Speaker 1: Today's episode will contain light spoilers for a number of
Speaker 1: games we all played in twenty twenty four, so be careful,
Speaker 1: but also go play these games. Hello, my name is
Speaker 1: a Boo and I'm Aaron, and welcome to X ray
Speaker 1: Vision Extras and Next ray Vision series, where we dive
Speaker 1: deep to even more of your favorite shows, movies, comics,
Speaker 1: and pop culture. Every superhero team needs side quests, and
Speaker 1: our rotating panel of producers and guest hosts we'll be
Speaker 1: suiting up to help Jason and Rosie cover all of
Speaker 1: the amazing nerd content out there.
Speaker 2: Today it's our Video Game Superlatives episode for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: First up, in the previously on, Jason, Rosie, and Joel
Speaker 2: will talk Superman, Craven, the Hunter, and Lord of the
Speaker 2: Rings War of the Row here. Then in the roundup,
Speaker 2: the X ray crew will share a few of their
Speaker 2: favorite game recommendations to add to your backlog. And first
Speaker 2: previously on.
Speaker 3: First Up, the Superman trailer will come out this week Thursday,
Speaker 3: but ahead of that we get a the official poster
Speaker 3: for the new Superman Man movie, revealed by James Gunn.
Speaker 4: It is a nod to.
Speaker 3: The classic Christopher Reeves era Superman and listen, not stuff here,
Speaker 3: but but I'm excited and I'm excited to see the trailer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he said it to this kind of like
Speaker 5: slowed down, almost interpolated version of the John Williams classic
Speaker 5: Superman theme, So I think that's interesting.
Speaker 6: The tagline is look up, which I like.
Speaker 5: It feels kind of hopeful, but yeah, this is a classic.
Speaker 5: It's just it's a poster and that's telling you when
Speaker 5: the trailer is going to come out.
Speaker 6: I'm excited to see the trailer. I want to know
Speaker 6: what's going on with this movie.
Speaker 5: They've kept it pretty under wraps, so it's going to
Speaker 5: be exciting to check it out.
Speaker 3: Next up, Craven The Hunter Boo Craven the Hunter spider
Speaker 3: Man spin off starring the ab laden Aaron Taylor Johnson.
Speaker 7: He was cop, he was a mister.
Speaker 3: He's looking very vascular in this role where he plays
Speaker 3: Spiderman's notorious hunter loving foe. Craven is Bad and it
Speaker 3: is currently bombing to an insane degree in the box
Speaker 3: office eleven dollars over its opening weekend in three thousand
Speaker 3: over three thousand theaters. This folks is setting a new
Speaker 3: record for spider Bombs. Coming quite below this year is
Speaker 3: Madam Webb, which came in at fifteen point three million
Speaker 3: over a weekend. It has a unbelievably bad fifteen percent
Speaker 3: Rotten Tomatoes score Rush Tomatos see grade on Cinema score,
Speaker 3: which makes you feel like the Sony marketing department is
Speaker 3: working hard. Pump that thing up, folks, Uh, Rosie and Joelle.
Speaker 3: You've seen mister Johnson and his craven unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 3: like cheese greater abs in this film, tell us your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Not enough abs, no.
Speaker 3: More abs, beats more abs.
Speaker 4: He had plenty, they did not show them off enough.
Speaker 4: You would actually be.
Speaker 5: Surprised at how little he is in this movie. He
Speaker 5: is actually like they tried to beat ole juice him.
Speaker 5: I think he's probably only in like an hour of
Speaker 5: this two hour movie. There's like a thirty minute flashback.
Speaker 5: The whole thing is a mess.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 5: It was funny because like one, there's so many random
Speaker 5: Spider Man.
Speaker 6: References in this movie that.
Speaker 5: Like, oh my god, the doctor in New York Miles Warren.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh yeah, well, the Jackal fans out there
Speaker 5: going crazy for that one. And then there is also
Speaker 5: just like the dialogue is so impossibly bad there there
Speaker 5: really is a line where one character says.
Speaker 6: My grandma died and I never saw her again.
Speaker 5: After that, it's like, babe, of course you didn't. She
Speaker 5: was dead, Like what what did you think was gonna happen?
Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean it was hilarious because also like
Speaker 5: the guy from Gladiator to Fred Heshinger, he plays the
Speaker 5: in this Craven's brother who becomes the chameleon. Sure, but
Speaker 5: the who way through the movie he just keeps being like,
Speaker 5: I'm a chameleon.
Speaker 6: Everyone always.
Speaker 5: Everyone always say like I'm a cameleo because and you
Speaker 5: want to know, you want to know. They basically make
Speaker 5: him like he's like an He's like an Ariana Grande
Speaker 5: style like song impersonator. Like they just have him like
Speaker 5: singing different types of songs. They'll be like any here
Speaker 5: he is singing Tony Bennett, Harry Is. I was like,
Speaker 5: is this while you're going with this?
Speaker 6: I don't know. It was a hot mess. It actually dragged.
Speaker 8: It's almost two and a half hours long.
Speaker 6: There's a night a.
Speaker 5: Minute, but probably yes, Jason's two and a half hours and.
Speaker 4: You feel it.
Speaker 5: It is bad And also like if you are a
Speaker 5: fan of Calypso, very interesting complex character in the comics.
Speaker 5: They absolutely just flob her hair with Oscar winner Arianna
Speaker 5: de bos. Also, they do actually see gi her mouth
Speaker 5: at one.
Speaker 4: Point there is in this film is insane. Not only
Speaker 4: do they ai her mouth at one point with a
Speaker 4: character she has no One of the characters power sets
Speaker 4: is that he counts and maybe shifts time, maybe is
Speaker 4: moving through it quickly. You're very confused. All the power
Speaker 4: sets are confusing. Is craven doctor Doolittle too, You're not
Speaker 4: really sure. They always may show up when he needs them,
Speaker 4: but he's never actually having a conversation or making noises.
Speaker 4: It's so no bizarre, but are like Calypso is like
Speaker 4: winds up counting with a character she's never met and
Speaker 4: gives her best Aamuel L. Jackson impression of three motherfuckers,
Speaker 4: and I was like, this iscist, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: It does have some very questionable kind of like law
Speaker 5: that they inserted, like with voodoo magic and they go
Speaker 5: to Ghana and they don't know what they're doing. And
Speaker 5: also the thing that made me laugh the most that
Speaker 5: by the end I was like dying every time they
Speaker 5: did it. These people could not commit to a like
Speaker 5: specific location to save their life. So every single time
Speaker 5: it changes location, they're just like northern Russia, somewhere in
Speaker 5: upstate New York.
Speaker 6: It's like around England, and.
Speaker 5: You're just like, guys, could you just say one city
Speaker 5: that they're actually in? Like I beg you, this is
Speaker 5: like it was so funny, but I will say enjoyable
Speaker 5: cinema experience if you like to laugh at a bad movie.
Speaker 4: Which animal maulings both shot pretty decently.
Speaker 3: I am just confused. I'm confused because like Sony makes
Speaker 3: good animated Spider Man movies clearly right, like very good, beautiful.
Speaker 3: I think at some point they'd be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: anybody that's worked on those films, why don't you come
Speaker 3: over and help us with our live actions imagine stuff,
Speaker 3: because we've now made what like five six really really terrible, uh,
Speaker 3: some legendarily terrible like live action movies, including Madam Webb,
Speaker 3: The Utterly Horrific and Forgettable Let There Be Carnage morebius,
Speaker 3: like how can this keep happening? And this movie is
Speaker 3: directed by J. C. Chandor, who, as we've stated in
Speaker 3: past the past episodes, is like a is good. It's
Speaker 3: like a really good director and really good actually.
Speaker 6: Like a law of really serious movies.
Speaker 7: So I'm just confusing.
Speaker 4: It has to be a producer problem from the top
Speaker 4: because there's not a talent. There's no attention to detail,
Speaker 4: and I think what's most disappointing is like you don't
Speaker 4: understand these characters at all. So people took away like, oh,
Speaker 4: you can't have a Craven movie if there's no Spider Man,
Speaker 4: like he must be a mirror to Spider Man, And well,
Speaker 4: I hear that, and maybe that is the lesson we
Speaker 4: should be taking away. I don't necessarily, but I think
Speaker 4: every character could have there, Like the story is good,
Speaker 4: I agree, And they tried to make all these characters
Speaker 4: Spider Man and be Quippi like we all have seen, Like,
Speaker 4: does Craven seem like a Quipper to you? It's weird?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: Also as well, I will say, there is a glimpse
Speaker 5: when the movie opens. It's like an eight minute scene
Speaker 5: where he breaks into a prison in Siberia or in
Speaker 5: Russia somewhere because you never know, I don't know that
Speaker 5: to like kill a guy, right, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is actually like interesting and the action is good,
Speaker 5: and then they cut to this thirty minute you know,
Speaker 5: flashback scene, and the just whole moviees derailed. So I
Speaker 5: think there's a version where if they'd have just like
Speaker 5: trusted in making it a really gory, brute or action
Speaker 5: movie and it was like a ninety minute movie of
Speaker 5: just Craven killing a bun for people, that would have
Speaker 5: actually been like kind of cool and maybe a bit
Speaker 5: more of like a cult kind of hit.
Speaker 3: I don't write the A Punisher kind of take on it,
Speaker 3: you know exactly. I will just let's put the call
Speaker 3: out to anybody. If you have played any of these movies,
Speaker 3: if you work at Sony, reach out to us and
Speaker 3: honestly and just gossip with us about how this.
Speaker 4: We want to know, did you make Craven's Jacket.
