Speaker 1: Warning, today's episode really doesn't contain any spoilers, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about light spoilers from our favorite Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch games as we celebrate the end of life cycle
Speaker 1: the iconic Nintendo Switch.
Speaker 2: Ah we could ever let it die? I Love You,
Speaker 2: I Love You Switch.
Speaker 1: Hello, it was Jason Goosepsio and I am Rosie Knight
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, we are paying homage and talking about
Speaker 3: the incredible Nintendo Switch again changing console and Nintendo that
Speaker 3: would go on to become one of the most popular
Speaker 3: consoles in.
Speaker 2: The world and to do that.
Speaker 4: We are joined by famed and Or Hata, who now
Speaker 4: loves and Or Aaron Kaufman. And I can't quite explain
Speaker 4: to you how glamorous common looks right now.
Speaker 2: It's really quite offensive. It's like ten am in the
Speaker 2: morning and she.
Speaker 4: Has like a full blowout and like a fancy Marilyn
Speaker 4: Momo microphone. So yes, Carmen is joining us too, the
Speaker 4: world's most good looking gamer.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. First, we're coming to
Speaker 1: the end of the of the switch. Switch to has
Speaker 1: been announced. We await its arrival on these shores in
Speaker 1: like a month. It's like a month. Let's first talk
Speaker 1: about our Switch MVP. What is the one game? And
Speaker 1: then after that you're the three games after that that
Speaker 1: are like you're all stars, but your Switch MVP the
Speaker 1: one game on the switch that you could not live without.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Let's start with you, Carmen. What was
Speaker 1: your Switch MVP?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: For me, it was Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Speaker 1: Wow, favorite character.
Speaker 5: I had a few man's in the game, so it
Speaker 5: was either going to be zero Samas SAMs or Banetta,
Speaker 5: which if I really wanted to piss people off, Bannetta,
Speaker 5: so I really liked pissing people off. So favorite party
Speaker 5: game was definitely a Smash Brother's Ultimate, But then I
Speaker 5: went close. Second for me is also Animal Crossing, because
Speaker 5: like came at the perfect time we all needed it.
Speaker 5: But that was more of just like my solo adventure.
Speaker 2: Aaron, how about you, I think it has.
Speaker 6: To be a Breath of the Wild. For me, it
Speaker 6: was the game that I played probably the most and
Speaker 6: for the longest time because I loved it, but I
Speaker 6: realized I never actually beat it, And when Pandemic happened,
Speaker 6: I went back and I just like picked up where
Speaker 6: I was, And some of those early days of Pandemic,
Speaker 6: I was just wandering around, and other days I was
Speaker 6: doing the quests, and by the end, I was really
Speaker 6: sad that I was about to beat the game, and
Speaker 6: I understood like why I had waited so long to
Speaker 6: do it. So I think that would be number one
Speaker 6: for me. It just had a level of exploration and
Speaker 6: it was unlike any other Zelda and yet also so familiar,
Speaker 6: and so that would be one hundred percent my number one.
Speaker 6: I think my number two probably Hades, which just kind
Speaker 6: of came out of nowhere. It felt like I have
Speaker 6: since played other.
Speaker 1: Non Nintendo I think that's going to be a popular
Speaker 1: non Nintendo picky.
Speaker 4: I would also say like it's it's one of the
Speaker 4: best looking games on the Switch.
Speaker 2: I think it kind of expanded.
Speaker 4: The idea of what a Switch game could look like
Speaker 4: because people often think of the Triple A style not
Speaker 4: fitting on that, but Haites with the kind of incredible
Speaker 4: animation style and designs it was really quite stunning when
Speaker 4: you saw that game and the music.
Speaker 6: The music was incredible. Yeah, absolutely incredible music, and like
Speaker 6: obviously that always is a huge plus for me, and
Speaker 6: I think my third would be Overcooked. Another title is
Speaker 6: so stressful, but it's so stress one of my favorite
Speaker 6: games ever to play, and a game that my wife
Speaker 6: refuses to play with me because she quote does not
Speaker 6: like the person I become when I play Overcooked.
Speaker 4: I think that's if you love Overcooked to always become
Speaker 4: an evil bus yes, because you got to why aren't
Speaker 4: you moving?
Speaker 1: Why haven't you cooked? Let no lettus no lettus?
Speaker 5: Overcooked is like stressful job simulator for me, and I just.
Speaker 4: Ca that's actually a really interesting point because definitely most.
Speaker 2: Of my favorite games on the Switch are like.
Speaker 4: Jobs simulates, like animal Crossing and Crossings of Capitalism, and
Speaker 4: it is really cozy and relaxing, but you are like
Speaker 4: constantly running errands for.
Speaker 2: People, constantly the shells and seal them.
Speaker 6: You know, I love what I crashed on the island.
Speaker 6: Can you find these ten parts hidden in the sand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about you find them yourself? Like, what do
Speaker 2: you mean? You drunk duck like killer? But I do
Speaker 2: I do love like a life sim kind of game.
Speaker 4: I would say Animal Crossing probably has to be up
Speaker 4: there as my top one only because I did I
Speaker 4: played it for so long during COVID, and also I
Speaker 4: love animal crossing. I had an animal crossing new Leaf
Speaker 4: on my DS. New Leaf was like a game changer
Speaker 4: for me. And then this was just such a fun again,
Speaker 4: high quality, beautiful game.
Speaker 2: It was lovely.
Speaker 4: We had like birthday parties for our friends during people
Speaker 4: would like come and you decorate your island fun and
Speaker 4: everyone would hang out like and also this was a
Speaker 4: game that then like my sister got really into and
Speaker 4: her kids and they were not really game players. And
Speaker 4: then even my mom ended up getting a switch and
Speaker 4: getting really into it and having her hilarious like own
Speaker 4: interactions like she has the conspiracy theory wolf on her
Speaker 4: island and she's really scared of him.
Speaker 2: She like won't kick him off because she's worried that
Speaker 2: there will be some kind of like come.
Speaker 6: Up for her.
Speaker 2: So she just lives with the scary wolf on her island.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought it was really funny. I was.
Speaker 4: I was definitely very bad at some of the newer stuff,
Speaker 4: like the lady who you know, sells the turnips and
Speaker 4: you're supposed to like resell.
Speaker 2: Them like their stocks.
Speaker 4: I never had that, like blow your nose, babe, I
Speaker 4: don't know what's going on with you.
Speaker 6: It was that was one of the most exciting parts
Speaker 6: that I remember early on when that came out. Like
Speaker 6: my wife and I would be in separate rooms and
Speaker 6: she would call out, like one of my coworkers is
Speaker 6: selling turnips at an incredible price today. You need to
Speaker 6: log on, go to the island, sell all the turnips.
Speaker 5: Elijah Wood would get on like her and be like,
Speaker 5: my turn ups are this much today, Does anyone want
Speaker 5: to come, you know, sell on my island?
Speaker 4: Or there was some really cool stuff like a shinging
Speaker 4: Core made their island into like a kind of a
Speaker 4: horror island or like a meta mystery and stuff.
Speaker 6: I have a.
Speaker 4: Still unfinished, a still unfinished zine that was like I
Speaker 4: did like a murder. She wrote style episode where I
Speaker 4: took loads of screen grabs about a murder and then I.
Speaker 2: Never put it together.
Speaker 4: But like, I think it really inspired a lot of
Speaker 4: creativity in.
Speaker 2: The animal crossing community.
Speaker 4: And then it also like expanded the community so that
Speaker 4: then you had people who I know people who still
Speaker 4: play Happy Home Designer like the DLC. I know people
Speaker 4: who still play Animal Crossing like pretty much every single day.
