The Games You Should Play Over The Holidays

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Game and Former Show.
<v Speaker 1>We've got a bit of a different episode this week
<v Speaker 1>for you. Instead of our typical roundtable discussion where we
<v Speaker 1>talk about the ladies gaming news and reviews and exclusive
<v Speaker 1>reveals alongside Game and Former staff and special guests from
<v Speaker 1>around the industry, today we're changing it up and we're
<v Speaker 1>each going to be recording in a little solo segment
<v Speaker 1>talking about our games that we're looking forward to checking
<v Speaker 1>out over the Thanksgiving break, And I think it's a
<v Speaker 1>great way for you to know what we're up to,
<v Speaker 1>what we're playing behind the scenes, and as well as
<v Speaker 1>you know, get some recommendations for games maybe you want
<v Speaker 1>to check out. So I hope you enjoy this special episode.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to be shorter obviously than usual, but I
<v Speaker 1>think it's a great way for us to at least
<v Speaker 1>get something up for you, whether you're listening in between
<v Speaker 1>you know, runs to get a new plate at Thanksgiving,
<v Speaker 1>or if you are not someone who celebrates the holiday,
<v Speaker 1>or you're in another location where the holidays is not
<v Speaker 1>a holiday week. You know, we hope you enjoyed this
<v Speaker 1>episode regardless. Thanks as always for listening, folks, and hope
<v Speaker 1>you enjoy.
<v Speaker 2>Hey everybody, it's Matt Miller here, editor in chief at
<v Speaker 2>Game Informer.
<v Speaker 3>Happy Thanksgiving.
<v Speaker 2>We wanted to talk a little bit about some of
<v Speaker 2>the games we're going to be playing over the break,
<v Speaker 2>maybe give you some ideas about things that you might
<v Speaker 2>be to enjoy. For me, I'm diving back into one
<v Speaker 2>of my favorite games of the last several months. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if everybody's had a chance to play it yet.
<v Speaker 2>Absolum is an amazing brawler and it's one you should
<v Speaker 2>absolutely check out it. It parkens back to some of
<v Speaker 2>those old kind of fantasy brawlers from the early days,
<v Speaker 2>even things like Golden Acts or the early like D
<v Speaker 2>and D brawlers like Champions of Mystara and that kind
<v Speaker 2>of thing.
<v Speaker 3>But man that.
<v Speaker 2>By adding in a rogue light component to what they're doing,
<v Speaker 2>it's a perfect matchup for the way that you'd want
<v Speaker 2>to have.
<v Speaker 3>A brawler experience.
<v Speaker 2>They also have some really fun build crafting as you
<v Speaker 2>go through each run, So you choose your character and
<v Speaker 2>you're going through this big fantasy world and fighting different
<v Speaker 2>bosses and that kind of thing, and as you go,
<v Speaker 2>not unlike Hades, you are selecting a build and different
<v Speaker 2>powers to focus on, and there's a certain level of
<v Speaker 2>like they push you towards cool build combos as you progress,
<v Speaker 2>and they also change the state of the world quite
<v Speaker 2>regularly to advance the story and to change things up
<v Speaker 2>and to give you different paths to pursue and that
<v Speaker 2>kind of thing. It's incredibly fun. I think you're for
<v Speaker 2>a lot of folks when you think about it, beat
<v Speaker 2>them up. You think about a game you might play
<v Speaker 2>for like a few hours and then put down, but
<v Speaker 2>this is a game that you could play for just
<v Speaker 2>dozens of hours. It's a really, really robust, big game,
<v Speaker 2>and I think it's one of those that would be
<v Speaker 2>easy to have gone under the radar in twenty twenty five,
<v Speaker 2>and it should not be missed. You can play at solo,
<v Speaker 2>but you can also play with a friend, either locally
<v Speaker 2>or online. I kind of wish it had for player
<v Speaker 2>that was maybe the be the only thing I kind
<v Speaker 2>of wish that it had that it didn't. But the
<v Speaker 2>game itself has tight combat, it's really fun, it has
<v Speaker 2>this great progression loop. I highly recommend it if you're
<v Speaker 2>looking for a fun kind of fantasy action experience. Another
<v Speaker 2>thing I'm planning to go back to is Assassin's Creed Shadows.
<v Speaker 2>That's a game that, you know, I think it's fair
<v Speaker 2>to say no pun intended here. It was overshadowed, perhaps
<v Speaker 2>by by Ghost later in the year, but I'm a
<v Speaker 2>big Assassin's Creed enthusiast. I really like what they did
<v Speaker 2>with Shadows in a lot of ways. I like the
<v Speaker 2>big open world that they have in that game. There's
<v Speaker 2>a lot of activities to do, and one thing that
<v Speaker 2>I haven't had a chance to really fully explore yet
<v Speaker 2>is the expansion that they released called Clause of Awaji,
<v Speaker 2>that suppose, from what I've heard, helps to wrap up
<v Speaker 2>some of the lingering story threads that got left behind
<v Speaker 2>at the end of the core game, which I think
<v Speaker 2>for myself maybe some other folks who played that game,
<v Speaker 2>it was easy to feel like there was a lot
<v Speaker 2>of build up along certain plot threads that didn't maybe
<v Speaker 2>totally get where it needed to go. And I've heard
<v Speaker 2>that Clause resolves some of that, which I'm stoked about.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm also just excited to go back into that world,
<v Speaker 2>see those characters again, which I like, revisit my my
<v Speaker 2>hideout space that I spent so much time building up.
<v Speaker 2>I think if you played Ghosts this year but you
<v Speaker 2>didn't play ac Shadows, it might be worth thinking about.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's it would be.
<v Speaker 2>Easy to overlook it, but I wouldn't do that. It's
<v Speaker 2>it's a it's a cool game. It's a cool advancement
<v Speaker 2>of the Assassin's Creed gameplay style, so I would check
<v Speaker 2>it out. The other I think another game I have
<v Speaker 2>been thoroughly engrossed in for the last year that I
<v Speaker 2>continue to want to sing the praises for is Marvel Rivals.
