Get Played - Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a headgum podcast. Hey, Heather, I don't know if you heard anything from Matt. I mean, it's like we're supposed to start recording like almost 15 minutes ago. I just don't know where he is. Yeah, I checked my text. I haven't seen anything from him. Maybe it's just traffic. You know, traffic's been really bad lately. Yeah, it could checked my text. I haven't seen anything from him. Maybe it's just traffic You know traffic's been really bad lately. Yeah, it could be right. He could be looking for parking. I don't know

Starting point is 00:00:31 Yeah, I mean I'm not in a rush. I just want to see if anyone heard anything. Yeah. Oh shit. Oh my god Hey guys, sorry. Sorry. I'm late. Fuck someone just threw a knife at me and then he's mad appeared. Oh, sorry. No Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm late. I! Someone just threw a knife at me! And then he's mad appeared! Oh sorry, no yeah. What the fuck? Sorry I'm late, I was just been really trying to figure out... I got these teleportation knives, and I've just been like trying to figure out how they work. What? Wait, hold on. What the fuck? You got these teleportation knives?

Starting point is 00:00:58 Yeah, I got these knives that when I throw them, I teleport to where the knife goes. So I, like, it took me a while to figure it out, but finally it took me, you know, what, I'm like 15 minutes late, it took me like 15 minutes to really try to figure out how to get here. So I did eventually work, but I can only go to where the knife goes.

Starting point is 00:01:16 Fuck, Jesus, don't! Sorry, sorry, I'm not trying to get you or anything, I just keep throwing the knife. Whoa, wherever you throw the knife, I am watching your corporeal form disappear for a moment and then reappear someplace else. Look, you don't have to explain it to me. That is shocking. I'm doing it. I know. It hurts. It does not feel good at all. It's like really really scary. It's not, and also can I say it's not convenient. It's not a convenient way to travel. It actually really sucks.

Starting point is 00:01:43 Yeah, maybe just lay down. It's amazing. It could be a cool magic trick, but actually really sucks. Yeah, baby. Just just lay down with you know It's amazing. It could be a cool magic trick, but maybe just set them down for a second I'm not gonna set them down. I mean it sucks, but I'm gonna use them Can you but hold it? Do you have to throw it? Couldn't you just like kick it across the room like slide it on the floor and then go? Oh, yeah, I forgot those famous kicking knives everyone kicks knives an easy thing to do It's just there's a crowded studio. There's a lot of people who work here It's an open-office concept. No, I know. Yeah, I show. I'm sorry. I don't want to I know

Starting point is 00:02:10 I can't I don't want to hurt her. No, I don't want to hurt Rochelle. I I freaked Marty out earlier. It was like really really Katie's upset Nick Rochelle. Rochelle's bleeding I I nick Rochelle you Nick Rochelle every time you're in the studio. Okay, don't throw that back at me. That's cute, but let's come on. It's a serious. I don't, I'm sorry. I don't, I, I don't like holding the threat of HR over your head, Matt, but I do think that this is an extremely dangerous mode of locomotion. I don't know that you should be, and also, why didn't you throw it near Nick? It seemed like you threw it straight at his throat when you came in. I had to move.

Starting point is 00:02:48 I'm not really in control of my throwing yet. So the knife just kind of goes where it goes. Look, look, look, look, look. What does that mean? You're not in control of throwing. I'm not good at throwing. It's still throwing. I'm bad at throwing. I just, I think we should get into the record. I think we should talk about this after

Starting point is 00:03:05 because I think it's gonna be a longer discussion and we only have the studio for so long. I do need to get a drink because like I'm just like- I'll get it for you buddy. No, don't fuck, what the fuck. Fucking shit, God. Sorry, the can had totally like gotten the way of the knife

Starting point is 00:03:20 and like the can just like, there's like soda everywhere. Matt, I'm begging you. You are three feet from the couch. Can you just walk back to the couch? You don't need to. You don't need to teleport over. OK, everybody gets everyone. Everyone else gets to, you know, play with their toys, right? Everyone gets to get a new car, drive the car. Everyone gets Apple Watch, counts their stuff.

Starting point is 00:03:43 I get some teleportation throwing knives, and I'm not allowed to use that. I guess fuck me, right? That sucks. That fucking sucks. Angry about, like those things you obligated. Heather has the Apple Vision Pro, wears it all the time, gets to do all computer on her eyeballs and stuff.

Starting point is 00:03:59 I get some knives that I throw. I'm not allowed. This sucks. He is right, you do have the Apple Vision Pro. Wait, you guys can tell that I'm wearing it? Cause I thought it looked like my eyes. No, it's super obvious. We watch Sean Bean die yet again and generally are confused

Starting point is 00:04:16 as we watch animated feature film prequel, King's Clave, Final Fantasy 15, this week on Get Played! Welcome to Get Played, your one stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between. It's time to Get Played! I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Nick Weiger. That's me, Nick Weiger, and I'm here with our third host, Matt Albadaka. Hello everyone! Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Premiere Video Game Podcast.

Starting point is 00:05:05 We used to talk about bad games. Then we started talking about any games and now we talk about... Bad movies. Bad movies? Now we purposefully single out Matt Apadaka and subject him to something that he made a big deal about having not seen just a few weeks ago. That's at least we did this week. Yes. It's a Final Fantasy themed month of sorts.

Starting point is 00:05:33 I mean, not really. It's likely. Yeah, not intentionally. Not intentionally. It's light Final Fantasy theming. It's not like we're doing like Final February or, you know, Vanadille March. We're specifically not doing that because it is March. No, I was trying to do a play. I followed it up with a pretty good Vanadille March is the name of the opening track from Final Fantasy XI and that was what I followed it up with, but I needed to team myself up. You think I knew that, Heather?

Starting point is 00:06:03 Look, if you keep saying stuff like that Matt you will know great next week I have to talk I have to play through the final fantasy MMO yeah, PlayStation 2 at the defunct thing you find a fan server for a final fantasy 11 First off the level count it's still being Serviced and played by square Enix. Is that true? That's wild. It fucking is. They still release updates for Final Fantasy XI. That game is more than 20 years old.

Starting point is 00:06:31 That's fandom. That's community. I thought XI was just, I just assumed and whatever. I'm not plugged in on these things. I assumed XI was just offline and they were all in on XIV now. Nope, plan both. Plan both.

Starting point is 00:06:43 And I think actually there's a thematic raid this month in Final Fantasy 14 that is Final Fantasy 11 themed. Wow. Which is, that's weird. That's fun. I mean, it's 20 years ago. Anyway, we're talking this week about some more Final Fantasy stuff, but let's not get to that yet, right Nick? That's right. We don't need to get a Final Fantasy 15 Kings Glaive right away. We'll have plenty of runway to talk about that in a second. But first, we should talk about video games in general, stuff that we are occupying our time with currently. It's time for what are you playing?

