Metroid Prime 4 Has Been Rated in South Korea

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, Welcome to Games Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
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<v Speaker 1>with a release release with the release expected soon. Sorry,
<v Speaker 1>I had the word with two times in a row
<v Speaker 1>and that completely broke my brain. So let's do a
<v Speaker 1>break here and go with release news expected soon. Metroid
<v Speaker 1>Prime four has been rated. This is from Andy Robinson
<v Speaker 1>at VGC. Metroid Prime four has been rated by South
<v Speaker 1>Korea's Classification Board, suggesting release date news could arrive soon.
<v Speaker 1>According to a listing published on Friday, the switch title
<v Speaker 1>has been rated for ages twelve and up due to
<v Speaker 1>mild violence. Metroid Prime four is due to release sometime
<v Speaker 1>this year for the original Nintendo Switch, according to the company,
<v Speaker 1>with an enhanced Switch to edition also planned. According to reports,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is planning to hold a Nintendo Direct stream imminently
<v Speaker 1>with matches, which matches what VGC has heard from sources
<v Speaker 1>where it's likely to announce an official release date for
<v Speaker 1>Prime for Yeah, okay, so Prime four getting rated at
<v Speaker 1>great a great sign to me. That doesn't necessarily mean
<v Speaker 1>we get the release date right away, but it does
<v Speaker 1>mean like we're within six weeks to like maybe twelve
<v Speaker 1>weeks for this game coming out.
<v Speaker 2>I would be fine with that. Yeah, yes, I am
<v Speaker 2>tired of the weight. I'm tired of being teased. I
<v Speaker 2>want Metroid Prime four in my face like.
<v Speaker 1>Now, yep, And you know, and that's the best case scenario.
<v Speaker 1>There's no guarantee for that. This could get rated now,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo could hold on to it, and it could still
<v Speaker 1>come out late November early December. But I'm choosing to
<v Speaker 1>treat this like as another reason to be hopeful that
<v Speaker 1>the direct that has been rumored now multiple times repeatedly
<v Speaker 1>is going to happen next week, and that one of
<v Speaker 1>the key pieces of information in that direct will be
<v Speaker 1>the release date for this game. And then because it's
<v Speaker 1>happening now, the release date can be two to three
<v Speaker 1>months out. And yeah, that would put us like September October.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe that would be really welcome.
<v Speaker 2>I think they would want to have another good title
<v Speaker 2>to advertise when they're doing like the second resurgence of
<v Speaker 2>Switch to sales. Yes, because they've already I mean, they've
<v Speaker 2>already had their launch titles, and that's great and all
<v Speaker 2>that we've had Bonanza, but I think they're going to
<v Speaker 2>want more headliners to put out there when they're like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>Black Friday sales coming around, Holiday sales are coming around,
<v Speaker 2>bias which to play this really awesome, highly rated game
<v Speaker 2>in this popular series. And you know, if you you know,
<v Speaker 2>for those who are just you know, for the young
<v Speaker 2>ones in the audience like Metroid, you like Metroid dread,
<v Speaker 2>so come over and play Metroid Prime four. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>so as a business strategy that makes sense to me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it's something that Nintendo's definitely done enough of
<v Speaker 1>before that that lines up with the way that they
<v Speaker 1>might behave in a situation like this. I think it's
<v Speaker 1>just a little bit more noticeable and frustrating with Metroid
<v Speaker 1>Prime four because it is a game that has been
<v Speaker 1>announced for so long. You said it yourself, annoyed with
<v Speaker 1>the waiting we are in this year that it's supposedly
<v Speaker 1>supposed to come out. They dropped a trailer back in
<v Speaker 1>March Rachel and we still don't have a release day,
<v Speaker 1>and it's it's a switch one game. I think it's
<v Speaker 1>the biggest sort of sticking point for me in my
<v Speaker 1>brain where it's like, as we were leading up to
<v Speaker 1>the Switch to Rachel, I was looking I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>so clearly they're going to get Metroid Prime four beyond
<v Speaker 1>out before the switch To launches, and that then they'll
<v Speaker 1>have another version of the game ready to go for
<v Speaker 1>switch To to take advantage of that. And none of
<v Speaker 1>that happened, And now they still have this game that
<v Speaker 1>they're insisting as a Switch one game. There is a
<v Speaker 1>switch to enhanced version. Sure, they're still treating it in
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways like a Switch one game. And
<v Speaker 1>so okay, how are you going to sort of thread
<v Speaker 1>that needle? And I don't think they're actually all that
<v Speaker 1>concerned with threading that needle. They just are going to
<v Speaker 1>sell that game and expect people to buy it on
<v Speaker 1>switch To if that's where they care about getting it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think. I don't think they're going to keep
<v Speaker 2>as long of a tail on the switch of the
<v Speaker 2>original switch as some other companies who we won't mention
<v Speaker 2>have kept on their consoles, their older consoles, But I
<v Speaker 2>think they are. I think Metroid Prime four is going
<v Speaker 2>to come in that in that area as well. But
<v Speaker 2>you're right. I mean, the fact that it was announced
<v Speaker 2>for switch originally, you would think they're like, hey, here's
<v Speaker 2>the Swan song of the Switch. This you know, the great,
<v Speaker 2>the great last Switch game of this generation. That was
<v Speaker 2>kind of that was maybe that was the narrative that
<v Speaker 2>I built up in my head, but that was kind
<v Speaker 2>of what I was thinking when I thought Metroid Prime
<v Speaker 2>for It's like, Okay, this is going to be the
<v Speaker 2>last great game to launch on the Switch. Maybe it
<v Speaker 2>still will be, but you know, the fact that will
<v Speaker 2>launch for both of the consoles simultaneously, I presume then
<v Speaker 2>that does kind of dilute the message a little bit there.
<v Speaker 1>I think, Yeah, and I think if this game comes
<v Speaker 1>out and it's really highly reviewed, it will be just
<v Speaker 1>this massive also the massive thing that also moves a
<v Speaker 1>lot of Switch toos, even though it is on Switch one,
<v Speaker 1>and that'll be where where people actually remember playing it
<v Speaker 1>the way it always happens with these cross gen games. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>people could have played Twilight Princess on GameCube. They played
<v Speaker 1>it on We could have played Right of the Wild
<v Speaker 1>Home WU, although many people couldn't have because they didn't
<v Speaker 1>own a WU, but everyone remembers it on the Switch obviously.
<v Speaker 1>Now there's a little bit more continuity between Switch one
<v Speaker 1>and Switch to than even the GameCube to the Wii,
<v Speaker 1>which is basically the same console, but it is still
<v Speaker 1>it just feels like what you said there right, where
<v Speaker 1>though that the long tail of them trying to force
<v Speaker 1>the Switch one to stick around isn't going to happen,
<v Speaker 1>and so that won't force them in a situation where
<v Speaker 1>they try to like manufacture reasons that the Switch one
<v Speaker 1>is still elevant or anything like that. I think NAFTA
<v Speaker 1>will be happy for the Switch one to kind of
<v Speaker 1>coast on its momentum. And there are obviously games still
<v Speaker 1>coming to Switch one next year, but all those games
<v Speaker 1>will work on Switch to and none of that games.
<v Speaker 2>I'm staying for it.
<v Speaker 1>Right None of the massive franchises from Nintendo are going
<v Speaker 1>to still be coming out on Switch one. The ones
<v Speaker 1>that aren't going there are like Tomadacci Life and Rhythm Heaven,
<v Speaker 1>and then one of the games that's you know, allegedly rumored,
<v Speaker 1>who can confirm. I have no idea. I keep saying it,
<v Speaker 1>so I hope people don't think I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be there, Animal Crossing. It's like if
<v Speaker 1>Animal Crossing gets announced, that will be a switch to exclusive,
<v Speaker 1>as opposed to Tomadaci Life, which came out on Switch one.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, and I'm I mean, I'm still I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I know we got fire emblem where we're getting Fire
<v Speaker 2>Emblum four switch online, but I'm still hoping for new
<v Speaker 2>fire Emblum news. I will take it on switch to.
<v Speaker 2>I will accept it as a switch to for a
<v Speaker 2>switch to. But yeah, I don't Yeah, I don't think
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be a case of like we're still
<v Speaker 2>going to get switched one games like into twenty twenty
<v Speaker 2>seven or anything like that. I think if we do,
<v Speaker 2>it'll be it will be a curiosity at.
