will this be the year of the bug?
• 39:35
  I hope all 12. Of you are excited for that game
• 39:37
  to come out. Stop.
• 39:40
  We're going to get like 1. Star reviews.
• 39:43
  It's fine. Good.
• 39:45
  The Silksong. People and the Eldon Ring people
• 39:47
  can all go hang out together that game.
• 39:49
  Is too damn that anyone who gives it less than a 9.5 is
• 39:53
  going to get destroyed by the online group.
• 39:58
  True. Probably.
• 40:00
  I wish I was all right. I wish I was now.
• 40:06
  We're on our the mirrors. Edge people know how they.
• 40:08
  Feel I should have. Gone with that one.
• 40:10
  Well, it's cool. Hey, hey.
• 40:12
  At least no one. Picked mine's eye.
• 40:17
  You know the sad. Part is like I, I, I was, I, I
• 40:20
  planned on picking it. I I dodged a serious bullet.
• 40:24
  Do you see over 100 people from? That studio are getting laid
• 40:27
  off. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:30
  I would say that would be. Almost the instant one or just
• 40:33
  of how low that's Metacritic score got.
• 40:36
  Like I have never seen something that low before the it's pretty
• 40:41
  bad. Xbox.
• 40:44
  Well, I want to talk. I want.
• 40:45
  To talk about like, like that, you know, I want to talk about
• 40:50
  that, but, you know, it's, it's it's all good.
• 40:51
  We can save for another week. Yeah, but.
• 40:54
  Write it down so we don't forget.
• 40:56
  Oh yeah, it's it's down. Good.
• 40:59
  All right, well, give. Us a game that's not going to go
• 41:02
  down and it's a Metacritic score Leron for pick #5 I'm.
• 41:07
  Going to, I'm going to, I'm going to take it.
• 41:09
  Borderlands 4, I'm going to take it all right.
• 41:14
  I am actually kind of. Hyped for that game, but it's
• 41:17
  also coming out at a very horrible time in game history.
• 41:21
  Well, in game futures, everything comes out in
• 41:25
  September, yeah. Everything comes out in
• 41:29
  September. But at the same time, like, you
• 41:31
  know, some of it is like I feel like I'm not saying he's not
• 41:36
  saying he's game based off the list I'm looking at here from,
• 41:39
  from, from Game Informer. Like a lot of these are good,
• 41:41
  like, but I feel like I feel like a lot of them are niche
• 41:45
  enough that Borderlands may stand a chance.
• 41:47
  But but that also being said, like, you know, like Silent Hill
• 41:51
  F in September might be the dark horse.
• 41:54
  Yeah. Maybe.
• 41:59
  But so could Garfield. Part 2, September 10th There's
• 42:03
  also another there's. Also another game in September
• 42:06
  that I think, I think I may if we go another round or two.
• 42:09
  I may, I may, I may snap it up too.
• 42:12
  Is it the one on order? Is it?
• 42:14
  Shooting order. It's baby.
• 42:16
  Steps. Stop it.
• 42:19
  All right. Well, let's see what Corey.
• 42:21
  Has to pick because he said it might be that.
• 42:22
  What are you going to pick, Corey?
• 42:25
  A game. That I'm.
• 42:26
  Extremely excited about that. Nobody is really talking about
• 42:30
  Destiny. No, no, that comes out in like 3
• 42:34
  weeks. According to the.
• 42:36
  List. I have Renegades, it's supposed
• 42:38
  to be out December. Yeah, I know not.
• 42:41
  Nobody cares about that. Everybody's golf hot.
• 42:44
  Shots, that's exactly. What I'm picking, Oh, that's
• 42:49
  that's not my. Pick.
• 42:50
  You're safe. I'm picking it.
• 42:52
  I'm very excited. For that and it's coming to
• 42:54
  switch, which is awesome very excited it's.
• 42:58
  Going to be 10 times better. Than Mario Golf.
• 43:01
  Oh, what a disaster that was. But you.
• 43:04
  Got to run at your. Ball, I remember when Stephanie
• 43:10
  myself and was it Dan or yeah, I think it was Dan.
• 43:16
  Yeah, it was Dan. It was Dan.
• 43:18
  It was. Dan or David where?
• 43:19
  We all played that when it came out.
• 43:21
  Yeah, that was not bad. Good with friends.
• 43:26
  We. We need to press C to chat
• 43:27
  someday with like Mario Kart or Mario Party Anyway, yeah.
• 43:32
  I'm surprised. No one's picked Dragon Drive
• 43:35
  yet, but that will not be my pick for #5.
• 43:39
  I'm going to pick sword. Of the Sea from the makers of.
• 43:47
  That's that's. Dangerous.
• 43:49
  Yeah. Why?
• 43:51
  Is it dangerous? Because.
• 43:53
  Everybody's going to compare it to Journey exactly.
• 43:56
  It's not going to be. Journey and people are going to
• 43:57
  be. Very disappointed that it's not
• 43:59
  Journey. Even if it was good, this
• 44:01
  journey was a masterpiece. It was.
• 44:04
  You're right, it was. The team that did ABSU?
• 44:07
  And the pathless, right? Yeah, yeah, the.
• 44:09
  Pathless is good. Pathless I I I wish I had a
• 44:17
  similar opinion of Journey as everybody else I guess.
• 44:21
  You know I had a unique. Experience with journey and I
• 44:24
  think that's what made it better for me was just kind of at the
• 44:28
  end, not knowing who I was with, but we were both like walking up
• 44:32
  that mountain, like close together during the snowstorm.
• 44:35
  It just like it meant something, you know, we were struggling
• 44:39
  together. I don't know.
• 44:41
  I didn't. Get that far?
• 44:42
  I stopped playing. The game was.
• 44:46
  I I was so bored playing the journey.
• 44:49
  Nobody likes a quitter. Corey, that's fine.
• 44:52
  Nobody likes me, so whoa, hey. Now everybody loves Corey.
• 44:58
  We're. Not going to acknowledge that.
• 44:59
  Negativity, Pat, give us game #5 everybody loves me.
• 45:03
  OK, she's where I was going. Thank you all.
• 45:06
  Right, I'm going to pick the game that I want because this is
• 45:12
  this might be my game of the year.
• 45:14
  So we'll see how it works out because it sure as hell it was
• 45:18
  game of the year for me back when it came out three years
• 45:21
  ago. Power Wash Simulator 2 All
• 45:25
  right. When's that coming out again?
• 45:30
  Sometime this year, they said late 2025, OK.
• 45:35
  That game's gonna be crack. All right, guys, Do you think
• 45:41
  we. Have potential picks for for one
• 45:44
  more round? Yeah, I do.
• 45:47
  Yeah. All right.
• 45:48
  Let's keep going. Then Laurent, what's number six?
• 45:55
  I think I. Don't know, I think I'm.
• 45:57
  I've been going pretty hard on these, haven't I?
• 46:01
  Well, yeah, so why don't you take a load?
• 46:02
  Off and go for Tales of the Shire.
• 46:08
  Oh. Snuff kid Melody.
• 46:11
  Of Moom in the valley. Oh, come on.
• 46:15
  Or go the Nintendo. Route and get dragon drift or
• 46:19
  whatever it is. Drag X.
• 46:22
  Dragon Drive. Dragon Drive.
• 46:26
  Thank. You.
• 46:27
  Actually. I am going to go the.
• 46:29
  Nintendo Route those Nintendo Nostalgia Dragon Class 1 and 2
• 46:33
  HD two HD 2D remake. Good.
• 46:37
  Choice. Good choice, good choice one.
• 46:41
  And two. OK, well, I.
• 46:46
  Can't type? OK, there are a lot of games.
• 46:51
  Here. Yeah, that could.
• 46:53
  Definitely. Go either way.
• 46:55
  Yeah, I think. Do I go with?
• 47:08
  The. Game that I will at least be.
• 47:10
  Mediocre. Or do I take a a swing?
• 47:15
  You could always be taking a swing.
• 47:19
  You know what I'm? Going to swing.
• 47:20
  I'm going to take a swing. This game comes out on July
• 47:23
  24th. Wu, Chang Fallen.
• 47:26
  Feathers. Oh, I was going.
• 47:28
  To pick that you poop head. Oh, I'm your favorite.
• 47:38
  Now I need to scramble and pick more.
• 47:40
  Oh no, but yes, that one is. So is that the one that's like
• 47:46
  you said, could either be like could either kill it or fall
• 47:49
  flat? Yeah, I think it's going to.