Starting point is 00:07:20 What are you playing? Hey, it's me the Resident Evil merchant. I'm here to ask you a question I ask every week. What are you playing? Hey, it's me the resident evil merchant. I'm here to ask you a question. I ask every week. What are you playing? Get someplace to be? It's really just sped through that. Yeah, clock sticking, clock sticking. Let's go. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Hold on. I mean, you're paid by the hour, so I would think you would want to drag this out. But if you want to get out of here quickly. No, okay. Hey guys, how you doing? Have you been sending it invoices? Uh... Because I haven't seen it in voice. No.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Okay. First off, in order to send an invoice you need to either have access to email or a printer. One of the two. I have neither. Right. Got it. The cafe across the street where I usually hang out is kindly asked me to leave. Oh, that coffee is expensive. Yeah, you said this the cafe where you usually hang out.

Starting point is 00:08:10 My understanding is that you had been illegally squatting there. Yeah. Or I think there's a thing called frugging. Were you like live in the walls? Oh, I wasn't sure if you were full on frugging. I thought you were just living in a storage space. Unless I would I'm mistaken about the business that was where that was the place.

Starting point is 00:08:27 Little column A, little column B. So you are living in the walls part time. Oh, you look, I came here to ask a question. And it's what are you playing? Well, Resident Evil merchant, thank you for teeing us up. You're welcome. And I think that actually though, you were kind of maybe directing this at me, but I kind of feel like you should start with Matt and Heather, because I know they've been playing the game of the moment.

Starting point is 00:08:55 Oh, okay. Meraburaka, hello, Enkaiyama. Warrior Blade. Thanks, Resident Evil merchant. I'll start this off by first mentioning that Last week I texted you guys that I was doing something really exciting And it was that I was in a freaking tattoo chair That's right, and I got a freaking tattoo of a key blade from Kingdom Hearts 2

Starting point is 00:09:21 specifically And it's sick as hell the uh, it The two become one blade, you get it for defeating Roxas, who is Sora's like other half. And- Isn't it his nobody? It's his like nobody, yeah. It's like a boss, it's a boss fight that you can do in, I think, not Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts 2, the final cut specifically. But you can you can do in I think final, not final fantasy Kingdom Hearts 2, the final cut specifically.

Starting point is 00:09:48 But you didn't you didn't go in there with be like give me a keyblade you had a specific keyblade in mind. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I sent that in and the guy got to work and light did some light work. They're very, very good. I wish I had the name of the shop in front of me. This guy I met did it. Why can I ask why that blade over the classic blade?

Starting point is 00:10:07 I thought about getting the classic blade and it would have been a lot cheaper probably to do that. But it was, I don't know, there's something about like, I just like the way this one looked. It looks cool and also the specificity of, of like this is the specific key blade, I think is like a mark of true fandom. Yeah. Look, man, that is awesome.

Starting point is 00:10:29 It's on your lower leg. It's on my lower leg and it does have like a... Well, that's where it starts. It goes all the way to his neck. Yeah, it's a full length keyblade, so it is getting a good chunk of my torso there, but there was also like a You know like do you get like the oblivion keyblade, which is also really cool? I just kind of like the I don't know the look of the to become one one It also has like a sort of like small checker checker pattern on it It kind of has like a it's really cool like kind of punk rock kind of feel to it

Starting point is 00:11:05 It's also the most blade looking of the key blades a lot of them look like Keys or like funky weird things. This one looks like a sword kind of that's also kind of why I wanted to get it I would say you're decently inked up I'm not sure where you would you would know what your tattoo count is at or if you want to share that six currently It's six. I'd like what at what point are you like, I'm a tattoo guy, or are you already there? I don't consider myself a tattoo guy. Got it. No, I'm at a point now where,

Starting point is 00:11:33 like I wanted to get that for a long time. I have some other ones that are like less, like I have this ghost right here that I got doing a podcast with our pal, Jacob Weisaki. And I got that just for fun. It goes for the slice of pizza. And it is funny.

Starting point is 00:11:48 But I'm at a spot now where I think I could just get one and not really have a story or reason. Like, I already have six. Right. If I had three, I'd probably want them to be a little more important. But now that I have six, I'm just kind of like, I'll just get a bunch.

Starting point is 00:12:07 Like it's like, I'll just have a lot. I don't know when I'll get another one, but you always want another one after you get one. But all that to say, I did that. And I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. I have been playing some Final Fantasy VII rebirth. Not, I can't say a lot because I've been working a lot. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:30 But. No, I've been working too. It is. Just in case anybody else. Yeah, we're all working. We're all working. Even when I wasn't trying to be. Here's me, I was working as well.

Starting point is 00:12:37 Look, I'm just, you know, as listeners have pointed out, oh Heather's always busy. Heather's always busy. She's always talking about how busy she is Well, yeah, I'm a little busy right now. And so I haven't put in as much time I think people saying that are busy little bees. Why don't you mind your business? I like this voice you've established for our fans This is good to have Well no, our fans sound

Starting point is 00:12:59 We're always busy Our fans sound cool The fans for one are not complaining that Heather is busy Yeah It's the people that don't like the show that listen to it. I think I said listeners. Which every podcast needs. You gotta have some people who listen to the show who don't like the show.

Starting point is 00:13:13 That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good for the soul, for some of that spice. My mental health is certainly improved by this. That's good. What chapter are you in? I'm still in chapter two. Okay.

Starting point is 00:13:28 I'm in calm and taking my time because part of what I like about Final Fantasy games is just existing in them. Sure, yeah. And I know that a lot of the assets in the game are just like probably random assets, but it's really hard for me not to like look at the paintings on the walls and stuff because I'm like, somebody put this here.

Starting point is 00:13:50 Like it is it is such a gorgeous game that it feels like I don't want to run through environments. Also, it's too funny to run through environments and it kind of ruins my immersion because like everything is kind of like loose. So if you like run through like a cafe, you just knock the chairs all over the place. The physics engine is really funny. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:12 So, but yeah, I've been taking my time playing some Queens Blood, which I love. Such a good game. You're going to be talking about Queens Blood. Nick, you're going to, once you start playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, you're gonna get to the part where Queensblood is unlocked and then knowing you, that's all you're going to do.

Starting point is 00:14:34 Yeah. It is such a fucking good- The progress of the story is done at that point. It is such a good game in this game. It is, it's awesome. It is so much fun. I've really, I've heard this been talked up. It's like the new Gwent. I gotta try this.

