The Nintendo Direct "WE" have been WAITING FOR! | Nontendo Podcast #57

So we're at the desks again. But there's a good reason. What is
it. Well, I mean this is when we're talking about the Nintenant direct
but also next week, Yes, they're going to see a fun little live
actual live live, yes, like in person. So this weekend, hello,
guess we're gonna be at too many games in Pennsylvania. Yeay, on
Saturday, there will be a live podcast at two pm, so you can
come. Yeah, that's person point. We should mention that because if you're
at the end of time, yeah, if you're in the area, the
general Tristate area, that's what it's called. Right, Ye, you're very
blurry right there. You go back to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and come
watch a podcast episode that we're recording live in front of a studio audience.
You can participate and ask questions. We have a bunch of games planned and
special guests. Yep, special guests. Now we don't have either other plans
without me now though we should we can. We'll probably grab someone, but
it'll be fun and then that'll be a go next week. And yeah,
a signing, We have a signing on Friday at seven. But yeah,
we have a signing at some point. I don't know, but they wrope
us in we come and we're a double package. Now we're a double feature.
I mean they asked. We actually had our panel was back to back.
It was me and then you, and we just decided to put them
together. So they did ask. But I think it's funny they always announced
us in the same tweet. We're always next to each other in the guest
list. It's like you can't get one without the other. Now I've roped
you into this ecosystems. There's an intend of direct that happened today or yesterday.
If you're watching us on Thursday. Had to wait to film because a
direct got announced. So we got to get this done a little quicker than
usual. So we're back at the desks again. Um yeah, all right,
So this was your direct more than anybody's, so I'm gonna let you.
I didn't want to watch your video, but I saw a little bit
on Twitter. You seemed like it was mid I don't say let people have
a little fun sometime, you know, Hey, I'm walking here. Hey,
if you know, watch my video right at the start, I say,
this was a great direct. If you're a Mario fan, I just
got my Zelda, so I'm completely fine that's watched this direct and talk about
it. Just I want you guys to know I don't really like Mario,
so there was nothing there for me. But I will say, and I
wanted you to go first, but Super Mario RPG does have me hyped because
I do love that Mario. Because it's not a platform. I gotta be
honest, I've never played it. I've never played a RPG, so this
will be a way to get me to play it. I bought it so
when I first got into retrocollecting, I bought Earthbound and that at the same
time, and I started Earthbound. No, I started that first, and
then I started Earthbound like a week later, and I loved Earthbound so much.
I forgot that I was playing Mario RPG and I never finished it.
So this will be my chance of actually finishing up. But I remember really
liking the week that I played. Okay, yeah, I never touched it.
I remember going over to friend's houses and they had it, but it
was not a good it was not a good game to like share with other
people. It's forty hour RPG. Yeah, and I've always wanted to try
it. I was going to do it a stream of it or something.
I was hoping that it would come to Nintenno switch online. But here we
are. We got we got a remake. Yeah, I actually I was
watching it. What would you call as a remaster? It's a remake.
It's a remake, for sure, because we're gonna have this conversation again.
A remaster would be if it was just HD. But it's remake. It's
mate, they remade the crema. It is kind of just HD. Wait,
wait, what did we call I forgot what we called uh, metroid?
It was ah, that was that was a remaster, but we called
it a remake because they redid a lot of stuff. Yeah, I think
we did lean towards that. But then we tried giving it its own name,
and I forgot what we called it. But I might be inclined to
give this the same name whatever, whatever week, whatever we said Metroid was,
that's what. This is. A redo, a redo it. It
looks really cool this this I like. I like what they did with it.
It basically just looks like Mary RPG, but with good graphics. Uh,
it doesn't look like they change the art style much at all. Yeah,
some people in my chat because I react to them live. They were
like, not sure about the arts style, and I'm like, no,
are you kidding me? It's like it is the arts style. It's it's
almost in a way. You know when you're a kid and you play these
retro games, these old graphics, and then like you don't see them for
twenty years and in your head there are a certain way, and then you
see them and you're like, man, that aged this. This looks exactly
how I would have imagined, how I imagined to be. Yeah, they
did such a great job. But do you want to go over the well,
I don't want to stop you No, no, no, we should
we should stop. Yeah, I want to go deep in depth because my
video I went over my good bits. But I want to look at everything
because I think it's important or fun to break down a whole direct and have
a conversation about was the event good or did we get some good announcements?
Yeah? I you you streamed it, I assumed, right, Yeah,
so I woke up at ten, opened up my laptop or groggy eyed,
and I was falling right back to sleep. That you missed it. It's
no, no, no, I watched the whole thing, but it started
with five minutes of Pokemon, and I have never seen Pokemon look this bad.
No, I no, I know, even my chat and I mean
like my chat is going to be full of Pokemon fans right, like we're
all Nintendo fans here. Even my chat was snoozing on this. It.
The common census I was seeing is that they're just showing us a lot but
not really explaining any of it. But we're not also not really seeing much
and it just looks bad. Like visually, yep, bad. I saw
a lot of Pokemon that I've never seen before. And I've always said that
Pokemon's biggest asset is the character design of the Pokemon, because like all these
other companies come out and they try to make their own version of Pokemon,
but they fail because it's just not Pokemon. They don't have the Pokemon,
they don't have the cute animals. They look like shit compared to the Pokemon.
Pokemon. I agree, these look bad. This looks like the ones
from what I'm seeing. I don't even know if they're new because I didn't
get that far in Scarland, Violet. This these what I'm seeing here looks
like a knockoff of Pokemon. It's like really sad to see. Well so
far, if you'll watch the video, everything we've seen was either in the
previous game or they are existing Pokemon, but they do introduce some new ones
coming up here, and I don't know, I don't know what they're going
for. The color scheme is off to me. The legendary Pokemon they look
like weird, cheap knockoff. Yeah, like you're like you're saying, like
when a Pokemon company or like a you know, Digiman's that thing guy.
These things they look yeah, all of that. They look like like third
party knockoff versions, like like the Wish version of a Pokemon game. Yeah.
And then even this Legendary I mean, I don't know if this is
supposed to be hype, but I don't know what I'm getting from that.
It's just nothing here. It's so supposed to be epic and it's not.
It's not. And it's also they did the exact same thing with Sword and
Shield. They did the same DC trailer where they showed the legendary at the
end. It's just carbon copy what we went through five years ago. It's
not exciting anymore. And visually it's just so not impressive, especially after Tears
of the Kingdom. This whole thing right here, this academy is supposed to
be like this big epic new area and it's all stark, white and empty.
Yeah, it's like, what happens? It's so bleak? How am
I supposed to get excited about this? Every shot they show of this like
environments too, like so bleak. So there was a framed dip. I
just watched a framed dip and the trail I saw some framed dips in the
trailer as well. Um, I don't know, I don't know. It's
I have a whole review about this, a whole thirty minute review on how
I feel like these games are Lacklaster Year and game Freak don't really know how
to design games. But I'm sorry, Pokemon fans. If you are excited,
I know that that nostalgia and copium is a heavy drug, and then
you can still really enjoy these even even in the current state. But I
don't know if I'm getting too old or just getting too over making excuses.
I'm just I'm tired. They're they're very out of touch. Now we're older
and there and they are also out of touch. Yeah, so yeah,
this is just completely unexciting, so I had to be over Yeah, very
boring. I agree. The next one, I guess was Sonic Superstars,
which we already saw. So this was a really bad exciting and we knew
it was coming to switch already. That was another point I made just about
the direct itself, the presentation being a little mid is that quite a few
things in here we'd just seen them in other events. So we saw Sonic,
we saw a Persona Tactics, which is coming up, So it took
the wind out the sales. You know, if we had seen this Sonic
the first time right now, that would just be another notch in the cap
of this direct being awesome. But it is really just what we've seen already.
It is good to know that it's coming to switch. Yeah, that's
where I'm most likely to play a game like this. I'm not going to
sit down on my Xbox and play Sonic. I kind of wanted in my
hands on a portable console. Yeah, I'm excited for this. I'm definitely
gonna play it, hopefully a lot. But I'm skeptical about a few things,
and we talked about them already. On this podcast, like the multiplayer,
and this doesn't answer any of those questions. I would right up say
local co op, but I was, Yeah, this doesn't explain what happens
if one of the characters falls off screen. So I don't I don't know.
I don't know how I'm gonna enjoy it. Also, I might not
get it on Switch because if I want to play with other people, I
can do like a remote play situation on Steam. So I don't know.
I mean, am I going on Steam? Am I part of the people?