Speaker 2: And I do think that it came at a.
Speaker 4: Perfect time, and it was also very satisfying for people
Speaker 4: who love Nintendo, because as I tried to explain to
Speaker 4: people who just got into the game and are now like, hey, hey,
Speaker 4: when's the next one coming out, I was like, no,
Speaker 4: you have to sit through like twenty five Nintendo directs,
Speaker 4: and you always think the last thing will be a
Speaker 4: new Animal Crossing, but it never is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just look at you just look at the cadence
Speaker 1: and it's they come out like every five years. It's
Speaker 1: not like there's a new Animal Crossing, like oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: the same thing.
Speaker 5: And we didn't get it until yeah, we didn't get
Speaker 5: it until like five years into the life cycle of
Speaker 5: the switch exactly.
Speaker 4: So I think they know that that is one of
Speaker 4: those games like is Elder, that is like a hugely accessible,
Speaker 4: well known game that people can also just sink hours,
Speaker 4: like hundreds and hundreds of hours into.
Speaker 2: And I will say, you know.
Speaker 4: Not to give a corporation credit, but I think another
Speaker 4: thing that makes Animal Crossing stand out is that during COVID,
Speaker 4: like they worked super hard to do multiple DLCs that
Speaker 4: were free and multiple updates, and it really became like
Speaker 4: a lifeline for a lot of people during lockdown.
Speaker 2: And I think that.
Speaker 4: They did a really great job by they definitely put
Speaker 4: out us. They wouldn't have put them out as quickly,
Speaker 4: and I think that's why after a couple of years
Speaker 4: they were like, no more downloads, like get this open,
Speaker 4: get this kind of expanded version of it where you
Speaker 4: can decorate other people's houses, which is incredibly fun, and
Speaker 4: just enjoy it because that we've given you.
Speaker 2: All of our new content.
Speaker 4: And I was like, you know what, fair You really
Speaker 4: saved some people's lives during the pandemic. So I think
Speaker 4: Animal Crossing is gonna go down as like a very
Speaker 4: legendary game and a very interesting moment in history as well.
Speaker 6: It hit it the perfect time. I mean, it's a
Speaker 6: horrible time, but it was the It was very needed.
Speaker 1: Yep, it really was.
Speaker 4: And obviously that's the game that kind of drove the
Speaker 4: Switch to being such a massive system during that time too,
Speaker 4: and having that kind of resurgence in the popularity of
Speaker 4: the Switch.
Speaker 1: My MVP, it's you know, it's probably I would probably
Speaker 1: answer the same as Aaron and say it's Breath of
Speaker 1: the Wild just because of that level of true immersion
Speaker 1: is was amazing and the fact that I could take
Speaker 1: that anywhere it was truly it was a mind blower
Speaker 1: for me that that game ran on that system and
Speaker 1: that Tiers of the Kingdom runs on that system somehow.
Speaker 1: But the probably the game. Honestly the game I play
Speaker 1: more than any other because I can. I just pick
Speaker 1: it up and play it and I'll play like two
Speaker 1: races or whatever. It's Mario Kark Deluxe.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean what play it.
Speaker 1: It's It's legendary and I play it all the time.
Speaker 1: I love every map, Like the music is incredible. The
Speaker 1: fact that you can play head to head is so fun. Listen.
Speaker 1: I think that there are some issues about shells blue
Speaker 1: Shell being but I think that also it's very you
Speaker 1: can plan around it. Like if you the Blue Shell,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it and you're in the last
Speaker 1: you're heading into the last lap. Just don't be in first.
Speaker 1: I want to be as well, even if you want
Speaker 1: to be in second or third and wait until Blue
Speaker 1: Shell comes out.
Speaker 4: Even if you like I played Mario Kart a lot too,
Speaker 4: with a lot of kids. So I am often not
Speaker 4: this not to do with my prowess as a Mario
Speaker 4: Kart player, but I'm often like first. But the truth
Speaker 4: is as well, even if you get blue shelled, if
Speaker 4: you're in a good lead, you're fine.
Speaker 2: Like it's like but but it is OPI. But yes,
Speaker 2: I think Mario Catt just.
Speaker 1: Me in second, just because where you want to be
Speaker 1: anyway you want to be or third, yes, going into
Speaker 1: the final app and then an I'm crossing this and
Speaker 1: get talked about enough for the songs, Yes, the K Slider,
Speaker 1: KK Slider absolute K Listen.
Speaker 2: I'm a KK Bubblegum superstamp, but I love.
Speaker 1: The KK Disco for me is the one. But I
Speaker 1: also just want to shout out the tracks at Marriocart
Speaker 1: Agent or Incredible Rainbow Road being my favorite, but like
Speaker 1: Sunshine Airport being great, cloud Top Cruise being great, like
Speaker 1: the songs are just Mute City being a maze, like
Speaker 1: the songs are awesome and shouts totintender for that, like
Speaker 1: that is the game that I play and play and
Speaker 1: play and play because I can play it if I
Speaker 1: have two minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also think that is the reason. Like they
Speaker 2: had to do something different for.
Speaker 4: The Switch too with Mario Kart, because Mariocart Deluxe eight,
Speaker 4: you know, is essentially it's the peak version of Mario Kart,
Speaker 4: and they made they can keep the peak if you
Speaker 4: have the Switch online account, which I'm the family account,
Speaker 4: which I do. Guys not want to by Nintendo. But
Speaker 4: then they also over the last like year and a half,
Speaker 4: put out a ton of new new maps that were
Speaker 4: just as great as the original maps in the game,
Speaker 4: and I sort of.
Speaker 1: Realized, oh, there's ninety six how many Mattes.
Speaker 4: It's insane because they had it was for a new
Speaker 4: every time, and they are so cool. There's actually a
Speaker 4: one that's inspired by la It's a Santa Monica peer
Speaker 4: themed kind of level, which is really fun. They have
Speaker 4: a London level, but it's just I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: you could just keep doing this forever and you would
Speaker 4: never need to make a new Mario Kart, Like it's
Speaker 4: gonna be.
Speaker 2: Very hard to top this.
Speaker 4: So I'm interested to see what they do with Mario
Speaker 4: Kart World because I agree Jason. Also, I can play
Speaker 4: Mario Kart Online, so I play that with my sister's kids.
Speaker 4: A lot with my nieces and nephews wherever they are,
Speaker 4: and there's just so.
Speaker 2: Much fun to be had. Anyone can play that game.
Speaker 2: You can play a game that is completely.
Speaker 4: Non comparative and you're playing with kids and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm eleventh, I'm winning.
Speaker 2: That's the highest number.
Speaker 4: Or you can play with like your four friends who
Speaker 4: have been playing it for like fucking thirty years, different
Speaker 4: persons in Mariocart, and you are having the most like
Speaker 4: aggressive Mario Kart ever. Like it works on both levels,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad you picked that when I love it.
Speaker 1: One of my most treasured men memories is playing mary
Speaker 1: or Kart with three other friends on the switch with
Speaker 1: a friend who had not played marri or Kart since
Speaker 1: like super inte, like a long time, and he was like,
Speaker 1: how do you put the I call it butt piece
Speaker 1: when you take when you take on your butt and
Speaker 1: put it on your butt, I call it your butt piece.
Speaker 1: It's like, how do you do the butt piece?
Speaker 6: How do you do it? Not tell him?
Speaker 1: You got to figure it out? Money, Sorry to.
Speaker 2: Go to IM.
