EP 73 - State of Play & Stellar Blade (Spoiler Free Review)

[00:00:00] Alright, we all buckled in. I actually got to pee. Beth's coming on buckled in. I'm the worst. I'm the worst. I'll be back in like a second. We have to pull over for Beth. Where is she going? Always gotta fuckin' pull over for Beth.

[00:00:10] Go to a gas station, get some fuckin' chocolate and chips. Alright, now Beth you're back in the car. I'm ready. You're ready to go. Are you buckled up? Buckled up. Greg are you driving or am I driving? Let me take a pee-pee. Pee-pee? I'm joking. I don't know.

[00:00:27] Pee-pee? We just pulled over. No, we're driving. We're driving, old boy. Welcome back to Super Ghost Radio. I am your host Jerry and as always most of the time and especially today, yes that's right, two for two in a row baby.

[00:01:16] I got Greg and Beth back in the hot seat. We're driving down the countryside. Greg is driving and I, well no, technically I guess I would be driving. You're driving. I'm the front seat. Yeah, you're controlling the playlist? As always.

[00:01:30] Guys I get really car sick in the back seat. This is gonna be bad. Is that why you keep asking us to fucking pull over? Use your bag. Yeah. We'll get you a nice plastic bag and then just fill that bad boy up and just

[00:01:44] huck it out the window. No, what I do, I'll be just lying down. Don't mind me, I'm just gonna be lying down across all of the seats and taking, closing my eyes and taking a nap.

[00:01:56] I remember traveling across the country to go from Ontario to Alberta in the summers to spend like the summer at my grandparents house and I remember like we would drive my dad's like old fucking GMC truck that he was extremely

[00:02:14] like way too proud of and I just remember like once we got on the highway, I was allowed to get unbuckled and then get on the floor and basically make like a fort. Oh yeah.

[00:02:30] And I would have my Game Boy, but of course I had like my tactical briefcase Game Boy case that had like all the Frankenstein parts to go with it. Like I had like the lights that clipped onto it and stuff. I had that big beefy Game Boy.

[00:02:47] I just remember playing Kirby. Oh my God. Those are the days. So good. So good. So, so good. But that's not what we're here to talk about today. We are here to tell you about the good word, the Sony showcase. Of course. What would this be?

[00:03:04] Nobody listening to this has ever seen or heard of before. I got to tell you, I got to tell you this new Sony showcase stuff. This is, this is fantastic. Have you seen this? Have you heard of this?

[00:03:14] It's a showcase that Sony has where they go, look at all these remakes. That's pretty much what it has become. But no, I, I joke. There's, there's other stuff there, but that there are three games here that are three whole games that are remakes. Yeah, I know.

[00:03:36] I mean, it's a, it's a running joke, but it's also not a fucking joke. It's a, it's a thing. Like there's like, look, I like a remake. Don't get me wrong. I like that Final Fantasy remake.

[00:03:49] I liked, I liked the Demon's Souls remake, but I feel like we're getting into almost like comedic territory where it's like another one. Okay. All right. Like the last of us two, did this game need to have a remake already? Right.

[00:04:06] I just, I thought like I'm looking at the actual list of stuff that was announced at that particular showcase that showcase that just happened. And there's one remake, one remastered. And then they talked about God of War coming to PC and everything else is like

[00:04:26] there's sequels, there's sequels across the board. But yeah, there's, yeah, there's, there's things, but yeah, we don't even have to like any of these things. They don't have to be interesting, but there's things, which we will get into.

[00:04:41] And then after we talk about the Sony showcase, we are going to break down our thoughts on Stellar Blade. Now, full disclosure, there will not be spoilers up until a certain point until the end. I have not completed the game.

[00:04:56] Greg has completed the game and I do not want some story stuff spoiled, but we will save any of the spoilers that we can talk about until the end. Now that's out of the way. Let's talk about the Sony remake showcase.

[00:05:16] Was there anything that grabbed you guys from this thing? Besides the obvious, it grabbed me so much where I do not remember anything else that was in that show. I believe me and Greg were talking to something and Monster Hunter

[00:05:34] started showing and he told me to shut up. Listen, we were talking back and forth having a conversation in a dialogue. And he's like, I need you to shut up. I can't get you to shut the fuck up for a second. I'm trying to watch your yapper.

[00:05:53] It's a good Chris Farley. Yeah. So obviously, Greg, Monster Hunter was the big one for you. Oh, yeah. Tell me about it. Tell me about it. Did you make some Dark Souls noises? Yeah, of course. No, I didn't.

[00:06:10] Please tell me you muted those because you were on with Beth. I was on a call with Beth. I did not make any inappropriate noises. I am a gentle man. You're a gentle man. I am a gentle man.

[00:06:23] So I did not make any inappropriate noises, but I was very, very excited. He was like, I was very, very close. I was so close to climaxing. Climaxing. It almost brought me to completion. It was great. We saw the little bird lizard right on.

[00:06:49] We saw that you could use two weapons, which is unheard of in the series. That's pretty cool. Yeah, we saw a new monster with an ugly face. They travel in herds and you kind of have to like peel one off the herd to take care of.

[00:07:03] Yeah, that was really cool. It's good stuff. It looks so good and I can't wait. And me and some friends are already theory crafting that what two weapons we would bring to on a hunt.

[00:07:15] And like I may just bring two of the same weapon, but just with different elemental affinities. And that's something you can absolutely do. It's viable. You know? Hell yeah, dude. That's going to be a day one day one purchase for me. That's a day one.

[00:07:30] That's a day like negative. How many days it out is I might just purchase it now. Who knows? Yeah, it's a given. And after you've introduced me and I just talked about this on Super Pod that you introduced me.

[00:07:45] Well, re re reintroduced me to Monster Hunter the proper way. I basically introduced you to it because yeah, like that's what I mean. Like I introduced myself like twice and then all the times that I've ever

[00:07:59] laid hands on Monster Hunter, I was just like, I don't think this is for me. But it turns out I was just playing it wrong. I was just not playing with I mean, I now enjoy it even solo.

[00:08:11] But like playing with a friend or friends is the way like it's such a good call co-op game. Right? Yeah. And like just understanding that, like kind of get my head around like the way that I expected the characters to control.

[00:08:29] I don't know why I had it in my head like this should control like a character action game or something. But it doesn't. It's very slow and precise. Like your hits need to count. You can't just mash.

[00:08:43] I mean you can but you're not going to get very far by doing that. Yeah, I also was very excited to see that trailer and it was a good trailer too. Like they showed some cool stuff.

[00:08:54] Like you said the dual weapon thing is pretty cool and the environment looked I mean it was mostly a desert from what we saw but I'm sure there will be lots of different biomes and stuff to go to.

[00:09:09] Did they say if this one's like open like world or is it going to be like rise? I don't think that's anything officially. I've seen conflicting reports where some people say it's like biomes like Monster Hunter World was and like how Rise was.

[00:09:27] I have other people who are saying that it's an open world so like until I hear it from Capcom themselves it remains to be seen in my opinion. What would you rather? Biomes. Okay. Like 100% biomes. Like world yeah. Yeah. Like world or like Rise. Yep.

[00:09:51] I would really like to see world with a lot of what made Rise good. Like the traversal and stuff because like the traversal in Rise is really good. It's like there's our monster let's go fuck it up if you want to like

[00:10:09] beeline it to a specific monster that you're just like let's just do this hunt. But like yeah the world in Monster Hunter World is just so alive and it would be really cool to see that in this generation of consoles. Yeah absolutely. It's gonna I can't wait Jerry.

[00:10:27] It's gonna be fantastic. Is it gonna rock your socks? My socks will blow right off my ankles. Hell yeah. Beth you got rather excited. I managed to watch a little bit of it with you guys before I had to take

[00:10:44] off and then I finished the rest afterwards but I did get to hear your reaction to one infinite Nikki. Infinity Nikki excuse you? Wow wow wow wow wow. I actually don't remember my reaction to it because I was laughing so hard I blacked out.

[00:11:01] I was not getting enough oxygen. You made a lot of like squealing sounds of happiness. You were excited you were like this is the game that took all my money and I think like you guys you guys are saying excitement happiness.

[00:11:15] I was like this is hilarious like I don't even know if I like like I'm not excited. I don't even know if I'm happy. I just think it's super funny that didn't you say you were gonna buy it like probably just because you were like I'm buying this.

[00:11:32] Well it's gonna be I think there's an early access coming. I felt like I was watching someone relapse or like listening to someone go through like a relapse because you were like fine up until this point and then

[00:11:43] all of a sudden it was like someone dangled fucking cocaine in front of a fucking addict and was just like look look at this look what you look what I got. The really the thing that really struck me so funny like the reason why

[00:11:57] I like immediately and stop laughing was that the opening shot of the trailer showed this little cat in the yellow hood and I recognized it immediately and it's like the ability to just I was like I know what this is. I recognize that stupid cat anywhere.

[00:12:15] It haunts my nightmares. It stole money from my bank account like I can't stole your money or willingly give it no the cats to blame. I so I just I was like this is so funny that it's like yeah this of

[00:12:30] course this is the thing in the showcase that I recognize in less than like a microsecond. I just know I know this I had no idea you what I know it. I know I know this I beat the I thought you said you peed.

[00:12:45] I was like well this is a new development. I didn't realize I was because I was you know just minding my own business and then this fucking thing comes on and you just start like

[00:12:57] losing it like you were coming on the hinged and I was like what is this game what is it because like I was I was like trying to be excited as well because I was like oh is this good. Is this good. What is this.

[00:13:10] Is this a good thing like I didn't know I was looking at like you were having like blood board two levels of reaction. If this is it good probably not who knows like I don't know terrible. No I do.

[00:13:24] Okay I will say I love the idea of having to switch to different outfits to have like like abilities that you normally would have in a JRPG. So it's like you go through like a JRPG. Oh it's like Chinese. They're Chinese developers.

[00:13:47] So the C RPG is that what you're saying. I'm trying to I guess I'm really thinking about stuff that's like Kingdom Hearts and like these actions stuff that comes from Japan where it's like the

[00:13:57] progression is you know you get your like what we have like your basic jump and then you get your high jump and then you get like ability to glide. And but it's tied to her getting these outfits so it's like oh you want

[00:14:12] to have a glide ability or you need to get the outfit that lets you have glide. So it's like I think that's fun. I think that's fun. It's clever. I think it's really cute but the thing that is so just really funny is that so they start this.