I mean, what's going on? Sure we could do that, but
that that's weird though, I well, no, well yeah, but to
do to do remote play while you're streaming, because then other people just straight
up half a control of your computer, that is weird. I think.
I think Valve makes it so that they only have control on the game.
But I could also just use a separate device. Okay, that's cool.
I could play it on a laptop and stream it through the Elgado or something.
We could. We could figure it out. That shouldn't be too hard.
Okay, thanks for the invite. Oh no problem, Um, what
the Hell's this is a farming game? We're back to farming games. Yeah,
Kim Kim and I were laughing about this today. We're like another farming
direct really. Yeah, it's called Pallia. The saving grace here on this
one is that it's free to play and it's online. It looks like Fortnite,
like Visu always looked like Fortnite, like early Fortnite. But it also
gives me Disney Dreamlight Valley vibes. But I think, what really, the
only reason I think I would want to play this over any of the other
cloone games is just the online aspect, because none of the other farming sim
sim games have had decent online And if I could just go fishing with my
friends and plant some seeds, that could be relaxing. I'm not sold on
it. It looks a little a little jankie, but I might try it.
It's free, who cares, looks like a lot of people in the
lobby. I kind of understand where it would be fun to just like sit
around in a game with people, Like when I used to play Destiny,
like very actively, we would sit at the tower, which is like the
hub world and just hang out there and mess around. Now it's the same
with like Animal Crossing, when you would join someone's island, um and you
just hang out. People would like just they did get in discord and talk
and discord while sitting on someone's island. It's cute. But at least here
you actually get to interact and help and fish and do all that stuff together.
So I get it. It's free whatever. Yeah. The next game
was Persona TA Tactics tact Tactica tact Tactica. I said, Tactitia. Oh,
that's wrong. That has to be wrong. I mean, we could
just call it Pisona Tactics. It's it. I love Persona man, so
this is coming and and I love tactics games. I've talked about that so
much. I would defend Mario and Rabbits to freaking cows come home. That's
an old expression. There's something about this that isn't doing it for me.
I'm not seeing the in depth tactic side that I would like, and I'm
not seeing the Persona riz that I like. There's something very bland about this
and just lacking personality and style, and I just don't I don't know what
it is. Maybe the trailers are doing not doing it justice, but they're
they're trying to milk the Persona cow, which is weird because it's not a
fat cow. I mean Persona five. I mean it's big in terms of
big apgs, but Persona five sales, I mean like two million on Royal.
That's that's a good chunk. That's a good chunk. But the Persona
franchise has like a like a lot offshoots, doesn't it. Uh? I
mean in terms of what you're saying with milking it, Yes, yeah,
for sure. Now more than ever they have a lot the shadow of Labyrinth.
I have no point here. I just think it's interesting and think it's
interesting because you look at like Zeno Blay two for example, So two million
copies about the same as Royal. Could you imagine having like four or five
spinoff Zeno Blade two games? Like who's buying those? It's like the same
thing here. But I bought most of the Persona ones, So I mean,
I'm just I'm just I think my point there are a lot of die
hard Persona fans and they'll buy it. They'll buy anything, they'll buy whatever
brings them back to those characters and JRPG very similar term based strategy. So
the crossover is here more so than a dancing game. M okay, what
was next? Next was a myth Force, Remember myth Force. I actually
thought this looked cool. I think it looks cool as well. This was
one of the ones that got my ears perked up. The art style reminds
me of that thirty three Immortals art style that we saw before, but this,
this reminds me of he Man cartoon. This is this is supposed to
mimic old eighties like Hanna Barbara stuff, and it looks awesome that the trailer
announcer actually had does a he Man joke at the end, the power of
power of Friendship or something he says instead of power of Gray Skull. I
hope there's like cinematics and voice acting and stuff, because this looks great.
But you don't see any cinematics. You just see just the gameplay. So
this is the first time in again a trailer where I actually want cinemat Yeah.
Yeah, it's It looks like a dungeon crawler you can you can jump
in and out of at any point. Um, and that should be good.
It should be interesting. It looks interesting, it looks cool. It's
made by a spire they did, which I think, Yeah, yeah,
they developed that. I doubt it. It's an aspired beam Dog. Okay,
so beam Dog probably made it because the Spire is one of those companies
that if you work with Nintendo, you hear with the with the midle lot,
they're really good at porting games over to the switch. Them Panic Button
have done a lot of work porting games to the Switch. Oh so beam
Dog was founded in twenty in two thousand and nine by BioWare co founder Trent
Uster, So this could be pretty good. We're doing some research here.
They've had a lot of games, Boulders Game, Siege of Dragon's Spear.
I was trying to find a list of games they've brought to switch. Yeah,
they did, not to the Old Republic. Um they did. I
think they've done pretty much every Star Wars game. I think that's the main
thing they've done for Switch. Stubbs the Zombie as well. They botched Nights
the Old Republic, that port thing that was the first. All of them
were great ports, except for Knights of the Old Republic. There was a
game breaking bug in the middle of the game that stunted your progression. So
if you hit the middle of the game, you just couldn't beat the game
that sucks? Do they not fix it? Eventually? Didn't didn't the not
say republic to just drop all the DC that they were going to put in
the game too, and then apologize and offered people freestyle Wars games. That
sounds right, Yeah, that's the thing that happened, so maybe okay also,
and then that's fact in this deep dive. Aspia was acquired by Embracer
Group recently, and Embrace a Group is the team that makes all the rift
of the NecroDancer and coup of the NecroDancer games and also a ton of stuff.
They Embrace a Group is a is a what do you call it,
like a fund like like a like a holding comedy. Yea. They just
they just bankroll a bunch of studio. They just ate up a bunch of
studios and are holding them basically hostage now. And they're canceling games left and
right. So Embracer Group is not trying to go on a fun deep dive.
This is getting dark. So they've got Gearbox, saber Ta, hq
UM, and a bunch of others old recently, they recently just bought all
of the Western Square games, like the franchises for a tomb Raider and das
X and stuff like that. Wow this what a what a little rabbit hole
we've fallen down here? Anyway, that's a myth fos where we got it?
Next we got splat fests and you got ice cream, all the flavors
everybody loves, like vanilla. What do you think's next? Of course it's
strawberry. Why why are you Why do you think that's weird? Because I
think vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate all the defaults because of Napoleon. Also
just but we don't have chocolate. We have mint chip and it Why I
don't think that's weird because I love Minship. Well, I love Minship too.
It's actually my favorite out of these three. So I'm glad it's here.
But at first I was like, why the heck wouldn't you do chocolate?
And that I remembered every flavor is the color that you shoot when you
picked that team, so you would be shooting dire in Yeah, but you're
already shooting come. So vanilla is like a tins of yellow. It's not
like, yeah, you're white, Yeah, yours of yellow. Sometimes you
need you need to get more regular because it sounds like ya there was white
before. Also, that was Mayo you, oh, not mine. No,
I'm not talking about me anymore. I'm talking about Splatoon again, changing
the subject. Yeah, let's move on. Let's move on. Family friendly,
Bob, family friendly. I couldn't care less about Splatoon. I gotta
be in white and red isn't good either. Yeah. I couldn't kill us
either. I couldn't kill less. I couldn't kill us minship though, team
Minship. It's also team Minship. Also, then we finally get Detective Pikachu
for the first time in fucking like eight years. Are you excited? No,
it does look it does look kind of good. Though, I was
kind of interested in it. There was one great voice line in it where
he what the hell it is? He says something about coffee, So it
was it was such like a like a canned like like it was a good
voice club me, like, don't even talk to me till I had my
coffee. It was just so stupid. Oh, there was the one who
was like, oh, it's a light roast or something. He said,
there's a lot of coffee stuff in this. M I kind of crapped on
this a little in my video just because I think this is either a mix
of the switch showing its age or game Freak if Game Freak did develop this,
continuing to show their inability to create visuals in a video game. But
I think this game looks visually disgusting, like just like N sixty four,
levels of circular things are like square, and like well, if you go
back to his coffee cup, you can count the polygons um. I don't
know. There's just something about the way. I mean, not something,
just it looks bad. I'm not even gonna try and copium or justify it.
I think it just looks really bad. I gotta be honest. I
think a lot of games in this director looked pretty bad. Oh yeah,
and I think it's just a switch showing its age. Also, I think
this game like started development on the three D s that they just probably didn't
change anything. I didn't want to talk too much crap about the game because
I haven't played it. But Kim tried playing the first one, bless you,
my God, thank you so much, and she she Kim is a
pretty low tolerance baff for like finishing and enjoying a game, and even she
bailed on it and said that it was too easy. She just felt like
it was piss easy and wasn't having any fun, so very very u.