<v Speaker 2>That has has emerged for me really, I think a
<v Speaker 2>lot of us at this point kind of have like
<v Speaker 2>a hobby game that while I while we're playing other things,
<v Speaker 2>you're also playing this one game that you go in
<v Speaker 2>and you do a few matches, or you do a
<v Speaker 2>few rounds, or you play a raid or whatever. For
<v Speaker 2>me right now, that really is Marvel Rivals. I I
<v Speaker 2>think it scratches that same itch that overwatched it years ago,
<v Speaker 2>but it hits harder for me because I'm a you know,
<v Speaker 2>Marvel Comics enthusiast. I like the third person action, I
<v Speaker 2>like the destructibility, the environment. I really like the art
<v Speaker 2>style of that game. And uh and I think they've
<v Speaker 2>done an awesome job of supporting it here. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>we're about a year in. It's an annivers you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's the anniversary now, first anniversary of.
<v Speaker 3>The game being out.
<v Speaker 2>But they have expanded it with new characters, is new maps,
<v Speaker 2>new modes consistently throughout the last twelve months. And I've
<v Speaker 2>found it to be a really rewarding and fun game
<v Speaker 2>to try out different characters and and dive in and
<v Speaker 2>try to get good with one, and you you climb
<v Speaker 2>them up the ladder, and then when you're getting kind
<v Speaker 2>of sick of him, you're like, I'm gonna go, I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to go try to learn this other character now.
<v Speaker 2>And in particular, I'll say that the new character that
<v Speaker 2>they just added, Gambit from the X Men, is a
<v Speaker 2>really really fun healer, a strategist that has some unique
<v Speaker 2>twists on the game, on the gameplay that you're used
<v Speaker 2>to having from a healer. I think he's really rocked
<v Speaker 2>up the meta quite frankly, and in how that game
<v Speaker 2>is playing, you see him in a lot of matches,
<v Speaker 2>so you might be hard, it might be hard to
<v Speaker 2>snag him sometimes at the character select, but.
<v Speaker 3>He's cool.
<v Speaker 2>He's a really really interesting variation on the on the concept.
<v Speaker 2>So you know, check that game out if you if
<v Speaker 2>you haven't tried it yet, or if you maybe just
<v Speaker 2>tried it at launch and and had your fun and
<v Speaker 2>went elsewhere, I.
<v Speaker 3>Think it's worth going back and checking out.
<v Speaker 2>I do a lot of the tabletop you know, the board,
<v Speaker 2>card tabletop role playing game covers, like all that kind
<v Speaker 2>of stuff here at Game Informer, and so I also
<v Speaker 2>wanted to take this chance to to throw out a
<v Speaker 2>couple of fun recommendations there of things that I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>be playing over the holidays.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna have a lot more of this in.
<v Speaker 2>This next issue and over the holiday season, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>gonna have some like a top ten tabletop game board
<v Speaker 2>and card games, a separate list about the tabletop RPGs.
<v Speaker 3>That we're really strong this year.
<v Speaker 2>So you can keep an eye on GameInformer dot com
<v Speaker 2>and on the magazine issues for that. But in the meantime,
<v Speaker 2>I did want to throw out a couple that were
<v Speaker 2>we're very cool games that I think you could snag
<v Speaker 2>sometime soon if you're looking for something to play with
<v Speaker 2>family and friends and uh and offer some ideas there.
<v Speaker 2>One of those games is Lord of the Rings Fate
<v Speaker 2>of the Fellowship. This is a really slick, cool board game.
<v Speaker 2>It uses the old pandemic system if you've ever played
<v Speaker 2>any of those board games. It's a cooperative game where
<v Speaker 2>you're you know, you're playing the members of the Lord
<v Speaker 2>of the Rings Fellowship as you're trying to save Middle Earth.
<v Speaker 2>You're trying to get proto to throw the Ring into
<v Speaker 2>Mount Doom, all that kind of stuff. But there's different
<v Speaker 2>missions that you have to do in the meantime while
<v Speaker 2>the Armies of Mortar and the Ring Rates are spreading
<v Speaker 2>out across the map. It's a it's a very very
<v Speaker 2>cool twist. It's i would say, maybe the most complex
<v Speaker 2>and interesting variation on that pandemic formula, which has been
<v Speaker 2>very well tread by the publisher. They've they've done that
<v Speaker 2>in a bunch of different themes and and settings. But
<v Speaker 2>this Lord of the Rings one is is very very cool.
<v Speaker 2>Might be hard to track down a copy. I'll say
<v Speaker 2>I had to really search through the local game stores
<v Speaker 2>here the Twin Cities before I found found when I could,
<v Speaker 2>I could snag. But it's it's great. If you want
<v Speaker 2>something that's a little bit more party game, ask for
<v Speaker 2>the holidays.
<v Speaker 3>I point you.
<v Speaker 2>Towards chit Chat. Chitchat Is is a fun, little conversation based.
<v Speaker 3>Game. It's it's cooperative.
<v Speaker 2>Actually, you are working together with the other people who
<v Speaker 2>are playing, and you're trying to figure out It's like
<v Speaker 2>get trivia questions on the cards that all have numerical answers,
<v Speaker 2>and you don't need to know what the number is.
<v Speaker 2>You need to know how the number fits with the
<v Speaker 2>answers to other questions that that there that might be
<v Speaker 2>on those cards. And so you might have like one
<v Speaker 2>weird trivia question that like the answer is six hundred
<v Speaker 2>and forty three, and another one that the answer is,
<v Speaker 2>you know, two thousand, and you need to know that,
<v Speaker 2>like the six forty three one comes before the two
<v Speaker 2>thousand and one. And it makes for some fun, kind
<v Speaker 2>of absurd conversations, and I think it's worth it's a
<v Speaker 2>good time.
<v Speaker 3>I like it a lot.
<v Speaker 2>Another one that I would point folks towards is finn
<v Speaker 2>span Uh. I bet if you even have even a
<v Speaker 2>passing awareness of board games, you've probably heard of wing
<v Speaker 2>span Uh. You know, board games have had some big,
<v Speaker 2>kind of like standout success stories in in the last
<v Speaker 2>decade or so Wingspan was a really really strong board game.
