Hey, everybody, it's not Tuesday. It's Friday. For BombCast Revengeance eight forty nine. We are gonna talk about some video games. We got a draft for you. We're gonna do later. I'm your host, Jeff Grubb. Thank you for tuning in. Always appreciate it. I'm joined by another all star cast here. We have Lucy James Games. How are you doing? I'm well, how are you doing good? Is it? So?
Why don't you keep it plugged in all the time? The Internet? I'm sure there's a reason that I'm legit asking because my modem is all the way over there, and to have it plugged in, I have to have a bright blue cable ground. Yes, I hate that and so yeah, and ordinarily I have Wi Fi that's good enough to handle it, but Exfinity has hit the bed. So well, we we're glad you're with us. Glad we're we're able to make it happen as well as Nicky Grayson. How are
you doing good? It's cold in this room, so I'm wearing cold to me. It says seventy three degrees on the on the t stat but it is blowing directly on talk and the air is blowing directly yeast doesn't matter. Okay, it's blowing straight down. Okay. I was going to say, that's like an la cold Yes, yeah, definitely. Two more Hosan is here. How are you doing, Bud? I am okay? You just called me hole stane. Yeah, I think I did. Look, my mouth doesn't work at the end of the Friday. It's just this is how
it's going to be. I'm sorry. Can I wait? Can I call you that? Yeah? Thank you? That's really nice. Una. How's it going? Hi, it's good. I'm excited for a Mike manati o mouse mingled dot com fame. Boy, my god. I deleted that profile right away, so I missed. I missed that voicemailed dumb truck revealed some true dark secrets. Do you think it's archive dot or do you think about going the way back machine? I could see what's going on with you.
I don't think it was like very spicy or anything. I think it's just a picture of me at a Disney Are you joking? The Disney adults get freaky with it, dude, dms not on the profile. Sam tell Lucy about the freaky profile we saw. Also, trust me. She knows I sent it already. No, no, no, no, I just I just saw the website. Oh yeah, I sent you. I sent you a link to the other one as well. Oh wait, oh sorry, Oh yes, okay, I hang on looking looking looking it makes you feel
good. It's not literally gross inside them, it's not good. Oh okay, yeah, the right response. We won't put that in the show notes. Everybody, I'm sorry, you're gonna have to. You just have to be here for some of these things, like I don't want to kink shame, and I'm all for finding your people whatever. But there is another part to be said about when people try and put the kink out publicly and get other people to be involved in it non consensually. You kind of gotta draw
that line. Then you think they ever like joke about each other's like poo's honey and stuff like that, Like, well, thank you so much for listening to the podcast this week. We're gonna have to that's not playing anything. I try. I didn't fix this one. They can't hear it. Only you can hear that. All right, let's talk about video games. We just got done with unprofessional Fridays where we played some Nintendo World Championships Colon
Edition, and I am overall really enjoying that game. It is very much made for me. It is as tampointed out a bunch of old ass games that look old, and they are and they do, but they feel really good to play. And then the presentation is very good. And then I think they're very very They were astute at picking the correct challenges. They know like where these games shine and what things show off, like the way these games feel good in the best case cases, and they nailed that kind of
across the board for the most part. And I just discovered like if you get to the end of one of these, like there's a line of challenges for each of these games, if you get to the last challenge, it's a legendary challenge. And it was much longer, and I had to beat the entirety of Donkey Kong basically on nes and that was very cool. So I just I just kind of like everything that they're doing, except for the lack of leader boards. But I guess we could talk about that in a
second. Mike, you've been playing it as well, how are you liking it? It's fun? I mean, well, it's just like, hey, how much do you like ANYS games? Right? And man, that's just that was the first video game era I was a part of. Uh. I still have a ton of memories from there, and I never never really ever stopped playing any S games, right, I would always dip back
into that world. And you know, just having this kind of package and presenting them in this interesting way, and the presentation is really good, right, Like the UI is pleasant. Just some of the fun things like oh, like you know, pick your icon, like and it's you know, all these characters, the sprites from these different games, so I could get Ridley really looks like such a goofball in any S metroid. I love it.
There's even like the like pick your favorite NIS game, and that is like every n S game and every Famacom game, Like you can pick anything. The Footstones games are in there, right, but you know kid Nikki's there like Bird versus Jordan's. So yeah, it's cool to me that I was actually able to pick Mega Man three, which is, you know, my favorite video game, let alone ANYS game. Right, So just it
does kind of work as that celebration of the NS. But just these challenges, they are fun because the really short ones it's like, oh, there is like a very optimal way to do it, and I'm kind of competing to get that best frame time possible. Then the longer ones where there is so much more room for optimization. That's great. You know the way we were just playing it, jeff On, you'd bet f we were kind of just hanging out in discord and like I would beat your time or you'd beat
my time. That I was like, Oh, play your replay for me, teach me how you did that. Like that was that was great. I was having so much fun with that, and it's like, I'm glad we can do that, and it's it really does feel like an optimal way to play it, because you're right, because you want to be sharing information
about how to do stuff. We were doing the octa Ock one, the first challenge for the Zelda thing, and in this one you have to there's four oct rocks you got to hit with your sword and your sort of fully powered up so you can do like the light the laser sword thing. You hit the one to the left and you want to hit one at the top so that it kills it with the sword, and then the laser beam shoots out and kills the second one immediately, then you turn to the right and
kill the fourth one. And Mike discovered that, like organically, I discovered it because I was playing in the online mode, which is really just a ghost mode, but it's the Survivor challenge, and I watched a replay of like how did someone beat that in three seconds? And I was able to watch it there, and that was just luck happenstance that I saw someone play it that way. Ideally, you're gonna want to be like have a group that you can share this these best practices with. It's a shame that that
stuff is not built into the game a little bit more. But I'm just happy that at least when we did play it this way where we are sitting next to each other basically on discord, it worked really well. That was it was a fun hangout game, like the most fun thing so far.