<v Speaker 1>Best, or to be a game that like clearly has
<v Speaker 1>no need for the switch tow's improved heart like aspects.
<v Speaker 1>It'll be like we can put this on switch one,
<v Speaker 1>it can hit that audience, run exactly the same on
<v Speaker 1>switch to without any issues, and people can buy it
<v Speaker 1>there if they want. Yeah, that that still makes sense.
<v Speaker 1>That's you know, at this point, as we've got.
<v Speaker 2>Element yeah for so long for switch one for so
<v Speaker 2>long that they're like, let's just launch it on the
<v Speaker 2>switch anyway. I Yeah, I don't think it's gonna be
<v Speaker 2>a case like where we're still getting games on the
<v Speaker 2>PS four this and the Xbox One at this this
<v Speaker 2>late stage in the game. Yeah, I know, I said
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't gonna name names, but I'll name names. Also,
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to sound really spoiled because like Metroid
<v Speaker 2>Pride Prime form could be coming out soon, that's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to immediately feel like, yeah, that's that's great.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to sound like I'm like, oh, finally
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that. I'm like, I'm entitled to this
<v Speaker 2>game being out ages ago. But yeah, so I'm excited
<v Speaker 2>that Metroid Prime four could be coming out, But like
<v Speaker 2>in a business sense, I'm like contemplating what's the most
<v Speaker 2>likely window where Nintendo is going to finally give me
<v Speaker 2>this game?
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Absolutely, I'm hoping it's not late November or early December,
<v Speaker 1>but who knows. All Right, new next story, Ubisoft has
<v Speaker 1>reportedly canceled a sequel to Star Wars Outlaws. Not too surprising.
<v Speaker 1>This is from my Nintendo News. Video game journalist Tom
<v Speaker 1>Henderson is reporting in a new YouTube video that Ubisoft
<v Speaker 1>has recently canceled plans on a Star Wars Outlaws sequel.
<v Speaker 1>A decision to cancel the Star Wars Outlaws sequels was
<v Speaker 1>apparently based on lackluster sales of the original game, which
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft hopes will change with the upcoming Nintendo switched to
<v Speaker 1>release of the action based Star Wars game. Yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>once that game's fate was sealed in terms of its
<v Speaker 1>sales and the response, and even though they are they
<v Speaker 1>worked really hard to rescue that game, it seemed like
<v Speaker 1>this was always going to be the case. There was
<v Speaker 1>never going to be a sequel to that game. They
<v Speaker 1>didn't really stand much of a chance. And hearing that
<v Speaker 1>they were even like planning it and maybe working on
<v Speaker 1>it to some degree, I guess, you know, maybe before
<v Speaker 1>it came out, they're like they had really high hopes.
<v Speaker 1>Obviously they had really high hopes, but all indicators pointed
<v Speaker 1>at this game was not going to perform the way
<v Speaker 1>it needed to, and then it really didn't. So the
<v Speaker 1>them cancel that game. I find that disappointing because, specifically, Rachel,
<v Speaker 1>this is a This felt like a game where the
<v Speaker 1>sequel would have been the exact game that people actually
<v Speaker 1>were looking for, where this is the studio figured out
<v Speaker 1>the growing pains in game one. This happens all the
<v Speaker 1>time in gaming. Game one is pretty okay to good,
<v Speaker 1>and the second game just keeps all the good stuff,
<v Speaker 1>adds some other elements, and really comes into its own.
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed two is like the prime example there, and
<v Speaker 1>I think I think that would have happened here and
<v Speaker 1>then the game would have really worked. But the industry
<v Speaker 1>just doesn't seem like it's in a place for to
<v Speaker 1>put up with that, because making one of these games now,
<v Speaker 1>I think in the Assassin's Creed day, Assassin's Creed one
<v Speaker 1>probably took a decent amount of time. It didn't take
<v Speaker 1>seven to eight years, and now these games can take
<v Speaker 1>that long, and so the appetite for putting up with
<v Speaker 1>we need to build a team that can make one
<v Speaker 1>game kind of get used to each other, used to
<v Speaker 1>the processes, used to the environment in which they're working,
<v Speaker 1>and then they can really nail it on round two.
<v Speaker 1>The industry just can't support that anymore, right at least
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't feel like a Ubisoft can't.
<v Speaker 2>Certainly No, Unsoft definitely can't. And I almost feel like
<v Speaker 2>I think, I kind of think that behind the scenes,
<v Speaker 2>the failure of Star Wars Outlaws was such a massive
<v Speaker 2>uh shock. I think it was just a huge shock
<v Speaker 2>to the industry because that is that should be a
<v Speaker 2>guaranteed winner. That should be a slam dunk, and the
<v Speaker 2>fact that it wasn't it was it wasn't like that
<v Speaker 2>had to have been like seismic for the entire industry.
<v Speaker 2>And I think so. And also you got to think
<v Speaker 2>about it from terms of like Disney as well, Like
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure when they negotiated with Disney it was for
<v Speaker 2>multiple games. And then you know, Disney said, hey, the
<v Speaker 2>Star Wars Jedi franchise is doing much better. Maybe we
<v Speaker 2>should put our put our chips on that on that
<v Speaker 2>slot instead on that number, instead, instead of going with
<v Speaker 2>this game that didn't really do very well, didn't really
<v Speaker 2>make a whole lot of return on investment. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>and also this company which doesn't seem to be that,
<v Speaker 2>this company that doesn't seem to be doing very well
<v Speaker 2>business wise, and you know, not very long ago, there
<v Speaker 2>was some speculation that Ubisoft wouldn't even be here in
<v Speaker 2>seven to eight years, which you know, I don't want to,
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to, you know, curse anybody, so, you know,
<v Speaker 2>knock wood, but you know that I'm sure from a
<v Speaker 2>business perspective, ub Soft making another Star Wars game isn't
<v Speaker 2>attractive to Disney and probably not even a Ubi Soft
<v Speaker 2>at this point.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, excuse me, Lazy Shoe in chat says, considering an
<v Speaker 1>eight year old Star Wars game is still cooking this year,
<v Speaker 1>puts the blame mostly on Ubisoft's rep Yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft clearly should take a lot of the blame, but
<v Speaker 1>also like Star Wars games are in a weird place.
<v Speaker 1>That eight year old game you're talking about, Lazy Shoe
<v Speaker 1>was a disaster when it launched in for years following
<v Speaker 1>and took a long time to fix. The other Star
<v Speaker 1>Wars game that's doing really well right now, the Old Republic,
<v Speaker 1>which had a huge boost to its subscription numbers. Same thing.
<v Speaker 1>There's a pattern here where Star Wars is such a
<v Speaker 1>big game or such a big franchise that the games
<v Speaker 1>have to be at a certain level of investment. People
<v Speaker 1>expect a certain level of production values, which means you're
<v Speaker 1>spending a lot of money, which means it's a very
<v Speaker 1>hard thing to deliver on and actually make good because
<v Speaker 1>you have so many moving parts and it is so
<v Speaker 1>expensive and it's hard to get that really shaped up
<v Speaker 1>into something that feels special, and people expect it to
<v Speaker 1>feel special because it's an important franchise and you're spending
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money and it better be that good.
<v Speaker 1>And so when these games come out and they have
<v Speaker 1>anything wrong with them at all, not that these things
<v Speaker 1>aren't worth criticizing, they clearly have been. For both of
<v Speaker 1>those games and a lot of other Star Wars games,
<v Speaker 1>the volume on that criticism gets turned up a lot,
<v Speaker 1>and that becomes the entire story. And I think like
<v Speaker 1>even in a you know, obviously there are that's not
<v Speaker 1>true for all Star Wars games, the Jedi games, as
<v Speaker 1>you pointed out there, they have been able to kind
<v Speaker 1>of get around this by just going for what they're
<v Speaker 1>going for. And maybe that's where Star Wars games need
<v Speaker 1>to be, Like have a studio that really knows what
<v Speaker 1>they're going for. Just do that and don't try to
<v Speaker 1>make the biggest triple A blockbuster games like an open
<v Speaker 1>world Star Wars games that outlaws was as opposed to
<v Speaker 1>a metroid vanea style kind of from soft adventure game,
<v Speaker 1>which is going to be a little bit more reduced
<v Speaker 1>in scale, like a Jedi Fallen Order game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think it's that. And also there's something weird
<v Speaker 2>that I've noticed with Star Wars games as well, where
<v Speaker 2>fans constantly want the same experience that they had with
<v Speaker 2>the the well, they don't want the same experience, but
<v Speaker 2>they want the same level of quality, as you know,
<v Speaker 2>like Knights of the Old Republic, the original Battlefront games.