Starting point is 00:14:46 Yeah. Did you, Matt, where, what's chapter you in? I'm in chapter four. Okay. I'm about 12 hours in. I spent about 10 hours in chapter two doing every available side thing. There's these missions that you get with

Starting point is 00:15:02 Chadley the little guy, that little guy. I do like Chadley. Chad, yeah, no, you're, you're, get with Chadley, the little guy, that little guy. I do like Chadley. Yeah, no, you're Chadley as hell. You're Chadley-coded for sure. The guy with Chadley? I think no, I haven't reversed. Chadley is actually a Nick Weigar. Chadley is the most Weigar-ass character

Starting point is 00:15:19 in any video game ever. He's like, hey, could you go walk around and get me some data? I love data. And so you go on these like Intel missions for Chadley and that's how, like that's where like the open world part of the game comes in where there's like, there's, it has the same type of like thing

Starting point is 00:15:40 that all open worlds have where there's like a tower you have to ascend and you know, activate the tower like things like that. And then there's like a tower you have to ascend and you know activate the tower like things like that and then there's like other little missions along the way but there's so many of them that I did I spent 10 hours doing all of them in chapter two. Yeah. And then chapter four and there's more now. I don't I don't know why you would I mean to each their own but it seems like such a missed opportunity to get a role playing game that is as bespoke as Final Fantasy VII rebirth and not do all of the bullshit.

Starting point is 00:16:14 Like that's what you're there for. You gotta do the bullshit, yeah. And also I didn't get to do all the bullshit in remake because I was speeding, not speeding through it, but I was like trying to get through it, but I was like trying to get through it so I could get to rebirth. And at a certain point in the latter part of remake, I thought some of the, I think this is a common complaint, some of the side missions and side quests were repetitive.

Starting point is 00:16:42 A lot of them were like fetch questingion stuff. So far, lots of variety. And like, even if it's like, you know, if they run out and there's similar ones in each section, at least they're varied enough. And there's a lot of them that you're not feeling like you're doing the same thing, you know, every other mission. Whereas like in remake, it like in remake it wasn't

Starting point is 00:17:06 It wasn't paced as well in that way But I've been really really liking the the missions in this and then obviously the story is Good, it's like it's really interesting what they've done so far and I'm just happy to see all my guys and Getting to like fight as What you call, as Red 13 is really funny. Yeah, how do you both like the combat? Is it kind of more of the same of Final Fantasy 7 Remake?

Starting point is 00:17:34 Are there any new mechanics you've noticed? There are these new attacks, they're called like synergy attacks or something and That's where you can if you have if you've used an ability enough times you get these like other things where You can use these attacks with another character. So you have to both have them use Abilities and charge up get it again specific charges to then be able to use a use a synergy attack and they're all really cool and interesting looking. And there's like new, there's new like materia that I really like, like there's like a fire and ice materia, not separate ones. Like they have separate ones still, but they have one that's like double and that you can, that equips both magic spells instead of just one, which I think is cool. And then you can that equips both magic spells instead of just one which I think is cool

Starting point is 00:18:27 And then you can get like There's like I think that material in particular gives cloud some extra abilities that are like like You get like a fire blade attack or something. It's really really that stuff's great I really love that and then there's some other like spoiler things that I won't say but I like I'm really liking the stuff's great. I really love that. And then there's some other like spoiler things that I won't say, but I like, I'm really liking the gameplay so far. Wow.

Starting point is 00:18:50 There's been some online chatter about how, yeah, but to answer your first question, I like the combat in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth more than the combat in Final Fantasy XVI. So that's been a real pleasure. It's got, there's a lot you can do and I like it. in Final Fantasy XVI. So that's been a real pleasure. It's got, there's a lot you can do, and I like it. And I also feel like on the highest difficulty level,

Starting point is 00:19:13 there's some challenge to it. It's not impossible, but, you know, I've had to Phoenix down somebody already while playing on this on this getting my familiarity with the combat system, but I think so there's been some online chatter about how the game isn't selling like gangbusters like it's not like You know, it's it's selling less copies than Final Fantasy 7 remake did in its first week.

Starting point is 00:19:46 And I think that, you know, if you're making a trilogy of this game, there's going to be fewer people who buy the second one and fewer people that buy the third one, just because like everybody who buys the first one isn't necessarily going to buy the second one, right? Sure. And the second one is you can't just jump into it, not knowing anything about Final Fantasy. You'd be fucking confused as hell. Like you, nothing would make sense.

Starting point is 00:20:12 Like, who are these people? They're not given proper intros. Like it's definitely a sequel. And it seems like I know that it would have been financially impossible to do, but it seems like it would have been, it would have benefited Square if they could have released all three parts all at once. It's a single monumental gigantic game.

Starting point is 00:20:37 And that's, it's too bad that they can't. Because I don't want them to be punished for their efforts. That's my feeling. It's really cool that they were just like, here's just a proper sequel and the expectation is that you played the first game. It's not like here's a reset and then you can just sort of everyone can kind of,

Starting point is 00:20:55 you can play Spider-Man too without playing Spider-Man one, you're fine. You know, like there was nothing like that. It was just sort of, yeah. What the fuck is going on with this guy? What, why is he jumping around like this? Was he's like he's like he can just jump anywhere how do you become a spire man this is the new york that i know

Starting point is 00:21:16 yeah dune 2 does the same thing dune 2 yeah the you see dune 2 without scene dune 1 you're gonna be completely lost dune 2 is, I really hope you saw this one. There's no fucking way I'm gonna be in any fucking context. We're gonna start saying Lisa and Al-Ga'eev and you better know what the fuck we're talking about. We're gonna throw new shit at you immediately. And it's more confusing. I'm in favor of that 100%. I love it.

Starting point is 00:21:42 Yeah, I think it's really cool. I don't know... That's an interesting challenge to figure out how to market this thing. I'm in favor of that 100%. I love it. Yeah, I think it's really cool. I don't know. That's an interesting challenge to figure out how to market this thing. And I think obviously a lot of the hype for Remake was probably people who loved Final Fantasy VII maybe played it, maybe even bounced off of it, but we're just excited to like, oh my god, I loved that game when I was younger and I'm excited to revisit it. Or I want to see what all the hype was about and then find out that it's not for them.

Starting point is 00:22:05 So yeah if it's limited only to people who made their way through the bulk of or all of Final Fantasy 7 remake that's a pretty limited section of the market. I know I have a I mean they will do this eventually after the third one comes out in cells you know whatever the half-life of sales will be for that game compared to this one, they will do a bundle and it'll be like Final Fantasy 7 Remake, you know, complete. Yeah. And it'll be all of it in one. Mega Mix 2.8 or whatever the fuck, dumb sub title, they'll give it.