[00:14:29] Okay love Nikki was the mobile game that I became unbelievably addicted to in the summer of like 2014 or 2015. I over the course of four months ended spent ended up spending about three thousand dollars on what micro transactions. You didn't. I did.

[00:14:54] I didn't realize how much I was spending. I how did you pay for how I had a job working. I was and I was like it was the cat though. It was a cat. It was the cat. It was a cat.

[00:15:10] It was because the way the game was made is that you had to craft like you crafted clothing and then you put it on your character and there was then you entered them into contests. The lore for this series is absolutely batshit insane.

[00:15:32] There are like there was like warring like five or six warring nations. Already already this does not even remotely resemble what I watched on that screen. No they were like a Mario game. Yeah well here's the thing Jerry it's amazing.

[00:15:52] There was like six warring nations each of these nations has an incredibly distinct clothing style. For example there was there is the cloud. There was the cloud nation or cloud dynasty and they their outfit was very like traditional Chinese.

[00:16:12] There was like the Apple something or whatever and they were American like their outfit style was like 1930s Americana style. So all of these nations had very distinct aesthetics and they were at war with each other.

[00:16:30] And the solution to stop this war so that they didn't destroy the world was that they would host fashion contests. And that's just like some weird like commentary about how like like Apple like the company Apple is from America. No it's like China.

[00:16:52] You know there's like like there's there's like a European one. There's like it's whatever there. The point is that like the clothing style is like meant to represent kind of like unique clothing styles and aesthetics from different places and different times across the world.

[00:17:10] That's kind of the they just the thing is they wanted to create a clothing or game where you created clothes and then dress them up in competitions. They created the most batching insane lore behind it.

[00:17:23] They didn't need to create like any reason to have people play this game. So when I'm like oh how are they going to be dealing with the war in infinity Nikki. Are they going to address the you know what else is definitely probably not going to get played.

[00:17:44] And this is just I'm just taking a dig here but and also just didn't like the first 10 fucking minutes of the showcase was for Concord and I'm watching this cutscene and I'm like this looks kind of cool.

[00:17:58] It's like Guardians of the Galaxy and Greg calls it like so early he's like yeah this is going to be like a PvP game like an overwatch saying it's gonna be a hero shooter. Yeah. And I was like I don't know man. This is like I don't know.

[00:18:17] I was like I don't know. I don't know. I didn't like the game. It's like the game is more like a an action and then it cuts to like exactly what Greg was saying like exactly what you were saying and they

[00:18:32] took fucking 10 minutes like this game has some chips on the table for Sony. That's why it took 10 minutes because it's expensive. Like I don't know 2016 2017 somewhere around there. They hadn't even released a game at all and Sony acquired them. So this is their first game. Oh okay. Yeah.

[00:19:00] So it's like a really interesting chances I think because that I don't know. I mean again it's not for me I guess but I didn't think Helldivers was going to be for me. That's not a PVP or a hero shooter but just that type of live service thing.

[00:19:20] I don't think it's gonna I strongly doubt that it will be able to come close to touching what Helldivers has made for itself. The only way Concord works there's two there's two things that needs to happen one it needs to be free. That's the big one.

[00:19:39] You can't have pace like sixty nine dollars for this game. The other thing needs to be you and honestly I think probably based on what they've seen it needs concurrent launch of PC. Yeah because I like this this kind of kind of game.

[00:20:00] I don't know if the enough PlayStation players would play it for it to make money back. Yeah this is the majority very much like a PC game. The majority of those types of games are free to play with like heavy micro transactions. Yeah.

[00:20:18] Oh I'm saying for sure they mean that's how they that's how they're gonna make their money. Yeah. Battle passes and skins etc etc. One thing that I was actually pleasantly surprised to see and I did see like mixed reactions to it.

[00:20:33] Some people were like does anybody even play these games was the new Donny those are fools. Those are fools. I see warriors is an amazing series and it looks different which is great for Donny's two warriors.

[00:20:44] Yeah it looks and it looks intense man like some of those huge battles happening and then you're just like riding in on your fucking horse jumping off and just like going into battle and it's just like fucking a sea of people. It better not lose its campiness though.

[00:21:01] Dinosaur ears needs the campiness. Was it dynasty. No it wasn't dynasty wars when they when they were revealing the PS3 and they were like they were like we wanted to give a sense of realism and it like showed like these giant monster crabs.

[00:21:18] Oh no that giant enemy crabs. No that's not the stories. Yeah. And I mean the thing is though like I would hope people know this that what was it I called the type of game Mooshu. Yeah Mooshu.

[00:21:36] So like the genre Moosso and what the dynasty warriors kind of games are. I mean there's lots of variations of it that a lot of people seem to enjoy like Hyrule warrior or is it. Yeah Hyrule Warriors is the one. Yeah yeah. So there's two of those.

[00:21:56] There's the Dragon Quest ones Dragon Quest heroes I believe it's called. There's one. Oh yeah the Fire Emblem one I forgot about that. And what did you say Greg? Persona Strikers one of those? Yeah Persona Strikers was good. Persona Strikers was really good.

[00:22:14] Is Persona Strikers one of those? Yeah they did a really good job of integrate like integrating the Mooshu aspects. Those aspects with the style and like certain little gameplay quirks of the persona persona five. I think Strikers is phenomenal. Have you beat that?

[00:22:46] Me yeah I played and beat that when it came out. Oh. Loved it. 35 hours long? Holy shit. Loved it I did. Is it so is it just a retelling of persona five? No it's like the sequel. It's what? It's like the follow up to it.

[00:23:02] No I have to fucking play this. Yeah so crazy. Like after persona like three and four they had those like dance games or the rhythm games and they had one of them had a fighting game and those are all considered canon.

[00:23:21] I knew something about the yeah dance like dancing in the moonlight or some fucking thing like what it was that persona four fighting game. No it was persona four arena. Yeah that was considered canon so I like I'm pretty sure and Strikers I'm pretty sure is considered canon.

[00:23:37] It does sort of I mean I guess it can kind of make sense with the ending of Royal in a way but to be fair I didn't like Royal. I didn't enjoy the additional stuff at the end. I didn't like the new characters from it or anything

[00:23:58] like that but so them not being and Strikers or having any mention of them was good for me. So we learned last episode that you like schmups and now I'm learning that you like Mooshu games. Yeah I do.

[00:24:14] I played because I also played the Fire Emblem one too. Yeah and I like that a lot. That what's it called? I don't know why I'm blanking on Drakengard. Drakengard is basically one of those two. Really? Yeah I would say so.

[00:24:32] It's just fucking waves of dudes and you're just hacking and slashing and shit. Just waves of dudes. I wouldn't say it's like the best of its kind. I don't even think Drakengard is all that good but I'm pretty sure that it's definitely got similarities to a Moosu.

[00:24:54] I like hack and slash. I just have to say again it's got to keep the camp. If it goes serious I'll be really disappointed because when I think of Dinosaur Warriors all I think about is the intro cutscene to Dinosaur Warriors 8 which involves a guy riding a horse

[00:25:11] jumping it off a flaming ramp and then doing a barrel roll on the horse. What? It is amazing. Oh man are any of those on PC? Oh yeah Dinosaur Warriors 8 is on PC. Is it co-op? Yeah they're all co-op. Oh my god Greg please can we?

[00:25:30] I might actually own it. No. Let me take a looky-loo here. Take a looky-loo? I own Dinosaur Warriors 8 Extreme Legends Complete Edition. I guess I'm going to have to get that because I feel like that's something that we should play together. How many player co-op is it?

[00:25:51] Just two do you think? It's probably just two. Damn. I mean Beth you and I can play. Yeah. See there she goes. The second. The second. I'm like hey you really like these games right? Uh huh. You want to play one? No. Let's play Duck Detective together first.

[00:26:13] Oh Duck Detective. Well we got to beat Frog Detective too at some point. We're never going back let's be honest. Why? I'll start it over with Greg. We could at this point. I don't remember anything about it. I barely I remember that alligator on the

[00:26:30] beach on his little beach town. Oh and then we lie down next to him. Yeah. And we had to like lay down next to him and just like chat. I remember that. That was cool. That was fun. Okay so something that I'm going to talk about later

[00:26:47] when we start talking about Stellar Blade is kind of something I wanted to talk about with the Sony showcase. There was two souls like looking games and I don't know when I came to this realization. It was very recently. It may have been during this showcase. Quite recently.

[00:27:09] One of those looked good like pretty damn good. The other one was kind of like oh okay. I feel like I'm starting to get like souls burnout. Kind of like the way that I'm having like Marvel burnout where I'm just like I've had enough superhero movies.

[00:27:29] Let's do something different please. I believe, sorry I just want to say I believe this you're talking about is the ballad of Antarna and the other one is Where Wins Meet. Where Wins Meet is a online versus multiplayer. Oh okay but I'm wrong.

[00:27:47] So anyways the one souls game that I seen at this while it looked pretty good and kind of cool I don't know man like I used to get so excited when they would like announce new souls like and then I started realizing like the more

[00:28:06] that these things came out and like even like the more polished ones like Lies of P, Lords of the Fallen. Like some of these better ones I'm just like I want to play them but I'm like I don't know

[00:28:21] if I want to like I do enjoy like Elden Ring a lot and I'm super hyped for Shadow of the Yurtree but I mean there's I feel like I'm starting to feel that burnout of souls likes that are just like constantly coming out and

[00:28:37] I feel like we got to like I don't know man we got to like there's I feel like lately it's just like fucking PVP games souls likes and I don't know every once in a while you'll get like a cool like. An Infinity Nikki.