There's that Mario two level where they want you to like ride the flying carpet across this kind of you know, river thing, and I was watching your replay data is like you just jumped across a couple enemies instead, and like doing that feels so feels like it'll be good bad it felt so fun, So you know, I think this this has been a lot of fun content wise, Like for me for the price point, just being able to get an S rank on all these challenges and have some fun with the other modes,
that's going to be enough for me. I hope that there are updates like leaderboards sure would be nice, but even adding more games or adding more
challenges down the road, that would be awesome. And yeah, I'm not like sure, Like we were talking like how often are we actually going to do the World Championship mode, which is they take some of these there's this these pool challenges and they're going to take five each week and you can try to set your best time and take as many times as you want attempts as
you want to set the best time in each of those challenges. And then the following week they will finally reveal the leaderboard and it's a global leaderboard and it's a birth year leaderboard, so still no friend leaderboard. But what you okay? So did you like an X Factor judges houses, Yes, the boys, the girls, the twenty five and right that the people born in so the other forty one year old gender, yeah, eighty six. So
I'm not afraid. Yeah, this feels like Nintendo has really figured out data collection in a way that no one really Yeah, my birth year, I'm sure I gave it to them somewhere, But that World Championship mode, I'm having fun with it. A big part of that is the challenges they have selected are things that are very much up my alley, like like unbelievably jeff coated like challenges. But the other part is like, no, it's fun to try to out to optimize these things and feel like I stand a chance.
Now. Who knows what's going to happen once the times get revealed, But I'll say, like we were doing that Mario two to one, and then we went to the Survivor mode, and no one that I was playing against where that mode that the levels showing up there as well. No one else was doing that shortcut. So I'm like, oh man, there's a chance that no one quite knows about that yet, or at least most people
don't now. I'm sure all the speed runners will figure it out, and I'm sure they're playing this game as well, but I'm kind of hoping to like seek into the top one hundred. Maybe that would be cool out of I feel good twenty five thousand people who have submitted time so far. Yeah, Mike, would you recommend it to anyone who's not necessarily like us? I was good, I was gonna ask I have no frame of reference for
what you're playing, right, that's a little harder. I do think you probably have to have an affinity I agree for these ns games already, right, I mean it has that cute message when you open it up, like man Bubbs back in the day, a lot of you didn't get to do the World Championship because you know, it was limited, or a lot of you not even born yet. I'm like, how many of those people who
weren't born yet are really reading this message this game? Yes? Right, but you know, I don't know, Uh, maybe instead mess around with the nes nso app and play those games and see if you're like that into it or but you know, if you are kind of like a speed run like adjacent fan, if you do like that kind of thing, like if you're maybe into WarioWare or something like that, this might still be up your alley. But it is definitely mostly for the jetson mics of the world.
Yeah, it's for you guys. You have that. I'm I'm just probably gonna enjoy it through watching you guys. There's a great way to representation for middle aged white man. You stand, We're gonna yeah, sorry, here we go. Thank you everybody, literally something look at us. I'm wearing
my curvy wearing his shirts, not playing. We're just guys. I really really do like it though, So all the like the pessimism about the lack of the leaderboards, that's real my complaints on Twitter, that's not really a work, Like I'm playing it up a little bit, but I am like genuinely annoyed by that. But when I'm playing game, I'm very much enjoyed
it. It really does hit the nail on the head for me, right, It is like I do feel like indignant that, Like after when I get a Tome, I have to ask Jeff, hey, what's I need to know? Like the game should just tell me that it should be a friend's leaderboard. It would have been very easy. It would have been super engaging and exciting feature. So it's annoying it's not there, but I'm still having fun. Yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna be playing it. I'll probably
talk about it again. On the BombCast next week. Speaking of stuff we talked about the on the BombCast. Did anyone play any more Concord? I know that. I think the beta opened up again for this weekend. My plans to jump in tonight for the first time. I missed the last beta I was traveling or whatnot, So I'm excited to try it out. I played it last weekend. Yeah. Do we talk to you about your opinion? I think we told my briefly on morning Wednesday. Yeah. I think
that's a lot of balance issues. I don't think it's a very pleasant onboarding experience. I I'm back and forth on it. Like I thought the story stuff was cool, Like I think that was really well acted, really well written. Yeah, but then when I was actually playing it, I was like, nah, yeah, and that's different than how you felt about Overwatch right Overwatch one you over pretty much immediately. Yeah, and I mean the think about Overwatch where it's like it's colorful, it's bright. I think the
difference is also very much. I jumped in with people who'd already been playing, so I definitely had people to teach me the ropes. However, if I didn't have that, there was still the training mode area at the shooting range, whereas Concord the Beta I'm still perplexed as to why it doesn't have
any of that. It's it chucks you into this world and like there is so much information about what every character does, and then it gives you five seconds to pick one and I'm just like, I have no idea, and then I end up stuck with a character who I don't like. Also, one thing I forgot to mention that I really really hope they change is that every time you die and respawn they say the exact same thing every time.
