240: Did the Double Nintendo Direct Deliver?

0:00Today it is day two of the big Nintendo Direct Double Whammy. You do have to specify today because it's not yesterday when we also had it in Nintendo Direct. Yes, it's today today. Not yesterday today. Yes. In the present. In the present world. Who knows what, let's do it again tomorrow. Who day. Let's do it again. We don't know what's going on. Triple header. Let's do it. I'm down. I'm down. Triple Nintendo Direct. I'm down. But yes, there was another Nintendo Direct this morning in which that we reacted to and now we're here doing the deep jump. So that's exciting. What a week. Yeah. What a week. Even more details to get to the bottom of the crumbs that have started to fall into the couch of the internet. We have found them. We have retrieved them and we're here to share them. There is always some questions. Game details, game pricing, amiibo prices that I did not like. Exactly.

1:00How and when to get certain things, when and which certain things are coming out. But also a bigger discussion of did Nintendo make the right decision to do the double direct and are we feeling good about the future of Switch 2 and much, much more. All the big things. So you were mentioning today is not yesterday. Yesterday we had a reaction to the Zelda 40 at the anniversary. Nintendo Direct and another podcast deep. So both of those videos are already on the channel live. So you can watch those if you didn't get a chance to watch those yet. The reaction from this morning's Direct, that's up. If you want to see it, lots to catch up on. If you've been following behind. Oh yeah, there's a lot of content. I'm feeling it a little bit now. I was like adrenaline high in the morning and this always happens where I start to come down a little bit. I just have to sugar like right before. I don't like a bag of candy. Right back before I walked in here.

2:04But it is, you're right. You said this morning we're more than halfway through. Yeah. So we're seeing the finish line here, but it's been a very fun and very exciting week. About yesterday though. What about it? The Zelda stuff. There was some additional drama. Well, there was some things that in the podcast yesterday, we're kind of unfolding either as we were recording that or after. Into the evening. Yeah. I think our worth just touching upon. So we did have that question from a Patreon subscriber of like, how come nothing was ready to go when the Direct ended and everybody's like, yeah, I'd like to preorder this and it wasn't up and I want to do the concert site led you to some weird non-site. No, not found. Yeah. It did look like that was a bit of a mess yesterday in terms of, especially for people who wanted to get that console. That looked like a very tough thing. I saw people resharing those are all over eBay right now. Are they sold out? Neither of us were in the market for one of those.

3:06So it's like, I feel bad for the people who did want those. I'm thankful that I didn't have to deal with it. Right. It seemed very confusing. Are they sold out or is it unclear? Who knows? Who knows? Somebody you try to get our good friend and to no fan girl post issues trying to get the pro controller. Yeah. So it was sold out. Well, there was also the pro controller that came with the stand that was only available for Nintendo. Right. So there's just like a lot of various issues. Right. And of course Nintendo doesn't want to tell you what anything costs or how to get anything. You just kind of have to refresh endlessly. Or poke around yourself to get the information which is frustrating. Yeah. That's all that. I mean, honestly, that was also the case for some of the stuff today where I was looking at their press release and they're like, here's a link to this thing and I would click it and it's like this does not exist. So that's something for them to, that's a king for them to think about and iron out in the future. On more positive news, I said yesterday I was hopeful that physical ocarina of time would

4:08be available at a discount at some of the retailers like these physical switches you games have been. That is the case. Great. So Walmart, Amazon, I'm not sure if any others are following suit, but if you want that, then again, this should be the version that's got the gold foil, the first run. It should be the first run. So find your, find your retailer of choice and yeah, I got that for 10 bucks off. I've got that ready to go. So check that box. Excellent. Oh, it's good people to spend a lot of money over the last two days. Hope you guys see how much some of this stuff actually costs. It's kind of expensive. Like, oh, decisions are going to need to be made here. Not just on like which game to purchase, but all these special additions. It's not actually just a free for all shopping spree. No, unfortunately, we want it to be, but it is not. Yeah. Yeah. For our wonderful Patreon subscribers, and you can join us at patreon.com slash kitten chrisdep for tons of exclusive content this week, our big post Nintendo direct bonus Q&A

5:10will be happening for our Patreon subscribers. We've already been gathering. People are asking the questions. If anyone is part of our Patreon that wants to ask more questions, we're taking them, but that's going to be a chunky chunk of the bonus Q&A. Just kind of wrap up the big exciting week of all the stuff that we learned and things that got announced. Like, that should be a really good one. Yeah, that'll become in Thursday, which is tomorrow, unless there's a third direct. Somehow emerges from the shadows. 10 minutes. This is Miyamoto. Here comes the marble. Sorry, the Zelda movie direct. Honestly, I'm down. It could happen. I'm down for it, honestly. Don't rule it out. Honestly, I've enjoyed this. This is Miyamoto could, could, could, could. It hasn't been perfect. It hasn't been flawless, but I have enjoyed this. It's fun. Yeah. It doesn't matter if it's perfect, so that's not what we're talking about. Perfect. Yikes. I think it's fun to have the, the highs and lows. It's like a roller coaster ride. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

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8:18Kit and crisp to 50 off at factor meals dot com see website for more details And we'll put the link right over here with a QR code for you to scan and also in the description below All right, here we go so A bit more of a mixed reaction to this direct. Yeah, I think what we've been able to Surveys and you know that could be the case for a number of reasons But I think just you know to start off this conversation Now that they both happened do you think Nintendo made the right decision to split these out and do the back to backs? Well, I'm sure they had this discussion When they made this decision of of the pros and cons but there are certainly pros and cons It's like we're saying yesterday like wow It's so nice that they were able to have like the breathing room in the Zelda 40 at the anniversary direct to do something as special as That symphony opener To give us that moment of celebration But it's tough to do that when you are combining directs and making a call on you know how much time you have

9:20You're very limited on the runtime So I think you know they they decided that pros outweighs the cons Some of the cons which I think is mainly reflected in today's direct is just the expectation management Part of it which is really tough to do a major fact. Yeah, really tough to do first of all They promoted that direct very early because of the Labor Day holiday So they were kind of like hamstrung there a little bit Which caused people to just completely spiral out of control as they tend to do And then of course when you have a thing where you're like double double whammy direct time People were like oh my gosh Yes, splitting into two so the second one must be huge there must be some huge announcement That you're wanting to keep as some kind of highlight in there So that caused some expectation management Issues as well so I think and then of course with the general directs It's just kind of a mixed bag because you're gonna get More variety of games and content so that's just what it is like

10:22We're tuning in for a Zelda direct We know we're getting Zelda stuff and you're as all the fans. You're probably gonna be fine, right? So it's just harder, you know, and there's gonna be a percentage of things in that general direct that does not vibe with you And a percentage of things that does and it's just like what is that percentage? And if it's a lower percentage for you then you're gonna think it sucks But it might be a higher percentage for somebody else So it's just kind of the way it is with these kind of Or if you have any experience with some of these third party games It's like all right great, but I already played that right right years ago in some cases on another system So yeah, it's gonna depend on the person but yeah, I agree the expectation management was a major Challenge for this because that happened on a Friday and here we are on a Wednesday Yeah, it's just days and days and days and it's like if I'm in tendo I'm taking a really close look at what they did For the starfox direct where it's like this is me a motoc in 10 minutes. It's happening And there's just no time for that to happen. It's just like okay I'm just consuming this and watching this for what it is yes There are trade-offs people cannot plan their lives around watching it, but they'll watch it late They'll make time to watch it or they'll find some other way this is big enough for people will eventually watch it