• 47:52
  I think it's either going to be like less than mediocre, not
• 47:56
  bad, but just you know, or amazing I feel.
• 48:01
  Like it's going to go either. Way although it's on game pass
• 48:04
  and Xbox is backing it so I'm going the former because they
• 48:07
  seem to like. Really try to.
• 48:11
  Pick a game that they think is going to be good and they only
• 48:13
  hit on one out of every like 5 and they already hit on one this
• 48:17
  year with expedition 33 so. It's fine.
• 48:21
  We're going to win. All right.
• 48:24
  Well, game looks cool, though. I have to scramble.
• 48:29
  And I'm not going with stories to see Story of Season's Grand
• 48:33
  Bazaar, but instead I will go for Mafia, the Old Country.
• 48:39
  That was the one I was I. Would have picked instead of
• 48:42
  Wuchang fallen feathers. Yeah, that was the other one was
• 48:45
  debating. That one.
• 48:47
  Won't I? I was.
• 48:48
  Eyeballing yet only. $50 Well, I mean it looks.
• 48:54
  Like it could be great. But I know.
• 48:57
  But yeah, I'm. Not sure honestly how big the
• 48:59
  reception will be. I can.
• 49:00
  I can only have faith so. I think there's a lot of
• 49:04
  positivity. Around that game right now, I
• 49:07
  think people think it looks interesting and looks cool The.
• 49:11
  Only thing that scares. Me is that this is also a team
• 49:14
  that did Mafia 3 and well, I didn't have a problem with Mafia
• 49:18
  3, the rest of the media world did so.
• 49:25
  I think I mafia 3. Was pretty good.
• 49:27
  I liked Mafia 3, but what do we know Pat?
• 49:33
  Apparently we're we don't have. Bad taste in games.
• 49:38
  It's fair. Disney Dream Light Valley best
• 49:42
  game game here. What's going to carry?
• 49:45
  You to #6. Shoot, that's.
• 49:50
  Right. OK.
• 49:50
  Is it wheel world? It could be.
• 49:55
  It could be. But I might choose.
• 50:01
  I might choose something I wouldn't normally go for.
• 50:06
  But I think it's probably going to do.
• 50:08
  Good, let's go with Digimon. Digimon, that game looks good.
• 50:20
  That game looks good. Nice.
• 50:24
  All right, all right, so here are my thoughts.
• 50:30
  And you guys can overrule me, but we've got 6.
• 50:33
  I think we can talk audibles in a second.
• 50:36
  And then maybe towards the, you know, end of the summer, we can
• 50:43
  maybe do like a bonus one or two more for any Winter Games
• 50:48
  because I know December looks pretty stark, so and games Com's
• 50:52
  coming up. And I know that they're going to
• 50:55
  be. I know Xbox doesn't have a big
• 50:57
  presence there and they usually announce one or two things
• 50:59
  there, not big things. But I.
• 51:03
  Know no, there's there's still more.
• 51:04
  Games that need to be announced, or at least some that are also
• 51:07
  sitting on the IT could fall this year or next year.
• 51:11
  Exactly. For example, I saw a game.
• 51:14
  I wanted to pick but Oh no Oh well.
• 51:17
  It's fine, sorry. It'll be there.
• 51:20
  Next one more. Oh, OK, well.
• 51:25
  Let's recap then. Laurent's Round 2 picks Final
• 51:30
  Fantasy tactics a release chronicles Metal Gear Solid
• 51:33
  snake eater, Ninja Gaiden 4, Ninja Gaiden, ragebound,
• 51:36
  Borderlands 4 and sorry I wrote DQ and I keep thinking Dairy
• 51:40
  Queen, Dragon Quest 12HD2D remake Dairy Queen Dairy Queen.
• 51:45
  Closes in 30. Minutes, right Ice cream cage.
• 51:50
  Cory's. Round.
• 51:52
  Cory's Round 2 is Donkey Kong Bonanza, Trails from the Sky,
• 51:55
  Shinobi Art of Engines, Gears of War Reloaded, Everybody's Golf
• 51:58
  Hotshots, and Wu Chang Fallen Feathers.
• 52:02
  Mine is a hodgepodge potpourri of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and
• 52:06
  4, Silent Hill F, Kronos New Dawn, Whisper Mountain,
• 52:09
  Outbreak, Sword of the Sea and Mafia, The Old Country.
• 52:12
  And last but certainly not least, we got Pat's perfect
• 52:16
  picks, Pokémon Legend, ZA, The Outer Worlds 2, Mina the
• 52:20
  Hollower, Silk Song, Powerwash Simulator 2, and Digimon.
• 52:24
  Something about the time stranger Digimon.
• 52:27
  Story. Time stranger.
• 52:29
  All right, that. Is entered.
• 52:32
  We just wanted to touch base on whether or not we want to call
• 52:35
  an audible on GTA6 or. We can always wait till.
• 52:39
  Round 3 and see if we want to call that audible.
• 52:45
  I'm good with either. OK.
• 52:51
  I'm still trying to decide if I want.
• 52:53
  To do it on Judas or not? Well, I.
• 52:59
  Since I chose La Ron's last year, La Ron, will you do me the
• 53:04
  honor of finding me a game for my audible?
• 53:07
  Yeah, and I'll be sporting about it.
• 53:10
  I'm not going to try. I'm not going to give you what I
• 53:12
  think is going to be an absolute stinker or something sporting.
• 53:15
  About it. Yeah, I think I'm.
• 53:17
  Going to give him an edge I. Just said I'm just not going to
• 53:19
  tank him. I'm I'm giving you I'm I'm.
• 53:22
  Oh, that's. What you did there?
• 53:24
  OK. I'm being.
• 53:30
  Let's see here. There's also gotta be something
• 53:33
  that's not on my, not on my, my my my free list.
• 53:37
  It's like I'm gonna give you something.
• 53:38
  Good, just not my good. And let's see, you already
• 53:44
  picked. Outer worlds, right?
• 53:45
  Yeah, you are. You are.
• 53:46
  Yep. Yep.
• 53:52
  Let's see. OK, let me.
• 53:53
  Just go on down this list real quickly here.
• 54:00
  Well, that was ugly the way I. Put in the chats, See I don't.
• 54:04
  Want to I don't want to give him college football 26 like college
• 54:06
  football 26 going to get going to get an OK score, you know,
• 54:09
  like it's going to get a great. Score came to gangbusters last
• 54:14
  year, yeah, but I. Don't think, I don't think
• 54:17
  they're going to be able, I don't think they're going to be
• 54:18
  able to do a do a do a justice for for the sophomore outing.
• 54:25
  Pat, I think I'm going to give you.
• 54:30
  No, not that one, no. Yeah, like.
• 54:32
  There's some dragon. Drive.
• 54:35
  There's games up here, there's games.
• 54:37
  There's a lot of games up here I don't have a lot of faith in and
• 54:39
  and I'm being, I'm being serious when I say that.
• 54:52
  Hold on, I just looked at this game.
• 54:53
  Let. Me, let me double check it real
• 54:54
  quickly and if if I think it's I think it's worth it.
• 54:58
  I think if I think it's worth it, I'll give the pat.
• 55:03
  While the Ron's thinking. Pat who do.
• 55:07
  You think should call the audible for Corey while the
• 55:09
  Ron's thinking we're just buying the Ron some time.
• 55:12
  I would give it to you, Steph. Since he chose no, you chose.
• 55:16
  His last time. Again.
• 55:18
  Yeah. So I'd give it back to you,
• 55:19
  Steph. You sure?
• 55:20
  OK. Well then I better start
• 55:22
  thinking, OK, I. Think I could find a good one.
• 55:33
  I. Think and and and pat you you
• 55:37
  can you can refuse this if you want to again Cairn.
• 55:41
  I think it's CAIAIRN the the the mountain climbing.
• 55:45
  From Telnad, yeah. I'm OK with that.
• 55:51
  I think it's still not. Yeah, no, the game.
• 55:55
  Bake the. Game.
• 55:56
  No way. Not the Game Bakers.
• 56:00
  Who were they? Never mind.
• 56:04
  Not the team I was thinking of. I thought they were the.
• 56:08
  Ones that. Did it's kind of a horror game?
• 56:12
  Never mind Haven. Fury and Squid's Odyssey, yeah.
• 56:19
  That wasn't what I was thinking of.
• 56:24
  Oh, I remember, I remember. The previous for Haven.