Speaker 3: I understand making like a couple bad movies, but making
Speaker 3: basically only.
Speaker 4: Bad live action.
Speaker 3: Spider Man movies is crazy, and I don't understand how
Speaker 3: it happens. So please reach out to us and give
Speaker 3: us give us. We need to love to hear.
Speaker 5: It, especially especially because the current reporting is saying at
Speaker 5: any point Sony could have made Tom Holden be in
Speaker 5: these movies like FIGI didn't even ban him from being
Speaker 5: in them. So there's many questions and we want you
Speaker 5: to answer them to loss.
Speaker 3: Next up, Lord of the Rings, War of the Roha
Speaker 3: Reem is also bombing. It's a double bomb weekend at
Speaker 3: the theater, Double bom weekend.
Speaker 5: Baby.
Speaker 3: You know, this is a cheap, fast tracked movie by
Speaker 3: New Line and really was only put onto a production
Speaker 3: track because New Line needed to keep the rights to
Speaker 3: Lord of the Rings. Like so, I mean, if you
Speaker 3: want to know why this movie is not doing well
Speaker 3: and is kind of bad with uneven animation and it
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense that it's out it's because the
Speaker 3: only reason it exists is because Newline wanted to keep
Speaker 3: the rights to Lord of the to Lord of the
Speaker 3: Rings so they could continue to make Lord of the
Speaker 3: Rings movies. That's the only reason in this movie is
Speaker 3: out there, and it's it's bombing.
Speaker 5: Four point six million.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's like, that's an unbelievably low amount of
Speaker 3: money for an ip that is, you know, one of
Speaker 3: the I think one of the biggest hockey's out there.
Speaker 6: Just put it straight to stream.
Speaker 3: I have to say that. I think I think because
Speaker 3: get totally because they don't keep the rights.
Speaker 5: I didn't think it was like I watch a lot
Speaker 5: of anime. I felt like it was on par with
Speaker 5: a lot of kind of mid anime. But I did
Speaker 5: think that the world was interesting. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: this is unbelievable. They should have at least been able
Speaker 5: to open this to twenty mil if they'd just put
Speaker 5: a little bit into the marketing or kind of found
Speaker 5: its space, especially in a world where big anime movies
Speaker 5: like you know, Jiu Jitsu Kais and Dragon ball Z,
Speaker 5: like those kind of franchises can open to like a
Speaker 5: lot of money. Now, I think this was a miss
Speaker 5: for Warner Brothers, both content wise but also marketing wise,
Speaker 5: because you can market a movie that's not great and
Speaker 5: make people go see it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, four point six million, that's an ouch.
Speaker 5: But you know what, guys, don't worry because it's still
Speaker 5: a very big box office weekend thanks to Moana and Wicked,
Speaker 5: who I think made it almost one hundred million dollar
Speaker 5: weekend just from those two movies this weekend.
Speaker 6: So good for them.
Speaker 5: Go girls, girl power, girls, get it done, all that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: All right, up next, we stepping out of the airline.
Speaker 1: Without further Ado. Let's jump right in. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the latro.
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, can you tell me what makes this game sensational?
Speaker 4: Because I was looking. I haven't played Platro full disclosure,
Speaker 4: but I did see it's a single developer, it's a
Speaker 4: card game. They've got a cute little jester mask scot.
Speaker 4: Why should I play this game?
Speaker 2: So, Rosie, you and I have both played this, How
Speaker 2: would you respond to you out with that?
Speaker 5: I would say, if you used to like playing like
Speaker 5: Solitaire on your computers, that you're like nowadays there's five
Speaker 5: million games. Why would I play a card game on
Speaker 5: a console like a Steam deck or a switch or
Speaker 5: PC or whatever, or your phone? Well, this is like
Speaker 5: the most addicting game. I would also say, it's basically
Speaker 5: Aaron put it best in our script, which is like
Speaker 5: poker with deck building, and it's just incredibly easy to play.
Speaker 5: I was worried I wouldn't understand it or there would
Speaker 5: be stuff that I didn't know because I'm not very
Speaker 5: good at Like the most extensive deck building game I
Speaker 5: ever played was like an adventure time deck building game
Speaker 5: that they used to have years ago on the phone.
Speaker 5: But you really just need to like understand poker. I
Speaker 5: will also say something I think is really interesting is
Speaker 5: I was on a plane yesterday from Copenhagen to la
Speaker 5: and there were multiple people on the plane who true.
Speaker 5: There was a guy sitting next to me playing it,
Speaker 5: there was someone playing on their phone. I think that
Speaker 5: shows that it has really grown out. I was rooting
Speaker 5: for this for Game of the Year because I do
Speaker 5: think that mobile gaming should be more recognized. This is
Speaker 5: not an endorsement of you know, Kim Kardashian's mobile game,
Speaker 5: but for a long time that mobile game was the
Speaker 5: biggest selling game on Earth, like selling more than Call
Speaker 5: of Duty, making more money than Call of Duty. So
Speaker 5: I think that we are in a space where those
Speaker 5: games are often overlooked.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I just it.
Speaker 5: But it is so addictive, Joel, and I specifically think
Speaker 5: someone like you, someone who is like me and kind
Speaker 5: of gets really hyper fixated on things, I think it
Speaker 5: will be dangerous for you.
Speaker 4: Okay, good to know.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna push back against you a little
Speaker 2: bit here, Rosie.
Speaker 4: So the game.
Speaker 2: The game is available on console and recently became available
Speaker 2: on iOS, so it is a mobile game technically.
Speaker 7: Now I hate it.
Speaker 6: I hate it's the mobile game is not the best
Speaker 6: version of the game.
Speaker 2: But this game will consume your life. This game is addictive.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Do not load this game onto your phone. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: this game. This game is fast paced, but it's relaxing.
Speaker 2: It hits incredibly well because it has big numbers that
Speaker 2: get bigger and bigger and bigger. It is not a
Speaker 2: It's not fast paced in terms of you quick reflexes.
Speaker 2: You can sit and contemplate your moves. Every run feels
Speaker 2: legitimately different. This is like a roguelike as well as
Speaker 2: a deck building as well as poker. This game is
Speaker 2: not to be trusted. You will play too much. Again
Speaker 2: these do not download this game onto your phone.
Speaker 7: I have this team on the switch.
Speaker 5: Potentially could ruin your life on the phone under there.
Speaker 7: Will be it is amazing this game.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, you basically all you need to know going
Speaker 2: into this is have the basic rules of poker, and
Speaker 2: if you don't have them, the game will provide that
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, so you can just google it.
Speaker 2: You just acquire a couple joker cards which make macro
Speaker 2: rule changes to the game itself. So basically you can
Speaker 2: have a joker that's like anytime you play an even card,
Speaker 2: double your points, or one that says a straight now
Speaker 2: only takes four cards instead of five, or anytime you
Speaker 2: play a face card you you get a gold coin, and.
Speaker 5: Makes it feel like there are like infinite options.
Speaker 6: Okay, it makes it feel like you don't get bored
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 4: As somebody who wait too much time in the Yachtzi
Speaker 4: mobile game, and I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, if you're somebody who got addicted to
Speaker 5: Monopoly go and spent too much time playing that, do
Speaker 5: not download.
Speaker 6: This to your friend because you'll probably lose your job.
Speaker 2: Yes, as someone I know many people do not like
Speaker 2: card games. They don't like deck building, they don't like roguelikes.
Speaker 2: Don't let those things scare you off. There's it's a
Speaker 2: very easy to learn and impossible to put down game.
Speaker 2: So okay, as a fan of Slay the Spire, as
Speaker 2: a fan of any of these sorts of games, it
Speaker 2: is amazing. Next up, we've got the game that if
Speaker 2: you want to live out your superhero dream, you should
Speaker 2: play Marvel Rivals. And Jason, you've you've played a little
Speaker 2: bit of Rivals, right.
Speaker 8: I have.
Speaker 3: Currently sitting as a silver two rank on Competitive Feel
Speaker 3: good about the climb? Did I move up the ladder?
Speaker 2: Are you have you upgraded any skins to have a
Speaker 2: different look for any of your characters yet I have?
Speaker 6: I know you, I know you bought those quints.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did. I got two Manta skins, including the
Speaker 3: Guardians of the Galaxy Galaxy skin.
Speaker 8: I got.
Speaker 3: I bought a I bought the Rocket Raccoon Guardian skin.
Speaker 3: I bought the Thor like young Thor skin. This is
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember if I bought anymore, because I
Speaker 3: say I surely considered it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, no Wolverine skin.
Speaker 3: Oh, I bought the Luna Snow like cocktail gown, a
Speaker 3: really cool like long gown skin, and who else? I
Speaker 3: think that's it for now, But those are who? So
Speaker 3: that's like who I'm really rocking with.
Speaker 2: For anyone who has not, he says somehow been under
Speaker 2: a rock and not seen anything about Marvel Rivals on
Speaker 2: your social feeds, which seems pretty unlikely. Marvel Rivals is
Speaker 2: a six v six hero shooter featuring currently featuring thirty
Speaker 2: three different characters from the Marvel comics, as well as
Speaker 2: Luna Snow, who's a brand new character created for the game.
Speaker 2: You can be everyone.
Speaker 3: She was created for a Korean mobile game, Oh oh
Speaker 3: for this the cross those yeah, for a Korean mobile
Speaker 3: game like in twenty eighteen, and then has appeared in
Speaker 3: a couple comics and those yeah in this game.
Speaker 6: Oh that's rad.
Speaker 7: Jason didn't realize that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're at the end of the year, obviously. This
Speaker 5: is our like recap of all the games, how we
Speaker 5: feel about them. What is it for you that has
Speaker 5: made Marvel Rivals kind of such a special, instantly addicting game.