She felt like she was just watching story the whole time and she wasn't into
it. So but I never played it, so I don't know much about
it. I just liked the idea of a talking Pikachu. Yeah, I
think that looks cute. I think the story is probably gonna be pretty good.
It looks not the best, but I do think that visually looks better
than Scarlet Violet. Wow, that's not hard. They're also showcasing certain points
of the game. So I found the voice line. I think he just
goes so much for my morning coffee. I'm gonna play it. That's it.
That's it. That's the line. I'm like, Oh, I hadn't
mute it. Whatever, do it again? Did they hear it? No,
you're not gonna be able to hearing no matter what. So much for
my coffee. Something tells me, I don't know why I want them to
be like my text message tone. I'm watching it. I'm mute. And
he does not move his lips anywhere near that line, probably because it's Japanese.
Japanese. Yeah, I know, like, doesn't move his lips at
all. They're like, you know, this is gonna be translated to a
bunch of different audiences. Let's just not even bother. Yeah, why why
bother? Yeah? All right. Next, I mean it's interesting that we're
getting this because it's been development for like eight years. We haven't heard anything
about Detective Pikachu until just now that it was announced. Years ago we were
told essentially it was in fact that it was canceled, so it is interesting
to see that it's still happening. We got an Ambo like like, yeah,
I think they had that Amibo must have come out with the three DS
version. I guess it did. It was a big I have it.
It's a big ambo. It's like five times big big guy. Next we
got the Super Mario RPG. Baby, we already go on talked about this.
We don't do anything else. Do you have anything else? No?
I mean it looks good, but like we were saying, like we said
earlier that this looks like what we imagine Super Mario RPG to look like,
but the animations it looks like like, Man, you couldn't have like spice
it up like a little bit like with with Mario at the end when he's
like grabbing the star and he looks all stubby and fat. There's just like,
no like this, there's no emotion or anything to it. Yeah,
I guess at all. It's very nineties though. It's very nineties stiff and
emotionless, and I don't know. I don't hate it, you know,
I get what you're saying, and I would like it the other way too,
but I kind of like the nineties vibe I'm getting from it. Yeah,
I don't. It's fine. It's fine. We've seen much worse and
we've seen much better at the end of the Nintendo Director, which is what
I'm most excited about. I think this was my main exciting thing from the
event, and really my only takeaway. This was my really only like,
oh this is for me. I like this the rest. I'm happy other
people are getting things and I might play metal gear, which we'll get to.
I think I was snoozing up until this and then everything again. Well
I don't want to keep referencing my life because we're not there now, but
CHAT was snoozing until this, and then it was big will Use direct saved
like that whole eruption, and then from there people were pretty happy with the
direct, So the next thing, actually I am excited for and interested in.
Yeah, so this was weird. I think this is like the first
time we're seeing Nintendo showcase stuff that's nowhere near done. Like things look like
a little rough, and it could be because the switch is so old now,
but also I just think that there's things in the pipeline that they want
to show because they have nothing else to really show. I think they just
wanted this to be a real Mario direct, you know, they wanted to
throw It's just a cool moment to say, here's Mario, here's a Peach
game in his Luigi game. It's just memorable, and I think they were
just willing to show whatever they had, which, yeah, it looks very
early, very rough. If this is a slash of the entire game as
far as what we can expect, I'm probably not excited. But assuming this
is just a very early look, I'm down to play a game as Peach.
I think that's interesting. We haven't had I think we had a Peach
DS game that was like a puzzle game or Yeah. So, okay,
so there's some more here. This is officially right now called Princess Peach.
Game for Nintendo Switch. So we don't know what this is, but there
was. The last Princess Peach game was for the DS. It was called
Super Princess Peach and you It was a platformer, but the bottom of the
screen had her emotions and you press one of the emotions to do an ability
because she's a woman. So really, I know, and I think that
they were trying to bury that game because they realized how sexist and weird it
was. So it's interesting to see them go back to a Princess Peach game.
Hopefully it's a little different. Interesting if it wasn't different at all and
they just doubled down. Yeah, but yeah, I suspect this will probably
be pretty good. It looks I mean, I don't know. It looks
more like a puzzle game. I guess it looks like she's fighting people in
like a two D way. It looks is this almost like a beat him
up the way it was structured? Yea. From what we see you here,
it looks like a two D plane sort of almost paper. But you
can walk up and down the plane like you wouldn't beat him up I guess
like Yoshi or beat him up, yeah, or beat him up. But
it looks like most of this look is her solving puzzles and stuff. Yeah,
it looks it looks similar in structured to a Yoshi game, but I
guess we'll see. So so they said that that's not coming out till next
year. M so they got to that there was one another. One thing
I did really like about this direct is a lot of this stuff comes out
this year, which was interesting. They're usually they're usually pretty good at ah,
not announcing things too far out. Usually, yeah, because they are.
They are the kings of doing it the other way as well and announcing
something ten years beforehand, like Pickman, Metroid Zelda. But yeah, they're
also good on the other side, so this is an interesting way to announce
this one too. They you have visually enhanced Luigi's mansion Dark of the Moon
for a Nintendo Switch Doc of the Moon Dark Moon doc Moon. Sorry,
I just thought it was funny you said Dock of the Moon. I think
that's a Transformers game Doc of the Moon. I think. So that doesn't
sound like a sentence, I hope my one hope for this mansion's Transformers Dark
of the Moon. Okay, Well, this this unless shayah La boff is
playing Luigi. It was a movie. It was a movie. Are you
ready? I think that this Luigi's Mansion looks really weird. It's like one
frame a second. It looks like they didn't do much. It looks like
they just took it from the three D s and farted it over. I
would need to look at the comparison. I can't remember what the game looks
like. UM. I was kind of hoping they were remaking it a bit
more because Dark Moon was very restrictive and how you played, and I didn't
really like it. It was more linear. I didn't finish it, so
I can't really speak too much of it. But the first game in the
third game were far more open as far as how you explore the mansion,
and I was kind of hoping they were remaking it and like fixing it and
like streamlining some of that stuff. But it does sound like it's just a
visual enhancement. Um. And of course Megan Fox is playing Peach in that.
Um, that's not true. That's Transformers. Oh that's Dark of the
Moon right right, exactly right right. It's easy to confuse them like I
did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The next game is Arkham
Trilogy. It's so late for this, like you should what I said,
That's what I said. This feels like in the first year or two when
we were getting all the three sixty games being ported, it over beefing out
our libraries. And it was awesome at the time because we had all these
great games we had kind of just play, but now on the go in
collections to get one. Now six years in, when our libraries are so
bloated with backlog and new things coming out, it's I don't want to say
too little, too late, because these games deserve better than that. I
mean, these games are awesome, they really are, but for lack of
a better expression, it's a bit too little, too late. It's how
I felt when Overwatch finally hit the switch. I was like, yeah,
too little, too late, buddy, And that was two years ago.
Yeah. I love these games, except for Arkham Knight. I didn't like
that game. Um, but yeah, it's too it's it's too late for
these They should have done this a long time ago. Everybody's played this on
other platforms. I'm surprised that they're able gonna be able to get it to
run on the switch at least. Yeah, at least they're trying. But
especially that the third one with the open world pots where you're you're racing in
a car. That's gonna be tough. Who Yeah, so who's plotting though?
I wonder is it panic Button? Is it? What's to say there?
Turn me Up? It looks like yeah, it's usually if you see
a developer on one of these Switch things that you don't recognize, it's usually
the person that's a boarding it. I'll look them up. I'll see what
they got. These are great games, and I think everybody should try them
out. I don't know if Switch is going to be the best place to
do that. They're great games, and I'm always glad, oh happy when
people get a chance to play something new in a new way. If this
is the only way you get to play them, great, But I'm just
I think we're looking at it from like these would have done really well for
everyone four years ago. Yeah, yeah, it's just now it's like if
you're a straggler and you haven't grabbed it yet, and why not check it
out? Yeah? Yeah, I'm gonna Turn me Up's website and they're promoting
Batman. It takes two. They did it Takes two? Well, that
was a really good That was good. Yeah, yeah, Kim and I
played that. That was good. They did Tony Hawk, which with Kim
and I just bought three days ago because Kim wanted to play it. They
did the Borderlands collection. Oh, they did Johnny the Savage Planet on Switch.
