Castle Super Beast - CSB 033: Hoes Mad X40

Episode Date: September 4, 2019

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A Hello, you're back. You're alive. You made it. I did your journey to cross the seas to come back to us in regular live ish format. Yeah. I'm here. I'm not actually to sleep. Deprived or or much of my chat lagged for that matter. Sure, they'll hit you tomorrow or the day after something like that. Yeah, I'm a lot if it gets bad, I'll take a melatonin and reset everything. But for now, I'm okay. Just did that just work for you. I mean, it does, because I don't use it very often. Okay. So the trick to melatonin working is when you don't use it very often, it works really well. I tried it once didn't do shit. And then I tried it like, excuse me, and it double didn't do shit. And I was like, thanks. Thanks over the

counter herbal medication. Boof. Yeah. But easily a a a that's one of there was a it was the return trip was broken up into two halves because we went through Dallas first. So I did that one weird. Yeah, so it was basically honestly, when I looked at the clock in Tokyo, when we got back home, it had been 24 hours since we had departed for the airport. Yeah. So whatever the 13 or 15 or whatever it was in an actual flight, doesn't matter because add the prep time and it's a full 24 hours and then sitting around in the airport. Yeah. But yeah, no, back good. It's far. It's a very far place. It's super worth it. But fuck, far. Fuck is it the first the furthest you can get without needing to it's possible that Australia would be farther because you have to go north south as well. It's the furthest

point on the map worth going to I'm I like that my friend just be real. Oh, no, let's just be real. It's the furthest dot worth going to come here some some some angry didgeridoo's in the distance. Don't worry about if you have adventure in your spirit. If your soul calls to the wild, then go yonder into the unknown venture. Yes. But if your soul calls for anime and video games and and weeb shit and anime byproducts that you can safely consume in the safety of your home with your comfy comfy civilization around you, then yeah, that's the dot you want to go to civilization. You can get out to Kamchatka. You can get out to fucking South Pole if you want to be on one of those limited flight trips or South Pole seems cool. You can go hit up Madagascar if you want, you know, and let's be

real, I actually kind of think it would be cool to check out Madagascar. Not going to lie. But the dot of places left that I want to go on the map is really, really, really shrunken over the years. There's not many places I really want to go. There's one place I desperately want to go, but I probably won't be able to go there before I die. And that's Earth orbit. Sure. Yeah, not going to happen. Maybe. But I mean, anybody working SpaceX, you can vomit, comment. No. That's, that's the closest you'll get. I want to look down on the whole earth within my frame of vision. My perception. Dots on the map. I still I really, really have for a long time for years, I've been obsessed with Angkor Wat. I'm saying it wrong, but it's the really beautiful temples in Cambodia. Yeah, that

shit's really gorgeous. I really want to see that. I've never been a Euro trip. I've never really wanted to do a Euro trip. Listen, okay, so I've explained this over and over. I feel identically to you not Angkor Wat Park, but the European thing. Okay, many people don't understand this. I think it's a Montrealer thing. Because I remember a bunch of kids in my high school being like, well, we're going to London for the trip. Like who give the fuck to give them a London go down to Ottawa. It looks looks like shitty London as like, oh, we're going to go to Perry and like just go down to the fucking old port and you're in Perry. Like what the like Europe, like yeah, the West half of Europe is like downtown. Yeah, we live in the most European city. What's the fucking point? So

that is a huge part of it. You want to see a guy smoke too much and maybe spit on your food, go down to the fucking St. Catherine. Yeah. Yeah. So there's there's that that's not it's not hard to see a bunch of horses and stone stone streets and old style buildings and cathedrals. We can get us a horse walking around today. That's what's very easy to do. There are tourists in it. Well, no, not in the horse in the carriage. Yeah, that's different. But there but there are some particular sights and sounds that I'd want to be might be curious to check out. But for the most part, yeah, there's a huge dark spot in terms of interests. That whole middle part in that whole middle part from from here all the way over

to just the to now we just got to pretty much hit that old fucking spice trade route. That's where the interest lies, because there's just nothing in between that that I care about. And I'm like, look, man, like I got your Russia. You're cool. You're big. There's cool stuff in Russia. I can do without it. You know, I could do with like I said, probably I could do without probably, you know, whatever. Anyway, if if things pop up that are like, holy fuck, then I can easily be swayed, right? Because like I said, Cambodia, I don't really care about Cambodia as much as I want to check that place out. All right, here's a quote from Willie, Willie Madden, everyone. I don't really care about Cambodia. Put that up on your Twitter. But I'll have you know. Well,

the important, hey, I literally some of my best friends are Cambodia because the strongest players in Street Fighter and Montreal are all Cambodian. So really? Yeah, that's a thing. Oh yeah. Is that like how the the the Pakistanis are coming out of nowhere to kill everyone at Tekken? I mean, Chirithi is totally Cambodian Khmer as they call it Khmer SF and like him and the whole the old all the OGs, all the best Marvel players, they're all Cambodian. It's nuts. What's going on in Cambodia? Nothing, but like we all grew up. I just I told you I grew up in an area of Montreal called Saint Laurent that just happened to have the arcade with the maximum competitiveness going on outside of the downtown core. And I just got lucky being in that area.

And everyone around that area happened to be Cambodian. So that's how it went. So but it's it's it's it's it's less ethnic or national. It's more about what small like community did the arcade happen to be placed next to pretty much. And then that's what what it became. Although, yeah, I want to go see those temples. That's cool. Um, you draw on the wall. Japan's dope. Japan is I feel really like as I was on my way out because it's been about a half month, I feel like I finally started to really cement like, OK, I can communicate. It's it's really rough. It's really coarse. It's communicating right now. I can communicate in Japanese. See, that's a form of communication. And that was not clear. See, you're getting better

every day. And I can and it's one word, sometimes two words, statements, half sentences, you know, really broken and fucked up. But I've got enough to catch basic context. And here's the thing is, and this is how I know, because I'm the same way with French, right? When it comes to it, I've been around it my whole life. And like now listening to my friend who lives there, who's she's super fluent speaking with cab drivers and listening to other people talking and whatnot. I'm like, oh, I completely understand that conversation. Yeah, right. The the Montreal bilingual conversation for those of you don't know often goes, Hey, how are you? It's like, no, no, you speak in French. Yeah, speaking English. Yeah. And we'll just make this

worse. So work blah, blah, blah. So last time, I just kind of, you know, use my use whatever basic terms I could to get around this time around, especially having watched a bunch of terrorist house. I literally like it's a dumb place to pick it up. But I picked up some things that are like, oh, yeah, it's better place to fucking pick it up than anime than anime. Yeah. And I was I definitely had that fear that I'm like, Oh, no, do I just am I one of those stupid fucking people that thinks that you're like, Oh, I watched some anime and played some video games. I know what I'm doing. Yes. And I am. But thankfully, I did a little bit of supplemental work around that and got it just decent enough. I remember to be able to say that I got through we got through the the

trip. All right. And like, when like, we yeah, we were able to get where we needed to go the whole time, whatever. And in most cases, most stores, most whatever, like taxi rides and such have full have conversations. I was able to do it. I kept up, you know, I was pretty happy with the results. I'm like, Yeah, I can actually do this at a like an elementary school level. If I like started to apply it. So I'm like, Okay, yeah, that's summer. In all honesty, the hardest part of learning a new language is the part that you did do with video games and anime, which is you got to the point. I remember for a while ago, one of my language teachers taught me this. It's like the hardest part of any new language is going from quote, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, where words

aren't distinct. And people are just going to be a bit like, no, you can't tell the difference between somebody fake speaking it and real speaking it and going, Oh, that's a word. I don't know what that word fucking means. But it's a word. Yeah. Um, no, now now it's like, yeah, now it's now it's actual keywords popping up. And I'm like, Oh, I know what the subject matter of this sentence is. Gaijin, huh? Hmm. Guy Kokujin. Oh, yes. Don't say don't want no disrespect there. Oh, okay. Anyway, so I guess since since we last left off, wherever I was on Red Bull on my pants, I was, I think I was on Bunny Island. No, wait, the last podcast preview was the bunnies. Yes. Yeah, I was bun Bunny Island. That's where

I left it off. Fun time Bunny Island where nothing ever went wrong. Don't you worry about it now that you because I told you about it when I'd been there. But now that you have been there, isn't the fucking dichotomy between this is the poison gas war crime plant bunnies. And like, there's no overlap at all in the presentation of the island. They they actually incorporate that into the little movie you watch if you go to the poison gas museum. So you can go check out the little, you know, a small little museum where they have a couple of signs up and it's a very like, yep, there was some really bad things here. And for the most part, it focuses on like how it badly affected the people working there and probably real about

got fucked up. All of the photos of the damage the poison does were photos from foreign lands and foreign far away people and foreign bodies that don't matter for in babies. Oh, wow. Didn't see that part. It was closed the day we went. Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing too close to home in terms of photos. But nonetheless, that was there. God forbid no bunnies. And then they went over and then there's a kind of a they really had a lot of detail on how the production like of the poison went and how they this was the hidden island that was that was chosen and so on and so forth. And then there was a the smallest plaque on the entire wall was the one that said though actual use of the poison in the war to this day is still unknown in its application.

And it can be certain that many were harmed beyond the context of those that were making it on this island. And poison is a very bad thing that should never be so a big old plaque that says mistakes were made, essentially, right? It really did not go into how it was used. It was just about the production of it and those it hurt. The saddest thing is it's like it's the most idyllic, beautiful scenic location that has ever been like this perfect little island. It's very cute. There's islands around. It's cute water and it's like, yeah, they also only mentioned bunnies once when they say like the application of one dot one drop of this to a rabbit skin can change the color entirely in one day or whatever. They're like, how do you know that? And like accident

one of the bunnies found a old two, you know, no, I don't even know. You just you just you move on. You move on. So anyway, that was that was Bunny Island. Mistakes, otherwise known as Okuro Shima. Yeah. And yes, exactly. But check out the really cute everything. Oh, yeah. The bun buns. I got one to sit on my lap. Oh, they don't give a shit. Yeah. You just you do the leading and then there it go. It's one of those areas where the same thing with Nara where the distinction between wild animal and tame animal is really vague. The difference is the deer are assholes. Well, deer are assholes as a whole as a race. They are bad. We can condemn them.

People think that deer are cute and wonderful and they are but they are also bad and mean. Be sure to say the word deer very frequently while we talk about how that entire race of assholes deserves what they have coming. You say as you didn't actually hear the word deer in that sentence, Willie. But I remember being a kid and me like, how could you hunt the beautiful deer? And then I'm like, shoot the deer. Fuck them. Yeah, the dicks. But bunnies are their their assholes too, but they don't have the means to disturb you as much. Don't they can't disturb you. I remember somebody who used to live on a farm who described that if you leave the wrong bunnies together in a pen, you walk into a blood covered rabbit and a bunch of decapitated heads. The first rabbit

we saw upon walking out from the hotel was one with a giant chunk of its right eye missing. It was a huge badass. It was almost a badass scar. Yeah, but it was so wide that it was more like a terminator scar. Yeah, you know, that's cool. It was a cano thing without the metal plate. And someone fucking just took a chunk out and it just kept going. You know, what's weird. When you look at when you look at like a like a character that has a big old scar, that's meant to show that they're hardened. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But in reality, it usually means it lost. Yes. It's not you ate shit very hard. It's not like, oh, look how tough it is. Like, no, that's the bitch one that lost. The cool one is immaculate because it won every time.

Yeah, that one should have died, but didn't, you know. Anyway, so Bunny Island was followed up with the trip over to return to Hakone. That's up north where the last time it's where I got is the point though that I said Frodo left Middle Earth. So we just took this amazing little like train railcar ride through the mountains, doing a little Studio Ghibli thing, then got up onto a rope car and then on sense and all that good stuff. They should build a life size Evangelion unit to a tower over that city. Well, there is a giant Ava head that it's not in that city. It's in another city. Yeah, it's another amusement park. But when you do get to Hakone, Hakone, they are very. Yeah, they're very clear. They're very clear about it being