Speaker 1: Look it up Google dot com, figure it out.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I do think Rosie, that's a really good, really
Speaker 6: good point, Rosie, because like of like Carmen talking about
Speaker 6: Smash Brothers, me talking about Overcooks, those are not games.
Speaker 6: If one person's really really good and one person is not,
Speaker 6: those are not very fun. But Mario Kart you can
Speaker 6: have fun no matter what level you are. Who it is, Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're getting lapped, you're probably who cares. Yeah, because you're
Speaker 6: getting the ghosts, you're getting the lightning.
Speaker 2: You can discover new version.
Speaker 4: If you're playing with people you don't really know, you
Speaker 4: can be off like discovering new parts of the track
Speaker 4: because there are so many secondary tracks.
Speaker 1: I'm still discovering shortcuts that I did not know existed.
Speaker 1: In Cloud City, there's like all these like almost shit,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you could jump off that side. So
Speaker 1: that's another part of it. The exploration is super.
Speaker 2: Super I think as well.
Speaker 4: Nintendo is really great at balancing kind of nostalgia and
Speaker 4: growth within themselves. So like we love Mario Kart because
Speaker 4: you hear a Rainbow Road and you're like, but.
Speaker 2: But but.
Speaker 4: Then when you go back and play old Raymore Road,
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, wow, this is kind of bustard, but
Speaker 4: like at the time it was amazing. But you play
Speaker 4: Nintendo Switch like Mario Kart eight Rainbow Road, and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh my god. And what I love as well is
Speaker 4: some of the versions that they added. Some of the
Speaker 4: new tracks are versions of old tracks that they've remastered.
Speaker 2: And that's definitely I think that is like that. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I think the.
Speaker 4: Balance of like knowing what people love that is kind
Speaker 4: of makes them have that nostalgic, warm feeling, but also
Speaker 4: knowing that there's a new generation who needed to look
Speaker 4: a certain way and appeal to them.
Speaker 2: That's a hot balance to strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, go ahead, honorable mention.
Speaker 5: If we're talking about Aaron Putt in the chat no
Speaker 5: Love for Mario Party, which I do want to say Mario, it.
Speaker 6: Was a boo.
Speaker 1: He was like, what about Mario?
Speaker 5: Sorry a boo put in the chat no love.
Speaker 6: I know we have the same opinions on on and or,
Speaker 6: so you confuse us all the time.
Speaker 5: Apologies a boo. I did not want to besmirch your name. Like,
Speaker 5: but no, a boot put in the chat no Love
Speaker 5: for Mario Party. And I also want to say Mario Party,
Speaker 5: great game, great soundtrack, but super Mario Odyssey. They gave
Speaker 5: Pauline that fantastic song which I guess that once a week.
Speaker 4: I would also, I will say with Mario Party, I
Speaker 4: do love that game, but I actually think that the
Speaker 4: versions that they I think Mario Party actually kind of
Speaker 4: peaked during the WEI when it was like when you
Speaker 4: had like the screen and the camera. Yeah, that kind
Speaker 4: I think that for me was like the best version. Also,
Speaker 4: that was when I was hanging out with all my
Speaker 4: friends and we used to just love to play that game.
Speaker 2: So it's like I definitely have those good memories.
Speaker 4: My other two are non Nintendo games, but I think
Speaker 4: one of them is a Spirit Bearer, which I would
Speaker 4: actually put off. I would put that higher than Animal
Speaker 4: Crossing if I was talking about like how much I
Speaker 4: loved it. But Animal Crossing I could play never endingly
Speaker 4: because it is essentially a game where once, even once
Speaker 4: you finished the game, you can still go see KK Slider,
Speaker 4: you can still you know, build more houses, you can
Speaker 4: start building waterfalls on your island. But Spiritfarer, I think
Speaker 4: is one of the most beautiful games of all time.
Speaker 4: I think it's one of the rare games that actually
Speaker 4: lives up to the kind of you know, a review
Speaker 4: will always say this game looks like you're.
Speaker 2: In a studio ghibli movie or an animated movie.
Speaker 4: Spirit Fair actually looks like you're in a cartoon, and
Speaker 4: I thought it was such a good mix of the
Speaker 4: things I love from life SIMS. But also it has
Speaker 4: this philosophical element about like death and moving on and
Speaker 4: there's mystery. And I cried so much playing that game,
Speaker 4: and I go back and replay and revisit that game
Speaker 4: a lot, and I just think it's like an astonishing
Speaker 4: feat of game making.
Speaker 2: So that's definitely like my second MVP.
Speaker 4: And I think the real special mvpness of the Switch
Speaker 4: for me and why I love it so much, why this.
Speaker 2: Switch is my most valuable player when it comes.
Speaker 4: Is the fact that they have the the online digital
Speaker 4: store that is not just Nintendo games.
Speaker 2: I discovered so much, so many more.
Speaker 4: Games to then have played so many more games on
Speaker 4: this console than like any other console.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about that favorite favorite indie non Nintendo
Speaker 1: game on the Switch. I think for me, I'll go last,
Speaker 1: but it's very it's always in a starting valley, the
Speaker 1: starting valley. Correct for non starting valley, it's dead cells,
Speaker 1: but it's always going to be starting valley. So yeah, eron, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's start with you Eron.
Speaker 6: I think my favorite in terms of what I got
Speaker 6: the most play out of, was this little multiplayer game
Speaker 6: called Boomerang Fu, which you love. You play as like
Speaker 6: little foods, so you're like a sushi or a can
Speaker 6: of soda or a coffee cup, and you just throw
Speaker 6: boomerangs around and you get all these power ups and
Speaker 6: they bounce off the walls and they teleport, and it's
Speaker 6: cooperative or competitive, and it is a game that, like
Speaker 6: I have played with people, they pick it up in
Speaker 6: two minutes and suddenly you're just like running around and
Speaker 6: it has it has the same energy as Overcooked, but
Speaker 6: I think is like an unsung hero, So that would
Speaker 6: that would likely be my number one. I think. I mean,
Speaker 6: Haites kind of counts as being an indie, and you know,
Speaker 6: I also I'm a huge fan of the Steam World series,
Speaker 6: so I love Steam World Dig and SteamWorld Dig two,
Speaker 6: so those would be up there for me too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many great ones.
Speaker 5: So an early pick for me, I'm going to give
Speaker 5: an early pick, I'm going to give a recent pick.
Speaker 5: So an early pick for me was Gree like GSR,
Speaker 5: I as like the French word for gray.
Speaker 6: Love that game soundtrack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the soundtrack, the art style. But that is a
Speaker 5: fantastic game to just kind of veg out too, because
Speaker 5: there's nothing that can harm you in that game, and
Speaker 5: you just get to enjoy the beautiful environment and the
Speaker 5: beautiful music and you know that nothing's going to hurt you.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of like a cuddle, you know, indie game.
Speaker 5: But then the other one, it's kind of the opposite
Speaker 5: end of the spectrum. And I discovered this recently when
Speaker 5: I picked the switchback up in the last few months
Speaker 5: before I got my puppy, because now that I have
Speaker 5: a puppy, I have not been playing the Switch as much.
Speaker 5: But Vampire Survivors very.
Speaker 1: Opposite, very opposite and very fun. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Love It's like a roguelike Hades game. You go through,
Speaker 5: you just kill a bunch of monsters, yes, as many
Speaker 5: as you can. And I love that game.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there's so many good games. Okay, So like
Speaker 4: I'm going to pick again. My first one is another
Speaker 4: like work simulator. I definitely have to go to therapy
Speaker 4: about why I find it so relaxing to my work games.