• 56:28
  I wonder how it did. It was all right.
• 56:30
  OK, it was interesting it it had some definitely some adult
• 56:35
  themes, definitely adult themes in that game.
• 56:43
  But Steph, if you don't have one for Corey, I do have one that I
• 56:46
  could give him. That's.
• 56:48
  Supposedly quarter 4. I.
• 56:51
  I think I have one. I, I, I, I I mean, I would have
• 56:55
  picked it if I hadn't forgotten because I, you know, just forget
• 56:59
  because all the names blend together.
• 57:01
  But before you do that. Sorry.
• 57:03
  What was the the pick again? It was Cairn, right?
• 57:06
  CAIRNCAIRN. Yeah.
• 57:10
  All right. Corey, you ready for my?
• 57:13
  Audible for you in place of Judas or are we waiting on that?
• 57:18
  Yeah, all right. I'm a little scared, but it's
• 57:21
  fine. No, I'm going to.
• 57:23
  Choose Lost Lost Soul aside for you.
• 57:29
  That's. Action adventure role-playing
• 57:32
  game by Sony's China Hero Project.
• 57:36
  I think it looks, yeah. Yeah, the game's.
• 57:38
  Been in the for. Like over a decade games, so
• 57:42
  it's. A It's an earnest pick for you,
• 57:44
  but I guess you can reject it if you want.
• 57:46
  But it will break my heart into a million pieces.
• 57:49
  No, just kidding. Just kidding.
• 57:50
  Nope. I'll.
• 57:51
  I'll. Accept it now and get mad at you
• 57:53
  later. Like a real friendship.
• 57:59
  Yeah, Corey, if I. Chose for you.
• 58:01
  The one I would have gone with was Witchbrook.
• 58:04
  Oh, that's. A good one.
• 58:06
  Yeah, well, if you want, I mean. Technically, do we want just
• 58:10
  Corey to pick between the two? No.
• 58:14
  We give him stuff. You know what that means That
• 58:18
  means. Paths can be like.
• 58:20
  Yeah, all right. See if.
• 58:21
  You. Guys, remember.
• 58:25
  About it in September, all righty.
• 58:29
  Well, there you. Go.
• 58:32
  That's. Our.
• 58:34
  OK as I. Said I do have, I do have a
• 58:35
  final pick. If we we do 7, I do have a final
• 58:38
  pick for tonight. Nah, I'd say we wait for.
• 58:41
  September and see what comes out.
• 58:45
  All right, so. Between now and September will
• 58:48
  that shit, that game that I have as a pick is good?
• 58:53
  Comes out by then. Hey Gory, don't be a sore loser.
• 58:59
  Who's losing? Not me.
• 59:04
  Yeah, don't go away mad. Just go away. 11.
• 59:11
  One. Uh oh.
• 59:14
  Anyway, all right. All right, all right.
• 59:16
  Well, that was, well, that was cool.
• 59:17
  That was fun. That was fun.
• 59:20
  We're going to go ahead and throw it to questions and right,
• 59:22
  Yeah, that's what we're doing, right?
• 59:24
  We got questions. Questions.
• 59:26
  Do we have questions? Do we have questions?
• 59:30
  If we don't have questions, we'll just throw it to.
• 59:32
  What We've been playing great. I've been playing games.
• 59:38
  I've been playing games too. I think the only one, I think
• 59:42
  the only one y'all care about is is one I've already talked, I've
• 59:45
  been talking about for weeks. So, Pat, you go first.
• 59:49
  Thank you. Thank you, sorry I had to twist
• 59:52
  your harm on that one this time. But I did something I don't
• 59:56
  normally do and I got a review code.
• 59:59
  So I would feel really bad if I if I didn't say something about
• 1:00:03
  this game with that review code. But the awesome people at Pirate
• 1:00:10
  PR gave me Ruffy and the Riverside, which comes out this
• 1:00:16
  week. But for those who are listening,
• 1:00:18
  it is out now. Well, it for those listening on
• 1:00:22
  stream right now, it comes out Thursday, so in two days.
• 1:00:29
  But those who are listening to this audibly, it's out.
• 1:00:34
  This is a indie title that is kind of like a 3D adventure
• 1:00:41
  game, almost in the same like, vein as like a Zelda, but it's
• 1:00:45
  got like, 2D sprites. Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  And this game is actually really good and has some very original
• 1:00:56
  ideas. The you play as Ruffy who is a
• 1:01:00
  very cute little bear that doesn't seem to have a nose.
• 1:01:04
  He has like 2 giant eyeballs and a big ol smile underneath.
• 1:01:07
  And then the rest of his face is covered by a hood.
• 1:01:10
  And he has a bee friend. And together they have been
• 1:01:16
  called the Chosen 1, and they're supposed to go and save
• 1:01:19
  Riverside from the dangers of Grok or.
• 1:01:24
  Grohl. Sorry, Grohl.
• 1:01:26
  I really need to write down here as.
• 1:01:28
  I say Twitter's AI is on the rampage already.
• 1:01:31
  Yep. Already, But what makes this
• 1:01:36
  game really unique and sets it apart other than it's really
• 1:01:40
  cute art style and combination of 2D sprites with 3D World is
• 1:01:45
  that Ruffy has the ability to poppy textures.
• 1:01:51
  So you use these copy abilities to solve various puzzles like
• 1:01:56
  right away in the beginning of the game, the way it teaches you
• 1:01:59
  is that you're on an island and there's a waterfall behind you
• 1:02:03
  and you grab these vines. You copy the vines and then you
• 1:02:08
  toss it onto the waterfall and it turns the waterfall into
• 1:02:11
  vines and it allows you to climb up from there.
• 1:02:15
  And so there are other, there are other puzzles that are going
• 1:02:19
  to revolve using these copy abilities, such as changing wood
• 1:02:24
  to stone or to steel or to straws for different like
• 1:02:28
  weights. Or, you know, maybe there's a
• 1:02:34
  door that has a down arrow and you need to find an up arrow and
• 1:02:37
  throw that onto the door and it opens up the door by going up.
• 1:02:42
  Or maybe you need to color code something so you have to copy a
• 1:02:48
  color from something else and throw it on to that item.
• 1:02:52
  And that would also solve a puzzle.
• 1:02:54
  And a lot of these puzzles open up collectibles, which could
• 1:02:58
  also be used to even solve more puzzles in the game or get more
• 1:03:03
  collectibles. But it's in terms of combat, it
• 1:03:06
  is a very simple one button smack bad guys.
• 1:03:10
  It's really not that difficult and probably the like secondary
• 1:03:16
  like thought about the game. The the primary focus of the
• 1:03:20
  game is definitely the swap ability.
• 1:03:22
  And like I said, never played anything like it.
• 1:03:25
  So it makes it really fresh and makes me really want to continue
• 1:03:29
  on and like solve all the puzzles on this island or on
• 1:03:35
  this like map and actually get the platinum and 100% on this
• 1:03:39
  game. But yeah, it's really cute you.
• 1:03:46
  Get to also move around. On a hay Bale, which is kind of
• 1:03:50
  fun. Like that is your vehicle of
• 1:03:52
  transportations. Jumping on a hay Bale and like
• 1:03:54
  driving around on it. It's pretty cool and the game
• 1:03:58
  also encourages you to cheat a lot like in competitions, it's
• 1:04:06
  like, hey, you know these people, they will probably win,
• 1:04:10
  so it's in your best interest to use your abilities to cheat, yo
• 1:04:15
  and then. What's?
• 1:04:16
  Been rolling on the hay Bale, is this wild?
• 1:04:19
  I know. But I thoroughly, I have
• 1:04:24
  thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game for the time I have
• 1:04:28
  put into it so far. I would say I'm about 3/4 done
• 1:04:31
  since I got it over the weekend. But I would, you know, for an
• 1:04:37
  indie game and I think it's the first game that this studio has
• 1:04:40
  ever made, it is amazing quality.
• 1:04:44
  So highly recommend people to check out Ruffy and the
• 1:04:48
  Riverside. All right.
• 1:04:51
  Nice. Other than that, I've poked.
• 1:04:55
  A little bit with Death Stranding too on the beach and
• 1:04:58
  it is the most beautiful game I've ever played really.
• 1:05:03
  Oh my. Gosh, I was.
• 1:05:04
  Watching the intro, I'm like, dude, this is these are like
• 1:05:08
  this is video, like photo video. I don't know photo realistic I
• 1:05:13
  think I guess is the term but it.