Tokyo three. Yeah. And as you as you take the winding side rail roads and you see all those little like turns and like diagonal walls where you're expecting the missiles to flip out of. Yeah. That is all raw Hakone. So yeah, that was cool. Although this time around, there was a typhoon warning and there's volcanic activity. So we had to shut down a lot of that cool ways to get there. Well, I gotta ask and take a taxi and some kind of natural disaster. We've already covered this question. Would it not be? No, this is a slightly different question. Would it at least not be super cool to die by getting volcanoed? No, because lava I found out is not the lava for movies. You don't fall into it like molten liquid. Oh, no, you skid on it and burn. It's hard. Yeah,

it's hard. So you will stop. You will be standing on it as it roasts you. Yeah, totally. Yeah, that's not fun. I thought if but like I'm like, Hey, everybody podcast delayed this week, Willie fell in a volcano. Yeah. Yeah, well, like Willie dies in magma. Yeah, that's the actual Koji Kabuto dies in magma. Yeah. Yeah, but but man, that's a that's a bad way to go because it's heavy and it's thick and it's like rock. Well, they went down to Hakone and was like, I'm going to reenact Magma Diver, the shittiest episode of Evangelion and was like, Oh, no, I'm dead. Well, anyway, the the the volcano activity meant that the ropeway was shut down. So we had to instead take a replacement bus. So we did a side view, not as pretty trip through

the mountains, but it was still still driving through clouds because the mountain was literally high up into being to be in the clouds. We had a really great time and got to that same place where Middle Earth came to an end. But this time we took the boat. Last time we were like, where does that boat go? Who knows? We'll never find out this time we got on the fucking boat. And the boat led us to a gorilla. All right, next to an ice cream stand. Okay. And we had some ice cream and then we went back like a gorilla or like one of the there's a gorilla who's sitting there. And there's some ice cream. And then we just like a real one. I mean, no, it was stuffed. Okay, a cute stuffed gorilla. The reason I asked is because like, the other day I refound

that photo of like, do not fight the monkey, the monkey will defeat you image that is not at Hakone, but it is in Japan. There was also a lot of vending machines with the most tonally dissonant Ava like merch and stuff you've ever seen. Okay, worse than the Gendo Akari shaving ad. That's the one. I don't I'm not familiar with that. Oh, you've never seen it? I don't think I've seen it. It's like a fucking chic razor for Gendo. And he shaves his beard and he goes and he clapped and he goes, ah, and he does a big smile and a thumbs up. And it's like, what the fuck is this? Wow. Okay. No, I'm just talking about like little vending machines with like Ray wearing a Yukata looking very, very happy and pretty smile on hanging out with hanging out with pen pen. Oh,

yeah. And they're just celebrating that's technically a possible future. And you're just like, yeah, well, it's all possible within the bubble. Right. And once you go inside the instrumentality, everything was possible. All those are all mangas in universes where everyone was happy. All happened inside. So as you see, there's a there's currently a no context woolly Twitter account, which I've been enjoying very much. The I have had one for a little while because I love it. But my favorite one applies to this conversation, which is quote, I didn't expect a million billion action figures of kid who jerks off on friend in a coma. Right. Which is all my go to for Evangelion merchandise, which fucking what? Yeah, I

understand it's very popular. Yep. But huh? Eva was honestly the theme of almost this entire trip because it was everywhere. Like especially after USA, then Hakone and then back in Tokyo at the Eva store. It was a bit nuts how much there was everywhere. And truly you can live more multiple days, if not months, using nothing but a very ever merch. It's already happened, right? We're past the point where Eva would have taken place already must be. Was that like 2015 or something? I mean, maybe not if you count the time skip, but yeah. So anyway, that was that was a really dope time. I got back into well, not back. I returned to Tokyo after that, because before that was Osaka.

First day I had booked the Kirby Cafe and went over to the Kirby Cafe was definitely not the usual audience. What this establishment has. What do you mean? I stood out quite a bit amongst the 12 year old girls that usually go there. Actually, so you had the maybe like seven year old boys and girls with their parents. And then you had much older, like 22, maybe 40 year old women taking photos of the cute Kirby things. Oh, man. So you have about 20 to 40 year old women taking photos of the cute Kirby plates and things. You have all the children and then there is I and you best fucking believe I was getting my photo at the same sit and pose with DDD and everything with corner and I took it and

the photo lady was like DDD pop and then took the photo and then I got my order. I ordered my fucking plate. I kept it. It was delicious. I sat alone. That's the worst part. No, that's not the worst. Oh, no. Because there's one thing we know about the Kirby Cafe. Yeah, what's that? It's that photo that says when you go alone, what happens? Do you remember what happens? I don't. When you go alone, did you engineer this on purpose? When you go alone? No, it's literally the only booking that could have been made. Okay, I definitely would have went with my friends because we were as a group. But it was the only it was the only slot in the time frame that we were there. So when you go alone, you're supposed to be sitting at a seat. And if you are there by yourself, they put a waddle

D in the seat opposite you so that you won't be eating alone. This is a photo that's been shared everywhere online for a while now. I came in sad that there was no availability for anyone else but me. But at least I would have my waddle D. I was not given a waddle D. I was actually lonely. Oh, no. Sammy Shee. Oh, no. It was bad. This is really weird. But I nonetheless, nonetheless, enjoyed the food. It was tasty. And I bought a couple of my bought a lot of Kirby merch, not a couple. I bought a lot, a lot of Kirby merch. Yeah, whole bunch of it. That makes sense. It was right underneath Tokyo Tower, not Tokyo Tower, the Sky Tree, which is the we're bigger than Tokyo Tower Tower. Does that okay, because does the Sky Tree fucking connects to Midgard?

I mean, it really I think it was made in retaliation for others that surpassed Tokyo Tower. I think that's kind of how I kind of miss that. The birds do buy kind of ruin that world race. We all got we have ours is tallest. It's yeah. The problem with that race is somebody's somebody's going to enter that race with incompetent engineers. Yeah, totally. And then the worst will happen. Sick. Okay, well, as long as it's not in my town. There you go. Of course, got to go check out the Gundam. You know what? So the unicorn Gundam is replacing the RX 78. Blast for me, some might say. How dare you? By some I mean me, because what the fuck are you doing? It's the RX 78. The unicorns great. And it's a cool look. But I mean, the original

is the original. If you were if you were going to go if you were going to commit to always updating it to be the current thing, I would understand. But you're picking one and you're replacing the original with one and you chose the unicorn and it's like, all right, man, I really. But you know what? I want to go check it out at night so that you could see all the lights doing the thing. Yeah, that's cool. And it was awesome. It was fucking rad. The color change, the whole vfin separation. And then it was also one of those things where it was the anniversary. So 40th anniversary. So they were doing the scenes of multiple Gundam things throughout history. And as each scene would change the lighting on the entire thing, it was really nice. It was really,

really rad. Super worth it. The worst part about about going to see Gundam up at Odaiba is that it's super far to get there. It's like a 40 minute, 45 minute trip sometimes from middle of Tokyo. It takes almost an hour if you really add a lot to it. But we were tired at the end of the day. You can't pick too many things to do when you're going to Tokyo. You have to honestly pick one thing, maybe two, and that's about it because you will find yourself filling it with other things you wander around into. In this case, it was the third thing of the day. So we did it just by taxing. It was a 20 minute taxi. So that was a nice shaver. Beyond that, Akihabara, of course, it happened. I've done it before. So it was, you know, I was used to it. But

Rach and Austin, who I went with were there for the first time, just over fucking whelmed as you would. We did the Mandarake, you know, scratch, scraped, scraped all the way through. There's Ami Ami and Kota Bakiya hit up that dojin floor, saw them books accidentally like walked into like a store that was divided into the BL section and then the rest. What's that? Sorry, the BL section. I'm sorry. What was that? Could you define that for the podcast? That's Boy Love. Oh, yes. And walked in and basically had a definitely a group of patrons that were like, are you in the right place? And then you were like, yeah, I'm like, am I? Give me a second. Let me find out. Not sure. For those of you at home who are not watching,

I'm holding up a dojin of. Wait, what? Can you see who's on the cover of this book? That's fucking Rorschach and comedian and fucking Adrian Velt or Osmandias. A watchman fan book. What the fuck is this? I am so happy. I found a cute little watchman fan book and find that in the BL section. I mean, it's got some fun stuff. It's Rorschach hanging out eating a pizza. He's enjoying pets because we know that Rorschach loves pets. And look, he's feeding, feeding the kitty, you know, so this is the part where we mention again for those of you who don't know copyright law in Japan, loose, real loose. I mean, nobody gives a fuck. The dojin industry is very vibrant and thriving. Nobody gives a shit. Comic cat in its entirety is nothing but right.

Yeah. So yeah, anyway, it's a very fun, cute fan book. And it's again, you got like, you got Rorschach hanging out with the animals. Oh, yeah. You know, and then you got an examination of Dr. Manhattan and his glutes being really, really tight and everyone being like, why are you glutes so tight? It's up with that. So it's good stuff. Got my watchman dojin. That's weird. Super into it. That's really happy. Good find. One of a kind. I would say that, yes. Also, for I'm, I think I can say 19 years, I have been searching for something I saw a picture of on the internet and could never, ever, ever find until this time around. What does he have now? This box right here. Oh, I don't know. It's some kind of stupid plane. This is

the Icaruga model kit. And I can't believe it was back in stock after what must have been 20 years. Yeah. So I fucking bought it. So are you gonna put it together yourself? I was thinking about because I can do it. I can do it. No, I can do a good job with the with the shaving and the sanding, but I can't do a good job with the painting. Right. So if I put it together, it's just going to look like the plastic default version with the with the with the stickers on it. And I want it to look way nicer than that. So I might give it to a friend who can do a much better job than I can. Because that's what I did with my kingdom death. That's what I do with my kashatria currently being worked on. So yeah, I might just have to do that because I don't want this is a

one of a fucking kind. I don't want to fuck that one of a kind except for the part where I bought two. But except for the fact that it is a box retail product. It was gone for so long and now it's back and it was the I can't do 20 years. Yeah. Like that is a like I am walking out of the store violently holding these things, my babies. Also, they had some cool near stuff. I honestly opted. I'm like, you know what, if I'm going to buy a near merch, I either want a giant amazing statue. Yeah. Or what I saw was perfect is a collection of all the weapons. I was like, that's cute. I like that. I'm going to get that. So Akiba was, of course, a very full day. Okay. Last thing that we ended the trip on is the most tourist, trappy,

kitsch ass. Yeah. Roll your eyes if you're a local and you hear these two words put together. It's called the robot restaurant. Oh, yeah. I don't know if you've heard of it. I have. You ever seen pictures of it? No, but Paige has been there. She tells me that I had to go some time. Okay. Anyone who's from there goes, oh, I went to this thing, not knowing what it was. I mistook it for something else because I heard that there was a restaurant somewhere. In fact, there's a guy in terrace house that was involved with it that it's a restaurant where these little robots come up to you and there are your waiters and they're being operated by people with disabilities elsewhere remotely. And it's like, that's a little cafe that does that. And I was like,

oh, yeah, that sounds that sounds cool. That's not what the robot restaurant is. No, the robot restaurant is a fucking it is what your parents think Japan is turned into a show while you eat. Yeah. At a little fucking school desk size tray table thing. Yeah. The walls are adorned with celebrities who have visited. There is no Japanese anywhere in sight. The moment you enter is extremely English. Yeah. And it is basically, yeah, it's like all the flashing lights, all the wacky imagery, all the Mount Fuji cutouts and samurai's and ninja things like flying past each other and like super over the top classes, like typical music and whatnot. And then the show starts and it's just people and costumes and robots and machines that they're riding like skating going

by each other as they do fucking neon taiko like with like Tron aesthetics and it's fucking glorious man. That's awesome, dude. It's rad lasers and swords and mechs and idols and just nonsense, right? It's like the Simpsons going to Japan episode. Yeah. It's anything South Park ever did about Japan. Yeah. It's complete and utter fucking nonsense. It's kitsch without knowing it's kitsch, right? And it's like they don't know it. They definitely don't know, right? To the point where they do like they do like a little Power Rangers thing and like they do like narration about the world being in trouble because of the uprising and then the saviors and all that. Yeah. And it's written in an English that is aware of English, so it's making it misspelled on purpose.

Oh, so you're reading it going like, no, no, no, no, no, that's not genuine English. You put that in there for the pop. Oh, right. That's weird. Very weird. But nonetheless, the visual spectacle of the whole thing is fucking incredible and super worth it. And I can't pretend that I didn't enjoy the shit out of it the entire time. You know, like it's a vagus ass hollow show in the middle of Camero Cho, essentially, Kabukicho, right? But it is fucking worth it if you're not a local and you're not sick of this thing existing in your neighborhood already. Robot restaurant, holy shit. Just honestly, like Google the words, robot restaurant and look at the pictures that pop up and you'll

understand. Like I saw the pictures and I saw the colors and I was like, oh, yeah, no, that's that's me. I need to experience this in my life. And I did not regret it. And that's what we ended the trip on. So fuck. Yeah, that was good. And yeah, I guess my new love is Umeshu, which is it is plum wine. It is sweet and had plum wine there. Did you? Yes. I had it once. I didn't think to mention it. It's good. It's fucking good. It's real good. Super duper strong. Yeah, actually. Yeah, it goes down deceptively easy. Really, really, really into that on the rocks in particular. And shout outs to Ludwig really, really cool. A person I had dinner with that happens to be someone working at Koji Pro, who was like, hey, would you like to come

sit down and have some dinner? And I'm like, sure. Yeah, that sounds cool. And he took me out to a cool place and we had a good, we had a good talk, had a good time and that was fun. So I want to give a shout out to Mr. Composer Man over there working on Death Stranding. You're doing good stuff. Really? Is the composer? Yes. Super cool. Did you ask him if the game will have good music? I did. Okay. What do you say? No. Oh, darn. Well, we'll see how that go. That's that. Um, actually, I actually grilled him about the track I really, really love at the end of of of fan and pain, right? During that that finale sequence, there's an amazing swelling track that plays that's not on the soundtrack. It's only in the game version. I'm like, what the

fuck's up with that? And he's like, bro, it's years ago, man, like, I don't fucking know. Like what? I'm like, typical fan boy. It was good. It was it was good. I'm very, very excited for how things are going to shape up in that game. Japan. Japan's good. Wadi. And of course, the other thing to think about is I keep I kept kind of bumming stuff the fuck out because every time something was happening, I was like, well, this will be the last time we ever experienced this. So take it all in, drink it in now, because the second trip to Japan was a bit of a like stretch miracle in the sense that I felt like the first time around just used like, yeah, let's go. Never been anywhere like that. That sounds great. Yeah.

