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Please… No More Jet Skis | Uncharted 1 | Part 3 · Replay Reviews

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  Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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  My name is Leah. And my name is Kathy. We are
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  two friends who are here to replay, review, and
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  analyze your favorite video games. And since
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  Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
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  me view them through her fresh eyes, almost like
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  I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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  We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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  This part is not too bad. I have twice as many
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  notes. The out -of -contact summary is not much
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  better, though. There's still a lot of fighting,
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  so I don't blame you. Yeah, I'm struggling lately.
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  But in this episode, we're keeping all those
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  batteries. And what the f*** kind of footprint
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  is that? That's all I came up with. It's a hard
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  one. That's what she said. That's what she said?
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  Did you just finger gun to me? Yeah, that too.
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  I got way too excited. In all the years I've
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  known you, more than three quarters of my life,
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  I don't think I've ever pulled that move out.
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  Oh, my gosh. That was fantastic. That was too
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  good. Wow. Okay. Chapter eight. So a quick reminder
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  where we left off. They reversed the Jeep off
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  of the cliff into the water. However, they are
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  seemingly unharmed and swim to shore to start
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  making an escape. And this is where I start to
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  question the camera. Not only does it still work,
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  it doesn't need to be charged. Like how many
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  batteries does she have on her and where are
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  they? And how is it waterproof? And shockproof.
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  Anyway, she shows him footage of the building
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  that he spotted earlier and says that if the
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  Eldorado treasure would be anywhere, it's there.
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  The cargo unload area slash customs house. In
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  the footage, Nathan spots a new boat, not an
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  old boat, and says, that's our ticket out of
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  here. So at this point, Nathan is then like,
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  let's not continue. It's too dangerous. But Elena
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  is like, I didn't come all this way for nothing.
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  And it's usually the other way around. And so
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  I really appreciate the way that they make her
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  to be bold and assertive in a way. I also do
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  like how He knows where to draw the line of what's
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  not worth your life. And he says that it's not
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  worth dying for. And I appreciate the little
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  bit of realism to him. I agree. I really like
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  this scene because not only does it show that
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  he knows when to stop. I also like that she calls
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  him out because he sort of uses her as an excuse
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  or he's trying to. He's like, I don't need your
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  bullet riddled. corpse on my conscience and she
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  said if you want to quit just quit don't use
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  me as an excuse and then he admits he wants to
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  quit i like how we finally get some more personality
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  for both elena and nathan drake i also like how
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  he says it's not worth dying for and she just
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  is like okay and doesn't push it this could have
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  been a fight but instead it was just a disagreement
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  i do like that because it shows how mature they
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  are and i respect them a bit more for that I
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  agree, because we've been feeling like Nathan's
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  character is a little immature with his tunnel
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  vision of finding the treasure. So I'm glad they
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  put this scene in here, because it balances his
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  character out. Ugh! The jet ski! I know how much
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  you love that. In the last episode, when I said
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  I wish that they would throw a new gameplay mechanic,
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  this is not what I meant. This is not what I
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  wanted. Nearing the end of their jet ski travels,
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  though, Elena mentions some Incan curse, saying,
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  I read a story once about a cursed Inca treasure.
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  You don't suppose that... Please don't tell me
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  you believe in that stuff. I'm wondering where
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  she's getting her information from. And two...
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  It might not be a curse. It might just be a genocide
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  that the Spanish, they brought in. Either they
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  decided to kill everyone or maybe a deceased
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  took them all out and they think of that as a
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  curse. I think there's more of a scientific reason.
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  I didn't think Elena would be thinking that it's
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  a curse. So at some point they part ways but
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  find each other again and then get back on the
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  jet ski to the next destination. Nothing important.
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  But we do get to see the John Marston special
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  with his jumping and his legs, his knees going
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  to shoulder level. I love a stationary jump in
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  a video game. Moving on to chapter nine. So we
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  start out with another jet ski escape with Elena.
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  Your favorite. So they get to their next destination
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  and Elena says that he has to get to that tower
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  and says that she'll meet him at the customs
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  house. What's she gonna do? Why does he need
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  to go to the tower again? I don't remember. I
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  thought we were just going to the customs house.
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  Yeah. I don't know. Bit confused. I am as well.
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  Speaking of, my next note is, we make it to the
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  customs house, question mark, and let Elena in,
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  question mark. Why are we here, question mark?
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  Were we not going to the tower, question mark?
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  I'm confused. I don't know if it's just an us
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  issue. Or not. I don't know if we missed something.
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  But that was all I had for Chapter 9. I had no
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  notes. Fair enough. Chapter 10, then. They head
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  out to the harbor to find the boat. On the way,
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  they find a records room where the Eldorado treasure
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  is noted in a logbook. The last entry in the
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  logbook. So we get another romantic scene where
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  she's questioning about the... ring that he wears
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  around his neck she probably pegs him as like
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  one of the solely type of guy where flirt with
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  them and then call it a night kind of situation
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  and no in fact it is not it is his ancestors
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  ring the francis streaks ring sorry so like you
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  said ancestors oh ancestors sorry i don't know
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  if it was my ears or your mouth but both But
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  when she's looking at this ring, she has to get
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  all up in his business and just be maybe six
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  inches away from his face. The thing that bothers
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  me about this, though, is the date on the ring
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  is, Nathan says, one day after he supposedly
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  died. As if this is like undeniable proof that
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  he didn't die or that he faked his death. Can
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  history not be off by one day? And maybe the
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  date. had nothing to do with his death it could
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  be a date where it's the 50th anniversary of
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  him and his wife's wedding or whatever yeah the
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  ring also has coordinates which is how he found
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  the coffin so maybe that in line or in hand with
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  the date somehow proves that he's alive or was
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  alive didn't die on that day she wants to get
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  more footage so she sends him to get the boat
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  And says to come pick her up. I don't understand
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  why you would split up with each other in this
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  type of situation. That's the last thing I would
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  do if I was being hunted by other men with guns.