Speaker 5: That's kind of putting it up there with some of
Speaker 5: with this crazy year we've had with gaming.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, for me, I was an Overwatch person,
Speaker 3: so it makes sense. I like that kind of team
Speaker 3: based game with roles and the powers. You know that
Speaker 3: the character models are awesome, the powers are fun. The
Speaker 3: way the powers interact with each other are really fun,
Speaker 3: and it's like there are just moments where you get
Speaker 3: into a big fight and you really feel like, I
Speaker 3: think this is what it would be like if you
Speaker 3: were in the thing, you know, and Hulk is jumping
Speaker 3: around and throwing Wolverine at Iron Man's like out there
Speaker 3: and Wanda's going into a fugue state and melting like
Speaker 3: five people. It's really fun. And again, as someone who
Speaker 3: had lost their fast twitch nerve endings like several years ago,
Speaker 3: I'm able to play roles that I feel like I
Speaker 3: can be effective in Healer and Tank and I don't
Speaker 3: have to be like the biggest killer out there, but
Speaker 3: I can kind of manage the fight in ways that
Speaker 3: feel strategic and I and I enjoy that. And then
Speaker 3: there's you know, with the different power sets, there's really
Speaker 3: interesting gameplays counters to powers. There's there's a level of
Speaker 3: strategic play that's still developing because the game is so new,
Speaker 3: and I find that.
Speaker 2: Really fun and I thought it was interesting too. You
Speaker 2: just mentioned of the skins that you bought three different
Speaker 2: at least three different support characters. You mentioned Mantis, you
Speaker 2: mentioned Rocket, and you mentioned Luna. So do you find
Speaker 2: the characters within a certain role played drastically differently enough
Speaker 2: that you, as someone who's played Overwatch, can enjoy Hey,
Speaker 2: my games is Rocket, even though I'm a healer, feels
Speaker 2: significantly different than my games as Mantis.
Speaker 7: Oh, for sure, you have to.
Speaker 3: You have to alter your gameplay depending on the kit
Speaker 3: that each character is Mantis for instance. You know, I've
Speaker 3: been looking at the various like character ranking videos that
Speaker 3: have come out since the game has been out from
Speaker 3: different streamers, and I'm heartened to see that the eye
Speaker 3: test for me, which says that Mantis is one of
Speaker 3: the best, very best players in the game is has
Speaker 3: been confirmed by a lot of the stream is. She's
Speaker 3: just great as a support character. She has good offensive capabilities.
Speaker 3: She has this sleep bomb that gives her good es capability.
Speaker 3: If you get Dove in the back line by like,
Speaker 3: I mean, iron Fist is a fucking menace right now
Speaker 3: if you're a support character, and the ability to just
Speaker 3: like drop a sleep bomb on him and get away
Speaker 3: is really useful. You can boost the damage of several
Speaker 3: players on a timer. So if you've got a Wolverine
Speaker 3: or a Hella or a some other you know, like
Speaker 3: an iron Fist diving into the back line, you can
Speaker 3: boost their damage as they go in and rack up assists,
Speaker 3: which is super, super super useful. And the difference between
Speaker 3: that and Rocket, who is more of a like standback
Speaker 3: and like shoot at everybody and kind of bounce healing
Speaker 3: around character is it's pretty drastic or a character like
Speaker 3: Loki who has a really really strong power set but
Speaker 3: not great mobility, and you have to kind of play
Speaker 3: in a more kind of sneaky way. The difference in
Speaker 3: play styles is drastic and is part of what makes
Speaker 3: it really fun.
Speaker 2: And then I also feel like we've had we've had
Speaker 2: a pretty steady draw at the game, Like I have
Speaker 2: not seen a slowdown on social media about it. People
Speaker 2: are still making funny videos like I'm still seeing so.
Speaker 7: Many different je.
Speaker 2: Do you think though, Will, Like you said you played Overwatch,
Speaker 2: you burned out on Overwatch. A lot of people burned
Speaker 2: out on Overwatch, and granted that was many years, but
Speaker 2: what do you think Rivals needs to go? Three months along?
Speaker 2: And we're still really.
Speaker 3: I think that so people. The one thing that you
Speaker 3: can you feel like might be coming, particular for competitive
Speaker 3: is like a role queue, which is that locks in
Speaker 3: positions so you don't end up in these situations where
Speaker 3: you've got like one healer and five duelists, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're like you're just mantis back there trying to
Speaker 3: heal everybody and you have no tank. So you could
Speaker 3: see that coming. The drawback would be that you're going
Speaker 3: to wait three four or five minutes for games sometimes because.
Speaker 7: Right now.
Speaker 9: You hit like just load.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say one thing that a streamer that
Speaker 3: I've overwatched, streamer that I follow named Flats is mainly
Speaker 3: a tank Maine. He made a good point that was
Speaker 3: like saying that that he hopes they don't put in
Speaker 3: roll queue one because of the times to keep the
Speaker 3: times fast, and two because as a team based game,
Speaker 3: sometimes you have to take one for the team. Sometimes
Speaker 3: you have to look at the team and say, Okay,
Speaker 3: I need to play this. I don't want to, but
Speaker 3: I have to because nobody else is going to do it.
Speaker 5: And that's also how you get better at different roles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of agree with that. Where it becomes
Speaker 3: annoying is competitive where everybody's trying to climb the ladder
Speaker 3: and you feel like the game actually matters, and that's
Speaker 3: where things get toxic. And I can see them at
Speaker 3: a roll Cube. So I think, like trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how to keep games quick, how to get into
Speaker 3: them fast, I think will be one of the things.
Speaker 3: And then I think, don't like jump to balance the
Speaker 3: game yet, because you know there's some ridiculous things like
Speaker 3: why can iron fist like fly fifty feet into the air,
Speaker 3: fucking iron Man. I don't understand it. It doesn't make sense,
Speaker 3: like how can he perry Scarlet, which is like ultimate
Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of things that don't make sense.
Speaker 3: That said, I think the game is still so new,
Speaker 3: and the fact that a lot of these characters seem
Speaker 3: to have like game breaking like ultimates and powers is
Speaker 3: kind of fun right now. So I hope they don't
Speaker 3: tweak anything too soon. Despite the fact that it's quite
Speaker 3: obvious that there are certain characters in here that maybe
Speaker 3: need it, I don't see any Well, maybe there's some
Speaker 3: buffs coming. I could see Captain America maybe needing a buff.
Speaker 3: Poor guys just like running around slapping people with the shield,
Speaker 3: doing zero damage and.
Speaker 7: Then running away.
Speaker 2: I had so much fun one game playing as Captain America,
Speaker 2: and I thought I was being so disruptive and doing
Speaker 2: so many annoying things the other team, And at the
Speaker 2: end of the game, I looked at my stats and
Speaker 2: I was like, how did I do so little damage?
Speaker 7: He does nothing.
Speaker 6: Nothing, maximum effort, minimum impact.
Speaker 3: It's true, but there again is like the tactics are
Speaker 3: still evolving. Like for cap I feel like what you
Speaker 3: need to do is like never stop sprinting. You just
Speaker 3: hold down sprint and never stop and constantly have your
Speaker 3: shield run through, constantly have your shield up, run through fights,
Speaker 3: smack a couple of people. What you're doing is you're
Speaker 3: looking for the one healer or person that's like by themselves,
Speaker 3: like somewhere in a room or in a back alley,
Speaker 3: beat the shit out of that person, and if someone
Speaker 3: else shows up, runaway.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 3: Like, don't try to finish two v one fights on
Speaker 3: your own. Try to try to go one v ones,
Speaker 3: especially with injured people, and don't fight for a long
Speaker 3: time famous Captain America and get out of the.
Speaker 7: Run away.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 4: That is kind of the issue.
Speaker 3: Is like a lot of the a lot of the
Speaker 3: characters do play like how you imagine them playing in
Speaker 3: a fight, like I Think or who you wish had more? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but a black Black panther hella like kind of Moonnight.
Speaker 3: They kind of fight in ways that you can imagine
Speaker 3: the fighting. Spider Man in particular, high skill character that
Speaker 3: you're starting to see people put together like insane click
Speaker 3: packages of like Spider Man. Now, I could see Captain
Speaker 3: America in eating a buff, but I still think like,
Speaker 3: let's wait, let's let the gameplay develop before buffing it
Speaker 3: too soon, and then it would be cool to see
Speaker 3: some new characters. I mean, there's so many characters that
Speaker 3: have yet to appear, Like take your pick, like the
Speaker 3: whole Fantastic four is not in there. Uh x Men, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, Serene is the only X Men in there.
Speaker 5: I mean also, you can you can imagine a world
Speaker 5: where they do like a new Mutants update or something,
Speaker 5: you know, they could.
Speaker 3: Do team update, power pack update like that would be
Speaker 3: really cool. And so drip those characters in and don't
Speaker 3: worry yet about balancing the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let the chaos rain.
Speaker 3: Let the chaos rain. And if they're going to introduce balances,
Speaker 3: I think start maybe with competitive or some other smaller
Speaker 3: corner of the game. And I would like to see
Speaker 3: maybe some different game modes, like you know, there's only
Speaker 3: two game modes right now, which is like an escort
Speaker 3: mode in a conquest mode. I'm not calling for like deathmatch,
Speaker 3: but maybe there's some other things captain you know, King
Speaker 3: of the Hill type gameplay that we could see coming
Speaker 3: that would add some depth to the game. But right now,
Speaker 3: it's like it is just like super super super super
Speaker 3: fun super fun.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited. I think you just confirmed that we should.