<v Speaker 2>They yearn for these so much that I think it's
<v Speaker 2>just it's very hard for new games to live up
<v Speaker 2>to them and still you know, deliver on the like
<v Speaker 2>internal milestones that companies want with games these days. So
<v Speaker 2>I don't even like, as we as you know we're discussing,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not even sure if Knights of the Old Republic
<v Speaker 2>the remake could live up to the nostalgia for Knights
<v Speaker 2>public at this point.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's it's gonna be tougher and people notice anything
<v Speaker 1>that they don't like. Any changes will be again amplified
<v Speaker 1>because people put a magnifying lens to it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like you said, like if there's anything wrong with
<v Speaker 2>the game, what's so whatsoever? You know, they jump on
<v Speaker 2>it immediately, Which isn't to say that there's anything wrong.
<v Speaker 2>They should jump on that because they want a certain experience.
<v Speaker 2>They want a certain experience and if they don't get it,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, especially for seventy dollars these days, if you
<v Speaker 2>don't get what you want from the game, I think
<v Speaker 2>you're totally within your rights to complain about it, because
<v Speaker 2>that is an astronomical amount of money to pay for
<v Speaker 2>what you don't want.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And like that's I think that is the point
<v Speaker 1>is where people are allowed to feel this way and
<v Speaker 1>have this response, and you be soft, like a company
<v Speaker 1>like you be soft. It looks at that goes, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's too hard for us then, and we're just we
<v Speaker 1>don't want to be in that business anymore. And that's
<v Speaker 1>that's how they solve this problem instead of like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>well let's make the next Star Wars Outlaws live up
<v Speaker 1>to expectations. We already made all this investment. Let's take
<v Speaker 1>that and apply it going forward. And it's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>it's too challenging actually, And you know, worry a little
<v Speaker 1>bit if it's like, Okay, can these big companies handle
<v Speaker 1>games like this going forward? I don't know. Probably not.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna just get fewer of them. And I think
<v Speaker 1>that's a bummer because I thought Outlaws was really okay,
<v Speaker 1>yeah good yeah.
<v Speaker 2>For me, but solid seven out of ten.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, really really good seven out of ten. Where
<v Speaker 1>it's like it's doing a lot of other stuff that
<v Speaker 1>kind of floats it a little bit from on my
<v Speaker 1>personal scale, but as like an objective thing, as much
<v Speaker 1>as you could be objective. Seven out of ten was
<v Speaker 1>definitely where that game landed. All right, what we're gonna
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<v Speaker 1>a member now, it's Game Best Mornings. I'm Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>that's Rachel Kaser. We're getting back into the news with
<v Speaker 1>Clare Obscure. Devs visit Final Fantasy offices for a quote
<v Speaker 1>exchange of ideas. This is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku.
<v Speaker 1>Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three is one of the biggest
<v Speaker 1>surprise gaming hits of twenty twenty five, and a traditional
<v Speaker 1>turn based role playing game that reminded many fans of
<v Speaker 1>the golden age of PlayStation one JRPGs they still pined for.
<v Speaker 1>Some have even gone so far as to argue that
<v Speaker 1>the next Final Fantasy game should be more like Clarebscure.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe Square Enix even agrees. The publisher recently invited the
<v Speaker 1>games developers to its headquarters in Japan. Get him a
<v Speaker 1>a broch, Francois Meris and Tom get them man a
<v Speaker 1>lot of fun stand names from sandfal and Alexis Garavaron
<v Speaker 1>from Kepler. Creators of Exhibition thirty three visited the Square
<v Speaker 1>Innix offices for a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas.
<v Speaker 1>That's according to Final Fantasy vin Rebirth director Nioki Hamaguchi,
<v Speaker 1>and then they wrote that on social media. Okay. They
<v Speaker 1>also apparently this team also visited Hideo Kojima. They were
<v Speaker 1>out there and visited him at the same time.
<v Speaker 2>So if you're going to be in Japan, might as
<v Speaker 2>well visit Kachima.
<v Speaker 1>You might as well do a little bit of the tour.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, a big part of that is these
<v Speaker 1>companies are very welcoming and like well, they always want
<v Speaker 1>to make people feel homey and they feel like, hey, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you should come in, we could talk. Of course, that's
<v Speaker 1>their culture for sure, but a big part of it
<v Speaker 1>is I think this is a team that has a
<v Speaker 1>lot of eyes on it, a lot of curiosity. It
<v Speaker 1>reminds me a little bit of the undertail developer Toby Fox.
<v Speaker 1>Toby Fox when like he popped off a lot of
<v Speaker 1>Japanese delovers like we love your game, come out here,
<v Speaker 1>we want to talk to you, we want to work
<v Speaker 1>with you. They just get the reality is I think
<v Speaker 1>a lot of Japanese development studios are full of fanboys
<v Speaker 1>who just love what they love and they want to
<v Speaker 1>Like when they see a person doing something that they're into,
<v Speaker 1>no matter where they are, they want to talk to them.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's a good sign for Square Enix
<v Speaker 1>Final Fantasy and Clare Obscure kind of mix that all together.
<v Speaker 1>I do think, I really, Rachel, think that's what fans
<v Speaker 1>of Final Fantasy want for the next game, to be
<v Speaker 1>more like Claire Obscure. Do you think this is evidence
<v Speaker 1>that that is a hopeful reality?
<v Speaker 2>Well, I mean, where would the next Final Fant's Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy seventeen, let's just call it. Where would that be
<v Speaker 2>in development? Now? It'd probably be in like deep in production.
<v Speaker 1>Mental production at least, yeah, middle production.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So if I'm gonna say that, there's probably there
<v Speaker 2>were probably past the concept document phase. But I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>guess that probably somebody on the team also wants it
<v Speaker 2>to be a turn based, you know, wants it to
<v Speaker 2>go back to classic Final Fantasy turn based, classic turn
<v Speaker 2>based Final Fantasy. Excuse me, I'm sure they want that too.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I understand I they listen. They they wanted
<v Speaker 2>an action game. They did the best Final Fantasy action
<v Speaker 2>game they possibly could with sixteen, so I think they
<v Speaker 2>I think it would not be far off to suspect
<v Speaker 2>that maybe the new Final Fantasy seventeen is like, let's
<v Speaker 2>go back to our roots and make a classic turn
<v Speaker 2>based game and then an awesome turn based game comes
<v Speaker 2>out and they're like, hey, come in and see what
<v Speaker 2>we're working on.
<v Speaker 1>I think it is.
<v Speaker 2>I think it is less a case of I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>guess it's less of a case of Square Enix saying,
<v Speaker 2>you know, help us come up with an idea for
<v Speaker 2>a new turn based final fantasy game, and more like here,
<v Speaker 2>let's show you these this proof of concept that we
<v Speaker 2>have for a turn based final fantasy game, and what
<v Speaker 2>do you think? Give us your feedback. So, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>even if this was just a publicity stunt, honestly, it's
<v Speaker 2>I love the idea. These two cross, these two people come,
<v Speaker 2>these two groups of people coming together and just have
<v Speaker 2>fan boying out like you said, and just you know,
<v Speaker 2>we played your game, we love your game. Oh we
<v Speaker 2>played your games too, We love your games. That in
<v Speaker 2>and of that, knowing that probably happened, that just makes
<v Speaker 2>me happy, even if that's all it was.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I'm definitely thinking that there's like two sides
<v Speaker 1>of it. You said, publicity stunt. I bet for a
<v Speaker 1>certain level of squory inix, it is exactly that. And
<v Speaker 1>that's how like they were able to make it happen,
<v Speaker 1>and they being I think the people making games over
<v Speaker 1>at scorer Innix, who almost certainly legitimately really wanted to
<v Speaker 1>talk to these people and wanted to talk and when
<v Speaker 1>it actually wanted to exchange ideas, And so I think
<v Speaker 1>it's it's probably a publicity stunt that is turning into
<v Speaker 1>the thing that it prop like that it claims to
<v Speaker 1>have been, where these people are actually exchanging ideas, they
<v Speaker 1>really are interested in hearing with the other things about
<v Speaker 1>making RPGs, because you know, it's it's it's circular. The
<v Speaker 1>screen ex devs are a fanboy of of the people
<v Speaker 1>making these games, because these people were a fanboy of
<v Speaker 1>squareing RPGs and made their game modeled after that. So
<v Speaker 1>everyone there is going to be interested in talking to
<v Speaker 1>one another. And I think you're right that I'm sure
<v Speaker 1>this next Final Fantasy is pretty deep in but I
<v Speaker 1>also think that was happening in the shadow of trying
<v Speaker 1>to figure out what the future of Final Fantasy looked like.