That was sick. I was actually really surprised with how well that ran
on switch. They did Life is Strange, Brothers. They've done a lot
of switch work, so I then good, Yeah, I think we can
have some confidence here in this Batman all right. Next we have um,
what the hell's this thing called? Uh? Looks like Demio? Yeah,
looks like Diablo Divinity, you know, I looks like Demio. Yeah,
you're right, it was. I was like, wait what and then it
said, uh, what the hell's the name of it? Again? Keep
friding gloom Haven. I was like, okay, never mind, um,
okay, whatever, I'm not Yeah, that doesn't look It's tough. It's
one of them genres where sometimes when I happened to be playing one, I'm
always like I should play more of these, but then I never really want
to. M Yeah, okay, that's all I got to say. Next
is just Dance Baby twenty twenty four, they got to stop. Can I
go on a slight tangent? Sure? I was about to say, we
shouldn't make sure we don't play any of this so we don't get copyright claimed.
Do you want to talk about what happened to our last episode? Oh?
Sure? Okay, so this is gonna be a slight tangent and then
we'll get back to it. Can I call them out by name? Sure?
Oh my god, I love this drama. So after our last episode
where we talked about the Xbox event and the Ubisoft event, immediately like while
we were live, we got hit with a claim and it was four what
part was it that you blurred out the Xbox series announcement trailer? Yes,
so no no audio, just the video of the Xbox series trailer. So
we we got that claim in and you know, we assumed, we thought
we didn't really look in it. We were like, all, Xbox has
pinned us because we don't ever get claimed ever, and then when we do,
it's always just an automated thing from the big companies. Right, So
the Xbox has claimed us. So Bob went in and blurred out the Xbox
trailer. We disputed the claim and it went away, but it went away
after we got hit with two more. So in the meantime while we were
waiting, we got two more claims, one from one four the Prince of
Persia Ubisoft trailer, and another one for another part of the Xbox trailer.
I was working on blurring out those parts so that we could get rid of
those when I had a thought, because it was pinging in my brain.
I saw the name of the claims and they were in a different language,
and at first I didn't think much about it, but then I was like,
wait, why is it in a different language, So I looked it
up. I looked up the exact name of the two claims that we had
got, and it took me to two YouTube videos by the same exact name,
a channel named volk e O l K on YouTube. They have five
thousand subs and they had uploaded reactions to the events, the Xbox and the
Ubisoft event, and they had, as far as we can tell, manually
claimed our videos for using the same footage as them. That footage being the
Ubisoft and Xbox trailer, showcases that they don't have the rights too. They're
not affiliated with Xbox or Ubisoft. They were just claiming us. And at
first you might be wondering, why are they doing that, and Bob,
you can get in at any point you want to if you want to.
But what they're obviously doing is when you get claimed you we initially lost all
monetization on the video. We were unable to monetize because we had claims which
shut down the video. We can't get any views on it, it doesn't
get shared out to the algorithms, and we don't make any money because this
small channel has decided to manually claim us. So wait on, it goes
into escrow when you dispute it. So when you dispute it, now YouTube
because you dispute it, and YouTube's like okay, so you're you're saying it's
fine, so you can make money on it, but we're gonna do it
in escrow, so you don't get that money. Um, and then if
we decide that it's okay, you'll get it. Then if we decide it's
not that we pretty quickly, yeah we did, but we were The first
claim was the Xbox one them also yes, yes, okay, So what
I think happened was that might have been automatic, and then and then they
got they can tell you why. I'm going to fast forward a little bit
just so I can explain why I tweeted at them. Other content creators replied
to my tweet saying it happened to them too, from them and they were
coming to their Twitter as well to get answers. So it wasn't just us.
It wasn't automated. There's a system in the back end of YouTube where
it shows you all matching videos to yours. They're going in there and then
claiming all the videos that are matching them, and by doing that on a
showcase video, they're claiming everyone else that's reacted to a showcase. Okay,
that's more sense, because sometimes it's something like with music, for example,
it's something like a label or an MCN that could automatically. Sometimes it even
comes up as a manual claim, but it is the MCN that is automatically
just claiming things. But this is a relatively small YouTube channel, and YouTube
gives everybody the tools to see other stuff other channels that share uh that content.
Yeah, so we have that on ours. I almost never look at
it, and I only do anything if it's one hundred percent match. YouTube
will tell you like there's an eighty percent match hundred percent, And there are
other channels that just straight up steal our content and uploaded, or they'll like
redub it in like Spanish and uploaded, which I don't care about that,
but I can we get claimed and we can't monetize, and our video was
enable to monetize for the first twenty four hours, over the first twenty four
hours that went in escrow. Yeah, so it seems to me like this
small YouTube channel is just farting out content, getting these matches and then trying
to capitalize the revenue from because they get to split rev or sometimes they might
get lucky enough and get revenue for the whole video, and that seems to
be the only way they can make money because their videos get like eighteen views.
Yeah, I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but
it's it's very he is why I can't give them the benefit of the doubt.
Because when I disputed them and they didn't reply within like half a day,
I went to the two videos that they claimed us for stealing. I
commented on those videos under my beat them Up's account because I knew with the
checkmark would ping them and I said, hey, don't know if you know,
but you've claimed to have claimed our video, because you please release the
claims. You know what they did. Instead of that, they immediately delete
need both of the videos that I commented on, only those videos. That's
when I went to Twitter and I commented on their recent tweet and I said,
hey, it seems like you have purposely claimed our video and we need
these claims removed so that we can get monetized again. Can you please remove
them? That tweet I tweeted at them directly because I didn't want to call
them out. I didn't want to make a big deal about it. But
that tweet ended up getting like two hundred likes because people just found it because
they tweeted it. Their tweets never get any likes, so you know,
they got notified of this. They have tweeted several times since then. They
have not paid any attention to us, and they have not removed the disputes
at all. They don't care. This was very much on purpose that our
last episode suffered in the algorithm. It's one of our lowest viewed episodes because
of them. Because of them claiming and taking our revenue away for reacting to
a public event that they don't have any rights to have. And the last
part about YouTube system is when you dispute, the person that made the claim
gets thirty days before they have to make a decision or reply, so they
can hold onto this for thirty days. Sorry, I'm a little heated,
so yeah, just dance twenty twenty twenty four. This is the one that
we're we're looking forward to this this Nintendo directs. Yeah, no, it's
good. I like this. We may as well actually turn the volume on
because we're gonna get claimed by anyone. It may as will actually be you
be soft, We are gonna get something's gonna happen because I'm saying, and
the trailer is pretty much we've never been hit before. We've never been hit
before for reacting to things. Never Yeah, you're right, unless unless we've
played audio. Sometimes we played audio two along, like with the Mario movie.
Uh so much for my morning coffee. Just go to the next one.
Uh fucking what is this shit? I don't know some other I'm jpg.
I can't even see what is it? Uh shit, here you go
silent hope. Oh yeah, I don't care. It's oh god, sorry,
I hate there's such a there's a community of people that like these,
but it's just another CHIBRPG. I don't care. So so this is another
weird case where the animation actually looks really cool, like it looks like an
actual anime. Gameplay is bosh. This is how they get you, bob,
These these JRPGs. They make these borderline mobile game adjacent video games.
But then they'll put in these awesome anime cut scenes that look sick, and
they have these characters, and it tricks your brain into getting attached to these
chibi characters more than they should be, and then you're willing to play the
game because you've seen some anime. Yeah. Maybe maybe I'm just thinking too
much into it. Well no, yeah, you get interested in the anime,
so you want to play the game. But there's that was a harvest
moon cow. Speaking of copyright infringement, we should help someone, all right.
Next is Faith Farm you Love? Yeah, yeah, we know.
We talked about how I feel like I've aged out of this. I don't
know it, But again, this trailer looks more fun. Again. The
last one just looked very fairy. This one looks a little less fairy.
These things are all blurring together to me. I don't know, I you
know what, I'm trying to do justice here because I know it has a
community of people that want to play it. I think it looks like another
cheaby game. I'm not interested. Hot Wheels all right, Next Manic Mechanics,
Next Crooked But cause we're in kind of a rapid fire here spark sparks
of hope, DLCs, Rabbits. This, Um, something's weird about the
way this looks too. I mean this people were pretty much like the visuals
and Mary up as rabbits. But something about this So I'm like, maybe
the switch is just old now, Like something's weird here. I am next,
I don't even I don't even anyway, I'm getting honestly, and he
hits one quick thing. I'll say, I'm getting kind of burnt out on
doc, Like it's a lot of you've played this game, You've had a
lot of fun, and then six months later suddenly you're obligated to go back.