Speaker 2: I'll look out on Boxing day for the Alpha Flight
Speaker 2: character drop.
Speaker 5: Which would be great Canadian obviously happening Captain Britan.
Speaker 2: When we hand it back, we will will have a
Speaker 2: boo talk about one of the games that he has
Speaker 2: been most excited about this year, and we'll talk to
Speaker 2: you after these.
Speaker 7: Messages and we're back.
Speaker 2: Next up, we have the game that if you want
Speaker 2: an epic and easy going single player adventure, this is
Speaker 2: dragon Age Vailguard.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is the game that I put on the
Speaker 1: list as the one I would recommend. I am a
Speaker 1: huge Bywear fan, and Dragon Age is a fantasy action
Speaker 1: RPG where you gather this ragtag team of near duels
Speaker 1: and also duels, and you save the world. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like, the main story is not the most complicated
Speaker 1: sales pitch. It's as simple as every other fantasy RPG
Speaker 1: you've ever played. But I think where this game really
Speaker 1: excels and what makes it an epic and easy going
Speaker 1: single player adventure that you can really sync, like me
Speaker 1: eighty plus hours into is the companions, the characters, the
Speaker 1: gorgeous visuals. Even the combat is, in my opinion, simplified.
Speaker 1: But I'm a pretty hardcore like RPG player. Like I
Speaker 1: lean more balder Skate three and the Shadow, this game
Speaker 1: certainly lives in the shadow of balder Skate three. It
Speaker 1: doesn't reach those heights. But if you're a more casual gamer,
Speaker 1: this combat is going to be very simple and easy
Speaker 1: and enjoyable to play. Some of the characters will grab you.
Speaker 1: I think the main of pro tip I would give
Speaker 1: to someone picking this up and trying to jump in
Speaker 1: is to not stress about the main story. Honestly, just
Speaker 1: ignore the main story as much as you can, take
Speaker 1: your time instead doing all of your companion's side quests.
Speaker 1: All of the companions will have their own plot lines
Speaker 1: and multi part quests to complete that will increase your
Speaker 1: relationship with them. Yes, you can romance any way you
Speaker 1: want in the game, and you will get the most
Speaker 1: enjoyment out of this game when you lean into getting
Speaker 1: to know the cast of characters. That that is where
Speaker 1: most of the enjoyment of this game lies. That would
Speaker 1: be my pro.
Speaker 5: Tip Because I'm a side quest kind of gal and
Speaker 5: I love the idea of ahi fantasy action NOTPG. I've
Speaker 5: played some different versions by the to find my true love.
Speaker 5: I know I still need to play boulders Kate three too,
Speaker 5: but that sounds great.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you looked up alder Skate three and went, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm done this, try Dragon Age instead, I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, is this a good start a game
Speaker 5: for that kind of space?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: And a boot of the eighty hours or so you've
Speaker 2: put in, how much of that has been like grinding
Speaker 2: XP or learning new techniques and skills for your character
Speaker 2: versus exploring doing the relationship stuff or side quest for
Speaker 2: your characters developing their arcs?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Where does it sit within those two worlds?
Speaker 9: Zero?
Speaker 1: Zero of those eighty hours was just like grinding out gear.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, like, I'm old now and I
Speaker 1: just play video games on Easy because I can't be
Speaker 1: I can't be stuck on a boss fight for four
Speaker 1: days straight, like who has the time? So I played
Speaker 1: on Easy and I will say this has a really
Speaker 1: robust set like accessibility, settings menu. You could just go
Speaker 1: in and tweak anything. You can be like, I'm annoyed
Speaker 1: by how much health the bosses have, just going in
Speaker 1: and reduce the health for an enemies, you can be like, oh,
Speaker 1: the bosses like or the enemies like attack me too
Speaker 1: much and I can't like get a hit in.
Speaker 9: Just reduce how aggressive they are.
Speaker 1: Like, they're settings that are like very particular, So customize
Speaker 1: it to like your play style. And if there's a
Speaker 1: thing bothering you about the game, check the accessibility settings,
Speaker 1: because I can almost guarantee there's a toggle in there
Speaker 1: where you can set it to a level that feels
Speaker 1: comfortable and fun for you. I went in and like
Speaker 1: I did find the health. The enemy health was like
Speaker 1: so much. I played as a rogue archer and I
Speaker 1: was just like wailing these guys with like dozens of
Speaker 1: arrows just to take like one grunt down, and that
Speaker 1: was starting to annoy me. So I just reduced their
Speaker 1: health so I can just take them down in like
Speaker 1: three or four arrow hits.
Speaker 7: Nice, And that was more.
Speaker 4: Fun for me.
Speaker 1: And So if you don't have some sort of weird
Speaker 1: like easy mode is for lame people baggage, just like
Speaker 1: play the game how you want and customize it how
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's.
Speaker 1: My recommendation for folks looking to get into some RPG
Speaker 1: game action.
Speaker 7: And out of out of ten, what would you gray
Speaker 7: the story?
Speaker 1: You know, Look, this gets a little hairy for me
Speaker 1: because I'm a long time BioWare fan byo where created
Speaker 1: my all time favorite video game trilogy, the Massffect games.
Speaker 1: I've also played all the dragon Age games.
Speaker 9: Story wise, like, this is like a decent seven out
Speaker 9: of ten.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, like the writing is okay, it's a
Speaker 1: little amate like, it's very sanded down and simplistic.
Speaker 9: It's very black and white. The good guys are the good.
Speaker 1: Guys, the bad guys are the bad guys, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't over complicate that, which is a little disappointing. I
Speaker 1: wanted more, more gray and more nuanced in this world,
Speaker 1: because the previous games certainly had that. It's it's been
Speaker 1: simplified and a little oversimplified for my taste.
Speaker 9: But I don't want that to deter.
Speaker 1: Someone who's never experienced dragon Age before, because I think
Speaker 1: coming in you'll still enjoy it. I just come in
Speaker 1: with like fifteen years of gaming baggage and buyowear opinions,
Speaker 1: and so I just I wanted more from the story,
Speaker 1: but that's because I'm too deep in the buywear lore.
Speaker 2: Well, next up, we have a game that I think
Speaker 2: is very similar to that, and that the good guys
Speaker 2: are the good guys and the bad guys are the
Speaker 2: bad guys. This is if you want to play a
Speaker 2: game where you eliminate uncivilized bugs and robots and deep
Speaker 2: space for democracy.
Speaker 7: And this is hell diverse too.
Speaker 2: This is a co op third person shooter where you
Speaker 2: and your teammates get dropped down into a hostile world
Speaker 2: filled with hordes of enemies, and you complete an objective
Speaker 2: on a time limit, and then you call in the
Speaker 2: plane to get you out of there. This game, the
Speaker 2: community is very funny. First of all, like people make it.
Speaker 2: It's very Starship Troopers.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say the main reason that this game
Speaker 5: is because it has finally made people appreciate pull this
Speaker 5: yes under.
Speaker 4: Classic masterpiece, Yes.
Speaker 6: Classic satirical masterpiece, genius.
Speaker 2: And there's because it's co op, not as much toxicity
Speaker 2: among the gaming community. People just like are very in
Speaker 2: on the joke of like we are, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: disposable soldiers for democracy. And like one of the things
Speaker 2: I really like is someone who plays RPGs and will
Speaker 2: collect every item and then sudden, I mean, like when
Speaker 2: I've played Balder's Gate three with my friends. They make
Speaker 2: the joke that I just loot everything and then I
Speaker 2: go put all of the when I run out of space,
Speaker 2: I just mysteriously am dropping all those items into their inventories,
Speaker 2: and they're like, when did I pick up three barrels
Speaker 2: of wine? Hell Divers so different Hell Divers you get
Speaker 2: like three items to drop in with. You have a
Speaker 2: very limited number of items to drop in with, and
Speaker 2: you can share them with the other teammates, but like,
Speaker 2: you can only have these set number of things that
Speaker 2: you come in with, and that's all you get for
Speaker 2: the whole game.
Speaker 7: And it's very.
Speaker 2: Fun and as soon as you die, you just get
Speaker 2: shot back in with the brand new character because you
Speaker 2: are in fact disposable soldiers for democracy.
Speaker 7: They did introduce.
Speaker 2: A brand new faction, the Illuminate, which was introduced into
Speaker 2: the latest dlc Omens of Tyranny. That now means there
Speaker 2: are three different enemy factions you can play, very fun
Speaker 2: game to just drop in twenty minutes hanging out with
Speaker 2: your friends, dropping bombs and shooting bugs.
Speaker 9: I have a question for you Erin.
Speaker 1: Yes, if I'm the type of gamer that doesn't like
Speaker 1: Call of Duty or Valerint or counter Strike or Overwatch,
Speaker 1: or I might look at this game and go, this
Speaker 1: just looks like one of those, Well I should I
Speaker 1: still give this a chance.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so much slower.
Speaker 2: Like when I think of Call of Duty or Valorant,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of people, you know, really quickly jumping across
Speaker 2: the screen, like popping in and out behind corners. I also,
Speaker 2: Jason loves to say he's lost his fast twitch reflexes
Speaker 2: in gaming. I never had those, so like I never
Speaker 2: could have played any of those games. This game, like,
Speaker 2: I don't ever feel like I'm you know, never hitting
Speaker 2: my shots. Like if anything, it's just like, wow, that
Speaker 2: bug is enormous and I just have this puny little
Speaker 2: pistol that's running out of ammo, so you know, and
Speaker 2: like the bombs I'm calling in or taking ten seconds
Speaker 2: and it's not going to be here. It's I'm in
Speaker 2: the bug squashed me. So that I would not do
Speaker 2: not feel like this is call of duty whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Okay, good to know, Yeah, okay, Next up is the
Speaker 1: game you'll want to play if you've always wished that
Speaker 1: you could date a monster and started Valleys and then Rosie,
Speaker 1: I believe this was your recommendation.