The next second time around, it's like, we're going that far around the world to go back to the same place instead of somewhere else. And I was like, well, yeah, because I'm attached to this place in particular as opposed to anything around it. And four wheels. And she's like, yeah, and she's like, yeah, but I'm I'm a normie. I'm not a weeb. So I don't care about those things. It'd be cool to go to other countries and experience the other things there too. And you're like, I don't want to go to other countries. I want to see my big robot. That's basically it. You know, and but but thankfully my plan has worked of like sneaking in like injecting a little of the Jojo and like a little person. So now she's like, oh,

yeah, I had more fun. I totally got the references to stuff this time. It's not going to take it totally worked. And she enjoyed that stuff a bit more to the point where it'd be like, could we do it a third time? You could other trips are mixed together with it, you know. But the idea of yeah, getting back on a thing for a plane for that long, flying back around the world to go to the same destination. It's like to anyone who doesn't have that attachment to that country in particular, why would you give a fuck to do that? Why not go somewhere else? It makes perfect sense, you know. So that's why I'm just kind of like, well, might not ever see this again. So I want to go to the country that's in my video game, because that's the end of the

sentiment. Yeah. And this is an honestly, like if you're both huge fucking weebs, then you don't have to question that. Yeah, that's just going to be where you go. But that's not the case here. So we got to think about it a little bit more. So it's all right. You know, I'm fine with that. You're not fine with that. How'd your week go? So instead of traveling or doing anything worthwhile with my life, I played video games. And luckily enough, as opposed to the past couple of weeks, there are a bunch of fucking new video games that came out. But there are two in particular. And I just discovered that they have something in common. And that is control and astro chain came out. One, they're

both good. They're both really good. So thank God, I thought control was going to be mediocre. It's really good. The second thing is that they are both unashamedly overt about what they are literally stealing all of their ideas from. Okay. So you know, there's this thing of like, what's the line between homage and ripoff? Right. These have gone so far past ripoff in their ideas that they have circled back to rip homage, I guess, or something like Paul Noref and Betty Maru. Yes. Like Paul Noref and Betty Maru. So let's start with control. Control is a third person shooter action game by the Max Payne people, Remedy, the also the Alamway people, and unfortunately the Quantum Break people.

First of all, the shooting is really good. The gameplay is really good. It's not both time, but you're you're like telekinetically throwing stuff. You can play Psyops on the PS2. I remember Psyops. It's Psyops on the PS2. But with Remedy feel, right? The thing about it is that I didn't know a single thing about its tone at all other than you had telekinesis, right? Do you know anything about that game's tone or story or anything at all? Control? Yeah, I saw the trailers. Right. Did you learn anything from it? So it takes place within the Federal Bureau of Control, but you go, huh? And then you start to read documents that are all written in an incredibly dry manner. And all the documents are subject name, floppy disk, discovery of floppy disk,

blah, blah, blah, floppy disk classification, floppy disk ex altered world abilities, yada, yada, yada, yada. And about one into these, you're like, this is an SCP article. And then you're like, oh, this is a, instead of secure, contain, protect, it's literally just control. And it's literally an SCP game. You are constantly, constantly, constantly dealing with items or events or locations or whatever that have been sealed within the compound that are just SCPs. In particular, I remember at one point I was streaming and I found an empty room that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever. And that it's a glass juke, it's a glass cube with lights from every direction except for the back and a single chair facing a jukebox. The fuck is that? I don't know. That's

the jukebox that offers you deals from the devil or some shit. Not how the marketing trade this game. No, no. But it's, you know how people say, like, when you're like, this is just stands and people are like, it's not, it's not just stands. It's a different thing. When I was like, oh, this is just SCP. No, no, it's actually, actually just SCP. And it's great because I can't think of anything else that actually does that kind of weird, dry, supernatural. Also, none of the SCP things have a budget, right? Well, they're just fanfics. They're just they're just creepy pastas. Yeah. And this has money. This has a budget. This has money. It's awesome. That game's cool. And again,

the one of the characters in the game is the director of the Bureau of Control that shoots himself beginning at the beginning of the game. But you're constantly hearing his weird flashbacks through his magic gun. Don't worry about that. And it's Max Payne's voice actor again. And it's Max Payne's voice actor saying stuff like the only person you can let your let you should let down is yourself. I knew I had to build it and just like did you long monologuing nonsense with a little too many analogies about stuff and it's great. Did you find Kojima? Not yet. Okay. But I'm getting there. He's in there. Yes, Kojima plays a Japanese scientist in control who is translated for in game by a different character. That's weird. Yeah, games great. It's a I would after Quantum Break,

I would say it's a return to form for Remedy. And it also directly confirms I saw people talking about it that Alan Wake and Max Payne and this and Quantum Break are all totally simultaneous. There is a Remedy verse. You find like a coffee thermos from Alan Wake. Yeah, I hear that there's a bunch of Alan Wake references in there actually. And it also very sadly kind of retcons the ending of Alan Wake to be sadder, but also allow for an Alan Wake sequel. So a I mean, the references are sufficient enough to place this hardly firmly within the universe, right? Yeah. So yeah, okay. The word no the name Alan Wake is in a file. Yeah, okay. Like and it talks about the events of Alan Wake and the typewriter the typewriter that Alan Wake used. So this is a is a object of power.

Okay, which is which is an SCP like it's a are they called controls? They're called objects of power object of power. Okay, and object of power objects of powers becomes oops in world. Okay. And there are characters that say be careful of the oops. Yeah, it's fucking stupid. Okay, it's great. I mean, you know, the reveal in any other Ubisoft game that that super powerful artifact turned out to be a piece of Eden. Yeah, every every time. So so that game's great. I'm playing through it. I'm playing considerably more through Astral Chain. However, you said you booted it up and to make sure that it worked. I bought a physical copy of Astral Chain in Japan because I did not have the space to install it. And I didn't feel like dealing with that overseas. I just want to play it on the

plane. Yeah. So I did I popped it in didn't know this until I was over there. Austin told pointed out to me that you can buy Japanese switch games and not all of them, but many of them will treat it like an American game and just switch to the English language version when you pop in the Japanese and change one of those because it has dual audio, it has dual language, fucking excellent. So had I known, I would have grabbed a couple of other things while I was there. You just got to check which is which. Yeah, they like the guilty gear physical collection is there, for example, that came out right when we were down there saw Astral Chain ads on the subway. So that was cool. Very cool. But no, I didn't get a chance to touch it besides just booting it up and making

sure it worked. So continuing with the theme that I have established for myself in wearing their influences on their sleeves. This game's influences are tattooed on its balls. Okay. First of all, let's go with the obvious. Is that often very hidden, though? No, these balls have no pants. Okay. Okay. Are those just stands? Yes. Can people see them? No. Right. That's the moment where I'm like, that's just a stand. And people are like, it's not just, it's not just a stand. And then it determines and then it tells you straight up, people that don't have them can't see them. Which means things in the game happen like catch that criminal by encircling him with your chain. But to the outside observer, you just nonsense, you just point at them, and they fall

over. Yeah. And cops go, Oh, thanks. They are just stands their manifestations of your personality. No, they're captured. They're captured monsters, which is where the first cutscene in the game takes place. The very first cutscene in the game, minor spoilers for the first 90 seconds of the game is the process of turning a chimera, an evil bad Kamen Rider monster into a legion, a stand basically. First of all, it goes from red to blue. That's very important. Red bad. Blue good. Second, it is a violent enslavement process that the chimera does not like. And how does the game show you that the chimera doesn't like it? It runs at the glass to the Gendo Akari looking motherfucker overseeing it and starts beating on the glass to try and kill him. And it is almost

a shot for shot remake of unit zero trying to break through that shit. In addition, so they're they're not just stands, they're also Evangelians because every single moment of gameplay in the game, the thing is trying to break free of its chains. Okay, that's really cool. And it is it is it is always clearly furious that it is enslaved. Yeah. And it is miserable. And it is an awful existence. That's really interesting. And more than that, and I don't want to very early story beats, but it becomes very clear that if those chains were to say be removed, yeah, it would immediately try and kill you. Yes, of course. And you specifically. Yeah, because it hates you for sure. For sure. Okay. And it's this, it's really like, you're like, yeah,

I'm doing cool action. It's like, this is an evil that I have done. Yeah, this is a bad you in Shin Megami Tensei, you negotiate with the demons. And the reason the demons follow you is because you become physically strong enough that if they don't, you could beat them up. Yeah. Here, it's like very similar. If it could break free and kill you while you were asleep, it would do so in a heartbeat. It hates you. It hates you. It hates you. But look at the cool calm. And there's even a little mini game where you're like, clean your Legion and like clean little crystals off of it, like a petting mini game. And the thing is like thrashing around in fury and anguish as you're doing it. I'm like, what is this? I didn't know that flavor was there. Yeah, cool. Also, it takes

place in the ghost of the Shell City. Ghost of the Shell Shell City Osaka, whatever, like it's the future. It's cyberpunk future. Ghost of the Shell. Yeah, Ghost in the Shell, whatever. Okay, you're just saying that. Yeah, I'm just saying it. Okay. Yeah, I'm saying it bad. Got it. Yes, it takes place there. Like, you know, Blade Runner. The plot is Eva the plot. It's it's all of it. It's all of it. Every year. Do you like anime? I'm this is just an anime. And I remember seeing reviews going like, Oh, the story is kind of dumb. Like, no, the story is dumb on purpose. They made the story stupid on purpose. To the point where after the first mission ends, there is an anime opening that has the here's the theme and the lyrics and it tells you the credits for the ED song

in those opening credits. And that has a scene from almost like, you know how we're like, don't watch the the B roll before on a title screen, because it'll spoil shit. Holy fucking shit. This thing spoils like the whole game. So do you know who you see in the anime opening? You see red evil cop. Okay, I don't know who red evil cop is. But I see it there. You see it too. I read Louisville clappers in the trailer. So wonderful one on one wears all of its references on its sleeve very, very clearly. And some of them are just platinum references to previous platinum things. Others are like much more just general. But like, this is just continuing that. So the other thing that so it's referencing the big anime, but it's also referencing platinum.

If I were to point at a single game and say this is the platinum game. It's this one. It used to be 101. It used to be 101. But now this is more. So here are some things that this game has that other platinum games have had one the the sync attack system, where you you attack and then you sync up with your your legion to do a double team. It's actually just a wicked weave. Like that's what it actually is. Okay, dodge offset is built into the dodge system. Okay. You move you can move your legion independently, like away from you. Yeah. And if you encircle enemies, they will become chained. And you can use it to traverse the environment by wrapping around objects and enemies. Oh, like 101's drawing mechanics. There is Zandatsu. I don't know if you knew that one.

No, but there is blade time rotate it to slash through sundowner shields mechanics. And then once you hit the enemy enough hit a to have your carrot your legion run out grab the heart pulled out smash it and regen your health. Okay. It's the platinum game. Okay. And it's great. It's also crazy, crazy long. I can't believe how long it is and how much stuff there is in it. How long have you been playing it? I have done three streams and played it for 18 hours and I have beaten five chapters. Holy now granted. Take six of those hours off like five of those hours off because those are me replaying missions off stream trying to find secrets, etc. Right. But I would say it has taken me about 12 hours to just beat five of 11 missions.

That doesn't include going back into missions to find the hidden slimes that unlock the hidden verses if you would to unlock new color palettes. It doesn't include going back to old missions. And hey, you remember that door you couldn't open because you didn't have the fist legion. Well, now you have the fist legion. Oh, there's a hidden boss fight behind not not like a not like a verse like a unique boss that is just hidden behind this wall. Our stage is broken up into verses. They are absolutely broken up into verses. Okay. And the game has a super robust chapter select because the game structure is actually very different from most platinum games. Structure is number one, you're at the police base. You talk to people, you do fetch quests,

you find you find toilet paper for the toilet fairy. You upgrade your stuff, you go to the training mode, etc. Right. Step two, go out into the field, talk to people, do a little combat challenge, do a little puzzle with your legion, find information about the culprit, do a little cool detective mini game, whatever. Step three, action, fucking fight, go through a action game dungeon. Right. When you go to chapter select, each of those are devoted into some files. And you can see this is the file that has all the action versus this is the file that has our all the action files. This is the one that has all the investigation files, etc. There is so, so, so much there. And on top of that, I did a little digging. Once you beat the

game, there are 11 story files, you unlock file 12. What's file 12? File 12 is 71 combat challenges that are no exploration, no story. It's just go run action shit in increasing levels of difficulty. It's not Bloody Palace, because you complete them. These are not meant to be done in a shot. They're meant to be the post game. But you're getting it before then. Getting it before what? They're meant to be the post game. Yes. Once you beat the game. You unlock like would be the Chrysler building in Parasite Eve. Okay. Sorry, because as you were talking there, I was just putting together because like just real full on real talk. I was, we just came up on the end of Bayonetta. Yeah. And I was just

going, I wonder whether or not Astral shade would be a good LP, right? Astonishing. And a plus. Do it. And I was basically like, from the plane to now, just kind of going, I was hoping to get a chance to play some of it on the plane to make that make that decision, but I didn't get that chance because that was just way too tired. But like the idea of going fully through this is something that I was like, well, maybe this would be the perfect timing and everything that that considering, you know, like fresh start for something. I sent you a text message. You might want to check it out. Okay. Because that was that was something that, of course, I need to figure out the time of like,

