847: The Old Castle

Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, July second, twenty twenty four. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and forty seven, powered by n z XT. I am your host today. Jim a Choa, Jeff Grubb, Jeff Backler out on assignment. Everything's broken, Dan also out on assignment. That run. Everyone. If you've ever seen us in person, shook our hands, give a warm hug. Your body is going to break down soon. And that is just a guarantee we are our own star player. I

use that la week. I'm going to continue to use again because the statement is still true. Good good Lucy. James. Mmm. Hello, So I'm just pouring my coffee. So if you're listening at home, that's what that sounded, pouring a coffee or peeing into a cup. And don't even ask. But I wanted to shout out ABC because they got me this mug. I believe gimpum live and it's my new like I rotate my mugs around and so this is this snoopy mugs Weaken the Sun and I love it so

much. Thank you, ABC. Speaking about a week in the Sun. We are graced with his presence. His he shines bright like a diamond and the sun two more, Hussein, Oh you're talking about someone else there. Hello, I am drinking from a water bottle that has this dumb Batman on it. Speaking about Batman, he's our own Batman. He's our cape crusader. He perches on rooftops, he hangs out with gargoyles, he's he's he avenges. He has a strategy to take us all down. And I'm scared

that I'm next. Mike Manatti. Hi, I have a tortured pass and a dark alter ego, and I'm drinking from the subway cup filled with mostly dia coke. You put a splash of just normal doctor Pepper in there, though, and it kind of just tastes like doctor Pepper. It's nice. We laid down some a challenge in certain parameters for Mike, which is going to be very difficult because of my Show and Tell segment here. I went

to a Giants game over the weekend. The game started at one, but there was a certain giveaway, and then my partner and I thought, wow, we need this giveaway, so let's get there at ten o'clock, way too early for a baseball game. And then you know, I got mixed feelings already on baseball, especially San Francisco Giants. But Mike Manatty. Look at this new silly hat I got. Okay, look, Oh that's interesting. It seems to have two circular objects attached to the top of it in

a kind of symmetrical pattern. Does it remind me of anything specifically? Though? Pretty cool though jan audio listeners can't see it. But Mike is just like straining right now. You see the vein in his forehead. Yeah, I'm trying. My best friend Tam happy. They want me to not talk about something specifically here, and I'm gonna show Tam that I can do it.

My other favorite observation from the weekend. At this baseball game, we're playing against the Dodgers, and as a as a Bay Area resident born and raised, I've been conditioned to hate the Dodgers for no specific reason other than them being from LA. But I could not hate on the adorable little old

Asian women with their show Heyo Tani Jerseys repping for show Hey. I'm like, damn, there's two people that love show Hey a Tani the most all these old Asian women, and Michael him loves ms oh Hey for show. Hey, that's what they're called today? Baby should be. When I was in Little Tokyo recently, I guess that's really close to where the Dodgers play, because everybody was walking around in Dodgers' uniforms and stuff. There's all sorts

of stuff even in a little Tokyo for them. I thought that was neat. How's ever doing? How was the weekend? I'm saying, I'm seeing the Beach Boys tonight. They're still alive, some of them must be. I don't know how many, but enough of them are alive that they are performing in Youngstown, Ohio tonight as the Beach Boys. So is Uncle Jesse going to be there? I hope so? Uh damn. Maybe think of something I can't talk about, but yeah, I hope Uncle Jesse is there.

We have similar interests that I won't go into detail about me and him. Oh yeah, uh, but yeah, I have no idea what to expect. We're taking my mom as like an early birthday gift. But yeah, I don't know. Like I guess it'll be neat to say to say I saw the Beach Boy in some form or another. I'm not really sure

what to be expecting. Quality wise or you know, authenticity wise here but whatever, I'll get a beer, I'll watch them play their guitars and talk about waves in the ocean, and you know, are they the Cocomo? They are? But that's the one that nucle Jesse is really involved with. Okay, Yeah, I associate Cocomo with the Muppets. I associate with the Trolls. I had a VHS tape with like Muppet trolls actually, like made by Jim that's Muppets and it was just a vignette of music videos and one

of them was Coocomo. So that's what the Beach Boys a big thing over there for y'all. I mean, I enjoyed the Beach Boys a lot. This tour is very intense, by the way, it's like July all the way through to the end of October. Oh d I mean, who's who's the touring band for more than six decades members Brian Wilson might love Al Jardine and then like all of them have social networks. And then there's Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, and David Marx, which is the one

who was involved with the Manson family. Oh what do you mean involved. I would like to know, Like, umm, no, it didn't. One of them, like the Mansons, like basically tried to befriend and then like I think, played music with them. Oh no, okay, like that, I'd have to google it. Okay, well I believe you. But Uncle Jesse, Uncle Jesse, Charles Manson, Beach Boys, Joe Mitt Beach Boys. Yeah, Never Learned Not To Love was a song recorded by

the American but rock band The Beach Boys. Credited to Dennis Wilson. The song is an altered version of Cease to Exist, written by the Manson family called Leader Charles Manson. Oh no, I remember this, Yeah, because Mitson also has a thing with the Beatles, and he thought that Helter Skelter was some kind of order for him to kill people, right, So yeah, he's a weird relationship with music. Interesting I see here. July twenty

eighth, Lucy Tam. If y'all aren't doing anything, they're gonna be in Sonny San Jose Tikis are a little road trip down wait for my review. Let me let's see what Let's see what these Beach Boy fellas got in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four, and I'll let you know if it's if it's worth a little trip or not. I don't even know where they're playing. I don't know this I don't know this venue. I mean yeah. I also I saw I saw The Who when they were like seventy,

and they was still good, still really good. What do you call him? The Rolling Stones are still killing it? So yeah, it was the oldest person I saw. I saw Bob Seger like three or four years ago. He was very old and it was still fun. I saw Paul McCartney probably like twelve years ago now, and he was like old then, but it was still great. So yeah, I'm sure it'll be fun. Pause. It's Youngstown, Ohio. So I don't like drive to some city. It's like a ten minute drive, So yeah, what the hell will go?

I do you think they have new music? Do you think they updated? Come on? If they better not, they better not be like where's the Beach Boys? Here's our new son? Come on? Yeah they are surfing USA? Okay they are, you know? Come on? Then I played pet Sounds, Yeah, like come on, who's the other band that showed up to San Francisco recently and took over the Grateful Dead. Oh yeah, the last show. It was the last proper show, and there were

a bunch of dead heads. We went to get brunch and like the entire restaurant was just full of dead Heads, and there was like one person being like I've seen them over a hundred times, and I was like, I like they seem to hang out in that area, because we went to get brunch again at the same place the other day and on the walk there, I saw two people wearing a Grateful Dead Grateful Dead t shirts, So maybe just hang out in this area. There's a lot of grateful dead heads,

uh, hanging out in SF at all times. Right, But the Beanie Baby, no, I swear there's a grateful Dead bear. I don't know what. Garcia was the rare beanie Baby for a bit, and it was named after the bear everywhere in this city. And don't forget the Ben and Jerry's flavor Garcia. Yes, yes, oh god, I could go for ice cream. I don't know if I could name a grateful Dead song. I gotta be honest, I don't think I've ever heard a grateful Dead song,

right, It's like I can I can't imagine the vibe right. If you don't like name the song or to sing, well, I don't know. I'm in trouble. Yeah, I couldn't do this. I can't do it either. It never had hits. Okay, that's interesting. I think I would confuse them with the Dire Straits if like, if I like convince myself that Sultan of Swing was a grateful Dead song, I might be able to pull that off. This is because my brain is slightly disney pilled.

But sometimes whenever I see the grateful Dead Skull, of course, never you, Mike, I'm sorry for even mentioning it. Yes, please, it's so annoying when you bring this up. I know it's my one thing. I always think they're grateful dead skull. How it looks like the Pepsi logo. I always think it's the Rescue Rangers icon or the logo, and it gives me a little pop. Oh yeah, I'm not familiar with that program. Mike. It's okay, it's all right, it's all right. You

don't have to hide anymore. It doesn't have a banging theme song or anything with an incredible sex solo. Probably doesn't. Yeah, everyone else is good. We're okay. It's gonna be a shorter week here at GBHQ because of the holidays. We don't got to talk about the actual Well, what's happened? Something happened really to hurt anybody's patriotism? What? No, way? Never never? I okay, So I was at a county fair, right and one this week? Is it? Is it the Alameda County Fair?

No, I'm going Marin oh no. But the problem is the problem is jan we're gonna get hit with a heat wave this week. Yeah, we're doing hit with it. Now. It's not me. I live on top of a hill. Yeah, it must be in your Your neighborhood is always way warmer than mine. But last year every went to the county fair. It was the hottest day of the year, and that was you know, not even with a heat wave. Some I'm genuinely concerned that I will melt

like like the Wicked Witch of the East. I don't know. I've never seen Wicked. The West is the one who melts. I believe she was always playing here. You've never seen it? What wicked? No, never seen it? I don't know any No. Wait, is fabulous The song from Wicked like No the Sharp Pase hit Soget High School Musical two only comes second to bet On It. Though popular is what you may be, I mean popular. But the problem is with with Wicked is the movie's lighting looks

really flat. I don't I don't know. Well that's the movie. We don't want to worry about the movie. The musical is great music. Okay, you know want Jenna will make a point to go see it. No, no, no, we're gonna go see it. Mike, you're invited because I've actually never seen Wicked. Uh yeah, I'm still better my one. Yes, it's the which one. It's the Wizard of oz one where it's like Disney or No. No, that's MGM stuff. Don't worry.

We're good. It's MGM public domain. It's fine. Uh but yeah, my brothers went to see at one time and it was like a double date for them and they're like, you can't go. It's like I want to see Wicked. We will rectify that. Please make sure that you could come. You can bring two dates if you want, and then we'll just awkwardly sit behind you. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, it'll be like what you're doing. It'll be one of those fun situations where you have two

dates and you got to like balance between both at the same time. Oh, just got to keep going. Oh, I'm gonna go get popcorn. I'm going to go to the Oh okay, missed out effect. Yeah, like a bad ninety sitcom episode. Okay, yeah, I'm into that. Sorry, Jimmy, that's our I was gonna say. You said you were going to a Uh you went to a county fair? Yo? Too hot. I can't do pleasanton pleasanton way too hot. Yeah. I never want

to go again. It was unpleasanton, very unpleasant. And also despite knowing that the Alameda County Fair and knowing how counties work, I keep thinking, this County Fair is going to be so much closer and be in Alameda. You don't have to drive an hour away to pleasant No, No, Marenhatta County Fair. Did you see the piglet racing. I did see the piglet racing. Actually very good puns. I wanted to volunteer to be one of the judges, but then they picked the children over me, and I catch

child. Yeah. Yeah, our big fairs in August. It's cause of the can Field Fair. I'm not really a big fan of the fair. I gotta be honest, it's it's it's a lot. It's a lot with the smells and the animals. It sounds of the rides. I don't know. Like we had our local fireworks on Saturday, and they like bring out some of those trucks there, and like that's enough for me. I'll get my fried cheese on a stick thing and watch fireworks. That's it. That's

all the fair flavor that I need. I remember why I brought it up now. There was a local school art fair showcase in one of the booths. Oh yeah, And there was a certain wood interpretation of the American flag that maybe favors other people over others. Oh no. And then I was like, huh, that's cool. This is supposed to be wood, and you painted that that specific line the color blue. Okay, interesting, fun, interesting, You got third place? All right? Suck at kid the

third place. They got third place. I don't know how many kids entered. That's like worse than getting nothing. I don't want there, hope it was one third place piece that you didn't notice me and thought it wasn't good enough for anything. But the worst surprise we did like turn around and there were a bunch of like little kid poems on the wall, and I was like, oh, this is gonna be good. I love little kid poems and see how they interpret the world. They're all bad, man, the

kids suck these days. When I went, yeah, oh, some kids agreed. Yeah. So when I went to the Alim, they have those little they have like little exhibits. I guess, did you see these? And then exhibit was that? No? And so one of them was just spam. A whole exhibit about spam. Hell yeah, wa email spam or the meat? The meat? Oh yeah it Spam's had something of a glow. When I was a kid, it was just the subject of jokes. It was supposed to be discussing. And now I see like YouTube like Spam's

great. Fry up some spam. It's the best thing you've ever eaten. I might have to try spam. Finally, Mikey, I like, next time I see, Are you okay with seaweed? No? I don't like the seaweed taste. I mean, look, if you want me to eat some seaweed, I'll eat some seaweed. It's not like it's not an apple thing where it's a phobia. I'll eat some seaweed. If you think it's integral to your spam plan, Yes, it's integral to my spamas. Yeah. In Hawaii, one of my favorite things that I bought from Maui was

a special edition can of spam. It was great. What a special edition about it? It was just more yellow in the front with a flower. Ooh, it was it was very special. I did not bust open the spam despite being hungry. Well, we're gonna have you gotta save that. We're gonna have spam and we're gonna watch Wicked and get to see the beach boys. That is the plan for the rest of the summer. Mike, you're invited. Everyone else listening right now, you're also invited. Right now,

we gotta talk about video games. Never never microwave spam. Don't. God bless my late grandmother, but never microwave spam for your loved one. Don't do it. Don't do it. Sam in the place that I live, it's that was a weird Al song. Maybe that's why I assumed spam was a joke. My TikTok has given me so many clips of that weird Al movie with apparently it's really good. I mean, like I really enjoyed the clips and like Dania Radcliffe is singing like he's no, he's not.