<v Speaker 1>And maybe Final Fantasy sixteen didn't work out the way
<v Speaker 1>they needed it too, in terms of the idea of
<v Speaker 1>the action of real time combat attracting a huge new
<v Speaker 1>audience that certainly didn't happen. So maybe you're right. They
<v Speaker 1>were already saying let's go back to the basics, let
<v Speaker 1>or let's go back to our roots. And now they
<v Speaker 1>have this team that can come in and maybe not
<v Speaker 1>give them pointers, but just say hey, when we tried this,
<v Speaker 1>this is what we discovered, this is why it worked
<v Speaker 1>for us, And people are going to love to talk
<v Speaker 1>about that. They're just like this old concept of a
<v Speaker 1>farmer from like Germany and a farmer from France will
<v Speaker 1>have way more to say to one another than a
<v Speaker 1>banker of France and a farmer from France. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>even though they don't speak the same language, doing the
<v Speaker 1>same job is way more of a connective tissue. And
<v Speaker 1>these like there's not a lot of people making this
<v Speaker 1>style of RPG uh and and that's at the scale
<v Speaker 1>at least go ahead.
<v Speaker 2>Well yeah, and I also have to consider, like in
<v Speaker 2>the timeline of things, they're probably further along with Final
<v Speaker 2>Fantasy seven. What is the what's the third one called again?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, re remix.
<v Speaker 2>I can't remember something like that Final Fantasy seven Part
<v Speaker 2>three there there that's gonna that's gonna come up before
<v Speaker 2>any Final Fantasy seventeen does revision? Is it really revision revision?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, there's no there's no name yet, that's right. Everyone
<v Speaker 1>keeps guessing, trying to guess the name.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, go ahead, sorry, Final Final Fantasy seven Recidivism something
<v Speaker 2>like that. But yeah, anyway, that's gonna come out, and
<v Speaker 2>that's gonna be another action game that's not going to
<v Speaker 2>go turn based again. They're already we're past that point
<v Speaker 2>with Final Fantasy with the Final seven remake, unless unless
<v Speaker 2>they throw it in the minigame or something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean, the Final Fantasy seven
<v Speaker 1>battlesystem just doesn't need to change. People are really happy
<v Speaker 1>with that. They like it a lot. I'm sure has
<v Speaker 1>its critics, but overall, Yeah, but that's.
<v Speaker 2>Why I'm thinking that. You know, if they if they
<v Speaker 2>are bringing in the exhibition thirty three people, it's going
<v Speaker 2>to be for a theoretical Final Fantasy seventeen than anything
<v Speaker 2>related to the Final Fantasy seven remake trilogy. Yeah, I think,
<v Speaker 2>who knows, maybe they'll show them that too and say, hey,
<v Speaker 2>here's what we're working on. How can we bring back
<v Speaker 2>the classic flavor maybe like minigame or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was. It wasn't Naoki Yoshida that was talking,
<v Speaker 1>was Hamagucci. So but they yeah, this Rebirth director is
<v Speaker 1>Nauki Hamagucci's that the right name. I thought that was
<v Speaker 1>Yoshita that directed Rebirth or whatever. Either way, it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you're right, I'm sure that everyone there was like, let's
<v Speaker 1>just get they'll let them see all these games. They're
<v Speaker 1>already signing the NDA, we might as well let them
<v Speaker 1>come in here and see this for sure. I think
<v Speaker 1>it had it been a couple of years ago Rachel,
<v Speaker 1>where Square Enix was still in that where they're like
<v Speaker 1>trying to just a bunch of different stuff, and they
<v Speaker 1>had five different kind of smaller RPG games and strategy
<v Speaker 1>RPG games and all kinds of other stuff each year,
<v Speaker 1>I would have been like, there's a chance that really
<v Speaker 1>they were bringing them in to see some new game
<v Speaker 1>or some offshoot or like, hey, give us an idea
<v Speaker 1>for a new idea. But they did say recently over
<v Speaker 1>at Square Nix that they are sort of pulling back
<v Speaker 1>and going to focus on the main stuff. They are
<v Speaker 1>definitely going to try to focus on fewer games at
<v Speaker 1>higher quality. While a lot of publishers are saying that,
<v Speaker 1>but that means probably specifically just the big Final Fantasy games.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I do think that this probably is about
<v Speaker 1>Final Fantasy seventeen and it should be. It really should,
<v Speaker 1>because that's that is game that I feel like should
<v Speaker 1>learn a lot from what happened with Claire Obscure without
<v Speaker 1>a doubt. And again, I think there is a hesitancy
<v Speaker 1>from fans of games, especially from Japan, to be like
<v Speaker 1>they don't care what other developers are doing, and I'll
<v Speaker 1>I promise you they do. I promise you. They are
<v Speaker 1>so deeply interested in what other developers around the world
<v Speaker 1>are doing because they are. They always have been fans.
<v Speaker 1>It's their fans, they play games. It's always been that way.
<v Speaker 1>It's always worked out for them as well because they
<v Speaker 1>are always able to take ideas. I mean that, honestly,
<v Speaker 1>that's Japanese culture as a whole, right. They take a
<v Speaker 1>food from around the world and make it better, that's
<v Speaker 1>the whole thing. So that's definitely happening here as well,
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's a fantastic thing. I'm really looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to seeing what this could mean for Final Fantasy seventeen,
<v Speaker 1>even if it's not much, even if it doesn't change
<v Speaker 1>a ton. Having a little bit of of oh this felt,
<v Speaker 1>this feels informed by Claire Obscure will be exciting to see.
<v Speaker 1>I think for a lot of people.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I absolutely and I regarding what you said
<v Speaker 2>about them, like kind of narrowing their focus. That actually
<v Speaker 2>makes me feel better about it, because you know, then
<v Speaker 2>that way, I feel like I have a decent there's
<v Speaker 2>a decent chance that when they bring them in the
<v Speaker 2>Clare obscurre developers saw Final Fantasy next, not you know,
<v Speaker 2>some here's like some mobile gotcha game that we're making
<v Speaker 2>that is inspired by Exhibition thirty three. Like that's not
<v Speaker 2>what Square Enix is working on. They know better than
<v Speaker 2>that by now.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, Zaki Zaki in chats is I'm not worried about
<v Speaker 1>what the devs are thinking. I'm worried about leadership. And
<v Speaker 1>that's the thing where it's like, yeah, we still just
<v Speaker 1>can't know exactly how they are going to try to
<v Speaker 1>lead them through this or figure these things out, or
<v Speaker 1>how much rope they will give the studio to kind
<v Speaker 1>of to tie things together on their own. But it's
<v Speaker 1>clear to me that the people making the game do
<v Speaker 1>care about it and are trying to talk to other
<v Speaker 1>people in the space to make it make the most sense. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>next story. New Zoo data reveals who won out among
<v Speaker 1>the switch to third party launch titles. New Zoo is
<v Speaker 1>a data collection firm, an analyst firm. They provide you know,
<v Speaker 1>lists like this about hey, here's what's happening in games,
<v Speaker 1>and they I think they collect data using like telemetry
<v Speaker 1>from people who like share data with them. But they
<v Speaker 1>have like huge database somehow, like there's a lot of
<v Speaker 1>information that they are able to gather. So this data
<v Speaker 1>is usually pretty reliable. Comes from vic Hood at gidp is.
<v Speaker 1>New data has revealed the best performing third party titles
<v Speaker 1>that launch with the switch to on June fifth, with Delta,
<v Speaker 1>Rune and Fortnite leading the pack. New Zoo product manager
<v Speaker 1>Max Atten used the platform's game performance monitor to provide
<v Speaker 1>Games Industry Dobiz with an analysis of the digital sales
<v Speaker 1>of switch to third party launch titles. This is for
<v Speaker 1>the US E shop across the whole of June twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. Number one I think this is in order, yes,
<v Speaker 1>by order of units sold, so not dollar sales units sold.