Oh no, yes, over every time. And speaking of Overwatch, I mean they like just introduced their new hero, you know, this kind of like eighties anime aesthetic space Ranger, and she looks really cool. It's like
really tempting me to play overwatched for the first time in a while. And like, you know, Overwatch can be so good a character designs right, And I've seen like people in Concord in that trailer and stuff, and like just I don't know if anybody looked as good as Juno just like immediately looks
appealing. Yes, there are so there are so many things about Concorde that really I really do like, but I feel like they've just kind of it feels like they've skipped a few steps to building the war, like an onboarding and a community and like how to get people involved in like interested in that game or like I'm not interested, but like invested in the characters and stuff. So I'm just like I have no idea any of these people. I have no idea how any of this works. I'm just like, Okay,
I'm going around, I'm doing kill confirmed or I'm doing death match. Like I'm not the biggest first person shoot a player of Watch aside, but there were things in it where it's like I thought some of the characters moved just way too slowly, like even if you can, and like, again, sorry for the comparison to Overwatch, but it's like Ryan Hart is a big
character. He moves slower than everyone else, but he still moves at a like there's like a pocket of movement speeds and they're all in that podcast, and here it feels like he's just like twice as slow as this other character. It's like that that's not feeling great. Yeah, it doesn't. It
didn't feel so great. Some of the weapons I also felt like, you know, I didn't really enjoy the crossbows that I kept like, but then they had really cool ability, so it's like, oh, well, if I want to have those cool abilities, I have to use these crossbows that I don't. I don't think yeah fun, I don't know. I mean Lexi is saying that, like they've given all the tank speed boost for this beat and so that I assume there'll be a bunch of balanced changes, so
I'm gonna like dip in interesting. I think they're listening. I think that what people expect from beta's has changed in the last few years, mainly because of early access and also like games just coming to beta in a more polished state than almost as marketing extraordinarily as a marketing exercise. And Concord is definitely a game that requires a lot of work, but also it is a beta game in beta right now and could very well and will likely improve in a
lot of ways. Overwatches beta was missing a lot of the things that we now say it doesn't have. You know, Concord doesn't look by comparison, but they added that stuff in over Watch. It was in a much better state when I think that was the kind of like the early days of beta's coming out way more polished than people expected. I feel like we might just have a case of well, the hope is we might have a case of a beta actually feeling and looking and functioning like a beta would have pre all
of this stuff. So yeah, it's not It doesn't particularly great, and it's missing some main features, but they still have a little bit of time to figure that stuff out, so I think, yeah, I mean the issue is that not issue, But it's like the buzz around the game is pretty non existent. The Steam numbers when the beata went live yesterday for the public one were not very strong. This kind of, unfortunately for them, needed to be that like remember when I mean very different, it's Apple's oranges.
But like remember when people were playing like the eld and Ring network test and like all you could hear was like the buzz and everyone was so excited, and like, it's kind of a shame that the conversation around Concord is eh, I don't and I think I think I think we're in a phase now where a game can't afford to me anymore. That's I think it's I think it's going to be delayed like, I feel like it won't come out. I's supposed to come out? What next month? Month? Six?
I want to say, but that I started twenty twenty four game release calendar. I suspect they'll delay it. And then if they delay enough for them just twenty third give the developers some time to fixed off, but also hopefully for the mocking to kick in if they actually want to mock you that game right. Sometimes it's like, ah, what can you do? Right?