Otherwise you feel like you haven't finished it, even if like you have,
and you've like you're kind of done with the game. I don't know
if I'm supposed to be excited for d OC. But sometimes I'm just done
with a game. I'm like Pokemon. I'm done. I don't need to
go back. So sometimes I mean, if you really like the game,
then DLC's gives elden Ring doc. I'm excited for that. Tis the Kingdom
DC excited for that. If they randomly put out myo odo C DOC,
I'll dive into that. But I don't know. Just some things I don't
need. Dragon Quest Monsters, the Dark Prince, I don't know anything about
this, dragon Quest Guy, dragon Quest boy. I tried really hard today
not to be negative, and that's why I skipped a lot of these because
I don't want to. It just makes it seem like I think everything is
mid But I love dragon Quest. This looks like I don't want to use
the term mobile. It kind of seems like you stay in one area and
monsters kind of come to you or you find them. It doesn't look like
there's exploration and then you fuse them together and then you have battles where you're
created together fused army. Um. Maybe there is a little bit of exploration.
I can't really tell, but it looks a bit JANKI. It doesn't
look as polished as Dragon Quest eleven as it looks kind of bare bones,
and yeah, I just mobile. It looks like a mobile game. I
don't know. Then we finally got Pickman four. I thought Pickman four was
going to be a majority of this direct. I don't know why a lot
of people thought that it would have. They would have called it like a
Pickman four direct featuring some other news. They they was a direct they just
didn't want, didn't they say I announced the direct they would It wasn't a
Pickman direct though. Whenever they say something like that, it's usually like a
ten minute chunk is like the thing they they highlight. But then the rest
is other stuff. Especially around E three, they tweeted so much stuff.
They tweeted so much stuff. Well we got another look at Pickman four.
I'm gonna try it. I mean, oh, I'll try it. Yeah.
Oh there's a demo. There's a demo next weekend. I think,
yeah, yeah, so I'll definitely be trying that. I bet you'll try
it and you'll never buy the game. Probably. I'm hoping for that.
I must not even try the demo. This says features roughly forty minutes of
information focused mainly on this House, which styles launching this year, including new
details on Pickman four. I think that's why. Well, nothing, I
don't know, maybe I'm reading it different, but nothing about that screamed.
People were making it seem like we were getting thirty eight minutes of Pickman and
two minutes of like a sizzle reel. I thought it was gonna be like
twenty minutes of Pickman, but really because there's nothing else, because they don't
have anything else going on. Well, to be honest with what we got,
I would rather have twenty minutes Pickman and had foregone a lot of the
other stuff. That game boy is sick. I like that game boy on
Twitter for the game Boy. I played Pickman three and I really liked it.
I said this in my video. I really liked it. I thought
visually it was very nice for the wi you. The models of the things
you had to find, which is mostly fruit, looked really hyper realistic,
which I thought was fun. It was a quaint game that I liked,
but it didn't really leave a lasting impression on me, and I'm surprised why
getting another one, but I will try it. I do like micromanagement,
and it's one of them things where when you watch a gameplay of it,
it looks really boring, but when you're playing it and your brain's kind of
pinging in five different directions, you get into it and it's more fun than
it seems like watching someone play Diablo in a way, I guess. Okay.
After this, they also announced that they're porting uh, Pickman one and
two from the GameCube over to the switch. That is now two more GameCube
games on the switch each. Good point. That's a good point. What's
that makes it four? Now? Yeah? I mean this? Oh and
you want to count Tie the Tasmanian Tiger or whatever? Does that count?
I don't know. He's just doing Nintendo games or old games or it's Nintendo
games. I think we're at four. If we're not counting that, then
probably like six with Tie. Okay, but I don't want to I don't
want to add any because there could be more things we're not thinking of other
than Tie. Tie is just kind of more popular. I'm sure there's other
GameCube games that have come over. I don't think what about what about it
wasn't fun Fantasy Crystal Chronicles GameCube? Oh, you're at my wheelhouse, buddy.
That was I mean it was it was GameCube. I don't know if
it wasn't anything else. Well, this is pretty much confirming that we're not
going to get GameCube Nintendo Switch line stuff or guess what, baby, it
was GameCube when I was on Switch and PlayStation four, So you can add
that one to the list. We got seven now GameCube games they're throwing on
the shop for for for money, so you're not gonna get it as part
of your Nintendo Switch Online subscription, which is a little unfortunate. But I
guess they're doing it as sort of like a remaster or something. Or yeah,
that's a good point. I don't know what guys called it. You
can probably do away with the idea of a GameCube online service, um mayer,
Sunshine, are we counting that? I found a list? I did
count that in previously in my brain there was Metroid Prime and Sunshine. But
Sunshine barely counts because you can't buy it. This is why I said to
not count tie because we have shinks. The Cursed Mummy is another one that
was on GameCube and is now uh tie one, tie two. I outcast.
Oh yeah, outcast ms of your favorites Crystal Chronicles Ikaruga, which was
a very expensive GameCube game that I have and it was hard to find.
It's like a shooter, shoot him up game, but I probably never play.
Mega man X Collection was a GameCube game Resident Evil zero All right,
Mega man X Collection. Fuck off with that Battle for Bikini Bottom. I'm
just reading this list, but I agree that shouldn't count. Pac Man Academy
did not come out on GameCube. Interesting thirteen, that Wacky gun game,
which I think that was a remake that came to Switch. I wouldn't even
count that. So that's all on this list. So I mean it's like
sub ten I would say, of like actual good games, and like sub
five of first party Nintendo games. So yeah, I think if you want
GameCube stuff, you're just gonna get it on the e shop. You're not
going to get a new Yeah. Well, you guys, that's your own
fault because you bought him. You freaking bought him. If you didn't buy
them, maybe, but Nintendo have realized that they can make money from you
now they're available later today, did my thumbnail today? And old old you?
Did you see the title? Uh No, I forgot the title that
Nintendo Direct made me retire and all so stupid. So the next game was
actually earlier in the Japanese Direct. So I saw John Riggs tweeted it and
I was like, where did you see this? And he's like, oh,
I watched the Japanese and American ones at the same time. I was
like, that's actually a good idea. Yeah, I've been thinking about doing
that because the Japanese ones always got a couple of extra things that we don't
get. Yeah. So the metal Gear Solid collection, I'm interested in this.
I don't know if I'm gonna get it because I have so many other
ways to play these games. But it's metal Gear Solid, metal Gear Solid
to metal Gear Solid three, and I think that's a solid collection. I'm
a little upset it's not the Twin Snakes version of metal Gear Solid one that
is not well liked by fans. But I really like the Twin Snakes versions.
The way to play the first one. I heard people say it's not
because the voice acting is different. It's like way more over the top,
and there's the top. I know, that's what I'm saying. That's why
it's good. And there's uh, some mechanics that people say break the game,
Like there's a first person mode which makes some of the boss fights like
really easy. But it's like the visuals are so much better. The over
the top action that they added. He's like doing all these fucking backlips and
shit, it's so good. And the voice, the over the top voice
acting is is incredible. So I'm upset it's not the Twin Snakes version.
Now I kind of don't want to play it because I I want to stop
my Metal Gear adventures somewhere and this felt like the place to stop. But
maybe it's Twin Snakes. It honestly might be. Uh So, I am
a little skeptical about the remake of Metal Gear Solid three that we're getting for
the PlayStation in Xbox, but I think it might be worth it to start
there because that's the beginning of the metal Gear timeline. Oh, It's like
it's like starting with yeah, and it'll be modern. I don't know if
it's going to be the best Metal Gear game. I think it'll probably be
far from the best Metal Gear game, but us think it'll be easiest to
get into. I think three. So my favorite gameplaywise is Metal Gear sol
At five, But that's bad. That's got a horrible story because it fell
apart at the end because they just pulled the plug in the middle of development,
so the game never ends. Um. But other than that, my
favorite might be Metal Gear sol At three, which is another reason why I'm
like remaking that makes a little bit sense. I always saw gameplay clips of
five and always made me want to play the game, but the story looked
boring. The gameplay loop is so good, and the story was good up
until like the way through. Yeah, you finish it, and then you
gotta like look finished it. Yeah, then you gotta like look up the
ending because like the unfin Yeah, it's really it's really sad. It has
one of the best moments in video games that I think can only be It's
a story beat that can only happen in a video game, and I'll spoil
it for you later. It's one of those things like in the Last of
Us with the Doctors at the end, Okay, you know the Last of
Us the end with the doctors, where how Yeah, it's it's a situation
like that that happens and you're like, oh shit, this is a move
I don't I don't want you to ruin it because I have always actually wanted
to play five. Five is the one I've always looked at, like if
I was to start with want it probably be there. You know, what's
a good idea? I tell this to people too. The Phantom Pains was
the demo for metal Gear Solid five and it was really good. It was
only two hours long, and it's like dirt cheap. I think it's like
two dollars on on Steam. So that's pain, Phantom Pain. Yeah,
I remember that. No, No, I'm sorry. Fan of Pain was
the name of metal gearself five. Ground Zeros is is metal Gear five?