you know, for how long it would be in a bunch of other things. It's really long. And yeah, it's actually really long. Like if you were to LP it, I'm saying 25. Okay. Okay. Plus I need to also like the way I want to definitely not have those kinds of three houses mistakes by like previewing the land a little bit, getting practice in where I need to, making sure that by the time the recording comes around. So here's the thing. I'm not so in the dark that it becomes, I would actually say that that's less important for this game to its detriment. There's only, I mean, there's a couple of things I dislike. I think the controls are a little weird in a couple spots. I think they're they use the

chip system for abilities on your Legion, but they're not definite. They're randomized and you get a million of them and they're actually hard to organize. But the biggest downside that I would I would give it is that I was talking to a good friend of mine. And they were going through it and they were like, I feel like this game is really simple. I feel that this game is is like kind of boring. I want to jump cancel. I want to do cool shit. But it's just, you know, and that's because control mission one, control your stand separately from you, right? Like actually, so it's it's complicated, your car clovering it essentially, right? Mission two, there's a little bit more depth, but like it's pretty much all you have is combo and a tell Legion to attack

and encircle enemies. And that's it. At the end of the second mission, they unlock the the real combat system, which includes your actual combo chain, your actual like sync mechanics, which you don't have in the first two chapters. And they they sprinkle mechanics like and the move list is actually really small compared to most Platinum games, but almost every move has a good use. But like for example, you have to get to upgrade level four on your sword or whatever to unlock the first and only delay attack. Huh? Okay. And that's it. That's it for delay attacks. You get a stinger. You get a circle. It's not off of every chain. Like you don't have a chain and then like every well, here's the human being moves are universal, but depending on the Legion you have equipped,

it will do something different. That's where the depth comes in, right? Yes. Okay. And you learn you learn essentially the same set of moves for your legions. There's a move called perfect call, which is call the Legion in right as you get hit and then sync attack and you'll enter into a totally invincible super fancy animation, which is essentially a perfect Perry. Okay, right? Stuff like that. Yeah. I got to do homework. I got to do some homework. And I got to figure out what this is going to feel like. And I got to figure out just real talk whether people are going to be enjoying it when that comes up on episode 35, you know. But for me personally, I'm going to sit down and play this game no matter what's happening. Yeah. It's just a question of

whether I'm hitting the record button or not. I would say this is really important. So far, the coolest moment in the entire game happens before the combat unlocks. So if you did want to LP it, you wouldn't be able to get that much official hands on practice because without spoiling that cool ass shit. You know what I'm saying? I know what you're talking about. You're saying that there's benefits to playing. There are a bunch of fucking crazy pop offs. There's benefits to playing codes that you want to catch. Yeah. People like Willie's squeals over the character. But do they like them more than they hate me not knowing what I'm doing the whole time and running into walls and not reading text because I'm trying

to talk at the same time and ignoring plot things that are important. We will continue this work conversation after the podcast. You know what I mean? Yeah, because it's a long one. You have to balance that in every game you choose on a game that's long like that, right? You just have to be real about it. Are you going to see a lot of people checking out that that first episode and then immediately not carrying afterwards when we're a couple months down the line? Maybe. On the on the plus side, the game is like the game is like custom built for like an LP structure because every file lasts about 23 to 35 minutes. Give or take. And it's like this is the episode where we talk to Lappy the dog, the station mascot and go on adventures in the station.

This is the episode where we go talk to people and make sure to throw out cans because littering is bad. How much time between chapters between chapters? Yeah, like zero. I don't understand what you mean. When you finish that 25 minute mission and then you go to start the next one. Oh, okay. So what happens? What's the cleanup? You're in the police station. You're talking blah, blah, blah. If you want to talk to everybody and you want to do all the station side quests, 25 minutes, 30 minutes, then you get on a motorcycle and then you're at the location. Okay. The where you're in where you got to find out there's a chimera. He blew up the bridge. Go talk to witnesses and find out about the bridge and then you'll talk to a witness and go

that cat guy isn't around anymore. And you I don't think this is relevant at all. Okay. You know, like, like it is and every mission is so far as like that it is hard divided between hanging out. Uh oh. Spare a magic crime. Fight. Fight it now. Okay. So it actually is conducive Yeah. The really funny thing. The game runs at 30 FPS, which is kind of a surprise. Yeah. They do a lot of crazy shit with the hardware. Like this is like they have the best wet pavement effect. I think I've ever seen it with all the neon coming down on it. Sometimes the game's frame rate chugs a little bit, which is why it's extra funny that there has how to put this it taught me about something that I guess platinum and other character action people

have been doing for forever. But I hadn't noticed because it's a little it was a little more subtle in astral chain. It's really, really obvious. Okay. Maybe you'll fight like five guys, five, six goons on the fancy neon lit city street with 100 NPCs around. Maybe the frame rate will kick to 25 or 24 right on like a big fancy attack. Yeah. But when you're going through the subway level and it's smoke everywhere and then you exit out onto the subway part where it's flanked by two subway cars and there are no particle effects of any kind and the stage is lit completely flat. You're like, I'm about to have a boss fight because they took every single graphical effect out of this room specifically so that the frame rate does not drop during this fight. So this is

a switch ass switch game. Yeah. Okay. Like you want like you go to the astral plane, which is like cube dimension. And you can always see where you're going to fight because the area that has nothing it's like a bloody palace frame rate dimension. Yeah. Okay. It's fucking hilarious. Because the half the combat sequences take place in the frame rate dimension. Yeah. And you know you're going there. That's the best place to fight. And you want to feel good. Yeah, feel good. It's really overt and it's very appreciated. Right. It's very appreciated. Okay. Yeah, I'm just I'm full on scared of LP tax garbage. The game's incredible. All right. If you were going to LP a platinum game, this should probably be it. It's been doing it's been Yeah, I know. The the

the director on this one was a designer on your automata. Yeah, you can feel it. Um, this guy's got a good future ahead of him. Good, good video game. Here's the thing. And this is especially for you because I know what you like to do with your characters. You like to make the woolly lady OC. Here's the thing you get to pick between a girl or a boy here or Akira Akira or Akira Howard. Their name is Howard. So think of that before you go in. I didn't. Yep. I now wish I had changed my character. The character that you don't pick becomes your becomes the one with all the voice acting and characterization. Oh, okay. The one you do will become a mute anime person. Yeah, okay. So like everybody's like pick the girl. I'm like, I want

the girl to be the character. Yeah, okay. Okay, right. But that means I couldn't make say the chia or what have you. So remember that that if you do, you'll probably pick the girl anyway, but you'll be dealing with anime Howard boy or vice versa. Yeah, right. Okay. Can you change? Can you customize both of them? No, you can only customize you. Yeah, customize you. And then the other one will be the stock, but they'll be talking. Yeah. And your twins, which is extra funny. If you make the if you make yourself look super weird or completely different, your twins wish you wouldn't like that. But I guess it done. It's a weird decision because it like it kind of so the game has like, it doesn't have a Dante or a Bayo because it's

just you. It's your creative character. The customizations really, really out there. Like you can like I unlocked a fucking raven sits on top of your head. Fuck like thing. Oh, my God. Like you can armor yourself up. You can take the cop clothes off and just go for like a K jacket. Look, you can change pants. You can change the color. You know, it's a whole thing. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Okay. All right. You can change both. So I don't know how to change the other one in the chat says you can change both. Okay. I don't know how to do that. Somebody let me know how to do that. But I think the default chick is pretty cool. Also of note. This has been going around a lot on the social media. Platinum games have spent many development

dollars on making sure that the crease of the booty shorts deforms appropriately when the female characters walk. Well, I did hear it's astonishingly detailed. I did hear tell that this is in fact their most expensive game or their most triple A. It feels it. I was talking on Twitter and I was like, this feels like the first platinum game that didn't ship out the door with them going, fuck, we ran out of money. Would have been scale bound, I imagine. Yeah. But like, this feels like the first platinum game that I've played in which you play it and you're like, they got to do all the things they wanted to do. Feels like Nintendo is being the nicest to them of all the companies, even though they remain guns for hire, even though. Yeah. Okay. It's a

good fucking game. Okay. Homework time. Yeah. After that, all I have to say is that I went to a wedding this weekend between two of my old college buddies. They finally got married after being together for years and years and years. Mazel tov. Actually, yes, Mazel tov. A good service, yada, yada. There was some interesting things that occurred that I won't go too deep into. But it was a it was a marriage between a shit ton of Russian ass Russians. You know my Russian buddy. And a shit ton of Filipino ass Filipinos. Very like not clashing cultures, but disparate cultures. Very different customs. Establishing music for Mission Impossible. The music very weird. Right. But the highlight, the highlight of the night easy was that my buddy, I think it's

his great aunt or something. I don't know who this is. I don't think he knew who it was. Because there were people that came from all over the world, including from the oldest old country of Uzbekistan, which I will admit, I didn't think was a real place. Slav squatting in tuxes. No, no, but on the wedding invitation, it did say that track suits are also welcome. Well, track suits. Well, that is yes. So she gets up and with a nearly unlistenable Russian accent or Uzbekistan accent, we slap squatting now starts going. I'm so proud of my nephew, whatever the fuck, right? Yeah, blah, blah, blah, the bride so beautiful, yada, yada. And then comes the sentence that hits the room and we all go, ah, it's like,

I feel so proud that he is going towards the future of the new world of mixing the races. And the whole room just kind of stiffens up a little. And it is the future. We have to do it. Yeah. Yes, grandma, better people. Yes, Iris. And then yes, goes into a fucking Baba. Yes, weird side story that goes nowhere about I even at my local library made a new friend and he is the Irish. Wow. Wow. And you can see like from the Uzbekistan table, like a couple like golf claps, like, wow, the Irish. And it's just and like my buddy, he's sitting there and he's like, he's he's a pretty rigid guy. But he is like stone still because he doesn't know where if it's going to keep going. And then she just stops.

She's like, oh, happy marriage. Oh, that's the weather. And it's just like, okay, yep, that could have that could have. Yep, that could have. I was hoping I was hoping for a story about how, you know, one time in her old day, she once fancied someone that was a little bit different and darker, but that could have never went anywhere because her parents said no. No, no, no. But now we've come so far. Look at you. I also had the most look at the contrast. I've had the most pointed I'm fucking old moment in my entire life ever. Because I'm like, buddy, who's that girl with your with your fucking with your brother? It's like, that's my niece. And I'm like, Oh, God, the baby is now I remember meeting your niece when she was 10. Yeah. Now. And when I go, oh,

your niece, my brain goes child. Yes. Now she's 20. Yeah. And she's talking. And I'm like, that happened in the time. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, no, I'm so old. And I turned to all my other friends who had the same experience. I'm like, No, it's shit. Yeah, it's happened so frequently now that whenever you meet up with family and you see someone who's you see the kid that's around 10 11. Yeah. Just assume that that form they're in, just immediately just go the next time I see you, you're going to be a real person. Because like there's the baby for the speech at the wedding. Yeah. The baby form lasts forever. Right. Because they just it's always about the baby. And it never stops being about the baby. The baby form lasts forever. And then they slide into like seven,

where you're like, Oh, you started out, you kind of have a personality a little bit. My nephew's at that age now. Yeah. Yeah. And then once you go from there to there to 10 or so, you're like, Yeah, okay, we can actually talk. Yeah. Right. You're human. But then the next time I see you, you're just going to be taller. All the sliders are going to be maxed out 100%. So don't like keep that. And you have to keep that in mind for sure. Big old energy. Yeah. Very sad. Yeah. And they're going to ask you about Fortnite. And they'll be and they'll be playing Brawlhalla because it's free. No, they're not. Oh, well, yeah, they are in my case, because guess what? It's free smash. All right. So

well, yeah, that was my week. Cool. Where can people turn? They can check that they could check out the board crap over twitch.tv slash angriest pat right on like control tonight, for example, there you go. Yeah, I got to catch up on all this cool shit that's come out. And I need an excuse to wear and use some of the cool shit I bought that that outfit of that full on Hakama and like Yukata and robe and shit. I bought that. Yeah, I have it now. You just walk around downtown. I have no occasions ever to use them. That's a video expense. But I fucking purchased them. And I am not regretting it in any way shape or form. I will find a use for it. And I will find a use for some of the other fun things I bought. I even got the little the the get the wooden

moogan shampoo. Yeah, sandals. Click, click, click, walking around. So yeah, I'm going to find me. Yeah, it's a video expense. I'm going to find uses for it in some way shape or form. It's a prop now. Amongst other things, tons of I got I got a bunch of props. I got a bunch of props I will be using. And woolly. Yes, they want to see you use these stupid fucking props. Where would they check that out? It's over on woolly versus on YouTube. And of course, woolly versus on Twitch. Yeah, shout outs to Osaka as the chiller place to stay this time around, by the way, of the Japan's of the many Japan's Osaka was a chill place. Shout outs to Michelle for housing us. So it's very, very cool. Thank you, Michelle. And we got to hang out at

like, did I mention? I forgot what I mentioned last time, but tripped into the cooler. I just as you were talking, I remembered something about Osaka. We found this amazing fun bar dive dive bar called a 55 right now. Okay, well, I went to go. I went to go to cross up, which is where the Osaka FGC meets up. Of course it is. I went in had some games, played some Sam's show. It was fun, little brief dogeros playing, grinding it out. Good time. And right next door to that was this place called a 55 and it was basically someone's living room with posters and fucking setups and Mario Kart and like everything just over the top a poster of Jojo, not modern Jojo, but 1993 Satoshi Kan Jojo screaming at you toys and things everywhere. And then it happens to just be a bar.