Starting point is 00:22:38 And then you can unlock Sora and Goofy as well. But they'll do it all as one thing as the first, you know, like as the original was three discs too, right? But the thing that I'm loving about this part so far, not very far into it obviously, is that when I was playing Final Fantasy VII just a couple of months ago, the original, and I'm doing all the stuff in Midgar, and I kind of thought that this was kind of it. I thought there wasn't a hole. I didn't know there was an overworld for example Yeah, sure that the whole game like really widens up We're in the part of the game where I was like, oh wait, there's more and

Starting point is 00:23:15 I'm just really excited to be in this part because it feels like that it feels like now We're playing the game like now like like oh this game started mid-guards way in the is in the rear view that's over Now we're in calm now. We're in in June on now We're going to all sorts of other places and I'm just excited to be in this part of the game It's really exciting stuff. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It somehow is nicer. It's beautiful Yeah, it's really rough's beautiful. Yeah, it's really gorgeous. Sephiroth's hair is beautiful, I love it. Yeah, the synergy attack between Cloud and Sephiroth is like some of the most realistic sex

Starting point is 00:23:51 I've ever seen in a game. Well, I'm glad it's hitting for both of you. I'm excited to hear yet about the rest of your play through because I think it is going to be some time before I get into it. Any more thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth before I get into it any any more thoughts on Final Fantasy 7 rebirth. I mean it plays beautifully on the portal I don't know if you've done this on the portal yet Heather, but give it a spin on the portal. Oh, okay

Starting point is 00:24:13 I will it's it's wonderful. I'll talk a little bit about what I'm playing And I'm gonna make I'm gonna say one thing about Baldur's Gate 3 and then it will not talk about it again until I finish this next Playthrough, so I'm just whoa. I'm just that I'm just saying I'm just I'm just kind of like about Baldur's Gate 3 and then it will not talk about it again until I finish this next playthrough So I'm just whoa. I'm just that I'm just saying I'm just I'm just kind of like I don't want to give Barrage people with Baldur's Gate 3 each and every week The we're gonna move on from that at the time for this segment But I'm gonna say one thing real quick if you don't want to hear this skip ahead one hour one hour. I'm doing a Baldur's Gate 3 Honor Mode Darkerge play through. And I want to talk about one thing, which is the actor who gives the monologue that tells you about what the Darkerge's backstory is.

Starting point is 00:25:07 His name is Neil Roberts. There's actually a great polygon piece about him. And it just sort of talks about his lengthy career in theater, on stage, in radio, and now in TV and film and video games. And he also voices, you know, there's all these character voices. He voices TAV 5, which is one of the what you might have used it for one of your playthroughs. I mean, it's it's one of the voices that is just for the player character that you can choose from one of the six options. But he also does the voice of the Dark Urge origin character intro.

Starting point is 00:25:44 And can we play this real real quick, Rochelle? Cause if you just wanna hear someone just absolutely fucking crush a monologue, listen to this real quick. ["The Dark Urge"] My rancid blood whispers to me, kill, kill, and kill again. My ruined body yearns to reap death in this world, and when this foul urge calls, it possesses my whole being.

Starting point is 00:26:23 Injured beyond repair. I know nothing besides this. I must resist the dark urge, lest it consume my mind. I must discover who I was and what happened to me. before my twitching knife hand writes a tragedy in blood. Fuck yeah, this rocks. I'm like watching this like it's real, like this is so good. That poor dragonborn. Yeah, This is so good. That poor dragonborn. Yeah, that absolutely fucking rocks. It's so good. Why is he going to fight it?

Starting point is 00:27:11 It sounds like it's OK. Heather, let it happen. That's a role playing option if you're the Dark Urge. So, you know, I'll talk about it, but not today. Instead, I want to talk about Bellat, wow, which you were talking earlier about Queensblood. Well, this is a full-fledged deck building, poker rogue-like, that was developed by a local thunk who I think is a solo dev, though I'm not certain on that. I was released on February 20th. It is on everything.

Starting point is 00:27:41 It apparently plays awesome on Steam Deck, and I assume it would play well on Switch as well because it's not something that's particularly technically demanding, but This game is so well designed. It is it is one of those things where and I mean this as a compliment It is so like brilliantly simple It in the sense that there have been a lot of deck building games There have been a lot of card games that invent their own sets of cards, their own decks, their own rules.

Starting point is 00:28:07 This one uses the established cards of poker and the established poker hands and is able to build a full-fledged roguelike out of that. So the way it works is, and you know, a lot of this has been kind of burning up the Steam charts and a lot of people are playing this game. So I assume some of our listeners have spent some time with this and it immediately got its hooks in me. Basically, you are playing poker hands against a series of opponents,

Starting point is 00:28:38 although you're not actually competing against their hands, you're just trying to form a series of hands to accumulate additional points and then that gets converted into currency if you're able to survive that round. So chips is the currency. So you will have a, like for instance, you will be able to, you will form like three of a kind or you will form a full house or you'll form a straight and you'll get a certain amount of points for it. However, there are also Joker cards that you can acquire which modify how decks work. So for instance, there's a Joker you can get

Starting point is 00:29:12 that makes it so that you can form a flush or a straight out of four cards instead of five cards, which just gives you a lot more options in terms of how you're forming hands. It makes it a lot easier to form a flush or a straight and subsequently collect the points for it. You'll get ones that may be like double the value of face cards and or just make certain hands,

Starting point is 00:29:33 pay out a little bit more, add multipliers. And if you eventually get the right combination of things that add chips to each of your payouts, that multiply those by a certain multiplier, things that add chips to each of your payouts, that multiply those by a certain multiplier, you can eventually just get all these chips that allow you to advance and complete your runs. There are also things like tarot cards, or planet cards or spectral cards

Starting point is 00:30:01 that all affect the deck in different ways. For instance, you might get a card that allows you to turn every card in your hand into a 7 of diamonds, and they just stay the 7 of diamonds for a while. Or another card that makes it so that you can thin out your deck a little bit, and you can remove like three cards. So all of a sudden you're playing with 49 cards instead of 52 cards, and makes it a little bit easier to pull powerful cards or cards that go towards your build. In fact, the first time I finished a run, it was with a flush build where I was

Starting point is 00:30:31 designed towards getting flushes, which I, and from what I've read, this is like a pretty common way people start to wrap their heads around how the game works. And so I just thinned out my deck a bunch by removing like basically all of the spades and most of the clubs. So I just had two suits that I was working with and able to in order to be able to form flush hands. And it also is all this is matched with a hypnotic audio visual style that I think some people, you know, you might want to try it out first or watch some video of it if you're someone who's prone to motion sickness, because it does have like the sort of oscillating background

Starting point is 00:31:02 that apparently some people have had bad responses to. I find it very soothing, but it could potentially be overstimulating for you. But it almost feels like it's designed to be played on mute. There's basically one track that goes throughout. The sound design is pretty simple pretty minimal I find it charming and pleasing but it almost feels like it's something that that yeah yeah this is hey you might be playing it while you're listening to this podcast right now so I really really enjoyed this game I really cannot recommend it enough just to someone who's just looking for like a quick to play go to play game that you could potentially play for a while I I just think it's an absolute hoot. I thought I'd do this real quick just so we can talk through my journey with this game,

Starting point is 00:31:55 which happened partly via our text thread. Friday, 9.25 pm. Oh man, this Indy card game is, Bellacho is incredible. Matt, you'd love this. Saturday, 10.10am. So about 12 hours later, I've played 7 hours of Bellacho. It's rad, it's exactly for me. I love it. I I'm gonna have to check it out. I'm looking at it right now on steam It looks awesome. I think if you know just like the rules of poker you'll be set I would not be intimidated by it's like well

Starting point is 00:32:37 I don't know how to play Texas hold them or I don't understand you know because it's not really like that you're not playing against opponents You're not worried about worrying about anti-ing or the river or concepts like that. It's pretty much just like forming a hand out of the cards that are available to you out of a certain pool of cards. And also you have larger hand sizes than you would in poker. You're dealing, I think, with eight to 10 cards, very exactly what it is.