Yeah, Brown Zeros is the demo. I remember that being something like that
that I might have played it. It's really good. It's it's like a
very small condensed version of metal Gear Solid five. Mm. Okay, that's
two hours long, what's it. Yeah, it's like a little tiny sandbox.
You you you're on like one military base the whole time. But it's
it's really good. You can beat the whole thing in like thirty minutes.
But really it's like a normal play through. It's like two hours. I'm
gonna buy it right now. It's worth it. Has it physical on PlayStation
three? I think I might have it? Is my is my bring it?
I'll borrow it. I haven't borrowed a game from someone who's so long.
I kind of want you to do that. That's so fun. I'll
see where it is, Okay, if you can't on PS four, wasn't
it on PS four? Uh? Yes? Do you have it on four?
Because that's even better? You know what? I have to ask my
brother. He has the list of all of our games. All right,
let me together. It's fourteen dollars on Amazon right now. If you can't
find it or you want a physical, because on Steam it's probably like two
dollars. I want to play it on PlayStation. I need the PlayStation experience.
Okay, okay, I see it with a keyboard and mouse like an
idiot. I'll take a look. Anyway. We knew we were getting a
collection of some sort of vital Gear games on other consoles. This one is
confirmed. Why is it doing this? Switch? Thank you? This one's
confirmed to have the MSX games, the original Metal Gear games not solid,
the old ones, and also the Nintendo the NES games. So this is
a great collection. This is awesome and it's volume one, So that means
there's gonna be another one games because I want four and five to come to
switch and I don't know if five can, but four would be interesting.
I don't. Yeah, I don't think five ken, but I think that
we'll get peace Walker, which was the PSP game, which was very very
goodwins. Nobody played it. Now, that's past collection for Metal Gear fans
looked sick. They had odd in their comic books and everything. The comic
books are sick. The artwork is incredible. The only Metal Gear game I
have played other than what we've talked about is the very first any S one,
and I didn't like it. That game sucks. Yeah, it was
the game Boy game Metal Gear Solid for the game Boy color is incredible.
It's one of the highest rated games of all time. Oh my god,
it's awesome Metal Gear game Boy. Yeah. The unofficial title is Ghost Babble
Metal Meta Critic. You know what, I'm kind of getting this, This
idea of borrowing a game from you has got me dashed up. I kind
of want to do you have the Do you have the game Boy game?
I do? That game is very expensive. Would you be comfortable with me
borrowing I don't know. It's okay. If no, yeah, let me
let me. Let me find it, because I could play that on a
Nintendo game Boy that you made me. That would be kind of It's fucking
sick that game. It's okay. If you don't want it, I get
it. I'll find it. I'll find you can take some games you're go
with. I'll goo with games I try. You better give it back though,
and I'm like using it as a coaster, you know what it is.
I think I have two copies of Metal Care for the game Boy because
I think I think we lost it, and my brother bought a second one
and we ended up finding it. Oh my god. Anyway, Uh,
next is Vampire Survivors. Uh, this is kind of cool. We uh
this is a this is a huge like Steam game. And yeah, people
were kind of uh meming on this one when I was live, because to
be fair, I was sat there calling everything a mobile game, and then
this came up and I was like, oh sick, and everyone was like,
are you serious right now? My guy? No, this one is
like it's it looks this way intentionally. This is just the way they wanted
it to look, and apparently it's really fun. I think what the whole
drawer is is you get so many, so many insane upgrades and the levels
get filled with so many creatures and enemies. And I think that's why it
has to be like eight bit um and that feeling of just power as you
level yourself up crazy amounts. Yeah, I get the drawer. I need
to play it. It's got call up. I don't know if it's online,
but the whole it's got to be online. The whole big thing with
this is that you play with just the You just move, there's no buttons,
you just move over. Guy. Yeah, it's an auto shooter because
all of the different abilities shooting different ways and stuff. So it's a very
very simple game. And the reason why it looks like a mobile game is
because it kind of plays like a mobile game. But yeah, that's the
way it's designed. So this game came out on Steam and it got It
was one of those just viral hits. It was just like super popular out
of nowhere, and it got a lot of mobile clones. Like a lot
of people started just farting out mobile games that were vaguely like Vampire Survivor.
So they said fuck it and they released a mobile version of the game,
which plays fine because there's only you just move. There's no buttons, you
know, so it is kind of a mobile game. You could play it
on your phone if you wanted to. It also reminds me. That reminds
me there's another game that's full player call Up. I can drop you a
link if you can. But I saw when we were at packs. I'm
gonna put it in chat. It's with Cappy Barrs and it's like the same
concept. You can play with friends. Um it just the visual arts style
might be more appealing to some people. Oh but yeah, it's the same
concept. It's the same idea. I actually think that I actually like to
look at this one more. But I'm curious of playing Vampire Survivors too.
Yeah, I mean this one they tried with the art style. You want
to it? Is it on the screen? I don't know. Shit,
I think it's just auto switching off of this for some reason. Oh I'm
clicked on me never mind, I came back to my face. Uh no,
yeah, it looks really good. Uh yeah. They have like a
cartoony arts style versus Vampire Survivor, which is kind of like it feels like
an afterthought. Yeah. The next game is Headbangers Rhythm Royale. This is
weird. It's like a it's like a weird cartoony game where you play as
birds. It looks like warri Aware, but with weird looking birds. Yeah.
I think to me it has full guys vibes. They kind of went
with that concept the art style. Yeah. Yeah, everyone's the same thing,
but you can get dressed up as different things and you compete in like
mini games, and I don't know, man, some of these things you
just gotta play sometimes. But right now I'm not excited. Yeah, I'm
not too over the moon about that. Next is Pennies, a big breakaway.
This I wasn't too jazzed about. But then they said it was by
the makers of Super by the team that made Sonic Mania. Yeah. Yeah,
I puked up when I heard that. But then the more I watched
it, the more I was waiting for something to happen that would make me
excited. It very clearly looks like the three D stuff in Sonic Mania or
the like vaguely like Sega Saturan Sonic Era. It looks like this probably should
have been a Sonic game, and Sega was just like no, and then
they just made their own, which is sad because it's really hard to get
excited about a Sonic game that doesn't have Sonic in it. Yeah, and
it's like it's heavily using three colors and looks very stiff. It's not really
like pleasing my eyes all my brain. I like the way it looks.
I don't love the character, but I do like the color scheme because it's
reminding me of Sega Saturn Era three. D Oh, Okay, I can
see that. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong. Um. I like the
penguins a lot, is what I was gonna say. I think the penguins
look really cute. As a mascot I'd get, I'd get a stuffed little
penguin guy. I think this game is probably gonna be really fun, and
it's just again, I think part of what makes Sonic really good is the
character design of Sonic. So it's it's the personality and the jazz of it
all. I'm not big on Sonic, but the the personality of Sonic makes
it fun in the music, so I don't know. Maybe yeah. Next
we got Mario Kartate Deluxe, New Levels, No new characters. Oh not
even levels. It's new character. Unless I'm misreading the situation, I believe
it is just new characters, which I can't really get excited for skin swaps,
especially in a game where I used the same character every time. I
don't know. My chat was going nuts for it. They were like Cammick
was getting spammed in the chat. But I think that might have been like
that because he pronounced it weird. Oh okay, all right, Well maybe
that's why, because I was like, if it was Smash, I get
it. You know, it's a whole new character plays a different way.
But for this, I mean, it may as well just be a Goku
skin in Fortnight, Like it doesn't change the game for me. I don't
know. I'm not a Mario Kart fan, so I don't know. I
just tuned out when they said. But the longer this game is getting stretched
out, the more I'm starting to hate it. It's been like ten years,
I know. I think I'm just getting out though. This is Star
Ocean of the second story are now let me tell you why this is the
only one of these kinds of games in the event that I'm kind of looking
forward to. I've always heard such good things about the Star Ocean games or
game or two games. I don't know how many there is. It looks
pretty. Yeah. I bought them on PlayStation two a long time ago,
and I never got around and playing them. This has a very interesting two
D HT three D art style that we've been seeing where you have these hyper
realistic, almost Final Fantasy nine environments, but these two D sprite sness characters,
and I think they're meshing together really well. So to get to play
this for the first time finally and have it look like this, I think
that's a win for me personally. Yeah, if you've been waiting to play
this type of game and you finally got it in like a new version,
then yeah, that's perfect for you. I'm not like a ten out of
ten excided, but it was one of them, like, oh, I
can finally play that. Nice. I wish I was interest because that game
looks very pretty, but I know I'm not gonna like that type of game.