• 1:05:17
  It's that wow, it's that decimate.
• 1:05:18
  Engine man, it's the that engine man and and just the way it it
• 1:05:25
  yeah, sorry, I didn't know it's just that no, no, like really
• 1:05:29
  amazing it it freaking. Is and that is the very first
• 1:05:33
  impression I got. I am still super early, but it's
• 1:05:36
  definitely it definitely reminds me of the old Death stranding.
• 1:05:40
  Like it feels it almost feels like jumping right back into
• 1:05:43
  that game again. But luckily for you Steph,
• 1:05:48
  there's a recap so you can play the recap.
• 1:05:50
  And. It does a fairly OK job in
• 1:05:55
  describing characters and the main plot of the game, so it
• 1:06:01
  would help get you, you know, started on your journey here for
• 1:06:05
  Death Stranding 2. Oh yeah, I haven't gone.
• 1:06:07
  Too far, I haven't. Gone too far yet, so I can't
• 1:06:10
  really describe it, but it's a I'm excited to go further in
• 1:06:16
  this game. It's.
• 1:06:18
  I I hear it's Kojima. 'S best work yet.
• 1:06:21
  All right, Koji, nice to meet you right now.
• 1:06:32
  What's your next? Good games.
• 1:06:37
  Games, I mean. The only thing I've really been
• 1:06:40
  playing is Mario Kart and Expedition 33.
• 1:06:43
  Still on my new Game Plus, kind of just really trying to, I
• 1:06:49
  think we're going to try to 1K it on Xbox, OK.
• 1:06:54
  I'm going for Simon. All right, so you.
• 1:06:59
  Going for the Simon. The Simon.
• 1:07:02
  The like game's. Biggest super boss?
• 1:07:05
  Oh, sure. You need.
• 1:07:09
  You need it for. The the 100 or the 1000 then
• 1:07:16
  then yes. Take him on.
• 1:07:19
  You're going to take on the Simon.
• 1:07:22
  Him so much. Confidence.
• 1:07:25
  Yeah, I don't know anything about.
• 1:07:26
  Simon. All I know is that he scares
• 1:07:29
  people so I hope it's a tiny. Gestural.
• 1:07:32
  That's evil. That has a painted face.
• 1:07:34
  It's a MIME. Actually, I don't think it's a
• 1:07:37
  mime. Dude, the mime don't work.
• 1:07:39
  Man, I think he's. One of those guys.
• 1:07:42
  That literally has. Like 100 attacks in one one go.
• 1:07:45
  Wait, there's, there's more than.
• 1:07:47
  Like there's more than one mime I have I've I've only
• 1:07:49
  encountered one. There's like, there's like.
• 1:07:52
  A ton of them. What?
• 1:07:54
  Yeah. There's a MIME.
• 1:07:56
  For every character so you can get the baguette costumes.
• 1:08:00
  Oh OK OK OK. I think I've fought 3 of them.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, I've only fought the one which.
• 1:08:07
  Which probably means I'm I'm about to face one real soon
• 1:08:10
  here. Yeah.
• 1:08:12
  They're. Hidden.
• 1:08:13
  You have to find them, yeah. But.
• 1:08:16
  Yeah, I man, I got to tell you this game is.
• 1:08:22
  I I really don't. Remember the last time I thought
• 1:08:24
  about a game like this? Like, I mean, like, it's like
• 1:08:28
  Breath of the Wild. Like I think about this every.
• 1:08:32
  Wow. Like.
• 1:08:35
  At least once a day, I think about it like it's.
• 1:08:39
  You know. Plus I got my notification that
• 1:08:43
  my whatever that non monolith re release edition was is.
• 1:08:50
  In, in, in. Production so.
• 1:08:54
  Very cool. Yeah, I'm very excited.
• 1:08:57
  You know, so also they said they did announce that they're going
• 1:09:01
  to explore making like statues and figures and stuff of these
• 1:09:06
  of the characters. Didn't they have this thing come
• 1:09:08
  out? Without like a jewelry designing
• 1:09:11
  thing. Yeah.
• 1:09:16
  It's very expensive. They're also going to make SCA.
• 1:09:21
  Plushies which? I'm very excited for.
• 1:09:24
  They need to. Make Monaco one too.
• 1:09:26
  A Minoko? An SCA?
• 1:09:29
  Yeah. Yeah, it's you wouldn't be cool,
• 1:09:33
  Pat, if the. Ska One has a hidden feature in
• 1:09:37
  it. Yeah, you.
• 1:09:39
  Know the feature I'm talking about I.
• 1:09:42
  I sure do. I sure do, Pat.
• 1:09:46
  I have to, I have to ask you, did you?
• 1:09:49
  So without spoiling anything, did you go to the?
• 1:09:54
  Where OK. I don't know how I'm going to.
• 1:09:57
  I don't know. How I want to say this but.
• 1:09:59
  I encountered this really hilarious part if you're if
• 1:10:01
  you're about to spoil. Something I could I'm not spoil,
• 1:10:03
  I'm not going to. Spoil I just I encountered like
• 1:10:07
  maybe one of the most hilarious things in the game towards the
• 1:10:11
  end, one of the side quests. Where you.
• 1:10:18
  Go with Monaco to do something for his character quest.
• 1:10:23
  Yep, I probably played that. One and.
• 1:10:27
  The thing? He says the verse though.
• 1:10:30
  What is it when you're? About to fight?
• 1:10:31
  Enter a battle. I'm like, you know, I, I recall.
• 1:10:38
  I have to read that conversation.
• 1:10:39
  But I do remember laughing at it.
• 1:10:42
  Oh my gosh, it was Oh. My gosh, it was so funny.
• 1:10:44
  I laughed. I laughed and just so hard that
• 1:10:46
  like I forgot to fight and I had to restart.
• 1:10:53
  Seriously. Right, Laurent?
• 1:10:55
  The conversations between Verso and Minoko are like, they're
• 1:10:59
  golden. OK, those.
• 1:11:01
  Conversations are. Amazing.
• 1:11:05
  They're like best friends. So you can totally feel it in
• 1:11:08
  the conversations. I I promise.
• 1:11:10
  I will try to play something different by next week.
• 1:11:13
  I just. I don't know, this game makes
• 1:11:16
  me. Like, really?
• 1:11:19
  There's there's something about. This game that.
• 1:11:23
  Is just. Really special.
• 1:11:25
  And the more you learn about the world and what's what's going
• 1:11:29
  on, the more you know, you could lean one way or the other.
• 1:11:35
  But I think most people lean the positive way of like, man, this
• 1:11:39
  is not what I thought was going on.
• 1:11:41
  And yeah, I love it so much and like the.
• 1:11:48
  This like the. The game play like going through
• 1:11:50
  on new game plus, you start to notice things that are like you
• 1:11:55
  wouldn't have noticed if you don't know really what's going
• 1:11:58
  on, right? Like, you know, like the the the
• 1:12:04
  gestural village, like the grass.
• 1:12:07
  It is like paint bristles. And like it's.
• 1:12:11
  Just like you just start noticing all these little things
• 1:12:14
  that if I said anymore, I would probably spoils some of it.
• 1:12:17
  But like, it's so it's just a wonderful, beautiful.
• 1:12:23
  Really well put. Together game.
• 1:12:26
  I do have complaints that I mean, I do definitely have some
• 1:12:29
  complaints, right, Like I think no mini map is annoying.
• 1:12:33
  I think no quest log and no kind of like here are the
• 1:12:37
  collectibles that you have. Here are the ones you're
• 1:12:39
  missing. You know, you had like, I really
• 1:12:42
  wish they're ones that. Aren't even on the collectible
• 1:12:45
  list that pop up if you find them.
• 1:12:48
  Oh man, that was like, I was like, oh, there's only this many
• 1:12:52
  logs and then I found one that wasn't listed and it's like,
• 1:12:54
  what? Are you kidding?
• 1:12:55
  Are you kidding? Me, yeah.
• 1:12:58
  It's so I'm like I'm following a guide this time to like try to
• 1:13:02
  100% it through new game plus and I don't know, man, I'm I'm
• 1:13:07
  just. I'm just so in love with.
• 1:13:10
  This game. Like.
• 1:13:14
  If it's announced for Switch 2, I will also buy it there and
• 1:13:17
  play it again like I. Can I can say the same?
• 1:13:20
  As well, that's my feelings on it.