It was amazing, really good time, highly recommended, just very small seating room, sat down next to two Osaka locals. They taught me some Kansai Ben. We talked about Mecha. We talked about KOF. We had a good time. That sounds nice. Lots of people, lots of people talking about SNK these days, actually. Yeah, lots of people. But so shout outs to all that. And like, yeah, if you want a more chill, relaxed experience, definitely hit up. What's going on with the SNK? That's where what is going on with the SNK? Well, let's go into the news, shall we? The news this week in SNK news.

Yakuza seven is an RPG. Yeah, I gotta say, we should have seen this coming. So first of all, should have seen it. First of all, I want to say seconds after the last podcast, the announcement came out for Yakuza seven. It was fast. It was really fast. Now it was call. I believe the title was the whereabouts of light and darkness. That's the Japanese title is the whereabouts of light and darkness. But the American title is the thing I love so fast. It's Yakuza seven like a dragon. Finally. So Resident Evil got to do this. Yeah. And now Yakuza gets to do this and but it's also a double a double meaning because the main character Ichiban loves Dragon Quest.

Seriously. And in the trailer, he says, guys, we're going to do it. We're going to beat the boss and we're going to all go home happy. It'll be just like Dragon Quest. That's why it's an RPG. That's why it's an RPG. That's amazing because Ichiban loves Dragon Quest. And it's what kept him going when he went to jail. That's fucking funny. Okay. I mean, besides the fact that it also seems to be like, well, you're playing a party of people. You're not playing one guy. Yeah, each bond and crew. What a like aggressive change to make to a mainline number in the franchise, yeah, as opposed to a spin off in a franchise that's not afraid of spin offs. Everyone's blown away that has a number like the fact that you that's what I'm saying. Usually something this

different would be just become its own. Well, they used to have a prototype name was called Shin, Shin Riru Gagokutoku. I can't say it. I'm bad or Shin Yakuza. Yeah. And people thought that was going to be the title was like, no, seven. Yeah. Well, it's almost like Final Fantasy school, right? I was just like, yeah, no, it's the next one. Whatever. Yeah, except it hasn't been like that ever. This is crazy. And it is aggressively within the same universe. It's a guy who works who used to work for the Tojo and he gets out of the same jail that the same prison that the queue you got out of, they probably were next to each other at some point. So watching gameplay, seeing people standing around and you're going through your full on action menu and you're

just like, yeah, this is personaing. So the weird. So there's a bunch of shit that's super weird. The first of which is we should have seen it coming. Do you remember they did an April Fools joke for Yakuza online in which they showed Ichiban using this gameplay system? No, they did. It wasn't a joke. And the response to that was overwhelmingly positive, which I'm going to assume was their moment where they were like, uh, uh, this is pretty drastic. You guys want to do it? And then I decided to go ahead and do it based on the reaction to that. Um, so the, the, so it's a, it's a turn based battle system, like a, like a dragon quest or found fancy. The difference being is that you're doing it turn

based, but the characters attacks are still going to be using the dragon engine physics system. And the outside world will continue to act as if everything's fine, like nothing's happening. So like they brought up the example like, yeah, if you hit a guy and he like flies, he'll just ragdoll over a fucking railing. And if he falls over that railing to his death, he's dead. And if you kick a guy underneath the car that it goes, that happens to be going by, it's still the, it's still the system in the world in the engine. The only difference is that actions are dictated by a menu. That's it. Yeah. It's super weird. They walk around a little bit on their own. Yeah, a little bit, but yeah, I'm very, I'm very, uh, I don't know. You don't know.

I really liked the punchy, kicky gameplay of those games. You got a lot of those. Oh, we did. And I was looking forward to a new character. Try something new that didn't use Curious moveset. Okay. On the other hand, it does crazy validate my me yelling at people for like the past five plus years. This is just a JRPG series. It's just a JRPG series. You use punchy, kicky combat, but they're literally just RPGs. Okay. Yeah. Now no one can argue that point anymore. Now your punchy kickies are judgment. Yeah. I wonder if that's how they'll go. They also said, listen, if this is a disaster, we'll go back. Did they say that day one, day one. Okay. The guy, one of the producers was like, Oh, we're trying it out. If people like it, we'll treat and we'll

keep going. If everyone hates it, we will roll it right the fuck back for the next one. Okay. And the producers also thanked everyone for their harsh commentary because they want like real criticism and real like anger so they can try and make it better. They want to like home in on what people think like sucks ass about the current system. So probably be doing that thing where they show it off a lot and then like incorporate feedback. I mean, I imagine that just fun wise, something really awesome about this would be like the fact that you could have a ton of party members to go through as opposed to like a usual Yakuza game where you're kind of, you're playing your character and then you have a couple of moments of switch off. Yeah. And, and you know, there's

always like in Yakuza six, I said that it's, it's cure you in the idiot gang because there's a, there's a crew of morons that hang out with cure you like the whole game. And at this point, you would just control them instead. One of the gameplay things they showed off is that a guy casts a fire spell in which he just holds up a lighter in front of a can of hairspray. It just blows it in somebody's face. Right. Like, yeah, that's awesome. I'm not going to pretend that's not awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, wildly, wildly surprising news. Sounds fun. Also, the best wishes to negotiate who went to the event despite having major heart surgery a few weeks prior and who can't walk or work right now and who was quoted as saying, yeah, I went because I'd be pissed off

if I couldn't see the reveal. Wow. Okay. Yeah, there was some further notes that I'm going to link in the the docket as well, that were just like specific points of interest about the RPG system. Talking about how like the battle system, they move in real time wherever you start is where the fight starts and just detailing a bit to like if you've you played a little bit of judgment, right, enough to play it literally sounds like it's the exact same system top to bottom on everything other than inputting moves. Perhaps. Right. Like, you know how you get in a fight in judgment and it's right there. Yeah, now it's just a move list comes up. If you're yeah, if you're in the road, you can still get hit by cars passing by.

Okay. Well, anyway, that's nuts. Oh, and it takes place in Yokohama. Primarily. Now is it actually called Yokohama? Yeah. Okay. That's cool. What they do the the little neighborhood area is always a fake ass name. But they're always in the actual fun in the actual area. Okay. So you're in you're in Kamurocho, Tokyo, instead of Kibuchi, Kibuchi, Tokyo. Yeah, Yokohama is where love goes to die. Every relationship on Tara's house that goes on a date there ends up being fucking nuked. So perfect. There you go. Yeah. So that's what's up. But yeah, sure. Okay. To the real news, as we're saying, it's a bit nuts how

SNK was coming up so much in the news today, especially when T-Pain dressed up as Leroy Smith and went to Dragon Con and basically stole my thunder. He is becoming Leroy Smith. Motherfucker, I wish. That's an A plus cosplay. Of course it is. And I bet you it's because he's hanging out with because I because he's hanging out with Xavier, right? Yeah. And Xavier, I know for a fact that he's working with fucking Mike, mostly this amazing costumer who does all all this amazing work. And I bet you he worked with the same. Hey, Mike, can I become can I become Leroy? So yeah, yeah, I mean, I would. I've been talking to him about helping me out with a costume as well, to be honest. So he's God tier. So I hope it's not Leroy Smith. It was not.

But yeah, man, he beat everybody to the punch. And now all the gifts of dancing Leroy Smith and all the Harada reactions and everything. That's great. He fucking T-Pain did it. He did it. Thank you, T-Pain. T-Pain seems wholesome. He's a fun guy. I like I like T-Pain. He's a fun guy. Harada still invited to the cookout anytime he wants to come. He's going to die if he goes to one of those cookouts. I mean, like with a smile on his face because I saw a fucking tweet from a sweary this morning. And he goes, welcome to Japan. This is a pizza for four people. And it's a pizza. It's like a fucking McCain's microwaveable pizza cut in a four. And there's like a real melancholy to it because he just got back from the States where he was taking photos of

like, I can't believe this is all from one person. Yeah. Um, did you have Okonomiyaki when you were down there? I did. Okay. Yeah. Don't care for squid. It doesn't have to have squid in it. Well, so I'm thinking of Takoyaki, my bad. Not Takoyaki. Yeah. Okonomiyaki is the pizza. The pancake. Okay. That shit is fucking divine. You cook it in front of you on the grill and it's amazing. And it's like what you described, except way, way, way better. But had some there. Good shit. Yeah, man. Good stuff. There you go. Do it. Do it to Pen. I want to see a tweet from Harada be like, the cookout has defeated me. He got the itis passed out in the corner. Everyone's playing Domino's or Tekken, for that matter.

Right. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Talk about the real SNK news. Yes. That SNK being in the news this week. Yes. So finally, after all this time, it's pretty much a real enough get to call it a sequel. Shovel Knight Dig. You seen this thing? I have not. Shovel Knight. I'm going to look it up right now. Shovel Knight Dig. Shovel Knight Dig. It is. It's not Shovel Knight two, but come on. Right. Come on. Oh my goodness. Because Shovel Knight Dig. A brand new adventure about Shovel Knight. Yes. This is where Drill Knight comes from. Drill Knight looking like the badass that we see in that. So the main thing is that this is being, I believe, being developed joint between Yacht Club and Nitroam Games, who usually make mobile games.

Did they make Downwell? They made a Shovel Knight game where I don't know what Downwell is, but they made a Shovel Knight game that involves Shovel Knight digging with the Shovel and going downwards and then uncovering all kinds of fun stuff in a Mr. Driller type way. That looks cool. And it's kind of nuts and fun because it's like, it's a completely different way of playing Shovel Knight to the, and it's a, it's, it's, if you hear the name Shovel Knight, it's what you think that game is. Yeah. Because what we got was just a really cool, classical game. But this is actually using the Shovel. What was that? Nitroam? Nitroam. I'm going to look them up. And so I'm watching this and I'm like, oh my God, they made the game that everyone would assume

Shovel Knight is, except it's the new game. And it's not so much of a spin off because it really looks like you're playing Shovel Knight, except you're digging from stage to stage or from room to room, you know, in a very thorough way. But I have not heard a single one of these fucking games ever. Holy shit. Yeah. So looks like I'm going to call it Shovel Knight to right now, man. Call it dig, man. There. I mean, they're not calling it Shovel Knight to. So I guess we still got that battle expansion coming out. Yeah. And the fucking King expansion coming out that has Zubas, but no spikes. But this does not have. What am I saying? This is this is this looks like a full ass full game. Yeah, it does with a fundamental core difference.

And Shovel Knight is the hero. And the awesome thing is that, of course, Drill Knight comes and takes his shit and is like, fuck you. Fuck you. So the Shovel Knight's got to, you know, use his shovel to dig after Drill Knight. What the fuck are you going to beat a man with a drill? He's drilling. It's going to be rough. Yeah. So Drill Knight is better than Shovel Knight at being a shoveler. Oh, yeah. So that's it. Like the inferior inferiority complex starts at the design level. Well, that's why you got to strike the earth. So I'm very excited to see how this shapes up. That's fucking cool. I'm excited. Yeah, yeah, club. All right, enough, enough joking around, enough joking around. What's the real SNK news this week? Okay, fine, fine. SNK

is in the news because they've announced their arcade stick pro. They they announced an arcade stick pro. Yep. Really? And it looks like it looks like a Neo Geo. It looks like the classic Neo Geo style pad. That's fucking stupid. That's really dumb. Yep. And it's for the mean it's for the mini and you know, probably can mod that shit to work on everything else. Yeah, probably, you know. But hey, it's got the ABCD buttons and God bless, you know, why not? I dig it. I also dig it. I like I actually like SNK sticks on their other arcade machines. Yeah, their button layout was kind of stupid. But like the pads are pretty. It's weird because it looks like a giant pad. It does. It looks like a giant like it does fucking Neo Geo pad. It's weird. But like, yeah, I've

always I've always felt that they're they're, you know, their sticks are comfy to use. And anyone who lives in a Spanish speaking country will appreciate the existence of or Portuguese speaking country or Portuguese speaking country for that matter. That's true. All right, fine. What? What else we got? Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. You can you can speculate all you want. But you don't have to because we've confirmed that Zenoge is in fact back in Monster Hunter World Ice. That was last week. But I'm really happy. Yay. Big old big old electrified Puppa returns. You have no personal love for this because you've never seen it before yet. The story is still on the docket. It's fucking awesome, dude. This dude

kicks ass. He screams and every time he screams, he gets tougher. He has multiple stacks of enrage. You can mine his back for folger bugs. The design looks cool. I thought his gear is radical. I was I thought the design in the trailer was like, it's a fun looking monster. His music is incredible. And on top of that, in addition, because we're a little behind on Monster Hunter News, they have announced not only Rajang has returned, which they said, okay, that's everybody now, except in October, our first free title update monster is coming. And you can look this up. I am miserable because I hate this monster and it is Rajang. Are you familiar with Rajang? Nope. You can go ahead and type in Monster Hunter Rajang. Dice born in there. Rajang is

another invader. He is the Super Saiyan monkey. Is it just because it's the invasion system? No, it's because I hate Rajang. Okay. They have, however, it looks like they have fixed the biggest problem with Rajang that I always had, which is you fought Kieran. You know what's annoying about Kieran? Random lightning strikes that, but also he's fucking small. It sucks to fight really small monsters with like tiny hitboxes. They made him bigger. Rajang had that he was the size of Kieran and his tail was his weak spot and it sucked. Okay, they made him like twice the size. So he's probably going to be way more fun now. I also noticed in this trailer that at one point while fighting, you appear to be like on a train track. Oh yeah, there's gonna be all sorts of

weird shit. There's like you're in a cart with like a cannon on it. There's been leaks coming out and the basic gist of it is that there will be a, there's the, so the ice area is not the only area they're adding. They're adding the ice area to round out like, you know, the elemental areas, whatever, of forest, desert, volcano and ice. There will be a final, final level that will be, will have elements of all the other stages. So there will be instead of, you know, there's 11 zones or whatever. Yeah. A couple of them will be forest zone, a couple of them will be desert zone, a couple of them will be magma, a couple of them will be icy. Apparently it's called the guiding lands. And that will be your end game area, which I'm going to assume everything can be fought in.