Next is Move It Warrio Style. That's not the name of the game,
Warrio Ware Move It. This kind of came out of left field.
We just had a we just had one, but the last Warrior Ware game
was like weird two second little mini games where you barely got to play and
you had to pick a character, and the character kind of you. It
was like a platform almost. There are different types of warrior Ware games.
Well that's that must warrior Ware, Inc. And this is warrio Ware period.
Look, I don't know, I guess, but this is what I
think of when I think of warrior Ware, and I'm way more inclined to
play this, Like, this is something I actually think I might have fun
with. I gotta be honest, the last one I boring. I finished
it in like two hours and never went back. But the idea of actually
using the joycons for what they were intended, doing these crazy motions, and
like the idea of like pretending you've got a hoop that you've got to shake
off, you know, stuff like that. Uh, it's just fun to
play with friends or even just Kim. You know. I'm way more into
this. Um. There's a lot of things here that I'm like, Yeah,
that looks fun, but I'm not excited for it, And this is
one of those that fools in that category. So I will. I really
liked the last warrior Wear game. Oh I love this. I like the
way the other guy's looking at him. I really liked the old The Last
Warrior Wear game. For like two hours, I played the demo and I
was like, this game sick. I love this game. And then I
got the real game and I was like, oh wait, it's basically just
the demo and like that. Yeah, I know, um, and I
think the idea of that game is you supposed to play it over and over
again. But I didn't want to do that. I felt like I did
everything that I needed to do, and I feel like this is probably gonna
be largely the same. I'm probably gonna yeah, you know, I'm trying
to get excited for it, but you're probably right. It's probably gonna be
like two hours, one and done. But I'm gonna enjoy those two hours.
I'm gonna have to spend sixty dollars for the for the two hours.
It might be fifty. The last one was fifty really, mm hmm okay.
So I went to look up, Oh wait, I'm on Warrio Land.
Scroll down Warrio Ware. What was the last one? Get it Together?
Get it Together? The last one? I'm trying, shut up,
Yeah, no it was it was Warrio Ware. Get it together, and
now two years later we're getting Warrior ware and move it. That was two
yet, no one telling me that was two years ago. I'm it was
September. It was September twenty twenty one. Okay, so it's a year
and a half. That's not as bad. That's not as bad. Still
pretty I mean, this is gonna get come out. This is gonna come
out probably at the two year mark, wouldn't you say November? It's gonna
come out a little over two years. I'm all freaking out about how how
has it been a year and a half since I played that game? It
feels like a month ago. Times times blurring by Next, they had a
little segment about Nintendo Live, which is going to be in Seattle at the
time of Pack's West. Yeah, I got my tickets. Um, I'm
super excited. You're not going to that, I'm not. Next was where
do they just talk about? Oho? Uh? Yeah? I like,
I really like this link ambo for Birth of the Wild. They did one
for each of the champions and all the characters and the Guardian and like everything,
I think a boccobblin got a freaking ambo. So I've been excited to
see what they're doing for this game. Gannon is in his yes please Daddy
pose, which is very standard and predictable, but he looks cool. I
think the pose they chose for uh Zelda is wonderful because it's it's it's if
you played through the story and this is like the moment or one of the
moments in the game that's I don't want to say too much, it's sick.
It's sick. I'm so glad they did that. And they didn't just
have her standing there just in a pose. She's like levitating. I just
think it looks sick. Yeah, No, these are really these are really
good. Uh. And then finally they have the last thing, which was
now there was a rumor that they're gonna do a twody Mario, so I
was excited. I already had this in my brain. But I'm so happy
it's not just a new Super Mario Brothers, like they're they're finally doing something
different with two Dy Mario one thousand percent, and I love that. I
love that it's like this like Nintendo Power, like almost claymation, but not
really like like animation. Finally, they're like putting a little bit of artistic
work into their fucking games. I agree. I'm glad. I want you
to keep talking. This is your game. Uh so yeah, it's called
U Super Mario Brothers Wonder, So it's just a two D Mario game.
This reminds me a little bit like we've had New Super Maribos for so long,
and that was good when they made that art style back into on the
DS and that would really liked it. When it hit WE, I was
like, this is this. We've moved past this. I didn't get burned
out until like it wasn't there two Wei games or something. There was two.
There was yeah, there was two week games, and there was like
a we U one and then the Luigi EU one and they were all the
same. When it made it to WE, I was like, all right,
this is fine. And then they did it again and I was like,
all right, enough, dude, we got something else. This isn't
the way to translate this. Some people thought I was insane when I complained
about the Deluxe one that came to Switch, and I was like, really,
guys, like this is the same thing from the NES, Like,
come on, it's time. I wasn't happy about all of that stuff,
and the games were just like, Okay, they got less and less,
they got less and less created as they came out New Super Mara Bros.
Two on the three DS had all of the coins. It's like the whole
big say, one of them was literally the same thing as the one before,
but they just had a thousand coins instead. Yeah, the worst part
about Mary, like the thing nobody cares about Mary damn coins And there was
one that was like the same. But now there's a big mushroom and you
couldn't chunk through some areas. It's like, yeah, I wanted a new
art style and this, you know, it's not that crazy, this new
art style, but it's enough to get me excited about it. I there's
a lot of like fan made stuff around that's supposed to be around the time
of New Super Mario Brothers, Like what would it have looked like if they
changed the art style one that I always talk about as a game called Super
Mario Brothers Flashback, And I'm always like, they gotta do something like this
because it's like a it's like a pixelated but like animated really well like like
art style for Mario. And this kind of feels a little bit like that.
I can see it maybe because the animation is nice, but also because
it's just different, and that's just in my brain. I like, this
is just a different I know, this is really cool. This is you
can just download this game. It's just just an e XC file if you
google enough. Super Mario flashback this it's very short, it's only one world.
This is like Super Nintendo Mario, but mashed with some other Super Nintendo
games from the day that had a lot of charm and character. This looks
like if they made a Super Mario Brothers game for the Game Boy Advance.
This is weirdly nostalgic for me in like weird different ways. I really like
it. Yeah, I love this, but uh instead of Super Mario Wonder
But it looks good and uh, it looks like a lot of the platforming
is going to be a little bit puzzly, Like, um, I mean
here you are grinding on rails like your son. Yeah, that was exciting.
But there's other stuff like there's that weird part where he's a silhouette.
Did all the animation looks so fucking sick? But there's the there's the part
where you're like silhouetted and you like grow really long extendo legs and stuff.
I feel like there's gonna be a lot of weird shit that goes on in
this game that's gonna throw you forwards, like he's actually doing mushrooms. Yes,
yeah, you're right, Yes, this is all one big LSD trip
for him. Yeah. I mean it seems like two de Mario games recently
have just been extremely formulaic. That's the silhouetted part. They'd been extremely formulaic,
and they didn't really deviate from things you can pretty much just do in
Mario Maker. But then people were making stuff in Mario Maker, and they
were getting so creative with the things Nintendo would have never done with Mario.
And Nintendo is probably like, oh, we should just like maybe break the
rules a little bit sometimes. Yeah, and this is them breaking some rules.
Yeah, I had that thought too. Like other Mario games, a
very clean cut and like you know what to expect. This is just to
a to a point where you can speed on it right by, like you
know when to jump in advance because you know that this this set piece is
coming up. But this one you have like pipes like bending and moving and
coming to life, and like all these animated aspects of the world. It's
going to make it really hard to actually predict or know what's going to happen
in the levels, which to me is way more interesting. It looks like
there's more than just your standard platform. There's the other thing. There's missiles
being thrown at him, there's a there's there falling through the sky at one
point, like, there's a lot of other stuff you're gonna be doing.
It always has Raymand vibes to me too, and like the characterization of it
all. Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. This is
also going to have a four player co op. It looks like it has
a lot of characters. So Daisy's in it. I think that's the first
time Daisy's in a two D Mario game. So that means you have Mario,
Luigi, Pete, Daisy, and Toad and we only see the yellow
toad now. But there's also a part there's a part where Mario jumps on
Yoshi, and there's a part where there's also a part where all four characters
that you're that the people are playing as are Yoshi's. So does that mean
you could play as a Yoshi or does that mean you get a power up
where you become Yoshi. Do you or can you jump on a Yoshi as
a Yoshi? Is what I want to know. So this is Wait,
that was weird too, that that that was Mario on a Yoshi. But
Yoshi had a weird thing on his nose. Oh no, it's like glitch
glitch. I think it's because he's struggling. I think he's like getting flushed.