Speaker 4: It's not, it's there's definitely something that Yeah, I love
Speaker 4: this game that I guess did begin as I think
Speaker 4: it was a mobile game, but I've only ever played
Speaker 4: it on the Switch, called Good Pizza, Great Pizza.
Speaker 2: And it's so cute.
Speaker 4: Again, it looks like an animated cartoon and basically you
Speaker 4: start a pizza shop.
Speaker 2: And you have to make people pizzas as they come in.
Speaker 4: And this I think goes back to one of the
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, there was like a flat
Speaker 4: this is not gonna make me sound so old. There
Speaker 4: was a website you could go to and I would
Speaker 4: go there with my friend Kaylor and it was like
Speaker 4: a little flash game site and you could like spin
Speaker 4: through the games and they had a game on there
Speaker 4: that was very iconic in my life that I've never
Speaker 4: been able to find again called Taco Joe, and you
Speaker 4: would make tacos as they went underneath, and you'll be
Speaker 4: able to be like Taco Joe. And it was like
Speaker 4: really horrible, really horrible animation, you know, very like quite
Speaker 4: gross MTV nineties look. But I was like, oh, this
Speaker 4: is so satisfying, and that has followed me throughout and
Speaker 4: Good Pizza, Great Pizza is really fun. It's not too stressful,
Speaker 4: it's quite relaxing. The pizzas look delicious. You have to
Speaker 4: kind of as you play, people will come in and
Speaker 4: say odd things to you, and you have to kind
Speaker 4: of work out what they want from the pizzas, kind
Speaker 4: of like riddles.
Speaker 2: They recently just made a new one.
Speaker 4: Called Good Coffee, Great Coffee, which I'm very excited to try.
Speaker 2: Because I love a coffee making game.
Speaker 4: I played a lot of coffee time when I first
Speaker 4: was really getting into the Switch, and then my second
Speaker 4: one would probably be, oh man, there's just I mean,
Speaker 4: there's just so many amazing indie games on the Switch.
Speaker 4: But recently I've been playing a game that I believe.
Speaker 2: Is called.
Speaker 4: Souka or Sweeker. I can't but it's basically you pay.
Speaker 4: It's two ninety nine. It is one of the most
Speaker 4: addicting games I ever play. I started taking my Switch
Speaker 4: on every single plane ride because you can just play
Speaker 4: it for hours, and basically it's just this is the
Speaker 4: fact that, yeah, it's kind of like Tetris, but with
Speaker 4: cute fruits, and the fruits have little faces, and if
Speaker 4: you match certain fruits together and they touch, they get bigger,
Speaker 4: and you're essentially trying to get to all your fruits
Speaker 4: being watermelons when they will then you know, touch themselves
Speaker 4: and disappear.
Speaker 2: I think I have like never gotten to.
Speaker 4: The point of actually making all the watermelons. It's really hard,
Speaker 4: but it's very fun, and there is my cute sweet
Speaker 4: younger friends were playing it, and you can play it
Speaker 4: where it's basically like a leaderboard every day if you're
Speaker 4: playing online. But it is so relaxing. It's really really fun.
Speaker 4: The design is cute and again very good game that
Speaker 4: you can play with a kid, or you can show
Speaker 4: an adult who loves Saduku, and both of them will
Speaker 4: end up loving the game.
Speaker 2: It's like delightfully sweet and like probably that.
Speaker 4: I've bought a lot of Switch games over the years,
Speaker 4: and a lot of them I've bought for very minimal money,
Speaker 4: like Dragon Ball Fighter Zee. I got in a crazy
Speaker 4: sale and became obsessed with it and thought I was
Speaker 4: gonna like try out for EVO because for some reason,
Speaker 4: it's really good. It's so good if you're a button basher.
Speaker 4: So I was suddenly going online and just beating.
Speaker 2: Loads of people and I was like, wait, this is amazing.
Speaker 5: You're beating up children.
Speaker 2: Probably you're just like beating up like fifteen year old too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but this game was nine, and no joke, I
Speaker 4: think it's one of the games I've put the most
Speaker 4: hours into. It's just it's so delightful and so cute
Speaker 4: and so repetitive and just like very very satisfyingly.
Speaker 2: I've played it for hours on.
Speaker 4: Planes when I've been buying, and I just, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a really lovely game. So Jason tell us about this
Speaker 4: game that none of us have ever heard of, Stardu Valley.
Speaker 1: Well, Stardu Valley, I've talked about it at length, So
Speaker 1: I thought I kind of should pick another one, and
Speaker 1: I think Dead Cells is another game that I think
Speaker 1: people are very very aware of if you're a dungeon
Speaker 1: crawler type and you're looking for something Hades like that's
Speaker 1: different than Hades, with the same kind of multitude of
Speaker 1: weapons and tons of value for replay and value added
Speaker 1: after death, all these kind of things. So I was
Speaker 1: thinking underrated game came out. I think it's like a
Speaker 1: seven year old game at this point, and it's available
Speaker 1: on many many platforms. But I thought the on Switch
Speaker 1: is my favorite version of it, and that is Into
Speaker 1: the Breach. Into the Breach is a turn based strategy
Speaker 1: game in which you are basically like in a mech
Speaker 1: war against Kaijus and you have to defend these different
Speaker 1: maps against this invasion. And it is I'm not a
Speaker 1: big like turn based strategy person, but it is. It
Speaker 1: is very addictive and it really gets your I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like a great game. If to your point, if
Speaker 1: you like sudoku, if you like puzzles, if you like
Speaker 1: these little if you like games that get you thinking.
Speaker 1: Into the Breach is perfect because it's kind of like
Speaker 1: each game is like a little game of chess in
Speaker 1: which you've got to figure out like how to appropriately
Speaker 1: position your resources and your characters with the turns that
Speaker 1: you have allotted. And you know, very similar to xcom
Speaker 1: if you've ever played x comm, but super super fun
Speaker 1: with a very appealing kind of sixteen bit kind of
Speaker 1: graphic style. Absolutely loved Into the Breach and I played
Speaker 1: it a lot and it's the again, the one turn
Speaker 1: based strategy game that really really got me. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna, I'm gonna go underrated and I like
Speaker 1: Into the Breach.
Speaker 6: That's another one too, that you can play for three minutes.
Speaker 6: You can pick it up, do one level and turn
Speaker 6: it level come back. Yeah, yes, that's another great one.
Speaker 6: Two other games that we've called out recently, Blatro and
Speaker 6: Animal Well yes are are not Switch exclusives by any means,
Speaker 6: but are so good on the Switch. To play Blattro,
Speaker 6: you carry it around you, you know, you take it
Speaker 6: on a plane whatever. I think, Rosie, you were the
Speaker 6: one who said that they were on a plane and
Speaker 6: there were like three separate people playing it was crazy.
Speaker 6: I mean crazy. It's such a fun game, and just.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not an original, think like everyone
Speaker 4: else on this plane is the same as me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you were the only one that was you
Speaker 6: taking all the jokers to build a one pair deck.
Speaker 6: Everyone else was doing a different strategy. You were doing
Speaker 6: that one pair deck. Yeah, they were doing they were
Speaker 6: doing you know, like high card or whatever. That's not fun.
Speaker 6: You want the one pair deck. That's what you got
Speaker 6: to have.