<v Speaker 2>Finn Span is a is a I don't know if
<v Speaker 2>i'd call it a sequel exactly, but it's a it's
<v Speaker 2>the same idea but brought over to fish, where you're
<v Speaker 2>you know, you've got different fish that you're you're hatching
<v Speaker 2>and you're you're growing. Uh this environment, uh, this bias
<v Speaker 2>sphere of fish, and and the way that the different
<v Speaker 2>fish interact and how you grow and how you develop
<v Speaker 2>and try to win the game is really fun. I
<v Speaker 2>think it's one that's worth exploring if you're if you're
<v Speaker 2>looking for a fun one to play with friends. And
<v Speaker 2>the last one I threw out there is a game
<v Speaker 2>called Jungo. This is This is a card game. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>maybe a little bit in a in the party game sphere,
<v Speaker 2>but maybe a little bit more involved in that kind
<v Speaker 2>of a strategic thing.
<v Speaker 3>It's one of those games that.
<v Speaker 2>I often when I've played it, I feel like it's
<v Speaker 2>one of those games that's like like go Fish or
<v Speaker 2>Uno or something like that, that you're while you're playing,
<v Speaker 2>you're like, this totally feels like something that must have
<v Speaker 2>been around for decades, but it's not. It's a new game.
<v Speaker 2>It's very cool. It's very easy to learn. It has
<v Speaker 2>to do the jungle name comes because all the cards
<v Speaker 2>are monkey themed. It's a very very light theme that
<v Speaker 2>doesn't doesn't do much. The fun is actually that the
<v Speaker 2>numeric quality of things, because each of the cards has
<v Speaker 2>UH has a number on it, and you're trying to
<v Speaker 2>create larger sets or higher sets in your hand that
<v Speaker 2>you can then play out onto the table. And so
<v Speaker 2>if there's like two two's on the table, then you
<v Speaker 2>could play you know, three threes onto the table or
<v Speaker 2>something like that. And so you're you're always trying to
<v Speaker 2>up the ante of what's been played out of.
<v Speaker 3>The table to get rid of all your cards.
<v Speaker 2>You're not allowed to rearrange the cards in your hand,
<v Speaker 2>which is kind of the one of the other twists
<v Speaker 2>on the experience. It makes me a really fun kind
<v Speaker 2>of tactical play, but something that you can play quickly
<v Speaker 2>in between rounds of other larger board games if you're
<v Speaker 2>having like a board game get together with your friends.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's one of the coolest new card games
<v Speaker 2>in the last year and one that's worth checking out.
<v Speaker 3>So there you go.
<v Speaker 2>That's some of the stuff I'm gonna be digging into
<v Speaker 2>over the Thanksgiving break and in the holidays.
<v Speaker 3>Be that.
<v Speaker 2>I hope everybody has a really awesome holiday coming up.
<v Speaker 3>And hey, thanks for following along with Game Informer. We
<v Speaker 3>really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 4>Hie everybody, Hey, everybody, Marcus Stewart here, and yes, by
<v Speaker 4>the time you're listening to this, I am probably knee
<v Speaker 4>deep and a bunch of Thanksgiving food and catching the
<v Speaker 4>itis and passing out on a cap somewhere. But when
<v Speaker 4>I'm not doing that, I do plan to spend this
<v Speaker 4>Thanksgiving break playing a bunch of games. Probably it'll be
<v Speaker 4>a mixture of new stuff that I haven't touched yet
<v Speaker 4>from this year, as well as making my way through
<v Speaker 4>my twenty twenty five backlog. One of the games I'm
<v Speaker 4>definitely gonna be spending more time with is Hades two.
<v Speaker 4>I have completed a few runs. I still have not
<v Speaker 4>finished the full game, but I'm having a blast with it.
<v Speaker 4>As a Giant Hades fan, I am very happy with
<v Speaker 4>what Super Giant has accomplished with this sequel, so I
<v Speaker 4>will definitely be putting in more runs than that. I'll
<v Speaker 4>also be working my way through Holiday Silk Song, which
<v Speaker 4>regret I have not played as much as I've been
<v Speaker 4>wanting to just because I've been tied up with other games,
<v Speaker 4>but I did pick it back up recently and I've
<v Speaker 4>kind of found my groove again, so I want to
<v Speaker 4>kind of continue that momentum keep working my way through
<v Speaker 4>that game. I still have a ways to go. And
<v Speaker 4>it's also great because it's a good podcast game. As
<v Speaker 4>much as I do like the music and I game,
<v Speaker 4>I do like putting it on when I'm watching or
<v Speaker 4>not investead of necessarily watching something, but listening to a podcast,
<v Speaker 4>if for no other reason, because it distracts me from
<v Speaker 4>all the constant deaths and failures and sort of alleviates
<v Speaker 4>the frustration that comes with that. In terms of stuff
<v Speaker 4>that I want to try to start for the first time,
<v Speaker 4>I've been sitting on wander Stop for a few months now.
<v Speaker 4>This is the game by I believe, the creator of
<v Speaker 4>the Stanley Parable, and it's sort of the sort of
<v Speaker 4>like Cozy Shop like Owner game, but it's stars like
<v Speaker 4>a Soldier and the story gets into some PTSD some
<v Speaker 4>burnout themes that I think is really interesting. I know
<v Speaker 4>Kyle was a fan of it, so I definitely want
<v Speaker 4>to try that. And then I've also been sitting on
<v Speaker 4>and consume me cool indie game that kind of touches
<v Speaker 4>on eating disorders and sort of like, you know the
<v Speaker 4>negative effects of that. Two smaller games, but twos that
<v Speaker 4>I've really wanted to get to, So those will probably
<v Speaker 4>be on docket, and then who knows what else. Like honestly,
<v Speaker 4>even the game was saying, now, who knows how much
<v Speaker 4>I'll play, if any of them, or if I'll commit
<v Speaker 4>to them, because a part of my himself wants to
<v Speaker 4>fire up the Call of Duty seven or Black Ops
<v Speaker 4>seven campaign and run through that. Thanksgiving Day we'll be
<v Speaker 4>at with family and friends, probably play some Jackbox and
<v Speaker 4>Mario Kart, maybe some Team Sonic Racing. Who knows. It's
<v Speaker 4>going to be a bunch of stuff. As much as
<v Speaker 4>Thanksgiving is about eating a bunch of food, it's just
<v Speaker 4>as much about playing a bunch of games for me.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm excited to dive into it. It should be
<v Speaker 4>a great holiday in general, and I hope all of
<v Speaker 4>you watching and listening have a lovely Thanksgiving yourselves.