[00:28:55] It's something like that yeah. Yeah I don't know I don't know I want to be more excited about that thing but maybe maybe I will be a little bit more like the same thing with Wu Kong. I'm excited about that but I'm like I don't

[00:29:09] know man like unless this thing is like knocking people's fucking socks as Greg said off their goddamn ankles like I don't I don't know I might be good. I think I don't know I don't know we'll see we'll see. We'll also see what Silent Hill 2 remake is

[00:29:30] going to be like. I will say that the combat looks a little lackluster it looks a little stiff. I don't know why anybody put their faith in Blooper team to come up with a game with combat considering every single game that

[00:29:47] they've ever made has not had combat and anything that resembled combat was not very good. Like I don't know I want again I want to be excited about this fucking game but the more I see of it I'm like oh boy this is this

[00:30:01] is going to end up coming out and just kind of being like a 68. Yeah Greg and I were talking for a bit after the showcase and about Silent Hill in general but about the showcase as well. And we're well like talking about I feel

[00:30:26] like talking about Silent Hill it was like it's crazy how you have like these amazingly beautiful games that are coming from like like teams you never really heard of like about the ballot of an hour like whatever you want to say about it being

[00:30:48] kind of like a souls or from soft clone or whatever who the fuck is tips work never heard of them before where are they getting their money but it looks good and then you'll have Silent Hill to remake from Konami which is a very beloved game

[00:31:07] and like you know series and everything like that and it like they don't even look like they should be on the same system like how are both of these games coming out on modern platforms and Silent Hill 2 looks as kind of like clunky

[00:31:29] and yeah if he is it does I don't know man like it's I don't know like it's it's just it blows my mind I mean it shouldn't I shouldn't be surprised at this point I mean we just talked about in our last episode about simping for

[00:31:44] companies that don't give a fuck about us and like you know I I love a lot of IPs that Konami has like you know they have Castlevania they have fucking Metal Gear they have Yu-Gi-Oh! They got Goemon that's right Greg I

[00:32:00] did it again I managed to bring up Goemon but they do they have all these amazing IPs and they're just like let's just fucking let's get somebody to make something I guess and it's like guys seriously Jesus Christ like we can't do better than

[00:32:18] this and again I don't hate Blooper Team I think they're okay some of I feel like their games are like not bad kind of crap not bad kind of crap like it's kind of a flip-flops back and forth strong hit or miss very

[00:32:33] strong hit or miss yeah so I don't know we'll see we'll see how Silent Hill turns out I don't have exceptionally high hopes for it but I don't know I don't know man I don't know but I got excited when I

[00:32:49] seen the alien rogue VR because I'm a sucker for VR stuff I think we skipped it yeah we skipped overall to VR I mean I didn't like any of the other stuff I seen in VR but that alien game looked pretty pretty wild that's cool tell me more

[00:33:07] about it I didn't see it it's alien what you would expect in VR it had the we like alien isolation in VR basically it's pretty much just that yeah it seems like it might be a little bit more actiony maybe probably

[00:33:21] a lot more like puzzles and shit that you have to you know solve with your hands and your brain or something I don't know do like your brain you have to flip switches and do sliding tile puzzles yes I don't know tile puzzles yes and pull switch like

[00:33:39] pull things yeah pull a lot of stuff place a lot of things on on panels and maneuver them and twist and turn them I bet and then all the while while you're trying to solve these puzzles you're so I would imagine it's probably gonna be pretty stressful

[00:33:55] you got to do a ring toss before the alien comes like you do carnival games exactly what was this is it's which one is the okay I'm looking I'm doing some googling real quick so the behemoth that was the other one that is not

[00:34:17] like the same people who did the Saints and Sinners like the Walking Dead VR which is very good by the way I was my brother has been obsessively playing was like so into it on the Oculus he it's really good yeah he

[00:34:33] came he came here like a month ago at this point and for like the first week he was here he just was like playing Saints and Sinners on the Oculus like the entire time he and then he got like my cousins to play

[00:34:48] it and he kept doing like just like run throughs and he was like like he was like talking to people about important things and still was like had the headset on and was playing and stabbing zombies it was like he was fully dialed in like he was not

[00:35:06] taking it off so if you know they can the behemoth might not be bad done like at least to play like it might feel very fun I yeah it it didn't grab my attention too too much it does look cool because like

[00:35:22] I mean you're the combat looks wild and that's something I think that the that Walking Dead game would pride itself on I have played that game probably probably when it first came out I think and yeah it's it's pretty nuts and it does immerse you

[00:35:43] in a really cool way and I would say like of all the V I've played a lot of VR games and I wouldn't consider a lot of them to be like triple-a like must play like console sellers that would be something that I

[00:35:56] would be like okay here's your starter pack for VR you got to get Resident Evil 7 that's it that's a must now that resident Resident Evil 8 is in VR if you have a PS VR 2 because that's the only thing it's on right

[00:36:08] now I would say that I would say gets I mean if we're strictly speaking PS VR 2 I would also say even though I have not played it would be that Call of the Mountain the horizon one apparently really cool and of course I

[00:36:25] I mean it's not exclusive to the PS VR 2 but on PS VR there was a little guy that really really pulled on my heart strings and when I was going through a shitty time when I was laid off and just feeling fucking extra

[00:36:44] extra depresso astrobot man he was there for me and I just remember playing astrobot in PS VR and I had a smile from ear to ear the entire time I was playing that game and I just I wanted to tell everybody like you

[00:37:00] got to play this game but the problem is I still feel like VR hasn't taken off like it's still such a niche thing but when you would actually play something in VR it's hard to for me to be like Greg you would love this

[00:37:16] game in VR you almost got to be like here try this on for a second and see what you think because I don't know looking at astrobot just on pen and paper you're like okay this looks like an okay like Mario kind of clone

[00:37:28] and it's it is that but it I don't know it takes so many amazing advantages of that technology and it was like one of the first times I was playing a third person VR game and it just like it made sense for it to be

[00:37:46] something like that like you're just kind of looking at this like moving you're like inside of a diorama basically is what it felt like as you're controlling astrobot because like your head is the camera you're the big camera head and when I seen

[00:38:04] the trailer at the end of the showcase for astrobot finally getting a full-fledged game I I was I was because I didn't finish all the showcase in one go I got in bed and I was like oh yeah I should probably finish the showcase and I was laying

[00:38:22] in bed and I sat up like a fucking like a goddamn vampire I was like ooh ooh ooh ooh like I lost my words Karen's like the fuck is going on I was like fucking astrobot and she she doesn't care she didn't give a

[00:38:36] fuck they knew how to end that showcase on a high note everyone loves the little astrobot but that game just looks so fucking good like as far as I can see Sony definitely has this you know it's not even a trick up their

[00:38:54] sleeve anymore because it's like out in the open but it's like they have a shot at finally contending with something like a Mario release in my opinion because I'll tell you and this is coming from a pretty big Nintendo fanboy especially like Mario

[00:39:09] games I was more excited for that astrobot trailer than I was for Mario Wonder then I was for Mario Odyssey like I got really fucking excited like the most I've been like I got blood-borne to level of excitement that would be the only thing that

[00:39:27] would make me as excited and I think I would still probably be more excited for astrobot because the tonal shift like the tonal difference between astrobot and blood-borne there's no difference it's the same game I mean Beth and I was like oh

[00:39:45] it's astrobot yeah I was like oh good I had like if infinity Nikki or whatever the fuck it's called levels of reaction from me that I had to send my friend a message at the moment because his son fucking loves astrobot

[00:40:02] I was like hey just so you know there's a new one coming out this year and he's like god damn it I really want to emphasize I'm not excited for it yes you are don't lie you're like I'm being incredibly mischievous at it

[00:40:18] no no no I think what's happening is you're in denial and you're like I don't need it I guys I don't I don't want me while you're like fucking tying up and being like I don't need infinite early access yeah there was early access wasn't

[00:40:36] recognized your account like oh got a whale here genuinely I'm like is there microtransactions if there's microtransactions for this game guys I'm not playing if there's microtransactions for this game you will see Beth on Yonge Street paying for money I'm not playing this game if there's microtransactions they're

[00:41:00] gonna make it sweet for you they're like oh we got to get our whales back no I was young and I was not managing my money well it was my first job I wasn't thinking babies first drug addiction it was bad I actually like

[00:41:17] legit deleted I deleted a that game I deleted every game on my phone that had microtransactions and then for the next five years I refused to play or download a single game that had microtransactions in it because I was like I can't I don't trust myself I

[00:41:37] don't trust myself at all so and then came along Final Fantasy 14 and then yeah maybe because I really for like I'm not kidding I I didn't play any of the Kingdom Hearts mobile games because I was like I cannot be responsible you're gonna sign up for

[00:41:57] that fucking that beta I swear to God and you're gonna be like what's what's one little drink what's what's it gonna hurt exactly exactly like it's because it's like oh 99 cents for you know cute top yeah it's only a dollar it's so well

[00:42:16] no the best part the best slash worst part is I was buying currency to basically open loot boxes for the chance to get materials to craft the stuff that I wanted so it was like not even like oh I'm opening this thing

[00:42:32] up to get this top it's like oh I want these materials and need I need a whole bike opening this gets me 10 of this type of thread well Beth I hope I hope I hope that you you find a way to enjoy this game

[00:42:47] without I'm not in indulging too much and we don't we don't we don't live in a loot box world anymore true thank God who knows it might be it might be okay for you I said you you might be able to get all the cute tops you've

[00:43:03] ever wanted I want like a fully was like I not excited game I'm not playing this game I don't want it it's got my hands hovering over the by button no I did spend the entire time you guys were talking about I

[00:43:16] don't know what game it was some game looking through all 90 screenshots that are available on IGN I'm like oh my god her hair looks so cute yeah I like we know it you're a sucker for for you know customizing outfits and

[00:43:33] stuff I love crafting so I got a pitch for you what Beth you'd like you know cute outfits customizing your look right you seem to really enjoy near yes mm-hmm why don't you let Greg and I tell you all about if you

[00:43:55] lost yes cuz I feel like Beth I think you would really fucking like stellar blade I truly think what what what what what what do you think you know what ask us ask us what what is it that you you feel like you might be

[00:44:14] put off about stellar blade a price point for how much I think I'm going to enjoy this game now do you think you'll spend more on infinite Nikki no no I have to do that right now there's microtransactions I need to

[00:44:31] know don't do that you don't want to do that I think to be informed don't do that so yeah well don't slot machine Sony showcase not too bad astrobot yay monster hunter yay I'm looking good I mean like the it is only remastered but until dawn looking

[00:44:51] same it looked exactly the same to me there was a lot that in the time at the time I was like yes it's very samey there are a lot of people for some on my tick-tock feed that are very excited for until dawn remaster