<v Speaker 1>Number one was Delta Run, then Hogwarts Legacy, then Fast Fusion,
<v Speaker 1>Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven, Split Fiction, Rune, Factory, Guardians of Azuma, Bravely, Default,
<v Speaker 1>Flying Fairy, HD, Remaster, Speakticle Squarre, Innux, There, Street Fighter six,
<v Speaker 1>hit Man, World of Assassination, Yakuza Zero, sid Meyer's Civilization seven, Kinitsugami,
<v Speaker 1>Path of the Goddess, Survival Kids, and Sonic Cross Shadows Generations.
<v Speaker 1>I think you know, Delta Rune clearly was like like
<v Speaker 1>launched three plus four. I think the episode three and
<v Speaker 1>four right as the Switch two is coming out, So
<v Speaker 1>a big new drop, a new game going to do
<v Speaker 1>better than a lot of these games that are reports
<v Speaker 1>of other stuff. Also, I think this game is a
<v Speaker 1>Delta rooone is digital only. A lot of these other
<v Speaker 1>games are going to be available at retail, especially Cyberpunk
<v Speaker 1>twenty seventy seven. We heard how well that did. That
<v Speaker 1>was going to be primarily on the card, right because
<v Speaker 1>people are so excited about having that as a physical version.
<v Speaker 1>But any standouts in this list to you, Rachel, anything
<v Speaker 1>that this speaks to you well.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, and this is not just because we've been
<v Speaker 2>talking about Square Edicts, but I'm happy to see the
<v Speaker 2>Bravely Default series come back because I love the Bravely
<v Speaker 2>Default games. Yes, well I have a I love them,
<v Speaker 2>but they hurt me. They if you've ever played, if
<v Speaker 2>you've ever played Bravely Default, if you know, you know.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, so it's it's I actually was at a
<v Speaker 2>convention not too long ago, and I ran into Bryce
<v Speaker 2>papen Brooke who said that he was not told until
<v Speaker 2>the announcement that who he plays the main character in
<v Speaker 2>Bravely Default, and so he wasn't told until the until
<v Speaker 2>it was announced that they were bringing back bringing back
<v Speaker 2>Bravely Default Tongue Twister. So yeah, happy to see that
<v Speaker 2>on there. I guess Hogwarts Legacy. I'm also I'm a
<v Speaker 2>little confused though, because new Zoo says they don't count
<v Speaker 2>the upgrade pack towards units sold, So that means that
<v Speaker 2>it's new copies of Hogwarts Legacy switch to specific or
<v Speaker 2>like specifically on the switch to E shop that is
<v Speaker 2>selling really well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I think I think that's just the case
<v Speaker 1>of there was probably a lot of people on Switch
<v Speaker 1>one who wanted to play Hogwarts Legacy heard that the
<v Speaker 1>performance was kind of bad, and so they were just
<v Speaker 1>saying I'm gonna wait for the switch to. And when
<v Speaker 1>they bought the switch to, they got it with Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart and the one game that they got with it
<v Speaker 1>was Hogwarts Legacy. I think that's probably how that went down.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, good, good for them. That's that's a you
<v Speaker 2>know whatever, you know, personal sentiment may be about Hogwarts Legacy.
<v Speaker 2>You know, that's a that's a that's a good bargain
<v Speaker 2>because that's such a big you know, it's a it's
<v Speaker 2>a massive game, and it's a established franchise, So that
<v Speaker 2>seems like a solid pick along with Delta Rune. I mean, honestly,
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm I'm happy for Delta Rune. It's always good
<v Speaker 2>to see them succeed.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Absolutely, And as a Rich Batag game in Chap
<v Speaker 1>points out, a Hawkwarts Legacy is almost always on deep discount,
<v Speaker 1>so again this is yeah, this is unit sales. So
<v Speaker 1>people probably will be like, oh man, this is the
<v Speaker 1>game I've been waiting for and I can get it
<v Speaker 1>for I don't know what deepest discount for that means
<v Speaker 1>twenty five dollars probably maybe maybe a little bit less
<v Speaker 1>even Yeah, that that that's going to move that when
<v Speaker 1>people had been waiting for it, knew about it fast Fusion,
<v Speaker 1>uh that is. I played a lot of that. It's
<v Speaker 1>really good seeing that number three. Again, that's a digital
<v Speaker 1>only game, so it should be higher on the list,
<v Speaker 1>but it's I think definitely where yep, where it deserves. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the one one, the one that does bum me out.
<v Speaker 1>Survival Kids a game that I played a lot of
<v Speaker 1>that I think is pretty good in a like nostalgic
<v Speaker 1>sort of way of like, oh, this is what games
<v Speaker 1>used to feel like, kind of small and contained and
<v Speaker 1>just these fun little uh uh uh like little moments
<v Speaker 1>of playing through a level and then it's done. It
<v Speaker 1>feels like a game Boy game in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 1>And it's an exclusive, a new game for uh switch
<v Speaker 1>to and it's from Konami. It does all these like
<v Speaker 1>weird aspects to it, and its just no one. No
<v Speaker 1>one played it, no one bought, not even about it.
<v Speaker 1>I still intend to do something with it. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>when everyone's out next week, maybe I'll play some Survival
<v Speaker 1>Kids on the website. Everybody, I'll be there. Hell yeah,
<v Speaker 1>well we'll make it happen.
<v Speaker 2>Now that I've now that I've got my subscription, I
<v Speaker 2>can actually get back into chat. Yeah, come out and
<v Speaker 2>yell at you from from chat.
<v Speaker 1>Perfect. Yeah. Overall, though, I think this is this a
<v Speaker 1>list looks kind of how how you would.
<v Speaker 2>Expect the fact that an indie game is top of
<v Speaker 2>the list is caused for celebration.
<v Speaker 1>To me, yeah, I mean it reminds me a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the Switch Ones launch, where there were a lot
<v Speaker 1>of third party or there were some third party big
<v Speaker 1>publisher games, and then the top game for uh, you
<v Speaker 1>know on the e shop probably was Golf Story early
<v Speaker 1>on for the Switch one. I can't remember that that
<v Speaker 1>was out day one, but it was out early and
<v Speaker 1>I bet that sold very well compared to a lot
<v Speaker 1>of other games that were on the e Shop at
<v Speaker 1>that time. All Right, Dying Light the Beast delayed to September.
<v Speaker 1>This is some Darren bon th use at GameSpot. Developer
<v Speaker 1>tech Land has announced that Dying Light the b has
<v Speaker 1>been delayed by several weeks, as it will now launch
<v Speaker 1>on September nineteenth for PC PS five and Xbox Series
<v Speaker 1>X and S. The company says that it'll use the
<v Speaker 1>next month to polish the finer details of the game
<v Speaker 1>ahead of its new launch date, as it wants to
<v Speaker 1>focus on areas like the user interface, gameplay, balance, and
<v Speaker 1>player animations. It has always been our goal to make
<v Speaker 1>Dying Like the Beast the best Dying like game we've
<v Speaker 1>ever released, Techland said, and Techland tech Land said in
<v Speaker 1>a press statement. To honor this promise, we've made the
<v Speaker 1>decision to move the release date to September nineteenth, twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five, to allow for extra polishing work. We understand
<v Speaker 1>that this may be disappointing, but our experience has shown
<v Speaker 1>how important the first impression is. With just four additional weeks,
<v Speaker 1>we can address final details that'll make all the difference
<v Speaker 1>between good and great. The game was originally scheduled come
<v Speaker 1>out August twenty second, so it's one of those, you know,
<v Speaker 1>very brief delays where nothing major is going to change.
<v Speaker 1>It probably is about cleaning up a few bugs, getting
<v Speaker 1>early feedback from maybe Awker views and people saying, you know,
<v Speaker 1>this is really annoying, and then team going we can
<v Speaker 1>fix that. Should we fix that before we release the game,
<v Speaker 1>and like, well, we'll need four more weeks. It's going
<v Speaker 1>to be something along those lines. The question to you, Rachel, though,
<v Speaker 1>is yes, I don't hear anyone talking about the beast.