Speaker 4: The crazy decks guys. But yeah, I mean, like, I
Speaker 4: think something else about the Switch that is so incredible
Speaker 4: and get most consoles have this right, but with the Switch,
Speaker 4: with the choice to allow other developers to sell games,
Speaker 4: it really did expand the breadth of the games that
Speaker 4: we will remember on the Switch. And I think that
Speaker 4: you could ask one hundred people, and one hundred people
Speaker 4: if you ask them for three maybe the first one
Speaker 4: most people would say it whether it's animal crossing or
Speaker 4: it's Hades. But then once you get to the second
Speaker 4: or third pick, you're really going to be getting to
Speaker 4: learn about those people and the things that they enjoy.
Speaker 4: And I think that, to me is always what I
Speaker 4: will remember about the Switch is that breadth of play
Speaker 4: and the amount of new stuff that I was able
Speaker 4: to try out and kind of look at and you
Speaker 4: know I got.
Speaker 2: I bought like so.
Speaker 4: Many weird eight bit games or like Turn It Boy
Speaker 4: Evades Tax like I played that game was so good,
Speaker 4: Like that game was so brilliant, and I just never
Speaker 4: would have Boy if I hadn't randomly found it in
Speaker 4: the Switch sale. Like I go in there monthly and
Speaker 4: just buy like ten games for like two dollars and
Speaker 4: see what what hits, And often I find great games.
Speaker 6: Which is funny because one of the biggest complaints about
Speaker 6: the Switch, I think is that the Nintendo Store UI
Speaker 6: is not great.
Speaker 2: No it's not, but it is cheap.
Speaker 4: Yes, if you want to go in there and buy
Speaker 4: some cool games.
Speaker 1: Guys speaking of criticism. Let's let's it's not a perfect system.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would say that, what is our
Speaker 1: number one gripe lifetime gripe about the Switch, Carmen's dand
Speaker 1: immediately common you're lifetime gripe about the Nintendo Switch.
Speaker 5: I am so mad that in the almost decade that
Speaker 5: we had this system, we had the three DS, and
Speaker 5: they showed us that we could have these beautiful themes
Speaker 5: on the UI, and we only in the entire lifespan
Speaker 5: of the Switch we got a black and a white
Speaker 5: and that was it. Those were the two themes. I
Speaker 5: really miss my Metroid. I miss when you would like
Speaker 5: put a game in and like it would be like, oh,
Speaker 5: here's the the you know, the theme song and all
Speaker 5: of that kind of ambiance when you put the game
Speaker 5: card into your system. I miss all of those little
Speaker 5: touches that kind of made the three DS feel just
Speaker 5: kind of alive. The Switch throughout its entire lifespan, just
Speaker 5: the UI felt very bland and very boring, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: I know that they can do something so much cooler
Speaker 5: that's on they're just not giving it to us. So
Speaker 5: that is my biggest hope for the UI of the
Speaker 5: switch too, is that we will see themes and all
Speaker 5: of those things return.
Speaker 1: Aaron, your biggest, biggest switch gripe.
Speaker 6: I have two that come to mind right away. The
Speaker 6: first is the lack of Bluetooth or lack of a
Speaker 6: headphone port on the Pro controller, because if you want
Speaker 6: to play with headphones, you have to be at the
Speaker 6: dock or holding it hand olt So on the rare
Speaker 6: times that I am playing it on TV, it's either
Speaker 6: through speakers or that's it. I do like to be
Speaker 6: able to have headphones, and that's one of the great
Speaker 6: things like with the PS five controller is you can
Speaker 6: plug headphones right into the controller, which is right where
Speaker 6: you are. And the second one is maybe foolish of
Speaker 6: me to even want this, but just because you can
Speaker 6: doesn't mean you should. And just because you can run,
Speaker 6: for instance, Dived into the original Sin or Dark Souls right,
Speaker 6: just because these games can run on Nintendo doesn't mean
Speaker 6: they should. And there are too many games I bought
Speaker 6: where I was like, I'm gonna wait for all these
Speaker 6: loading screens, but this is this is a lot, and
Speaker 6: I should have played this on something else. Divinity in particular, Yeah.
Speaker 4: That was that was so I was like so tempted
Speaker 4: to pay sixty dollars just to have it because it
Speaker 4: looked so fucked up.
Speaker 2: Did you ask, I'm proud of you. I wanted to
Speaker 2: see it so badly. They got me, They got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Rosie, what's your biggest ground?
Speaker 2: I truly am like a switch, like a deep switch lover.
Speaker 4: So I feel like I didn't really have too many gripees,
Speaker 4: but I do.
Speaker 6: I will.
Speaker 2: I will just echo common.
Speaker 4: I miss like the aesthetic nature of the DS and
Speaker 4: how you could kind of make it your own. I
Speaker 4: do think the only rate way you can do that
Speaker 4: with the switch is by like making your me character
Speaker 4: really weird. So mine is like an old man called
Speaker 4: like Laser, and every time I see him, I just laugh.
Speaker 4: So that's like I had to find those hats. But
Speaker 4: that is definitely something people want as well, because I
Speaker 4: always was tempted. In the shop, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: like pay a dollar and you can download like.
Speaker 2: This UI that will look this way on your switch.
Speaker 4: But I was like, I'm not doing it and keeping
Speaker 4: I'm keeping myself safe. But you know, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 4: I I doing. It's like pretty much a perfect console.
Speaker 4: I guess my only Oh I know what my gripe
Speaker 4: is actually came gripe. I've been saying on the Internet
Speaker 4: and on this podcast for a long time. Indie games
Speaker 4: take too long to get to the Switch, and I
Speaker 4: have been very tempted throughout the Switch's lifetime to get
Speaker 4: a Steam deck or build a gaming computer, and I
Speaker 4: just haven't been able to commit to it because a
Speaker 4: lot of the kind of games.
Speaker 2: I love are on the Steam are on Steam like
Speaker 2: a year before my.
Speaker 4: My git that before I can play it, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a frog and he's a cozy mail man.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I want to play it. It's on
Speaker 2: the Steam Deck. Sorry, Rosie, you're you're delivering mail again
Speaker 2: and you're flying through the sky as a witch. Sounds great. Nope,
Speaker 2: not on the Switch yet. So that's that's my gripe.
Speaker 2: Took too long to get.
Speaker 4: There, And I hope that developers are happier to put
Speaker 4: that stuff on the Switch earlier, or to pour it earlier,
Speaker 4: because I'll be.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: My number one gripe is Battery Life, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's a portable console and if I'm in the airport
Speaker 1: playing Stardoo or Mario Kart, which is most likely when
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be playing. If I have my Switch with
Speaker 1: me and I'm traveling, then I'm done after thirty thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes, like I'm finished, unless I can find a
Speaker 1: place to plug it in. And listen, I understand that
Speaker 1: there are engineering limits here and that this you know,
Speaker 1: there's only so much battery you can pack into this
Speaker 1: very compact form factor. But I, you know, like I think,
Speaker 1: honest playtime on a full battery without being able to
Speaker 1: plug in is got to be less than an hour,
Speaker 1: depending on what kind of game you're playing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: not enough. It's not good enough. It just does not
Speaker 1: feel good enough. But listen, small price to pay for
Speaker 1: what I think is an amazing feat of engineering. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll come back, talk more, Switch and
Speaker 1: we're back. Okay. Your favorite memory, either in game or
Speaker 1: playing a game with friends, of the Nintendo Switch. What's
Speaker 1: the most fun, the most indelible memory of yours from
Speaker 1: this now god seven year lifespan? Eat your lifespan of
Speaker 1: the Switch, Carmen, let's start with you.
Speaker 5: I have to say so one that I didn't talk
Speaker 5: about before. That's been one of my favorites. Early on
Speaker 5: with snipper Clips. Nipper Clips was fun, fantat you could
Speaker 5: play with up to four people.