<v Speaker 5>Hey there, Kyle Hilliard, game in former magazine executive editor. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>we're recording individual thoughts on kind of you know, Thanksgiving
<v Speaker 5>games and games throughout the year, and maybe games that
<v Speaker 5>didn't get a lot of highlighting. One that sticks out
<v Speaker 5>for me that I don't think I talked about it all,
<v Speaker 5>whether that was Game Informer or even you know where
<v Speaker 5>I contribute over at mid Max as well is Blade Chimera,
<v Speaker 5>which came out early in the year. I'm actually gonna
<v Speaker 5>google the release date for it because it really passed
<v Speaker 5>me by. Blade Chimera one word technically came out January sixteenth,
<v Speaker 5>So this is this is this is like an early
<v Speaker 5>twenty twenty five game, one of the earliest, but it's cool.
<v Speaker 5>It's it is a metroid Vania. It has just fantastic
<v Speaker 5>pixel animation, just like awesome looking sprites, a lot of
<v Speaker 5>Symphony of the Night inspiration in a huge way in
<v Speaker 5>the way your primary character moves. But you have a gun,
<v Speaker 5>which is kind of what sets it apart from Symphony
<v Speaker 5>of the Night is you do have a blade, but
<v Speaker 5>you also have a gun, and it when I explain
<v Speaker 5>it or when I pitch it this way, and I
<v Speaker 5>don't know, maybe it's not very exciting, but a lot
<v Speaker 5>of the combat, at least the gun combat, is you
<v Speaker 5>kind of slowly walking on a two D plane and
<v Speaker 5>like just like loading up enemies with bullets as you're
<v Speaker 5>kind of like walking and reloading, and it's just very
<v Speaker 5>satisfying and it looks cool, and it's kind of gives
<v Speaker 5>that symphony of the night vibe, but with guns, which
<v Speaker 5>is unique, and I don't get that a lot. There
<v Speaker 5>are certainly plenty of Metroid inspired games jump, you know,
<v Speaker 5>search action games that have guns, but I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>This one just felt a little unique, and I just
<v Speaker 5>I love the way it looks. I'm a sucker for
<v Speaker 5>great pixel art, and this is a game with great
<v Speaker 5>pixel art. And in the face of an upcoming Metroid
<v Speaker 5>this year, and Hollow Night is the big one Silksong,
<v Speaker 5>I do fear that Blade Chimera will get a little
<v Speaker 5>left behind because it is a pixelated Metroid inspired game.
<v Speaker 5>And if a lot of folks, if they're gonna spend
<v Speaker 5>time with a Metro inspired game, they're probably gonna play
<v Speaker 5>Metroid or they're gonna play Hollow Night Silksong, which are
<v Speaker 5>great games, absolutely, But I was kind of getting frustrated
<v Speaker 5>with Hollow Night silk Song in that it's in that
<v Speaker 5>it's a very difficult game, and when it came out.
<v Speaker 5>I eagerly downloaded it and I was excited to play it,
<v Speaker 5>but I found I just was not in the state
<v Speaker 5>of mind to be challenged in that way. I just
<v Speaker 5>wasn't in the mood for that. I'm sure I will
<v Speaker 5>get back to Hollow Night at some point before the
<v Speaker 5>end of the year and spend more time with it,
<v Speaker 5>but I just was like, Ah, I like this two
<v Speaker 5>D action. I want to explore a big map, but
<v Speaker 5>I just don't know if I want to be challenged
<v Speaker 5>this month. I don't know if I want to keep
<v Speaker 5>fighting the same bosses over and over and over and
<v Speaker 5>over again. And I kind of landed on Blade Chimra.
<v Speaker 5>I've been playing on I'm playing it's a switch one
<v Speaker 5>game I've been playing on my switch to and I
<v Speaker 5>just I really got into it. I didn't It's it
<v Speaker 5>just hit that sort of like that thing that I
<v Speaker 5>wanted in the moment of like a search action game
<v Speaker 5>that wasn't just so punishing. In Blade Chimera, the handful
<v Speaker 5>of bosses that I that I've defeated have taken me
<v Speaker 5>like at most two to three tries, you know, with
<v Speaker 5>a couple of just one. And it's and that's the design.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's not meant to sort of frustrate you, but
<v Speaker 5>it's it's satisfying that it looks great, and it's got
<v Speaker 5>kind of an interesting story. You're like an amnesiac soldier
<v Speaker 5>who has like a demon who's kind of connected to you.
<v Speaker 5>Which is funny because Possessors, which came out later in
<v Speaker 5>the year, kind of had sort of a similar sort
<v Speaker 5>of utterly set up. But I'm sure they differentiate themselves
<v Speaker 5>quite a bit. But yeah, Blade Chimera, I I would
<v Speaker 5>recommend it, but I don't know if it's going to
<v Speaker 5>be on a lot of like end of the year
<v Speaker 5>games and or end of the year lists and things
<v Speaker 5>like that, including game informers. I don't I don't think
<v Speaker 5>we have a We put a side space for it,
<v Speaker 5>which would have been my call. I would have been
<v Speaker 5>the on to st step up four. But this is
<v Speaker 5>I think this is a good platform to talk about
<v Speaker 5>play time here. I also want to use this opportunity
<v Speaker 5>to talk about Thanksgiving memories because it is a holiday
<v Speaker 5>that I associate with video games in a huge way. Nowadays,
<v Speaker 5>I feel like we get big releases throughout the year.
<v Speaker 5>February and March have weirdly become these windows for like
<v Speaker 5>huge releases. But certainly when I was growing up, certainly
<v Speaker 5>when I was in high school and most in part
<v Speaker 5>of college, it felt like when you know, when retail
<v Speaker 5>was still huge part of video game sales, and like,
<v Speaker 5>you know, the Xbox Live Arcade was not quite a
<v Speaker 5>thing yet. Steam wasn't really quite a thing yet. I mean,
<v Speaker 5>certainly Steam started in two thousand and four, but you know,
<v Speaker 5>it took a couple of years to sort of become popular.