<v Speaker 1>I doesn't. Is there a contingency of Dying Light fans
<v Speaker 1>that are still burning off out out of my sight
<v Speaker 1>the way at the way that it happens with a
<v Speaker 1>lot of games, or do you feel like this one
<v Speaker 1>could come and go.
<v Speaker 2>I do think there is a Dying Light I think
<v Speaker 2>does still have a contingent of fans. I mean, I'm
<v Speaker 2>not gonna say it's as massive as other zombie games
<v Speaker 2>we could talk about, but I mean Dying Light still
<v Speaker 2>has a unique feel, a unique game feel to use
<v Speaker 2>to use the term that I think has not been
<v Speaker 2>replicated by other games. I don't think it's ever been
<v Speaker 2>really copied in any other game out there that kind
<v Speaker 2>of like that fun, fast paced Parker game and the
<v Speaker 2>the Day Night mechanic, I don't think it's ever really
<v Speaker 2>been replicated. And I think if that's something that you
<v Speaker 2>really like, Dying Lights the only game that you could
<v Speaker 2>actually play that has that same feeling. So I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I agree with what you say
<v Speaker 2>that a four week delay is probably only to fix
<v Speaker 2>technical challenges. A lot of times when companies say, oh
<v Speaker 2>we're going to delay it to polish the game or something,
<v Speaker 2>I think or you're going to you know, you're delaying
<v Speaker 2>it to push it into a more favorable financial quarter.
<v Speaker 2>But that's usually my suspicion. But I think four weeks. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think that's just technical problems, but I think there
<v Speaker 2>is there's an opportunity there for the especially if they
<v Speaker 2>do again Knockwood, if they come out in September, that
<v Speaker 2>is that's a good portion of time because I was
<v Speaker 2>really worried about it coming out right before GTA six
<v Speaker 2>was originally was going.
<v Speaker 1>To a Yeah, I was literally the same thing exactly.
<v Speaker 1>You could just tell that a lot of these like
<v Speaker 1>smaller dlays are people going like, wait, hey, everyone, the
<v Speaker 1>reason we originally chose this day is to get out
<v Speaker 1>way before Grand Theft Ought of six, and that's not
<v Speaker 1>coming this year, So can we just do a like
<v Speaker 1>when we really wanted to put this game out originally.
<v Speaker 1>It kind of feels like that might be happening here.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, I think that that makes some sense where
<v Speaker 1>it's again take that time. If you can also September
<v Speaker 1>maybe is like a better time to launch the game.
<v Speaker 1>It's a little bit closer to when people are like, well, hey,
<v Speaker 1>I'm raring back up to get ready for the holiday
<v Speaker 1>or whatever. And it's before October, which is going to
<v Speaker 1>sounds like it's going to be a blood bath. I
<v Speaker 1>can't remember all the games that are supposed to come
<v Speaker 1>out in October, but I do remember coming out of
<v Speaker 1>Summer Game Fest thinking, man, there are a lot of
<v Speaker 1>games announced for that month, and so it's going to
<v Speaker 1>be from that time on it is going to be
<v Speaker 1>pretty tough. So get out before that blood bath and
<v Speaker 1>then also give yourself a little bit more time. Sounds
<v Speaker 1>like a best of both worlds, or at least a
<v Speaker 1>really decent compromise in terms of when they're going to
<v Speaker 1>put the game out.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well wait a minute, when is the what's the
<v Speaker 2>new date again? I'm just jubble checking.
<v Speaker 1>It is September nineteenth.
<v Speaker 2>That is right after Borderlands four and right before Silent Hill.
<v Speaker 2>So still a little tricky, but you are right. I
<v Speaker 2>got a.
<v Speaker 1>Little a little busy. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I was looking at the list and we've got Ghost
<v Speaker 2>of Yota, of Yota, Little Nightmare, Sory, Pokemon Legends, z
<v Speaker 2>A Ninja Guid and for Outer Worlds too. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's all at October. So yeah, even even that, like
<v Speaker 2>maybe slightly suboptimal window there at least they're not directly
<v Speaker 2>competing with any huge games that are coming out in October.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I think you're right, though, that this game does
<v Speaker 1>have its own audience and they will show up for it.
<v Speaker 1>I really like Dying Light one. I did not like
<v Speaker 1>Dying Light two as much. It just lost some of
<v Speaker 1>the magic. And the first game got really dark at night,
<v Speaker 1>and there's something really cool about that of like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>this feels very like scary and realistically dark. And the
<v Speaker 1>second game sort of was like video game dark, if
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean, And that kind of ruined
<v Speaker 1>ruined the the the sort of fantasy a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>The park Wore was still fun, though combat wasn't bad.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, somebody mentioned Digimon Time Stranger. I'm sorry. Sorry. My
<v Speaker 2>husband's a huge digimon fan. So yeah, let's I don't
<v Speaker 2>want to I don't want to neglect the digimon fans.
<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty good apology the digimon community. They were
<v Speaker 1>going to be mad at you had you not done that.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want it.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want any smoke with the digimon community.
<v Speaker 1>All right, elden Ring Night Rains Duo's mode is coming
<v Speaker 1>next week. This is from Michael mcworder at Polygon shouts
<v Speaker 1>out to Michael mcworder. Still love seeing his byline. Dude's
<v Speaker 1>been doing it for forever. Night Fares will be able
<v Speaker 1>to explore limb Veld as a duo intentionally, that is
<v Speaker 1>in elder Ring Night Rain starting July thirtieth. Developer from
<v Speaker 1>software and publisher Bandy Namco announced Friday, Patch one point
<v Speaker 1>zero two for elder Ring Night Rain will add duo
<v Speaker 1>expeditions and those are both capital letter words, so you
<v Speaker 1>know that's going to be what the mode is called,
<v Speaker 1>offering an alternative to solo play and three player expeditions.
<v Speaker 1>Patch one point zero two will also include various quality
<v Speaker 1>of Life UI improvements, including more relics filtering options. Bandy
<v Speaker 1>Namco said this game was built to be a three
<v Speaker 1>player game. You can play it solo. It doesn't or
<v Speaker 1>at first it did not really adapt all that much.
<v Speaker 1>Do you playing solo? I think they did a lot
<v Speaker 1>of work to do that, and in the meantime, everyone's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>what if you know I always played with just my buddy,
<v Speaker 1>can we just play duos? And I think from soft
<v Speaker 1>the team said, we didn't even consider that. Why do
<v Speaker 1>we even think of that? Everyone's like, yeah, why didn't
<v Speaker 1>you think of that when we were talking about that.
<v Speaker 2>And it's hard enough to get one friend to sit
<v Speaker 2>down and play video games with me. It's like, me
<v Speaker 2>and my best friend will sit down, we'll play some
<v Speaker 2>co op together. That's about the extent of my people
<v Speaker 2>management skills, like getting two friends together. I'm sorry, you're
<v Speaker 2>asking too much of me at that point.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, for sure. I like that. The amount of
<v Speaker 1>social pressure that creates, no, thank you. I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to have to convince two people to do something.
<v Speaker 2>We've all got busy schedules. We're all adults with jobs
<v Speaker 2>and some of us have kids. So try to like
<v Speaker 2>try to coordinate all our schedules. Please three people? You know,
<v Speaker 2>that's what do you want for me? Do you want
<v Speaker 2>blood from a stone?
<v Speaker 1>Not going to happen. I really liked what I played
<v Speaker 1>A night Rain, have not played much more of it.
<v Speaker 1>I've been following Brad Schumaker when he was talking about it,
<v Speaker 1>and I think we'll be back to talk about it
<v Speaker 1>this week. I've not listened to this week's episode yet,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, oh yeah, man, the people who get
<v Speaker 1>into this game sound like they are having a great time,
<v Speaker 1>and it really is a its own from Soft experience.
<v Speaker 1>It's doing its own thing, and yet it still feels
<v Speaker 1>like a frum Soft game in so many important ways.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, yeah, I liked it, I should play
<v Speaker 1>more of it, But the idea of kind of going
<v Speaker 1>in there and solo killing is just not where I'm
<v Speaker 1>at right now with these kinds of games. And then
<v Speaker 1>it's the reality, like we're not joking trying to get
<v Speaker 1>friends together to play a game like this when like
<v Speaker 1>I could get interrupted after thirty minutes, Oh, I had
<v Speaker 1>to go take care of some kids stuff. Yeah, also
<v Speaker 1>not gonna happen.