Speaker 1: But very weird game.
Speaker 5: Yes, whoever came up with that one iconic It's such
Speaker 5: a weird but fun game where you can mess with
Speaker 5: your friends, help your friends, and you basically are solving
Speaker 5: puzzles with these little joy con shaped characters that are
Speaker 5: like snipping and clipping the environment.
Speaker 4: So it looks so Nintendo coded too, you know, it
Speaker 4: is like it's because it is like a it's like
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 2: Published by Nintendo at least like it.
Speaker 4: It just really I that game. I remember so much
Speaker 4: thinking like, yeah, it looks like it was made to
Speaker 4: be played on this system.
Speaker 6: Yep, Aaron, what about you animal crossing In those first
Speaker 6: couple months of Panideic, I mean, especially being in an
Speaker 6: eight hundred square foot apartment in Brooklyn not being able
Speaker 6: to get to nature, that was a lifeline. And we've
Speaker 6: said many times before about how important that wasn't the beginning,
Speaker 6: and it didn't necessarily have legs for me in the
Speaker 6: way that I don't go back and visit it that often.
Speaker 2: Your islanders are kissed off, and.
Speaker 6: Every once in a while I'll get a little something
Speaker 6: in my system, and I'll go back and the first
Speaker 6: islander will be like, we haven't seen you in four
Speaker 6: hundred days, guys.
Speaker 4: I do have to give you any because this was
Speaker 4: actually such a big problem that if you played it before,
Speaker 4: you knew that they were going to pass argue. It's
Speaker 4: like part of the game, but it became such a
Speaker 4: big problem for people returning to the game that they
Speaker 4: actually did do like an update where they're like less
Speaker 4: rude to you now.
Speaker 2: They just kind of come back and they're like, we
Speaker 2: missed you.
Speaker 6: And then But the other one would be playing untitled
Speaker 6: goose game with my wife and multiplayer, and that was
Speaker 6: one of the things I thought. Switch kind of brought
Speaker 6: back couch yes player, which I really really appreciated, whether
Speaker 6: it's at home or taking it somewhere and playing on
Speaker 6: joy CON's a Boot points out his least favorite thing
Speaker 6: about the Switch was the Joycon Drift, which we didn't
Speaker 6: really talk about that part, but yeah, they're definitely it
Speaker 6: brought back sitting in a room together and playing a
Speaker 6: game next to someone else, which I will always love
Speaker 6: more than anything else. So that was probably the best thing.
Speaker 4: I think that's a really great way of looking at it,
Speaker 4: because definitely, like my friend, my best memories of gaming
Speaker 4: are those memories like with my friend Alex and her
Speaker 4: sister we call a Pickle and we would always be
Speaker 4: playing the three DS together and that was definitely a
Speaker 4: lot of the kind of stuff that I loved, And
Speaker 4: I think that my favorite thing about the switch, my
Speaker 4: best memory is it also enabled us to feel like
Speaker 4: we were doing that even when people weren't there next
Speaker 4: to us. So like, for example, my nephe me and
Speaker 4: my nephew, we would play a lot of the Nintendo
Speaker 4: Family account allows you to have the emulators, and at
Speaker 4: some point, I don't know when we played like Kirby's
Speaker 4: stream World three or something, and we played a game
Speaker 4: on They have a game on that it's called like
Speaker 4: it's like Dina Vox or something, but it's basically a
Speaker 4: Kirby level where you go through and you play as
Speaker 4: Kirby and you can get all the little helpers like
Speaker 4: waddle d or Sir Kibble or whatever. But because we
Speaker 4: had fun playing it, my nephew we will still play
Speaker 4: that game. He calls us on WhatsApp and he's like, hey,
Speaker 4: can we can we play a Kirby and you go
Speaker 4: okay then and he wants to play the same level
Speaker 4: and we go through and it's like there's all these
Speaker 4: like phrases like so like when he becomes Sir Kibble,
Speaker 4: like Sir Kibble's back baby, and kind of like all
Speaker 4: these fun like.
Speaker 2: And like when waddle d and waddle doo.
Speaker 4: And just those memories are like so real and like
Speaker 4: great and we're like so incredible when you live like
Speaker 4: somewhere far away from other people. So I definitely think
Speaker 4: the online aspects kind of allowed me to feel like
Speaker 4: I was playing couch co op with my with people
Speaker 4: who were like five thousand miles away, which.
Speaker 2: I think was really special. Jason, how about you?
Speaker 1: What about me? It's gotta be gosh, you know, many
Speaker 1: many nights of late night Mario Kart eight arguments at
Speaker 1: friends houses. But I think in terms of and I
Speaker 1: agree that Animal Crossing in terms of just being a
Speaker 1: emotional like lifeline, a social lifeline, a way to connect
Speaker 1: with people at a time when you just could not
Speaker 1: actually physically connect with people, was a kind of you
Speaker 1: had to be there kind of situation. But my number
Speaker 1: one would be another you had to be their situation.
Speaker 1: Was the lusting after Prince Sidon in these first weeks
Speaker 1: of the release of Breath of the Wild, which was
Speaker 1: like I had not gotten to him yet, so I
Speaker 1: found it like I was like, what the fuck, Like
Speaker 1: what is happening? Like this is so inexplicable. And then
Speaker 1: when I eventually did get to him, like what a
Speaker 1: you know, like awesome level and you know, getting the
Speaker 1: rubber suit was super important for traversing that particular landscape,
Speaker 1: but like it was just one of the weirdest, strangest,
Speaker 1: most like what is happening in this world? Yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of organic feeling, lusting after a animated character that it
Speaker 1: was just you had to be there. You had to
Speaker 1: be there to experience that because it feeling it really
Speaker 1: feels like we got that got lost. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: talk about how how intense that was. For like a month,
Speaker 1: people just like absolutely.
Speaker 5: On fever.
Speaker 2: Fever baby real the fan are the It was amazing,
Speaker 2: insane and just incredible.
Speaker 6: And that was that.
Speaker 4: Those early days were cool too, because I felt like
Speaker 4: it was we could be we were like living vicariously
Speaker 4: through other people's excitement too, So like even if you
Speaker 4: were like, oh, like how do you you know like
Speaker 4: this is crazy, but you're like, yeah, like I love
Speaker 4: that people love this guy, Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like I just think that there's so much interesting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a really lovely time and also like a
Speaker 2: great time for funny fairies online.
Speaker 5: I remember that specifically because that was around the same
Speaker 5: time that The Shape of Water was out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: and so there was just a wonderful period in time
Speaker 5: where we had two beautiful fish.
Speaker 6: I forget did make it into our list of Hottest
Speaker 6: fish creatures when we were talking about it on Creature Commanders.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 1: I think so if he.
Speaker 4: Didn't, then I am giving an official Selby apology to
Speaker 4: side on his fans.
Speaker 6: He should have been that if he wants put in
Speaker 6: the chat, he wants us all to know that he
Speaker 6: has sight on still as his lock screen on his phone.
Speaker 4: We love you.
Speaker 6: I also loved the beginning of Tears of the Kingdom
Speaker 6: when everyone was posting the wildest ship that they were building, Like,
Speaker 6: here's a robot with an enormous penis.
Speaker 1: I was, how are people doing this? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I saw that robot where the penis like looks up.
Speaker 4: And then like shoots out and then like shoots out
Speaker 4: like bombs up people.
Speaker 6: I do I do want to I think it was
Speaker 6: a laser, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do know there was fires. There were like
Speaker 2: fire bombs at something.