[00:45:06] for some reason yeah and I was seeing a lot of game side by side shots shots of it and I'm like okay I see it there all of these characters have a lot more hair and lighting is better so again I'll tie it back to

[00:45:25] stellar blade you want some hair we got here we got lots and we got here we got here we got clothes we got I mean you don't have to wear the clothes you could take those clothes off but for the record Greg I agree

[00:45:38] that skin suit looks kind of dumb but yeah there's there's I prefer and you know what here's the thing let's just get this out of the way for like let's get the sexiness out of the way okay let's get sexiness out of

[00:45:52] the way just pop our tops off real quick you are on camera please remind him just fucking I it's funny because yes this game can be you know a horny boys dream if you want to be the game is horny as hell it is but it's funny

[00:46:17] because I I don't prefer having Eve in the skimpy clothes not only because it's very distracting but it's also it just doesn't seem like it fits with the game to me well interesting well oh I thought you meant like on the person the character I'm kind of

[00:46:41] the same way there are some there are some outfits that that walk the line and will give you will be like a horny outfit but it makes sense whereas did you other ones that it's like a dental floss and some triangles yeah pretty much I mean I

[00:47:02] think one of the most other than the skin suit the one of the most revealing ones that I've seen so far is the I think it's called like the midsummer Alice or something and it just she's just in like an underwear like it's like lingerie she's just

[00:47:20] wearing lingerie that's a swimsuit Jerry swimsuit read the description that's a swimsuit I like the idea of you reading descriptions of all these things being like how the fuck does this come together what type of outfit but yeah no I mean I feel like this

[00:47:38] game got the rap of just being like oh yes that horny game but it's it's a lot more than that let me tell you can I say that like I was not bothered or like you know that uncomfortable by the overt like obvious sexualization of this

[00:48:00] character or anything like like intention because they like the interviews of the guy was like he's like yeah we spent an insane amount of time on her ass because that's what you're gonna be staring at the whole time so we wanted to make sure she

[00:48:11] had a great ass Amanda's that jiggle physics work good it until I found out that like they actually like found a woman in Korea who is a model and the guy was like oh she has the hottest body so they 3d printed her

[00:48:25] body into the game and then I kind of was like a little bit uncomfortable with like that there's many people who do like insane mods and things like that for this game eventually and it's like this is a technically a real person's body that is in this game

[00:48:42] and that does make me uncomfortable and yes she consented to being in the thing and whatever so it's very much like it's all above board like it's whatever it does make me feel a little bit icky about the situation but that's all like the only reason

[00:48:59] that I feel like so here's the thing about this that person they scanned so what I discovered playing this game is that Eve has two different body models I don't mean I don't mean like people I mean like there's two different versions of you know there

[00:49:14] is like her base like her green costume that's that's the one that they that they scanned in but what I find is whenever she's in something ridiculous her it's like it's like it's like it's like put on on two B leggings and because her whole body

[00:49:34] like fix out to a to a like a proportion that is ridiculous yeah I was doing like an AB last night because I was like hang on a second because I I normally wear like that the black the all-black suit and yeah

[00:49:48] her boobs are way smaller in that and so was her ass like I was doing like an AB between that and like the standard green one and I was like yeah her ass is wet like way smaller in the black suit so I don't know but

[00:50:05] yeah I'm just saying that like I you know can't like I personally just felt like when I found out that it was like they went and found a real person for this it was like to be hyper sexualized to that point I mean

[00:50:25] like wow yeah this shit just got the perfect titties like I just I was like I feel a little bit weird that you're talking about a real person this way it's from the sitting in the room and he's like this woman perfect hits yeah that's all she's

[00:50:39] just sitting there like twiddling her thumbs like but honestly because it's it's Korea I'm sure she would be like I do have yeah I'm not like that's the thing I just like I it's it's a really weird thing to tell like explain because it's like while it's

[00:50:53] like I don't I know like nothing really like untoward happened and like I said she consented to having this she got paid like she probably is very confident her body she has no problem with any of this stuff happening I like assume we haven't

[00:51:07] heard anything from her it's like so you can be like oh well then why are you having that reaction it's like well I can't help how I feel about it you know it's like it's just like it's like it's it's like a weird you can see me right

[00:51:22] down I'm making like strange little movements with squinted eyes cuz like that's the vibe it's like a little like I think what I was something about it that makes me a bit uncomfortable I think what I'm talking about to be legs the point I was

[00:51:36] trying to make is like yes in tasteful clothing it's the it's the body scan yeah in in ridiculous clothing it's like the fabricated yeah so to talk about near like we have to we have to talk about near when we talk about this game because

[00:51:52] there's so many similarities in my opinion I mentioned to you Greg before we started recording that I had maybe a few takes that were a little hot about this game I think there is a number of things that this game does as good as near and

[00:52:09] sometimes better get the fuck out of here yes I truly believe this so just to maybe break do like a little little initial pros and cons tell me about tell me about so for starters the first thing that I wrote down here because I cannot stop humming the

[00:52:29] fucking soundtrack to this game the soundtrack is very very similar to the style of near a lot of like vocalization in in the like the songs and stuff there's a lot of like very angelic sounding like singing and like I don't know like it just has a

[00:52:46] it has that vibe that near had and it is very good and the way that it transitions when you get into combat like it does that thing like you know Final Fantasy 7 rebirth and like a number of these other games do it

[00:53:00] it's got like this cool chill vibe kind of at first and then as soon as you enter combat it like picks up but it still has like the same melody yeah the lady starts singing louder yeah like it pitches up it does like she like

[00:53:24] when you're like playing like something like Skyrim and then suddenly they're like oh yeah like music comes on and you're like where's the end of the scene? that happened a few times where I'd be like I'm in combat who am I in combat?

[00:53:39] and then I'll see like this like this guy like wandering over like into my island like oh I must have picked you up ages ago like what? also I okay here's here's one of the hot takes for me

[00:53:54] I think the combat in this is better than near automata I think they're different I think it's the stuff that I've seen it's like initially you want to compare the two for a lot of reasons and also because the the guy at shift up

[00:54:07] shift up who directed this did talk a lot about being inspired by near and stuff like that but I feel like the combat especially since like randomly it's like oh here's a gun I'm gonna whip out and like other things like that it's like a different system

[00:54:22] I mean it is but I'm here to tell you it's not all that different because like with with near you're kind of like always always well I was always like shooting like my little drone with like the the like my drone weapon as I'm fighting things

[00:54:42] you didn't whip out a pistol you didn't put away your sword whip out a pistol and shoot something in the face no but like there's shooting involved like to some degree like I had a like a ranged shooting weapon

[00:54:54] in near it's just kind of like constantly being shot in this it's a little bit more methodical and there's different guns for different situations certain guns are better against like shields and like you get different types of ammo and stuff

[00:55:11] but it it definitely feels very similar to near to me like specifically automata like like near replicant not so much but definitely automata for like that style it's funny because like Greg I know at first like we both kind of flip-flopped around

[00:55:35] how we felt this game translated to like other similar games in combat like at first we were like kind of feels like a little soulsy and then it was like oh this is like full blown character action game

[00:55:47] and then I kind of like flip flop myself back and forth and I'm like it's kind of like a really cool combination of both of those worlds and like I don't know it just it just blends those things together very very nicely

[00:56:01] I'm of the mind and I played this game a lot that I do not I would never characterize this game as being anything souls like at all the only thing you have is a refillable healing resource and like status checkpoints that's really that's where it begins

[00:56:23] at the end of the day that's pretty much it I mean the combat is nothing like souls really other than that it can be quite difficult but I mean that's not really it's a character but even then like I didn't even find it

[00:56:39] like I beat the game on normal and hard and easy and you played that many games you played three times? let me tell you this is the first game I've ever platinumed what? yeah I platinumed Scylla Blade congratulations yeah, Atta Boy and yeah it's

[00:56:58] I do not consider it with the exception of some boss fights in like the last area I don't think the game is hard I didn't I struggled quite a bit we're different people Jerry we're different people I'm a character action veteran

[00:57:16] and I did not find the game hard there were some fights that were difficult but like once you get the gist of it or what you're supposed to do in that fight then it's easy breezy do you think it's easier or harder than God of War?

[00:57:43] probably around the same maybe it depends because like you can put it on easy it's hard to compare because the encounters kind of flow so differently I would say in terms of just like overall difficulty God of War is probably harder

[00:57:58] I think I remember dying a lot more in God of War God of War is probably harder yeah like what game do you die more in what game do you feel like hits harder God of War is probably is probably harder okay

[00:58:14] I died more overall in God of War but I died more at single encounters in Stellar Blade okay and the thing that I do like about it that is not souls like that I was surprised after dying the first time

[00:58:29] and I was like oh there's not really any penalty to dying no there's no penalty at all to dying no like it's more like oh if you're trying to get from point A to point B and there's a bunch of tough like enemies in the way

[00:58:43] then that's kind of your only penalty because they do respawn like in a souls game like once you die or once you sit down and rest they do come back but I liked the fact that like you're not losing any XP like you're not there is no penalty

[00:58:59] it's just like oh I just got to get better at this this run through these guys and like think of a different way to tackle this situation and then when you do get like because sometimes it could just be like oh that one tough guy

[00:59:11] but now there's two other dudes with him and now I'm going to have to figure out how do I get rid of those two dudes while also dealing with this guy are like the run backs long? like it's like the checkpoints or whatever it depends

[00:59:26] they're generous with them and some like big encounters like it'll checkpoint you right outside the fight it won't restrict you just to the like the static locations that's nice because that's the thing so far yeah it's been very forgiving with the checkpoints and like the quote unquote bonfires

[00:59:42] and stuff that they let you use but yeah I truly believe this is probably one of the best combats I've played in a game in a while because it's like once you start unlocking a lot of the layers to the combat it is crazy

[01:00:03] like you get like in the zone with this game and there's lots of cool like dodge cues and at first I was struggling like bad with the parries and like the dodging and I was like man this is like this is fucking impossible

[01:00:22] but like you actually get stuff later on like there's even like different chip sets that you can put on that allow you to do the perfect dodges and the perfect parries easier and then you can even like add more stuff to buff that so that they become like

[01:00:39] very easy to pull off also like the chip sets is kind of like like talking about near like they're the way you kind of slot in your yeah you can you can get they call them gear slots and they all do have different modifiers