<v Speaker 2>So that's I think it would be a challenge to
<v Speaker 2>get you and I to coordinate, let alone, like you,
<v Speaker 2>me and Manati please, that's yep.
<v Speaker 1>And at the same time, it's like, okay, duo's mode.
<v Speaker 1>That sounds cool. I don't know if that solves a
<v Speaker 1>lot of my problems, though I probably would still be
<v Speaker 1>like hard to get to plan a game night these days.
<v Speaker 2>But still the nice thing would be that, you know,
<v Speaker 2>with duos, is that if you did get interrupted, Manati
<v Speaker 2>and I could still go way.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, audience, I call him Manati because My
<v Speaker 2>husband's name is also Mike, so that's just usually how
<v Speaker 2>I addressed him.
<v Speaker 1>You could just call him Mitch. That's what everyone around
<v Speaker 1>here calls them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's perfectly fine by me. Just if I say Mike,
<v Speaker 2>Like my husband and my and my and my supervisor
<v Speaker 2>run over and I'm like, who did you want here?
<v Speaker 1>All right? Next story here, Nintendo says Princess Peach and
<v Speaker 1>Mario are just good friends. This is from mind Nintendo News.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is clarified on Nintendo on the Nintendo Today app
<v Speaker 1>that the lovable Principal Princess Peach and Mario are just
<v Speaker 1>good friends, putting to bed fan theories that they are
<v Speaker 1>in a relationship or have had a relationship. Did they
<v Speaker 1>put out a new story. Did they write in the
<v Speaker 1>paper that Mario is still in the friend zone? Is
<v Speaker 1>that what happened here today on the Nintendo Today? Did
<v Speaker 1>they blast his ass in public like that? That's incredible stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm struggling here because I'm like, what do you
<v Speaker 2>the Why are you constantly teasing us? I've seen them
<v Speaker 2>right before.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the whole thing was like, Oh, she's gonna give
<v Speaker 1>him a kiss if he does the right thing, or whatever,
<v Speaker 1>And there was a reward of getting a kiss in
<v Speaker 1>the wedding scene in Super Mario RPG.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, history will say they were roommates.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo. I don't believe you. I don't care. That's not
<v Speaker 1>what's happening. My friends have never baked the cake for me,
<v Speaker 1>all right, And I'm pretty sure that cake is a
<v Speaker 1>euphemism or maybe not.
<v Speaker 2>I think, yeah, there's there's I mean, do you, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I I love my friends. I'm not sure I'd go
<v Speaker 2>to all this trouble to keep rescuing them. They it's
<v Speaker 2>like at a certain point, Manu, it's a certain point, Hun,
<v Speaker 2>you've done this to yourself.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, uh uh yeah. It's just very funny that they
<v Speaker 1>clarified on the Nintendo Today app that this is how
<v Speaker 1>it goes. But I'm sure that wasn't the headline. I
<v Speaker 1>did not look up the Nintendo Today app to see
<v Speaker 1>what was going on over there. I kind of less
<v Speaker 1>people just tell me.
<v Speaker 2>Well. In the app they say the exact words are
<v Speaker 2>Princess Peach and Mario are good friends and help each
<v Speaker 2>other out whenever they can. Now they don't say they
<v Speaker 2>are just good friends. Yeah, okay, I mean that leaves
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of room for interpretation, and there's also
<v Speaker 2>thinks like, okay, was there a translation thing here with
<v Speaker 2>the original Japanese where they're called like partners or something
<v Speaker 2>like that.
<v Speaker 1>My guess would be that there are way deeper and
<v Speaker 1>more in depth conversations about what like the relationship is
<v Speaker 1>between Nintendo characters than we could ever imagine. Where it's
<v Speaker 1>like this couldn't They could not get published to the
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Today app without absolute clarity about what is happening
<v Speaker 1>over there? Are you right?
<v Speaker 2>Correct?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? All right, finally Mario. Yeah, sorry, buddy. Maybe one
<v Speaker 1>day you'll you'll figure out what it's like. Last story here.
<v Speaker 1>Killing Floor three reviews are out. It has a seventy
<v Speaker 1>four on Open Critic. Right now, this is that, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's like a wave based shooter where you take on
<v Speaker 1>waves of enemies or stuff. I've never been a Killing
<v Speaker 1>Floor guy, but Ellie gold Over at PC Gamer gave
<v Speaker 1>it a seventy four out of one hundred and said
<v Speaker 1>Killing Floor three is fun, quick to pick up, and
<v Speaker 1>builds on what worked for its predecessors, and while there
<v Speaker 1>will always be a place for gory multiplayer shooters, they
<v Speaker 1>are a dime a dozen and this one doesn't do
<v Speaker 1>a lot to stand out from the rest. Jamie Tougeyev
<v Speaker 1>at Duel Shockers gave it a six point five out
<v Speaker 1>of ten and said Mowing Down Z is still fun
<v Speaker 1>in principle, but the weak's sound design, questionable aesthetic shift,
<v Speaker 1>and repetitive gameplay loop make it hard to justify at
<v Speaker 1>full price of forty dollars. If trip Wire supports this
<v Speaker 1>game as much as it did its predecessors, Killing Floor
<v Speaker 1>three stands a chance of being good for now, it
<v Speaker 1>isn't there yet, and then just play it, said, Killing
<v Speaker 1>Flour three took a step forward, but several steps back.
<v Speaker 1>While it succeeded in delivering an enjoyable co op experience,
<v Speaker 1>it's limited strictly to playing with friends. At the same time,
<v Speaker 1>it failed to evolve meaningfully. Monsters feel less terrifying, the
<v Speaker 1>atmosphere is less gory, and the overall content is too
<v Speaker 1>limited to satisfy longtime fans of the series. Ain't that
<v Speaker 1>just always the story with these rachel where these games
<v Speaker 1>they have had long term support. I'm trying like pay
<v Speaker 1>Day two or whatever, and then they go make pay
<v Speaker 1>Day three and it's like everyone's like there's not enough here.
<v Speaker 1>You made some changes that I don't like. I'm going
<v Speaker 1>back to pay Day two. It doesn't sound like that's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be the risk here, like everyone's gonna rush back
<v Speaker 1>to Killing Floor two. But at the same time, doesn't
<v Speaker 1>sound like people are going to rush to Killing floor three.
<v Speaker 1>So they are going to have to kind of keep
<v Speaker 1>pushing forward with more content. Does that sound right to you?
<v Speaker 2>Sounds about right. They're gonna have to support it for
<v Speaker 2>a little while before the community is like, okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we'll we'll fully make the transition over to Killing Floor three.
<v Speaker 2>I will say I think it's probably receiving slightly better
<v Speaker 2>reception than Payday three because, as I recall, that game
<v Speaker 2>was just yes, dog walked when it came.
<v Speaker 1>About respect on its throat, I think, and not a
<v Speaker 1>good way.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody liked that game, that nobody was satisfied with that,
<v Speaker 2>And as I recall, Starbree's is like there's like pandemonium
<v Speaker 2>behind the scenes at Starbreeze over that. But that's that's right, Jim,
<v Speaker 2>from what I've heard. But so yeah, I don't think
<v Speaker 2>it's I don't think it's going to cause quite that
<v Speaker 2>level of panic, but I think they are going to
<v Speaker 2>have to stick with it for a little while before
<v Speaker 2>people will say like, yeah, let's go play Killing Floor three.
<v Speaker 2>It's going to be a blast.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yeah, so tell you. I mean, you're right. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>I shouldn't have been invoked pay Day three because this
<v Speaker 1>is not that situation. But it's just there are echoes
<v Speaker 1>of it of we want more, this isn't enough, and
<v Speaker 1>then pay Day three had way worse problems than that before. Sure, uh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>that does it for the headlines. Let's get to the
<v Speaker 1>Bomb twelve everybody. This is a new thing that we're
<v Speaker 1>doing over here on Game Mass Mornings. Every Friday, we
<v Speaker 1>will have a list called the Bomb twelve for this week.
<v Speaker 1>It's for the week of July twenty first, twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>As scene on Game mess Mornings, this is our list.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to be a living list of the twelve
<v Speaker 1>games that matter right now. We're going to get informed
<v Speaker 1>by what you all send me. I put out a
<v Speaker 1>call for hey, what's your game right now? On social media?