<v Speaker 5>All that to say is a lot of huge games
<v Speaker 5>would come out in November. The games that you were
<v Speaker 5>looking forward to all year dropped in November. And in
<v Speaker 5>high school and from me in college later it became
<v Speaker 5>this window. It became this dedicated video game window where
<v Speaker 5>I at least had a couple of days where I
<v Speaker 5>could fully focus in on a video game. And I remember,
<v Speaker 5>in particular in college, I remember it was a lot
<v Speaker 5>of you know, my friends at least, like we all
<v Speaker 5>kind of dispersed and went to colleges that were all
<v Speaker 5>a couple hours away, and then Thanksgiving break rolled around
<v Speaker 5>and we all kind of reconvened, and that is how
<v Speaker 5>we played games. Like Halo two was you know, we
<v Speaker 5>were a big Land party Halo group, and then you know,
<v Speaker 5>Halo two came out while we were all in college,
<v Speaker 5>and then we kind of came back together and all
<v Speaker 5>played Halo two together during the break kind of locally,
<v Speaker 5>which was like a lot of fun. I also have
<v Speaker 5>specific memories of Fable, the original Fable. I remember starting
<v Speaker 5>it in college and then really going all in on it,
<v Speaker 5>like coming home for the Thanksgiving break from college and
<v Speaker 5>just going all in on Fable and just being like
<v Speaker 5>just letting myself get fully lost in that world. And
<v Speaker 5>it's one of those games that for a long time,
<v Speaker 5>I was like, I wish I could delete the part
<v Speaker 5>of my brain that played Fable so I could play
<v Speaker 5>it again, because I really just have a fond memory
<v Speaker 5>of just you know, very limited responsibilities and just like
<v Speaker 5>not having school deadlines or anything and just playing a
<v Speaker 5>lot of Fable. And then you know, Meddle Gear Solid
<v Speaker 5>three was another one of those where I just had
<v Speaker 5>I hadn't started metal Gear Solid three because metal Gear
<v Speaker 5>Solid one and two were so important to me that
<v Speaker 5>I wanted to give Medle Gear Solid three sort of
<v Speaker 5>the full attention that it deserves. And it was a
<v Speaker 5>game that I kind of waited until I had some
<v Speaker 5>time off to play, and to my memory, that happened
<v Speaker 5>around Thanksgiving. But now as I'm saying it aloud, I'm
<v Speaker 5>kind of like, wait, hold on, did that come out
<v Speaker 5>around Thanksgiving? Did I make that up? Maybe it was
<v Speaker 5>maybe that was more of a Christmas break game for me.
<v Speaker 5>When what specific month did it come out? I came
<v Speaker 5>out November seventeenth. Yeah, that was like you know right there,
<v Speaker 5>Like I picked it up and I probably waited a
<v Speaker 5>couple of days until the week that I finally had
<v Speaker 5>talent to time off to finally play Metal Gearssault three.
<v Speaker 5>But unfortunately, in that time I read a lot about it,
<v Speaker 5>and many elements of the game I had spoiled them
<v Speaker 5>for myself. So I remember playing through uh meddle Gear's
<v Speaker 5>Sult three and being like, wow, that's really cool. Kind
<v Speaker 5>of wish I hadn't read about that. I wish I
<v Speaker 5>hadn't done that to myself. So but you know, that's
<v Speaker 5>my own problem. But anyway, Hey, thanks for supporting Game
<v Speaker 5>Informer this year. This is an odd year for Game Informer.
<v Speaker 5>We came back in February after the blip. We've come
<v Speaker 5>to kind of call it because we've kind of disappeared
<v Speaker 5>for a while, but we're back. People have been very
<v Speaker 5>supportive and it's been heartwarming, and I have confidence about
<v Speaker 5>the future Game Informer for the first time in a while. Frankly,
<v Speaker 5>I'm happy with the way things are going, and I'm
<v Speaker 5>happy to be writing about video games again. And I'm
<v Speaker 5>very happy that you can find Game Informer on store shelves,
<v Speaker 5>which is which is a wild thing. Never during my
<v Speaker 5>time at Game Informer has that been a thing. So yeah,
<v Speaker 5>you know, go to your local Barnes and Noble, pick
<v Speaker 5>up a copy of Game Informer. What a strange thing
<v Speaker 5>to pitch, What a strange thing to plug that shouldn't
<v Speaker 5>be odd at all. But hey, thanks, thanks everybody. I
<v Speaker 5>hope you have an awesome year. We'll be back before
<v Speaker 5>the year concludes, and we'll you know, we have a
<v Speaker 5>lot more end of the year game to talk about.
<v Speaker 5>But check out Blake Kimera and check out now You're
<v Speaker 5>Solid three Delta and think of me playing it during
<v Speaker 5>Thanksgiving and having a wonderful time.
<v Speaker 3>All right, thank you.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, it's Alex Van Aiken, senior video editor here at
<v Speaker 1>Game and form're talking about the games I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>be playing over the holidays. Number one I think for
<v Speaker 1>me is I really want to get to Morsels, which
<v Speaker 1>is a creature collector rogue Light. It's developed by Ferkula.
<v Speaker 1>I've met a few of the folks on that team,
<v Speaker 1>Toby and Sam Webster, the sound designer and composer who
<v Speaker 1>also worked on Grindstone. So if you know that soundtrack,
<v Speaker 1>you should really check out Morsels because Sam has also
<v Speaker 1>done all of the sound design in this game, as
<v Speaker 1>well as the music. So I'm really looking forward to
<v Speaker 1>playing this. Finally, I've played demos at various events in
<v Speaker 1>the past, and it finally just released on the eighteenth,
<v Speaker 1>just last week, and Yeah, I'm in the mood for
<v Speaker 1>something weird and something fun and gritty and grimy. The
<v Speaker 1>art style is excessive, and in the best way for
<v Speaker 1>folks who might not be unaware. Toby Dixon worked on
<v Speaker 1>Kndhog two and Atomic Crops, and so there's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of that DNA here and Morsels. You know, really neat
<v Speaker 1>scan lines and color gradients over top of really really
<v Speaker 1>detailed and gorgeous pixel art. Everything just has like this
<v Speaker 1>oozy vibe to it. You're playing these creatures that are
<v Speaker 1>like it's like you're kind of in a sewer system,
<v Speaker 1>it feels like, and you're coming across these creatures that
<v Speaker 1>you'll be able to collect to get past certain challenges,
<v Speaker 1>and they'll kind of evolve over time in really fun ways.