• 1:13:22
  That's that's currently when that's currently the game that
• 1:13:24
  I'm playing right now. Thanks to thanks to my early
• 1:13:27
  birthday present from from Stephanie, I got back into
• 1:13:30
  Tekken 8. I love that shirt.
• 1:13:32
  I love that shirt. Yeah, but yeah, like exhibition
• 1:13:35
  33, like it's I still have I'm still interested in playing the
• 1:13:39
  game like the like I'm having fun with it, you know.
• 1:13:43
  Where are you? Laurent, I'm just getting out of
• 1:13:47
  the. I'm just getting out of the
• 1:13:48
  underwater like area. Oh, OK.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, yeah. I just I, just I.
• 1:13:53
  Just had I think this is like the fourth boss fight I've had
• 1:13:57
  that's why I was asking like how many how many mines have you
• 1:13:59
  encountered? I was like, wait, I haven't seen
• 1:14:01
  AI, haven't seen a second one yet.
• 1:14:02
  Well, this, this should that's. This would be your third one in
• 1:14:06
  the in the of floating waters. There's that would probably be
• 1:14:11
  the third one you would encounter.
• 1:14:12
  Did I? Did I must have missed.
• 1:14:13
  One then, because I've only fought one MIME.
• 1:14:16
  Well, there's so. There's one in Lumiere.
• 1:14:20
  There's one. In the that kind of opening area
• 1:14:24
  when you finally get to the get to the continent.
• 1:14:28
  OK, wait, there's one in. Lumiere like the.
• 1:14:31
  Wait in the. At the beginning.
• 1:14:35
  Yeah. Yeah, it's an.
• 1:14:37
  It's an achievement. It's like when you walk down
• 1:14:39
  right before you go to the harbor.
• 1:14:40
  If you go to the right, it's in like the corner.
• 1:14:43
  Holy shit. OK.
• 1:14:44
  And. Like you get an achievement.
• 1:14:46
  It's kind of like a, it's almost like a training thing, but like
• 1:14:49
  you get a training for getting it.
• 1:14:51
  Yeah. Oh man.
• 1:14:53
  I'm guessing I'm going to start. Over La Ron.
• 1:14:59
  Huh. Yes, I'm La Ron, but I missed.
• 1:15:01
  You so I'll I'll catch you the next time I'll.
• 1:15:03
  I'll know about starting over I. I also like really find the more
• 1:15:09
  I play, the more like the characters I didn't kind of
• 1:15:13
  really use, you know, during my first playthrough.
• 1:15:16
  Like I really think Manoko is like one of the best characters
• 1:15:20
  in games. Dude he is so freaking.
• 1:15:23
  OP, you get like you diversify his skill set wherever his wheel
• 1:15:28
  lands on just decimates anything.
• 1:15:31
  Yeah, LeBron, he's pretty. Much a blue mage so you know I I
• 1:15:37
  think Minoko is awesome. I think I think CL story is like
• 1:15:42
  really tragic, actually, I I think she's you know, one of the
• 1:15:50
  heard her story arc is really fascinating.
• 1:15:53
  If you go through the entire character arc with her, you.
• 1:15:58
  Know it's. Just a lunae is very like.
• 1:16:03
  They're all really interesting. In their own ways.
• 1:16:08
  And I just I. Can't wait to do like a big
• 1:16:11
  spoiler cast on this game so. Like I'm like.
• 1:16:15
  I've been itching to talk about it with people for so long.
• 1:16:22
  Well, that's good. I'm slowly catching up.
• 1:16:27
  Yeah, I'll reach out this story and.
• 1:16:29
  See what we can maybe plan here in the next month or two.
• 1:16:34
  Yeah, I can't I kind. Of want to do it before like the
• 1:16:37
  big fall releases start hitting. But you know, I think I think
• 1:16:43
  this game is going to get a lot of views regardless of when we
• 1:16:47
  do it anyway. I think it's that popular.
• 1:16:49
  I mean, clearly it's that popular.
• 1:16:51
  It's almost July now. So let's try.
• 1:16:53
  Let's try to get it. Let's try to get it right around
• 1:16:54
  the beginning of August. Yeah, I whenever you know.
• 1:17:01
  Whenever we can, you know, I, I, you know, cuz I think there's
• 1:17:04
  definitely going to be a switch to release for this also and
• 1:17:07
  that's going to give that another bump as well.
• 1:17:11
  Plus plus they did say they're going to make extra, I think
• 1:17:14
  they're going to do more content and extra content for this game.
• 1:17:16
  I don't know exactly what they're doing, if it's DLC or
• 1:17:19
  what, but I kind of wish they would just let it go and just
• 1:17:23
  add quality of life things to it.
• 1:17:24
  Honestly. I actually think the Adventures
• 1:17:27
  of Manoko and. His little friend.
• 1:17:33
  I I. Actually think adding Oh we need
• 1:17:35
  DLC and. Manoko journeys together.
• 1:17:39
  I mean, they're adventures, sure, but I actually think.
• 1:17:45
  Why? Do I have a thumbs down?
• 1:17:46
  On my thing I actually think adding DLC to this game would
• 1:17:51
  probably not do I don't know I think it would ruin the
• 1:17:56
  experience in my opinion. I think if they add quality of
• 1:18:00
  life things like a mini map and and you know like a checklist of
• 1:18:03
  collectibles and you know quest log and things like that this
• 1:18:08
  game would be pretty pretty perfect.
• 1:18:12
  I think the combat is exceptional.
• 1:18:16
  I. I think.
• 1:18:17
  I think. The pairing stuff and, and the
• 1:18:19
  dodging, you know, and then that second pair you end up learning
• 1:18:22
  like a third of the way through the game is really, you know,
• 1:18:26
  it's exceptional. I think if they did DL.
• 1:18:31
  CI wouldn't do anything that touches the main story.
• 1:18:35
  I would keep it strictly something side related.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah, like nothing. That I I think how they did the
• 1:18:44
  story was. Perfect.
• 1:18:45
  Like I'd be even OK if they don't ever touch this world ever
• 1:18:49
  again. Like it's that good.
• 1:18:53
  Yeah. So if they do anything with the
• 1:18:54
  story, it needs to be or any side stuff, it needs to be
• 1:18:59
  completely separate from the story.
• 1:19:02
  Yeah, I almost. Think it I almost think if they
• 1:19:04
  did any DLC it should be about another X like a earlier
• 1:19:08
  expedition like. Maybe.
• 1:19:11
  Maybe the? Expedition that, you know, kind
• 1:19:14
  of Expedition 60. I'll just say that if you're
• 1:19:19
  familiar with a lot of the story, like I, I think that
• 1:19:22
  would be an interesting one to end on or to do DLC on.
• 1:19:27
  Yeah. Well, this was.
• 1:19:29
  This is the the expedition that made it the furthest.
• 1:19:34
  Before them. Essentially, they're the
• 1:19:38
  expedition that kind of figured out what was going on, you know?
• 1:19:44
  Like this What? 20 something years before this
• 1:19:47
  one so. Yeah, I don't know if they did.
• 1:19:51
  It that would be the one I would say do DLC on, but again if they
• 1:19:55
  never touched this game in terms of DLC I would be fine.
• 1:20:00
  So maybe they could do it on the one that.
• 1:20:02
  Just killed themselves on mushrooms.
• 1:20:08
  Jeez, on that note, be like, they'd be like, hey.
• 1:20:11
  Let's go on this fantastic journey.
• 1:20:13
  Oh look, there's some mushrooms. The end.
• 1:20:15
  Jeez. Anyways, sorry, Lauren, I didn't
• 1:20:21
  mean to cut you off. I don't know.
• 1:20:22
  No, that's fine. It's, it's totally fine.
• 1:20:24
  Yeah, ultimately, like, yeah, like I'm just, I'm plowing my
• 1:20:29
  way well, not playing my way through.
• 1:20:30
  I'm I'm, I'm trudging along in it and stuff like that.
• 1:20:32
  But I'm having a lot of fun. Like I I'm finally getting used
• 1:20:35
  to the parry mechanics and all that stuff like that.
• 1:20:36
  Like, like, because I'm one of those people.
• 1:20:38
  I'm I'm, I'm like, you know what?
• 1:20:40
  I want that counter hit. So like, I'm like, I'm like,
• 1:20:43
  I'll take the freaking hit just as long as I can learn the
• 1:20:45
  parry. Yeah, I mean if you.