11:27Right so yeah, you know the other thing is like this is another direct that was severely impacted by leaks So Metroid ravenous did leak by their own hand Unfortunately through was it the Brazilian resilience we had that funny name it was like the federation of such inside It was like some like ESR basically the Brazilian Pretty much that's so that was that was not you know one one of these other nefarious leakers They did it to themselves oops, but definitely impacted I think the reception of this because it instead of like Oh my god a new Metroid games like yes, this is the thing that I had heard about the name to the name is such a cool name And once again, it's like these Metroid names They get a lot of discussion a lot of like you know, there's a lot of like Elbowing like did you get it? Kind of kind of flare to it and when it leaks you kind of lose all of that You know, which is really unfortunate right still looks great, right? I mean, but yes, you lose the element of surprise Yeah, and then you know

12:28Times gonna have to pass to see what happens, but there you know yesterday we mentioned this new leaker who's on the scene I guess it's not a new leaker We don't follow that world super closely malo who was claiming you know about a new smash brothers If you look closely at what this person said they didn't say a new smash brother is gonna be in the direct They said a new smash brothers isn't development But I think people just saw the proximity to them saying this and the direct like I was gonna be in the direct Yeah, I didn't buy for a second that that was gonna be no in the direct But again, you give people time This is do over it. Yeah, this is what you know some somebody who has a track of this person was right about this so the You just this is just what happens you start your brain starts to believe you know, and then and also if you really really want that thing to happen You start to have like the fan copium For me see a lot like I saw like hungry box. It was a big smash brother. I was like I put down money I put down a thousand dollars on this I'm betting money that this is gonna get announced So sorry, so depending on who you're you know who you're listening to or who you trust

13:31You just get on board. Yeah, it's happening. Yeah, I guess more so now is like Is it more so fun to be wrong? Just to hope or is it not fun? I don't know but again like you know, we mentioned this Somewhere in the run up to this. It's like we have not had The 10 out of 10 direct in a long time. They've all been like These 7.5 out of 10 for a long time. Yeah, so to think that oh now. This is the one. It's all happening here It's like I don't know that's kind of not what these have been for a while. It's true But like I think that makes it even more Challenging for people because they're like will we we haven't had it for a while so they must be saving it for For X date for X direct so then people will start to get worked up again I mean all these things will eventually happen sure of course they would they will happen within the switch You completely fake me you completely fake me. I believe you when you're like oh, this is 3d Mario I thought it was I was like oh, okay Yeah, and the back of my mind though. I was like oh, this doesn't look exactly like a 3d marve

14:34But but I totally bought in I was saying I see that I saw the little house I was like wait no, no, no, this is Kirby, but but then when it was Kirby I was like okay fine because I know I know 3d Mario is gonna be coming eventually. Yeah, but that there is a person out there That maybe thought it was 3d Mario and is a very disappointed right now, right? So again, it just depends on your Like checklist the things that you wanted it. Yeah, you wanted it to be and if they you know What percentage was checked right so so back to the original question I do I really like the big thinking and the grandiose Aspect of this and again aside from you know, whether you like the director not it was fun It was really fun and it did feel different it did feel special even mr. Kozumi mentioned that Yes, first time ever at the top. It's like yeah, we don't we don't really do this. Yeah, we've never done this as we said right right But as far as would they do this again? I Lean towards maybe not I lean towards no I think this was a very special circumstance because of Zelda as all to such a huge deal

15:34So I think we're back to more normal still time to do a redo on the Mario anniversary and announce Mario 64 remake. Oh, okay, or this is me a moto and the Zelda movie is here. I Mean that's that could happen any day or I think we're in close proximity to that actually happen any day Actually, yeah, that could be the next one of these right um, and they weren't they were also pretty true to the pre promotion of like hey These games are not going to be in the deep future like this stuff is gonna be they tried I think I think they said winter was the focus. Yeah, they tried to manage exp and like something like Kirby was the spring It's like yeah, you you were actually pretty honest to that and considering like we already knew pretty much everything for this year Right For the the following three months into 2027 Do you think that they after seeing what happened Here they would ever change up their pre promotion strategy. I mean this one was a little bit. Yes This one was a little bit different because of the holiday. I do and I think they should and I think also now like

16:35I think they're sort of feeling out The best way like where stuff should go like should stuff go on on Nintendo today like they have all these different avenues now I've even saw some people saying like yeah, I would have rather have seen Metroid And Kirby in an Nintendo today drop versus making me sit through a 45 minute Direct that I didn't really care for anything beyond those two things So I think that's something for them that's some homework for them to do is like like really looking Intra- channels It's like we we can just throw everything in a direct But is that the best way to do it? Like what if we had been you know tightly edited this direct to make it tighter in which case you could have combined them or things could go on in Nintendo today I don't think they've completely figured that they're still working through that for sure Yeah, and you know also like I am sympathetic is it's like look It's our job to to do this for these directs other people's like they're taking time out of their lives Like it's during like work hours like people have to school like people Singing up early people have stuff going on. It's like it is it is like a quote like sacrifice to take that time

17:40If you want to watch this live like in the moment. So it's like if it doesn't deliver it's gonna. It's got stingy Versus I was like yeah, we're up. We're here doing it either way. Yeah, so it's like I do recognize like you know We were not as as harsh on this direct, but that's a factor for sure of of going into it It's like yeah, I took the morning off of work to because I was hyped for this thing. It didn't deliver. It's like that's gonna hurt Yeah, that I get that but also like It's one of those things and you made me do it twice don't hype it up for yourself too much You know because you know it's not gonna be like Everything is gonna be in this direct. We've already learned that lesson. Yeah, so so let's look at just like what because there was so much I think it's it's kind of like the game awards where you come out of it and you forget everything exactly what was announced? I know top reveals I think it's it's a pretty top heavy direct. I do think after the first like four things it starts to Trail I don't think even some of these things on our top four are debatable Kirby in the and the world beyond and Metroid ravenous those are the very clear top two. Yeah, I think for us

18:42This starflock starflock's multiplayer update is actually like really big. I was really hyped for this That I just did not think that we're gonna continue to support this thing. I mean either and that was a very pleasant surprise I mean that's a legit like really good multiplayer mode so much fun that was a little light on the content Yeah, I think they basically doubled the number of maps. It's like awesome. That is really cool Not just maps too, but like what you're doing like those yeah, they all have different objectives I'll have different objectives. They're all incredibly creative and fun. We love Playing the multiplayer mode and we had so much fun playing with our community And we were after playing it with you know for a little while we're like oh, I've only they get add more because it's so good And they did it's so amazing. Yeah, but one-up club subscribers. This will be the September. Yes, yes get ready You know you want this to coming up just in time. You know you want Star Fox adventures on NSO so more star Fox. I don't know if people are kind of like over star Fox at this point That's like the hype is died

19:44But this is like that's really good star Fox game. Not only is it you know We we needed game cube games. This is a good one and one that people were looking for. Yeah, so I think that's really great So again, I think even those two things you like you could debate like whether those were the top things There really wasn't that much first party stuff Well, that's another thing like a lot of people were saying like This wasn't far from being a partner direct or remember when Nintendo directs were about Nintendo first party games Yeah And again the just enough generation they're spacing this stuff out They're giving you they're giving you as little as possible. Yeah to keep to make it last and they're trying to use Finally, you know the ability of third party to You know develop for switch to now they're finally I think they're I think they're I think they're things over They're using that to their advantage. I think they're genuinely proud of the third party output Yeah, this is great. You should you should check this stuff out as they should know you know top third party stuff The resident evil remakes kingdom come deliverance to monster hunter latent and yoke high watch there's also a big persona thing yeah block at the end. Yep. Now again