He's getting flushed. You're right, very animated. I mean a lot
of animated. Yeah, he's getting flushed. They needed to change that,
yeah some way. It also looks like there's an over world, so I
mean, I don't know that I could take that or leave that. Um,
but yeah, I'm very excited about this. There's the part with all
four Yoshi's. I wonder how that happens. I wonder if you could pick
a colored Yoshi. I don't know. I don't know. How do you
get different abilities with the different characters. I'd assume so with Yoshi you would
have to at least get a new jump different. I think he is float
jumping there. I'll say what I said in my video. I have not
like Udi Mario since the Supernintender. I have paid no mind to them.
Because they've been a dime a dozen. This is the first one where I
was like, you know what, I might play this. It's actually looking
kind of fun. Might sweeing me back around on the Mario train. There
was a part also where the big flag pole at the end just goes away
like he's about to hit it and it just explodes. Yeah, and I
love that stuff. That subverting traditional Mario expectations. Yeah, it turns Mario
on its head a little bit. Yeah, I'll say you still share lives,
which is gonna cause a little bit of frustration for people. Also,
the part where it was for you she's there was no float jump, so
I don't know. I still don't know how that works. Uh. Something
that I picked up on in this is it's way more if it feels like
an evolution of Mario in a lot of ways that they're interesting voice acting into
it, which is very interesting. I don't know if you've ever had that
boofore. I don't think so, so we I mean vaguely in two D
Mario. The most voice acting I think we've ever had in two D Mario
where the game bay advance ports from the Superintendent like Mario did not shut up.
Oh yeah, he didn't shut the hell up. Dull, dull,
fucking well, this was I guess what I mean by voice acting is like
a character who speaks normally and is kind of narrating or talking to Mario and
in the two D games, because you have these flowers now that talk,
but more so than just you know, little pop ups or whatever, they
seem to be able to communicate what's kind of happening in the world. Um,
there's a scene at the end there where this little flower is looking at
a gumba just sitting and he goes, what a serene gumba? But then
as you hit it, it goes, oh, well then yes, which
is interesting to have something like that in a two D Mario game. So
Mario games usually give him like some sort of new character as like a sidekick,
because Mario doesn't talk, so like he there'll be another character like Flood
or something that explains things. But this has a new character that's that companion
character, but they actually talk. It's actual voice acting. It's not just
you reading it. So that's cool, that's awesome. Yeah, I'm a
lot more excited about this than I thought I was going to be about a
two D Mario game, Like I was same, I've been wanting a two
D Mario game. But I'm like, they're gonna fuck it up. They're
gonna do like a They're gonna do like a new Super Mario Billers or some
something dumb. But I expected it, but this looks exciting to me.
It's like they're leaning almost into now that we've had a Mario movie and Mario
has all this personality and character. They're almost leaning into that now, and
now they feel more like they can break away from just the straight cut Mario.
I mean little animations of like him jumping into the tunnel and his hat
falling off and he has to grab it as he goes into the tunnel,
things like that. It's just giving Mario way more character than he's ever had
before. And I think they feel more free to do that now, which
I love. I wonder if there's going to be more characters like why not
see I feel like they might be going the route of just fucking put everybody
in it. I also like when you hit enemies and it brings up like
comic book marvelous awesome. Great, Yeah, that's they really nailed it with
with the with the style, the stylization of this game. In New Super
Mario Brothers, there's like a float jump, like if you hit the right
trigger or something while you're jumping, you do a little twirl and it gives
you some more hang time. This it looks like they do like a chest
bump in the air, and I don't know if it gives you more hang
time or what, but I saw multiple characters do that, and that seemed
interesting. That's it excited. This was your direct I mean Mario Metal Gear.
Yeah, really, you know, it's funny because I watched it and
I kind of, you know, I had to have a mid. I
was like, oh, I got Mario APG in this New Mario looks pretty
good. And I went into my video kind of assuming everyone would think it's
MID, and almost went to make a video like it was MID. And
then I started thinking, like, was it though, or am I just
not really into Mario and I. I think it's a little bit of both.
I think as a presentation, I mean, we just sat here and
went through it all, and we had a lot to say, but over
half of it, if not sixty seventy percent of it was we didn't even
really have to talk about it like a present from a presentation standpoint, I
think it was a bit air, but we got some of the coolest Mario
reviews we've had in a long time. Yeah, So I don't know.
I think it equals out and it becomes a good direct. I think it
is a good direct. I mean, yeah, there was a lot of
fluff, for sure, but there always is. There always is, Yeah,
I usual. I mean more often than not, the direct is not
for me. More often than not. There's a lot of like RPG stuff,
and I people are stoked about it, and I'm like, all right,
I see where you're stoked, but I just I'm just not having a
great time. This had a lot for me, and for the majority of
it, I was like, this is pretty good. This seems like a
pretty good direct until the end and I was like, that's sick. That's
sick. I'm happy that we have that. Overall, I still think there's
not really that much going on in the pipeline for Nintendo, Like they announced
like thirty games or some shit, and there's there's still nothing like that groundbreaking
except for two D Mario. Yeah. Yeah, you know, if I
wish to be a little bit more hot. I will say that a lot
of this was just remakes, and that it was remakes. For as far
as what the best things were, they were all remakes, all ports,
and then we got a new Mario game right at the end, So I
don't know. I can definitely see people thinking that it was a bit made
and not getting much out of it, But then I can obviou see people
getting a lot of nostalgia and a lot of excitement out of it. I
think the more and more directs we have, the more I begin to realize
how they are all just opinion. It's all just your nostalgia, what you
like, and one person's bad direct is another person's best direct ever. And
I saw multiple people in my videos say this was their best direct they've ever
done, which to me, legitimately not even being funny, is insane.
I think that is an insane thing. I enjoyed some things here, but
yeah, I think it's far from the best direct. But some people might,
you know, this could just so happen to be the best. I
mean, every single from add Too. I think it's oh, I would
say, objectively pretty good. I would say, if you were to say
is it good or bad? I would have to say good, I am
nowhere near in the bad category. For me, I would say mid,
And I think as a presentation it was a bit mid. But again,
as a Mario fan, if I was one, I'd be losing the kids.
I'd be so excited. You have to also look at it from the
perspective that Nintendo's winding down their console right now. Also, a lot of
this stuff could end up on the next Some of the stuff's coming out twenty
twenty four could end up on the next consoles, right right. Um,
it is surprisingly getting this much stuff on what is essentially a dying console.
Yes, the um. The Mario game Super Mario Brothers Wonder comes out October
twentieth. We didn't say that before, but October. Okay, something comes
out in the twenty third from this event, it doesn't matter, it doesn't
matter. So I mean a lot of stuff. There was a lot of
third already stuff, Metal Gear. I don't know if I'm gonna play that
on the Switch, but yeah, uhg RPG and Mario Brothers Wonder is really
the big and and you know what, I'm gonna play Warrior Ware. It's
just weird that we're getting that so soon. So you know what, We've
said it all. We've said it all. Baby, you liked it.
Though you liked it, it was it was good. Guy. I'm happy.
Yes, I'm very happy that we're getting Mario in a two D format,
so that's awesome. Overall, I'd say the direct was good. That's
what i would say. Yeah, That's why one of the many reasons why
I love doing this podcast with you, because we're so similar but so different,
and it's nice when I kind of find something a little air and you
get so excited for it and I'm so happy for you. But then people
watching they get to live through you. For this one. You also got
a little metal gear ran today. That's a rare one, I know for
me or you for me, because yeah, I mean I think we both
had a little bit of metal gear. I'm excited to borrow your game,
all right. I know I have game the game Boy one somewhere, but
the other one, the ground Zeros, I gonna look for. I have
a a Twitch viewer. His name is snake Eat. He was he was
in the uh my first group. He leaks over to me sometimes. Yeah,
he is a big supporter of both of us. But he was my
one of my first subs years, the first badge, and obviously metal gear
is his favorite thing of all time. And anytime we're watching an event and
metal gear comes up and I'm like, I've never played one, he gets
so upset. He's gonna love this episode. Let me tell you. Oh
yeah, baby, everybody would love for you to play ground Zeros. I'm
excited for that. I'm going to. I'm going to if it's two hours,
easy commitment, Yeah, easy, thanks guys, We're gonna do a
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