Starting point is 00:33:01 And you can also get jokers or tarot cards that expand the number of cards you're gonna have in your hand, which is another way to find more options for winning hands. It's a very satisfying design. And I'm just I'm just really impressed by what by what they put together. Awesome game. And you're playing it on you're playing it on steam. I'm playing on PC. Yeah. Okay. But it's on everything. Yeah. I sometimes have, I've fantasized about being like a, like a poker guy and like having made some money doing poker. Right. And like that's what a life that would be.

Starting point is 00:33:34 Seems like it might be kind of fun. Yeah, you'd have to be. There's a dark side, of course. I think of one of us, even though I'm the most into card games, I think of the one of us who would be, it could be a poker pro would be Heather Oh, yeah, just because I think the mental game of it you'd be you'd be extremely good at I used to play a lot of neighborhood games of poker and really enjoyed it like there was a

Starting point is 00:33:59 solid Solid few years of my life where I was like super into money games of poker. And while I was not extraordinary at it, I was also not bad at it. Like one of you lost a few, it was decent. Yeah. It was fun times. I know some people that have done this that have like where I like wondered I wonder what they do for work and then I found out that they like at an earlier point in their

Starting point is 00:34:28 life want a good sum of money playing cards and I'm like oh that's that's what it is. Shall we talk about this movie? What's uh yeah. Final Fantasy XV Kings Glaive is the film, or is it Kings Glaive, Final Fantasy XV? I forget what order the titles? Kings Glaive, Final Fantasy XV. That's what it is. I'd like to start us off with a review. Please do.

Starting point is 00:35:00 This is from the New York Times. And it's a very short review. It's only a few paragraphs long, so I'm going to read the entire review. And I'm also going to highlight up front that it seems to have been written by the only journalist who is on staff from the world of Final Fantasy. And that's because of their name. All right, Final Fantasy 15 Kingsglave. and that's because of their name. Alright, Final Fantasy XV, Kingsglaive. There's a very real possibility

Starting point is 00:35:27 that watching Kingsglaive could result in brain atlament. At least that's what it might feel like if you've managed to resist the lure of the long-running, rampantly successful Final Fantasy video game franchise. Suffice to say, this spinoff from the story of a magical kingdom besieged by an evil empire is too ludicrous for words. Even so, no movie, again, New York Times, no movie this welcoming to silly hats deserves our complete condemnation. Apparently rating

Starting point is 00:35:58 Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Dune, parentheses, sandworms? The writer and director Takashi Nozoe whips up a pop culture pastiche that leaps from modern cities to medieval castles from paved roads to alien moonscapes with head spinning randomness. But when characters are wedged in the uncanny valley between live action and computer animation,

Starting point is 00:36:23 their ability to rescue an incoherent plot is necessarily limited. Making matters worse, the voice work, notably from Aaron Paul, Sean Beam, and Lena Hedy, Hedy, Lena Hedy is a trocious. But then, so might yours be, if called upon to bark wooden dialogue in names that seem concocted by a desperate scrabble player who's run out of vowels.

Starting point is 00:36:46 I was devastated to learn, for instance, that the oft-mentioned empire was called Nipfelheim and not, as everyone seemed to be saying, Nipfelheim. Don't judge. With a project this misbegotten, we grab our amusement where we can. This article was written by Jeanette Catzolas Wow That made me like this movie Because I'm just like so annoyed by that by that takedown I think that I think a lot of it just seems to come from not being familiar with this type of

Starting point is 00:37:21 You know, maybe just anime or video games or just final fantasies in general, I don't know. Are there sandworms in this? I don't know. I was trying to think as I heard that. I was like, is there a sandworm? I mean, there's like a big tentacle thing, like a big octopus type thing. That's an octopus.

Starting point is 00:37:38 Like that's not a sandworm at all. And the fight takes place in the sky. Yeah. There's not a lot of sand in the movie really, if we're thinking about it. There's like, I mean, also what I've seen do to there's a lot of sand there. No, this Anakin Skywalker like this movie a lot more. Yeah. Almost no silly hats.

Starting point is 00:37:58 Is she talking about like there are some silly hats. There was a pinwheel on it. There was a dunce cap. There was like the big Pharrell hat. Look, I can't track any of these character names, but there's the one nefarious guy who's got kind of a funny hat. Oh, like Johnny Depp asked? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:13 Okay, great. But I didn't find, look, I did not like this movie. I was confused by it, but I do like the visual invention. I do like the aesthetic. I do like the visual invention. I do like the aesthetic. I do like the world. And I didn't think the voice acting was atrocious. I think maybe some of these actors were like in a booth by themselves, unclear on

Starting point is 00:38:35 what they were saying to who, because it's so dense with kind of with made up words. And but but I don't know. I did. That did not strike me watching the English version as like a huge weak spot of the movie No, and to this writer's point you would also do a bad job if you had to say some of the things they had to say Some of the dialogue was so bad right and like I hate to maybe more of a script issue labor that point of it, but like I There was not a second in this movie where I knew what was going on

Starting point is 00:39:08 I was like very confused by it the whole time almost like it was Inscrutable to me and I really really I did at one point. I will admit this mm-hmm at one point I did fall asleep for ten minutes, and I did not go back because I was like it's not gonna help me I Watched all of it. I was locked in but but I want to take a step back for a second because you and I, as we said, did not play Final Fantasy XV. Heather, you did play Final, you are, you love Final Fantasy XV. I love it, but that's not the, this movie is, is the prequel. You're supposed to watch this first and then play the game. So like, there's nothing in this movie

Starting point is 00:39:45 that this is the introduction to the world and frankly is kind of a necessary introduction because the game sort of starts with the post-credits sequence which was just taken straight from the game. Like it's literally game graphics. The post-credits sequence of Kingsglaive is the beginning of the game, like it's literally game graphics. The post-credits sequence of Kingsglaive is the beginning of the game. So this is the first media you are supposed to consume