<v Speaker 1>I really enjoyed the demos, like I said, and I'm
<v Speaker 1>dying to play the full release. I have that actually
<v Speaker 1>up here on my switch to loaded up, and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait to give Morsels another try, but for
<v Speaker 1>real this time. Another game I'm looking forward to getting
<v Speaker 1>to is a game that I started actually when it
<v Speaker 1>launched in July. It's from Bubby dark Star, who's a
<v Speaker 1>really well known indie developer who worked on Subway Midnight
<v Speaker 1>and Bubby has also put out a lot of Itch
<v Speaker 1>titles over the years. I'm pretty sure, just like if
<v Speaker 1>you're in the indie space, you probably heard of them,
<v Speaker 1>and if you haven't, you should definitely familiarize yourself because
<v Speaker 1>I do really neat work. Over over the summer, Bubby
<v Speaker 1>dark Star put out a like a hand drawn FPS
<v Speaker 1>slash like narrative game, and the art style is it's
<v Speaker 1>it's two D and it's almost like a boomer shooter
<v Speaker 1>and where everything is on billboards. So like billboards is
<v Speaker 1>like a term often used and game designed to talk
<v Speaker 1>about like a a sprite or a two D image
<v Speaker 1>that is always facing the player. It's kind of like
<v Speaker 1>what gives classic like Boomer shooters like that vibe where like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, everywhere you look the enemy is always facing you.
<v Speaker 1>That's kind of what what that what that's from?
<v Speaker 2>Uh?
<v Speaker 1>And and and Shooty Shooty. Robot Invasion does a similar
<v Speaker 1>sort of tech and it's it's kind of like this.
<v Speaker 1>The art style brings about this really new, feeling, uncanny
<v Speaker 1>and irrelevant vibe. You're essentially like there's robots invading and
<v Speaker 1>you're you're defending Earth, you know, but there's all these
<v Speaker 1>like weird, interesting characters who are asking favors for you
<v Speaker 1>of you and and amitst like this in this Invasion.
<v Speaker 1>It's a really it's a really cool looking game, and
<v Speaker 1>it's one that I wish I had put more time
<v Speaker 1>into when A launched. So I'm planning to to go
<v Speaker 1>back and check that out this holiday. I also know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, probably Dark Star, Uh you know, I I
<v Speaker 1>want to see them make more stuff, and so I
<v Speaker 1>want to I want to support them, and especially shout
<v Speaker 1>them out here on this this podcast hopefully get some
<v Speaker 1>more people checking out that game, because I think it's
<v Speaker 1>definitely worth checking out Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion. What else
<v Speaker 1>I I I have been playing. I'm back on League
<v Speaker 1>of Legends with one Eric Van Allen, fellow video editor
<v Speaker 1>here at a Game Informer, and we've been playing a RAMU,
<v Speaker 1>specifically a new mode called Mayhem, which is a if
<v Speaker 1>you don't know what a ram is, and if you
<v Speaker 1>don't know what the League of Legends, League of Legends
<v Speaker 1>is or the specifics of it, it's a mobia and
<v Speaker 1>which means you are controlling a hero character and helping
<v Speaker 1>to escort escort these grunt like AI minions uh to
<v Speaker 1>eventually like if they if they make it far enough,
<v Speaker 1>they'll kind of take out enemy towers and you have
<v Speaker 1>to kind of use them to get close to a tower,
<v Speaker 1>otherwise you'll take tower shots and die. And so both
<v Speaker 1>teams are trying to do this and slowly dismantle the
<v Speaker 1>the other team's defenses and and eventually you get to
<v Speaker 1>if you if you get rid of all their towers
<v Speaker 1>and and there are other structures you can take out
<v Speaker 1>their their nexus, their core at their base and win
<v Speaker 1>the game, and ARAM simplifies the concept. Usually in the
<v Speaker 1>League of Legends there are three lanes. It's where like
<v Speaker 1>stay in your lane. You know, a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>say stay in your lane. Well, there's only one lane
<v Speaker 1>in a RAM, and it goes to it goes to
<v Speaker 1>the base, and there's there's there's fewer towers and such.
<v Speaker 1>But it's really a sped up version of a regular
<v Speaker 1>League of Legends game, and it's usually pretty chaotic because
<v Speaker 1>typically you're playing characters like randomized characters. You don't know
<v Speaker 1>who you're gonna play, uh, and you kind of have
<v Speaker 1>a like small pool of characters to choose from that
<v Speaker 1>your team has, and it's just like a fun chaotic way.
<v Speaker 1>You get a lot of team comps that that are
<v Speaker 1>normally not not played do do like sort of like
<v Speaker 1>roll Q and stuff. But Mayhem is a version of
<v Speaker 1>of a RAM that's even more zany. And then they've
<v Speaker 1>kind of introduced similar I guess I've heard some friends
<v Speaker 1>call it like almost like rogue light perks. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if it's I wouldn't necessari say like rogue Light,
<v Speaker 1>but like you're getting like a series of six perks
<v Speaker 1>every so often throughout the game, and you're like, they
<v Speaker 1>are like game breaking things, like they are increase your
<v Speaker 1>range by two hundred and fifty, so suddenly a melee
<v Speaker 1>character can hit you from across the field or turn
<v Speaker 1>into a tiny version of yourself. And the bigger your
<v Speaker 1>opponents are, the more like distance and scale difference in
<v Speaker 1>scale between you and your opponents, the more damage you do.
<v Speaker 1>It's like really fun, silly, stupid kind of augments to
<v Speaker 1>the base normal game, and it's a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>It's you can really make some busted characters. You also,
<v Speaker 1>you know, you can make some pretty you can make
<v Speaker 1>some duds, which I often do, but I still have
<v Speaker 1>a lot of fun. There's like very little stakes. It's
<v Speaker 1>just a fun way to explore the game and and
<v Speaker 1>to learn learn more about characters that you normally normally
<v Speaker 1>don't play because there are there are hundreds of characters
<v Speaker 1>in the League of Legends, and so yeah, I'm really
<v Speaker 1>enjoying Legal Legends a RAM. Similarly, another update to an
<v Speaker 1>existing game I've been playing, uh, you know, Fortnite Simpsons
<v Speaker 1>having a lot of fun exploring Springfield, as as Marge
<v Speaker 1>and and Bart in them, And I think Fortnite continues
<v Speaker 1>to to impress me with just like the level of
<v Speaker 1>detail that they bring when when partnering with with some
<v Speaker 1>of these big ip I think it's funny that, you know,
<v Speaker 1>other other collaborations, you know, they'll transform a couple of zones,
<v Speaker 1>I'll introduce some characters or like a new ability or something,
<v Speaker 1>whereas Simpsons, the entire level is just the Simpsons everything
<v Speaker 1>is in it and more of a Simpsons art style.