20:52Everything well with the exception of the level five stuff Was already announced most of this stuff is has already been released It's been released or I mean persona six has been announced for the persona stuff other platform is still coming Yeah, yeah, we've seen that announcement before is what they're not necessarily new games You may have played these games right years ago right right another point in the case of the capcom stuff in kingdom come we we did that Yes, yes exactly. Yeah capcom stuff we Yes, I'll top three well, I didn't play the resident evil remakes you did this is on other platforms you played resident evil for remake Oh, I did. Yeah, of course. Oh, yeah, I did I didn't play two or three anyways, can you but kingdom come Deliverance to I played that already monster hunter was we played doesn't play a lot of this already Um surprising that that was the opener also big in Japan really big in Japan big and I mean it's a big game. It's definitely a big game But not a first party game to open which was surprising to me

21:52Not the strongest opener honestly. I always thought that they for like general directs to start with the first party game as an opener Well, I always think so my prediction was it was kind of invert I thought okay, you're gonna start with the Kirby game and end with metric Metroid just kind of I didn't do that. Metroid just kind of ended up in the if you had started with Metroid and ended with Kirby I feel like that would have been a way better. Why didn't they do that? What do you think that's very strange? They had to be the big deal in Japan to have the monster hunter game on your side with Kirby and end with Metroid Oh I mean Metroid is a smaller franchise than Kirby just did look at the numbers, you know, it just is Um, that's yours for the thing. Yeah, I think you could debate that. That's a very strange worth worth questioning It was a little odd I think yeah, I thought the first like 25-ish minutes or so were good and then there was a law and then there was a really good stretch that had Metroid and what was the other thing there and then there was another law and then Kirby and then ended yeah It was there were ups and there were ups and there was some ups and down I was getting like a little bit bored and then they dropped Metroid and then I was like yeah, be again. Yeah, so anyways

22:57But yes, it is when you look at it like this it is Some obvious things here is that very light on new first party games some good updates to You know either Existing game like there's a Mario Kart update that we'll talk about. There's the Star Fox stuff. That's really exciting um There was the age of calamity switch to addition like there was some like updates to existing first party things um, but like in terms of new games announced for switch two It was on the lighter side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so this is the Nintendo first party lineup from now through Just what's been announced. Yeah There there may be a couple smaller omissions here. I apologize for that. This is mostly the big stuff though September 17th fire emblem of fortunes weave September 29th the Star Fox multiplayer update October 22nd switch sports resort November 5th Zelda Ocarina of time

23:58November 12th pickman for switch to addition and dandory academy December it's early December. I've didn't write down the date Zenoblade Chronicles 3 switch to addition January 28th Metroid ravenous February 25th Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity definitive edition nothing in March at the moment I'm sure that'll change We have Kirby in the world beyond for spring and then we have these 2027 games Zenoblade Chronicles Genesis and Pokemon wins and waves and Pokemon is probably closing out the year next year Yes, yeah, that'll be like the November game next year. So So that's you know, I come away from this thinking boy 2027 could be really stacked Yeah, if you oh, so we got we got a Metroid We got a Kirby mm-hmm. We got a Zenoblade in the Pokemon 3d Mario is supposedly coming in 2027. Yeah, I think it still is and who knows what else It's let's say let's say that's coming in like summer right June or something or it could be like that could be like September

24:58To Pokemon snowman. Yeah All possible. That's a crazy year. All possible. That's a crazy year huge. Yeah So I mean if you look at it Maybe don't be disappointed And I mean again, I'm I mean we just did last week we did the podcast like we're we're inundated with games to play through the rest of the year Yeah, which is why it's like yeah I'm not gonna sweat this thing that didn't get announced because I have so many games to play right now I can barely get it. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine A notable omission though From this list and from the entire Nintendo Direct was the dusk plans What is wrong? What is going on with this? This is the strangest thing that I've ever encountered truly because It was in that big like you know switch to yeah Uh, direct it was it was you know earmarked highlighted as this like huge Get for Nintendo and almost treated like a first party game even though from soft is making it

26:03And then it was like nothing for a long time and then we had the network test Which was fine And then radio silence it seemed like that would be the jumping off point for something more information for more confirmation But it certainly was yeah, so so as of now we still have no like sort of You know from Nintendo or from from soft like over you trailer or Anything like that we have no launch date even though it's supposed to be this year still Um, we have no additional information on like how you can get this game like is there gonna be Other things associated with it like so they continue to say it's this year. Do you believe that? I still feel like it's Maybe December of this year Could be but what's going on now I'm very suspicious because I thought it was gonna be here I don't think there's anything to Ferris. I think from soft is just like

27:03You know we've reached a point where We can do this with our games. We don't have to like lead people along just like our just like playing the experience of playing the games You're gonna have a bit of a mystery okay figuring it out and we're gonna take the time we need And we're not gonna make these commitments that we can't live up to um And I don't think Nintendo is in a position to like push from soft like hey, hey wrap it up We got to put this game out like I think they begin do do whatever you need and we'll help you when we're ready So I think they're just like yeah, we're still we're still working on we don't know Do you think there's like more from the network test that they expected and now they're trying to like work through all of that? I'm sure that that's that's an undertaking to analyze all of that and Implement whatever they want from that into the game. You can't just do that in a week. Yeah, I'm sure Um, I don't know. Do you think it's coming out this year? I don't know if it's more than they expected I mean at this point it would have to be December Yeah, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it they're like yeah, I'll be next year. Yeah. Yeah. I guess anything

28:06I don't think I don't think something bad is happening with this game though I don't think they're just continuing the game and it was fun I think they want to make it as good as it's going to be up to their level of quality Which is extremely high? Yeah, and they're like yeah, everything will work itself out when we're ready I just wish they'd give us some official information though even if it doesn't have a launch date Yeah, I mean sure I would do just a trailer that could just Confirm some details would be great. Yeah I mean you played it I played it Many multiple videos on it. I loved I loved it. I thought it was great But it's just it's it's like so are you they're gonna say anything official at all at any point? Yeah I don't know you know Definitely different. Yeah, it's a different approach. It's a different approach. Yeah Kirby in the world beyond is this a true open-world game? I know we were trying to decide So here's the description from the press release a new 3d adventure is on the horizon for Kirby freely explore an expansive world and put Kirby's copy abilities to creative use as you uncover what

29:12awaits and Kirby in the world beyond Okay, and that's pretty similar language to what they said in the direct it's true It's said expands explore an expansive world in the direct itself um I don't know It's hard to judge from what we saw, but it kind of looks open I mean at a minimum it looked the areas looked a lot bigger yeah, then Forgotten land. Yeah, is it kind of like donkey con and that was something and that was something also Yeah, that might be a good comparison. Yeah, well, there's like layers, but each layer is pretty big There's a large and explore it. Yeah, that could be a really good comparison I remember like when when we were doing um Forgotten land like even in Nintendo. There was a lot of like wow Oh, we're like open zone or what is this mean? What is this mean? Um, so I mean, I would be I like your your donkey con comparison And I would be happy if that was the scope of it. Yeah, and again like this point of creatively using copy abilities

30:17Right like I'm assuming there's a lot of like aha moments of oh, I didn't know this would result in that Yeah, that sounds really fun It's like almost like the exploration is tied to the copy abilities, which could be kind of me It's like oh, I need to use the fire to like burn through this area to get to the next to get to the secret or whatever That that seems really fun to me. It's not it's less more than just like let me use it to defeat enemies. Yeah It's more so for exploration. I mean the game looked beautiful and Kirby looked really cute. I love his little eyes Very bright and in shiny. I mean, I like the idea of he's been living in this dome This like yeah, the he was the only simulation or something and that he's being exposed to the real world I think that's neat. I don't know they might have they might have need to catch up on like getting people back hyped into Kirby Because you know after forgotten land I was like oh this this this this IP like leveled up And now it's like a top list IP. Yeah, well just close and Nintendo direct and not everybody was sold Right, you might need to and it's been a little bit slower for Kirby releases typically. They're just not stopped