No, it doesn't look like he was. I thought he was singing. No, it's just a weird al Is it actually a me? It looks decinct in a way. All the clips look like a second a millisecond off, and you can tell he's like, something weird is going on. Yeah, it's it's it's I think it's all purposeful that it's it's a good movie. The guy I may have seen live more than anyone else is weird,

weird, especially as a kid. God, I think I saw what I saw them three times in one tour, that Running with Scissors tour, the legend legendary one. This is good. Uh, you know, weird. Al has had to dance through a lot of weird. Copyright and IP laws can be very dangerous in dealing with, just like it's dangerous to deal with Elder Ring Shadow of the Urd Treey Mike, it says, you've played this year and I know that Tam and Lucy have played it, but your adventures.

I finished it. I beat it over the weekend, damn it. But yeah, yep, I got through the whole thing. I got all the major remembrances, so I thought all of the major bosses. The last bossucking too specific it. You know, everyone's talking about it's hard, and it was. It took me forty three attempts, I know, but it was a lot of fun. I'm I mean, how disappointed would it be if the last boss wasn't hard, right? I mean it's kind of the last boss of all of Elder Ring at this point, so yeah, it

should be this impressive challenge and it's this very dramatic fight. It's a very cool fight. I may have even had an advantage. It's hard to tell, but it seems like people think a shield build is the way to go, and that just happens to have been my build throughout all of Out and Ring. I think that's fair because in Base Out and Ring, like Millennia and maybe I'm missing something, shows were really bad against her because their scarlet

rot thing just went through the shield. So blocking did nothing on that one. So like that that was a fight at least for me. I just like I got to just summon other people and I'm gonna kind of do my best. What not, No, We're done. I was able to do with just me and the mimic, and you know, boy, the mimic does help. I actually never got the mimic tier until trying that fight for a billy. This is pretty hard. One's like, you should probably get

the mimic tier. It's like, okay, I guess I'll finally do that. And yeah, that was a big help, along with you know, the skibbity tree fragments. I got to level sixteen the Maxus twenty, so I died to get all of them, but sixteen was enough get me there. But yeah, it was, you know it just it felt really great to beat that boss. The bosses in general I thought were really neat.

Some of my favorite in the whole game, like the first three major ones that lie in the Moon Girl and then Mesmer all were really really cool. That dragon you fight on top of the mountain with that guy that Grubb killed immediately because he has no sun, yeah, just screaming. I love that for him. So yeah, I had a really good time with the expansion. I don't want to get too much into the difficulty discourse other than to me, it did not seem that different from my experience with Based Outer Ring.

Again, that last boss was hard, but of course it is. It's the last boss. It wasn't anything that I wasn't able to overcome eventually. Yeah, I have decided I'm just gonna wait until maybe September October to go into Shadow the urg Tree get Away for all the heat to die down. Good way for everyone else to figure everything else out. A lot of games coming out around and then jam, yeah, you're in it right now. You're in a bit of a dead zone where playing something like this is

perfect. See, this is like the dead zone that we're in. And I was thinking, like, well, I know what to expect. We Shadow of the Urgery. Maybe we go explore the back catalog of a bunch of miscellaneous crap. That's a that's a very frequent trap that people fall into where they add it, where they add a massive game to their back list. And I'm like, I'll play this later, I'll play a small game.

Right now. I want to just like maybe take like a Sunday or something and just dedicate the whole day of like, all right, I got like two more hours in this game, an hour left in that game. Good old mop up, mop Up? How many times has that gone well? For you, it's never gone well. And then I always wait until the week before we leave the game of the year and they're like, all right, cool it only it only really works if you know specifically, like

one or two games that you need to shop. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the problem is for me, I would definitely be motivated once I get into elden Ring to just stick with a rhythm, because, like you know, the muscle memory is so important. I've taken so much time now from Final Fantasy seven rebirth that I don't I don't know if I want to go back. Yeah, you were saying if I want to mop it up.

You and Jeff are saying they like, yeah, it's fine, and look as somebody who's that's their game of the year, it probably it hurts a little bit. But I get it. I get it if you don't have as much like an attachment. Oh yeah, but you know, I'm a I'm a final, big Final Fantasy guy, and I just I'm like a sick of like the thing people complain about the game, like there's too many mini games. I love that ship. Oh the stupider the mini game,

the better. I'm like, oh yeah, this feels like a ps one game and all the way that's really scratching it and it's for me. I love that garbage. I just want to see the ending though, because of how polarizing it seemed to be when it came out, and it just fine dog like, I mean, tain those one of the worst paced games I've played in a long time. Okay, okay, but if you really just want to see the ending, like, just just hit the YouTube mane.

Yeah it's interesting. I mean, you know, yeah, I don't want to get too intant, but you can still enjoy the game knowing what the ending. I mean, hey, look in some ways, I mean it's a remake, you right, the ending, we kind of know what it is, and you can see this interpretation of it and you still want to play the game. You'll you'll be fine, kind of going back to oldermings. It is interesting, like seeing like a bit more discourses kind of

pop up about it. I'm seeing some criticisms laid out about how some of the map feels. People are saying unfinished, and I think that's maybe a

bit rough, but I don't know if you've seen this Tambli. People are kind of complaining about some of those more bonus areas and how kind of relatively empty or less dense they can feel compared to kind of that like that that sort of left area of the map that's kind of where all of the main path is right, and then when you're going off to like those like those giant ruined areas where it's nothing but you kind of ride your horse to the

hand and you blow into the horn, right. I think that's something that at the point that's that's a narrative thing. Yeah, it's an area of design to be Yeah, I feel like that area serves a purpose. It's not designed to be a thing where you really explore and and like fight a bunch of enemies. It's it has a major narrative purpose. It like that area is huge implications for the story and character stuff. So and it's meant

to be arresting instead of challenging. So I when I got there, I spent a lot of time in there looking around and trying to figure out what was going on and what it meant. But it doesn't have loads of boss I mean, one of them has a boss, but you kind of have

to go to two other ones before you get to it. So it's it has it serves a function I think is more is as important as having loads of gameplay opportunities there if I had any actual like criticisms, I don't love the the side quest work, even in base on a ring where I really would have no idea what is a side quest or how to progress a side quest without like you know, the online guides and like, I know,

it's like that's kind of the fun of it. It's like, oh, it's like the schoolyard thing you have to kind of talk to people to figure out what it is. But this day and age, it really is just well, I'm going to google what am I supposed to do next? And a lot of times it's kind of like random, like okay, leadas saying this, I need her to say that, Well you have to talk to

this person and do this thing. It's sometimes nonsensical, right, I mean, there's like the one thing where you know, without too many spoilers, you do something and it kills you. You're like, well that's bad, right, It's like, well, no, do that. Let it kill you three more times and then maybe something happens, and you know, it's very cryptic, and I get the crypticness is part of the fun of it.

Yeah, it's more a case of, like the general rule has been since Demonsuls, like, once you do anything significant or you feel like you've done a certain amount of progress, you just should do a sweep of all

the NPCs where you know they are and just talk to them. And they kind of make that a little bit easier by putting icons on the map to say like, here's where the NPCs are, So like, the best practice is just speak to everyone, because chances are they'll have something you'd say, unless they're a vender, in which case they'll probably just say the same thing over and over again. But I yeah, I feel like there's only really

one that I lost track calls because I just kept sweeping through everyone. It takes like a couple of minutes to do it anyway. Usually they're mostly located in the same areas, like the then near the uh mesber kind of has a bunch of them, yeahs Mesmes area, but also like the Michela's ruins, they're usually hanging around there. Yes, Yeah, it's basic kind of like RPGA style approach to it. Well, the other thing that maybe,

but but you know, the skippity tree fravers. I think that was a smart system to have the power kind of scale to this new thing instead of it just being player level. But it kind of got to a point where, you know, every time you go off a beaten path or you fight a bus or something, you want specifically those skibbetyresh shadow tree fragments so much that if you got almost anything else, it was kind of like, well

this is worthless. Like right, it's like, oh great, another ash of War that isn't the mimic tear or another spell and I'm a strength bill. It's like you know it. They kind of become like it's a scavenger hunt for this one item and everything else is bad. Is yeah? Say so they moved stuff around from the review build to the main release, like they actually moved items, and unfortunately now that means I have no idea where the thorn ash of War is. I followed like I was like I was

seeing everyone saying, oh my god, it's really fun. It's like really broken. I wanted to try out, and I went back and I looked at my inventory. I don't have it. I went to the place where all the YouTube and all the guides say that it is and it's not there, and I'm just like, well, shit, so I wonder how much else has Yeah. I think the thing that they did really well in the base game that they could have done here but they chose not to for some

reason is have more. In the base game, they had more golden seeds than you need. You can like have an excess of them and have like max out all the all the stats on that you would use the golden seed for, whereas the scurity fragments there are an exact amount. And it means that if you like don't like, for example, I've got like maybe a few that I haven't collected, I have no idea where they are, right,

I can't remember. I can't remember where they are, and like, thankfully, like I'm still playing the game, so I'm running around and doing stuff for funzis. But the only way for me to really figure it out is to sit down with a guide and go to each one one by one and see if they're there. Yeah, I think that's what I'm waiting for. I'm waiting for folks to find me the most critical path. And speaking about path, Tam, you've been following a certain path, Yes, you

can follow the Goddess exactly unit. I can't say it. You can do it. I believe in you give it another shot. Gami. Path of the Goddess nailed it. You did it, Sorry Instagami. Part of the Goddess demo for it is out now. That's what I played. It was available to play at Summer Game Fest, but I didn't get a chance to play it this so I'm very glad that they released the demo. I think

it's the same build. Very interesting. Game is decidedly old school capcom like in that they made a game that is very weird and it feels like it's from the same stable as stuff like Okami and like god Hand and Beautiful Joe, where they came up with a weird, weird idea. I can't that would make the podcast, but they came up with a goofy idea and they're just running with it. Not goofy, but it's a It is effectively a

taw defense game, which is which is interesting. But the whole thing is like you're it looks like you're climbing up a very very very large mountain because like there's a stage select and it's superimposed. The levels are super imposed over him mountain and there's loads of shrines on the way up there, and I was like scrolling down the mountain. It's like very large. And the setup

is you start on one side. You have a princess or a goddess I guess, and you effectively have to just craft a or carve a path through like a miasma of demon darkness in each level so that she can walk along

it or dance along it. And there's a day night cycle where at night waves of enemies appear and during the day you have to run around and cleanse villages and chop down these weird plants that have been growing to collect resources and use that to assign rolls, upgrade rolls, and then you know, use it to carve the path, so you get these little orbs, and that

effectively is a kind of meter for you. So you run up to where the goddess is and you hold circle I think it was, and then you hold forward and your character run forward and kind of cut his way through a darkness path and create this kind of golden path for her to walk along.