Speaker 5: Shocking, Yes, This is Wildflowers, which is actually really incredible
Speaker 5: new take on the kind of Stardry Valley Animal Crossing space.
Speaker 6: But if you've always.
Speaker 5: Played Animal Crossing and you've been like, oh, I wish
Speaker 5: I actually like had voice actors playing all of these characters,
Speaker 5: this has hours and hours of incredible voice acting, and
Speaker 5: you are actually immersed in this new town where you
Speaker 5: return to help your grandma. Classic kind of Hallmark movie
Speaker 5: set up, classic Stardu Valley set up. But after being
Speaker 5: there a little while, you learn that there are two
Speaker 5: factions on the island, and one of them is a
Speaker 5: kind of cult esque church that wants people to be traditional,
Speaker 5: and the other is your grandma's witches coven.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that has they're working for a long time to kind.
Speaker 5: Of help these two worlds coexist, because you later find
Speaker 5: out that there's actually an entire secondary location, which is
Speaker 5: a world of werewolves and vampires and fairies, and you
Speaker 5: can date any of those characters, you can romance any
Speaker 5: of those characters. This is a really delightful game. It's
Speaker 5: very immersive. You can sink a ton of time into it.
Speaker 5: I would say it's We've had a lot of games
Speaker 5: since Animal Crossing hitting COVID and people really discovered Sardry
Speaker 5: Valley that have tried to be a kind of triple
Speaker 5: a gaming experience or an animal crossing level experience, a
Speaker 5: Harvest Moon level experience. I would say Wildflowers is the
Speaker 5: closest we've gotten. The voice acting makes a massive difference.
Speaker 5: It adds a lot of time to the gameplay if
Speaker 5: you actually have conversations with everyone. There's a great central mystery.
Speaker 5: There's loads of fun tasks.
Speaker 6: If you're a task based person. You can learn errands.
Speaker 5: For people, you get to actually have magical powers, and
Speaker 5: you get to have a familiar This is just, like,
Speaker 5: I think, a very underrated game. If you're in the
Speaker 5: cozy gaming community, you obviously know it, but I actually
Speaker 5: think there's a lot of access here for people who
Speaker 5: haven't necessarily found that cozy life sim because there's a
Speaker 5: little bit more spice with the witch elements. It's also
Speaker 5: just really fun to play. There's like any good cozy gaming.
Speaker 5: There is like a mining element, there's a conflict element
Speaker 5: where you fight goblins or in this case, you also
Speaker 5: have to chop down these kind of cursed plants that
Speaker 5: grow around the town.
Speaker 6: And yeah, just a completely fun, dynamic.
Speaker 5: Cozy, witchy game that I think is up there in hindsight,
Speaker 5: will be seen as up there with the best that
Speaker 5: this genre has to offer.
Speaker 4: How hard are.
Speaker 6: Okay, the monsters are actually very hot. It's more of
Speaker 6: a classical It's not your boulders.
Speaker 5: Gate like sexy Asterion. People are doing fan art of them.
Speaker 5: It's not that level because this is still like a cozy,
Speaker 5: kind of Chibby Mysims esque design. But once you really
Speaker 5: get to the other, once you open the other location
Speaker 5: and you end up meeting the fee and the werewolves
Speaker 5: and the vampires and stuff, there is definitely a monster
Speaker 5: for everyone in there. If you want a bit more
Speaker 5: of a fantasy with an elf, there are elf characters.
Speaker 5: If you want like a sexy not binary vampire who
Speaker 5: like loves eating meat, you got that. If you want
Speaker 5: like a were wolf, he is probably I would say,
Speaker 5: the most obviously kind of sexy monster.
Speaker 6: He's kind of like a professor esque ware.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, like the dark academia kind of vibe.
Speaker 6: But also this is another exactly so yeah, I just
Speaker 6: I really loved this game.
Speaker 5: I have played it more than once, like through, because
Speaker 5: it's really fun and yeah, just just great times.
Speaker 6: This is I think a sort of an underrated one.
Speaker 5: I think it's usually about like twenty five bucks on
Speaker 5: the switch thought too, so I feel like it's a
Speaker 5: very good price and a great game to kind of
Speaker 5: lose yourself in over the holiday.
Speaker 2: Joe out here doing the dark Lord's work.
Speaker 7: Joel Sexy are the monsters Joel.
Speaker 6: Is and Montsterfucker.
Speaker 5: Which is why it's shocking shocking to know that Joel
Speaker 5: was not a.
Speaker 6: Huge fan of Robert egg Is Nosferatu. You can listen
Speaker 6: to that episode of Vision.
Speaker 4: Just have to be high in this rule Number one.
Speaker 1: Great recommendation, Rosie. Okay, let's move on to our next recommendation,
Speaker 1: and this one is if you want to beat up
Speaker 1: on some goblins. But in a funny way. I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe this is Carmen and Aaron girl power.
Speaker 10: We have finally finally been given access to a Zelda
Speaker 10: game where we play as Princess Zelda herself.
Speaker 6: Yes, hey, first canon like main line game. There you
Speaker 6: get to do that?
Speaker 8: Yes, there is what is the other game where.
Speaker 5: I believe it was like a fighting game couple of dynasty,
Speaker 5: But this is the first.
Speaker 6: Like main legend of Zelda game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So if you are a Zelda Maine and Smash Brothers
Speaker 10: like I am, you're gonna you're gonna love this game.
Speaker 8: It is in my opinion.
Speaker 10: I've played, I've played, uh yeah, I've played every two
Speaker 10: D's Elder game except for like the Minish Cap and
Speaker 10: this has got to be my favorite two D Zelda game,
Speaker 10: next to Link Between Worlds, which is also a really
Speaker 10: fun two dame. You really can beat up on goblins
Speaker 10: and the funniest ways pot you don't even actually have
Speaker 10: to beat up on problems.
Speaker 8: You can.
Speaker 10: Once you unlock the water block Echo, you can literally
Speaker 10: cast a water block and then drag whatever the enemy
Speaker 10: is except for like a boss fight of course, into
Speaker 10: a water block and drown them right there.
Speaker 8: So you can just drown your enemy.
Speaker 2: If the sword and shields too much for you, you
Speaker 2: just water board them totally, just.
Speaker 6: Row that goblin.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I love picking them up and just dropping them off cliffs.
Speaker 10: I love picking them up and dropping them into water.
Speaker 10: There's all sorts of creative ways, and you can actually
Speaker 10: the cool The other cool thing I really like about
Speaker 10: this game is that you can skip like intended areas
Speaker 10: that you're supposed to like figure out your way through.
Speaker 8: You can just skip it.
Speaker 7: By by uh using the water block, using the.
Speaker 8: Water block or the bed which the bed, well, the
Speaker 8: bed in the water block will get you pretty much
Speaker 8: anywhere you want to go.
Speaker 2: So Aaron is in the main you know, you know
Speaker 2: in Link to the Past Inks Awakening, everyone's going to
Speaker 2: be like the most used item is the boomerang or
Speaker 2: the hook shop. Yes, well, and echoes of wisdom. The
Speaker 2: most used item is old bed and water blox and
Speaker 2: like those literally you just you can get anywhere you
Speaker 2: want with those pretty much. And maybe you cast a
Speaker 2: bat so that you can glide somewhere when you jump
Speaker 2: off a cliff. But like, yeah, I love how creative
Speaker 2: this game is and how creative it allows you to be. Yes,
Speaker 2: it will present a puzzle or a fight and you
Speaker 2: can solve it in any number of ways with any
Speaker 2: number of different tools that you're casting or echoes that
Speaker 2: you're casting.
Speaker 6: If someone has never played Zelda.
Speaker 5: Before, yes, and is like this sounds fun or looks
Speaker 5: cute and cozy and that kind of like like the
Speaker 5: Link's Awakening game, is it like an easy game? Does
Speaker 5: it hand hold you through the beginning? It can somebody
Speaker 5: who's never played.
Speaker 10: You know, That's the reason I'm a Nintendo girl is
Speaker 10: that Nintendo does tend to kind of hold your hand
Speaker 10: through the games. So it does kind of hold your
Speaker 10: hand a little bit. The most challenging parts of the
Speaker 10: games are going to be the boss fights and then
Speaker 10: solving the puzzles in really creative ways. There's lots of
Speaker 10: different ways to solve the puzzles, but you just have
Speaker 10: to figure out an experiment a lot like I've spent
Speaker 10: a good like thirty minutes before in a room with
Speaker 10: a treasure chest that I can see, trying to figure
Speaker 10: out how the hell to get to this treasure chest
Speaker 10: with all my different That's.
Speaker 6: A classic Zelda game. Yeah issue, Yes, so I like.
Speaker 10: That, and it's very creative. So there's lots of different
Speaker 10: ways to solve the puzzles, so I think if you've
Speaker 10: never played a Zelda game before, it's very approachable. The
Speaker 10: most stressful part is just going to be those boss fights.
Speaker 10: I think the boss that I struggled with the most
Speaker 10: was the Temple boss. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 10: I hated that the fish, Yes, hated it, hated it,
Speaker 10: hated it.
Speaker 8: But otherwise it's pretty easy. I will say too.