31:19So they might need to ramp ramp it up. We did have air riders It's a different kind of Kirby game, but it is featuring Kirby as the main character There was a lot of people playing that last year. So it's like it's not like Kirby's not Been around you know, so Yeah, yeah, I mean for me it wasn't like a bad closer, you know I definitely was like oh, this is so cute. This looks fun. You know, I'm excited to play this game But I understand why people are saying like what what why is this the close? Yeah, let's talk about the Hyrule Warriors age of Claminy definitive edition I think I think when we were watching this update and you know 60 frames more enemies on screen all sorts of other stuff I think we're like oh might this be free. Yeah free up Is it's like one of those like Very Reasonable affordable switch to editions. Oh, that's what it was for like fantasy life That was the one that happened once that happened once. Well, they they did it. Well, this is 30 dollars

32:23I'm not paying for this so the full game is 60 dollars There is a discount for people who already out in the game this is wild to 30 dollars and that's pretty high That is so not worth it no offense to yeah people that bought this but like for me that is so not worth it I mean, this is a good game is not that good Definitely not good enough for me to play it again for 30 dollars. He came me. Yeah, I'm pretty surprised at this ridiculous shameless, it's pretty easy to just cross it off the list. Oh, it's like okay. This is not for me Even if it was five dollars, I probably wouldn't even consider it. Yeah More reasonably the pickman for switch to edition of upgrade is ten dollars. Okay, and I am My assumption from from the looks of this is that includes the dandori Academy stuff. It looks like it's lost dandori academy. Well, that seems like a steal in comparison. Yeah Absolutely, are you gonna enroll in dandori academy? No, no

33:26This does not seem to be I don't like the idea of taking the tests on the weekends. Yeah Why are these words? It's like the wording that they were using. I guess they're trying to have the school thematic But no one wants to be in school. It's not fun. I don't think it's working the way you want it Also, it's like it feels pressured like oh my god, take a test. I'm going to kumon to study for That's what I feel like it feels like that it literally feels like that to me I'm already like traumatized. I have like I'm gonna let me out of my room until I get my dandori academy It's Saturday and I gotta keep making potatoes go into the spaceship and I can't even get it all the types of potatoes sweet potato Yeah All Yeah, I'm signaling It is fall Potato season is here. Yeah, potato season. They know. Um, you can talk to Ochi Voice commands. Yeah, they're really under the voice the back-to-back day is with

34:28Talking to the mind of developers doing weird voice commands and do a switch to Ochi Come here Ochi. All right Sure You you didn't play Pikmin for it all or what what remind me I think I put a demo I would love for you to play full Pikmin for I know but sounds like you're not gonna. I'm not gonna All right, I'll choose cute though. I like Ochi Um, the Mario Kart world update we were a little Confused at the function of um of these classic places these original Mario Kart courses And the update you didn't you didn't check this out yet did you not yet? Unfortunately, we didn't have time to load it up and see so it's but I found the patch notes so First of all be on those propeller rally and turnip rally our new Mario knockout tour Um roots that's good that you can do so that's keep adding to that that's good because I think that those get stale after a while And when they add new ones people do jump back in we we jump back in for those and that's that was fun

35:32Totally so the classic courses it says the following courses have been added to versus race time trials and races and online play and wireless play oh okay, so online play as well, okay? So does that mean in online play I could potentially come upon one of these As I stand alone race We really got to just boot this up and see for ourselves, but I thought this was cool. So within each of the kind of pillar Tracks Mario carts Mario circuit you have circuit one circuit two and circuit three. Mm-hmm ghost Valley one two and three Chaco mountain one and two um Vanilla lake one Cooper Beach one so they're not all as extensive, but for them to build in like more than one right right right That's kind of more than I expected so I like that little map of like the retro course in the corner like with the Question marks in the field the fact that you you drive over them like I did take some care into Like recreating those I appreciate the attention to detail. I really do want to check this out

36:37But again, I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding like what is the limitation of it? Yeah, when can I do these that can that's my question play this yeah, when can I when can I play these core and can I Select these courses Only yeah and play through all of them like is that an option? I guess maybe right? I don't know. Okay. We gotta try it. We gotta try it But it's cool. So this was one of the other things that was You know some such and such a leaker it may have been that same leaker was saying like oh there's gonna be a Star Fox themed paid expansion. Yeah, there's a lot more Mario Kart roll. Obviously that didn't happen. Yeah. Yeah. These are just normal Like they've been doing these Mario Kart update. They sort of like I think this is cool Catching you here and there. Yeah, and these are all fun good and and and they're they're all cool and we've Definitely gone back to Mario Kart when they've done these so I think this is a good thing that they can they should keep doing Until they're ready to drop a bigger sort of pay DLC kind of thing You know, I would just like you know now that they're they're a bit more regularly doing these free updates

37:38I would just love one that's like quality of life for open world Because I really want to do more in the open world but every time I do like I experience Some amount of friction. Yeah, just like stopping me from getting the most out of it. It's like oh this could be And a lot of it's just like you know, finding the points um When you're doing them over and over again. It's a lot it feels like a lot of like wasted time of like I'm watching I'm watching this scene again Yeah, all that stuff like I would I would love for them to just take a closer look at that experience. Yeah. Yeah, it makes sense Metroid ravenous we have a price it is $60 digital $70 physical If you want that special edition though, that's gonna be $120. Does it come with that Amibo? Well, get to the Amibo in a moment the answer is yes though Um, that's a good that's not that bad So you know, I had an I don't know about you. I had an interesting experience when we were watching this trailer in the direct It was like okay This is metroid. This is this is this is this is a mercury steam Metroid

38:38But am I sure it's not a Metroid dread like switch to edition And eventually we saw enough of it where it's like oh, yeah, obviously it's a new game But I do think like when you see just like the gameplay of like Samus running left to right It does look a lot a lot like dread. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's dread it's dread to right. I mean there There isn't really no like major innovation beyond the look well. There's the whole you know You have you have your enemies you have her ravenous power, right? So I think that's an interesting contrast to The box art the tone of the trailer all felt felt very different like even like this kind of like Like what would you call this font is ravenous? This is like the the 90s font that you see on like an energy drink like that that neon pink color The music was very like different. Yes from a traditional very rock very like hard rock hard rock She's talking so it seems like they're trying to take a bit of a different tone

39:43With this game Yeah, it feels like kind of hardcore versus dread was very like remember how dread was supposed to be like this like horror game almost Right with the ms and like you know There was a lot of talk about like oh the sneaking around and the stealth this feels like you know you're going like Full-fors. I'm just gonna rip your head off and eat you kind of yeah Right, yeah, so I'm interesting to see more of like this this marketing angle and just this presentation angle Um, I'm really excited about that they're taking. Yeah, it looks really good. Yeah, it looks amazing Um our friend stealth Trans this is translated. Okay, so it is not perfect I think this is from either a Japanese website or a Japanese channel official Nintendo Uh a game description that is interesting. Okay After her ship crash lands on a moon Samus is ambushed by a mysterious group of assassins severely wounded from the attack the bounty hunter must now navigate an underground world and gain new abilities to find her way back to the surface