And then you can do and then this complexity is like you can assign villages to quickly defend or attack the defend the goddess, or attack the target that you're on, and then there's like a character action light the game in there as well, where you directly control your character, move them around and do like you know, square square square triangle or square squares square delay triangle,

that kind of stuff to take out enemies and it works surprisingly well. It doesn't feel like it has anything new idea wise in there, but I think they've just gone through and like very put together a really tight loop and then kind of incatese that all in a very Japanese, very Clover era esthetic for the game, and it's it works really well. Surprisingly. I'm not super into tower defense games, so I haven't been in a long time. Yeah,

but I I enjoyed what I played. The demo has like a couple of stages and the boss fight and a upgrade system that you can take a look at, which is fun. You go into like a town area that you're constantly coming back to, and then the Princess or the Goddess is sitting there and you're like, she's got a table in front of it, and she got a couple of books and I played with some food on it and you interact with it, and it's it's an upgradio character and upgrade your villagers,

et cetera, et cetera. It's it seems fun. It's also like very fireworks, which I think is the kind of esthetic that they're going for. They're like, I think the main thing is like everything you do is like a fireworks sound. It's like a bba bab It's like so weird, but it's also fun. It's very perfect, up upbeat in a way that I didn't expect. But you played this at Summer Game Fest, and I, yeah, I think it is just this demo that you're talking about.

And I mean when I was shocked that it was so tower defensie that when I first saw that trail where I was like, oh, they're just making a hack and slash. So even though like like tower fence isn't my favorite thing either, but I'm glad that there's something here besides just the basic hack

and slash. And I thought the boss fight is specifically was cool because there's almost a bit more of a pigment thing happening there as opposed to tower defense, with kind of setting your people at the boss a certain times and making them retreat at other times. Like the combo system is neat too, because it's basically you have light tax and heavy attacks, and every combo is like one light attack and heavy attack, two light attacks and heavy attack three in

right, So it's all simple, but it all does different things. So yeah, yeah, I was into it. There's also like a certain enemies have a overshield that you need to use specific attacks to bring down. And then once you factor that into the waves of enemies, you have like a

target prioritization strategy that you need to come up with and execute on. And it's it's got just enough moving parts to keep various parts of your own brain occupied and your hands moving, and it has that satisfaction of like, I know I need to do X y Z in this moment, and you quickly run and take it off and then you run back to the goddess and move

her forward, and it has that constant feeling or forward momentum. And when it does block you with you know a large group of enemies, you have the tools available to you to you know, quickly shift strategies and execute on it and then go step back and be like, yeah, I nail that one. And carry on, and they if they really I think the important thing is going to be how do they structure the levels around this? Because the kind of set up phase during the day has a nice like you move

your character and also like run around do these small areas. But how elaborate does it become? I can see it becoming very, very like overwhelming for some people because there's like loads of paths, and it's like you put one person here, one person there, and then you have to sometimes move them around on the fly or run up to them and change their their role quickly.

And I had situations sometimes where two characters have been standing next to each other and I keep accidentally changing the wrong roll, and I'd be like, in the UI is a bit messy. But I think it's just a case of like, I'll get there eventually, once I've done it enough times, it will it will click for me. When's the last time you all enjoyed a tower defense game? It said, not usually my thing? Star fucks guard on the wiu. Oh boy, I like I like a balloons defense.

Yeah that's good. Oh if thirteen sentinels counting, Yeah, thirteen sentinels is actually pretty right, I guess okay, yeah, kind of it's kind of strategy kind of that. Yeah, I guess the do's the mini game in Final Fantasy Rebirth Count. That was pretty fun. Condo condo, Yeah, kind of tower defense kind of more of a clash royale like, yeah, I guess I don't say that. I might get activated. Oh there's a Balloons six. Yeah, I think it's on Apple Arcade. There was

definitely a balloons on Arcade. Oh my god, I love I used to I used to love balloons. I never can aired for plants versus zombies. I just got admitted, Oh you know, we can still be friends. But yeah, I didn't even think about plant zombies. But yeah, that's what I'm one of those people who I will get on a flight and I will just complete Plant Swiss Zombies in one saying so, okay, okay, big gaming. I remember, what's that legend? Oh boy, I enjoyed

all the other aspects of Brutal Legend other than the tower defense. I remember, like, I don't know if this is where originally I remember just playing tower defense games because they were custom maps and Warcraft three. I think that's the first time. I think that's the origin of tower Defense. Yeah, yeah, it was like that you played weird early DODA back when it was actually the defense of the Ancients and stuff like that, those formulative stuff happening

in those custom maps back then. Speaking about formulative stuff in places of origin, a game that I've been playing ever so slightly is until then a game that takes place in the Philippines, my people's place of origin. Uh, this is what's up? What people is that Filipino? Okay, think Ben? That means I thought it was a funny question, and then I was right, chanceld Mitch, right, look chancel him. Uh this is another little story, visual novelle esque game. Uh, this has kind of been

my bag lately a thousand times. Resist kind of got a little too deep and existential for me. Uh so I worry about that. Yeah. Yeah, there are parts of it where I kind of had to put the Steam deck down realize I'd just taken twenty screenshots in the past like five minutes. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna put this down. Is making me think too hard about my existence and my place in the greater universe and whether any

of it matters. I can't think like this right now in midnight anyway, but until then is a very quaint coming of age tail set in the Philippines. In this immediately had me charmed from the get go with the little nuances

to Filipino culture. It starts with kind of like a title text crawl as it's going through about like who I assume is the main character, kind of reflecting on the events of the game further into the game, and it's all set to the cheesiest sad piano music that he's so prolific throughout Filipino cinema that I fucking hate, but hearing it here, it's like, Oh, they're doing the thing. Look at them, Look at them, They're doing the thing. Oh my god. And then yeah it I'm a big proponent.

I think we all are for representation in video games, and it's is really cool to see stuff that I'm like semi familiar with represented in a video game. It takes place in Philippines in twenty fourteen, so you know, we're just getting to the advancement of like social media, and how prolific that is. Oh my god. There the idea that twenty fourteen is like some like old date. Now that's upsetting, But those ten years ago. I guess

it was her point. And it's fun so far because they do a good job of mixing how they're telling the story other than just a straight up dialogue sequences where you know your phone plays a big role into it. Mark, your player character, his relationship with a piano also starts to play into it, and how music evolves into it with his relationship with it. Yes, tam Is Marke Filipino name. Yes, Mark is a huge okay, just making sure yes, yes, that's a high mark, thank you, Mick.

And yeah, there's like just tons and tons of like little easter eggs alluding to Filipino culture. It's really heartwarming to see, even down to having the player characters were uniforms to school, because that's such a big thing in the Philippines of having uniforms to private schools, and then the main character being like, nah, I don't want to take the bus bus to dirty and then even seeing all of the litter on the streets, I'm like, damn,

that's home over there. Home. They allude of course, they of course have to allude to jolly be, but instead of doing jolly Be, they have angry cow. I believe it's called and yeah, some of the background chatter is is in Tagalog, which is really neat to see. I really want to I have no idea how long this is supposed to be, and I hope this doesn't give me another existential crisis that I have to bounce

off of it temporarily. But it's really cute so far. It's funny because I got an achievement for lying to a friend, so I think I'm just going to continue doing that. Ohn, Yes, Tam is lying to a friend. Filipino thing. Michael Hyman and I have never been truthful with each It doesn't get him chancel. That's like, that's a that's a negative. I was just asking a dumb question. Brown's good for the get down.

But we did think you could have passed as a Filipino at one point, Mike, Yeah, if I if I gotten the son, I don't know. The thing that got you is that you weren't able to put with your lips. See now, it's just like you're making kissy faces. Yeah, what's going on with my lips? Can you strong for me? What's point? This point with your lips will show me I'll see Tam to go. Yeah, yeah, okay, you're getting it, Mi, No, No, it's too much like it. You have to kind of tilt your head

as well. Yeah, I'm trying to like take a sip of something. Yeah, yeah, exactly like you're taking a sip but pointing it. Okay, so it's less like side movement and just yeah forward for audio listeners, I did it the best, for sure, Absolutely you did. I don't know what we're doing here. Uh. Going from my internet is like kind of dipping in and out, So I am like three or four seconds behind all of you, and I'm just trying to be like, which is peak

podcasting? This is what it looks like. Well, I'll set you up, Lucy for you to talk for an extended period of time that we won't interrupt, because this game takes place in twenty fourteen, much like a game that you're currently playing and put on the dock here. Dragon Age Inquisition. Oh nice, Chan, that was an unbelievable setue. Ten years since Dragon Age Inquisition, you're nailing it. Yeah. I have decided to replay Dragon

Age Inquisition because Dragon Age the Veilguard is coming out this year. I am because I like having a bunch of stuff on my plate. At all times. I want to replay it because I want to. I don't know. I want to feel the love for that little egg man all over again. I want to feel something again. I want to feel something again. And I I was playing it the other day and I like, made a character, made it an Elf, and I was like, ah, I made

an elf rogue, not happy with it. When Mack made another character, made a Canari warrior, not happy with them. And so then yesterday I went back and I made an Elf mage, which is really annoying because that is the exact character that I made ten years ago, and I wanted to do something different. But this time, I'm not gonna date Cullen. If you're part of the fandom, you will absolutely remember all that stuff I'm gonna

I'm gonna date Solus this time. Well, he only he only dates elves, I think, ye, and I know I hate to see it. Yeah, he only dates elves. And I'm really trying my hardest to to make him like me. But also because I think that means you know, the end of the game and Trespasser will hit doubly hard if my character has Robanstone. This game is three dollars on the Steam right now. Yes, it's no. So all of dragon Age was on like a massive sale.

So I also picked because I have I could have played it through game Pass, although I don't know if it's on game Pass PC. But I picked up dragon Age Origins and Inquisition. But apparently you need to use a bunch of mods to make Origins run because it was just was never really probably optimized

for PC. Dragon Age Inquisition runs really well, at least on my big thank you and sixty and No, it's just it's it's wild going back to it because at the beginning it is truly like you don't know what's going on, You've got no abilities, like, and then it's mad at like how quickly you kind of start to feel really powerful. I'm in the Hinterlands at the moment, but I'm not going to make the mistake that I did last

time. The hinterlands. Oh, I'm sorry, I misheard you. What did you think I said, we don't need to go there, hind No, no, no, no, Ohio. I'm in the hinterlands. And so that's this infamous area that everyone just spends like twenty hours in when you really don't need to. So I love that you said, I'm in the hinterlands at the moment, Like, yeah, everyone's in the hinterlnz forever in that game. Well, there's there's a hinter lands in World of Warcraft.

What does hinter mean? Does a hinterlands Eldon's hinterlands in Eldon Ring? That's one of the what do you call it? Hint to lance? Apparently I gotta find out what that word me. Yeah, and so I don't know, Like the music's kicking in. I've got like a lot of my squad, but not all of them are kind of rocking up. I forgot how much I love Cassandra. Oh yeah, yeah, you put Veric in the group. I kind of always had to have Varic there. Well, so

I haven't got everyone just yet. So I think right now I'm rocking Varrik, Solas, and Cassandra. I think I love Cassandra so much though, So I was like, maybe I'll swap out Soss for for Iron Bulb or like Vivianne. I don't know. I don't know, it's just Gissy back because I haven't touched it in literally ten years. So yeah, I enjoyed. I enjoyed that game when it came out I played through it, not

a whole lot of it stuck with me. I'm one of those obnoxious people who's like Origins was the best one because it was more of an RPG and I'm old. But I definitely enjoyed Inquisition and I am looking forward to Vailguard for sure. I don't know if I quite want to, like take the time to go back to Inquisition, maybe i'd watch somebody else play it or

something, because I am kind of like I could use a refresher. I remember there was a lot of green tears when we closed the green tears, and so also as a friend and then like at the end, maybe not a friend. Those are the things I remember. I mean, that's that's basically the game. There we go, uh, well, we're going to take a quick breaking break and polish off the rest of these games that we have listed here. But tam we gotta say Cyanara, yeah run, I

got to do another podcast deal wielding podcasts Hall yeah hallia. Oh. I will see everyone later. Did I do good? Jan? Did I do good? People in chat? Please let me know if he starts talking about Disney the restriction that stays in effect the entire pro program yeah, the embargo is still active. Yeah, I can't lift that. All right, goodbye, We're gonna pay the black and then we'll see you right after this. July is a fun month for numerous reasons. It makes me think of hot

dogs a lot. I saw this guy over the weekend with a hot dog stand and a dog selling hot dogs and it was mad adorable. Tam is still here. Yeah, I don't know how time works. It's fine, we don't know either. So that's why we also have Turbo Shawn here. We're gonna we're gonna reformat the timeline. Sean Mike just asking me about my life and everything. Yet I was kind of expecting that. Why I came in here, and we're going to do that on the show. You know.