Okay. What do we do? The monitor just died out. What's going on? Iceborne is going to be a lot of fun to play in January. The hell? That's weird. My screen that I use to see things is, is dead. Well, could have unplugged on the other end. There we go. You fixed it. Can't wait for that game to come out in January. Yes. Okay. Right. All right. Fine look. The website kind of fucked up and leaked information before it was supposed to come out.

Yeah. So see, you know, they didn't mean for you guys to find out this way, but you found out ahead of time because the news got leaked. Aladdin and the Lion King are in fact being remastered. And the collection is coming in the fall. And it's the Genesis version. It's all of them. Oh, it's all of them. It's all of them. I was hoping it would only be the Genesis version. So we could finally stop having this argument because they first they straight up was like, that's the first question I had was I saw it while I was in Japan. I'm like, which version? And then the screenshot was like, yeah, all three. All right, we can have the handhelds.

We can fucking fight this battle again to the end of time. The thing is, they're all great. Do you want the sword or do you want the quality? Don't don't. Do you want the sword or do you want fun? Take a pic. You're so wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. This is coming from a man that doesn't even know what Rocket Knight Adventures actually was until I died for six years. And then there's the Aladdin. And then there's the Lion King, which I challenge anyone to say they've beaten. I challenge you. Fucking liars. Oh my God. Because I got to the end of Hakuna Matata, not Hakuna Matata,

not what am I talking about? I got to the end of I just can't wait to be king and fucking off it. People people talk about battle toads need to go fucking get into the Lion King game. Oh my God. You want to talk about that shit's outrageous. Should be a half an hour long game. Yet it's like 40 hours, 20 years long. It's a 40 hour game. Oh my God, a lot. Lion King. Yeah. So you can go try them all out. But yeah, that leaked. Those are good games. They're really good. You know, not everything can get the Duck, the DuckTales remaster treatment. No. So not even DuckTales can get the DuckTales remaster treatment anymore. Yeah, apparently. That's it's gone, by the way. Apparently. So that fucking I hate that digital nonsense sucks. Well, it's the same thing as

like, hey, we released this game once in one print and now it's just gone. Yeah, it's just gone. There was another leak. There was another leak. There was another leak. All right, let's talk about it. All right. Mega Man Zero slash ZX Legacy Collection was not supposed to come out, but it did get leaked. There are now 26 Mega Man games you can play on the switch. Officially. That's a lot of Mega Man games. Is that enough Mega Man games for all of you? Those ZX Advent games are pretty good. I am extremely happy that these are getting ported. They're pretty good. Not just that, but like the ZX and the ZXA stuff going back to it to pull out the console, pull out the

oh, yes, and didn't really want to do all that trouble. So I'm really, really happy about this because I've wanted to go back and revisit these games. I've been looking at how to do so. And this is perfect timing. I was exactly just talking about this the other day. Exactly. So fuck yes. Is that everything? That's almost everything. I believe we are now done with the news. I was gonna say, is that everything as far as Mega Man goes? I mean, it's, there's probably some obscure bullshit. It's all the classics. It's all the X's and it's all the Z's, right? Yeah. So you're not getting... That's the sentence you just said was stupid. Yeah. Not because you said it or the way you said it, but just like, wow, what a fucking dumb naming convention we landed on for

that. Well, letters. Yeah. Oh, Legends ain't there, apparently. Legends ain't there. Yeah, Legends matters. Even though it's only two games. Battle Network ain't there. I don't care. There's some fun stuff in Battle Network. What about Onamusha Blade Warriors? Is that kind of the Mega Man game? You can make it a Mega Man game. I did and it was not worth it. That game sucks. You okay? I am all right. I have a little bit of the sniffles. I got a bunch of Elmo spores in my nose. I love that cat so much, but his spores make me a little ill. Well, you should be okay because Capcom just announced the new Resident Evil title, Project Resistance. All right. It's coming to all things. Wait, did they announce that today?

Yeah. Like, did they show off what the fuck it is? No, they just put up the teaser website for Project RE Resistance. Okay, because that's the annoying thing. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it and I think I know what it is. I think I know what it is, but I can't be sure. For those of you don't know, do you remember a few weeks ago, Willie, there was news going around of this survey getting sent out to tons of people in Japan about a new Resident Evil game? I got a hold of this survey and saw what is in it. Did you? Yes. Okay. What camera do you prefer? What's your favorite Resident Evil games? How do you feel about online play? What is your tolerance for microtransactions as a business model, et cetera? And the flavor of the questions tends to make you feel that it is a

online centered, long term multiplayer Resident Evil game. Now this can be either one of two things. It can be a trash fuckfire like Umbrella Core or the other one that I forget the name of that was so bad. Or do you even remember the name of it? There's Umbrella Core, Operation Reckless City. Orc. Orc, yeah. Orc. So it could be one of those trash fuckfires or and it looks like all the shots, you know, all the teaser images are of like four normal looking people. Yeah, it could be a sequel to you saw those thumbnails. Yeah, it could be a sequel to the outbreak series, because we're looking at a left for dead ass looking crew of left for dead people. Yeah. So the outbreak series, well, you've heard of Resident Evil outbreak, right? Yeah, those I've seen a bunch of those were so

cool. But fuck where they made too early. Like they were a technical mess. There were design problems. The two biggest problems that killed those games for me. One, 14 second load times on every door in the game, unless you had the PS2 hard drive, which no one had, which killed all tension. Yeah. And two, no form of communication of any kind whatsoever, because you're supposed to not know whether you're playing with players or AI, but it meant that people could pick up a key item that you would need to unlock. And even if they meant well, there was no way to actually tell them, hey, you have the key, you have the key item, we can't go forward, which led to a bunch of fuckery. I would kill for an outbreak style series of like pseudo

randomized, like revisit the concept, just fix those problems, fix it. Dude, that game could be so good. What if you're just getting left for dead? Evil. That's all outbreak was. It wasn't hardcore. It wasn't first person and it wasn't no, no words. No, it would be this would be third person. This would be over the shoulder like R2. I mean, team survival is. Yeah. But, but outbreak was still a survival horror. Yeah, limited ammunition left for dead is not a survival horror game. No, it's no. But all you got to do is make it so that it's still survival horror, you make a big area, you randomize the path available through that area, you randomize enemy placements and you make a co-op that could be something fucking special. Well,

you will find out at the Tokyo Game Show coming up in a few days. Yay. Where's Kevin Ryan at? That guy's cool. Wait, is that the right guy? It's Kevin Ryan, the, the, the, the Garo guy, the cop. Yeah, I'm thinking of a different guy. Whatever. Kevin from outbreak, the cop. Oh, okay. That guy's cool. Because Kevin Ryan from Garo Mark of the Wolves is an SNK character. Yeah, he is an SNK character. Fuck. I'm out of news. You're out of news? All right. All right, that's podcast. All right, so if you want to send in an email, you can send that to castle super beast mail at gmail.com. That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. Motherfuckers have already started spamming it

with bullshit. What are signing it up on garbage sites. Fucking cool. So the filters are aggressively on there. So if your email gets eaten, blame dumbasses. Yeah. First letter comes from fuck you guys. Yeah. Well, subject matter. Everybody hates you. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good email. I like that one. What's the what's the body of the email? Terry Bogard and smash brothers. They happen. It's gonna it's gonna it's probably gonna happen. Who the fuck else is it gonna be? So let's be real, right? Like, okay, we get it. Yes, the website launches. They have the little teaser at the bottom that says copyright SNK. Oops. And then you go, well, pause, right?

Just take a think about all the SNK cameos we've seen recently. Yeah. What have we seen? Geese in Tekken. We've seen Terry in fighting X layer. We've seen how Maru in Soul Calibur. I forgot what game he was actually even. That's not it. There's more. There's more. Yeah. Yori in Million Arthur. Million Arthur. Yeah. And one more. My sure new in that are alive. Of course. Yeah. All right. So they've been fanning out and putting everybody in everything put intended. That's all their important characters. That's the big one. Except for one except for one. The main character, sadly enough, Joe gets no love. He has not gotten any love anywhere. The

saddest thing about this whole thing, somebody on our subreddit brought it up and it kills me inside. Joe has the best way to get into Smash possible in that the the fucking invitation just spins and then he reaches the handout from the darkness and grabs it. It looks the same. It's the same shot. It looks the same. Yeah. So here's the thing, though, right? Here's the problem. Keo, the poster boy himself is is is not someone people want over Terry Bogart. It's not super interesting. They don't want Keo over Terry. Everybody likes Terry. Terry makes more sense because Terry's more popular at the end. So let's talk about how this happens. So one website comes out. Copyright information for Challenger Pack four comes out has SNK letter announcement for

Nintendo Direct happening whenever. Yeah, there's Nintendo Direct tomorrow now. Yeah. Two. Smash leakers start to appear. And one, the first big rumor is it's a lady character from a Japanese company that nobody gives a shit about. That's the first thing everyone heard. And it went, oh, fucking what? And then the SNK thing happened and people like, oh, please, God, don't be Athena. So I said it last time during the Evo like leak list. And I said it all the other times before that. And it's I'm going to say it again. Smash is the one thing people want to know the most about. Therefore, there will be the most leakers. Therefore, it's all bullshit. Yeah. Gino is always the sign that it's bull. Every time. But you know, there.

But at this at this point, it's all lies because it's the thing everyone cares about the most. And they want to know the bad the most. Therefore, every fuckboy with like attention desires is going to start lying about nonsense. So they're all it's all lies. Yeah. And then the second bit was that apparently the leaker on Game Facts, who actually for real has leaked almost the whole Smash roster comes out and just post a thread on Game Facts that is, are you OK with an animated GIF of the Buster Wolf, which makes me think that one, people who not giving a fuck about it is technically true as the Smash community's response to this has been enraging to say the least. Some of my personal favorites such are,

who is this even? I can't believe we missed out on Sora for this unknown fuckboy, etc. You saying Smash fans don't like fighting games? I'm saying that Smash as a fighting game has now inverted itself in his ludicrousness because it shows that it's a joke doesn't care about fighting games. It's a joke. Smash players don't play other fighting games. I saw a really cool design online someone made for like what a theoretical metal slug would look like as a playable character like the metal slug and then depending on what costume you pick is the different pilot between Marco, Tama, Theo, etc. That's never getting into Smash. Never in a million years. Like all these other guest characters that show up in every other fighting game or all the most

popular poster boys for the entire SNK franchise or company and then Smash the most important cameo because of the highest profile gets metal slug. That's nonsense. No, get out of here. No, it gets Terry. That's Terry has been holding it down for SNK for like 20 years despite his brain injury. I mean, there's a weird outside possibility of it being how Baru just from like pushing Sam or Sham Show purposes put another sword character in there. That's too much already. I'm just saying but Sam shows the push. Yeah, right. So there's an outside chance they might want that or Nakaruru is also honest. Nakaruru is also extremely popular. I hate her. That's not the point. That's not the point yet is she hasn't been sitting around and they're like

Pat hates this character. We can't put her in. Hey, as I would love to sit here and be like, yeah, Rock Howard confirmed 200 percent. Shut up. That's not what we're saying out of here. I'm saying if every guest character has been different, right? Nakaruru is more popular than Kyo Nakaruru hasn't gotten anywhere. There's an outside chance it's Nakaruru as well because they do want to push Samurai showdown. All right. They just announced the tour. They just announced the fucking world tour they're doing. Like it's possible. So here's what I see for Terry Bogard in Smash. Here's what I see happening. One, the final smash is Busterball. Are you seriously about to sit here and do his move list? No, I'm not.

Stop wasting everyone's time. No, shut up. That's what it needs to be. And his taunts need to be his stupid phrases. Sure. I need to hear. I need to hear the damage. Of course. It would also be nice. Okay. Yeah. Cutie Terry. Do you know how much love goes into every one of these guests? Yeah. It's going to be more than that. It's going to be here's his long jacket and his wild wolf form. Yeah. For each version of the game. See now you're doing it. Isn't it fun? But it's like duh because it's like they want more. They want to have too much to possibly put in to create that type of character. I want to be able to hit the d-pad and have him go burning. He throws the hat. The hat has a hitbox. It hits you. You

can pick it up and throw it like it. Of course. If he starts a fight with Ken, do they have a pre-fight intro? No one has pre-fight intro. Yeah, but do they? No. But do they? Yes. Anyway, yeah, fucking duh, you know. After that, all that remains for all the video games is Doom Guy and Sans Undertale. You can charge up the power. You can charge up his, no. Fuck. You can charge up his fireball to become a geyser. Yeah. Because that guy is because you can get a nice big pop off of it. Yeah. And then you can get three if you do something. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Sure. He does a stupid fucking twist to do his up B. Oh, no. You know how you do the geyser? You do fucked up motion. Oh, you do the actual input. Sure. You do the actual SNK input.