Speaker 10: Out of all of the two d Zelda games out there,
Speaker 10: this is the most like fleshed out in depth. Like
Speaker 10: she has costumes, she has accessories, she has she has
Speaker 10: uh level up, you can like level up her wep,
Speaker 10: Like there's like things that are I don't that are
Speaker 10: that I've never been into Dzelder games before.
Speaker 8: There's a smoothie guy. There's like all of these yes, perfect,
Speaker 8: And you can wear a cat costume and.
Speaker 2: You was gonna say I once I acquired the cat costume,
Speaker 2: I have not changed.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: My wife walked by ones while I was playing. She's like,
Speaker 2: what game were you playing? You're just like a cat.
Speaker 8: And you can talk to all of the cats in
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's so fun.
Speaker 7: Carmen.
Speaker 2: Where does this rank for you on the list of
Speaker 2: Zelda games?
Speaker 10: Oh my god, Oh my god. I have to say so.
Speaker 10: I love Tears of the Kingdom. I think lately Tiers
Speaker 10: of the Kingdom has been my number one. I would
Speaker 10: say that this after I think I think this is
Speaker 10: number two, and then I would say number three for
Speaker 10: me is a link between worlds. Wow, I really like
Speaker 10: those three. Those are like my top three Zelda games.
Speaker 2: I think I would probably put link to the past,
Speaker 2: Breath of the Wild and Ocker enough Time as like
Speaker 2: my top three in some order, depending on my mood
Speaker 2: at any given time. Yeah, this is definitely if you
Speaker 2: like this is I say that not to say this
Speaker 2: is a bad game, simply that this has a huge
Speaker 2: set of competitors it's going up against.
Speaker 7: If. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's so many good Zelda games. It's hard
Speaker 8: to It's.
Speaker 6: Hardselda games is some of the best games ever made.
Speaker 2: Yes, And because of that, I think this does benefit
Speaker 2: because there's some incredible Zelda nostalgia here. You meet both
Speaker 2: kinds of the Zora, you get so many musical cues
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's so it also wants us.
Speaker 5: Kind of like an entry point to kind of Zelda
Speaker 5: lore and tropes that you would then go on and
Speaker 5: see in other games.
Speaker 10: That's really It's got all the decu, the gore on
Speaker 10: the what are the people in the desert called?
Speaker 8: Yes, it's got the Zora, yep, all of it. It's
Speaker 8: all there.
Speaker 2: It would be very funny though, if this is your
Speaker 2: first Zelda and then you go to play Breath of the.
Speaker 7: World, why can't I water block this person?
Speaker 6: Water block? Wait a minute, the war characters are looking
Speaker 6: a lot sexier.
Speaker 8: To the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could rank this as your number one
Speaker 1: Zelda game because the rest are really.
Speaker 6: Like Okay, wait, wait, we're all going to beat up
Speaker 6: a boo.
Speaker 5: So some messages from a sponsor while we beat him up,
Speaker 5: and then we'll be back.
Speaker 9: Perfect but in a funny.
Speaker 11: Way, in a funny way, funny way.
Speaker 7: Okay, and we are back. Next up.
Speaker 2: This game didn't actually come out this year, which is
Speaker 2: totally okay. This is still a game that has had
Speaker 2: a resurgence in popularity this year, And this is for you.
Speaker 2: If you want to sneak attack a mind flare while
Speaker 2: your friend knocks at a yankee prone using key points
Speaker 2: and then your other friend uses telepitheater drop that gyankee
Speaker 2: into a wall of fire, or maybe if you just
Speaker 2: want to do some sexy time with someone in your camp, or.
Speaker 1: If you want to suck the mind, can't fuck the mind?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, spoilers, spoiler spoiler Which.
Speaker 8: Game we're talking about? The Wildflower game.
Speaker 7: Again, this is Echoes a Wisdom.
Speaker 4: We're talking Bolder's Gate three, which is coming in in
Speaker 4: a very interesting year. So studio developer Lorrain and Wizards
Speaker 4: of the Coast, which is owned by Hasboro, split ways
Speaker 4: at the top of the year. A lot of controversy.
Speaker 4: People thought it was with the D and D fans
Speaker 4: have a lot of being Wizards of the Coast. Since
Speaker 4: it's been acquired by Hasbro for a lot of different reasons,
Speaker 4: We've seen a ton of layoffs, there were random rule changes,
Speaker 4: want charge us for stuff we were already had, Like
Speaker 4: what are we doing? Lorraine has been very insistent that
Speaker 4: this was not a Wizards of the Coast decision or
Speaker 4: poor partner management, but that this was simply because they
Speaker 4: felt they didn't have the heart for a balders Gate four,
Speaker 4: which is a crazy decision for a company to make.
Speaker 4: You made an insane amount of money off of Balderskate three,
Speaker 4: and they're like, listen, it's just not in our hearts.
Speaker 4: We have to go a different direction, which is really maybe.
Speaker 5: They were just protecting themselves from like how much energy
Speaker 5: and crunch they had to do to make such a
Speaker 5: fantastic game that's like aspirational. They were like, you know what,
Speaker 5: I just have the energy man instead of have it
Speaker 5: in my hat, it's I just go to do something else.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful as a company game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was going to be my point. Actually, I
Speaker 1: think they're protecting themselves from you can't top a perfect game, just.
Speaker 5: A game that got like unbelievable reviews like across the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it is a perfect replication of D and D.
Speaker 4: And by this, I mean, like what's been really hard
Speaker 4: about replicating D and D in the past is like
Speaker 4: you really need good uh dungeon guide to get you
Speaker 4: through a great game of D and D. You need
Speaker 4: to be able to be surprised, You need to be
Speaker 4: able to replay as a different character and have a
Speaker 4: different experience and doing this authentically. If you've ever played
Speaker 4: a multiple choice game before, you can see the patterns.
Speaker 4: You have a B or C, and if you choose
Speaker 4: be most of the time you're gonna get B outcome.
Speaker 4: If you see most I need to see outcome. It's
Speaker 4: like it's very easy to see here. You can't see
Speaker 4: the thread work. It's so layered and wonderful. And because
Speaker 4: the companies have split, this is the last update we're
Speaker 4: getting with Wizards of the Coast Slash D and D rules,
Speaker 4: So We got twelve new subclasses with this last update,
Speaker 4: which is pretty exciting. Can you a speed run of
Speaker 4: the new updates? Okay? Really what you could do? If
Speaker 4: you play us a bar You could do College of Glamour,
Speaker 4: which basically lets you use like fay wild magic to
Speaker 4: become so beautiful and alluring that nobody can deny you,
Speaker 4: which sounds like a lot of fun Barbarians.
Speaker 2: College of Glamor feels very scanling from Fox. I don't
Speaker 2: know the background, but I believe he's called totally.
Speaker 4: You do Path of the Giants if you're a barbarian,
Speaker 4: which allows you uh to deal additional damage with throw attacks.
Speaker 4: Plus it increases your carry capacity, which is nice. Also,
Speaker 4: Giants range becomes passive, which is just so helpful. Cleric
Speaker 4: you could do Death of Domain, which is really exciting.
Speaker 4: You can real live corpses and now they work for
Speaker 4: you if you know how much time you spend around
Speaker 4: dead things. That is very intriguing to me. Drewid Circle
Speaker 4: the Stars Less. I like this one a little less.
Speaker 4: You use like constellation powers. You can do Archer, Chalice
Speaker 4: or Dragon, which gives you different options. The archers radiant
Speaker 4: damage with astral arrows. The life giving Chalish restores hit
Speaker 4: points which could be helpful, and the Dragon allows you
Speaker 4: to deal damage with added bonuses to constitution roles. This
Speaker 4: is like great strategy edition, but if you're a story
Speaker 4: based player like I am, your like, screw the strategy.
Speaker 4: I need to be able to dive into these characters.
Speaker 4: Paladin both of the Crown, you're righteous. You got a
Speaker 4: lot of clarity. You can tunt your enemies with strategic
Speaker 4: interrupts and keep your party standing strong with divine allegiance,
Speaker 4: which is helpful. Okay. Fighter Arcane Archer, you can master
Speaker 4: dual arts of magic and marksmanship. I love playing as
Speaker 4: a fighter. It's one of my favorite categories. And to
Speaker 4: introduce magical elements to a fighter, bam, let's go really excited.
Speaker 4: My most favorite one though, Monk Drunken Master. Okay, this
Speaker 4: is where. So if you play D and D, you
Speaker 4: know there's a thing called home brews, which essentially, if
Speaker 4: you're playing a home campaign with your buddies, your game
Speaker 4: master might be like, hey, for our personal set of rules,
Speaker 4: we're going to allow your weapon to do xyz. Basically,
Speaker 4: you can make up rules that you agree upon as
Speaker 4: a table, so they have home breands and things which
Speaker 4: are not typically in the game. Drunken Master is really
Speaker 4: cool if the ability to consume alcohol straight from your inventory.
Speaker 4: There's a ton of liquor all over this game, so
Speaker 4: very easy to acquire those, and it restores your key,
Speaker 4: which is important because that's how you deal your larger hits. Okay,
Speaker 4: So you can also share your bottle with enemies using
Speaker 4: Intoxicating Strike and you'll generate above toward your armor class
Speaker 4: and your chance to hit drunken targets. Drunken enemies are
Speaker 4: also susceptible to the Drunken Master's other abilities, like sobering Realization,
Speaker 4: which sobers up drunk targets, dealing physical and psychic damage.