Starting point is 00:40:10 when starting on your Final Fantasy XV journey. And I like this movie better than Advent Children. That's interesting. I disagree, but I think if I was more familiar with the world, I might have a similar feeling. And I don't want to, I don't think that this is necessarily a great metric for whether or not something is a good movie, right? I do just want to point out that Final Fantasy VII Advent Children has a rotten tomato score of 50% and Kingsglave final fantasy

Starting point is 00:40:47 15 has a rotten tomato score of 12% What's what's the fan reaction there because I think that was probably skewed by critics who are stodgy critics who are maybe a little But baffled by what they're looking at. Yeah, like the New York Times guy Who's got it or woman who has to review the failing New York Times does not doesn't know what to do with Kingsglave. Let's see Kingsglave final fantasy. Kingsglave is 69% audience score. Yeah so fans are probably probably overrating it I think it acts as a film it probably is somewhere kind of in the middle. Yeah not to sound too third-way here., you know, this is the thing. It's, if this is intended as a, like, hey, let's, let's have you take some steps down

Starting point is 00:41:34 into the shallow end of the pool and get acclimated to the water before we plunge you into the deep end of the gameplay of Final Fantasy 15. I don't think it succeeds at that because I think I watched this movie and felt like I knew next to nothing about what this world was and what the rules were and who the characters were and what I should even be paying attention to. Yeah, there was like a couple of things

Starting point is 00:41:57 where I was just like, okay, so wait, they dress and talk like this, like sort of like old like game of thrones style like Clothes and talking but then they went outside and there's like normal cars that I love I'll just say this I love that that is my favorite thing about this is that how everything is so anachronistic It's like we got a knight with a shining armor, and then we've got a guy driving like a Chevy Tahoe, and then we've got a fucking laser gun. Like all these things are coexisting.

Starting point is 00:42:32 I think that is awesome. I love that nonsense past these. It's an interesting stylistic choice, but it added to my sort of, where am I? Like what am I watching here? But it looks, the thing about the movie too is that it does look good. It looks awesome. I wish more movies looked like this.

Starting point is 00:42:50 It looks incredible. Yeah. Here's, here's, okay, look guys, I know that I'm coming from the Final Fantasy 15 house here. But my question is, what is confusing about it? It's it's a really simple story. There's a city with a king and the king, the king, the king being alive is what makes magic possible in the city. There's an empire on the outside of the city and the Empire has taken over almost everywhere and The Empire wants that power so they set up a sort of a

Starting point is 00:43:32 clandestine mission to infiltrate the city under the guise of peace and then kill the king like that's really Simple you get that in broad strokes Like that's really simple. You get that in broad strokes, but I think a big part of it is like, it's unclear what the stakes are. It's unclear, you know, who is who exactly. For a large part of it, I think it's even unclear who the lead is. Like I think some of it is just like, yeah, I overall got the broader narrative, but I

Starting point is 00:44:06 think just the way the story is constructed, the information is doled out a little bit incongruently, and so it becomes a little bit hard to follow. I think also just because there is so much dizzying action, it starts to feel like a style over substance sort of thing of like, you know, let's take a moment to breathe here and just sort of like really start to grasp what's going on. But you know, it's not indecipherable. It's just like I think another part of it is that because there's so much vocabulary being thrown at you, you're trying to track all of that. And for instance, to use Dune Part Two as a counterpoint, they, I think, did a good job of pairing down

Starting point is 00:44:49 the nonsense to the essentials. I'm saying nonsense affectionately, pairing down the invented words and the lore to the essentials so that you kind of under, you could comprehend it a little bit more. But I don't know, that's the challenge of making something like this. And that's also the challenge of making something like this and also that's also the challenge of making something like this and then localizing it you know it's just it's

Starting point is 00:45:09 it's it's tough I do give them credit for just like making something that's so visually arresting I'm I'm floored guys I thought you guys were gonna like this I thought you're gonna be like there's no way you thought we were going to like this. Sorry? That is a premise I absolutely reject. That is impossible. I thought there was a serious non-zero chance that after this, Apodaka, especially since this is Tetsu Nomura, Kingdom Hearts, this is like his, it was at one point his baby and this idea that you would mash up, you know, a modern setting with like fantasy elements is so much this dude's jam. I thought there was and you've got the tattoo.

Starting point is 00:45:56 I was I was like, I'm gonna come in and he's gonna be like, guys, I loved Kingsglave and I want to play Final Fantasy 15. How do you think I feel here sitting here questioning my God? and he's gonna be like, guys, I loved Kingsglaive, and I wanna play Final Fantasy XV. Yeah, how do you think I feel here sitting here questioning my god? Like, it feels bad. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha fantasy 15 away from me, I'm gonna try again because it's so running down like the same streets. Look, it's they have a car in this that they made. I love the car. The car, I think it's a beautiful car. The car is good. It's an Audi, right? Yeah, it's an Audi and they made one in the real world here for us. They made the car.

Starting point is 00:46:47 I- I- Here's the things I love and I don't- I feel nuts now because I was like- I was sure that we were gonna have this kind of like, oh and when he does this, that's kind of cool. Oh and when that happens, that's cool. And now I'm like, guys, you didn't like my favorite part was when the when Luna Freya the Oracle Basically jumps out of the flying car Like to kill herself and Aaron Paul as Nick's goes oh come on yeah, there's There's a lot of like, well, that happened to your quips.

Starting point is 00:47:26 Like there's a lot of the stuff is all of the Apple music cliches. I think that stuff, if I had to timestamp it, is from this time, right? Sure, yeah. Like these are like the first instances of that. But yeah, I liked when the Oracle almost killed herself and then he was annoyed that she was trying to do that. But I liked when the Oracle almost killed herself and then he was annoyed that she was trying to do that. But I also like the teleportation knives. Those were cool. That's cool. And when the big guys at the end, they're also throwing their weapons in order to teleport? I like I like that. Okay, let's, audience, if you are unfamiliar

Starting point is 00:48:09 with Kingsglaive, let me do my best attempt to summarize. We start 10 years before the events of the movie when Niflheim, the terrible empire, attacks the kingdom of Tenebra, or Tenebra, the terrible empire attacks the kingdom of Tenebrae, or Tenebra. And the king and his family and the queen of Tenebra are all gathered for like a hangout. And the queen of Tenebra is killed and the king of Lucius, which is our city, Lucius has to leave and they abandoned this young princess and who knows if she's safe. But then 10 years later, Niflheim is engaged in a near constant war with Lucius and there

Starting point is 00:48:59 is a group of knights called the Kingsglaive who are out on the battlefield trying to fight all of the things that the evil empire can throw at the kingdom of Lucius. And they throw behemoths, they throw demons, they throw monsters, and the Kingsglave use magic and weaponry to fight them off. Suddenly the empire wants a peace treaty. They're like, this is ridiculous. Certainly the kingdom of Lucius would like a peace with our fair Niflheim.