• 1:20:48
  If you find the right pictos to pair with those parries, Leron
• 1:20:52
  man, you can do some. I'm serious damage from damage
• 1:20:58
  to heels. To building up your AP, like,
• 1:21:02
  yeah, there's some good pictos in that game, yeah.
• 1:21:07
  Yeah, that's, yeah, that's it for.
• 1:21:08
  Now I'm just waiting on the on the next Capcom Spotlight to see
• 1:21:12
  what's going on with Monster Hunter Wilds, and then I'll
• 1:21:15
  probably be back on Monster Hunter.
• 1:21:17
  Nice. Sad.
• 1:21:17
  Like, when is that? That's supposed to be this week,
• 1:21:21
  right? Yeah, the 26th.
• 1:21:23
  So this Thursday. This Thursday, Yeah.
• 1:21:28
  And hope and. Hopefully they're doing more
• 1:21:30
  work to fix the PC version of the game.
• 1:21:35
  Let's hope for the Ron's sake. Yeah, well, I mean.
• 1:21:39
  I'm playing the game regardless. Like, like, you know, it's, it's
• 1:21:42
  really, it's really bad that the game has got the basically like
• 1:21:47
  the game has gotten like overwhelmingly negative review
• 1:21:51
  scores right now and on, on on Steam.
• 1:21:53
  And, and you know what it's, it's, it's justified, you know,
• 1:21:56
  because of the fact that it was so poorly optimized for, for PC.
• 1:21:59
  Like, you know, like the like the best, the best place to play
• 1:22:02
  that is PS5 Pro right now, you know, And yeah, so like I'm
• 1:22:08
  enjoying. The game you know.
• 1:22:09
  Like I, I'm, I'm, I'm PC Gamer, so you know, like I, I've
• 1:22:14
  learned a long time ago that console ports are always going
• 1:22:16
  to play crazy and then you throw the nouveau in it like it's
• 1:22:19
  going to make it even worse. Yeah, that's sad, I thought.
• 1:22:25
  I I. I really thought that that game
• 1:22:28
  was like, I thought people really loved that game.
• 1:22:31
  Well, no for. The most part, for the most
• 1:22:34
  part, the Monster Hunter gamers love the game.
• 1:22:37
  I mean, if you look outside of like the like the PC performance
• 1:22:40
  and well, the PC and the Xbox series performance and so like
• 1:22:43
  that, the the only one thing, the only thing that people are
• 1:22:46
  saying that's really bad about it, you know, that's that's kind
• 1:22:49
  of not true. This is the lack of content like
• 1:22:51
  a it's. It's.
• 1:22:54
  Weird, and I feel like I need to like to just sit down and make a
• 1:22:57
  video and address some of the stuff myself on my own channel.
• 1:23:00
  But ultimately, like, you know, everyone spoiled off of like,
• 1:23:02
  you know, like all the content that we got Monster Hunter world
• 1:23:05
  and Monster Hunter rise and so like that, you know, like a lot
• 1:23:08
  of people, a lot of people got into the Monster Hunter train
• 1:23:10
  like when they when when world and rise had all this content
• 1:23:14
  out. So you know, like like even like
• 1:23:16
  for example, like, you know, like I'm not talking bad about
• 1:23:19
  my boy Andre and stuff like that, but he stopped playing.
• 1:23:21
  He stopped playing Wilds, you know, and he's like, he's like,
• 1:23:25
  man, it just feels like there's nothing there.
• 1:23:26
  I was like, no, man, I got you into the game when like the game
• 1:23:29
  was complete, you know, like, like I've been playing this game
• 1:23:34
  since 2004, man. Like back when you know, like we
• 1:23:36
  had to, we got the trickle content and stuff like that.
• 1:23:39
  You know, of course it gets fun, you know, when once you have all
• 1:23:42
  the content there, you have all this variety and all this stuff
• 1:23:44
  you can do. And but you know, every monster
• 1:23:46
  game goes through this. And so it's like really wild
• 1:23:49
  that you know that people turn around.
• 1:23:50
  Wild. It's, it's, it's crazy that
• 1:23:52
  people turn around and, you know, say there's no content for
• 1:23:54
  the game and let the game's only been out for at this point four
• 1:23:57
  months. It's like the world's.
• 1:24:01
  Rising against wild. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:05
  Oh well. High.
• 1:24:05
  Track. Yeah, but.
• 1:24:07
  But yeah, like us, us PC gamers, you know, like we, we, we could
• 1:24:11
  be doing better, you know, like, but, you know, but honestly.
• 1:24:15
  Like. The game The game is nowhere
• 1:24:17
  close to unplayable for me. Like I I can tell you what an
• 1:24:20
  unplayable game is like. Mass Effect Andromeda was
• 1:24:23
  unplayable for me when it first launched.
• 1:24:24
  This is nowhere close to This is nowhere close to Mass Effect
• 1:24:27
  Andromeda launch. Just wait six months, it'll be
• 1:24:33
  good. Well, they got two more.
• 1:24:36
  Well, what you mean 6? Months from now, or six months
• 1:24:38
  total. I don't know.
• 1:24:40
  That's when I that's when I played Andromeda and it was
• 1:24:42
  good. So.
• 1:24:46
  Oh boy, Stephanie, please go before I before I start yelling
• 1:24:48
  at him. No, it's nice.
• 1:24:50
  It's nice to hear all this. I'm going to be honest with you,
• 1:24:52
  I just want to because usually we kind of have to speed through
• 1:24:55
  what we've been playing. So it's nice to kind of hear
• 1:24:59
  kind of what keeps us going. The first I just want to quickly
• 1:25:03
  talk about a show. It's.
• 1:25:06
  The Last of Us season. Two, I finally finished it.
• 1:25:08
  Did anyone else watch the season?
• 1:25:11
  Yeah, I finished I. Finished.
• 1:25:12
  What's your overall? Thought played the game.
• 1:25:17
  My overall thought on on. Season 2 OK, so.
• 1:25:21
  I liked it overall. I.
• 1:25:22
  Feel like there are some things they could have done better in
• 1:25:24
  the season, but honestly, and, and I just, and I think I, I was
• 1:25:29
  telling a friend about this like like, whereas I played the
• 1:25:32
  complete game for, for, for the Last of Us Part 1 and then watch
• 1:25:38
  the show. Like this time I watch the show.
• 1:25:40
  I haven't even played The Last of Us Part 2 yet.
• 1:25:44
  So, so and, and my thing is like, I just want to go ahead
• 1:25:48
  and deconstruct it as I play the game and stuff like that, you
• 1:25:51
  know, and just see how things are.
• 1:25:52
  I do know there are some differences, you know, here
• 1:25:55
  there between like what, what happened to Season 2 versus
• 1:25:57
  Lasso's Part 2 and so like that, but but not honestly, I feel
• 1:26:00
  like, you know, not knowing anything.
• 1:26:02
  Well, I can't say not knowing anything about it, but not
• 1:26:06
  knowing the actual storyline of the game actually gave me a
• 1:26:10
  pretty good appreciation for season 2 so far.
• 1:26:14
  And I am and I, and I do want to see what they do with season 3.
• 1:26:17
  You know when that, when that happens, right?
• 1:26:20
  I I. I so I didn't think.
• 1:26:21
  Baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:23
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've, I've seen, I've seen gameplay of that
• 1:26:27
  boss. I'm like, what the hell, you
• 1:26:28
  know, So I'm wondering if they're going to do that, you
• 1:26:29
  know, they have to do if they don't do rat.
• 1:26:33
  King, that show's dead right. Yeah, they tease.
• 1:26:35
  They. Teased it.
• 1:26:37
  Well, not teased it one thing I. Know for sure is.
• 1:26:39
  That, yeah. One thing I know for sure is
• 1:26:42
  that the attack on Jackson that happened in the in the in the
• 1:26:45
  series did not happen in the game.
• 1:26:48
  That is correct. Yeah, so.
• 1:26:51
  Neil Druckman. Kind of hinted that the third
• 1:26:55
  season is going to focus a lot, Abby.
• 1:26:57
  Abby. Abby, yeah.
• 1:27:00
  Which kind of makes sense because like you basically, if
• 1:27:02
  I, if I'm not mistaken, like you play half the game as, as Ellie
• 1:27:06
  and the second-half of the game is Abby.
• 1:27:07
  Yeah. It.
• 1:27:09
  Yeah, and. Then and then it and.
• 1:27:11
  Then it, and then it epilogues and it epilogues back to Ellie,
• 1:27:14
  and then you see the resolution to the whole thing.