That's that's how I call this show. Is this We're back? Now? Are we not back? Why are we not back? Because you just said we're going to do something on the show, and this is this show, this is the show is just fantasy. I want to delay. So I'm just like, because everyone done talking? Everyone done talking? Okay, yes, and then you will sund Night robots to me. So I'm just like, mm hmm, that's a good podcasting. It's a good podcast.

It's it's it's a good podcast. It's about friendship profession. Now we're podcasting, Sean, how are you. I'm good. I got I got c new Rosalina shirt I really like. Oh yeah, yeah, I got that from the y Man. Rosalina used to be my favorite princess until the Internet told me it was actually dating until Daisy was thrust upon you and not that way. Yeah phrasing. But yeah, I'm doing good. I go I'm taking care of a few things. I think I can talk about this now.

It might might as well be on the BombCast. Uh, unless things go horribly horribly awry with scheduling because I need to uh, I need to finish booking a couple of things I should I should be at EVO this year. Oh, I got for my press pass and everything. So I'm just uh, you know, finalizing flights and whatnot to make it as cheap as possible. U. But yeah, I should be out there, so you know, if y'all are going to be there in a couple of weeks,

make sure you say hi. I hope Mike actually mutes his mike this time if he's taking a call. Later this is the one time I will advocate for someone trying to fight Sean. If you see Sean at EVO him, oh yeah, my my red ranks. Lily will gladly take you on. Are you are you paying out pocket together there? Yeah? Okay, yeah, you know I don't get some benefits the full time employees. Good listen, listen, listen, listen. I was just gonna say, we'll talk

after. Let's see if you can. Okay, Okay. Part of that is that Jan made me do something. I blame Jan for this entirety. I bought something something, God damn it, it's not here yet, but I ordered an iPhone fifteen pro. Yeah, I'm one of those guys an iPhone fifteen pro. Lucy, what did you? Oh my god? Yeah, because it looked like it is sinking in. I'm not gonna lie,

guys. I'm having a horrible time with this delay. Like every time you guys say something like even even if one of you talks over the other one, I can't hear shit. So like I didn't realize that Shane was going to EVO until like maybe thirty seconds after you said it, where I was like, something's happening in a couple of weeks. Oh evo. Wait, so basically, so me sending you that app for the new iPhone camera thing

that I mean, yeah, that didn't help. Yeah, I was mentioning that this isn't helping things, Lucy, That's what I was talking about. Yeah, Wow, you're going to EVA. That's crazy an iPhone that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy too. Yeah necessary chat's wondering why that's like a big deal because I've been using Android phones like since the beginning, and so now I have to like switch over and like figure some stuff out. But it's gonna be worth it because you know that don't have a really good video.

It's surprisingly easy to switch over, I assume. So yeah, because it's just all the Google apps are over there now. You can even just use Gboard on iPhones now, so it's like, I'm sorry for taking a call that was my sky Rizzy getting rescheduled there, So it's important. Wait, so the app, because Captain Burgundy asked, is that iPhone just released a new app called like Final Cut Camera or something, and it basically allows you to multi stream to an iPad and like you can change everything in your

life. You can change focal lens. You can change like white balance. It's all. It's a really cool app that you can put in and it's free. Now that that's yeah, that's gonna That's not gonna do much for me since I'm going out there solo. But in the future when me and Jan are inevitably together, We're gonna get kept to some Shenangan's with that. I feel I can't wait to live Switch. I want to just live Switch life if I could. Is there a limit to how many phones you can

have? I think it's like four five? That's going to be fun. Oh multi streaming, Yeah, yeah, just like owning phones, because I was like, I feel like that, you know, there's no limit to that legal limit. I had four phones at one point. Yeah. Maybe we take another quick bricky break and to try and fix some some internet issues. Yeah, just for uh some stuff. We'll be right back right after this and we are back. Take that technical malfunctions. Nothing is going to

stop this train of the podcast, the Bomb Cast. We're going, Sean's going to EVO, Sean has a new phone, going to have a new phone. We're gonna shoot so much in log Damn what color is the phone? Man? I wanted to get the white one because then you could do more of fun colors, but unfortunately my carrier doesn't carry that for whatever reason. So I was like, Eh, just a black one. Whatever.

I'm I'm slapping a case on it anyway, So it's like, I'll just get a more interesting case, right, I just took my case off. Like, what color is my phone? I don't I guess so many people. Yeah, Like whenever I listen to tech podcasts, are like, obviously you know they're reviewing a bunch of stuff, but they're like, yeah, what color is under this case? I don't even know? It's why were they sent me? I got a bunch of stupid filters that I can maybe

send you, Ray Sean, It's gonna be great. O. Hell yah, last game that I wanted to hear about before we get to the news. This was stirring up its own news. Actually, But Mike Minatti, you've been playing Final Fantasy fourteen down drew right, the latest Final Fancy fourteen expansion. I haven't been able to like go super crazy in it. Like my progression in the main story quest line is this still relatively slow. I'm only in kind of the first big zone there. I've been enjoying it.

I just kind of like, you know, going to a new place and seeing things. There's been some discourse, you know, I think, yeah, there's been a little bit of discourse with some people say, yeah, no, not that. Uh it's it's more it's basically what fop Facy fourteen has always been for a while, where the main story quest is literally kind of just story, right, Like you don't fight anything in the game probably the first like four or five hours to you like get to a dungeon.

Basically, it's not like we're at a warcraft where every quest is, hey, go kill so and so or so many of these things right fall Face fourteen for like a long time ago is like that's kind of just filler and not engaging. So we're just not gonna do it. And they're right, but maybe they need to throw in some other encounters to pick up the pace a little bit, because you know, for some people it's like, yeah, I feel like I just went to a place and I'm getting kind of

assaulted with proper nouns. And that's true. Again, it kind of always has been true. But maybe this is just the point where it's bothering some people, I think for some people. So the whole point of this expansion is that this is kind of the vacation arc or sort of a bit of a coming down from the big storyline we had that got resolved in the last expansion. Right, So we saved the universe in the last expansion, and

you know, the other expansion is also saving at least the world. Even in like the patches after the last expansion, we saved the world, and everybody's always like, oh, I want maybe to just feel like a normal adventure again. And then when I feel like when you actually do give people that, a lot of times they kind of have a backlar reaction like, well, now this doesn't feel important. Yeah right, So again I'm not

super far into it, so I'm not having that problem. The other thing is that there's kind of a new character who is is maybe more the focal point even you are, and it kind of is like, oh, you're

this character's bodyguard and you're helping them in their story. Which it's interesting they would do that again because that's what they basically did in the Storm Blood expansion, which is most people's least favorite expansion at least storyline wise, so there's kind of a little string to see them just kind of copy that model and maybe it didn't really work for them. That's also, to be fair though, it's also kind of how fourteen started though in a real and we're born

right's kind of how you start off, right, I think. But like Shadow Bringers especially and Heavn's word a bit too, we're pretty good at like making you feel like the main character, which is something that like word a Warkcraft has never been good at. Is something that I think made Fun Fantasy fourteen stand out. Again, I'm not that foreign to it. I think a lot of it depends on how much you like this new character so far. I like her fine, but I want to get to know her better.

But you know, just the vibes of the expansion are really working for me because it is that kind of tropical thing. People jokingly called it Margaritaville expansion into them. You've got my attention now, yeah, right, yeah, it's you know, it's it's it's a lot of kind of tropical uh, you know, lots of waterfalls and sunshine and beaches kind of things. So that's been really pleasant. Uh, And I locked one of the new

jobs called pic dome Mancer, which is really fun. It's it's like a mage that is drawing stuff, so it's like a paint brush mage kind of thing. I was going to make a pictionary joke. It's aictionary, but it's actually like a summoner with paintings kind of right, so you can like paint. Oh my god, that's that's this before my Time cartoon. It was after my Time whatever time is linear and confusing, Yeah, something like

that now. But it's fun because you like you like like draw a google and then you use the moogle to like summon to do an attack kind of a thing, right, And there's or like you draw a hammer and now you have a hammer combo and it's like a big whack a mouble hammer. So it's a very like it's like a very beautiful job. Like the effects

of it are just really cool and colorful and fun. But it also has a pretty nice flow to it that I'm in I am enjoying, so it actually I probably spent most of my time just kind of leveling up this job for fun. I've been enjoying it more than I was expecting. So yeah, I did the thing again that happens every single Steam sale, where I'll look at the recommended stuff and the Q thing that Steam builds for you, and I'll see, like, oh, Final Fantasy fourteen, maybe I should

buy that. Then I realize I've already bought it three or four times. Yeah, yeah, me too. It also has a free trial that would last year like two hundred hours of gameplay, which is more than most people will get through. Yeah, it's crazy that, you know, some people don't like me saying this, but follow Fantasy fourteen is actually just like straight up free to play up to a certain point. It was, yeah, because yeah, like, uh, you know, Found Fantasy fourteen is free

to play up to the critically acclaimed expansion Heaven's words something like that. Yeah, now I expanded to store and but yeah, that's that's cool. They're just like giving you three, well, two really good and one kind of just all right finle fantasy games for free, like yeah, yeah, like star Buds not bad. But yeah, it's storyline is probably the weakest that we've had, except you know, I was gonna say Born is very Oh

yeah, you're right, it's amazing, but Evan's words amazing. And then Shadow Bringers the third expansion is also like the the the top tier one in at and Walker was very good. Ed Walker's kind of Shadow Bringers Part two. I think that's the other part of it is that Shadow Bringers very serious heavy steaks, and and Walker's same thing. So I think it's a little bit of a shock that the steaks are so much lower and things are a bit chill. Again. I like that, but again and some people get

be like, ah, this doesn't seem important. This will be Yeah, this will be interesting for me because well, when Jan asked if I want to fill in for a second half of the show, I was like, you know that, that's perfect because I haven't been playing a lot of games because I've just been getting caught up in fourteen leading into down Trail. I'm

very behind I am in end Walker right now. So Okay, for me, it's gonna be really interesting if I do stick with it, because you know, it might be a lot to play to basically Final Fantasy games back to back, but going from and Walker into Dawn Trail immediately, I'm gonna see more than most people what the contrast is there between the two expansions. But for me, honestly, I've I'm not the biggest fan of As much as I like power fantasies in games, It's why I play character action games

a lot. I'm never a fan of when like RPG not that way too, I'm never a huge fan of when like RPGs do escalate to you are some random guy who just turns into the drawer of worlds and the entire universe centers around you because chance. It's always seemed a bit weird to me.

And they're the chosen Are the chosen one? Yeah, you are the like all capital letters warrior of Lights. And I don't know, maybe taking our character back a little bit and grounding them a little bit more, I don't know, obviously, I don't know what happens at the end of End Walker. I would be interested to see if maybe there's a reason that they bring you back down to Earth a little more, but I assume not, But it would be interesting to at least like thrust that upon the character again,

to be like, they kind of are just a person now. Like I think your character being a bit of a silent protagonist has always lent itself to that, because then your character can be whatever the story needs you be you're very they they lean into it a lot in fourteen, where like, oh, they're like they're so humble all the time. They don't like talk about their deeds much as fine, because you know, you don't talk so right exactly. Yeah, strong with silent type it is always hard because you aren't,

like you said that destroy of worlds. And then now we're, you know, doing this other storyline with smaller steaks, and it's kind of like I should just be able to glare at somebody and they should do whatever. Yeah, that's why. Yeah, it's weird where it's like I'm playing even something like Persona where the powers are sort of like partitioned off from the real world. Even though it's like I just killed God the other day and I gotta go back to high school. It just just feels weird. Man.