Starting point is 00:49:34 There's like a cartoonishly bad guy who comes in and you're like, oh, don't trust this dude. This Johnny Depp looking guy. Yeah, this like fancy lad, bad guy. And the king is like, okay, I'll agree to meet and the emperor is going to meet the king and they're going to sign a peace treaty. But the empire has one caveat, which is that the prince of Lucius must marry the princess of Tenebra to create this, I don't know, treaties, you know,

Starting point is 00:50:09 like when all that kingdom stuff happens in like old times, like, oh, we're gonna solidify this in blood. So the Kingsglaive is prepping for this peace treaty when they find out that the princess has been kidnapped by elements of the Empire. And they're like, oh no, we gotta go save the princess because the Empire is fucking with us. They're not actually here to create a peace, but that that action of

Starting point is 00:50:40 kidnapping the princess is a ruse to get all of the knights out of the city so that the king is exposed when it is time to invade. So the knights are on the outside saving the princess and the king is attacked by Niflheim and he gets killed and he has one special ring that gives him all his power and the princess takes that ring and she's like nobody can use the ring except the king and our main dude From the Kingsglaive is like let me try using it once and he puts it on and he speaks to the Kings of Old and the Kings of Old are like Nix because that's his name If you use this power you'll have to forfeit your life and Nix is like okay. I'll do it and he fights Niflheim on his own manages to let the princess escape

Starting point is 00:51:26 to safety, and then he dies. And that's this, that's the whole movie. Now I get it. Fuck, god damn it. No, it's, here's the thing. You did a great job of explore explaining it. I don't think the movie does a good job of explaining itself. And I think that it looks amazing as we've said a few times and it has some really awesome sequences, a lot of cool visual ideas and conceptual ideas. But you know what it kind of feels like? It's like if you're watching The Matrix, but they cut out the scene where Morpheus takes Neo into the field of white and explains what the matrix is

Starting point is 00:52:08 and how it works and teaches him Kung Fu and everything. And it's just like, you kind of have like this, a 10 minute, you know, decompression period where you're just being explained how everything works. And I never really understood even the status of these various characters, what the Kingsglave was in particular. And I understand that a lot of this stuff is like lore that you can decipher or that you can find from other sources, and a lot of times

Starting point is 00:52:34 there's an expectation, especially with video game stuff that you will look at, you know, you won't just look at this one text, but you'll look at a bunch of different things and piece these things together on your own. But I just was generally lost with a lot of it, despite liking how it looks. And another example is the Mission Impossible movie without the slideshow or PowerPoint presentation where they explain what the mission is, who the bad guy is, and what you need to do to eliminate them. Just give me some context for what everything is. I do want to shout out a couple of actors.

Starting point is 00:53:12 First off, we should shout out past guest, our buddy Ray Chase, who does appear in that post-credits sequence as Noctis. That's right. So it's good to see and hear Ray in there. But also I want to shout out Neil Nubon, who is the voice of the, of Nix is Aaron Paul. Neil Nubon plays Petra Fortis, who's another character who I can't picture right now, but I'm sure if I saw, I'd know who that was.

Starting point is 00:53:41 But he is also the body of Aaron Paul's character. So he did the motion capture. Neil Dubin is, of course, the performer who gave us a starry and in Baldur's Gate three. Oh, OK. That's yeah. Yeah. Adding adding a lot of juice to this. A lot of juice. Yeah. And it needed the. It was fucking thirsty.

Starting point is 00:54:01 I feel I feel like because, because you're on your, you got your laptop on, but I feel like you're drafting an email where you're firing me. That's what it feels like. No, it's actually my resignation. No, I, look, I watched this. I didn't think, I maybe didn't think I was gonna like it cause it didn't seem good. And I was really, really trying, even though like I did say I did fall asleep for 10 minutes.

Starting point is 00:54:30 I don't think I missed anything in the 10 minutes. That would have helped me lock in with this thing. But it's not, look, I'm gonna tell you right now, Heather, this isn't gonna stop me from eventually playing Final Fantasy 15, I am gonna do it still. No, I think of it as, if this exists partly as marketing material for Final Fantasy XV, I am gonna do it still. No, I think if this exists partly as marketing material for Final Fantasy XV, the game, it succeeded for me on that level,

Starting point is 00:54:50 because I was like, it would be awesome to play this. Yes. And like you were saying, the aesthetic is really cool, and just the world that they've built is really cool, and feels like a fun thing to live in. And then the obviously the thing is just, the post-credits scene is just pulled directly from the game.

Starting point is 00:55:07 And that's to me, it was like, oh yeah, I want to be on a road trip with my bros. This does also sort of like bring the thing like, I think, have I heard this complaint before that like the, or maybe this is, you know what, this was my complaint about the spirits within. That magic didn't seem like it was part of it at all. And that is such a big part of Final Fantasy in general,

Starting point is 00:55:32 just magic and weird kind of stuff. This at least has that. So like- A lot of magic, no shortage of magic. If I had to rank the Final Fantasy movies I've seen, it's Advent Children way at the top now, and that sounds crazy considering the conversation we had about it a few weeks ago.

Starting point is 00:55:49 That is number one with the bullet, right? That is basically best picture. Then go all the way down to Kingsglaive. Kingsglaive is there. And then further still is the Spirits Within. Interesting. I feel like I like Spirits Within more than this movie. Wow. But I'm not sure. I think Spirits Within is pretty rough and this does look a lot better.

Starting point is 00:56:22 I think the way it's within looks... It's a better constructed movie, I feel. It's a better constructed movie, but it's less final fantasy to me and that's why I'm rating it so poorly. As a final fantasy movie, it absolutely fails. That's a great point, yeah. But, because at least this has like magic and like... Old guys doing like weird magic stuff in it.