40:46The five space ninjas space ninja who ambushed Samus lie and wait for her throughout this lab Lebrithian world Face them and thrilling one-on-one battles where you'll get up close and personal with these assassins and their powerful weaponry Space ninja space ninja so Take that with a grain of salt. I don't I don't know if that is gonna be the official terminology here This is this is just whatever auto translation stealth use. Yeah, I do in the trailer they space ninjas though I like the idea space ninjas. They showed like the the guys were in the big hats. Yeah, yeah They look kind of like like you know like samurai or Japanese type of assassins. Yeah um Very cool Yeah, I like that she was transforming into her like ravenous Mode where she looks like cider and she wants to scream and kill you So they just completely spoil like I saw a lot of people saying like oh no you spoiled um The Metroid suit and I didn't know I didn't know that and I don't know if I believe everybody who's crying about that

41:49What they spoiled it come on It's years later. This isn't a Mibo many years in past. Yeah, it's called the what is it called? It's called the Metroid suit. Oh the the Metro. It's called the literally called the Metroid suit. Yeah, that's right It's that all green one. It's the green one. Yes, where she like calcs out and yeah screams goes crazy Yeah, so you know presume it like this could just pick up Right from the end of dread. It's like I'm leaving one place. Oh no, I got way leading in She was escaping that planet and she had already Had the Metroid that that power already as she's escaping right in dread. So yeah, you're right It could be like literally the moment after that, you know, yeah, that sucks She was trying to get out of here trying to go out. Yeah, geez. This is the worst We did get that Kind of short monologue at the opening. There were some really cool cut scenes so cool in that trailer So I think that's one to watch that that big trailer to watch a couple times different. Yeah, melee counters back I love the melee counter Seems like a good bet that there might be a switch to addition of dread

42:53Before this comes out oh I get maybe it wasn't ready for this but Seems like that would be great. I think I think a lot of people would want to replay this we recently we have a spoiler cast So good for dread. Yeah, that spoiler cast is actually free. That's a free item on our patreon. Oh there you go Get ready for this. If you want to check that out if you want to find out what our patreon is about you can You can watch or listen to this Metroid dread spoiler cast for free Wow, I didn't know we were getting away things. Check it out. You knew that. I did not you didn't know that um So the amiibo for this game we got pricing information and this is where I start to feel some pain So there's the samus you really like the samus amiibo's $25. I'm definitely getting that with the big with the arm Yeah, it's like the pink smoke coming out of the arm looks super cool. Oh man, but the chosen statue is $45 I have to get this. Oh, you're gonna get this. I love this thing. Oh, this is the solution. My problem is

43:53There's no tiny Morphball hammers in the hand. I make You'll 3D print it. I'll 3D print of Morphon put it in the Chozo's hand. I love this solution This is the coolest amiibo that I have ever seen. I mean you can see from the box. It is a significantly larger Yeah, so if you're just going by like you and I can Blast it. People's more money. You and I can make a little trippy trip to the Nintendo store and pick these two. Oh, that's a great idea as a fun thing to do That's perfect. That's a I love that. Yeah, let's do that. That'll be something fun. Okay Then there's the case of this special edition. Yes, which includes so it's against $120. I do love that still case Comes in this nice box. Yeah, you get the steel case And you get the Metroid suit amiibo which as of right now seems to be exclusively only in this special edition and I think this sucks That does suck maybe a later on. They'll make it available because out of all of these That's the one I want and I'm not getting this special edition So so let's see. Well, what is the best so the game is $70 physical. Okay, so how are we getting that's $50 left?

45:00I guess you could argue this is also a $40 amiibo plus $10 for the steel case. That's a lot of money though I'm not paying that though. That's a lot of money. I'm not doing that Yeah, that's unfortunate That's a pretty cool amiibo, but I don't think it's worth paying the $120 for this amiibo is incredible I know but I as well I don't want to say never say never but I will not be bent too. Is there someone that wants the steel book but not the amiibo that I can just buy the amiibo I guess they want the amiibo. They want the amiibo. All right, but it is very cool. Oh It's so cool. Yeah, all three I think all three of these amiibos are really awesome Like I really I'm not really like a huge collect like buy every single one, but for the special ones I do like I do like it especially we don't get that much Metroid stuff is the thing too like there's very little like Metroid merch available And I just get excited when we finally have something that's not a shirt with a logo on it, you know, and that's so lame

46:00This chose us at you. I love it. I think it's so cool. It's really cool. It's like my one of my favorite things with the little hand Oh my gosh, I love this speaking of amiibo. There are also mega man amiibo There are two of those capcoms been doing a lot of amiibo. I know lately. That's why when you were making your prediction I'm like this is definitely gonna happen because they've been doing so much amiibo So yeah, you get making a me bo of ridiculous street fighter characters that nobody cares about Oh, and then it goes on sale It went deep on sale So you got a mega man. You got a proto man. I'll get the mega. I'm not the biggest proto man fan Yeah, I think mega man. I'll just get that just get that. Yeah, you don't need anything else Other capcom news so they came out with more information on the switch two version of monster hunter wilds So the base price for this physical and digital will be $40 That's a game key card by the way. Yeah, if you buy the game So pre-orders start October 19th And through December 19th the game will be

47:03$10 off. Yeah, if you get it. You have a special discounted price for $29999 Right, it says the physical version includes the base game and a deluxe pack voucher What do you think that means maybe there's like special things That you can get in there Like in game things okay, and then it says they also said there will be a demo Released before launch nice this game was December right yes Do you think they can get this game back to you know the heights that they want it to get to well the good news Is that the switch to audience is a new audience that maybe have not played this game yet? Yeah, that's that's an opportunity right there Yeah, you know is better than not you know then trying to re-hit the same audience that played and fell off that's hard to get back You're just um talking to new people now definitely curious for people who know better than us to look at the Technical performance yeah trailer It looked okay to me. Although, you know, maybe I shouldn't because because that was this game was notoriously not running well on anything when it first came out

48:07But you know also another game that was like that was dragon's dog the two which we played um and it looked great and saw on a switch too And it's like oh this seems to be fine. So maybe they got over it or figured out I don't know figured out some sort of engine Yeah, so never never say never with these things. Yeah. Yeah, totally I mean, I mean, maybe that's why it took so long because we're trying to figure out the solution, you know, but I don't know. I'm just kind of You're fatigued. I'm just a lot of so fatigued on this. Yeah, I think I'm gonna something I'm gonna sit down and the other thing that I don't as of now We do not have any answer for is does a save Data transfer that's my biggest question actually in any way shape or form we do not know Yeah, I need to I have a pretty like I I sunk some time into my character. So I don't really want to start It wouldn't it wouldn't be great to start over Something especially since this game is structured in a way. It's like oh you have to beat the story to really Really like open up the game to all the multiplayer stuff you might want to yeah exactly I didn't love that and like a lot of the more fun quest you have to be at a certain hunter rank Yeah, and that was not like easy to come by, you know

49:08I have people like power level me. So I need I would like to just carry that over a pile. Yeah. Yeah Stellar blade there's also more details about the physical version of this which it looks like it's being done in conjunction with PM studios Not a game key card And that's gonna be day and date And there's all this stuff here in this visual that you're getting and there's also the bayonetta Yes costumes as well So again, gonna make you sweat Okay You know, it's easy to gravitate towards the biggest things in the direct, but I think there were also a lot of lesser known games or so, you know, I hate to hesitate to call them smaller games but Things that people may have overlooked are not known about yeah Karen if you watched our reaction you probably saw a big reaction from me on Karen. Yeah, it's like in me loved Which is a rock climbing game