You saw how mad people were over the three you shit? Quarterback, half forward. Oh my god, that shit's so bad. I hate it. Rising tackle to recover to the stage. Oh, fuck. You know, power dunk down B. You know, I know we make fun of the pretzel, but I actually hate the fucking power geyser like motion more. Oh, those are easier. Well, there's so much more common. That's why I hate them more. I don't think it's as bad. But like almost every character has it. It's like it's just a fucking weird motion. No, the annoying part is when you do the forward half circle forward ones because that might as well just be the same as the role, except it's not. Yeah. You know, but yes. I expect the return. Expect the fucking the shoulder block forward forward nonsense. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, sure. But what if Nakaruru though? Shut up. And what if up beyond to jump onto Mamaha and then she flies and lifts you up? They wouldn't dare. You have a bird that you can use for a move list. I hate it. They would do so much. Wait, what is this crossover news that I'm getting that you can play as Batista in Gears 5? That's stupid. Appropriate. He's not an SNK character. He's not. But he could be eventually. So you jump on Mamaha and then you have a completely different move list while you're flying off of Mamaha. That's a Sakurai character right there because that's more than you need. She's going to have more moves than she actually ever did. Right. Maybe maybe even give her a fucking healing mechanic because that's right up there

with the broken things they love giving guest characters. So maybe Nakaruru can heal. How about that? I hate the things that you're saying. She slides on the ground. She does the upslide. I hate it. Reflect with her cape. Knock shit back at you. We've been here. How do you know all these moves for this character that everyone hates? Because she's shown up in every fucking game. Why is she so popular? Because she's a shrine princess. Is that it? She's a shrine maiden. It's not going to be Galford. What if it's just Poppy? It would. Oh, man. Galford's dead. Holding his sword. Oh, yeah. That reminds me in Astral Chain. You can turn the dog into Blade Wolf in that you throw the sword up in the air and the dog jumps up and grabs it and spins on its way

down. That's fucking that's Poppy. It's the best super in the history of fighting games. You're going to say it's not. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. So there we go. That's what's happening. Hold on. I'm checking some some news here. It'd be cool if you can tap neutral B to have him just go to your body and then he does a fake burning knuckle. That'd be cool. I want to throw the hat. I want to throw the hat at Ken and I want Ken to be the only character that can wear the hat. Everybody else takes damage, but Ken and Ledge lands on his head. If you do a power dunk and you spike the guy at the end to kill him, the hat stays backwards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Lost power. Yeah. Somewhere in there for some reason. You should have you should have, you know what? I mean, the side. You should have Buster Wolf side B from no Buster Wolf as the smash from far away. And it works like Marth's bam. Okay. And then lost powers. Yeah. Yeah. Lost powers. The final smash. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you charge up a full smash, he does Buster Wolf. Yes, 100%. Down B is actually a crack shoot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. Crack shoot. You have a crack shoot. Yeah. So then the dunk would have to be just his, his like, his dare or something like that. Yeah. Where's neutral? His back air is obviously the turnaround kick. Yeah. The knockback kick. See, you're like, are we really going to go

do the moveless? And now look at you have a big smile on your face. You have a big smile on your face because the B moves are obvious. So it's the it's the less obvious moves that you have to take to think about, you know, but anyway, I love Terry Bogard. Yeah. I love that he doesn't know how to talk. I love that KOF 12 established that Terry totally has brain damage or something. That's the funniest thing in the world. He has in universe like brain damage or speech problem. You heard the dub. Everyone else talks like a normal human when translated in English. And he's still there going burning. Okay. Yeah. Moving those goalposts. I love that SNK is back and relevant enough to be in Smash Brothers. Yeah, that is a good one.

Let's take some emails. Hey, so if you actually want to send an email, it's still Castle Super Beast mail at gmail.com. That email you read earlier wasn't real, was it? Certainly wasn't. But it would have been. It would have been if we had kept going. Sunset Soda says dear Willie and Paddy. Oh, so the man of what's up? Who's that? Oh, he's a long, long time fan. He's out in New Zealand. Oh, did I meet you? Maybe I did. I have a question for Willie in the past on the podcast. You kind of stuck up your nose at people who didn't want to read subtitles, especially in anime. I found this kind of disheartening as I

was someone who watches dubs because my brain can't focus properly when I watch anime with subs because of ADD. The question is, should people be concerned about how one person consumes a piece of anime, regardless if the other person doesn't like it, the way it doesn't like the way they're consuming it? Personally, I find it childish to stick up your nose at someone who watches dubs because they could be doing it for various other reasons or just because they don't want to read subtitles in quotes. Keep up the good work. Love all you do from Sunset Soda. Sunset, all I'm saying is that Willie is saying you shouldn't be allowed to watch anime at all. Thank you for clarifying. That's all I'm saying. Thank you. No, of course, when we turn our

nose up at dubs or whatever, that's disability and or extenuated in circumstance, notwithstanding. I think if you're taking it that way, that sounds like you are coming into the discussion with a chip on your shoulder and that is not at all the even playing field of comparing the two that I'm putting it on. Quite simply, in my preference, I like going subbed a lot of the time because I like the voice actors. Yeah, I prefer the original voice actors in most cases over the years. So I like appreciating that. And that's where my preference goes. So I found it a very interesting wrinkle to this discussion when I was streaming Sekiro. I put it in a Japanese, right? And then I switched it back to English because the amount of people complaining, dude, I have you on in the

background and I'm like peeking over ultra despair girls, right? That was that was that was the big fuck up. Yeah, I wanted to hear the good voice acting in Japanese from the characters that I knew and not the dub that I was not used to that. And I was not really enjoying that a significant proportion of the audience treats it like a radio show did not want to hear or watch it just wanted it on in the background, therefore it made it more annoying to watch. Yeah, because there are long stretches of I don't know what the fuck they're talking about. But I wanted to experience that the game in the preferred way. So that became the rub. Yeah, one of many, of course, there's a million other problems with that. There are a million other rubs. But that was one of the

things that. So yeah, I play all my all my stream stuff in the English now so that people can pay attention to something more important. I guess you assholes. Yeah. That's something that I understand as well. My feelings. Yeah, it doesn't feel good. It hurts my feelings. But it's not just that. Not just that because it's like, Hey, man, I want to minimize you. Yeah, let me minimize you. It's also the part where if it's if it's a matter of choice, our preference, and I'm like, Oh, I want to hear that voice actor I really like. Yeah, you're telling me to turn off Norio Wakamoto. Yeah, like really? At this point, I am actually, you know, I am so sick of you saying the words Norio Wakamoto. Yeah, it sucks to hear now. Okay, well, I'm sorry. Fine.

Takahiro Koyasu. How about that? I don't know who that is. Let's just go on that one. Great. So there I want to hear like some cool ass fucking voice actors doing their thing. Yeah. And in many cases. Yeah, I just prefer that performance. And so it's like, if you have reasons that are not just preference. Yeah, well, it's more than just preference. If you have other reasons why it is more handy for you to listen to it dubbed, then I'm not taking that into account. For example, I don't have some sorry, Sunset Soda. I don't have your circumstances. I am not you. I don't experience media in the same way you do. And I don't have to. I don't have the same considerations I have to make. So for me, it's entirely a cosmetic choice.

Therefore, I go with the preference that I have. For example, you are the opposite of a dog. And instead of not being able to look up, you cannot look down and thus cannot put your eyes down to see the subtitles. Of course, everyone would understand that you can't look down. So and the only other thing I'd say there is like, if you're inferring like toting, turning our noses up at it like again, I it's not really the sentiment I'm trying to get across. I, you know, if that was the tone of the conversation that you heard, then like, sorry if you took it that way, but that's definitely like on an even playing field. It's just my preference. Sunset, have you ever tried just not having ADD or have you? Yeah. So that's it. I'm just speaking for woolly here.

No, that's fine. You know, dubbed and that's that's whatever. I think it's all reasonable. It's all relative. It's all reasonable. And dubs are for losers. Anyway, I, you know, I find it really endearing, woolly genuinely that you're trying to give like a really heartfelt, heartfelt answer to this question. While I'm over here essentially slapping my tummy and like, have you tried getting up out of the wheelchair? Like I'm making no attempts to help you at all. You are a very nice man. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm what can I what can I do? What can I do when it's not the first time that like a preference I've had has been interpreted as a fucking a lamb basting of the alternative,

you know, but whatever. Dubs are for losers. Fuck off. No, the next one comes in from Odega, who says, but before we move on, I had actually never for real, I had never considered subtitling to be an issue with folks with ADD or ADHD as a form of attention like can't focus on the reading. That actually makes a lot of sense. Sure. Fortunately, now there's a lot of good dubs out there where you can pick quality voice acting. If the option is provided, it's still not the majority. You know, what's really nice about Astral Chain? It's not quite as in depth as automata, but the subtitling follows the dialogue. That's nice. Like it spaces itself so that if you let it scroll, you're not

mashing to get ahead of it. That's very nice. Nice. And yes, because it invariably is the follow up question. Golden Boy, Trigun and Johnny Young Bosch in general. These are tough. These are tough. If Johnny Young Bosch is involved, you go for it. Alternatively, a good Steve Bloom, a good Kira Buckland, you know, can I get like Paul Dobson? Can I get like Jolene as Kira and everybody else in Japanese when that comes out? Can somebody like rip that track? That's pretty much exactly what needs to happen. 100%. Yeah, you do good work, Kira. Street Fighter 4 figured it out and no one else did. Yeah, they really did. We thought it was silly. I mean, Tekken was

pretty good, too. Okay, yeah. But in Tekken, it is silly. Yeah. Yeah. The scenes with Horeng and Jin, like with the Korean Japanese thing, it's so fucking goofy because they're having long sentences that the other two are like, uh-huh. Oh yeah, I'll take me a Liam O'Brien any day of the fucking week. Well, yeah, you know. But yeah, it's just because you want to kiss him. Fem C could do it. Yeah, it's good. You know, there was Fem C merch. We found the last and only pieces of Fem C merch in Japan. It was crazy. Do you see on the persona? If you emulate persona three, whenever Akihiko goes to walk off screen and wide screen, he actually just hits the edge of the screen and just walks in place. That's that's fucking great. Yeah. Um, I say hi to Mrs. Sunset for me, buddy.

Yeah. You have a good day. Apparently that that relationship in P3P is a very athletic one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently more than any other person you could date in that game, Mr. Sonata bangs you out on a regular basis. I see. That makes sense. So I've been told. Uh, dear fortress of beached things. Yeah, what up, man? Kojima originally stayed and stated after working on MGS five that with open world design, he never wants to return to making linear games. He said it was conscious, uh, to put the story on the back burner in exchange for a focus on open world gameplay, but has said that he wants to put the story at the forefront of death's shining. That's sure I did read that. Yeah, right. Based on what we know about the

game so far, do you believe that open world design will be justified or will the general consensus be that the game would be better off as a linear narrative? Love and respect, Jordan. I think the, uh, uh, I saw mom went and saw like a talk on Death Stranding and the way the game structure seems to be working is that it's a huge wide open world, but you're using that huge wide open world to try. It's essentially just the world's largest corridor because you're just going west, the whole game, right? And you can choose to go, you know, a little bit south and a little bit north, right? To this settlement or that settlement, but you will be hitting certain story beats as you travel from, I think it's DC out west. The question is, do I believe the whether the

open world design will be justified or will the general consensus be the game would be better off with a linear narrative? I don't know what the general consensus would will be. And like you said, since it's about this continent getting connected or reconnected, but a continent country, it's about connections. Yes. It's a strand game that it sounds like there's about the mixing. It sounds like going into every area and finding a way to, you know, connect it to the main line is going to be an important part of it. But personally, my preference will always be for those linear narrative forms. And we've had a couple of each now. And overwhelmingly, I prefer the linear ones. So I just know that my preference is going to be that way. But I can't say the

consensus will be that we'll see if these splits the difference. I mean, four is like the hallway is hallway. It's out of control. And too much. But there's open giant hallway rooms in four. Yeah, like that jungle in South America is massive still too much. But it's still a fucking hallway because it starts to narrow in. You hit act three and then it's actual hallway. So, you know, there's a happy medium in between. The other medium is metal gear solid too. Well, because I was going to say the other thing about the hallway is that for you don't go back through the same areas ever, ever. And in two, you're learning that map as you go back and forth from the struts and threes a little bit back and forth, little bit, little bit, like

new area, right? You spend a lot of time in the new area, a little bit of backtracking, right? But it doesn't feel too bad. It's mostly for momentum. Yeah. So that's what it is, I think, is the fact that like the hallway only feels like it when you never revisit. And usually revisiting is bad in many cases, if it's like a boring ass backtrack. Yeah. But if there's a reason for it, or if there's something, you know, the area is really interesting, then it's totally okay to do that. And therefore, it literally becomes an actual hallway. Yes. Like it's it turns into that. It's ridiculous. That is the yeah. So I'm I'm always going to have that preference because I have not yet been convinced that open worlds can or rather like Breath of the Wild is

a really good time. It still had problems. And open world to me is not delivering the things I want from a Kojima game. Open world games can be very, very different things that don't necessarily focus heavily on this type of narrative. But that's why it's also weird to me when I hear about MMOs with story, because up until 14, and you tell me how that implements stuff, I'm like, MMO stories are fucking garbage. It's currently the best fall fancy game in the past 10 years. How fucked is that? But just like MMO stories are like their trash garbage, their breadcrumbs, because their breadcrumbs exclusively, their optional cut scenes that play for the entire server. When you hit the same milestones and do it, it's just not it's like

nothing, you know, so like, yeah, it's interesting to hear that they've they've worked on that and started fixing it. And plus the Warframe stuff, Warframe is the weirdest thing, you know, like they've gotten over that problem. So that's that's cool to hear. But yeah, I just I need to maybe just be convinced otherwise, though, you know, we'll see. Warframe is the weirdest thing ever. Did you see they added a guitar? No, that's crazy. They added a guitar and people are using like keyboard macro programs to do all the shit people do when a musical instrument gets added to a game. You want to see Giorno's theme being played by Warframe. Here you go. Yeah. You know, I'm just thinking like, like, perhaps my perspective would be different if I were

playing the current examples of large open games with your memories are like 15 years out of date. Yeah. Ironically enough, alongside WoW Classic, I have a story for you about that shit that you will laugh. Let me finish the thought like these things have come a long way and I haven't delved into the current examples of them working. So my opinions are probably out of date. But yeah, what's up with WoW Classic? So WoW Classic is out. Yes, it is. So what does that mean? World first race. Who's going to be the first to beat the final raid? So a WoW retail guild who is commonly world first, don't know the name. Besides, we're going to have a big fucking live stream. We're going to stream it the whole the whole attempt. The second servers go live.