Yeah, nope, exactly. Uh I I have the weirdest case of fomo. Anytime I hear folk talking about Final Fantasy fourteen almost you almost said, I never got Final Fortnite fourteen. Fine anyway, fomo. And then you know you see the nasty boys chatting about it constantly. Maybe that's why they're so nasty. Maybe that's what made them so nasty. Yeah, I was like, oh, maybe maybe maybe today's the day. Maybe how can I block out enough time that I just do it for work instead. It's a

lot, that's the thing, A lot of time. Yeah. We talked about doing this the last time Grub was out. We were like, it starts final Fantasy for final jan tam Lucy, a friendship reborn the name. Yeah, and and that's when, like, uh, the series becomes so popular that that's when we have a beef over money. Yeah, that's what breaks up. That's what breaks up the band. That's what ruins the world tour. Uh. Speaking about world tour. Uh, we were not going

on the world tour news. This is going to ruin the tour tour. The world tour man is so wrong. That's such a better mean than talked to, So much better, so much much better, you know. I saw a really good, a really good version of the meme today where it was basically like police say that they were tipped off to Justin Timberlake being in Talk the Kid, and there was a picture of Janet Jackson hiding behind a bush on a phone, and I was like, that's true. She deserves

an apology. From him as just Brittany, as does his wife who he publicly cheated on and she stuck by him. Shouts out to Jessica Bialo, Jessica Biel, she probably deserves you know what. Also, he should apologize Anna Kendrick, his bad pr tanked the last Trolls movie. Yep, trust he didn't do well. Yeah, and minions. It's like the guaranteed Hollywood formula. Yeah, Furios would have performed better in the box office if Anya

Taylor Joy was surrounded by minions. Are you all also devastated that Despicable Me For is getting lukewarm reviews? I didn't even know it was out. I don't even know that was a Despicable for ye Oh yeah. I saw a commercial for it the other day because I was watching TV for the first time in a long time, Like, what the hell is this? There's a

fourth line. The thing is is that I I had to go on like Expinity's website the other day and they had a bunch of minions on it, and I was like, that's just grub log off you're on holiday, but he yeah, it's just basically like there's minions all the time. And I just figured, like they had some kind of long term partnership with the Minions Minions Inc. I don't know, ink, we're going to figure out that we all need to apologize the despicable me for it as a sixty three percent

of rot tomatoes, which actually means it's fresh. So that's shocking. Sixty three is fresh nowadays fresh? Yeah? I think anything above sixty Yeah, yeah, so okay, seventy is good. Six apologized to grow in his family. Thank you for speaking about fresh. We got some fresh news about the Nintendo switch to, or supposedly what it's going to be. I forgot that I had to do news because grub was gone, and then I panicked them like there's no news. I'm just gonna say there's no news and we're

gonna skip it. But we need to take at breaks. But basically, Nintendo president Shintaro for Okawa has said, I fucking hate scalpers. So to solve the problem for the Nintendo switch to, everyone will kill the scalpers. Uh. It's so the scalpers don't prevail. We're just gonna make Hella switch twos. That's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna make a bunch the semiconductor problem that plagued us during the original switch gone, forget about it.

We're just gonna make this make a bunch so the scalpers can't get to it. So if you want to switch to, you get a switch to. That's what's That's what's gonna happen. The part of the supply constraint that plagued the original switch was all semi conductors, for Okawa has said that that is no longer an issue. They're good to go. When production ramps up. When will we see this? When are we get at least going to get

a whisper of this? It is the weird thing right now. Right like, we had that direct, which I think a lot of us think is going to be the last big direct for the switch one. So at some point by the end of the year, I still I think fall, maybe later in fall, we do finally get something concrete about the switch to, like you know what it's actually call it at least and hopefully a release window and maybe a look at the Mario game we all assume is going to launch

to it. And speaking of that Mario game, at least back when we found out that the switch shoe wasn't gonna come out this year. At least some people were saying it's not necessarily because of the switch to. It's because of that Mario game like that needs more time. And if that's the case, then they have plenty of time to make as many switch shoes as they want, so they can really shore up supply there, so that hopefully won't be a problem. Now it might be a problem anyways, especially immediately.

There's gonna be so many people who will want a switch to immediately, you know, they could do their best to shore up as much as they want. There's gonna be some scalping and stuff like, don't rest on your laurels, everybody and think, well, they're saying this, so I can just go, I'm just gonna walk into a Walmart on the day, come out and get one. I'd still be doing your best to the pre order and all that stuff if you really want to switch to. Yeah, and I

think Nintendo is in a much smarter place right now. And so if they're looking at the next system and they say to themselves, this is the switch to, you know, they're not calling it that. They know that that is going to sell at least in the long run, so they can just overproduce if necessary, and then you'll sell eventually. As to when it comes out or when we hear about it, well, those two things are blanked

obviously. But I think you know, we were talking about this a lot in our post direct thoughts from the other a week that it just strategy wise, it makes the most sense to either be in that like March timeframe of the Switch one, which worked out very well for them last time, because then if any issues do arise, they're obviously trying to sort through those ahead

of time this time around. But if any issues do arise, those can all be sorted by the holiday season where you're looking to push the most systems possible, which is BINK a good strategy, or obviously it would be later in the year, just before the holiday season. Maybe they're really confident. May they do just launch in like October November and then just ride the high

train through the holidays. But I I don't know. It's Nintendo and it's the successor to the Switch, assuming that's not a WEU fumble, which you know, again they're smarter this time. I'll probably wouldn't do anything like that. No, I think it's just going to be a better switch this time around. They put out whenever, so I do think March timeframe would sound right, which would mean, well, start hearing about it at the end

of this year. At the switch one was a indication because pridly reminder because some people were like, oh, they didn't talk about it e three season this year, so therefore it's like so far out. They only officially revealed

the switch like five ish months before it came out. They did that, you know, the first reveal trailer with the name and everything, the person at the airport playing all that fun stuff, and then you know, a couple months later they had like this sort of the lease party thing where they showed off a bunch of games like SMT five showed up there, they had the h you rumble all that, and that was like a month or two before a system. So whenever this thing's coming out, you're gonna hear about

rooftop parties have not been the same. I need the switch is great. That last question about the switch to for this lovely panel here kickstand no kickstand? Well, I think that's a kickstand. Yeah, I think they will have one. I think the one that they put on the Is it the old the really long cap No one, that's like a Microsoft surface. It's back law proof all right. Next story that I have here is George Rick

Roll Martin appears to have teased the elder Ring movie or TV adaptation. Uh, this man loves stirring the pot with his hot goss and his blog. He writes about how he helped with the world building of elden Ring in while Myazaki and company did the rest of the work. He addresses Miyazaki mentioning that there is interest in an elder Ring adaptation by from directly from his blog, writing, Oh and about those rumors? What is what? Does he sound

like railroad? He sounds He's got like a slightly raspy voice, and he talks very fast. Is he American? Yes? Yes? What about those rumors you may have heard about a future film or television series base it's not far off. Sounds younger than that, like, yeah, high pitched. I not a word, no, not a thing. I know nothing. You never heard of people from me? Mom? What rumor? Speaking to the Guardian, Miyazaki then had also said I don't see any reason to deny

any another interpretation or actually speaking to GameSpot dot com. He said that, speaking to GameSpot dot com, I don't know why this is. Everyone everyone did it. Everyone saw the Guardian, and I was like, man, I published that week ago. What the fuck an elder ringannaptation or a movie example. But I don't think myself from software have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that's where a very strong partner would

come into play. We'd have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is they're trying to achieve. But there's interest for sure. This is where I want to pitch that illumination handles the elden Ring movie. I was gonna say that partner, Chris Pratt, that's what kind of funny did with the I didn't notice it until I went back, but I was on

games Daily yesterday and they used atonished Chris Pratt and it was upsetting. Oh God, could what would they what movie or TV show could they do with elden Ring? Would it just end existing lore prior to the game. It would almost have to, because you can't really a story about the Tarnish isn't isn't all that interesting? It almost had to be about the kind of pantheon of the Demi gods and their well they're bullshit Ronnie killing Ratigan or whatever.

Yeah, I don't know that that seems challenged, right, So it's like what people really like if out Ring is just the Lord dumps, right, that's what they like to watch. But actual like drama is not really something we see a lot of in Outer Ring. I don't know what, excuse me. It looks like like character, like these characters actually talking to each other and doing things right, not just fighting us and you know, getting the kind of Lord nuggets, which I like. I think it's very good.

It's a very good world, and it can be done. It would be a challenge. I'm still I still like, I'm always a little shocked. I'm like, oh, George R. Martin was involved in out in Ring. You don't get that when you play the game. You never at least to me, I'm never playing out of Ring. And I'm like, that's so Georgia R. Right now. This is major, super big incest and Eldon Ring as far as I remember, well, there's not a lot of incest. There's a decent amount of shagging yourself to have kids. There's

a lot of my missing in this game? What the hell is going on? Get yourself like popcorn, get a nice glass of the milk, and just watch watch a v watch a vary. Yeah. Yeah, catering the beverage to Shan exactly did like like so like did George R. Martin like create like he created? No? No, he created, he created like the backstory, the lore, and he created like the idea of you know,

elder. I guess no, kind of I guess probably probably create the fact that all the main characters have initials g R. I feel like if they wanted to do an adaptation, then it makes sense that they were trying

to do the the Demi God's beefing. But if they were, they could very easily do like the the Shadow of the Tree era story where we actually get to see America's rise to the god hood and because that is a rough circumstance seal of events that gets there, so it could be that, and that would probably pave the way nicely into future seasons where they actually do an adaptation of what she does post establishment of the Tree and the Golden Order.

So I think there's a lot to do there, do I think it's gonna happen. Absolutely not, No, no, she just blew my mind. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that the g r M thing that's sending me right now get ready me. No, like the main characters like like Godrick Godfrey, Godfrey, Ranala whoever Ronnie, and then Mogu Morgra again, it's just all those three letters holy ship. Ye. If they're an M letter, that means that they are a product of self test. Sean, It's

okay, Sean, It's okay. Great game. Yeah. Well that's that. All sounds crazy. And you know what else is crazy? Crazy? Taxis coming back? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Do you think the Offspring is coming back? Yeah? They did bring them back in like the it was something like after the mobile port or something. They like re up the license for that. So I think they know the Spring is getting paid. You know, the Offspring has a new album

coming out in October. Let's go see the Offspring the beach Bla. I went to go see an Offspring tour and I left before Offspring actually started. What I really just wanted to see simple plan. Well, they're kind of crazy Taxi. You guys know about Dexter Holland right like he's a virologist, like he has a was it like a he has a BSc. In biology and a master's in molecular biology. He can also he can also apply a plane like halfway through that, I did I remember what you're talking about?

Yeah? Yeah, anyway, and a recruitment video producer Kenji Kano, director of the original game, sure details for the upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot that is being handled by Supporter Studios. Uh. Supposedly this takes place in a fictional West Coast theme park like city. Interesting, wow, no comments, Nah, No, no one's ever been to one. No one's lower East Coast. Who can say? Verry Farm must be not to Berry Farm there you're

always talking about. I'm talking about that from Chicken the best of West Coast theme Park Universal Studios. Naturally the parking lot with a bunch of roller coasters in Santa Clara. That's right, Great America Magic Mountain, you can see that. Never mind anyway. According to the video, the team is testing adapting the Crazy Taxi gameplay into a game with multiple players. The job listing. The job listing describes the new game as a new major online title with

an open world in massively multiplayer driving game elements. I don't know if I want that. He's the thing, J You don't want it until I tell you the game is split up into factions. Okay, you have you have taxi drivers, you have Uber drivers, you have Lyft drivers, and then you have autel car drivers. Hell oh, and that's how you compete and

collectible cards. Lucy stopped pandering as a big like old school Sega guy and a big fan ritual Crazy Taxi. I just played Crazy Taxi three on the original Xbox not too long ago, which is basically just Crazy Taxi one with a couple of new maps and other things. I actually welcome doing this. I think, look, there's no way they're going to just release like an arcade style game like that these days without very many other bells and whistles.

And I have those games. Those games are out there. You can play those games a bunch of different ways. Now, yeah, let's do something with it. This is a game that I think could lend itself pretty easily into a multiplayer thing. Whether it's open world, I imagine there will be some kind of almost battle royale aspect of it where people get dropped off if they're not collecting like a certain threshold a fare money or something like that,

and you know they could. It could be very easy for them to some point, if not at launch, just add the normal crazy taxi mode into that big map. I'd be shocked if something like that doesn't exist in some way, even if it is kind of still part of that online world. I'm not sure. But no, like you know, it doesn't immediately throw me off, just because of course they're trying to make something pretty modern with

it. Yeah, like people are I think having in a media knee jerk reaction because this traditionally single player thing that they are turning into a multiplayer thing. But what they're describing here to bring up another game that's sort of in the news recently, Forts of Horizon four because delisted that game is incredible. It's one of my honestly one of my fair games in the past ten years.