<v Speaker 1>You've got you know, the factory and the neighborhoods of
<v Speaker 1>Springfield and all that, uh and and that's it. Like
<v Speaker 1>there's no regular non Simpsons POI and so it like
<v Speaker 1>makes our very immersive and silly experience. But yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>think I think I'm gonna pass it to another editor,
<v Speaker 1>or maybe I'm at the end.
<v Speaker 6>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>But thank you for checking out the show this week.
<v Speaker 1>It really means a lot, and we hope that this
<v Speaker 1>was like a fun way too for us to kind
<v Speaker 1>of share about what we're talking about, share about what
<v Speaker 1>we're playing rather uh and and talk about what's on
<v Speaker 1>our plates, you know, outside outside of that food.
<v Speaker 3>You know what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, I'm done here. Thanks for watching y'all, I'll
<v Speaker 1>see you next time. Goodbye.
<v Speaker 6>Hey game a former show, It's associate editor Charles here,
<v Speaker 6>and this year the game I'm thankful for.
<v Speaker 3>Is Dungeons and Dragons.
<v Speaker 6>I've talked about this game a good bit on the show,
<v Speaker 6>I'm pretty sure, and if you know me outside of
<v Speaker 6>just the game and former show, you know this is
<v Speaker 6>kind of one of my things. I very much like
<v Speaker 6>Dungeons and Dragons obviously, but it's not on my list
<v Speaker 6>because I'm planning to play it this Thanksgiving break, although
<v Speaker 6>I would like to if I had time. I'm just
<v Speaker 6>planning to watch a bunch of it, and I thought
<v Speaker 6>it was an interesting thing of games you're grateful for,
<v Speaker 6>or games that you're fans of not necessarily because you're playing,
<v Speaker 6>but because you're observing other people play it, or you're
<v Speaker 6>kind of existing in the community, and kind of in
<v Speaker 6>the way that like games are unique in that you
<v Speaker 6>can kind of be an auxiliary fan of a thing
<v Speaker 6>without necessarily participating all the time. So, for example, Dungeons
<v Speaker 6>and Dragons. I really like the show Dimension twenty. I've
<v Speaker 6>been listening to not Another D and D podcast a
<v Speaker 6>lot lately. I'm in the second campaign on that one,
<v Speaker 6>and just the notion that someone someone could listen to
<v Speaker 6>a ton of dungeons and Dragons content. I listened to
<v Speaker 6>all of the Adventure Zone Balance before I ever actually
<v Speaker 6>played a game. The notion that you could be a
<v Speaker 6>fan of a game without ever actually having played the
<v Speaker 6>game does also extend to some video games, like there's
<v Speaker 6>people that I know I really enjoyed watching like Competitive
<v Speaker 6>and Justice Too for a while, even though I had
<v Speaker 6>the game and I kind of played it, but I
<v Speaker 6>wasn't watching it in the sense that I was trying
<v Speaker 6>to practice my combos or competing in tournaments or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>I just thought it was cool.
<v Speaker 6>I liked watching it, and I liked understanding how the
<v Speaker 6>characters matched up and if people were mastering this or
<v Speaker 6>who was good or whatever. And I do think there's
<v Speaker 6>like an esports component of it in the way also
<v Speaker 6>that you know, if someone says I'm a really big
<v Speaker 6>fan of football, you probably don't assume if they're an
<v Speaker 6>adult anyways, you don't assume that they play football. You
<v Speaker 6>a seem that they watch football and learn a lot
<v Speaker 6>about it, which is also a game. It's just a
<v Speaker 6>way that humans enjoy games is finding the masters of
<v Speaker 6>a game and just really enjoying all the statistics and
<v Speaker 6>the gameplay and the mechanics of that. And that does
<v Speaker 6>extend to video games and tabletop games. I think there's
<v Speaker 6>even and a further extension of they don't even have
<v Speaker 6>to be masters of the craft. They can just be
<v Speaker 6>entertaining people. If you're watching a streamer you like, for example,
<v Speaker 6>you really like someone that plays the Sims, you really
<v Speaker 6>like someone that plays Animal Crossing, or even like a
<v Speaker 6>Northern Lion type right where he's playing a roguelike or whatever,
<v Speaker 6>and you're not necessarily ever gonna play it, but you'll
<v Speaker 6>be like, oh, yeah, I like Balatro. I've never played it.
<v Speaker 6>I've just seen other people play it a lot.
<v Speaker 3>And I think.
<v Speaker 6>In the video game space because so many of us
<v Speaker 6>are ostracized for lack of a better term in school
<v Speaker 6>and varying degrees of severity depending on your social situation,
<v Speaker 6>but there's a real intense need to like Gatekeep and
<v Speaker 6>say no, I'm a real video game fan because I
<v Speaker 6>played Dark Souls or I played this game all the
<v Speaker 6>way to the end, and you don't even count because
<v Speaker 6>you're not playing. But when we talk about video games
<v Speaker 6>as a culture, as an industry, it's not necessarily just
<v Speaker 6>the players. Sometimes now it's the viewers or the wider enjoyers,
<v Speaker 6>or you know, you're sitting in the Marvel Rival subreddit
<v Speaker 6>and listening to all the back and forth, which is
<v Speaker 6>what I'm doing. And I haven't played in weeks, but
<v Speaker 6>I still find I still pay a touch to the
<v Speaker 6>game and updates and all that. So this year, I
<v Speaker 6>guess if I'm thankful for a thing or a concept,
<v Speaker 6>it is the idea that games are meant to be played,
<v Speaker 6>but you don't always have to be the one playing them,
<v Speaker 6>and you can still enjoy them like dungeons and Dragons,
<v Speaker 6>like an esport, like a casual streamer, without necessarily being
<v Speaker 6>the ones with your hands on the dice around the controller.