Like I remember, you know, when there's that really rough trailer for Suicide Squad and then it got delayed a whole year, like they not for the reaction they said, for other reasons, but at certain points like oh, just get look, it just isn't gonna work. I don't know, I don't know what you can do. Maybe just release it, see what happens, and then maybe you got to move on with your life. And I don't really need to write this game off like that. It can it could
still do fine, It could still find an audience. It's it's hard though, Even like the few games that do break out right, they could just so easily fall on rough times Like Apex Legends seems to be on the way out Destiny too was having hard times. It seems like the new expansion is doing well. We'll see if that momentum holds up. So it's just so hard for one of these especially Jeff has the picture of this guy here now and just looking at him, it's like, man, I don't like this
guy. I don't like this audio. It's the green guy that has like the New York accent kind of he just looks like a normal person with the green Spirit Halloween makeup on and some tendrils on his chin. I thought the exact same way, And then I did watch one of those video of the story video things, and he talks very passionately about like the star maps they've been given by the first Free Gunners, and I'm like, that was pretty good movie. Actually, he looks like if if they tried to combine Nathan
Drake and Yondu from one hundred. Literally that's on a paper somewhere in their office. Tam Is, he's wearing Marty mc flies clos from Back to the Future in Part two. I think, yeah, well, I think like Lucy is right though, like in this day and age where the market is full of these kind of shooters, you have to have a much stronger first impression, because that's what people will judge whether they're going to pivot their entire gaming life towards it. And I don't think that it has done that,
So I think they definitely have an uphill struggle. I don't think they're pulling anyone away from Overwatch or Destinyy or Apex or anything remotely similar based on what they have so far. So although the game could improve, it could be or very well could have like already made the bed for itself. Yeah, and it's certainly it's like it's in such a corner because they keep saying,
Hey, no, we're building this game to feel like it's important. That's why we're spending all these this money on these big cut scenes that tell a story, and we're going to update that every week. And it's like, oh, I don't know if that's going to be the thing that makes her
break it. I think you do that sort of to justify your cost at the beginning, So like, hey, it's forty dollars because it's a real video game with a with a story, and I like you look over at Hell Divers and it's like that thing had a story, right, but it
was like community driven. It was, Hey, the guy that runs the game is going to send this this new threat into the game, and now we have to deal with that, and you can all tell each other how you're dealing with that, and that's the story, and that's like affordable.
It sounds like that's something like built into the gameplay here. It feels a little bit riskier and that they have to reach certain numbers to make it make sense because they are treating it like a big game even though it's forty dollars. All right, Now, has anyone played anything else they want to talk about? Or should we get to the second segment? Mummy? Wow? Yeah one? All right, let's start with the Kiditsugami because I'm curious about
the how's that been going for? You? Really enjoying it? It's got a really nice little gameplay loop. I think I didn't even jump into the demo that they had. I just played like from the full game, and it's just like, honestly, it does a thing where it starts off really nice and just kind of gets you to into grips with all of the mechanics and like it's it's tower defense and it is wild how quickly it jumps to being you know, oh, I can't just leave my guys. I have
to be micromanaging this. I have to be jumping all around the map. I have to be you know, like, oh God, the Goddess is getting attacked, blah blah blah, I'm jumping around. I think it's beautiful. It also really scratches the same itch from Okamie, where it's this world that has been ruined, it's covered in blight, and then you and your actions directly bring beauty back in color and it's I really like, I think that's satisfying, and like there's there's base repair stuff you the I think the
modifiers on the levels are really clever. Like there's one where you're in a cave and it is dark and your guys can only see when wherever you light lanterns, but you can't light them. They have to light them. Like it's really it's really cool and it's I don't know, there's a lot about it. I like just glad that Capcom took a chance on what would be a relatively niche game. Yeah, has anyone else been playing? And Nick, you know you played a little bit of years back and it is.
It's it's one of the most video game video games I think that I have played in a long time. Unabashedly is like, here is the thing. It is. There is a story, but it doesn't really make a difference. Like the mechanics feel good to play, feel good to interact with. It feels good to listen to and to see, Like, I freaking love it. It feels like a PlayStation it's one of the best PlayStation two games ever made. Yeah that I've heard that comparison as well. Yeah, PlayStation
two game and that's like, that gets me excited. Yeah, I think I can get more PS three from it personally, but that's just Jesus. Listen. I wasn't alive yet, so, oh my god, that's a lie. That's a word. Did you say you were playing flint Lock? No, I'm sorry, couldn't here. Everyone said the same thing at the same time. I wasn't sure what you said. I play. I've been playing Buckshot, Okay, I is here? How you heard? Flint Lock is really fun. It doesn't have a long lot of longevity, but it's
got a lot of replayability. So it's basically the first phase of inscription, but instead of inscription was card base right, yes, right in there, but yes, yeah, you're doing Russian roulette. So there's like a shotgun in the middle of the table and there's a weird, freaky looking saw like
figure on the other end. And at the start of the game each game you see how many blanks there are and how many live bullets there are, and then the weird figure loads them all into the gun and then puts it on the table, and then you basically have to decide do you want to shoot yourself and have the other player skipper go, or do you want to shoot them and risk you know, shooting them hopefully to win the game. There's like an energy meter as well. But along the way they have various
items that slowly get introduced that can act as mod fires. For example, you can have a magnifying glass that appears and instead of like they do like
these very like weird it has like a saw one aesthetic to it. Or it's like a lot of iron and cobble together technology, but in like a concrete grimy everything in it, everything in it that looks like a surface that you could touch, looks like it would give you the give you the most the biggest tetanus ever, like you would get the most tetanus humanly possible if
you feel any surface in here. It looks and feels gross, but like you pick up a magnifying glass and your player will like smash it on on the on the table and then basically allows you to pick up the shotgun and look what bullet is in the chamber, and then you can make a decision based off that you have like a an adrenalinine thing where if you use it, you can quickly swipe the other players one of their items of your choice
you can use like can you get this like beer? You can drink a can of beer to give yourself one life point back or reverse polarity of the of the gun and stuff like that. So there's a lot of modifiers to it, and then there's this whole like underlying aesthetic where it's like there's some
weird shit happening as well. Like one time I during one of the games, like I pulled, I went to pull out an item out of the box and it was a contract that seemingly indicates that this other player, this freak, had played Russian Roulette against God and one, and it's like oh, this is weird. It doesn't do I don't think it does enough of
that unfortunately. It feels very very like light on that stuff. But you get to like you get stuff like an item where it allows you to do like double or nothing, and then eventually it becomes like almost like a a score leaderboard thing where you're trying to get as much money out of out of your win as possible to try and get higher and higher on the leaderboards.