Speaker 4: I just think from a story element, Drunken Master is
Speaker 4: a great way to lean into I have fought drunk
Speaker 4: a lot in this game. It's very challenging, and I
Speaker 4: love the idea of being able to do it, and
Speaker 4: it's actually really helpful. Okay, I'm gonna go through. The
Speaker 4: last one's really vast ranger sworn Keeper. You get different
Speaker 4: swarms of things, jellyfish, bees, whatever, and you can use
Speaker 4: them to attack. I'm terrified of swarms of things. They
Speaker 4: really gross me out. This is horrifying. Sorcerer shadow magic.
Speaker 4: I mean like it sounds. You can hide in shadows,
Speaker 4: you can walk between places that are in darkness. This
Speaker 4: is really cool if you play as a rogue a lot.
Speaker 4: I think that this is a really dope element. Warlock
Speaker 4: hex Blade make weapons out of magic. Mostly. This one
Speaker 4: seems to be like a change in your artistic visual
Speaker 4: stuff of things you could already do. So what you
Speaker 4: might have cast before with like a staff, now you're
Speaker 4: doing it with a sword. That's cool. Wizard Blade Singer.
Speaker 4: It's a subclass marriage of sword play with wizardry. Sort
Speaker 4: of same things. Warlock hex Blade, wizard Blade Singer. The
Speaker 4: other her favorite one is swash Buckley. The first time
Speaker 4: I played D and D, I played as a rogue
Speaker 4: pirate Lyra who got kicked off of her ship and
Speaker 4: was forced to party around with these bozos until she
Speaker 4: could get back to her ship and her lady Love.
Speaker 4: I loved Lyra. I love playing it her. I miss
Speaker 4: her frequently, and the fact that they're adding a swaph
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm recreating her in this game. She
Speaker 4: I now have a swashbuckling class. That's amazing. One of
Speaker 4: the cool things is you get to do like fancy footwork,
Speaker 4: which I think is great. I really like these new
Speaker 4: class boo. I know you've played a lot of B
Speaker 4: D three. Is there a subclass you are most excited
Speaker 4: to tap into?
Speaker 9: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: That's what I was gonna say, Okay, this is good
Speaker 6: to know.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, this, I don't know what a subclass is.
Speaker 1: When you play BOULDERSK three on Easy, there is no
Speaker 1: sub question. Just play your primary class.
Speaker 5: If that was gonna be the question, I was going
Speaker 5: to ask that all sounds amazing and cool and also
Speaker 5: like we should be doing a D and D group together,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, twenty twenty five, let's put that on
Speaker 5: an x Alvy list.
Speaker 6: But if you've never played D and D or.
Speaker 5: You're just getting into it, or you've watched Stranger Things
Speaker 5: and you think it looks cool, or your friend's saying, hey,
Speaker 5: you need to have sex with hysterion, can you play
Speaker 5: boulders Gate three?
Speaker 6: Aboo.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I was just gonna say, like, as incredible and
Speaker 1: in depth as Joelle's summary there was, if none of
Speaker 1: that made sense to you, like none of that made
Speaker 1: sense to me. You can still completely play this game
Speaker 1: and walk away being like that was the greatest game
Speaker 1: I've ever played. Like the magic of this game is
Speaker 1: like I've never really played D and D outside of
Speaker 1: like one off sessions here and there over the years,
Speaker 1: and you just don't have to. Like D and D
Speaker 1: is very in depth, then that's obviously what people enjoy
Speaker 1: about it. But you can just play this game and
Speaker 1: have an incredible time, and the game will handle the
Speaker 1: D and D of it all.
Speaker 4: It'll handle the rules and that's the magic and the math,
Speaker 4: which is really really hard. If I have add the
Speaker 4: first year and a half of playing D and D
Speaker 4: was a struggle for my friends. They were so lovely
Speaker 4: and patient with me. So I was like, wait, what
Speaker 4: I'm massing it?
Speaker 8: But I want to tell you that is mostly math.
Speaker 4: It is. It is a predominantly math and knowing how
Speaker 4: to read a map. Yeah, I will say, like, what's
Speaker 4: really cool about subclasses is, for example, if you're playing
Speaker 4: on Easy and you just have the Broad class, you're
Speaker 4: a Barbarian, You're a rogue whatever, Like it's really cool
Speaker 4: and if you understand basic fight mechanics, you sort of
Speaker 4: get it. This guy's a tank, this one's a healer,
Speaker 4: this person somewhere in between. But with the subclasses really
Speaker 4: allows you to imbue an element of your own identity
Speaker 4: and story into the character. One of my favorite things
Speaker 4: about BG three is the character builder. It's super unique.
Speaker 4: I had a friend who was a beta tester for
Speaker 4: this game for like a year and a half before
Speaker 4: it came out, and so I played the intro to
Speaker 4: balder K three probably nine times just because we would
Speaker 4: costantly play it over and over again to figure out, like, oh,
Speaker 4: here's what they've changed. They've you know, smoothed out the
Speaker 4: mechanics here or whatever. But one of the best things
Speaker 4: they did was like, early on, all the l's are white,
Speaker 4: and I remember being they were like, what are your notes?
Speaker 4: I'm like, give me a black else? What is wrong
Speaker 4: with you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I'm like, why can't I only play as an elfin
Speaker 4: D and D ever? And I was like, this is horrifying.
Speaker 4: You have to give me black and brown l's. And
Speaker 4: when by the time the game comes out, it's so
Speaker 4: smooth and beautiful. And so if you get into subclasses,
Speaker 4: which I highly recommend you do, you can really articulate
Speaker 4: your character in a specific way, so that how their
Speaker 4: fighting reflects how you sort of view them in your
Speaker 4: heads story and also gives you an ability, like now
Speaker 4: that there's Steam and you can do crossover play, which
Speaker 4: is the thing I've started to do with my friends.
Speaker 4: It really gives you the ability to craft a team
Speaker 4: that is like unstoppable if you have a deep understanding
Speaker 4: of how the subclasses work. It's been a lot of
Speaker 4: fun to play around with them. Looking forward to diving
Speaker 4: into some more of these and the next year. I
Speaker 4: think this is a game that, like, if you're a
Speaker 4: scrim fan, a Skyrim fan, you know you could play
Speaker 4: that game twenty years after it came out, still fascinating.
Speaker 4: All of the Grand Theft autos have similar playback ability.
Speaker 4: I think this is a game you can be playing
Speaker 4: for a very long time.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Just want to say, as someone who has DM multip
Speaker 2: one off's for a boot the disrespect, I felt that
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't have that much familiarity with
Speaker 2: D and D.
Speaker 7: I don't know what subclasses are.
Speaker 6: Brings about to fight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, send a swarm keeper over at you a boot
Speaker 2: the nice thing. In addition to all these sub classes,
Speaker 2: they made a bunch of the mods that were only
Speaker 2: available on PC are now available on console as well,
Speaker 2: so if you are interested in playing, the game is
Speaker 2: very very large, like sometimes intimidatingly. So they now have
Speaker 2: two X and ten X experience point modifiers, so if
Speaker 2: you want to just go through it a little more quickly,
Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of extra stuff to add into it.
Speaker 2: My favorite mod they added more capes. I was very
Speaker 2: upset at the end of that one, but I only
Speaker 2: had Oh my god, yeah, I had one cape and
Speaker 2: that was it. I was like, I have a party
Speaker 2: of four at all times, and only one of us
Speaker 2: gets a cape.
Speaker 7: That is not fair.
Speaker 6: This is candalus.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: Most important question though for many of us out there
Speaker 5: is there a dog and can you pet it?
Speaker 4: Not only is there a dog and you can pet it,
Speaker 4: you rescue it in the woods. You get to decide
Speaker 4: whether to save it or put it out of his
Speaker 4: misery or send it away. If you save it, he
Speaker 4: comes and brings you little treats. When you go to camp.
Speaker 4: He's like, hey, I found a little potion. He is precious.
Speaker 4: And you can also have an owl bear if you prefer.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can have both. You can have a dog
Speaker 2: and the Albert don't have to choose.
Speaker 4: I killed the owl bear the first time, and then
Speaker 4: I felt my friends would not let me live there.
Speaker 4: How could you kill the baby Albart? I was like
Speaker 4: they said it was bad, Okay, I trusted the people
Speaker 4: I saw on the road. I'm so sorry, all right?
Speaker 2: From Balder's Gate three, And yes, we do still need
Speaker 2: to figure out a way for Rosie to play this.
Speaker 5: Yes, I need to get a PlayStation with five guys
Speaker 5: if I don't.
Speaker 6: It out book like, come on, I need to get
Speaker 6: a gaming lot.
Speaker 7: I do that.
Speaker 4: Well, you can play ste on your MacBook and have
Speaker 4: I have bald date three on. I can't play right
Speaker 4: now that I'm enough memory, so you know, but.
Speaker 6: Not enough memory BIB.
Speaker 2: For our listeners that need to kill a little bit
Speaker 2: of time while they wait for Rosie to open up
Speaker 2: Bather's Gate three, A boo, why don't you talk about
Speaker 2: Hades two?
Speaker 1: That's right, and in fact, kill a little time is
Speaker 1: a bit of a pun because Hades two Cardinal is
Speaker 1: an isometric rogue light rogue light with the most gorgeous
Speaker 1: art style you've ever seen, maybe one of the.
Speaker 5: Best looking games in the last decade.
Speaker 9: And the Oh my gosh, I throw the soundtrack on
Speaker 9: all the time.
Speaker 7: Darren is incredible And if.
Speaker 1: You're if you're also a sucker like me for Greek mythology,
Speaker 1: like this game has it all and you're in particular.
Speaker 1: In Hades two, you are on a revenge mission as
Speaker 1: the daughter of Hades and you're out to kill Kronos,
Speaker 1: the Titan of Time. Itself incredible and it's so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, Hades won is incredible and won a bunch
Speaker 1: of awards and is one of the biggest games of
Speaker 1: the last few years for a reason, and somehow they're
Speaker 1: pulling it off again with Hades too.