<v Speaker 6>And I think that's a perfectly valid and exciting way
<v Speaker 6>to do it.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>I hope this Thanksgiving you find some time to chill,
<v Speaker 6>whether that is playing a game or watching a game
<v Speaker 6>or something in between. I hope you guys have a
<v Speaker 6>happy Thanksgiving.
<v Speaker 7>Hey, Game Informer, this is Eric Van Allen, one of
<v Speaker 7>your video editors here, and for this holiday, I think
<v Speaker 7>I'm dipping into Trails in the Sky first chapter again
<v Speaker 7>It's really been my kind of go to game for
<v Speaker 7>the last few months, I think, and it's been a
<v Speaker 7>joy to just always have there to go back to
<v Speaker 7>after every assignment, after every review game that I pick up.
<v Speaker 7>It's been the thing that I kind of constantly returned
<v Speaker 7>to over and over and over again. I love the
<v Speaker 7>story of a Stelle and Joshua learning to become kind
<v Speaker 7>of junior Bracers and come into their own in a
<v Speaker 7>world that feels really fully realized. I think that's one
<v Speaker 7>of my favorite parts of the game so far, and
<v Speaker 7>really like what feels like the appeal of the Trail
<v Speaker 7>series is having this world that feels very lived in,
<v Speaker 7>has all these different moving parts and cogs that interconnect
<v Speaker 7>and form the sort of tensions that happen around the character, political,
<v Speaker 7>or whether around different forces moving in the background. I
<v Speaker 7>love that stuff. So that's probably top of my list
<v Speaker 7>for the holidays is to get some more progress and
<v Speaker 7>done in that. Otherwise, I think I'm looking towards probably
<v Speaker 7>Clubhouse Games. That's always a classic that comes out. I'm
<v Speaker 7>play no secrets, I hold nost versions that I'm not
<v Speaker 7>like a Clubhouse Games megafan. At the end of the day,
<v Speaker 7>I love just sitting down with that game and going
<v Speaker 7>through all the different versions of old board games, card games,
<v Speaker 7>strange marble based games like Nine Men's Morris, and working
<v Speaker 7>on my different metals for them and getting all of
<v Speaker 7>them locked in, or playing them with a family. We
<v Speaker 7>love playing stuff like Ludo or Last Card, which is
<v Speaker 7>a Nintendo's version of Uno. It's a really really enjoyable thing.
<v Speaker 7>I think my family has always really liked doing some
<v Speaker 7>kind of board game, card games something like that during
<v Speaker 7>the holidays, and clubhouse games kind of slotted in really
<v Speaker 7>well for that, something where we could all kind of
<v Speaker 7>grab a controller, hook the dock up, pass pass around,
<v Speaker 7>play some Ludo, play some blackjack. We've done that a
<v Speaker 7>few times before, kind of silly or just you know
<v Speaker 7>Connect four stuff like that, you know, and then that's
<v Speaker 7>the physical version of Connect four, but I think there
<v Speaker 7>is a digital one in clubhouse games as well. Anything
<v Speaker 7>like that I think always really gets a lot of
<v Speaker 7>play during the holiday times. So I'm going to be
<v Speaker 7>bringing that back with me. I'm also going to try
<v Speaker 7>to teach my family how to play Magic. The Avatar
<v Speaker 7>set finally broke the seal. Multiple members of my family
<v Speaker 7>are big Avatar fans, and so they really were like, hey, okay,
<v Speaker 7>you win, teach us how to play magic. We saw
<v Speaker 7>the Avatar art that looks really sick. We want to learn,
<v Speaker 7>So I'm bringing a bunch of Jumpstar packs home. If
<v Speaker 7>you've ever wanted to learn how to play magic, or
<v Speaker 7>if you if you yourself play magic and you want
<v Speaker 7>to teach somebody else how to do it, I think
<v Speaker 7>the Jumpstar packs are actually one of the best ways
<v Speaker 7>of doing it. You just buy two of them. They're
<v Speaker 7>kind of thicker booster packs, and the whole idea is
<v Speaker 7>that you smack them together and they make one playable deck.
<v Speaker 7>And so you just get two of them, smack them together,
<v Speaker 7>get two of them, smack them together, You've got two
<v Speaker 7>decks to play with. I'm bringing like eight of them
<v Speaker 7>home so that way we can kind of mix and match.
<v Speaker 7>They each come with different color combinations or focuses or
<v Speaker 7>ideas in them that can play well with each other.
<v Speaker 7>And this set for Avatar, I think is really maybe
<v Speaker 7>my favorite of the year, which is weird to say,
<v Speaker 7>considering Final Fantasy was also this year, and I also
<v Speaker 7>really liked the Edge of Eternities, but the Avatar set
<v Speaker 7>has really incredible mechanics. I think the air bending, the earthbending,
<v Speaker 7>the water bending, the fire bending, all of it feels
<v Speaker 7>very fully realized in magic creating these mechanics that feel
<v Speaker 7>like they do in the show, and then also feel
<v Speaker 7>really good as magic mechanics for opening up avenues of
<v Speaker 7>different kinds of play. They all have very cool, unique
<v Speaker 7>ways of being employed and doing cool things with them.
<v Speaker 7>And I can't wait to see how the jump Star
<v Speaker 7>cards land with the family. I know some folks will
<v Speaker 7>be hoping to get certain characters, obviously Zuko Katara, famous
<v Speaker 7>characters like that. I just I want to run a
<v Speaker 7>cabbage merchant. That'd be sick, you know, get some get
<v Speaker 7>some bossco the bear action out there. But it's always
<v Speaker 7>really fun. I find that the holidays are a time
<v Speaker 7>for me of social playing stuff. Sitting at a table
<v Speaker 7>playing a game, sitting around a TV playing some jack box,
<v Speaker 7>playing some some clubhouse games. It's always about being together
<v Speaker 7>and in the moment. And I love games that put
<v Speaker 7>you in the moment with other people, and so I
<v Speaker 7>love this time of year for that. And then you know,
<v Speaker 7>when it gets late at night, it gets cozy, you know,
<v Speaker 7>the temperature drops get a little RPG, you sit down
<v Speaker 7>with that, you go off to your cozy rocker by
<v Speaker 7>the fire or something like that with the trails in
<v Speaker 7>the sky. It's a good pick. So yeah, check those
<v Speaker 7>out if you're looking for something for this holiday break.