But at the same time as having that gross aesthetic, it has like I think you're playing in like some sort of club environment, so you can hear like club music like muffled in the background, and it just feels like you're in like one of those gross club scenes from a John Wick and you have to play Russian Roulette against this weird extraterrestrial demonic thing, and it's it's really fun. Like I think I've beaten the the other weird player multiple times.
I'm not sure if more stuff keeps coming out about like the Laura and stuff if you keep playing. I've like repeatedly played it and I can't seem to tell I can't see anything that's changing, but I keep playing it and it's
really fun. It also has like a lot of weight to it, so like when you fire the shotgun it sounds gross, and like when when you get hit with a shotgun, like the screen shakes, you black out and then there's like a diff and then you can see like a defibrillarator defibllarator put on you to like revive you quickly, and there's like, oh, this is like if you're going for double or nothing. They you see like this weird contraption come out and it like cuts the tubes to the life support system.
It's got this very very like gross, harsh aesthetic to it that's really really interesting. I think it's three dollars on Steam right now, so it's one hundred worth it even if you get like an hour of gameplay out of it. It is so so it's a really cool, fun hour. Yeah, I've been I've been hearing nothing but good things about this. You might have mentioned it. Can I play this on the steam deck and have a good time? It will work there. Yeah, yeah, you can play
on steam Deck. I was playing on the Roger ally, okay, play on the steam deck as well, and it works perfectly fine. Yeah, it is great and like put some headphones on if you can. But it is a fun game. Will I hope that they do more with it and you add to it and build a law out. It's apparently it seems to be like a one development crew team, so I hope that. I don't know if they're just done with it now, if he's done events like moving on, or if he plans to come back to it and add to it.
I hope it's the latter because there's a lot of potential there. I think they're going to add online play soon as well, so that's against someone else. If they do that, will do that for a UPF that'd be great. Yeah, it's a Buckshot Roulette. Yep. I'm gonna add it right now. I play it as my warm up game, so like before I sat down to it, like Kinisagami, and like I know, before I start Kunisagami, I'm going to play like a round or two of buck
Shot Roulette and then that's it, and then I'll play that round. Sometimes I've had situations where I've like I actually just ended up playing this for an hour and a half and now I'm going to go to bed. But I've also had situations where it's like, oh that was fun, I'm gonna switch to my other game now, chuck on like Kinnisagami or elden Ring or something like that. And yeah, it's it's like the whole thing if you if you're like to complete, it will take you maybe half an hour, but
then you can carry on playing over and over again. Like I said, do you see that's in a bundle on Steam, and the bundles called literally the same game and it's and Inscription. It was like reviews, Someone's like this is literally the same game as Inscription, and they're just like, let's do this bundle. Yeah, it's it is just the first phase of Inscription basically, like it doesn't it doesn't develop into anything else, but it's like
three or four dollars and I highly highly recommend it's got. The other one of the items is like strategic values, like a handcuff, so you can be like, oh, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna hanko OFFF the other player and then do X y Z and you can pull off these things where it's like, oh it feels good when you get come up
with a plan and like an execute on a plan. Yeah, and then that element of like getting unlucky is still there because it does this thing where it shows you important information, but it doesn't log it anywhere, and it's very very brief, so if you're not paying attention, Like I had a situation where I used the magnifying glass to see what was in the chamber if it was a live round or not, and I briefly looked away to see what my cat was doing and look back and the animation was already over,
and so then I had no idea if it was a live round or not, So I like had to take a chance on shooting myself to see what
would happen, and yeah, I got I shot myself. So like it has that element of like you have to and then also there's enough information being given to you quickly that you could have a moment where you're like, oh shit, I forgot what the this piece of information was, or you doubt yourself enough to be like, I'm not sure if this is going to go exactly how I want or not, and it's it's got enough going there. It's a very clever game, and it's at the very least if you don't
find it, it has a lot of depth. It's fun for the little bit of time that you will play it hard to pass up. That's a bagg of gummy worms, right, yep, that's how That's how we measured things here, Nikki. Did you say you're playing college football? Yeah, it's a good game. That's fun. On UPF we found you talk to a lot about it on you F, so I won't over, I won't tread back over but on UPF or on on BombCast. But on EPF I
just found that you can make a custom school online. And now I'm like, this is fundamentally changed the way I think I would have fay this game. Maybe we could do a Giant Bomb University. Maybe we could do something like that. Buddy made the logos for that they did. I saw that that looked great. That would be really fun. And then I've been playing Paper Mario. I started it, put it down, and then over the course of this week have been playing it again. And now I'm in Glitzville.