• 1:27:18
  More or less also correct. Yeah.
• 1:27:19
  So I, I think that's a good thing because if you don't have
• 1:27:24
  that history, you, you don't really, I don't know, you don't.
• 1:27:28
  That's the I think that was the magic behind the The Last of Us
• 1:27:30
  Part 2 game is that it really messed with your head by getting
• 1:27:34
  you to side with one of the characters and then flip flop to
• 1:27:38
  the other and it's just brutal. Gut.
• 1:27:42
  Punches over and over again. So I might have still preferred
• 1:27:48
  season 1 a little bit better, but it's just a personal
• 1:27:50
  preference. It really bothered me that Bella
• 1:27:53
  Ramsey got so much crap. Not just crap hate, I'll admit.
• 1:27:58
  Like the way Ellie was written did Bob.
• 1:28:00
  It was a little annoying. Like, I know Ellie was rough
• 1:28:03
  around the edges in the game, but I feel like she was a lot
• 1:28:05
  more of a see you next Tuesday on the show.
• 1:28:08
  But that has something to do with Bella Ramsey, and it upsets
• 1:28:11
  me that she got harassed so much.
• 1:28:14
  So yeah. Yeah, I.
• 1:28:17
  Also I also agree with that because I feel like.
• 1:28:21
  It's it's one of those things again.
• 1:28:22
  Where, you know, like, like people can't separate like the
• 1:28:25
  art from the artist and yeah, like, you know, like, 'cause
• 1:28:29
  like even, even even a lot of my friends, like they, they love
• 1:28:33
  Bella Ramsey, you know, first season, you know, but they're,
• 1:28:36
  they're having a hard time latching onto them.
• 1:28:38
  Then this season, you know, so like that, you know, and, and,
• 1:28:41
  and I can kind of see where they're coming from at the same
• 1:28:43
  time. But I'm like, you know, like,
• 1:28:44
  like what, what, what, what should they have done?
• 1:28:46
  So they just, you know, like move the actress out and got
• 1:28:49
  somebody else to play, you know, what do you, what do you do
• 1:28:52
  here? You know, I do think I do.
• 1:28:55
  Think that the actress that plays Abby in that show Caitlin.
• 1:29:00
  Caitlin Dever. Caitlin Dever.
• 1:29:02
  Yeah, she's great. I.
• 1:29:04
  Feel like I. Almost feel like she looks.
• 1:29:08
  She looks. She looks more like Ellie, yeah.
• 1:29:12
  But why? Ellie that.
• 1:29:14
  Ellie that we know from the she actually did.
• 1:29:17
  From what I understand she actually did audition for the
• 1:29:21
  role of Ellie really, but she didn't get it and.
• 1:29:25
  So when? They started looking for Abby.
• 1:29:28
  She was like the first one they jumped to because they liked her
• 1:29:31
  a lot. Yeah.
• 1:29:33
  Neil. Neil.
• 1:29:34
  Druckman likes her a lot because she was she was Cassie Drake and
• 1:29:37
  Uncharted 4. OK also and she's.
• 1:29:40
  Probably going to be Cassie Drake in Uncharted 50.
• 1:29:43
  Neil Druckman also. Likes Tati Gabriel, you know,
• 1:29:53
  the the star for the the star for the new game that's coming
• 1:29:56
  out from Naughty Dog. Yeah.
• 1:29:58
  Oh, intergalactic. Yeah.
• 1:29:59
  Oh, OK. Yeah.
• 1:30:01
  She was. Also in the Uncharted movie.
• 1:30:04
  Yes, she was. I like that.
• 1:30:07
  Movie. Yeah, it's OK.
• 1:30:10
  Well, so. Going from that, it's like, calm
• 1:30:13
  down. Boys.
• 1:30:14
  No, no, I mean what it's. Fine, I'm again like I I never
• 1:30:18
  am the kind of person that so viscerally hates a.
• 1:30:22
  Show or an actor? Or a thing.
• 1:30:24
  So see, that's what kind of gamer are.
• 1:30:27
  You that's true. I'm just I'm.
• 1:30:29
  Just a farce. One big wet farce.
• 1:30:33
  Good fake gamer girl here, yeah. Wow, right here.
• 1:30:37
  Look at. This person she actually enjoys.
• 1:30:39
  Her games, yeah. Speaking of gamers, don't.
• 1:30:42
  Like games? Speaking of games.
• 1:30:44
  So games that I've actually been playing, I continue to play
• 1:30:46
  Cyberpunk 2077. I'm finally on the Switch, on
• 1:30:51
  the Switch too. Still loving it.
• 1:30:54
  You know, now that I'm like being even more analytical and
• 1:30:57
  critical, I can I can pick out kind of some.
• 1:31:02
  Not so pristinely. Looking things, but it doesn't
• 1:31:06
  bother me. Like I had to really look for
• 1:31:08
  it. Do you know how so tempted?
• 1:31:12
  I am to get it for the switch even though I already own it on
• 1:31:14
  steam. It's great.
• 1:31:16
  I already own it on. Xbox I hear you, I got it though
• 1:31:20
  but I but I did. But my main reason 1 to get it
• 1:31:22
  on on the switch too is purely just to just to analyze the
• 1:31:26
  performance. That's the only reason.
• 1:31:29
  It's not in that. It's not in that I just want to
• 1:31:31
  play the game, you know, is to analyze the performance.
• 1:31:33
  I think that's a great reason. I'm that's the, that's the
• 1:31:35
  reason why I picked picked it for my first game.
• 1:31:38
  Now granted I have not played it on other systems, but I am very
• 1:31:42
  much aware of it and of all the games that came out upon launch,
• 1:31:46
  that would be the one to really test the limits, especially for
• 1:31:49
  future third party heavy hitting.
• 1:31:53
  Games. And I would say it's pretty.
• 1:31:58
  I I wrote a boss or spanner, I say it's it, it's it goodness, I
• 1:32:03
  lost my train of thought here, but I thought it was it's it's
• 1:32:06
  fine. When there's a lot going on,
• 1:32:08
  then you kind of like, all right, that looks a little bit
• 1:32:10
  muddy there. Like I've had a really, really,
• 1:32:12
  really nitpick. But you know, given the jump
• 1:32:15
  from Switch one to now from a switch Nintendo standards, it's
• 1:32:20
  impressive. So chugging through that little
• 1:32:25
  by little, I think graphically. No, no, I'm done.
• 1:32:28
  With that, I was going to say, I think.
• 1:32:31
  I think graphically the like, I think everything looks pretty
• 1:32:35
  impressive in that game, except ironically for the character
• 1:32:39
  creator. Like I feel like when I was
• 1:32:43
  going to the character creator on Cyberpunk because I didn't
• 1:32:47
  import my save from Xbox because I already beat in the game, I'm
• 1:32:50
  like what's the point? But I feel.
• 1:32:53
  Like there was. Some weird muddy textures for
• 1:32:59
  the character creator and like the the lighting was like the
• 1:33:02
  shadows from the lighting was weird.
• 1:33:04
  But other than that, like, I think, I think Jackie looks
• 1:33:09
  really good. I think a lot of the kind of
• 1:33:12
  larger players in that game look really good.
• 1:33:15
  It it's, I can't believe it's that game looks that good on on
• 1:33:20
  switch to you know, I, I think it's running somewhere between
• 1:33:23
  30 and 40 frames a second, honestly, but.
• 1:33:28
  It look, it looks it. Looks impressive you're.
• 1:33:32
  Making me want to jump. Back into it again, but go as a
• 1:33:35
  female bee so that I can romance Judy.
• 1:33:38
  Judy, I was very. Upset when I realized I could
• 1:33:40
  not romance her as a a male protagonist.
• 1:33:46
  I was like damn it, son of a bee.
• 1:33:49
  Yeah, we only became busties. Other than.
• 1:33:54
  That I. Am also playing two games
• 1:33:57
  because I've done spotlights with them.
• 1:33:59
  The first is actually a free to play mobile game called Academy
• 1:34:03
  of Super Pets. Their spotlight should go up
• 1:34:06
  shortly. It is an adorable game.
• 1:34:09
  Yes, it is a mobile game and I know there are various kind of I
• 1:34:13
  don't know stigma's the right word but stereotypes.
• 1:34:16
  But I got to say for free to play mobile game, it's actually
• 1:34:18
  cute, quaint. My I have 4 pets in my army, all
• 1:34:24
  named after my animals in real life.