<v Speaker 1>It was a Google form. Everyone filled it out, got
<v Speaker 1>a ton of results. More than a thousand people responded.
<v Speaker 1>I just kind of I sorted, I processed the data
<v Speaker 1>and then we added a little sugar on top and
<v Speaker 1>it gave us this result. So we're going to start
<v Speaker 1>from twelve and work our way up. And number twelve
<v Speaker 1>is a game that I had not heard of until
<v Speaker 1>I did this, which may be one thing that this
<v Speaker 1>list might be useful for in the future. He is Coming,
<v Speaker 1>which looks like a little tactic turn based game that
<v Speaker 1>is with like lo fi one bit visuals or two
<v Speaker 1>bit visuals, and it's got a really cool look to it.
<v Speaker 1>Then we go to number eleven street Fighter six. I
<v Speaker 1>number ten, Yeah, it seems pretty cool. I've been meaning
<v Speaker 1>to check it out. Now A number eleven Street Fighter six,
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people still playing this. I was not surprised,
<v Speaker 1>but it's like, man, there are people who are this
<v Speaker 1>is still their shit. So this is going to stay
<v Speaker 1>on the list for a little bit. Blueprints at number ten. Now,
<v Speaker 1>this is not a Game of the Year list, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>but the games that matter right now elder Ring Night
<v Speaker 1>Rain at number nine. Number eight is Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven.
<v Speaker 1>Number seven is Bilatro number six, Final Fantasy fourteen. You
<v Speaker 1>people are still sick ohs, and you're just out there
<v Speaker 1>playing that NonStop Number five, Monster Train two. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>if we got one right there, Monster Trained two at
<v Speaker 1>number five. Number four is Tony Hawk's pro Skater three
<v Speaker 1>plus four number three still clear Obscure Expedition thirty three.
<v Speaker 1>It is.
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that that's in third place.
<v Speaker 1>When I was getting the feedback and getting the numbers
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that, it was just like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this is a game that people are just going to
<v Speaker 1>keep picking up throughout the rest of this year. It's
<v Speaker 1>one of the reasons I think it stands a really
<v Speaker 1>good chance of being Game of the Year at stuff
<v Speaker 1>like the achillis number two Death Stranding two and number
<v Speaker 1>one Donkey Kong Bonanza and that's the Bomb twelve from
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb. Thank you everybody for our first ever and
<v Speaker 1>we're really excited about this. It's a fun little thing
<v Speaker 1>to do. You know. If you remember like reading video
<v Speaker 1>game magazines growing up, and they would have like their
<v Speaker 1>top ten lists or whatever, top twenty list, top thirty lists,
<v Speaker 1>and it would like it was always like, what is
<v Speaker 1>this list, and like it would almost very kind of
<v Speaker 1>invariably be the thing I would turn to first in
<v Speaker 1>like GamePro or whatever. Well, we're going for the same thing. Here, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>I will put out another call for what is your
<v Speaker 1>game right now? Over the weekend, look out for that.
<v Speaker 1>It'll be on Blue Sky. We'll throw into the discord
<v Speaker 1>as well, looking forward to hearing what your feedback will be.
<v Speaker 1>And look, it's total requests, live rules here everybody. If
<v Speaker 1>you want to try to game the system, go tell
<v Speaker 1>all your friends to hey, vote for this game. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>something cool happen. Maybe you can get the new kids
<v Speaker 1>on the block. Put in on the Bond twelve. We'll see.
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that Blotro is still on there.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, Yes, a Blotro is one of those ones that
<v Speaker 1>also feels like this, like that it's in the same
<v Speaker 1>zone as Final Fantasy fourteen where there are people who
<v Speaker 1>are like, yeah, this is just my game right now.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see you know, the So the rules for how
<v Speaker 1>things get counted might change in the future, and I
<v Speaker 1>ain't telling anybody how it's getting calculated. This is this
<v Speaker 1>is proprietary tech over here, all right. I think we
<v Speaker 1>just point out not going to be doing poll questions
<v Speaker 1>on Friday, so that'll be a kind of a through
<v Speaker 1>the week sort of thing, and then the Bomb twelve
<v Speaker 1>will cap out every week. That's how we're going to
<v Speaker 1>end everything. All right, With that out of the way,
<v Speaker 1>Rachel Kazer, Uh, why don't you tell people where they
<v Speaker 1>can find you on the internet what you have going on?
<v Speaker 1>All that good stuff?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Well, you can find me at GamesBeat dot com.
<v Speaker 2>It is now fully gamespeed dot com. It is no
<v Speaker 2>longer VentureBeat dot com slash gaming. It is now GamesBeat
<v Speaker 2>dot com. And you can check out our subscription service,
<v Speaker 2>which includes an exclusive newsletter from me. And I forgot
<v Speaker 2>to mention this earlier. We do have a free tier.
<v Speaker 2>We have a free access tier if you want to join,
<v Speaker 2>and you get access to some of our posts and
<v Speaker 2>some of our some of our exclusive content, not all
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<v Speaker 2>want to check in and see what I'm doing. You
<v Speaker 2>can also find me on social media. I'm getting back
<v Speaker 2>after I've been sick for the last little while, so
<v Speaker 2>i haven't been posting very frequently, but I am feeling
<v Speaker 2>better and I'm getting back out there. So you can
<v Speaker 2>also find me on TikTok where I do a daily
<v Speaker 2>gaming news show. I'm getting back into doing a daily
<v Speaker 2>daily gaming news show, and we now have a games
<v Speaker 2>Beat TikTok where I'm posting fun videos during the week
<v Speaker 2>there as well.
<v Speaker 1>Excellent. Yeah, it's just been awesome seeing you guys thrive
<v Speaker 1>on your own and really excited for the future of
<v Speaker 1>games Beat, and a big part of that is what
<v Speaker 1>this is, the work you do, Rachel. So thanks for
<v Speaker 1>being on the show with us today. Oh, thank you,
<v Speaker 1>really appreciate it. I did this, they did do it
<v Speaker 1>a little bit out of order. I think the plan
<v Speaker 1>was I should have actually wrapped up yesterday's poll question.
<v Speaker 1>So let's do that real quick. Jan Do you think a
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo director is happening next week? Yes or no? We're
<v Speaker 1>the options. I'm on yes. I'm saying yes. I'm pretty
<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty confident that will happen, even though again I
<v Speaker 1>haven't heard about it. Just the way some friends are
<v Speaker 1>talking about it, it's like, yeah, I believe you guys.
<v Speaker 1>The results, though, are fifty percent to fifty percent, completely split,
<v Speaker 1>split right down the middle, although when I look at
<v Speaker 1>the bar graph it does look like yes is slightly
<v Speaker 1>ahead of no, so maybe it's fifty point one percent
<v Speaker 1>versus forty nine point nine percent. We'll see, though, I
<v Speaker 1>don't blame anyone for not getting their hopes up right, Rachel.
<v Speaker 1>It's at this point so if it doesn't happen, it's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be a relatively big disappointment. Although what July direct
<v Speaker 1>always just feels like, wait, should there be one in July?
<v Speaker 1>It's dead a summer. Does anyone gonna care? I'm gonna care,
<v Speaker 1>especially if you if we get Metroid Prime for a
<v Speaker 1>release date.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, absolutely, I mean anytime, anytime Nintendo rings the bell,
<v Speaker 2>my ears perk up.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, all right, we got your plugs. Let's say thank
<v Speaker 1>you one more time, Rachel. We really appreciate you coming
<v Speaker 1>on the show. Let's also say thank you to everybody
<v Speaker 1>for watching and listening. Giant Bomb is gonna have plenty
<v Speaker 1>more Today. We're gonna be back with UPF and a
<v Speaker 1>little bit where we are gonna play Mario Party Jamboree
<v Speaker 1>Live plus Jamboree TV or whatever the hell the goddamn
<v Speaker 1>game is called. I'm sure Dan will find the most
<v Speaker 1>painful way for us to play that, so definitely tune in.
<v Speaker 1>That is happening. I'm gonna check the thing. Yeah, that's
<v Speaker 1>happening at three pm, so look out for that everyone
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime. YEAP. Once again, thank you Rachel, thank
<v Speaker 1>you everybody for watching, listening. Until next time, have a
<v Speaker 1>good one, take care of yourself and goodbye bye