I've put so many hours into it because that's what it is. It is a like multiplayer driving game, not necessarily always racing, and they get silly as hell in there. It's sports cars, so a lot of times it doesn't go too overboard, but once you started getting into buggies and stuff, driving around like the UK country side and everything like that. They get you some wild challenges and everything. It's so much fun. And doing that

in a more arcadies setting sounds fantastic for Crazy Taxi to me. Actually a couple BombCast appearances for me ago. Me and Dan were talking about this when it was sort of in the news again where Crazy Taxi is the series that is the most they've set up so much to be that sellout game like Fortnite.

If ever you were going to have something from back in the day dragged into the modern era Fortnite seal, it is Crazy Taxi because if you have like Peter Griffin driving around a Dolorean to Pizza Hut and KFC, that makes sense in Crazy Taxi. Right, Let's not act like I love Crazy Taxi. Let's let's not act to get some sacred thing. Well, I mean it is because it's so stupid, right exactly, Like yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. Like, oh, we can't tarnish like leg see

a Crazy Taxi by you know, putting in a brand. It had brands immediately, we we love that we could go to Pizza Hut. But yeah, back in the day when I would like, you know, take my fifty cents out of my allowance that week, and and you know, instead of buying a candy bar, I would stop by the local movie theater that a crazy taxi machine I got good enough to have just pop my fifty cents in, you know, sit there for like twenty minutes or something, and

just that they're drying people a tower records and stuff. Yeah, it's it's a sellout game and it's gonna get goofy and wild, and I want to see that, all right. I like, I like everything that we've talked about. I especially like TAM's idea of factions. I think we should go a step further with the factions. Each faction is represented by a different genre

of music. The scar faction versus the Emo actually know they would probably team up Cape pop girlies, cape popify the old the old men are the like butt rockers, that's all like dragula stuff. Let's throw in some yacht rock too, Let's do that. Oh yeah, you don't want to run into the Boston Nova Boys after five pm? Nova Boys? Oh my god, I want affection. That is just like the songs from say A Saturn and Dreams soundtrack. Could just get the one guy who goes Daytona put that in

here. This presumably free to play a game for like two dollars, Get me the Sega sound pack. Yeah, I'll buy it. That's why you make your money. Yeah. Oh, they should just make the Hornet one of the cars in that Sega rally car exactly. But I could we get like the Persona soundtracks. Why not? Oh you get Cousin Makiri. You're driving playing the Tie. They do that kind of stuff in like the Rhythm

games that they produce, Like why not? It feels like such a monkey bob right, like right, they have to be able to nail it. They have to be right. I'm not going to be optimistic about it. I am excited for this and I hope it works out. You know what else I'm optimistic in now after reading Jake Decker's wonderful preview, I'm kind of optimistic for Concord and Concord Open beta dates are confirmed for July this month.

If you've pre ordered the game on PC or PS five, you can participate in the open or not open beta, but the pre order beta from July twelfth to the fourteenth uh, and then an additional open beta for all players from July eighteenth to the twenty first. The beta will feature all sixteen launch characters and we'll dive into the game story. Let me tell you red Jake's

preview. Jake was pretty pretty surprised, pleasantly surprised by this. Well, yeah, my tastes I've spoken to has just been like it's actually pretty good, pretty good. I think the thing is is that like maybe the pe thing, the thing that people are worried about is like the story stuff. I don't I'm gonna say this, I don't think I cared. Yeah, that's the problem, I guess. But like, yeah, that's a disconnect. There is them showing this big, you know, cinemac Overwatch style trailer

and then that's just not really what you again gameplay wise. But that doesn't mean that the gameplay is bad against like like the last topic a little bit. It's more like the knee jerk reaction you get from that the disconnect. I mean, that's the thing because like I played so much Overwatch, I couldn't really tell you what happened in the law. I just knew like the characters were fun and like Ash would be a certain kind of way, and then Diva would be a certain kind of way. And I'm like, oh,

I know the Diva was a competitive gamer. That's all I know. I don't understand how she got I guess the cringe e ish thing here is like it seems like they're really like they're telling us you're gonna like these characters because they're gonna remind you you like the characters that are like them from like Overwatch Guys guests, So you're gonna like these And I'm like, don't tell me I'm gonna like them. I'll decide if I like them, and then

maybe then you can make your cartoons and whatnot about them. But like, yeah, like right now, you need to be selling me the game, not like this multi media thing that you're trying to accomplish with it. I am still more interested in Marvel Rivals than Concord same. Perhaps I'm also not thrilled about this having like a sixty to seventy dollars price tag to get in to the gates. It's forty, isn't it to the base. It's like

just like Overwatch one. I'm sick of who likes that because I vastly preferred Overwatch ones model where I paid that price one time. I played so much of that game. Yeah, I bought loop boxes if I wanted cosmetics, and that was fine. It was way better than having to pay for characters and season passes and whatnot. So, like, I think it might be a problem for them because I don't think most people are like me and they're going to really, you know, scruff up against the idea of paying forty

bucks. But to me, that's a plus. And sometimes the just real quick sometimes when you get into stuff like Overwatch too wine to like put characters behind a battle pass and stuff like that, even just the optics of that was really bad for a lot of people like myself. How sweaty do you think Conquered is going to be concord Conquered whatever? Like, are we getting

valiant levels? No? I don't know. It could be overwatched well, Overwatch comp sweaty in its competitive mode maybe, But yeah, I'm much of my most team Forultress too sweaty to be pessimistic. I don't know how good this game is gonna do. So maybe it does get sweaty because just the dedicated audience, But who knows. You know, a game that got surprisingly pretty sweaty because of its very dedicated audience when it was picking up a lot of heat. Was a split gate. Oh oh sure, yeah, I

could see the kind of being like a split gate. Maybe you know it picks up the right audience, the right type of heat. Sure, but that's a news to me. That's coming out for forty dollars, but you know it's coming up for sixty dollars. He switch remaster of Donkey Kong Country returns. He's finally back. I don't have any fondness for mister Kong and his family. I don't know if this remastered necessarily warrens the sixty dollars.

When Greby and I talked about it last week, he was more so that, Hey, Nintendo realizes there's a little bit more name recognition for mister Kong than there is for Metroid. So let's charge more for what people know versus what we just want people to get in the gate with. All Right, me and Mike have been talking a lot, but I feel like this can be I just said to bait here, let's go. I no, no,

I don't know if I really buy it. I feel like some I feel like some the Metroid fans sometimes we're a little like self deprecating or self hating is a bit much. But I mean it's like, you know, we talked about like, oh, they don't they don't care about Metroid. We've been getting a lot of Metroid games lately, there's been a lot of

Metroid representation. It's not like it's clearly something that does matter to them and that they're investing in and they see value in, and there's certainly a relatively mainstream component of Metroid. It look like Docy Kong Country is a Donka Country game is going to sell more than a Metro game. It's not like the Donkey Kong Country games are the ones selling, you know, the fifteen million or U Donkey Kong Country. Tropical Freeze is not sold fifteen million copies.

It might have sold ten, which is kind of crazy. For well, that's what I said, That's what That's what they're looking at when they do these things is yeah, we ported a Donkey Kong game. It didn't sanely well, right again, Like the issue is like, okay, Metroc Prime one Remaster, which is really almost like a remake, how much they did with that, Yeah, which is one as a base game is better than two, so much more work put into it, right, And that's forty

dollars. And then this, which looks like a very bare bone support of a wee game, is sixty dollars. So yeah, you desperately are trying to figure out why this is more expensive than a Metroc Prime one remaster. It's like and like, yeah, hey, maybe that's it. It's like, oh, Docky Kong, well sell more. But like you know, Luji's mentioned two HD is going to be sixty dollars. I know Luji's mentioned three so well, but did like the Lugi's mentioned one remake so well?

Oh, and I imagine this will be closer to that in terms of performance. So I don't know. I think sometimes we try to find logic and the things Nintendo does, and that really just just necessarily isn't necessarily there.

That's our mistake, big dog, trying to find logic with Nintendo. And then I'm on the opposite side of the fence here where I think we find logic and Nintendo in the inverse direction that might is look at where I'm looking at this, and I see, yeah, these like big Mario style stuff is you know, sixty dollars, and then even like Mario versus Donkey Kong remake of a GBA game being fifty, and then why is Metroid do only

forty? I think that's indicative of what Nintendo thinks of these properties, like still to this day, because as I always try to remind people, Metroid has never sold well. It has never done exceptionally well. Even Dread, which did you know, pretty good for the series still was what it was. Where to end? Three million is just under three million? Three million?

Ye know, like right, that is good, you know, But that's the thing is I think the strategy here is Nintendo ses as Metro doesn't sell, so let's play a budget price to try to tempt more people in the door and just push more copies, push the IP a little bit more, you know, Prime four rolls around. We can't put that for sixty dollars and get more people buying it, whereas a Donkey Kong, they're like everyone's buying Donkey Kong. Kids are buying it, parents are buying it,

you know, old school gamers are buying it. So we can price at sixty because we know it'll sell No matter what, and Monkey's real hot. Right now, we got the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. They're in the balls again. Yeah, they've got ties again. A couple quick stories before we wrap up. Take another quick brick and break and we'll be back with emails. The Capcom Next show was yesterday, The Hot thirty minutes of some news. Some of that note news being the Resident Evil seven director

Koshi Nakanishi will be directing the next RI game. The next RI game is probably going to be Resident Evil nine. We've seen a lot of room ms swirling around about RI nine being an open world game. I'm still intrigued by that. But the thing that captured my attention from the Capcom show yesterday was the Dead Rising Deluxe remaster coming this year. Gonna be using the R engine,

a lot of improvements, quality of life stuff like auto saving. Who knew auto saving would be a quality of life things that I would sorely need and adjusted you I, modernized controls, a bunch of more stuff. Like I mentioned, The remaster will be using the ARE engine, and the deluxe edition of the game will feature seventeen extra costumes for Frank and the thing that makes me feel so much dread inside is that it's going to feel kind of like a retro game in a way, not just because of when it came

out, but because of the setting. It taking place in a mall, and a lot of malls across America just dying Cone. Oh yeah, you've seen what the old Westfield is now in San Francisco is miserable. Yeah, it would seem very fun to ride a skateboarder roller skates through though. I will say, oh for sure, Tonyak one Tony Hawk predicted everything, so it's also gonna predict the I'm gonna have a terrible best friend named Eric will see the cards, and we're gonna say goodbye to Tam for real, for

real this time. Goodbye to break, Goodbye YouTube. We'll be back with emails, Emails. BombCast giant bomb dot com is the email address to send your emails to send any and everything you want, whether it's questions, quizzes, conundrums. You want life advice, seek life advice from a video game podcast. We will provide the best type of stuff you need to get stuff off your chest. You want to talk about relationships, lack of relationships,

what to feed your cats. We'll figure it out for you. BombCast champon dot com. We're a bunch of experts here. First email this breaking news, breaking e mail is that's the proper thing to say. Mike from Edmonton, Alberta. Right, Mike, Hey, mad bombers. So the song Espresso is a huge hit and I and what I suspect will be everyone's inescapable song of the summer. Does this mean that this is the summer of coffee girls and boys, and by association mean that this is the summer of coffee?

King jam I hope you all enjoy some Espresso Martinez and spiked ice coffees this season. Mike from Edmonton, Alberta. I don't know this song and I don't drink coffee. You don't know, singer. It's very okay. I listened to it for the first time last night and she's not far off from what she's saying, right, Yeah, it's very okay. Me switch

it up like Nintendo is a line? Oh? I like? So is it like that that that guy who like did the sequel to We Didn't Start the Fire and he rhymed the words metroid with George Floyd wasn't wait guy who was christ it was the sequel to Man on the We didn't start the not knowing that was follow Boy of all things. It's just boys, big smash, the sequel to that. It's that's why it's funny is because it was follow Boy bad most people don't think of and it was a bad version it

is. It is extra funny that it was funny. So it was such a culture shock to me though, because here when that song dropped, everyone had like the what I think is the right feeling of like, maybe we shouldn't have done this. Also, maybe we shouldn't have Ryan George Floyd with Metroid? What about rhyming Lebanon with Q and on? I'm looking at the lyric right now. Wait. Look, I like Fallout Boy, and I think that their most recent album is actually their best, So much for stardos.