• 1:34:28
  This one it boots up great, no issues.
• 1:34:34
  It's the art is nice, the music's nice.
• 1:34:36
  It's like it's like RPG light, very RPG light so and very kid
• 1:34:42
  friendly. So anyone out there that's
• 1:34:43
  looking for a kid friendly free to play mobile game.
• 1:34:46
  Actually, Academy of Super Pets is actually a good choice.
• 1:34:50
  And then I also booted. Is there any monetization?
• 1:34:52
  For this there is it's. If you want to buy these like
• 1:34:55
  super crystals which helps you upgrade things faster, OK.
• 1:35:02
  I only. Caved and bought one for a set
• 1:35:06
  for $0.99 because I forgot why I caved.
• 1:35:09
  I I don't know how to I don't know, but I was able to do a lot
• 1:35:14
  with it without even thinking. Of needing to spend money.
• 1:35:18
  So. Yeah, there's no major.
• 1:35:22
  Barriers or major pay walls I should say.
• 1:35:28
  And then like in terms. Of does it have ads at all?
• 1:35:31
  No, Nope. OK, cool, cool.
• 1:35:35
  Those are always the two things. I'm like, OK, here's the catch
• 1:35:38
  for free to play. Does it have ads and what's the
• 1:35:42
  monetization like those are, I mean those are.
• 1:35:45
  Like the primary money makers for the free to play games.
• 1:35:48
  And I say ads bother me more. And so no, nothing, nothing
• 1:35:52
  sticks out. It's not this ugly.
• 1:35:54
  You have to wait for this. It plays like an like a a steam
• 1:35:57
  game that got ported to mobile. You can play without having to
• 1:36:03
  pay a dime and have a fine experience if you just really
• 1:36:07
  wanted to. Oh, I know why.
• 1:36:09
  OK now I know why you in order to have more pets on your
• 1:36:13
  mission, you need to upgrade the space in your helicopter to go
• 1:36:16
  on the mission, but also you need to upgrade the space in
• 1:36:20
  your dormitory where the pets are.
• 1:36:22
  I didn't realize that upgrading my space in my helicopter
• 1:36:26
  because that's all I had the Super crystals for.
• 1:36:28
  I didn't have enough to also expand my dorm that when I went
• 1:36:33
  on my missions, I like soft locked myself and I might have
• 1:36:36
  to talk to the devs. I don't know if this was
• 1:36:38
  intentional or not. It would not let me start any of
• 1:36:40
  the levels because it says I'm missing a pet.
• 1:36:42
  It's like while you open, there's room for five pets on
• 1:36:45
  the helicopter. Where's your 5th pet?
• 1:36:47
  I'm like, I have no 5th pet. I only have 4.
• 1:36:50
  So by opening up to four to five spaces on the helicopter, I soft
• 1:36:54
  locked myself. So I had to buy myself some
• 1:36:56
  crystals, but I. Talking with the devs in their.
• 1:37:01
  Philosophy, I don't think that was their intent.
• 1:37:03
  So, you know, don't take that as.
• 1:37:07
  Yeah, no, that sounds like a glitch.
• 1:37:08
  Yeah, and they are working on a. Major update for July SO.
• 1:37:13
  That all being said. No ads and there are in app
• 1:37:18
  purchases but they're just more like hey I want to buy some like
• 1:37:22
  extra cool perk things but. Anyway, so that's that.
• 1:37:28
  And then lastly, their spotlight went up and that's for the game
• 1:37:33
  that and we played it, saw it, it's published by Soft Source,
• 1:37:38
  it's Bahamut and the Walk Walk Tree.
• 1:37:42
  I think it's like. Starlight.
• 1:37:44
  Studios. I don't know what.
• 1:37:46
  Let's see Starlight Studios. I don't know.
• 1:37:53
  Muhammad Walk, walk it's. Starvania, thank you.
• 1:37:57
  I definitely. Did not want to get that wrong.
• 1:37:58
  So Starvania studio, I'm sorry dev from the Middle East
• 1:38:03
  wonderful. The developer that I talked to
• 1:38:06
  was awesome. So I decided I was going to buy
• 1:38:09
  it and I'm I tried playing it on my steam deck.
• 1:38:11
  I think I'm going to play it on my laptop now because there's
• 1:38:13
  this weird, you know, when there's like a glitch on TV,
• 1:38:16
  it's like the rainbow colored stripes.
• 1:38:19
  Vertical stripes I don't know. How to explain?
• 1:38:21
  It's like, yeah, every time something loads, it's just like
• 1:38:24
  right there in the middle of the screen and even like messed up
• 1:38:27
  my opening sequence. So that might be a Steam Deck
• 1:38:30
  problem. So it's it's great.
• 1:38:34
  Underwater physics are wonderful.
• 1:38:37
  I got to see a lot of, you know, Middle Eastern folklore.
• 1:38:41
  And it's one of those games that you can really.
• 1:38:46
  Get lost in and. Get into that.
• 1:38:50
  What's that other phrase in gaming?
• 1:38:52
  Get into that focus state or it's a flow state.
• 1:38:56
  It's a good flow state. It's it's a very chill, good
• 1:39:01
  vibes game. So Bahama and the Walk walk tree
• 1:39:04
  on Steam. So those are my games.
• 1:39:07
  Remind me very. Much of echo the Dolphins.
• 1:39:11
  Was like the closest. Thing I could remember it being
• 1:39:14
  being yeah, yeah, I can. Definitely see that.
• 1:39:17
  So if you guys are looking for like chill games or things that
• 1:39:21
  just kind of aren't your blockbusters and you're looking
• 1:39:24
  for a palate cleanser or just, I don't know, something that's
• 1:39:27
  different. I've I've been happy with the
• 1:39:29
  ones that I've been playing so far.
• 1:39:34
  Yeah, I'm looking forward to that once.
• 1:39:35
  It hits the switch. Well, that'll be.
• 1:39:39
  Great on the Switch for sure. And that's all that I've been
• 1:39:47
  playing. Cool, cool.
• 1:39:51
  Anybody have any final thoughts, Any shout outs or anything to
• 1:39:54
  do? Just that I'm looking forward to
• 1:39:58
  Death Stranding two my. I got an e-mail from GameStop
• 1:40:03
  that my copy is in the mail, so that's going to be my next big
• 1:40:06
  PlayStation title I guess. I need to I guess.
• 1:40:11
  I need to play Death Stranding one, right?
• 1:40:12
  I mean, I have so many avenues I can play it on.
• 1:40:14
  I got. I got.
• 1:40:17
  PC and Xbox. I mean on PC and PlayStation
• 1:40:20
  did. Is it known the average play
• 1:40:24
  time to expect for Death Stranding too?
• 1:40:26
  Or is that kind of one of those like?
• 1:40:29
  I know some people say. They've beaten it in 40 hours,
• 1:40:34
  but they say if you want to actually do side stuff that
• 1:40:37
  almost double S the game. Fair enough.
• 1:40:39
  I kind of expect. That OK.
• 1:40:42
  Yep, but they have. Said in terms of pacing it is a
• 1:40:46
  lot better than Death Stranding one.
• 1:40:49
  Death Stranding 1, like a lot of people, had issues that it was
• 1:40:53
  not a game that didn't start until almost 20 hours into it
• 1:40:57
  all. Right.
• 1:41:02
  Yeah. Anyone else final thoughts?
• 1:41:11
  Not yet. I think we're all ready for.
• 1:41:12
  Bed don't have anything. OK.
• 1:41:15
  All right, well. Well, that's that's good for me
• 1:41:17
  then. So hey, I just want to go ahead
• 1:41:19
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  I I love that we got to talk about expedition 33 like I got I
• 1:42:24
  got to beat it so I I can get on you guys level.
• 1:42:26
  I got to beat it, but I am playing.
• 1:42:27
  You got to beat it. Yes, yeah.
• 1:42:30
  All right, Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:42:32
  Once you beat ACT. Once you beat Act 1, I think
• 1:42:36
  that is going to be when the game absolutely hooks you in and
• 1:42:39
  you will literally not stop. Wait, I'm not in Act 2 yet.
• 1:42:44
  That was in Act two I thought. Act 2 you'll know.
• 1:42:46
  You'll know when you're. In Act 2, that's all I'm going
• 1:42:49
  to say. Act 2.
• 1:42:51
  Yeah, Oh. My God.
• 1:42:52
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• 1:43:00
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• 1:43:03
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• 1:43:05
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