50:10With this really cool look kind of looks like a Frank Miller comic book. Yeah, it does big chunky lines Really beautiful graphics. I was gonna say Vista's potentially the Vista game of the year Yeah, this is as far as the I can see Did this game come out earlier this year? Yes, it did it came it came out around the start of the year I played it on ps5 okay, okay, so still this year game at least yeah still pretty fresh But there been a lot of like rock climbing games. I think just the mechanics of this were also really interesting of like Strategizing because you have full control of all your hands and feet Mm-hmm, so you can come up with some crazy words like oh, I'm I'm prezzling up It's like you're playing twister, but in but you have to be able to read reasonably like hold all your weight And there's like stamina you get the shaky legs. Oh, you get the shaky like oh gosh When you get the shaky like you're about to fall to them arms to like yeah Shaking And then you fall and then there's like you said there was a bit of a survival aspect to it as well So you can turn that off because there are parts of that that I like sometimes I didn't like it

51:11But yeah, basically like you need to go you get one of those you know how real climbers have those like hanging tents Oh my god And you can like cook a meal and rest and you got to like refill your water bottle That's so scary to be like hanging you can turn it off You even sleep like that. Oh man. That's so crazy. Okay. Yeah. Okay No, this is I think it's pronounced Netsha Netsha Kameleon yes This is really fun. This was a shadow drop This was one of those games that was like on steam like oh this game sold X million copies It's like one of those friends long games And it's like you know one I'm not sure how what the total number players are But it's like one person is trying to hunt out these people who are chameleoning themselves Into the background you know paint over yourself to camouflage And um and some of some of them are you know, it's very creative where you can hide it looks really fun

52:13Yeah, so that I guess that was out today need to grab that now I'm wondering if that uses the mouse Oh to like paint seems like a perfect game for the mouse or motion Great. Yeah, something to help you do that And then stage fright. This is the from the overcooked I had to turn around on this when they started this I was like this looks bad Oh, I always have this look good and I have a head to remind them. I did not remember this We did see this at a game awards and I was already pretty excited because I like the overcooked a lot Yeah, you don't really like overcooked as much um But this is a different game a different kind of this is like a Halloweeny styled escape room. Yes, but it's co-op and it has like some of that like sort of you know That the haze light like puzzle soft together with a costume quest to look. Yeah, there's like a little bit of a costume costume quest games on switch double fine You'll make a dollar in a cent on a putt on a post-it quest. Forget that kickstarter. Just make some oh make some costume quest man

53:13um, but I think this game looks fun I was disappointed though because I thought it was gonna be like an October lunch date But it ended up being like a 2020 something game So you didn't get your switch to addition of Luigi's mansion. I never got it. What the heck? They never gave me a Halloween game. I was so sure they were gonna get a Halloweeny game, but nothing happened I was really one over when you made that prediction. I thought it was a great prediction Instead we got $30 a age of calamity upgrade Nintendo Good question. What was that note there good question? Because it stops didn't fit Kid the vibe okay So 3D Mario you were a strong proponent of this game. I was definitely like in a believer in like maybe those give us a tease Some sort of a tease. Yeah, that didn't happen and again We're still we're still grappling with the title waves of Nate the Hates saying this game is coming out in 2027 So we're presumably in a reasonable window of

54:18This could be out within the next year. Yeah, it's just one. Are they gonna tease it right? So so so so what do you think the likely scenario is now for 3D Mario? I don't know it's interesting because I had I thought that maybe It was like a summer game Now like maybe it isn't maybe it's a fall game, you know, maybe it is pushed to Like that idea of it being like September and then Pokemon Wind and Ways being November Seems more reasonable now For some reason. I don't know why So maybe we'll just get a tease later next year, you know if it's not gonna come out tell the fall Which maybe the case But I it's got to be coming soon. I do think it's coming soon Yeah, I mean I think it's coming next year. I mean, well, we're operating on the assumption that that's that it's true That is coming next time. I mean these things can change. Yeah, it can absolutely have seen a lot of example

55:19We joked about it yesterday these developers getting way laid on something else I spent the last five years working on Zelda notes. I didn't even bother starting the next game. Oh, I was supposed to make 3D Mario I'm sorry. I was speaking into a microphone I was training Ochi I was voice training Ochi someone did say that Nintendo dogs was coming back. Yeah, that was the same guy But that's kind of like Ochi was the same guy. He's an intent dog. I don't know how you bring back the intent dogs That is basically your basically Ochi's your nintendo all this is leading up to voice commanded Nintendo Maybe count me out No, make it for if that's a phone game. That's a perfect phone It's your mobile game and you take it for a walk like a Pokemon go to track. I've been track your progress. Perfect phone game Maybe they didn't say when it's for that's true. Be a phone I would play it on a phone. I would too. I'd much rather play that on a phone than on a switch. Yeah Okay, anyways, that's not what we're talking about 3D Mario though. Yeah, I mean what do you think? So again the assumption is it's coming next year. Do you believe that's an assumption? I mean, I guess

56:23I mean everything else he said was right unless there's been some change of plans which could happen. Yeah um Yeah, I think any time in the summer to the fall I do I do think Pokemon's probably gonna take the latest slot in the Odyssey Odyssey was a November no October actually is me an October game So yeah, I think September or depending on where Pokemon is sometime in October. Yeah, are possibly early October It could be a reason and again back to what we're saying at the top of like They're thinking about what's in a direct what's in a What's in a today what's in a shadow? You know out of nowhere Kind of thing that they drop all these things are possible even for 3D Mario That's the way to get attention doesn't matter. You know, that's a way to give it like other If they're trying to make certain things feel different and special Than other things like they did with the Zelda anniversary direct like they could be considering some of these other options Yeah, and again, I really do think they Want people to focus on the right thing at the right time

57:23And right now the focus is on the holidays and it is a good it is a nice thing to To dangle that and say hey, we've got this coming too. Yeah, just incentivize you to keep buying Okay, there's more stuff coming. Yeah, um, I go back, you know, remember the quote from Furukawa I was like the line up will speak for itself Injustifying the price increase. Do you think They did that today and again, we just went through the whole lineup A lot of games yeah, a lot of games still I mean just speaking very broadly like for me it definitely delivered like I we you know I was I came away pretty happy generally with this direct but Once again, I can really see the person that's waiting for That big heavy heavy hitting Nintendo game, which is either 3D Mario or 3D Zelda Sure, and you're not getting that and so for the smash or smash or smash or smash or Animal Crossing or Animal Crossing One of those one of those heavy because I hand full of those heavy hitting Nintendo first party games

58:24You didn't get any of those and so some people may say that it's not Worth the price increase right, you know, so and that's very reasonable I would not fault I would not fault that for a lot of people will be rushing to buy a ps5 to play grand theft auto Um, and you have so many you have other options you consider, you know, the people are making choices and A lot of people are not going to be buying more than one console Um, in in any given stretch of time, so those are all considerations I think yeah, yeah, for sure Speaking of smash brothers, so again, this was a really hot rumor That was going around and again, I think I think all that this person said and again like don't know if this is right or not They said a new smash brothers is in development Your thoughts I mean I I This is this is one word like I just I don't believe it. I don't think well I think that a smash a switch to version of smash ultimate is in the world didn't say that that wasn't it

59:26That's what I think that's what that could be that's what I think it is So I think it is a switch to version of smash ultimate with maybe like three more fighters So again, I think there's there's been like a bit of a rush to just like decide like this is what it is This is definitely what it is. It's like, are we sure? Yeah, are we sure about that? I don't think there's going to be a new smash brothers From Sakurai ever again It's actually what I think okay. I think that he's going to do Ultimate for switch to these probably gonna retire Uh retire in what sense in the sense that he's not making this game anymore Retire from every game. No smash a retire from Yeah Okay, my sense is that he did everything he wanted to do yeah for ultimate and he said so himself so I kind of feel like The switch to version of that would be great Still very playable and irrelevant and then add some additional fighters Do some more fighter do another fighters pass with a couple more fighters in it that can kind of launch