[01:00:55] and you can get by the end of the game you have a total of four okay and then you have two spine slots which do are more like significant modifiers like classes basically oh I don't know if it's like classes I don't know how to describe it

[01:01:08] well I don't know how else to describe it really it's just like there's it's like a focus on a certain type of combat yeah yeah so like there's there's spines I'll be like so you have beta skills and burst skills

[01:01:19] and you can have spines that will do more beta skill damage and have recharge faster there's spines that do more same thing for burst skills there's spines that will give you bonuses after you stealth kill something and then there's ones that are like then there's stuff that's like

[01:01:37] if you're at full health you'll do double damage kind of idea okay and then there's like the danger one where it's like if your health is below a certain percent then you do like crazy crit damage yeah and then yeah there's another one too

[01:01:51] that is the eagle eye one which is all about utilizing like your guns so to like increase the ammo for your guns and a bunch of other stuff but yeah it's like the layers to the game are offered to you in what I would call like

[01:02:08] the platinum spoo feed where like platinum games are very good at like by the end of the game you're holding your fucking controller like a goddamn burger and you're just like your hands are fucking like doing this shit and you're just pulling off the most wild shit

[01:02:25] and this game does the same thing I feel like they introduce you to the layers of the combat very nicely and I never feel like I'm like fuck like this is too much stuff going on because I definitely have played games where it's like

[01:02:38] I feel like there's too much to rethink going on here like I can't remember how to do this thing or like what am I supposed to use this thing but it's I don't know I stand by the fact that I think this is for me

[01:02:53] this is the best combat that I've played this year like over Final Fantasy 7 and I really really like Final Fantasy 7 I know I know settle down settle down there's a lot of people that like it I will be a tater in the tot

[01:03:15] I will hate it to the death Beth is gonna be a tater in the tot but I don't even know I'm just trying to defuse the situation no, escalate and then I also really enjoy the voice acting so Greg falls after him I gotta stop you right here

[01:03:45] I was playing with a bottle opener and I put it down but it's sort of the way it went it's like you were walking talking and sort of fell into a manhole like a cartoon character stepping up with their own feet like whoa whoa whoa whoa

[01:04:01] I got something to say balls off screen speak your truth the voice acting overall is fine I wouldn't call it good for the most part I wouldn't call it bad with the exception of Adam because that voice actor sounds like

[01:04:25] it sounds like he was made out of AI he talks in a way that is so like stunted and unnatural it's something, it's an AI voice hey Eve, why don't we go see what's over there and it's like okay, are you ready to leave? was that intentional though?

[01:04:42] like his, of this and I can't tell you why okay, okay no please don't, please don't no it's not so Greg, what would you say is you know, I've kind of gone over like the big pros for myself like what would you say really stint

[01:05:08] like you're fucking platinum this game you must have some strong opinions about this game yeah, okay let me see I don't know, it's, I just freaking loved it it's like it's a, sorry go ahead how did you feel about the characters and the story

[01:05:29] and stuff like that too you clearly had a lot of fun playing the game like the combat and the loadouts and all that stuff you can do with it but like, I guess what are some like maybe crazy

[01:05:44] or like moments that really were like wow this game is something that I want to like go through again and was it try not to spoil anything though no, but like you can generally talk about like yeah all the boss fights were fantastic

[01:05:59] yeah, they keep you on your toes they keep you on your toes, you have to there are some repeats let me think how there are some repeats, not many, but there are some repeats but they're all they're all great there's some variation, yeah

[01:06:14] but they're all really good, really fun and satisfying when you get them the like Jerry was saying, the combat is really good I got really into the the dodge and parry mechanic it became very second nature to do it when I was going through it on easy

[01:06:40] because I realized that I kind of boned myself on one of the endings by the first one that I chose I think I mentioned it to you guys there's more than one ending? there's three endings okay

[01:06:55] so I think, I don't know if I said in the group chat or just to Jerry or to whoever but when I did the first ending I had a very strong feeling, I was like ooh I chose the wrong one was the strong feeling that I had

[01:07:08] and if I chose the other ending in that time I could have reloaded my save and got the third ending and then I would only have to play it twice oh, interesting okay that is very near, near automatic because there's the ABC endings

[01:07:24] and then there's obviously all the other bullshit ones or whatever but if you do it in the right order you only need to do technically two playthroughs to get the ABC but if you get like, you'd fuck it up

[01:07:37] you do have to do it like a third time that's exactly what happened I chose the wrong initial ending and it fucked me over because I could have done it in two playthroughs but what was I even talking about before I got to the real standout moments?

[01:08:00] yeah, stuff that's really hooked you beyond the combat is there anything that... I really like the hub world, Zion and what's nice about the hub world is that if you walk around it I don't know if they had to cut back

[01:08:23] or if there is going to be DLC for anything in the future or what they're going to do because if you want to walk around the city you can see down alleyways that are blocked off by geometry or something

[01:08:37] but there's full areas back there that are unused and could very easily be used you can tell it's rendered yeah, I think that's what we were talking about there's a few all over the city and it's like, oh are they going to open up this later

[01:08:51] for side stuff yeah, I really enjoyed Zion too so far anyways because again, I'm not done the game how far would you say I am now? knowing where I am you are... like over halfway? yeah, I'd say so, you're over halfway because there is... one, two, three

[01:09:15] one, two, three, four, five there's six areas I think and you've just gone past you just finished three yeah and two of them are short so you're about halfway through that's the other thing too the areas themselves I feel like I do like

[01:09:40] so this isn't too much of a spoiler or anything but the flow of there's three different types of areas we'll talk about another one once we hit the spoiler wall but the two that you'll encounter very early in the game there's like the linear style

[01:09:58] which it still has exploration Greg, one of the first things that you said to me was hey man, don't try to crit path this game if you find nooks and crannies check them out because it's actually really rewarding to just go, what's over here?

[01:10:10] what's in this spot? oh there's a ledge here so what's funny is originally I was like, oh the game rewards you for exploring now my stance of the game is punishing me for exploring really? what I find is like I guess it's a reward

[01:10:24] it depends on your mindset but when I was first playing through the game I was like, I can't go that way that's obviously the way to go and then I would like branch off and I would branch off

[01:10:38] and just like find something that I would have had to branch off and find anyway, I guess it's rewarding me I don't know what it felt like oh you found this early okay I found it or sometimes I would branch off

[01:10:50] and think I was not going the way and then it's the way yeah it's got the linear style levels that have like a little bit of branching paths happening with a lot of you loop back and open up a shortcut and you're like, oh I'm back here now

[01:11:08] cool! there's a lot of that going on which I love and then there's the open world ish sections it's not like it's not like a fully humongous seamless open world or anything it's just like a very very large area that you just kind of

[01:11:26] get to run around in and it has lots of side quests and stuff that you can do the first one that you get to is a little it's a little bland like that was actually one of my cons was like sometimes the areas just feel

[01:11:42] a little bland but then at the same time I'm like this is kind of a post apocalyptic game but then like the first area that you start off in idos what's it called? idos 7 it's very lush and like overgrown and then the first open

[01:12:00] world is just like fucking sand yeah it's well you get these are your biomes you encounter in this game destroyed city, desert sewer that's what you get destroyed city, desert, sewer and I would have loved to see more variation in terms of like the

[01:12:22] location but the two open worlds are basically desert one and desert two oh that was a bummer yeah I would have liked to see something different like you can still do like an apocalyptic area and still and like but they're still fun to explore it's not real

[01:12:38] yeah but like the areas themselves are actually still fun I was you're going to be amazed to hear this but I cleaned up all of the first open area like I did all of the quests and I was like huh you know what

[01:12:54] I didn't mind doing that too much like I had a pretty good time like running around and just kind of doing some stuff and then like you know you'll find like a structure and you're like ooh what's this

[01:13:06] thing oh it's a locked door how the fuck do I open this oh there's a password okay well where's the password at also speaking of passwords I kind of fucking love the hacking systems there's a few different kinds the one with the arrows

[01:13:22] is a lot of fun and can be stressful when they do like the randomized one yeah that one can be a bit bit nuts I did one last night I was going to say have you done one with like the the square

[01:13:36] I did that last night for the first time and at first I was like oh what the fuck is this I haven't seen this before and that was a tougher one that was like the first one that I got that I actually failed

[01:13:50] the first time normally I'm like pretty good at even like the arrow ones but I failed that square one a couple times before I got it because you gotta like you gotta feel like it'll it's like you'll see like a little like cursor

[01:14:06] going over like a bunch of squares in like a pattern and when it hits a certain square it'll like slow down for like a split second and you'll feel like the haptics will vibrate like harder and you have to hit you gotta time it so that you click

[01:14:20] the cursor when it hovers over that square and yeah that first one that I did was not easy there's one that will come I think in the last area where the the first square that slows down is literally the first square that would that's what happened

[01:14:38] to me and I like I had to like melt my brain. You had to wait for it to cycle. Yeah you had to wait for it to like hit the last one and then restart and that's what kept fucking me up but yeah no the the areas

[01:14:54] I again we'll talk about there's a third area that I actually played for the first time last night and I fell in love with it because I was like this what the fuck is going on right now like this is whack in a really good way

[01:15:12] It's whack bro It's whack It's a wiggity-whack but yeah I don't know man like I feel like any of the complaints I have about this game are just are just like easily brushed away with how much I love this game

[01:15:34] And it makes me excited for for Stellar Blade 2 It's gonna happen like these guys have something now like this is this is definitely a thing and I'm glad because it's really good this is a really fucking good video game and it's kind of

[01:15:50] exactly what I've been wanting like again I really enjoyed my time for the most part with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth I did but after that being shockingly long I was ready to just be like you know what I'm ready to take it down a take it down

[01:16:10] a notch and not just have like this massive sprawling open world with towers and you know picking off all these different points of interest and stuff like that like I'm ready man I'm ready I'm ready to just like you know consume some smaller stuff I mean

[01:16:26] I bought Animal Well and fucking Stellar Blade the same like pretty much within minutes of each other and I started Stellar Blade and I was like oh my god this is fucking amazing and I was like oh I better check out Animal Well too and I could not