Speaker 9: Right now, to be clear, it's still in early access.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can only play it on Steam or
Speaker 1: like me, on Steam Deck, which I think is the
Speaker 1: best place to play it. And it's still a work
Speaker 1: in progress actually, So I actually have a family member
Speaker 1: who got obsessed with this and commandeered my Steam deck
Speaker 1: for weeks to play so much of it, and she
Speaker 1: has reached the end of what they've made. Like once
Speaker 1: you play enough of it, you just get a message
Speaker 1: on screen that says, Okay, we haven't made the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. Yet congrats on playing all of it
Speaker 1: so far. And so she left it, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was talking to her recently and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about Hades on X ray coming up.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to say about it? And
Speaker 1: I think what was interesting is she also loved Hades
Speaker 1: one and her take was if you bounced off of
Speaker 1: Hades one, if you played it because so and so
Speaker 1: recommended it to you, and you were like, ugh, I'm
Speaker 1: getting frustrated. I'm not having fun. I'm just doing these
Speaker 1: same levels over and over again. It's getting stuck at
Speaker 1: the same spot over and over again. Give Hades to
Speaker 1: another shot, Yeah, because they've fixed that, like I'm stuck
Speaker 1: against a wall problem that a lot of Rogue like
Speaker 1: and Rogue Light games can become. That I think a
Speaker 1: lot of that turns a lot of people off. This
Speaker 1: game has like practically no grind, Like if you get
Speaker 1: stuck on a certain route, there are multiple routes you
Speaker 1: can go and you can just be like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go work on this route for a
Speaker 1: little bit and then once I'm ready and leveled up,
Speaker 1: I'll just go back and try the main route again.
Speaker 1: There's always like two or three different things you can
Speaker 1: be working on that are all going to help you
Speaker 1: get it's stronger so that you can work your way
Speaker 1: through the main route versus in haities one, you just
Speaker 1: kind of had to keep doing the main route over
Speaker 1: and over and over again and continue leveling up until
Speaker 1: you could make it all the way through. So I
Speaker 1: think there are some smart decisions in this game. It's
Speaker 1: also in early access, like I said, so it's being
Speaker 1: developed so like it will only get better, which is
Speaker 1: kind of astounding because if they release this game today
Speaker 1: right now, in its current state for sixty full dollars,
Speaker 1: it would absolutely be worth every single.
Speaker 10: Penn Yeah, okay wow, And it's supposed to be done
Speaker 10: in like March of twenty twenty five, right I believe.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: They this is a very small indie studio, and I've
Speaker 1: heard they have a pretty good sort of company culture.
Speaker 1: They're very anti crunch. So it'll be done when it's done.
Speaker 9: If it takes it.
Speaker 1: If it takes them a whole other year to get
Speaker 1: through it and put it in a state where they
Speaker 1: call it final, that's the time they're going to take.
Speaker 1: Okay from what I know, So there is no hard
Speaker 1: date or even target date. Yet it's still just an
Speaker 1: early access and still in development. So that's my recommendation.
Speaker 1: Play Hades two. You just have to play it on
Speaker 1: your Steam deck right now.
Speaker 8: Have to wait till it comes to the switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like allow a right, well, Carmen while you kill
Speaker 2: time waiting for Haiti Shooters to arrive on the switch.
Speaker 2: If you're looking for a game that has some repetitive
Speaker 2: tasks for you to do to distract you from the
Speaker 2: horrors of everything the world in general, has a suggestion.
Speaker 5: Yes, this game is called Unpacking. This is probably the
Speaker 5: most relaxing game.
Speaker 6: That I played all year.
Speaker 5: It's beautiful to look at. It is not a big
Speaker 5: time commitment. You can finish it quickly if that's what
Speaker 5: you enjoy doing, but you can also play it for
Speaker 5: a long time and take your time and dip back
Speaker 5: into it. Great game to play before you go to
Speaker 5: bed if you're a relaxing gamer. For a long time,
Speaker 5: that for me was the Pokemon Cafe game, but this
Speaker 5: took its for a long time.
Speaker 6: It's so good. It's so good free game on the switch.
Speaker 6: Everyone should play it.
Speaker 5: But Unpacking is essentially like a cozy game where you
Speaker 5: essentially explore a life through unpacking different houses throughout different years,
Speaker 5: and it is so beautifully rendered. The art style is
Speaker 5: completely gorgeous, and it has that best kind of balance
Speaker 5: that a lot of these games do, whether it's like
Speaker 5: November or you know, as I mentioned before, like Spiritfarer,
Speaker 5: it has like a little melancholy like you can kind
Speaker 5: of work out through the game, Like as you unpack,
Speaker 5: it's like, oh, you were obviously moved in with someone
Speaker 5: in this game, and now their photo is not.
Speaker 6: In your next house, so like what happened to them?
Speaker 5: And it is so cool and thoughtful and interesting, and
Speaker 5: the mechanics are so great, and you add a lot
Speaker 5: of freedom to like Desigre, I'm the rooms as well,
Speaker 5: and there's sometimes you're just in a flat share, sometimes
Speaker 5: you're in a small apartment, sometimes you move into a
Speaker 5: big house, and you learn a lot about the different
Speaker 5: space that this person is in through their spaces.
Speaker 6: It's just such a great game. It took me way
Speaker 6: longer than.
Speaker 5: It should have to get it because this is always
Speaker 5: up there on like the best cozy games, but this
Speaker 5: one was a really great find at the end of
Speaker 5: the year for me, and I'll definitely be going back
Speaker 5: and replaying it.
Speaker 6: Because it's just so intricate.
Speaker 5: You've got everything from like a little video game controller,
Speaker 5: where does that go to like the razor.
Speaker 6: In the bathroom, And it's yeah, it's great.
Speaker 5: It's so it's so much better than my superlative or
Speaker 5: any reviews can really explain. It's it's kind of a
Speaker 5: prime example of what's great about a cozy game.
Speaker 10: It's a twenty dollars in the Switch and I just
Speaker 10: bought it and downloaded it to my switch.
Speaker 8: About it, I.
Speaker 5: Will also say if you're like a if you're like
Speaker 5: a thrifty per and you're like, oh, maybe twenty dollars
Speaker 5: is a bit much for a game that's maybe like
Speaker 5: six or seven hours, Well, guess what.
Speaker 6: It's always on the Switch sales.
Speaker 5: So if you always go to that great deal section
Speaker 5: on the Switch, you can usually find this or Wildflowers.
Speaker 5: But yeah, come and I'm very excited to your thoughts
Speaker 5: because it really is just a totally unique game. It's yeah,
Speaker 5: so if you do love unpacking in real life, I
Speaker 5: hate to pack, but I do like ye unpack and like,
Speaker 5: you know, establish a vibe of a room and stuff.
Speaker 6: And this definitely gives you.
Speaker 5: It's definitely got a little bit of that like sims
Speaker 5: light like kind of vibe, like if you are someone
Speaker 5: who just loved building the house in the Simper Animal
Speaker 5: or Animal crossing the expansion on the DC Happy Home signs,
Speaker 5: I love that game. This is definitely very similar to that,
Speaker 5: except there's less like celebration of somebody coming in and
Speaker 5: being like you did a great job, or like I
Speaker 5: hate it, and this is more like you're just like,
Speaker 5: isn't this just the brigmarole of life? But isn't it
Speaker 5: that small rigmarole actually amazing? Like isn't doing the small
Speaker 5: things the work of life?
Speaker 6: Like It's it's very cool.
Speaker 7: In that way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, solid, it's a very cute game.
Speaker 7: So that's it.
Speaker 2: So those are our X ray reretivations. Just to recap
Speaker 2: really quickly. We had Bilatro, we had Marvel Rivals, we
Speaker 2: had Dragon Age Vailguard. We had hell Divers too. We
Speaker 2: had Wildflowers, we had the Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom,
Speaker 2: Balder's Gate, three Haighties, two, Unpacking and playing a game
Speaker 2: of D and D with me where I'm dm ing
Speaker 2: that a boo has I guess fallen asleep during or something.
Speaker 7: He missed it, he forgot to show up.
Speaker 5: We have okay, now we have to have like there,
Speaker 5: we can do our D and D campaign, our x
Speaker 5: av r V and our honor will be called like
Speaker 5: a Booze redemption.
Speaker 1: Right, a boo learns what a subclass is. That's the
Speaker 1: whole campaign. All right, Well, thank you all for your
Speaker 1: recommendations and for thanks to me and joining me and
Speaker 1: Aaron for today's fun little episode all about gaming coming
Speaker 1: up on X ray Vision. Oh my goodness, there's so
Speaker 1: much to cover. We're gonna be talking about Skeleton Crew,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about nos frot To and of
Speaker 1: course the new season of Marvel What If. All of
Speaker 1: that in future episodes of X ray Vision. But that's
Speaker 1: it for this episode of X ray Vision. Thank you
Speaker 1: all so much for listening.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.
Speaker 3: X ray Vision is hosted by Jason Sepsion and Rosie
Speaker 3: Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcasts. Our executive
Speaker 3: producers are Joelle Smith and Aaron Kaufman. Our supervising producer
Speaker 3: is a Booze Afar. Our producers are Carmen Laurent and
Speaker 3: Mia Taylor. Our theme song is by Brian Basquez.
Speaker 5: Special thanks to Soul Rubin and Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman
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Speaker 7: Boo, you missed it.
Speaker 2: I wrote it so it was. We've got Skeleton Crew,
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Speaker 4: You got jokes