Speaker 4: But like I also just do want to shout out
Speaker 4: tis the Kingdom because like, what on a how did
Speaker 4: they program that game? And like they could have just
Speaker 4: made a jupe of Breath of the Wild that was
Speaker 4: just different levels, different characters.
Speaker 2: That would have been fine. That's what most games are,
Speaker 2: we love them.
Speaker 4: But instead they were like, hey, we're just going to
Speaker 4: add this secondary feature that is essentially going to change
Speaker 4: the entire mechanics of the game and mean that for
Speaker 4: there will be like multiple people who are putting thousands
Speaker 4: of hours into this game.
Speaker 5: Not only that, but we're going to add an underworld.
Speaker 5: A sky world was.
Speaker 4: So crazy, how deep you could go into it, like
Speaker 4: it was so yeah, just crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, will be rebut and we're back.
Speaker 5: So I was going to ask you, are you excited
Speaker 5: to replay? Will you replay Breath of the Wild on
Speaker 5: the switch to with the updated graphics?
Speaker 4: Oh for sure, absolutely, that will probably be the first
Speaker 4: thing that I do, because I do still find myself
Speaker 4: getting like It's hard to explain just how blown away
Speaker 4: I was by when when when Jason lent me the
Speaker 4: PS five and I played the remastered Last of Us
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, and then I played Diablo four,
Speaker 4: which is still up there is like one of my
Speaker 4: favorite games I've ever played, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I get it. Like I love the Switch. I love
Speaker 4: I love, love love the games on the Switch. It's
Speaker 4: always going to be my favorite console. Hopefully switch To
Speaker 4: will take that place, but having those kind of graphics
Speaker 4: is a completely different. And I love Breath of the Wild.
Speaker 4: I gotta have the HD for my cooking. I gotta
Speaker 4: be cooking some apples in a pan and see the sizzling.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna finish. I'm not gonna finish it. I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna do a lot of cooking and write a deer.
Speaker 2: But yes, I will be double purchasing that game.
Speaker 1: They will get me there, Okay, Rapid Fire. Question to
Speaker 1: leave us with first favorite port, favorite port from another
Speaker 1: system to play on the Switch, Aaron, start with you.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with Dark Souls just because that is
Speaker 6: actually is It is the game that introduced me to
Speaker 6: the soul genre. And I will fully admit it is
Speaker 6: only I had been so hesitant about it before, and
Speaker 6: it's only because I was excited about elden Ring because
Speaker 6: George R. Martin was writing it, and so I was like,
Speaker 6: you know what, let me try what this game is like.
Speaker 6: And I bought Dark Souls and I have texts to
Speaker 6: my friends where I was like, how is there no like?
Speaker 6: How can I pause and the enemies keep moving and
Speaker 6: kill me? And then a friend was just like, welcome
Speaker 6: to Dark Souls. And then here I am later like
Speaker 6: downloading all these other Souls like games, burning all these
Speaker 6: hours into elden Ring. So that would be my favorite port,
Speaker 6: even if it wasn't necessarily like the smoothest. It was
Speaker 6: just the one that I put the most time and
Speaker 6: love into.
Speaker 2: Common what about you?
Speaker 5: Thank you for this opportunity to talk about my face
Speaker 5: for a game franchise that I didn't start playing until
Speaker 5: it was on the Switch after it was ten years old.
Speaker 5: But the entire banet a franchise, Oh yes, yeah, super
Speaker 5: stand and I started playing it on the Switch after
Speaker 5: I got into her as a Smash Brother's character, I said,
Speaker 5: who is this brand? At a chick? I want to
Speaker 5: play these games, and I very quickly became addicted to
Speaker 5: playing the levels, replaying the levels in order to increase
Speaker 5: my my score and unlocking the different weapons and whatnot.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, hell yeah, I love the switch, So yeah,
Speaker 5: that was probably my favorite port. I would say one
Speaker 5: that is more chill is Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, which
Speaker 5: was I love that game, and that's a perfect airport
Speaker 5: game because you can just solve a puzzle and it's
Speaker 5: so much fun.
Speaker 2: I think that my favorite pool.
Speaker 4: And it's really funny because this is like the game
Speaker 4: is so perfect for the switch that it almost feels
Speaker 4: like a cheat.
Speaker 2: But when they put Katamari Dancy on there, I was just.
Speaker 5: Like, that was just it.
Speaker 2: Like I played that game for so long. I used
Speaker 2: to love playing that game. I just I love it.
Speaker 4: It looks perfect on the switch, works perfect on the switch.
Speaker 4: The Dad character still fucking sucks, like that guy. I
Speaker 4: like that is triggering us out. But I'm like, that's fine, Dad,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna build this three millimeters wide underground rap ball
Speaker 4: or whatever. And I've definitely had a lot of fun
Speaker 4: introducing other people to Katamuri who've never played it, and
Speaker 4: again talk about a good soundtrack, like I know those
Speaker 4: songs off by heart.
Speaker 2: They are all bangers.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was so happy when I realized that was on
Speaker 4: the Switch and that was definitely and it still is.
Speaker 4: It's I think it's another great game where if you're
Speaker 4: at an airport or you're just in the dentist office
Speaker 4: or whatever, you can just play one level.
Speaker 5: And stress out. It's a very good stress really verse,
Speaker 5: yes it is.
Speaker 2: It's very low down.
Speaker 5: Some animals.
Speaker 6: Big enough, just.
Speaker 4: Stop mubbing down people, apartment buildings, kaiju. There's definitely some
Speaker 4: Godzilla lookalikes in that. So yeah, look that game is
Speaker 4: just so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, my favorite report very easily Skyrim. It's Skyrim.
Speaker 1: I play it all the time. I think my number
Speaker 1: one played run through on the Switch for Skyrim is
Speaker 1: like a Barbarian with like ice destruction powers. I will
Speaker 1: say now that I've been playing the Oblivion remaster, i
Speaker 1: am remembering why Oblivion is so great, and it really
Speaker 1: is great.
Speaker 2: But for me, the.
Speaker 1: Open worldness of Skyrim is just incredible. And to have
Speaker 1: that like at your fingertips on the switch in a
Speaker 1: pretty playable like there's been I was very excited about
Speaker 1: the the Wham ports to Switch. They were disastrously fucking.
Speaker 2: Shot that was a big fun for me.
Speaker 1: They really really sucked. I've been excited about other ports,
Speaker 1: but the Skyrim port, which I believe was a day
Speaker 1: one port, very very playable, and I could not have
Speaker 1: been more happy to have that. Like wherever I was
Speaker 1: on my Switch.
Speaker 6: I have a question for everyone kind of along the
Speaker 6: lines of Skyrim. So I think one of the joys
Speaker 6: of Switch obviously is the portability, but I also think
Speaker 6: for anyone who plays mobile games, you play mobile games
Speaker 6: on your phone that are not the highest quality, they
Speaker 6: just are there the past time, do you think you
Speaker 6: played more things on Switch that were kind of popcorn
Speaker 6: games that really you did they didn't deserve to put
Speaker 6: have as many hours put into them as you did.
Speaker 6: Because I definitely have some things where I'm like, I
Speaker 6: only played this because I mean I put one hundred
Speaker 6: hours into NBA two K nineteen, which was not particularly good,
Speaker 6: but I was just like, oh, I can I can
Speaker 6: do the season mode on the plane, And here I
Speaker 6: am like, not really enjoying myself that much, but I'm
Speaker 6: firing up another season and here we go, like, are
Speaker 6: there other games like that for you where you were
Speaker 6: you're embarrassed by how much time you put into some games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely, I definitely have put a lot of
Speaker 4: time into the games. But I have to say I'm
Speaker 4: such a fan of the Switch that I don't really
Speaker 4: think there's ever been one more.