[01:16:42] put down Animal Well I beat that like I pretty much did not touch Stellar Blade the entire time because that was like a short sweet like five to six hour game and it was exactly what I wanted like it was just something that I could easily

[01:16:56] pick up and play that's kind of like what you're saying about Resogun it was just something that I could pick up and play it was fairly difficult at times but it was just one of those games that like I don't know like you're just constantly exploring

[01:17:08] and stuff and I really like that about Stellar Blade too that it has that sense of exploration but it's not to the point where it's like overwhelming if that makes sense Oh you know talking equating these things like equating the Stellar Blade with Nier and

[01:17:24] you're talking about the way the world was kind of structured like how it's these kind of open-ish areas but it's not like really a vast open world that's kind of like Automata and um Replicant I'm telling you if this game goes on sale I would highly recommend

[01:17:44] you to grab it because I think I think you'd really like this game If you play on easy mode anytime there's a mandatory parry the game will slow down and be like R1 now Oh god It's so it's like really funny because it's like I

[01:18:04] I hate parrying I hate parrying but I also hate games that are constantly like you should be like here's a constant tutorial that's going to pop up every time like if you're playing on um like easy or something like that because it's like

[01:18:18] man I like I don't want resistance but I'm not brain dead like that was um Ghost of Tsushima I enjoyed that game a lot but anytime you attacked and you weren't in the quote unquote proper stance for the enemies that you were attacking the game

[01:18:40] would like the tutorial thing would pop up being like remember switcher stances I don't think does anything like that It's only on easy mode where it's like press R1 That is what he's like with and like that's like Ghost does that so much and it's like

[01:19:00] I was playing Ghost on easy and I also was like like a high I don't know I had like kind of gotten really far in the game and I just was going back to do like side quests and clear stuff up so going through and killing the enemies

[01:19:14] was like very very easy and fast so it's like I don't need to switch stances cause I'm taking these fuckers out in two hits so stop telling me to switch my god damn stance Also like we were saying earlier about the difficulty

[01:19:30] of this game compared to God of War You actually might be fine on the normal difficulty It can be difficult but like I found it a lot more difficult up front than it is now for me That's how I felt with God of War especially the first

[01:19:48] God of War Same I remember playing the first God of War and just being like what the fuck is going on why is this I'm getting murdered by the first two enemies in the game Yeah before you get any upgrades or anything like that it's like

[01:20:04] this is the hardest part This game for me like I got the boss that I got to last night Greg the one that you wanted me to get to which we'll talk about in the spoilers here in a minute I got that

[01:20:18] on my third try and that was that was a fairly that's probably one of the more difficult ones so far Cause I felt like that was like you know it's one of those turning point bosses where it's like oh okay it's this thing but yeah

[01:20:36] so Beth I truly believe that you would love this game if you get your hands on it but I don't want to think too much more about it because I am in fear that if I blow this game up too much that you will never play it

[01:20:50] Well like I see here's the thing It is a possibility that I like it but I've asked multiple times about the story and the characters and neither of you have said anything about them or anything about us

[01:21:06] We'll talk about that in a second when we get to the spoilers I'll get into it when you get to the spoilers The stuff that I like so much about Nier and games that I've played like Nier is like I've really loved those characters and the story

[01:21:24] There's a lot of lore I can tell you that There's a lot of fucking lore and at the same time not enough lore It's the first game so I understand Yeah But okay so full disclosure Why don't we get into the spoiler wall Again we are going to

[01:21:44] spoil not the whole thing right Greg? I will do my best Please do If there is a If Beth has a specific question that I can answer I will tell you to mute us and then I'll give you some open the little chat here that's in this little

[01:22:06] I still have to edit this podcast Alright fine Oh true You're not fooling me buddy I still have to edit this podcast What does that have to do with anything? I thought the same thing It's not going to take that much time

[01:22:24] I was like time wise what the fuck does that have to do with anything? I'm like listening back I'm like oh spoil myself I will answer questions in as many vagaries as possible If there's something I'm like really really like I want to I'm curious because

[01:22:42] I'm going to be so honest I really don't see me playing this game at least not for a couple years So I think the biggest indicator of like me being honest with you guys and honest with myself is that I don't care about spoilers

[01:23:00] No I don't care about spoilers I kind of don't care about spoilers for this game at all Well let us get into the spoilers so full disclosure This is your chance to stop listening and skip to the marker where I am going to put

[01:23:16] the spot where you're allowed to go that you won't have spoils House of Sinks Yes So alright I just want to get out of the way first So here's the first spoiler That second type of The third type of area that we were talking about

[01:23:34] I got to that last night Cause Greg was like Did you get to the lab yet? And I was like nope And I got to it And as soon as you get there it's like What the fuck is going on? Why can't I use my sword?

[01:23:50] I don't even have to talk either Nope because kind of like near this game does a little like spins it on its head and it's like Oh you know that style of game that you've just been playing for the last so long

[01:24:04] Well here's a different style of game And it turns into fucking Resident Evil Yeah when Greg was like telling me about it and how he was like oh I really want Jerry to get to this part before we talk about it

[01:24:16] And he's explained everything that was going on Yeah yeah yeah Jerry does have to get to this part before Oh my god like I got to that part and I'm like What the fuck is that? Like there's zombies And like there's fucking

[01:24:28] There's like scary shit happening and like things are popping out at you And like you can only use your guns And it turns into a different feeling game So much so that like I was playing that part going Oh I really Like last night I truly

[01:24:44] believe is when I fell in love with this game Cause I was like oh it did the thing It did the fucking thing It switched up the gameplay style In a really cool way where like it didn't It didn't really, it didn't change anything drastically about the game

[01:25:00] itself cause like And I do love this about Nier How like it'll all of a sudden go like top Like top down view and it's like a bullet hell game or like it'll turn into like a fucking shmup Or like it'll be a platformer all of a sudden

[01:25:14] Suddenly side scrolling, it's like a you know Suddenly side scrolling Suddenly side scrolling But that's the feel that I got from this segment where it was like Oh now all of a sudden it's a third person shooter With like strong horror elements And that

[01:25:34] boss was a lot of fun to fight He wasn't overly hard but he was a lot of fun to fight cause again All you had was guns And it was just What's interesting about that area when you get to it the first time on like a

[01:25:48] A raw playthrough, you don't Really have any drone upgrades for your Your guns so like your ammo was very limited I managed to To think this through As I was heading there I found that Eagle Eye spine And I was like hmm

[01:26:06] Is the game trying to tell me something here? Cause the Eagle Eye spine is the one that Gives you extra ammo and like It's got some other perks to do Specifically with guns And I was like I'm gonna equip this I think

[01:26:18] And I actually had enough to upgrade it like one tier So I did get like the Extra ammo so that was Quite useful Yeah that does sound useful But yeah it's just It's like a Like a Total, like a complete tonal like curve ball That area and you're

[01:26:38] Doing like a full It's fully Resident Evil complete with Laser puzzles and everything Like it's That was another thing that I was like Are you fucking serious? There's puzzles in this place Like it felt like a little dungeon or something Yeah Very very cool Yeah go ahead

[01:26:58] I was gonna say the area after That too I really enjoyed And I said to you after I did that area That's the trains Like the dilapidated train station Dude that felt like fucking Uncharted Like There was so many crazy action Sequences in that place of like things

[01:27:18] Falling like it was totally Is it true or do you just associate Uncharted with trains? Like honestly trains That's uncharted There was a lot of like jumping From things that are crumbling and like A lot of like there's Been barely any quick time events but this place

[01:27:36] Had tons of quick time events And the quick time events Aren't hard at all either Like it slows down enough That you're like I get to press X Now I know my buttons But it was very like cinematically Action packed In certain areas of that

[01:27:56] That dilapidated train station That I actually had a lot more trouble with that Fucking hammer bro Boss, the dude with the giant hammer That guy fucking kicked my ass dude Oh yeah? Yeah I had a hell of a time with him And then the boss

[01:28:14] After that which was the one That you assigned my homework You said I need you to get to the end of this area Fight this boss And I'm glad that you did because I literally sat up I had a sit up moment where I went no fucking way

[01:28:28] The game starts off with Eve Kind of being rescued from her pod By You start in drop pods And you drop down to Down to earth Earth? Welcome to earth You drop down to earth To fight The nativas The big monsters

[01:28:52] And then Eve gets stuck in her drop pod And she can't get out And you do look quick to me and we're trying to turn the handle But it's not doing anything And then Her bud Her bud, her bud opens The door Her name is Taki Taki

[01:29:12] Is that the Short haired girl? No, no, no That's Lily Taki? Yeah It's short for Taki on something Taki on cutter Taki on titan Taki saves Taki saves you from your pod And then you go You go through it Also I'm pretty sure

[01:29:40] Maybe even Taki had something going on Oh Taki, what's Taki look like? I feel like Taki's face Is someone in Korea Because her face has too much It's very distinct There's too much distinction in her face I feel strongly that Taki's face is based on a real person

[01:30:02] She does look like every single Careful now No, like K-pop Idol She's so K-pop Idol The way The very, very slim nose And the full lips They have a moment She's basically the very beginning tutorial Showing you the ropes Hey, we got to get out of here

[01:30:30] And as you're running with her Do this thing and then do this thing And then you fight a very strong Nae Tiba It was at that point that I realized This game is gory as fuck You didn't know that? Not really That is wild I don't know

[01:30:50] I knew that there was going to be blood And stuff, and some of the monsters Had some pretty crazy finishers But this bitch gets her fucking Arm ripped Right off She's stabbed in the stomach Being suspended up in the air And Eva's watching her die

[01:31:08] And then you don't Really see her again because then Adam Comes down, scoops you up, saves the day The way the game works is after That point, because you're The first boss is quote unquote Unwinnable You can beat it though, it's not too bad

[01:31:26] I beat it every time On all my subsequent playthroughs I beat it, no problem But You You see Taki Get stabbed in the stomach and arm ripped off And then you black Out, and then you're just Starting the next level and talking to

[01:31:46] Adam, and when I played the demo I was like did I fucking skip something by accident Because it's very abrupt It's very abrupt But it pieces it together Yeah I didn't, as you start The level you start talking to Adam and it pieces up

[01:32:00] You fill in the gaps a little bit There has been some time Between the two incidents And she's also having flashbacks to the event That show It's been like 24 hours I think actually Oh so over it She says thank you again for yesterday Oh Okay Hey, no problem

[01:32:22] Do you Have either of you watched Supernatural? Certainly not Okay, well in season 6 Sam One of the two brothers I'm sure you know them He loses his humanity Like he loses his soul And Does he commit genocide? What do you mean? I said does he commit genocide?