I also know that I forget who does? I think someone actually told me Pete once does the lyrics? They can't write lyrics for shit, so why did they do? We didn't start the fire, Great Pacific garbage Patch, Tom DeLong and Aliens, Mars Rover Avatar, self driving electric cars, SSRIs Prince and the Queen die Will Trade, second Plane? What else do I have to say, Look, wait, Bakalar already brought this up forever ago when this first came out. But the biggest crime with that song is

that they didn't go in order. Yeah, it's not chronological. That's the biggest problem obviously, the hard shot. That's the point, Like I literally in my uap Us history class, that's how we like memorized modern history. Well, because we didn't start the fire, that was the point of the song. Why Michael Jackson dies, Nuclear accident, Fukushima, Japan, Crime in Peninsula, Cambridge Analytica, Kim jong Un, Robert Downey, junr. Iron Man doesn't even know where the beat goes in there. He wants he

should. I think he's got the uniformers in the breaks you start the fire? When started the fire? Did kind of do that? It's sort of like trails off and doesn't necessarily follow the beat. So that's not the kind of excusable. There's one line I'm not allowed to mention in the original because if I don't want to disappoint Tam Metroid's in it. Yeah, best one

who writes with George Floyd. Oh sorry, sorry you got here. See Metroid so famous and it's in this song telling me famous with these forty year old dudes acting like they're teenagers. Yes, really, it's really named after Radioactive Man's sidekick from the Simpsons. That's actually where they cool my knowledge. Yeah, I'm going to say Espresso is not the song of the summer.

What the original email was? I do cardoloc please please please? Because of how she says, mother Fooker. Oh, I get a read of that. Oh what is it? Mother? What is it? The wait? Please please lyrics? I've gotta look it up. I gotta look it up. I believe. I believe in a thing called love. I don't want to get like heartbreak is one thing, my egos another. I beg you don't embarrass me, mother Booker? Like that fantastic? Please put that on your reel. I'm gonna say early here this this is my my uh uh

my other pick for potential song of the summer. We're in July. That album came out last week. It's taken over the TikTok algorithms. As we speak, Uh mamushi by Meghan the Stallion. Oh, I haven't heard it, but I do love me. Megan Stallion, m A M you h one of them. Okay, uh, it's the hook goes very hard. It reminds me of doing duo lingo because they have a Japanese rapper rapping, and then Meghan the Stallion would be like, all right, I'm just gonna

repeat what you say. Is it good or is it like when Avril Levine tried to be Japanese? It is definitely not. When that song was that was an affront of man that didn't because she was married. No, she was married to the guy from Nickelback at the time. Didn't he write that with her? I think so? Nicolback's Davis Chad Kroeger. Yes, yes it is, and he married Avril Levine. And as far as I can tell, the only reason they were married, Mike is because they're both Canadian.

Yeah, any other reason? Oh, you know, I guess they have a lot of comment speaking about music. Next email comes from Joe and Michigan. Subject reads, can we get some better music for these game announcement shows? And I agree, yeah, and that marketing, But are you talking about nine inch Nails? Is in the Game Awards pretty much every year we think we get it, Lucy got them. I gotta imagine dragons were

set. Yeah, Jene Parks, imagine dragons. H Mat Boody got married to the song is New Booty. I'm a little disappointed every time he's out on stage and that song isn't playing. Parentheses fifty to fifty odds gen needing to explain what song this is to Everyone didn't back Alarund Grubbs say they'd never heard the song. Nok if you buck a while back. Cultural differences are wild. I've either of these, Lucy, how are we friends? And

you haven't heard knock? If you bunk? If you okay, don't read read the lyrics not oh no no, yeah, I'm not going to read those about Yeah, have either of you heard of miss New Booty? Oh my god, I read the emails a little bit ahead of time. I was like, I didn't know this by name. But then when I looked at up the song, I was like, Oh, it's the one that goes booty boot rocking everywhere. Yeah, I know right, No, I do that because I do know that, because I sing that to my cats

whenever I give them a little like we know that part? Yeah, that isn't that just the thing of rocket power that Okay, don't they'll be singing that rocket power. Maybe they're they're they're kind of edgy kids, right the state board. Are they they skateboard? Yeah, that's you know, well they weren't safety gear a lot, so maybe they're not too safety is what music would you like to hear at these announcement shows? Much love Joe and

Michigan, the Offspring, Sure, maybe a game music? You know what? Okay, sorry, I did something positive within me. I would love to hear like a song that you know, gets people hype. If they they can get interesting with these things is my big issue. Like when they had Mick Gordon playing, that was a good call because yeah, that's video game music that also just kind of sounds like mainstream music, so that works as a live performance. They could also do things like if Anyone's, if

Anyone's never listened to it. The EVO soundtracks that they do each year now are just like lyrical rap albums, whether justin nailed with other genres thrown in stuff, but like getting stuff like that in there that is actually like you know, omage's to gaming music and stuff. I mean genuinely years ago when they did the The Red Dead music was game but are we talking about like musical performances. Are we talking about like just songs in trailers? Because both?

Why not both? A little bit of both? Yeah, they say announcement shows. I assumed that they were talking about something like the game wards, but yeah, we're talking just like it's like, what's what what? What are the executives like wrestling songs to walk out into the ring? You know? I feel like that's what this question is actually asking. It's just all come out to Shane mcmahonson, money, money, money, money, money, money, thoughts. Does Phil Spencer listened to Dad Rock? Yeah,

he's coming out to some hollow. I'm probably gonna see him at the Beach Blays concert. He's gonna be there. The thing is is that I would walk out the whole notes I will. I wouldn't. I would walk out to any excess. I'd walk out to come. I really like every time they do like the actual like live songs from video games, except when it's an ad for a game that isn't out yet, like like last year

they did help Blake Too. It was just clearly like an ad. I'm like, no, like, you know, this supposed to be the I get that there's a lot of commercials here, but let them actually pay for a commercial or trailer for help. But like the musical thing should be about the games that came out this year. Only two things was fantastic. The montage that they do for the Game of the Year winners is always great. But like, yeah, this is this is why we're going to promote hell

Blake to NAW. I was gonna say not every not every game is going to have an elaborate musical number, like allen Wick, did you see Uh? I haven't seen the GDQ thing yet, but I did see this morning. Yeah, games that quicks happening and they were doing it down wait two speed running like during that section, like they all just got up and did the dance. It was great. Yeah, it's cute all. Next email

comes from Rob from the Bay Area subro Hi Bombers. So I listened to a podcast where audience members bring photoshop posters that feature their name worked into a movie title to be the Pods Live Show Live to the Pods Live Shows for a chance to win prizes. I've also pondered what mine should be, but I never wanted to wanted the gimme answer of the Italian Rob not even sure what to do with the full form, Robert, what would be associated movie

titles or other forms of media? B for the GB staff and friends, love you all, Rob around the Bay Area. We's just that movie about the snail. I was gonna say. I also have just a boring gimme answer and the Shawn Shank redemption that's right there. I mean, J John, You've got such a great name to put into, like the John who loves Me, the Invisible Jan I mean on fire, on fire, j. Yeah, you can't do Mike. Mike is too common. You have

to work menaughty in somehow. Is there any movie ties with the word naughty in it? Oh? As short of the Dead. I mean, well that's just that's just yeah. It's like saying magic mic for me, right, people saying magic Mike right now? Well right, okay, No, it's not the microphone ne mind report. And it's a little bit of a stretch. That micycle Thief. I kind of like the mic sicle Thief. You see the bicycle Thief. That's a good movie. Definitely not. I

don't know. I watched my one semester of film school, Lucy. Uh. I mean, there is just a movie called Lucy, which is it's gotta it's gotta be a movie than they with the word juicy in the title. Right, Yeah, I'm gonna go on I m dB in look of Juicy. I just keep putting Lucy into Google and it's not helping. No, No, that's not gonna do it. Juicy, it's gotta be a juicy movie. What about juicy? A man, there's not that many juicy

movies. There's Juicy Girl, Juicy Affair. Nobody's heard of these juicy jay ship it's not gonna work. What else Lucy tsy? Hell? Is that? Isn't that a musical? No? Isn't that the Chevy Chase movie? Chevy Chase sucks? Now you loose Lucy? Now you don't like I was gonna say, so good ship? There we go. Second, we got right now. Everyone has a good one but me tea? Yeah, something about t tea? Isn't there like a tea with somebody movie? I do

really think the Minati report is really with Lucolini. No, I mean there's this strip tease, not strip strip. You know, it's not bad, pretty bad. Breakfast at Monoton's is quite good. That's all right, that's all right, Yeah, I said, what about breakfast my cousin terrible there. All right, we'll go with that. We'll go with that. What was the first one we came up with you for you? Lucy? Now you lose? Now you you good? Wait is he as he says,

the last Action Hero? That's that's pretty good podcast. Have you guys seen when when when Jeff got married, Like their wedding photos were all just parodies of like posters and the like, very kind of viral. Yeah, like, yeah, the e t one where his wife is the bicycle and he's in the fucking basket. That's the best one. Yeah, but this antis from Chuck Toowsky. Okay, my brother and Minati No, mm hmmm, Lucy road no space odd Lucy? Oh that's good? Oh was eleven?

Damn we gotta just we just gotta rob someone. Now watch film on the fucking ground. No, we never do. They never do that in Oceans. It's all eloquent. It's because they haven't been because that's not that wasn't Oceans. Alright. We've had a lot of emails the past couple of weeks about nosebleeds. I wonder why varying varieties. First email comes from Corey from

Abbotsford. We assume BC's British Columbia. I don't know that for sure, but anyway, they write in I've never had a horny nose bleed, but I did have an angry nose bleed. It was twenty eleven and I'm a Vancouver Canucks fan. I was writing a house with some friends. This was during their playoff run and the internet cut out for three days. The telecom company tell Us kept not sending someone despite each of us taking time off from

school and work. We still could watch the game because the CBC is free and works over cable, but we were huddled in the only room that had access. I call GET a very nice representative, but my extreme anger at the situation causes my nose to gush blood. On the call, I insist, She puts, you made me so angry my nose is bleeding onto my file. In conclusion, everything ended up fine and the Canucks won the Stanley Cup. Asterisk I was at Game seven and was just outside when I felt

the first car explode. Rushed onto the local train with my father and headed back to town. It wasn't until a while later I learned what happened. Second note, fu tell us I refuse to deal with them every time I give the chance to I give them a chance to fuck it up. Cheers Court from Abtsford, British Columbia. What was that about the exploding car? Was weird going out there in Canada? I don't remember this. I don't

remember the parts. Was this like a riot or was this a you know, an incident like I would assume so I was like, while, so, yeah, I guess so, yeah, I'm sure Backlar would know. Yeah, back rub might know. Yeah. I don't know. I've always been so. I was in l a one time when the Lakers won some championship and I was that was the first time I was exposed to a city riding because they won. I was like, what are you all doing? You did it? Why aren't you from Cleveland? I was like, you

know how happy we'd be if we want What are you doing here? This is a really awful one from the UK. I'm from Newcastle and there was one time where there was like this riot after a football game. The guy punched a horse. Yeah all right, but like the picture is something like a Renaissance painting. You just like the guy one like the punching the kangaroo. I mean, a kangaroo would fuck you up. Well that's the point. That's why I was bold of him to do it, to give him

get the kangaroo off his dog. Oh that's right, ko coming yeah, just like what he actually did. It Is it a lucy? Is it a dude with uh? Here no, let me, I'll grab it. This is a different man punching a horse, maybe man sean. If you had to punch an animal, which one would it be? Oh golly, g my, I have the best question. They don't. They would look like they feel anything, and they're jerks. I don't like there. You know, those guys are peaceful, right spposed to like palm a bear in

the nose or something someone someone, you know. So it painted Renaissance painting. What's that picture? That's what I just dropped in the police horse that was punched, But basically it was exact. It was exact pose that guy going oh wow, okay, I mean, is this is this horse a cop? That is a cop horse? Yes? Okay, control horse. So the horses don't know what they're doing, do they not? I don't know. We're not sure the smart. None of us have been inside the

mind of a horse. We don't know what they're really thinking. Of course, of course, mister ed the talking horse, we know what he was thinking. He told us all horse cops are best abuse. Of course, of course, continuing the emails, Oh yeah about and anyways, never been so angry that my nose bleeded, thank you email. I've never been so angry that my nose blood. No, never had a nose bleed at all, man, I don't. Yeah, I get angry sometimes. It's weird

being insidious. So even just when I'm in a grocery store. Every time I'm in a grocery store, I feel like I encounter one person who is more angry in that moment I cross paths with them than I have been in like five years. I'm gonna get what's wrong with you? They're always like on a phone screaming at somebody at the grocery store. Calm down. Yeah, I worked for a long time at the grocery stores. Always feel bad for the employees who have to like, in some way deal with that person

in the store. It's always the nightmare for some reason. That's where that's the place everyone gets really mad. Is the grocery store. That's where they finally like I've had it, and they're like, whoever they're calling or they're with, they're gonna hear about it. I think it's because they're the kind of person who is only either at work or home. That's like the one place in their life where they get away from either, and so yeah,

that's where they explode. It's always been just like trying to get some fucking oreos or love. It's fun. Yeah, it's always something new to fine, right, you're very familiar with it. Like, what's on this side? Like a condensed soup? Huh? What's going on in the condensed super We have buffalo chicken soup. Now new developments. Everybody, stop the presses. What's that tastes like? Probably bad? I'm gonna try it though it's eighty nine cents. Thank you, Mike for a peek inside to your brain.