1:00:32Throughout the year like like you know time it so it's like every couple months you get a new fighter or something like that And that'll be that Well if if uh intent that goes says okay, you've retired from this. We're gonna pick up the mantle and yeah and keep it going What do you think is his reaction? I think he's like okay, don't take it then he's like these are your characters good luck Good luck. I totally think I don't know I don't know any of this. Yeah, these are your characters You only licenses. Yeah I'm done. I'm washing my hands of this. I want to be having a drink at the bar with her rata and yeah, I see uh I'm like pushing 60. I'm not doing this anymore. Yeah, no thanks Perfectly reasonable. I think that's what's gonna happen. I truly think that's what I'm having some sort of change seems like it is in the air Absolutely, so then to fill that time until that change Manifest itself and then until they figure out what you do with in that situation is you get smash ultimate switch to it If they got the fighters pass who was the right person to lead this who is the right team to be in fall

1:01:34It's a lot. It's a lot and they're gonna be fine. It's gonna be a bit of growing pains of course but Yeah, there's there has to be an end to this and That end seems logical now honestly So yeah, I mean when the rumors came out about this kind of stuff I immediately was like what's not gonna be a new a brand new smash. Yeah, yeah, didn't feel like that So we both gave this direct B plus in our instant reaction this morning, which is definitely higher than some other things I've seen we're gonna go through a patron community poll in just a moment Do you like a chance to revise? No, I think it's a B plus I'm feeling pretty good about both the the first party games Metroid ravenous and Kirby I think both look really fun and there's a good handful of third party games that I was pretty excited about late Finally, that's so funny that big game finally got some kind of announcement and confirmation

1:02:35But there was a handful of like pretty good their party games too. So yeah, I think B plus For me, you know, I'm gonna drop it because there was something we didn't I did not realize that the dust floods would not in there Until after I gave the grade So considering they have said for ages that this is a 2026 game and just the strangest around that I'm gonna drop it to a B Before that reason. All right, fair alone Metroid ravenous really carry this direct for me. I mean, yeah, I mean you know Focus on the highs. It's like yeah, we got some games that are looking really good that we're excited to play that are not super far off Yeah, and I get you have to acknowledge that the the role the leaks played and The way that those were perceived which is too bad. Yeah But we're gonna be off to the races with those games soon. It's gonna be fun. Yeah I'm so excited about the choseos to actually amoeba Now I'm like okay, I'm gonna make what was the last time you bought an amoeba so long This is the only thing that I want. I'm interested in

1:03:35Okay, so then I'm gonna make a little More fall more fall. I'm gonna put a tiny light on the inside. Oh, so that it like glows. Wow. I'm excited Give me the amoevo so I can do some cool customization all right. All right. I'm excited to see right wouldn't that be fun sounds great that can be for the set. Yeah, okay B plus What happens now we just had back-to-back direct oh man Yeah, so you know Nintendo's probably learning some lessons after this This whole you know weak and weak and weak plus of activity and People have talked in and people's reactions to everything um Yeah, I think the thing that we're missing That's that should be coming next is the movie is all the movie news and we I think that that's gonna happen very soon And then it's really just focusing on the games launching in the next couple of months. It's the holiday stuff So we got it we got it still you know, they have big game in fire and bloom that's coming out in in mere weeks

1:04:39Yeah, just heavy up on all that stuff. They got they got a lot of games coming out in in the for the latter part of the They still got a launch Aquina of time Um, they got to do some stuff and they're and they're good at this like they're very good at caching in on the holiday So it's gonna be a lot of those games. They're coming out a lot of ocarina Mm-hmm start to see the trailer o' Timmy and Tommy are around the tree for the holidays or grandma's here or playing switch sports Oh here we go Dad a dad is sharing ocarina time with his kid for the first time daddy's crying daddy's crying mommy is crying Timmy is crying everybody's crying tears of tears of joy as we see a daycute tree. Oh my gosh It's gonna be good. Thank you nuts. We're like I've been saying the years basically over. Yeah, it's Metroid ravenous is basically out. I mean, it's it's really in mere months. It's basically there So mere months times gonna times after today times gonna start to go real fast. Yeah Our patreon community we did a poll with them to get their grade for the direct

1:05:4014% gave it in a 37% gave it a B 38% gave it a C oh 10% gave it a D and 2% gave it an F. Oh no the Fs are here. No Fs yesterday Yesterday we had a we had a was the Primary 40 something percent very high percentage of yes Sky on PC said a direct so clogged by bad third-party port trailers that I wish I just slept in Kirby was really the only highlight for me, but I know Metroid fans are excited for ravenous too Both trailers. I could have just watched on Nintendo today instead Ivan said I don't think this was their strongest direct and it's a repeat of their direct from earlier this year It felt like a partner direct sprinkled with updated and expanded previously released switch games I'm a fan of the new 2d Metroid game and Kirby's brand new 3d open-world game and the new Mario Kart world update Am I ever gonna finish this game? But it didn't seem like a Nintendo direct. I still gave it a B because I'm glad Nintendo is supporting third-party games

1:06:44And they look good on the console and Walk the crock on a rock. That's a cool name says This direct feels like it was a test and expectation management I purposely did my best to not look at anyone's rumors or leaks Even though I am not a big fan of most of the series announced. I am still happy with the direct Interesting. Yeah, interesting again general directs are just hard. I think It's true. It's just too much variety and not everybody's gonna drive with everything that's in there Yeah, so spin the wheel and maybe you'll get something. Yeah, you're into you should probably just always think to yourself Like probably two percent of this stuff. I'm gonna be hyped for yeah rest 98 percent is probably gonna be either just okay or a series that I don't play right I mean, it's crazy just looking like all all the games that are coming out and it's like all these games are trying to find an audience and find success and It's not gonna happen for all of them, but yeah, how does that how does that all shake out? It happens I don't know to a varying degree of Numbers, you know, like some audiences are audience of 100 versus a million. So that's what it is

1:07:50Let's so yesterday we did the games we are playing today. We're gonna do some other news. Yes So I guess we're playing the news jingle twice today. Wow. That's a breakthrough Last week there was a PlayStation state of play presentation, which was considered to not be very good Yeah, again kind of too long too bloated not enough big news But they did have this expanded look at final fantasy 7 revelation which look good and the game didn't get a launch date Which was repeated in the Nintendo direct is April 8th is that Around the time you were expecting or I think so Yeah, I think so that I mean they have been just going really hard There's been on this game every single showcase this game has been in to the extent that's like It's just game coming out like a week No, but they're they're just I kind of commend them honestly. It's like this is like marketing like you just or everywhere You people can't avoid this thing right right this is the conclusion of this like very, you know

1:08:52long and like big journey that this game This remake took so I do feel like they're kind of putting everything out there as like finally This is the end yeah, and it feels like that way and I think they're doing a good job, you know? Yeah, I mean it was last week or the week before we were talking about gears of war Yeah, how they managed to do those first three games on the Xbox 360 is like boy that never happened again But if you look at this they've done they all have done three games in seven years Which is not super I mean you can you consider just the modern Game development realities and we haven't gotten a Mario 3D game in ten years I mean that's pretty incredible that they did these three really really huge games in that span of time and yes There was a lot of build-up to get to the point where they gave in release the first game. Yeah, but once they got going They really stuck to it on pace and And each game has expanded and scope as well like if you look at final fantasy You know make to rebirth rebirth scope is way bigger right so on I'm just yeah, and this one looks even bigger than that