[01:32:52] No no, as in legit He loses His humanity His soul just gets displaced He loses All sense of morals Or whatever In a particular episode Dean is on the phone with Sam While he thinks he's getting abducted by aliens And so Dean gets

[01:33:20] The point is, Dean gets abducted Quote unquote, abducted by aliens And then it cuts to Sam In a bar Talking up some chick And He's like yeah I lost my brother You know And she's like oh I'm so sorry It happened four hours ago

[01:33:40] So that's not you saying But like Yeah 24 hours I'm over it Thanks for yesterday She's definitely not over it That's what it reminded me of When it's just casually like thanks for yesterday As the game progresses You're coming up against a lot of these nativas You end up

[01:34:04] Adam brings you to Zion And he's like you know we should probably help this place out You meet the fucking The wise old man Before all that Adam has you in Eido 7 The first level collecting some stuff for him A hyper cell for the city

[01:34:20] It's like a power generator It's a McGuffin And then once you do that You're like take me to the Elfin Atiba which is just like the strong monster In the area In the beginning of the game And then he's like I'm here to take out the Elfin Atibas

[01:34:38] So tell me where this thing is Kind of idea Sorry to interrupt, did you guys hear me say when I said one second? No Okay I missed maybe the last 30ish seconds of what you're saying Because I got a phone call from Flower Cove Newfoundland What?

[01:34:56] Yeah it was like Flower Cove Newfoundland came up Trying to sell you flowers? I was like hello and she was Oh I got the wrong number sweetie Oh no It's okay You're on a podcast right now Hey how's it going?

[01:35:12] You should have put her up to the mic I'm on my phone now I can't patch her in Patch this old lady from Flower Cove in So I missed the last What is your favorite moment of Stellar Blade Lady from Flower Cove So yeah anyway I'll start over

[01:35:32] So Adam after he repairs He brings you into like the city To retrieve a power source And then once you do that You The character is like Tell me where the Elfin Atiba is Elfin Atiba is being just the big strong

[01:35:50] The strongest version of the monsters you're fighting Yeah Because your whole I was sent to earth to take care of these things And I'm going to do that And so Eve Is part of what's called the Airborne Unit And they're basically Drop soldiers That come from the colony

[01:36:10] They don't really get into big detail What the colony is we just know it's in space It's just in space guys Yeah So you do the thing for Adam He's like okay you go and you go fight the big monster And then you find

[01:36:24] Lily the short haired girl In her drop pod still She's like oh my gosh thanks for rescuing me I've been here for two years She's been inside the pod for two years Oh my god Something they changed Is originally they were going to have

[01:36:40] Lily in the city with you But she had brought the pod Back to Zion And just kind of sat in the pod because she liked it She got used to being in the pod Oh my god like that's like Cabin fever Yeah They changed that at some point

[01:36:58] Yeah because originally she was going to stay in the pod But And you rescue her and then You go back to The hub city and you meet the Leader His name's Orcle All the other people Like the cyber punky looking people in the city

[01:37:20] And then you basically Orcle is like Well we'll tell you where the next Thing is And you go and do that and then you go On your adventure going back and forth It's pretty much like a checklist of like Oh let's go get the main

[01:37:34] Thing in this area this is where it's at I gotta go explore and get to the Next area and then you come back After doing the Resident Evil part and then It's like hey look what we got we got this thing For your machine and then

[01:37:46] Then Adam's like look the city is changing Like it's getting more lively like things are Things are like kind of getting repaired You can also in the city Some of the side quests are actually Pretty fun and like interesting Especially the one with like the

[01:38:02] One android girl is it Anya? Anya? Yeah like you have to repair like this Droid that's like Mangled and it's just I don't know it's kind of cool Little side story thing and Then there's the dude The what's her face in the alleyway With the bulletin board Yeah

[01:38:26] That music is persona music It is persona music yes 100% like it may as well be the Like it is that Like exactly Fucking persona music And I'm not I'm here for it Like I was I like going in that alleyway I like that alleyway But yeah like

[01:38:50] Once you kind of Progress a little further and Like you're on your way to find this next Thing the boss that I came up Against last night you Wander into like this This area and they're like oh I think Is that a human dangling from the fucking

[01:39:06] Ceiling of this like water treatment facility And then when you get closer It's actually talky And like Eva's like How what how is this possible Why is she here and you have To fight her and her suit Is so fucking badass Like I don't know what happened

[01:39:24] To her or like why she Was the way she was yet But well based on like The game the game tells you that she That she something made her into a Nateeva And then you take out her alpha core and then she becomes Normal yeah and then

[01:39:42] So she comes back Well she's not she doesn't Yeah she's dead You have you have to kill her Yeah yeah you It's a tough fucking fight too That was that was a fight that I think I died at the most so far But I did

[01:40:00] I did manage to get it On my third or fourth Try because I was like god damn it I'm Getting this boss before I go to bed tonight And I did and I actually saved the The gameplay video because the last time That I fought her

[01:40:14] I fucking clapped That shit up so hard Clean it up It's something clicked it was just like Okay I know when To keep my distance I don't want to go In for the like for the attacks I know her patterns now Of like when I need to parry

[01:40:32] And yeah I just I fucking wrecked Her shit on that last run And yeah you get She unlocks a new Thing for Eve Which is devil trigger Really? Yeah you got to click in both of the sticks And then you go fucking haywire Oh that's so funny

[01:40:54] You wear her suit Do you have Is the music just iconic Music changes yeah Is it good Is it better than devil trigger No no not no Nothing's better than devil trigger Listen to what you're saying for a second But when you activate Taki mode Taki mode

[01:41:18] That's what it's called I know but like you know attack So it's like Taki like it's very Like it's like a child way to say Attack mode That old guy's name is Oracle Which is basically the Oracle Oh these are dumb names They got dumb names Adam Eve

[01:41:38] Oh I just I know Jere no Oh my god and Lily's a flower that's in a garden Garden of Eden Oh my god And there's a snake probably Go on When you activate Jere have you activated actually activated Taki mode yet No cause I literally got back

[01:42:07] To Oracle and Saved and then shut it off Cause it's 12 30 at night When you activate Taki mode the music that plays Is her phase two boss theme It's really good That's good fucking music It's really good It's not as good as devil trigger Good god What's the fucking

[01:42:31] Point I will not have changed the music at all Might as well not even try Why do games even bother having music after that I don't get it okay I don't get it If it's on Devil Trigger or Yoko Why are you doing music

[01:42:47] Didn't like the lead dude that Helped design the combat in Devil May Cry Work on this game No you're thinking of Final Fantasy 16 Oh right yeah yeah Which is funny because this game has Way better combat than Final Fantasy 16 Yeah 16 is trash Well hang Alright

[01:43:07] Now's not the place For that one we've already had Those conversations I made a small comment and let it go And I will too But yeah so I'm That is exactly as far as I am right now So far the story Is like it's Fine it's serviceable

[01:43:29] It's not like Like I haven't seen any like depth To the story or It's a story we've seen Many times before I would say Like in the Bible Just like in the Bible I swear to god that revelation Of Adam and Eve The revelation the revelation ha ha

[01:43:49] That was real I did not piece that together before I don't think you're getting my Bible joke I got it Just letting it lie Just letting it lie Dammit dammit What was I going to say so Jerry I think the best way to avoid spoilers

[01:44:07] Is what is your understanding Of the world of the game So far What Well I mean What do you think is going on What okay then Let me do it in a different way let me ask you A question Do you know What do you have This question

[01:44:33] Do you know what's going on Do you know what's going on Okay do you have an inclination As to what native is are Um Sort of I think Like They're humans I think Because it seems like everybody else Are a bunch of fucking robots And they're

[01:44:57] Labeled as angels Well that's what they call the Airborne squad members They're angels yeah And yeah like these Androids are sent to Earth To destroy all of these things Because they're like the evil shit That's taking over you know What used to be Earth But like

[01:45:19] I don't know if that's Like I feel like it's gonna just do the thing At some point where it's gonna be like Oh we're actually the bad people The androids were created And then they rebelled And we kinda got the narrative all screwed up

[01:45:33] And we're actually the bad ones Like we need to kill these people And these are just actually humans that have been deformed Because of shit That's just near replicant It is a lot like near That's just replicants That's what the shadows were That's kind of my I guess

[01:45:53] Stab at what I think is going on Okay okay Do you have an inclination as to What Mothersphere is? Because they talk about Mothersphere Every now and then Yeah and the first time I actually like paid Attention to it was they dropped Mothersphere a lot last night

[01:46:11] Once you get to that like train Place there started talking a lot about Mothersphere And I was like Did I miss something? Who the fuck are we talking about here? And then as it went on I was like Oh what the fuck is Mothersphere? And then

[01:46:25] Yeah like you Read a little bit of lore and stuff About some of the people that were hiding In this train station And how they were like We're all connected to Mothersphere Like how to do it all for Mothersphere Which I'm assuming is just Mother Earth

[01:46:43] Is Eve the Jesus allegory or is Eve the Eve allegory? I would say she is neither You're lucky I don't understand that statement She is neither She is Eve Eve is Eve Do you think Her character was done well Like she's actually a fully Fleshed out interesting character

[01:47:13] Or she just kind of like A little flat and there to Just kind of push the narrative forward She's right like The bones are there for her to be very interesting Okay but she's not But right now she's just kind of

[01:47:27] It's very basic I would say so far Like I can see That's why I would be excited for a sequel to this game Because they've laid the groundwork And they've made it so that They can actually do it

[01:47:39] I would say that's why I would be excited for a sequel to this game Because they've laid the groundwork To make something very interesting So if this is a stand So if this never gets a sequel Eve is kind of a flat boring character

[01:47:51] But if there is a sequel and they Explore it more then she can be a really interesting character Yeah Okay okay But No it's I really want to answer Comment on your hypothesis Jerry but I don't want to Do anything for you