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  I question it. Well, chapter 11. Okay. Well,
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  my first note of chapter 11 is, are his knees
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  okay? Because this man hobbles down the stairs.
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  I don't know. Why does he run like that? Why
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  does he jump like that, too? Yeah, I think his
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  knees are not okay. He sneaks up to the boat
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  as enemies are loading it up, but then Elena
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  pops up next to him saying, you really need to
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  see this. And he tries to, like, tell her to
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  hold on, and she's like, no, you have to see
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  this. I don't understand why game people do this,
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  or even in movies where I don't have the time.
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  Or if you know you're not going to have his attention,
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  just tell him. Just say what you need to say.
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  Instead of making someone watch 30 seconds and
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  could have been shot during that time. The video
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  is of Sully. She says it's not like they're holding
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  him at gunpoint. And he says, yeah, it seems
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  weird. So we're a little suspicious of Sully.
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  But while we're looking at this, the boat leaves.
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  And off of what you were saying, I feel like
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  this could have waited. That video wasn't going
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  anywhere. We already know this camera is invincible.
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  Okay, so. Somehow they figure out that the boat
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  is heading to the monastery. So they head that
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  way. And while discussing Sully, they say we
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  either rescue him or beat the crap out of him.
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  I like how they're not jumping too far into conclusions
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  and they give themselves that really there's
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  nothing to contemplate over or overthink things.
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  He's either with you or he isn't. So on the way
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  there, they're walking across a bridge and Nathan
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  is like, watch your step. And Elena does not
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  watch her step. Immediately, I swear, aims for
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  the broken board and falls through. She has to
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  drop the camera in order to get pulled up, which
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  she does. I also want to reiterate how unprepared
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  they are that her camera doesn't have some kind
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  of strap that she can strap onto herself and
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  harness. Like, what if you need two hands? Way
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  too unprepared for this. This could have been
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  avoided. I agree. Do you know what I wish could
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  have been avoided? This whole trip? The next
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  jet ski. When I saw that, my heart sank. And
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  that is the entirety of chapter 12. It's just
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  the jet ski. I thought I hated it before. New
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  kind of hate. This is like upriver. This is against
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  the current jet ski. Your driving on it took
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  me out too with the just constant scraping on
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  the side of the river. It is... It's infuriating.
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  Well, did you have any notes on chapter 12? No.
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  I just love how mad you are about this chapter.
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  Okay, well, chapter 13. They dock the jet ski
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  and head for the monastery. They're walking through
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  the forest, and then they come across this dead
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  guy that's on, like, a spiky trap. But at the
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  base of the spiky trap is a footprint. What is
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  that? I don't know what that is. I don't know
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  what to think of it. So they make it to where
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  Sully is being held. He's not tied up, but he
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  does seem to be trying to annoy the guards. And
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  then we stare at them until they spot us. Well,
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  more shooting and more guns and more irritation
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  from you. And then we get to chat with Sully.
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  He's in an awfully jolly mood. They clear things
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  up and they realize that Sully is still on their
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  side. I really appreciate Nate giving the credit
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  for Elena finding Sully. This maturity is making
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  me really appreciate their character arc compared
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  to some of our past video games. And then again,
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  he's pretty much hinting at Sully that treat
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  her with respect. Don't leave her behind. You'd
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  be dead if it wasn't for her. Yeah, I like it
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  too. We're seeing growth in the characters and
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  we're seeing that they have critical thinking
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  skills. So back to them questioning him and how
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  he's alive. He says, you're not going to believe
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  this, and pulls out Drake's journal. It stopped
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  the bullet. That's insane. What kind of journal
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  is that? Yeah, it does not look thick enough
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  to stop a bullet, especially when the gun was
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  that close. But I'm not a ballistics expert.
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  After that, when they realized he was alive,
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  he convinced Roman that he needed him to get
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  to the treasure. So I've been trying to mislead
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  him ever since, waiting for you to show up. And
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  the journal isn't destroyed enough that to the
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  point where you can't see what it is, we're able
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  to use it to get the clues that we need to move
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  forward in this area. The treasure is right here
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  in the monastery. What are they going to do if
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  they find this? Are they going to lug it all
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  out and somehow bring it onto an airplane that
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  they don't have or a car that they crashed? This
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  thing doesn't look small. I agree. I'm confused
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  on what their plan is. We use the clues in the
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  journal to solve some puzzles and guide our way
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  to the land of the dead under the library. And
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  that is where the chapter ends. How are you feeling?
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  Still good? Yeah. This was more of a character
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  building chapter. I'm fine with it. I think it's
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  a bit better than the previous episode where
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  there really wasn't much going on. I'm looking
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  forward to seeing what's in part four and hopefully
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  it starts. Kicking it up a notch where we get
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  more cut scenes and more substance. The cut scenes
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  together compiled is pretty darn good. I like
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  it. Especially I like this type of genre and
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  film. It just feels like an early 2000s movie,
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  you know, like that we would have watched growing
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  up. So I like it. I find it comforting. This
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  week's going to be a little different. We're
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  not going to post gameplay this Friday. We're
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  posting it next Friday. Because next week's episode
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  is going to be a special episode. I mean, do
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  we reveal it? Or do we just leave it as a special
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  episode? It's a special episode. Let's leave
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  it like that. It's a special episode. It'll be
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  good. And after that, we'll be right back to
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  Uncharted. So if you're enjoying the Uncharted
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  series, you won't have to wait long. That is
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  all. Audacity on one, three, two, one. Thank
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