We're the, hey, everybody, come to the world first stream of WoW Classic, Enixia, and Ragnaros, which are the two bosses, and they're advertising as the world first because they always get world first. And they're not even done the leveling process when one of the commentators, yes, the commentators they have there at the stream go, yeah, some group from the private servers just beat it. Why were they so sure they were going to do it? Because they always do it on every new version of retail WoW. No, but the private server gang that have been playing a pirate version of classic for 10 years have literally just been playing this game nonstop for 10 years and crushed it days in advance. And so the rest of their world first stream was unfortunately

a little tense, a little awkward. Sounds like someone got a little cocksure a little bit. In addition, this has led to the weirdest thing ever in that retail WoW players hate private server WoW players because they're all just a pirates and cheaters and they're toxic. They just won, guys. They just won. In conclusion, don't announce it as a world first stream unless you are damn sure. In conclusion, Ho's mad. Ho's mad times 40. Ho's mad. Not times 24. This would be times 40. Because that's the full. That's the full rate. You know, as somebody who's rated in 14 and destiny that have rates sizes of eight and six, I can't fucking believe people used to organize 40

man's. How is no one sick on that one day or their baby falls down. I watched my roommate do it. It's well, because when it's 40, that's when it becomes all crazy that you're there every week. And that's where all the real psychopaths hang out. It's like a job. 40 is too much. But like, I hear you, but it's like, if everyone is there, they're all hardcore about the thing, then it doesn't matter what number you can put 99 on it. You'll find 99 people that are that fucking hardcore. Yeah, but are they good? See, that's the problem. Luckily, you don't have to be good to play WoW. So it's okay. Like what if all the people from the best group and then the second best group were all just in

the bigger group, then they'd do that shit. And there we go. I remember I have a friend of mine who back in the WoW rating days would deal with people refusing to use their name. They would only refer to people as their class or role. It was that permanently. Was that like some sort of power game? For the other person, maybe. Hey, healer, do it. Yeah, what is that? Just about like, I am the raid leader. You are the sun. That's fucking that. Everything about that shit is a fucking wild world of crazy people. That's some toxic shit right there.

So I'm just stopping to think about how little appeal that what I just described. Yeah. Hey, guess what? When I when I was playing, hey, that sounds like the worst thing in the world from an activity I would want to perform. Hey, Willie, do you know what? Holy fuck. You know how I had an on and off like unhealthy relationship with WoW over the years? Yes. Do you know what killed it? What actually killed it? Yeah. Somebody explained to me what the what the acronym DKP stood for. Are you familiar with DKP? I feel like there's a famous old video of some guy screaming during

the NSC raid. Minus 50 DKP. More dots, more dots. DKP are dragging kill points. Okay. Yes. And they are a community organized point system. Which determines whether or not you are allowed to roll on the gear. Yes. And once I discovered that, I was like, I am fucking out of here. Yeah. That is awful. That is the worst thing that has ever happened. Yeah. You have a 40 man group and what two pieces drop. And I mean, you know, and of course, it's like you can 100 bend that analogy back to some elitist fighting game bullshit. Like every every game has its version of that. Yeah. But that's just your trash.

Get out of here. We'll stab you. Yeah. And that just sucks too. That's just garbage too. I'm just describing this being my personal kryptonite. But hey, guess what? You're right. That's many people's kryptonite. But they like the game enough to put up with it. I didn't. Jesse says their section nine rejects was ghost in the shell standalone complex. Actually a good anime. Yeah. Or where we just fooled into a boss as season one and opening. And that one time mixing 2D and 3D was good and I didn't completely suck ass. Can't wait to hear how wrong I am. Yeah, Jesse, ghost in the shell standalone complex was very good. And I would say that the second season second gig does not have the same bring it all

together impact moment that the first season does. The first season really comes together nicely with the oh fuck. Yeah, cool build up. Wow. Because it's all very like, you know, standalone as this name implies. What? Get out of town. But you know, there's still your vicious episodes I call them. Yeah. Right. And in this case, the the climax of the vicious episodes and the stand the loans come together into a very cool overall journey that's like fuck. Yeah, ghost in the shell awesome. In fact, I liked ghost in the shell standalone complex almost as much as the original movie. Like I really, really enjoyed that. The second season didn't have that much of an impact when it came together, but it was still all right.

It was still cool. And solid solid stats solid state society. Equally was so so. But all in all still worth it. What's the deal with cyborgs? I haven't seen a rise though. But ghost in the shell like most of it is good. Not that much of it is bad. So yeah, you're that's a safe bet. You can bet on the major. Yeah, in any form. Dear beast gang. Calvin says, what are some minor details in a video game that you can't help it being annoyed at when you find out about them? Recently, for me, thanks to Max's stream of MVCI, I learned that cap calls Tony Iron Man instead of Tony when tagging him in for an assist. Cap does call him a asset. Okay, whatever. Incorrect. Cap does call him Tony back at MVC

three. So it's a change. I can't wrap my head around since Cap and Tony are such good friends. But the fact that Spider-Man calls Venom Eddie, like the fact that Spider-Man calls Venom Eddie, it's likely to be a most minor detail, but I can get annoyed with it every time it hasn't stopped bothering me for two days. Okay, so that was nitpicks. Yeah. Do you got any? I think turning around on the dog Legion and Astro chain needs a little work. You 180 instead of like actually turning because the game wants you to run. I wish they had told me that my last name was going to be Howard in the beginning of Astro chain. So I would have had the foresight. So you could change the first name, but not the last

name. Yeah, it's always Howard because your dad's Max Howard. Oh, awesome. And it's like, are you serious? Okay. And it's like, yeah, geese all day. Yeah. I mean, if you want to like if you're in the same wheelhouse as that, there's little things like Todd Jesus. I wish he I wish the the rad Spencer outfits were reversed. And I wish that the mustache Spencer was the default. In Marvel. And that dreadlock was the unlock was the special costume. Because much that Spencer fucking rules. Yeah, I wish that Virgil super corrupt Sparta version had the eye patch because that'd be cool. You know, but yeah, Tony calling Tony and Steve calling each other that respectively is is a cool thing that gets snubbed out there and MVCI. So I don't know. Hey, how about this?

I wish MVCI was better. How about that? Small detail, little nitpick. Small detail. I wish it didn't look as bad as it did. Yeah, nitpick. I wish the story mode wasn't trash. It's really astonishing and bad. I think it's the worst one out of all the story modes we played minor nitpick. Yeah, minor nitpick. I wish Monster Hunter the character could return somewhere else. What do you mean? In a fighting game. Oh, okay. I want to use that move set again. Well, maybe in Marvel four, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe one of the funnest characters I've ever used in a fighting game. Maybe she's so much fun. Well, yeah, Monster Hunter is good. Yeah, and that's true. I heard the Injustice story is is pretty solid. I haven't done that.

I also heard that. Yeah. It's got an actor I really like in it. I forget his name, though, which is always a good sign. Guy plays Wei Yun on Deep Space Nine plays Brainiac. Does a pretty good job from the clips I saw. And last one coming in from Jason says, Hey, Jason, what up? Dear Willy Green tea with honey and Pat ultra red zero longtime follower from the machinima days. Love your content. Keep going. Pick the Bastion chain. It's a delight. Great character action game. On the first night I played it, I had fun exploring the mechanics and seeing how things work. Knowing its character action, I had the intention to break objects like bins. I'm a UK listener or boxes to get health items. And so I did. Yeah,

found that you get punished by your fellow Bobby's to lose points for your grading by doing that. And I got a bad grading at the end of the level. Yeah, rectify that the next day I replayed the two missions and forced myself to not break anything. But then I thought of using my legion to break things. And as I did, I was surprised that I did not get in trouble because no one can see my legion. They probably think the binge is exploded. And now I can get health items without getting in trouble. It was at this moment I had a collect conflicting conflicting thought of the gimmick. I thought it was stupid, but it was also clever. And it made me think I'm playing as a copper, I need to keep up appearances and not commit crimes unless they see me do it.

My question is, has there been games where you played around and were forced to think outside the norms in this way? Well, there's always the fun Skyrim thing where if you put buckets on people's heads, their sight line disappears so you can rob them. First of all, that's fucking wild if this game does that. Yeah, no, if you break a box in front of your sister in another cop, they go, what the fuck are you doing? And they get points off your score. That's fucking because you're a cop. Yeah, what are you doing? Why would you destroy property? Why are you just smashing boxes to the corner? Why are you breaking into pot into people's houses and smashing their pots link? That's stupid. You're supposed to be hero. Wow. That's fun.

But that's only fun because we've been conditioned otherwise for 20 years. Yeah, you know, more than that 30 years. So I remember and but is that the only thing like that? Or are there other little things like that in that game? Yeah, there's a good little ice cream in a game that is fucking hilarious because it'd be cool if there was other little bits of like going against the like the the when you're dropped into a 3D world as a character, the idea is run fucking havoc, right? Yeah, just go crazy, do everything. It's always shocking when somebody goes, what the fuck? Stop that and then find your way over to the next fight. Yeah, but in this game, if it actually matters that you keep up appearances, it'd be fun if they

implemented that in more and more. That's pretty much all that I've seen on that one. Okay, because I know there was that other one where you have the jail time for everything you do, something worse. Panopticon freedom worse freedom worse. And there's rules that you can and can it. Yeah, he's whatever all this nonsense that gets adds time to your fucking sentence and whatever. So I like I like when that gets implemented. And that's fun. That's fun. Like if you cross the street and you jaywalk, oh, you can't. You physically can't. It doesn't let you your character cannot pass through the the no sign on the crosswalk physically bars them until the light changes you have. Okay, well,

fine. You can robocop it as well. The law cannot be broken. Can't be understood. You're a police man. You can't can't jaywalk. Okay. Oh, you can you can you can jaywalk. Hey, man, I'll remember is the crosswalks don't let you cross unless the light is red and green. Green is the good one. You can get point deductions for it. All right. Oh, cool. Cool. You can remain in the crosswalk. That's how you do it. Okay. That makes sense. I see. Fun. Yep. Those lesions hate it. They hate it. They hate it. They don't like it. They kind of want to die. I think it's worth doing it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. All right. All right.

Sounds sounds. Let's pencil it in on the maybe board. And also don't forget guilty gear collection is out on switch to you can fucking grab the two old guilty gears. Which one's that you can grab accent core and you can grab original guilty gear one. I love that the guilty gear collection comes with one and the other one. Yeah, definitely not to know we're doing this now by your side. I keep calling it by your side, but it's not actually by your side. It's another song comes with it. No, that's just the subtitle that appears in the intro for guilty gear X. I want to say I think I'm trying to remember why that's baked into my brain, but it's not. But it's the wrong

thing. But yeah, guilty gear original and then this thing at your exit and soon right around the corner at Ark Revo is going to be the new one. I am excited to see that. Yeah. Oh boy. I'm hoping I can get some some hands on that'd be really fun. I am going to be this weekend going down to Dreamhack Montreal. That's happening. That's going to be sauntering over. I'll be sauntering over. I'll be playing this time. I will be I will be playing what I what I play. I will be hanging out. I'll be doing ambassador type things as an ambassador and one sonic fox. I hear will be in Montreal. Oh yeah. So I expect good things to come of that. So if you're in the Montreal area and you want to come hang out, have a good time. Come on down to Dreamhack

Montreal. Sign up and come chill. Get some games in. It'll be a good time. Should be fun. Check that out over at there's a link on my somewhere about the thing. But yeah, and then you can sign up on Smash G and whatnot. But like, yeah, come do the thing. Come do the thing. I'll be there. And I think I'll be doing like some meetups and such at the actual event over the course of this weekend. So that is the sixth, seventh, and possibly the eighth as well at Dreamhack Montreal. Cool. Alright, we did it. That's a pod. That's our first regular ass podcast in quite a bit. Cool. Nice chunky podcast. I like it. I hope Tara gets announced tomorrow. I'm already missing the vending machines. Really badly. I don't don't even don't even

do every two seconds. And you're like, Yes, yeah, I could go for another boss. Yes, I could go for another boss. Yeah, yeah, I could go for another boss coffee. Like Yeah. Sky turns west following the beach and every being in this town Hope, hearts, everything is falling down Far away in the skyline, crowd of operations crawling around It's calling, it's calling, growing louder Are we the future of this burning hell?

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