[01:48:12] Well I mean I'll get there sooner Rather than later I mean I did put like five and a half hours Into this game last night And again a testament That's a lot for Jerry getting him to do anything for more than 20 minutes At a time is

[01:48:26] Okay come on When Jerry said that he had made All that progress I was shocked Because it was well past your bedtime I know when it's like so I know it's like so for Jerry and I was like You must have been playing for so long

[01:48:40] Yeah well I was pleasantly surprised Earlier when he was talking about Animal World He was like yeah you know I like The whole time I was playing Animal World I didn't even touch Stellar Blade All five hours of it I was like what the fuck

[01:48:54] That is such a Yeah you do a lot of You don't do a lot of things for about five hours So that's I think It was quite funny to me Yeah but yeah I just I could not put the game down last night I got back

[01:49:10] I had some free time And I was like Fuck it I got nothing to do Really tonight don't have a Million podcasting things happening Or edits to do It was raining It was a nice rainy night So I was like oh rainy night in the lab Yup

[01:49:30] It was real fun I had a storm going on in the background IRL And yeah I just like Started playing it and then when Greg was like I really want you to get to like the next Area and I was like well I just cleaned up

[01:49:44] The wasteland like I'm done here And then you know Greg you said well you know if you If you crit path The next areas because they're not overly long And then just go back and do Cleanup later then you'll probably Get there and I didn't fucking

[01:50:00] Have nothing I still Looked around Got a lot of different like upgrades and stuff Found a lot of those like heart Pieces because like you find Like these bodies of other Fallen I'm assuming that there are other Yeah there are other airborne squad Yeah and when you find

[01:50:18] Fallen angels exactly When you find them You You either get an upgrade for Like once you find three Then you get an upgrade to your health Is one of them and then if you find three Of the other one it's an upgrade to Like your skill like basically

[01:50:36] Like your MP Your mana But yeah no I this game would have To really fucking shit the pet at this point For me to be like Like do a heal turn on it but As of right now This might be my game of the year This year

[01:50:56] And so something that's Visions of mana is coming out in like A couple weeks No it better not be I don't know Oh it says summer it said estimated summer So Soonish Apparently It's funny because after I listened back

[01:51:18] When I was editing the last episode and you asked What was the thing that we were most excited about I completely forgot about this fucking Game for some reason and I mean I am very Excited about shadow of the earth tree but I am

[01:51:28] Really excited about visions of mana Yeah like super Excited about visions of mana and The more I see about it the more it looks Like it looks good it doesn't Look like it's a shitty game No it looks good You'll never play it

[01:51:44] One that kind of like final note About stellar blade is the Second to last Area is completely Missable Oh yeah right you said that And the way you get it is You do side quests And you read like pieces of lore And you feel like

[01:52:04] It doesn't ever tell you what this gauge is But it pops up and has at the end of the Gauge is like The silhouette of lily the short hair girl's Head and It's got a percentage and you want to get that percentage to 100% And what that basically is

[01:52:18] Is lily's woke meter Her woke meter? Like her social awareness? Because yeah because How can I describe it without getting spoilery Well even like the propaganda Like paintings and shit that are in Like zion You'll look at propaganda stuff and it will be like

[01:52:38] Hey fuck mother sphere and stuff like that And then the more like propaganda Stuff you read lily's woke meter Will start to fill up The more propaganda But like basically Saying like hey man mother sphere I think it sucks And this is why

[01:52:56] And then like the more stuff like that I do or more quests that you do that are related to that It'll fill up and when you get to 100% Then when you go to the point of No return before going to the last area

[01:53:06] You'll go to another full level that's Decently sized That's pretty cool Is it a good level? Yeah it's a great level Hell yeah Well I guess End verdict Greg Where do you land on this after Platin I mean Jesus Christ Platinum the fucking game

[01:53:28] So like where do you land on this as a Final verdict for you I would say if you like a Character action game you gotta play it It's really good Also Eve collects Soda cans and beer cans For no reason at all

[01:53:44] For no reason other than that she likes them I picked one up last night That was Newfoundland Dry What? They don't use Canada Dry so it's Newfoundland Dry Of all the things Newfoundland Dry What's Newfoundland doing in this Korean game I always get

[01:54:02] Jumpscared by Newfoundland anytime someone talks about it Or comes up anywhere You do the The Leonardo DiCaprio meme Like the pointing at the TV Yeah yeah yeah Oh I know that one Yeah no that's the Literally it I find it so funny that like she just finds cans

[01:54:22] Every time she finds one she does like an anime pose With a can That's really cute It's hilarious Okay speaking of Skyrim I don't know why I did this but when I was playing Through Skyrim On my Platinum run Like playthrough of Skyrim I just

[01:54:40] I was obsessed with collecting cheese Cheese wheels And I So I just went into people's houses And stole everybody's cheese wheels And then I'd go back to The house in Riften And then just put them in the basement And I had a hoard of cheese in the basement

[01:54:58] And I just thought It was really amusing So it's like I like that this fake character Is just like soda cans Just loves Soda cans Just amused by soda cans I'm telling you Beth there's so many things about this game I feel like I understand that

[01:55:18] You are very big into like Story and stuff like that but like There's so many other things about this game I truly believe that you would love Just in it's like the charm Beth outfits And you don't have to pay for them

[01:55:32] Just find them, just find them, craft them I'll tell you something that I Don't like I never once changed Eve's hair because there's All these like There's all these like cute short hairstyles and stuff like that That always have A ponytail just jammed onto them

[01:55:50] Because she scores her sword in her ponytail And it looks fucking dumb I've seen a couple of the short Or the alternative hairstyles and I think they all look really silly They would look great if she didn't have to have The ponytail The goddamn ponytail

[01:56:04] The ponytail up in the menu But you can't remove it No, but yeah There's a lot to love about this game Beth and I truly think that this would be Right up your alley One day, have you ever got to love

[01:56:18] Yeah, I feel like it's the type of game That I'd play, I'd have A Good time with it, like I don't have Expectations that it's gonna like Freaking Blow my socks off my ankles Or whatever it was said Don't let them blow your socks off your ankles

[01:56:36] Don't let them I don't think it would at all And I think it would be something that I'd finish And I'd think of the story and then I'd think about The things that it's trying to Emulate and be like Yeah, those are better And then be like oh

[01:56:52] It was fine though Yeah, but yeah overall It's a very Very good game I think if you like the game and you've played so far I would highly recommend it I'm on Greg's side here that If you like character action games

[01:57:08] I feel like this is probably a must play For a character action game If you told me that Platinum made this I would believe you It's a ton of fun And Yoko Taro loved it Yeah He did And you know what You can be as horny

[01:57:30] What do you want with this game? It's true There are so many outfits that are full coverage And they're often times better in my opinion Maybe it's because I'm a god damn grown ass man Alright I was going to say The most excited I had felt for this

[01:57:50] Game was when we were watching that Trailer that showed all her different cute little Outfits and I loved her little red Outfit with her pants and the little red That's Greg's favorite outfit Hoodie, I thought it was adorable I really liked it One of my faves

[01:58:06] Once again, having the people Talk about the model who they were Getting to do it and the way they Really just talked about this Person as body parts Made me uncomfortable And that's it That's all Good news Everything else is awesome But yeah, so that's our

[01:58:30] That's our I guess our review Of Stellar Blade And of the Sony Showcase too, don't forget about that Astrobot and Monster Hunter Infinite Nikki And even more exciting This weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday Is all of the Start of the summer games Fest It sure is

[01:58:56] I hope we can get together And watch a bunch of those Like always do There's like The summer Games Fest is on Friday Coming up with the PC game show There's the Xbox showcase The kickoff is usually The one that I like to watch the most

[01:59:16] And then I'll just kind of dip into the other ones Whenever But the kickoff show is always a lot of fun Jeff Keely tweeted out Today about You know, hey going into the kickoff Show what's What's some tips that you guys can give me

[01:59:32] And I just responded with Try not to look that deeply Into Kojima's eyes this year I mean You can but like Give it a minute Jeff Keely already broke my heart So Because he Tweeted out I don't know why everybody Thinks Kingdom Hearts 4 is here It's not

[01:59:56] Just shutting Down You know what, it's better to get that off Right away instead of waiting the whole show And be like it's going to be next And then it's not Apparently just This definitely want to see Some Kingdom Hearts 4 stuff

[02:00:14] There was someone talking about how it looks so different Now I want to see I hope that they show more Visions of Mana stuff Cause there has a Release date I fucking hope so Well it says summer, estimated summer or whatever So you'll probably get

[02:00:30] A release date for that Hopefully Though Square Enix isn't one of the partners On the Summer Games Fest website So I don't know If they're doing something separately a little bit later Or whatever I don't know what to expect from this Year's Summer Game Fest

[02:00:52] I feel like they have the potential To announce a lot of things that haven't been Announced yet They usually do but it's usually stuff that's like Oh a new one of those things I forgot about the dev team or something But I don't know

[02:01:06] I don't have any expectations For this year You know what we're going to see? More Monster Hunter gameplay That's all I need You will probably Speaking of Capcom though We'll probably see whatever remake Yeah, Resident Evil When they're doing that so please be Code Veronica

[02:01:24] I heard recently rumors that they Are doing zero I heard also that they were Redoing one again Oh yeah yeah yeah One is apparently getting redone Which I don't give a fuck man I'll get it One re-remake I heard Somewhere down They found A release schedule

[02:01:50] And somewhere down the line was Code Veronica Is it real? Probably not But they said they saw that Because they had one, zero, five Code Veronica I want Code Veronica I want more Claire Redfield So bad she's the best And I love Code Veronica Yeah but That'll do

[02:02:12] Pig for this episode Hey man fuck you Nah that's a Reference to babe So If you love this episode please Give us some reviews on Apple Podcasts if you're listening over there If you're on Spotify Hit that little Subscribe button and just

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[02:02:50] Please add Jerry and tell him to tell me Yes please do that So I can help her, so we can all help her Maybe we'll have an intervention once she's Fully coked on fucking infinite Nicky I was going to say the intervention Was years ago

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[02:03:22] Say bye everyone, bye I watched my brother play L.A. Noir No man that game is so fucking good I love L.A. Noir No I'm just, I'm quoting the game When the guy is like doubt Oh I think he said Don't I was like wow wow man

[02:04:11] Just don't, don't do it Don't give in