Uh. Next email about nosebleeds comes from Gunner from Missouri. Hey Duders, with the discussion of the anime horny Nosebleed coming up. Last time, I thought I could chime in and remind everyone of that time in Dragonball where Yamsha had to fight an invisible guy and was losing until they got Bolma to flash Master Roschi and shoot blood over the dude so Yamcha could see him.

Also, we remember, in no particular order, the super smelly guy krill And had to fight and almost lost to until he was reminded he didn't have a nose. Krilling. Oh yeah, that's just eating chaut Su by asking him a math problem which chaut Su needed to count on his fingers to answer and therefore stop his technique, losing the fight in the process. In three, an actual vampire who's defeated by a shoot Christian Cross brandished at him.

In conclusion, dragon Ball is wild and if you like the franchise, it's a hoot, and they should probably put Jackie Chun in Sparking zero. Thanks Gunnar from Missouri Beautiful. Yes, yeah, man, dragon Ball is just a very different vibe from dragon Ball Z. Huh, very different. Have

you ever seen dragon Ball Mike? Yes? Ok, yes, actually yeah, I actually saw Dragon Ball like I was in like Canada as a kid, and I sold Dragon Ball on just their TV, their like sky TV, way like this is before Tunama even was showing Dragon Ball Z. And I just remember it because it was the episode where they are peel Off tries to summon dragon Balls and Oolong wishes for pandies, and I was just like,

this is a cartoon show. Am I allowed to watch that? Goku was like asked naked because he turned into a and he like found his tail. A lot of weird stuff going on, and it left the like an impact on me. Then years later when watch your dragon Ball Z and learning there was a dragon Balls, like, oh ship that fucked up show, okay, And then also like you're a kid, you like dragon Ball Z.

Like I'm gonna read the manga. I'm going to start a one of dragon Ball and it's just immediately like you know some like uh you know the butts and the stuff. Yeah, you know what it is, Like, it's such a gap in my knowledge dragon Ball and dragon Ball Z. I wish I wish I had the time like one piece too. I just feel like I've missed. I'm never much funny. I'm never going to get on the ball before I think I've I've just decided I didn't mean to do that.

But maybe those are azero interest. Those are so much worse than dragon Ball, not non quality, but in terms of like being long running, like One Piece and Naruto and all that stuff is has been going so freaking long where it's dragon Ball especially like if you watch Kai for Z and stuff, it's manageable. It's a long show, but I mean it's accessible. At least when I was a fourteen year old boy, there was nothing better than Dragon Ball Z, Like and you know there's something about that that time

of your life for that just hits for some reason. Yeah, and that kind of stays with you for some bizarre reason. That's why I was always around dragon Ball growing up, because of the neighborhood I grew up, and you know, people talked about this a lot when a Curatriyama passed away, but it did have like a profound impact on like Black communities and Hispan communities and stuff. And so I grew up around friends were super into dragon Ball.

But we didn't have cable growing up, so I and for you know, unfortunately that was always on like Cartoon Network and stuff growing up, so I kind of just never got see it. A little bit later, a little bit later it was on like the CW picked ups. I got to watch it on Saturday mornings a little bit when I was like a teenager. But that's that was about it. But I remember getting the the VHS box

sets from from Suncoast Video. Those were great because like they made like the picture right and it was fun because like the sagas kept getting bigger, so like the freaking like Sousaga one was like you know those t VHS tapes. I was like, oh, I was like, oh, me and my brother just like going through them. I remember there's a summer we did that and our friends got mad at us, like come outside of play. We're like no, so just absorbed eighteen. He's perfect. So now what are

they gonna do? It is? I do appreciate how dumb dragon Ball gets and they just lean into it. Oh there's the whimsy of the original or like the dumb fights of Z and Super. And it's funny because like I don't I'm a wat dragon Ball Super, but I just kind of see like, oh, there's like four new Super sedies and I'm like roll my eyes at it, like it's like it's so dumb, as if Dragon Ball Z

wasn't also instantly dumb. But you know, I peek my head in now because I do have access to YouTube TV and so I you know, I turned on two Nami here and there, and when they have dragon Ball Supron, I'm like, it's just dragon Ball Z again and and I'm okay with that somehow in another tournament huh yeah, why not? I like, it's kind of that's kind of the best when they do the turn. Yeah, that's fine, just fine. The fact that they turned the South Saga into

a tournament thing like, that's great. That is still that. Don't think too hard about just enjoying the fights. Well, we should have a tournament arc I mean the Neon White tournament. Yeah, and I wasn't there. You didn't exist yet? Did you exist yet? But I was waiting. I did, but like I wasn't invited yet and I was way better everyone, And you know, I was so good that it's somehow, why are

you trying to be smirch Alex Bonyello's name as the champion. I don't think Alex ban Yellow got into the top one hundred all time leaderboard in Neon White, but he could have. He could try awards and being in like the descendants. Oh, I'm I'm you know that when I go home and see my nieces, I'm going to be like, I know him, you make

me watch another Descendants movie. And I've been made to watch Descendants movie guys, and let me tell you, hey, they are like there were Journey, but like they capture the same amount of I think, is it the same guy does High School Musical because it definitely captures that vibe Kenny or Tega Baby I I unapologetically like really enjoyed it. So I was just like, they're gonna maybe watch more of them. I made them watch High School Musical

and but I'm gonna be like, I know that guy. I'm not allowed to participate in the conversation. You know a d com boy, excuse me? Disney Channel original movie was is? I definitely thought I meant Disney like rom Com but Disney. I didn't have the Disney Channel like my friend Beth did, so I would go around to her house and we would watch High School Musical was always on. We went to the cinema to se High schoo Musical three and that was actually released in theaters. Yeah yeah, and we

saw it. We want to a Baby b. We also watched Camp Rock okay whatever, and uh, I also enjoy the Descendants movies. You know especially hearing that they're continuing the canon of the Filipino Prince and Brandy as a Cinderella. I can get down with that. Hell yeah, let's let's watch some d COM's and drink some forties. Huh, let's do that. I still really want to like do film in forties with the High School Musical trilogy.

I rewatched Tyser Musical one last time I was back in the UK, and there's one scene in particular where sharpe Gabriella is singing in the bathroom and the women's bathroom, and then Sharpey goes in, Gabriella hides and then like just like oh can't find her, storms out, and then Gabriella just like comes out, and so Sharpey would have been looking directly at her like they would have made eye contact. It's great, it's perfect, it's comedy. It's perfect. You can I have a question. Yeah, Mike, you

have immunity for this question. I will take the heat. I'll take the heat for Tam, Tam, I'll take the heat for this one. The topic that just happened was that just like past your time due to age, and you just don't know a lot about it a little bit. Yeah, I haven't seen most of it. It's like a lot of the stuff that happened on a specific channel, and that's nondescript. That was yet not really my scene. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. I'm very happy to catch up

sometime. I'll drink peers and watch whatever. Hey, I'm just happy that we live in a world where high school musical is okay and Glee turns out to be the problematic show. Yeah, okay, calming amount of people who were on Glee have died. Yeah, but maybe we're like involved in some stuff or something. Yeah, I've I've been keeping up on it. I mean, yeah, the guy who played was a talk on Glee. That was the guy that played Finn also passed. Yeah, the day there was

another show NYA Rivera Yeah, accidental drowning. God awful, Like, oh my god, and I fight. Where are they now? It's like not great, Well, well we'll never make it to regionals now. But the final email of the show comes from Jebec. From Quebec, Hey, bombers and duders on the dump truck. We played a game where you had to describe yourself using two words that rhyme there was Jerff skating and hayten baccalar and Dan shooting and tooting Rekert, et cetera. It's around two. Describe the

city you live in using the same format. I'll be real with y'all. I just booked tickets and as you were recording this live, I will be on a Boston City tour bus named Mobsters and Lobsters and I can't wait. Jip Beck from Quebec Francisco, so it would be like Lucy San Francisco and well, in this instance, it would just be San Francisco. So like Foggy and Saggy Foggy, It's kind of correct. It's my experience. How do you rhyme cheese and football? Mm hmm on Ohio is white but all

right, okay, I like it. I like it, like hilly but really really okay? What about one for Newcastle? Well, this thing about Newcastle is that we actually have like a pretty infamous song called fog on the Tye. Fog on the Tye is all my all mine. I don't know how, I don't know how Newcastle best place in the United Kingdom. How do I put that into? There's an actual castle, you have a Newcastle. Here are you sure yours isn't the Old Castle? All right? Thank

you everyone for BombCast. The Giant bomb dot com is the email address to send you emails to. He was so happy with that. Pleased. There's there's a certain like uh stance that Mikey gets when he's like, I'm about to fire off watch Old Castle. When when he's like leaning his head on one hand, he's ready to a straight shoes. Booker tells, now, that's right, I just watch everyone constantly. All right, That about does it for emails. We've reached the end of this podcast. What's going on

this week? No Gameless Mornings for the rest of this week because Jeff Grubb is on vacation. He better not be listening to the show. I told him, ban him. I'm gonna take away his CMS access it. I'm gonna give it to Mike. See what Mike does. Oh, you're not. Everyone's gonna like that. You see, he was at a rainforest cafe the other day. I'm so happy for him. I'm also happy for him. I am curious about the various foods at the rainforest cafe. We may

not have We'll have a stream tomorrow. An unprofessional. Wednesday, we may get down to some business with some monkey ball stuff, but since it's a holiday week here in the States, we will be taking Thirdursday and Friday off, so no dump truck. Also, the driver of the dump truck is in disrepair, so we hope he heals up. Chat what didn't happen, tobacco lart man, he's messed up. Yeah, it is not the summer

of back lart, it turns out not really. No, no, no no, but yes, we also have some fun surprises wind up for the rest of this week. Sean has been working furiously and we should buy you a hard drive because of some of that stuff. Yeah, maybe maybe you should, But yeah, I got I got a secret project I'm working on. So I want to pay attention to our social media accounts because you might might see a little hint of something. And we've been cooking up. Speaking

about social media accounts are good. Old buddy Tom Caswell has been spear hitting. Its very special thing that we're gonna we hope to roll out very very soon to celebrate some certain miles stones. Reminder to myself and everyone here, records your ship by the end of tomorrow, just so uh yeah right, we get that to Tom anyway. But do I have something to do? Yes? Yes, don't worry. We told you about this. This is all this time. Oh you might Okay, we'll remind me after Yeah,

that'd be great. In the meantime, what do we learn today? We learned that Filipinos are surprisingly from the Philippines. Uh. There's discourse happening constantly about games. We learned to watch out for the Bostonova Boys. We learned that Peter Griffin riding a Dolorean would get me into crazy taxi. We also learned that maybe fall Out Boys shouldn't have written a new version of We Didn't Start the Fire. We learned about upcoming movies like Despicable Minati, Last Actionhon

Hero, and Now You See Me. And we also learned that all horses are bad. Unfortunately, I'm sorry, mister go outside it. No, I'm not going to advocate for punching horses. Don't punch any type of man. Well, please don't. Also, even then, I feel like it's gonna be a bad time. They'll end up in jail for that. One might end up in jail. And that's yeah. But you don't want anything

unless it's a box. I'm just gonna don't. Don't punch horses, no matter their profession, you know, don't punch it an somehow exactly they got to contribute to society somehow, God dang it. Uh that about does it for the Giant Bomb Cast. We will be next. We will be here next week for another lovely episode of Giant BombCast. I've been jammed, she's been Lucy, he's been terrible Sean, he's been Mike and he was Tam. Tam was here too. You tuned in late. We'll see you next

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