It's freaking delightful. What a delightful video game. It's so good. Did you play Super Mario RPG remake? I started it and then I was like, I don't like this yeah, I'm hearing a lot of younger, younger people who are like that this is not and I'm like, for me,
like su mariop do all that's so perfect and great. Yeah, and it's like, oh, okay, I could see maybe thinking it's a little bit too simple and writing there, but it does get better over time with those with those games, and it's really good in Thousand Year Door and that's gonna sit so good. I have like so much like A Thousand Year Door is one of the first games that like I remember playing and didn't really need. It felt like an entirely contained experience for me. I didn't talk about
it with anybody at school. I like didn't ask my mom about like what the words were saying like meant, because I was like, that's how old I was, like it was a I played the entirety of that game by myself, and it felt so sick to be able to do so coming back to it now and like also having the jokes still hit, it's like, oh damn, like this has been funny the whole time. Also, I've thought the same stuff has been funny. That's like there's like still in here
a key point in your humor developmental stage. Yeah. Absolutely, it's really good, and it fucking looks great, Like, it looks so good. I was just I was just kind of so happy, like in a similar position where I love that game back when I played it. But you know, I played that one time when it came out on the game Cube, and I knew I really liked it, but I kind of forgot a lot of the details. So going back to it, it's like it was kind of better than I remembered, and a lot of guys like, man,
this is fantastic. No wonder everybody likes this one specifically, it rules. Yeah, all right, we'll wrap it up there, unless anyone has anything else they want to mention. Now ione's shaking their head, Okay, cool, all right, we'll take a quick break. When we get back. We are going to do a video game animal draft. We'll explain what that means right after this. Oh all right, we're back. We're gonna do
a draft video game animal draft. This is where we're going to each select a team of fun let's say five five, don't need much more of that, and then we'll have the chat, the live chat vote on who has the best team. We will do it snake style, so it'll be uh, you know start. You know, whoever goes first goes first, and then whoever goes last will go twice in a row, and then we'll come
back the other direction. We do have to figure out, though, what counts as an animal, Like you had your hand up, well, what are your concerns, because there are I think there are a lot of questions worth bringing up here. I don't think we should count answerpomorphic animals. So I don't want animals that like sonic the head standing. I don't want sonic. I don't want the clouds. I don't want animals who like wear clothes or talk that sound good to everybody. Oh, talk, I think talk
is a bit over a weird one. Maybe talk is a bit much, you know what. Yeah, if an animal looks like anymore, get talk? You're right, that's fine. What if what if animals that can talk to other animals? Sure's an animal talking to a human. No, yeah, you're right. The talking thing is that I feel like you can talk to the human. I just don't. Yeah, I feel like the thing is like if the animal is behaving like sala kupa, for example, that's just basically a human that's a guy. Yeah, it can't. You can't
think about whether or not it should be able to vote. Right, well, you shouldn't fit into the movies very liberal views about who can vote or not. I don't know. So I don't want to be putting animals in Zotopia because that fan base is No. I want to avoid them wherever possible. Okay, I think it's anthropomorphic. No anthropomorphic if they are standing out, we all know what we mean. Okay, all right, so keep good. What if it's okay? Sorry, but what if it's so far
past like crash Bandicoot that's not a bandicoot anymore. That's that's more thing that would not count. You can't, we can't. We can't pick crash to Sonic coded. Okay, great, and we'll talk it out as needed. So what is the like are we are we just putting together squad that's gonna fight. No, you're going to pick a squad that the chat will vote for. So you have to think are they thinking along those lines? We could tell them that that it's not fight. It's just like the who has
the best list of Like, what do you think is? Who do you do you find to be like the most exciting or whatever, but like for what purpose, like just spill appeal. This is a team that's gonna like like try and fight for like the freedom of the universe, power levels to be considered right now, it's just it's just like list of best animals. Wait, what lest you guys like best exactly? All right, and you're just trying to win over the chats. You gotta put your head in their
there's their space a little bit. I think we'll go with the way that we introduced everybody for the orders that sound good. Sure, if you remember what that order is you are on, it will be the order that you're all in here on on my screen here, So that means, you know, actually do the screen up there so that we that way the people at home can say it. Okay, So we're gonna start with Lucy James and I will bring up I will start with Aro from Shadow of the Colossus.