1:09:59So there is a scenario where all three of these games takes ten years to make exact that's what I'm saying Yeah, just crazy this switch to logo looks so out of place. Oh, it's not all white. Yeah It does not look at stands out red forward doesn't look good Catches your eye someone should have color mask that then to know would not a lot you can't do that And flip it to flip it I do that all the time With the last game the rallying cry was it's on two discs no more two discs seems like that is not the case But there are physical versions on Most I shouldn't say all most most platforms But all versions it seems will now require some sort of an additional download So even beyond like the ps5 I put the disc in it installs. You're still gonna have to download something Yes, it's just a huge thing. It's just such a big game So that's an interesting sort of wrinkle of that that some people might want to consider are you playing this game on a switch to you know I don't know I was gonna ask you because I don't know we played originally we played all games on a ps

1:11:044 and 5 yeah, and then we replayed Final Fantasy remake Force which to and that was that looked that ran looked great Except for port clouds hair But I'm wondering this game seems pretty big I'm sure I mean they had some footage in the direct. I thought it looked on on the same level I don't I can't really see it being much worse than the last game which was already a really big scope Yeah, but I don't know part of me is like yeah, I do want this to be as grand and as Experiences As it can bother but but the flip sides can be a long game too So I might like the flexibility to play it on the go. So my answers. I don't know. Okay. What about you? I don't know either actually because I enjoyed my experience playing Final Fantasy remake on a switch to I thought it was Really solid version But yeah, I kind of get the sense of like oh, this is the final game and We're finally like wrapping up this big epic adventure. Do I want to play it on a ps5?

1:12:05You know, I don't know. I'll decide later, but I'm excited. Yeah, see me great We have some updates on two new releases I think both of these games released last week and they have both sold over a million units Wow, so only Mousha way of the sword They said sold over a million copies globally on launch day wow on day one sold over a million Holy moly globally though globally well. Yeah, um this artwork is so with the lion's They need to lean into these lion's the lion dogs. Oh my gosh. There's so much Where's the plush? They make good plush cap. Yeah, give me the plush of the lion dog. I definitely thought that so cute Yesterday I talked about my adventures in only Mousha and last night I may have I may have rage rage with this game permanently On the it turns out it was not the final boss. It was the penultimate boss, which I didn't like I didn't like it kind of It kind of changes up like these fights and it's one of these bosses fights that goes really long So even if you die you're starting over from the beginning. It's like I just burned 15 minutes 20 minutes

1:13:09Trying to do this and I'm starting over easy. It's was on easy. Oh No, but it's just like oh, there's no other boss fights that are like this one and it was kind of it was just kind of annoying and tedious Yeah, and uh that may be the end. That's the worst people have I've done this a surprising number of times got into the final boss and said Yeah, I'm good. It's just not playing again. Yeah, this is you what you do. Yeah, this is your watcher. I'll watch the ending on YouTube I'm good. I'm good. You know you're happy to be in this Um, I have heard this from a lot of other people though about the final two bosses. Oh really? I see even Tatello even I was reading his did he even get that far? He said that it was I think he's I think he Noted out even before that he said that it was like 15 hours of like bliss and then like you know six hours of like night nightmarish Stadium. Yeah, so there is a mixed mixed bag of like the back half of the game is is You know tough for we'll see we'll see if I recover. Okay. Uh the other game is now we have the official name Uh-huh the blood of Don Walker. I think your name is better. Blood of the Don Walker is way cooler name

1:14:09Blood of the Don Walker is a cooler name because you're a vampire. So they have also sold a million copies And guess what I'm one of them. I got it here. You got it I wanted to share this because this came yesterday. I just ordered like The regular regular regular listing on Amazon and I got this fancy edition which is the Is this like the day one edition or something but anyway, it's got this slip case steel book Look at that. That's got all this kind of like old-timey. Oh, yeah, it looks like one of those medieval or illuminated manuscripts I you know, I love right Which is really cool The disc is in my disc is in my system. We got this kind of like Note from the developers, which is very nice and then this is super cool. This map. Yeah open this up So this is why I'm not paying 120 dollars for a Metroid special edition But I just spent normal money and got this nice thing look at this for regular price You should frame this this is cool

1:15:10Yeah, this is the game map and it's in this really nice old-timey. It's actually a very like nice Piece of paper. It's like thick. It's very well made right very night. This is just the normal the regular edition I did this was not a special discount. This was not a special version This is just the thing that I ordered for the regular price See, this is what you need to do for people to be happy like reward your One million customers. You could only do with a physical game too. This is very cool very very cool So you you have started the game. I did start it I get very pretty early bedtime last night to get ready for this drive tonight though But I play I played the first like 30 or so minutes as I can't wait to hear more about it I'll definitely report back next week. I have no ps5 physical games So even if you have this you can't even share it with me y'all Not for you you're playing the Witcher. I'm gonna play the Witcher. Yes You could play a Witcher on a ps5, you know, if you really you could do that too Like right now

1:16:11Well, you should wait for the the new version the new version. It'll be all shiny and cool But I want to play on my switch that can take you with me. You want to do that. Okay. It's kind of a long game, right? So yeah, so then I can take you with me. Okay. Yeah. Okay anyways. How fun. Okay more more things more news We have one more story. This is an interesting one. Oh, yeah, so Jeff Keely and Mark Cerney who is had a really long and story career in games and he was like the architect of The PlayStation for and that's kind of been his latest like claim to fame They have started this new like charitable foundations called the Novak Games foundation Where they're just like straight up giving pretty sizeable amounts of money to up-and-coming Game developers and it's associated with some particular universities Around the world so there's New York University USC Aberte University in Scotland. I can't pronounce this one in France

1:17:13T.H. Colt Colt. Oh, Colt Jeff Keely's been visiting Colt. Look what he's been doing T.H. Colt and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology um, but they've each like put up like a significant amount of their own money Wow And the recipients can get a hundred thousand dollars and some could be eligible for a half million dollars depending on Like how promising the project looks and it's like yeah, it's true like these game budgets Like I don't know if that's gonna completely cover that but it is something and it is A start and getting you on your way And they both talked about how like and especially Mark Cerney was like yeah, my career is almost over In games, so I kind of want to see what I can do with everything I've learned and everything I've done to help people come along and then Jeff Keely also had these quotes of like I don't take financial stakes in games, but I want to sort of help set up these people for success

1:18:13So yeah for him taking a financial stake is a little bit like a conflict of interest Yeah, yeah, but this is more of a philanthropical endeavor so I can say Mark and I have each made multi-million dollar donations to establish the foundation. There's a humble break I'm a multi-million dollar No big deal I'm rich. I'm making it rain. I'm a rich guy. Well, he's doing something good We intend to keep contributing. We hope others will join us Okay, so I think it's easier to be like cynical about this and be like oh Jeff Keely's got some ulterior motive or it's like a tax It's a tax right? It's a rich guy tax thing Here comes the I don't know like I'll take the I'll take the more positive approach and like I do believe that these two want to do Something good and positive and hopefully hopefully it works out um It's it's hard for you know even even with funding like sometimes these things go nowhere but Wish them luck. Yeah, at least this is like kind of like you know people say like vote with your wallet or whatever

1:19:17Is like they they Jeff talks a lot about you know the industry is at those crossroads and we're We got to figure out solutions to have a sustainable industry in the future at least he's like putting up money Yeah, to try to help even even if there is some kind of ulterior motive like He is putting up the money so that you can't say anything to that, you know, yeah This is I like the comment of like we encourage others to join is like other rich guys Calling all rich guys open your wallets play other retired rich rich guys from the games industry Please open your wallets because there's a lot of you out there tax deductible. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of gaming rich guys out there For sure Bobby Cotec oh Bobby where you is I'm not sure Bobby's interested. He's definitely has the money though. Yeah. All right. Well, okay We have almost made it to the end of it's not even It's Wednesday and it's Wednesday, but this is the the end of like the truly busy part of the week

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