Speaker 2: Why did I do this?
Speaker 4: I don't think so, because I just I just love
Speaker 4: Could you say that, like eight hundred hours in stad
Speaker 4: you is time wasted?
Speaker 2: Someone could argue that.
Speaker 4: Not for me?
Speaker 2: What was yours?
Speaker 5: Common I will say animal crossing, trying to get all
Speaker 5: of my boulders into one place. I don't know if
Speaker 5: anyone's ever done that before, but that is a maddening
Speaker 5: experience where you are having to place things in every
Speaker 5: square of your islands so you can get the boulders
Speaker 5: to spawn exactly where you want them. So that probably
Speaker 5: a waste of my time.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay. Other rapid fire questions Breath of the Wild or
Speaker 1: Tears of the Kingdom, Aaron of the Kingdom, Carmen.
Speaker 5: Tears of the Kingdom. I know she.
Speaker 6: Had to make some robots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my heart's my heart says Breath of the Wild,
Speaker 1: My head says Tears of the Kingdom and then finally
Speaker 1: switch to We'll be here soon. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think tariffs other things. It's going to be one pricey
Speaker 1: and too probably hard to get. If you recall back
Speaker 1: to the days of the initial release of the Switch,
Speaker 1: it was just.
Speaker 2: Not escially in the Animal Crossing air.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was just not around. So let's say you
Speaker 1: can't get a switch to or it's going to be
Speaker 1: a while. What should we be playing instead, Carmen, what
Speaker 1: should we be playing instead? If we can't get a
Speaker 1: switch to?
Speaker 2: Would you play on the Switch?
Speaker 5: That's recently added to the Switch and still a very
Speaker 5: fun game with new events happening all the time. Animal
Speaker 5: crossing or Hello Kitty. I cannot say the name without
Speaker 5: saying animal crossing first.
Speaker 2: It's an animal crossing doup with Helloky, so I get it.
Speaker 5: Yes, the animal crossing, fucking Hello.
Speaker 2: Kitty, Aaron, how about you?
Speaker 6: This game is unfortunately not on the Switch Blueprints. I
Speaker 6: have just been in love with this game. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: And people are talking about in the discord and I
Speaker 6: love hearing as people progress and there's a new puzzle
Speaker 6: that we've just found and this is happening. I absolutely
Speaker 6: love Blueprints. If you only are playing games on the
Speaker 6: Switch and you can't play it on PlayStation, Xbox or Steam.
Speaker 6: I have recently been having a lot of fun with
Speaker 6: this game called Katana Zero. Katana zero is a very
Speaker 6: very fast paced action game. But it's each room is
Speaker 6: a level and you kind of plan out your moves
Speaker 6: and then it enacts them and you can freeze and
Speaker 6: like react to things. It is kind of the opposite
Speaker 6: of some of these other things we've talked about. It's
Speaker 6: being these really cozy games where you you like take
Speaker 6: all this time and make a nice little village or something.
Speaker 6: This is like fast paced energy slicing up guys and
Speaker 6: you have to like be jumping from one guy as
Speaker 6: you slice them to the next one and dodging a bullet.
Speaker 6: And that is another really fun game. It's old, but
Speaker 6: a really fun one. But Blueprints, if you have something
Speaker 6: other than.
Speaker 4: Switch about you, Rosie okay mine is This is one
Speaker 4: of my favorite games on the Switch.
Speaker 2: I play it all the time. It's really relaxing. It's
Speaker 2: really good if you want to go to bed.
Speaker 4: It's called Pokemon Cafe Remix and it is basically you
Speaker 4: run a cafe with Pokemon obs and basically it's like
Speaker 4: a match three game, but with way more intro resting
Speaker 4: kind of mechanics and very cute vibes.
Speaker 2: And every time you do a puzzle and you win,
Speaker 2: you add a new delicious thing to.
Speaker 4: Your menu and it will be like delightful fluffy pancakes
Speaker 4: that look like Evie's butt or something like.
Speaker 2: It's it's like, really really cute, and I love it.
Speaker 4: And if I'm feeling stressed, I immediately just go to
Speaker 4: that game and it's free.
Speaker 5: Say something funny about that game, please. I played that
Speaker 5: game so much that I ran out of levels to play,
Speaker 5: and wow, developers could not release levels.
Speaker 2: Fast and they couldn't keep up with you. You were
Speaker 2: like people who first played Candy Crush and they got
Speaker 2: to that and they're.
Speaker 4: Like, where's the next level, and the developers like trying
Speaker 4: really hard to add levels for me.
Speaker 1: Listen, the Oblivion remaster is out and you should play
Speaker 1: it if you've never played Oblivion or if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of the original, because I go to play so good.
Speaker 1: It's so so good. The questing is awesome. It's probably
Speaker 1: the best version of being able to join factions that
Speaker 1: we've seen in.
Speaker 6: A in a.
Speaker 1: You know, Elder Scrolls game better than the better apply
Speaker 1: that it is in Skyrim, and it just looks amazing.
Speaker 1: But I already said that, so I'm going to pick.
Speaker 1: This is a game that is like is this game
Speaker 1: ten years old or eight years old or something? But
Speaker 1: like let's see, you can't get the switch because like
Speaker 1: you know, it's expensive. Man, the forest. This game is old. Okay,
Speaker 1: this game is you can get on a PlayStation game
Speaker 1: on Xbox. You can get it on almost any platform,
Speaker 1: and there is a newer version called Sons of.
Speaker 2: The I remember this game, yes, but the but the forest.
Speaker 1: Here's why it's great. Your character crash lands on an
Speaker 1: island of like cannibals, and you have to chop down trees,
Speaker 1: catch fish to feed yourself, and like build various four
Speaker 1: to defend yourself from the cannibals, including traps, including all
Speaker 1: these kind of like water collection things. The building is wonderful,
Speaker 1: and the cannibals get smarter and more dangerous. There's underground
Speaker 1: areas that are really really scary, and it's got everything.
Speaker 1: Don't want to play the game, don't play the game,
Speaker 1: just like build different forts and like hold that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I've I've played the game so many times that
Speaker 1: all I do now is just build a huge fortress
Speaker 1: and defend the walls from cannibals like night and day.
Speaker 1: That's all I do, and like gather food and eat fish.
Speaker 1: Really fun game, The Forest on sale right now, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm end This is what I'm talking about. It's
Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine, and I think when it's not
Speaker 1: on sale it's four ninety nine, So incredible value for
Speaker 1: a game that is about eight years old and still
Speaker 1: runs wonderfully and again is really scary and fun. The Forest, folks,
Speaker 1: this has been fantastic to talk about the switch with
Speaker 1: you and to celebrate really a friend, a friend that
Speaker 1: is saying goodbye ya. Next few episodes of xra Vision,
Speaker 1: we're talking about John Wick. We're debating whether Elder Scrolls
Speaker 1: Oblivion or Elder Scroll Skyrim is the number one Elder
Speaker 1: Scrolls game, and we're gonna have news. That's it for
Speaker 1: this episode. Thanks for listening by x ray Vision is
Speaker 1: hosted by Jason Concepcion.
Speaker 2: And Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 4: Our executive producers are Joelminique and Aaron Klefman.
Speaker 1: Our supervising producer is Abuzafar.
Speaker 4: Our producers are Common, Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wack.
Speaker 1: A theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme
Speaker 1: songs by Aaron Kauffman.
Speaker 4: Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman and
Speaker 4: Heidi Our disc called moderate, though