Nice, nice, thank you? Nice good pick Okay nice. Also, I'm literally just going through my Steam library to be like what gives a g r? Oh? Okay and Shadow this year you a horse girl? No, my sister is though. Okay, one time for Christmas Uh, this is gonna be one of those little sad lucy law stories where it's like, in retrospect, it's kind of sad, but at the time it was fine. My mum just got me a piece of paper and she drew a horse on it and cut it out and wrote on the back I owe you ten
horse riding lessons, which I never got. And also I don't I don't care for horses. I don't like riding horses. I think horses are very scary. Yeah, they are scary. Actually love horses. My sister rides horses though. D dog great, Okay, I like it all right. I believe that means up next is actually, sorry, Mike, we're going to do it in the order that it's on the screen now, So that is nick okay. Oh I thought Mike was gonna go first. Yes,
sorry, I just don't want to waste my number one pick. Want to train your draft pick to me? Yeah, I can go back one. Sure, we'll do it. That's why we got to remember this now. But that's fine, no worries. Oh yeah, all right, Nikki. Uh that means Mike you're up. I am going to pick Echo the Dolphin in my first round here. That's great, all right. Echo is a dolphin who has stars on his forehead. He has the ability to travel through
time and other magical powers that are very mysterious. He gets tangled up with aliens, but he wins, right of course. All right, Nikki, you're up. Are dragons animals? Yes? I vote no? Do do we trant to vote? Oh? Yes? I thought you just voted no a second ago. Now you're just I said, I said, yes, they are. No, No one agrees with me that they're not not real. Okay, so they are real to be a real animal, okay, okay, so then so can I pick one of the dragons in Breath of
the Wild? Okay? Monster? Okay, fine, fine, chickens in Modern Warfare two? Okay, you said chickens. Yeah, they are pretty good chickens. That's good. That's good. All right, I am going to select epina or I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's how that's how Dan says it, and I just was, okay, it's I know that's how you remember it. Good God, that's gonna be my head on weekend. Thanks appreciate that. All right, there we go again. Shoot, Okay, I didn't think about that all right, give me a second
here to think. Uh, I will go with Okay, he's Yoshi an animal. No, no, it's a dinosaur. No, he's a dragon. Basically, he's a dinosaur dinosaur. He's also pretty an whatever that shoes. Okay, So so we're saying no to Yoshi official then dog meat okay, okay, good, okay, that's fair. Yeah, okay, all right, that means Nikki gets back to you. Chocobo's okay, I like, are those real animals? As we never said real animals? Yeah, we never said real animals. Dragons huh, well, we weren't going to
east unchokable in terms of how real they are. Okay, yeah, we can't do that. Then what the book's going on? Man insane? Yeah, but dragons, well, we can have a ridable giant fucking chicken. We weren't going to a loud dragons. We just didn't like the dragon that Dick was going to pick. I say yes to chocobos if it's I think I think that one is easier because you could they farm those guys. Yeah, to be to me, Chocobo reads his animal and the dragons and uh,
the Zeota games read as monster and I think there's a distinction. Okay, so Chocobo's finally answer Toocobo's fine. I'm gonna pick Ramby the Rhinoceros from Donkey Kong Country. Good pick. Feeling real good about that one. Okay, feels it feels great? Yeah, fun writing rhinoceros. You cower, I need the space, all right, tam back to you. I'm gonna pick Dusty the cat from Gravity Rush. Oh that's so good. Damn oh Dusty rules. Oh it's a good one. Yes, all right, Lucy,
you got two in a row. Okay, so well did we where do we land on the uh? Oh? Okay, where do we land on? Real real animals versus fake we allowing fake animals? And okay, okay, So my next one is the little spring Hair from Elden Ring, the little muadeb Mood Deep spring spring Hair, spring hair. It's a thing that's like all over the lands between and it's just very cute. I like that, and every time must see it, I do the trump as Shai Haluds a little dizzig mouse. It's very cute and you all know it.
It's cute. I'm not throwing it's cute, so sure, And then next I will take the cat from Stray. Okay, okay, the stray cat from Stray. All right, there we go, Tam back to you. I was going to pick the the sheep from milder Ring because it rolls around for no reason whatsoever. I like that too. I will instead pick the bravest steed in all of video games, Torrent Double Torrent has killed God's here has been around. The one time he was like, I'm not up for
this was in the DLC where he's like, I am too scared. Rightly so, because he's a spirit steed in that area. If spirits are killed, they're dead forever. So it's like, I'm not probably for your own safety, I'm not going to do this, all right, Mike, you uh the Capital straight gave me this idea. I'm going to take the untitled Goose untitled Goose game. I like it. I feel good about that.
I feel good about it. A lot of my picks apparently. Uh, Nikki the Eagle Drone from Assassin's Creed Artist question mark, is that the one that is Origin Origins? Well that both have birds? Yeah, both, but the one in Origins has a name I remember, but I can't remember what it is. Yeah, but that guy, and there's a raven in uh the England one Valhalla. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna pick Rush from Mega Man. Now wait a second, Rush is not an animal at all. It's a pure robot. Does this count? It's a dog, just
a robot. I feel like it being a robot doesn't just kind of because it's my pick. Thinks that's not Listen, I agree that sound logic. Okay, then I'll go with ten dogs. Okay, brackets all breathe, Yeah, all right, let's think here. Damn, I need to come up with something else. Okay, Oh is this a monsters an animal Treaco? All right? From last God it becomes very animal like it. It's like a dog. Yeah, you're right, you're right to come in again.
We allowed a chokeabo and so I don't you get have it if you want it, all right, then I'll go with Amateurasu from that's a better one anyways. Yeah, I mean, just you don't like the last Guardian Mike, I don't know. Yeah, we get it. I said I would have allowed it. Uh well no, yeah, because you didn't think it was a good nick I didn't KAZOOI all right, uh kazui is close.
But there's nothing about Kazooi that's not that's anthem promorphic. It looks just like a bird, right, is pretty much just a bird like banjo? Absolutely not. I think, fine, you can't have Kazooi, thank you. Uh. I want. I'm gonna take the other good horse that I think is left. I want Roach from the Witcher. Three cool, tam. I am going to take Roger the kangaroo from tekan nice. Oh goy, powerful kangaroo. That's such a good one. Ship Okay, wait,
but can he fight? Does he understand the rules of the fight. He can technically be the king of Iron fist and also he has a little baby kangaroo in his pouch which is also wearing boxing gloves. And then in teken A, Roger Junior becomes the main fighter instead of Roger Senior. So, okay, Lore Kangaroo's strong. I'll take Nancy from Yakuza like a dragon, Nancy crawfish and then she goes to Hawaii. How many do we have?
Five? Five? One more? One more coramru from persona three? Oh for that k O r O m A r u. He said, five three, three? Okay, all right, Sam? What are you thinking I need to end one? I had to my my list doesn't have a lot of Q on it. Apart from Dusty. I'm gonna go with an animal that's obviously near indeed to my heart. I'm gonna go with b K the raccoon from Donut County. Oh wow, that game is good. I should play that game again on mobile now, right, Yes, Mike Manati,
I have a couple of ideas here. Mm hmmm something okay, I don't think. I don't think eitherm are the kind of okay I would have liked to have seen either of these would would play to be honest. But I'm gonna go with It's that dog from Resident Evil for oh, please write it's that dog. It's that dog. That's a good that's a really good, really good video game animal that's really good, all right, Nikki the bird from Flappy Bird. Sure, all right? And then I'm gonna go
with Shadow Mirror from Elder Scrolls. Shadow. I thought you were gonna say Shadow the dog from Dead to Rights Hedgehog. I like that. We kind of all just knew. Like, no, Pokemon, those animals that's not after their pocket monster. Yeah, exactly, their monsters yeah, all right, okay, let's have everyone read their own, can you can everyone see your own and like read it everyone? Mostly? Oh yeah, there we
go. Okay, Lucy James, you're up first. Hello. My list the James Games list Agro from Shadow of the Colossus, the spring Hair aka a Little Moo Deep guys from elden Ring, the Cat from Stray, Nancy from Like Dragon, and Coromar Root from Persona three. All right, Taminal, you're up. My tome animals are d Dog from Metalga Solid five, Dusty the cat from Gravity Rush, Torrent from elden Ring, Roger the Kangaroo
from Tekan and BK the raccoon from Donut County. Mike the Mike Minaughty Menagerie is good, Echo the Dolphin, Ramby the Rhino from Docy count Country, Goose from Untitled Goose Game, Roach from Witcher three, and it's that dog from Resident Evil. For Nicki, my list is the chickens from Modern Warfare two, Chokovo's the Eagle from Assassin's Creed Origins, Zooey of Banjo Fame and
Bird of Flappy Fame. The grub The grubworms are Epona Dog Meat and then ten dogs, all breeds amateuras sue uh and shadow beer and amats from a commie shadowyer elder scrolls. I'll get the pole going, okay, yes, I just want to put our names for each one. I don't know that working on. Yeah, I absolutely only the graduation de fault. Yeah, yeah, pretty good list of you fair? Can you swap the you're doing it? Oh what do you mean? Well? No, nothing perfect.
I'm gonna I'm taking a screenshot now, okay, cool, and I'm going to tweet it. Almost put in missile from the thinking about miss so I love miss You do a reply and put a poll in there as well if you want. Yes, I almost just picked the giraffes from the last of us. Thought oh that's a good one. That might have been good. Yeah, all right, last just to have a fun title for your group. I don't know if it's gonna help you. A bird, nicky bird? Yeah, the grub uh list the boom, there we go. All
right, there's the actual poll. All right, let that we'll let that cook. They're going, oh, you can have to see it happened in real time. I thought he might have it. I thought he might have it, and d dog those are some really good. B K is actually a killer now when I'm looking at it. Yeah, came out a good list, right, thought Roger was incredibly You're crushing Tam. Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah, let's go hell yeah, strong second, triple, Okay, okay, I think I think grub second is a joke. I think
grubs list is terrible. Yeah. I'm just gonna say, but you always lose these games, so you think it's bad, it's good. It doesn't matter because with twenty nine votes, which is way more than double anyone else, the Taminals took it. Well done, Tam, that side of it. You didn't even have to bust out the great gray Wolf sift for this one. I was robbed. Every recount is the Mike Managerie and the fourth is James Games and Nicky Bird in a fifth file place plenty of votes,
very close. Everything was close, except for Tam winning by exactly I constructed. I constructed my list as animals who on a team together could protect the world. Yeah, Dusty is like, Dusty has the ability to change gravity. Torrent is basically unkillable and brave. Rogers kangaroos great at combat, d dog stealth and BK can basically create holes to drop stuff in between them. They can solve any problem. So it's like the kids don't even care about
Echo anymore. So my god, now no respect. Number one is kind of a reach, like, yes, it's a great pict Yeah. Maybe maybe if I had instead of Echo, if I had the draft class of US or Missile might have been better closer. Yes, I think tam still would have won. I gotta take Echo now. Yeah, I voted for Echo. Weird that goes right here, My buddy, there you go, she cry. I don't care. I thanks for watching, Thanks for listening, everybody. For everyone here at Giant Bomb, I've been your host.
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