Starting point is 00:56:43 And like, I like the way the magic looks it looks Fucking awesome. Yeah, it looks computerized like it looks I don't know it looks like technology But also magic somehow and I don't know that's not a good way to explain what I mean But if you've seen it and you know what I'm talking about Maybe you agree. I think this is the this think I maybe just figured it out for me at least. Because I have a minimal understanding of Japanese. So if I put this movie on in Japanese without English subtitles, I think I would like it more because I would be like, you know what, I can't follow this thing at all, but that's

Starting point is 00:57:21 okay. I just like I can whatever I can pick up every 30th word. And then beyond that, I'm just just baking in the visuals. But you know what? This looks so cool that I think I like it. And then and then like, like, but but actually trying to follow it in English. I'm just like, man, I'm lost here. Yeah. And this is also like, this is a zone. This is a zone for me that I don't love in general because look, I don just like a man. I'm lost here. Yeah, and this is also like this is a zone This is a zone for me that I don't love in general because look I don't like I don't like to be a hater

Starting point is 00:57:51 No, I don't like to be a I like to be a hater. I like my letter. What are you trying to be a hater? My letter? Yeah, I'm not trying it's happening. I'm not trying to do it My letterbox is so annoying To most people because I give a lot of movies five stars Because I just like going I just like having a blast watching the movie And so if I liked it at all like that was an easy five stars for me and a blast this I gave one and a half stars on letterbox Wow, that's a damning review Also, I have to point out one of my favorite things that was making me laugh when I was watching the movie

Starting point is 00:58:25 is that one of the characters is named Regis, and I just kept thinking it would be so funny if it was Regis Philbill. It's really fun. That's like the king. That's Sean Bean's character's name, Regis. Nobody else is named Regis. They say Regis so many times in the movie. It's the kind of thing maybe in the localization make him like Rebus or something. Yeah, that's like more kingly to, like Regis. I'm just thinking he's like, he's gonna say this Final Fantasy is out of control. But Regis means...

Starting point is 00:58:52 Is that your Final Fantasy? Wait, who knew that Weigur had a Regis on lock? That was great! That was so good! Wow, the movie just got an extra star Regis is it is I think it's a Latin name that means King. So it's like It's that would make sense regal. Yeah, I think I think it's King King Lucius It's just such a funny I don't like like, there's only one famous guy named Regis. So it just occupied my mind.

Starting point is 00:59:30 The entire, and this is something that I think is worth mentioning, hour and 55 minutes, somehow the longest movie I've ever seen in my life. This movie was so long to watch. It felt like I was watching it for my entire life. Yeah. No, it feels as long as Dune Part 2 and it's one hour shorter. Yeah. And Dune 2 doesn't feel long at all actually. It absolutely does not. I could have sat there for another hour. But that's just a whole thing of just like pacing and, you know, and that makes something feel like it's the duration that it is or not, isn't.

Starting point is 01:00:07 But another positive I'll say is that one of the things I love about Final Fantasy, and particularly in Final Fantasy VII, Rebirth right now, is that there is sort of like modern stuff in it, but then you see like creatures that don't belong there. Yeah. I like that.

Starting point is 01:00:24 I love that. That's always good. That's an A plus to me. That's what this has a lot of. And I think, again, I think that's great. Love that. Stuff that doesn't go together, but then here it is side by side. Cause then the creatures,

Starting point is 01:00:35 like that big octopus thing that we were talking about earlier, I was like, I wish this came a little sooner. Cause this is cool. This is great. I love this. I love how that looks. I don't like what anyone's saying when it's happening.

Starting point is 01:00:48 Everybody was saying was crazy, but I liked how it looked. The tentacles look all wet and gross. Yeah, yuck. The movie was written by Kazushige Nojima, which he wrote Final Fantasy 7, Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts. He also wrote Final Fantasy X or X. Like he is like their main writer who wrote this. So I'm wondering if the localization actually is kind of accurate.

Starting point is 01:01:23 Like that it is sort of tropey and sort of like a collage. But yeah, a draft is written by him and then they brought in a professional screenwriter who created the full length cinematic script. And then a Los Angeles-based company, Hydra Entertainment, assisted with the script in addition to writing assistance from other Hollywood writers. So... That probably messed it up, honestly.

Starting point is 01:01:57 Yeah. To be completely honest, it's like, it's like, because there's a bunch of people who's like, oh, well, we gotta, we gotta figure out this, like, like, probably tried to Hollywood it too much, but it ended up being this kind of soupy mess of like, it's like there's a bunch of people like oh well We got a we got to figure out this like like probably tried to Hollywood it too much But it ended up being this kind of soupy mess of like it's not It's not as anime or as video gamey as it should be yeah, and it and but it's also not traditional Hollywood storytelling It's this weird sort of a murky midpoint That doesn't really satisfy anyone and on the casting point to like I like all these actors. I think they're like great actors. I just am too aware of what Aaron Paul looks like. So to hear his voice coming out of this guy's face,

Starting point is 01:02:33 who is a different actor, is like weird, is kind of weird. Well, it's one of those things with, because the animation pipeline is so labor intensive and takes so long that you can imagine that this whole thing was packaged when, you know, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad were at the apex of their relevance. Yes. And then, and I don't know what year that would have been, but ultimately comes out in 2016, which certainly feels later than, I mean, I feel like both those shows were off the air by that point, right?

Starting point is 01:03:03 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Game of Thrones just wrapping up. I could be wrong. No, no, no. In 2016? No, Game of Thrones went up until 2020. 2019. Oh wow, okay, so that went a while. Yeah, it's looking bad ended in in 2013. But you can see how this was like probably put together off of like these names of these big prestige TV shows and then they're in there. But yes, they are so identifiable with those roles. That is that is a little bit of a thing. And so you're hearing two Game of Thrones characters talk about each other and to each other and it just does throw you off a little bit. I'm with you there. Because like it's that one thing too were like, I mean, not that they had to,

Starting point is 01:03:43 if they're going to make the people look like people this much, they should just look like the people that are the voices. At least, but like that's the thing because not, it's, we watched a dub probably, right? Like we watched, he probably was in, is intended for the Japanese audience first. Who could say? I would assume so. Yeah. I honestly don't know if this was, because the lip sync was English. so. Yeah. I honestly don't know if this was because the lip sync was.

Starting point is 01:04:07 English English. Yeah. Like it was not a dubbed lip sync. Yeah. And I feel like Aaron Paul. Like I feel like the maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like it's Aaron Paul is like the primary actor of Nick's. So if you watch the Japanese version, that's technically the dub. Interesting, I see. Oh, no, maybe not, maybe not.

Starting point is 01:04:35 I don't know. I can't tell. I can't tell from the limited research I'm able to do while talking to you on this podcast. Yeah. Well, like it says that his his the likeness is based off of a French model. And then Neil Nubon does the the motion capture. And then Aaron Paul does the voice. So maybe it's just like this like Frankenstein process that is just like, what is like going on here, actually? Is there any way to watch this in subtitled, a subtitled version in the US?

Starting point is 01:05:07 Because I could only find it dubbed. Yeah, I only saw the dub. I'm sure you could find the Japanese version, but I don't know if it's on any of the existing streaming platforms. So which is, I guess, the answer to your question might just be no. Yeah, and I'll tell you what. Maybe on the blue arrow. If you can, I'm not doing it. I watched it the one time. I'm not watching this again. Wow. Meanwhile, I'm looking up Kingsglave on Amazon to see if I can get it on Blu-ray. You know, to each their own. We're all doing our best.

Starting point is 01:05:53 I did not, I don't think I did not detest this movie as much as Matt did. I just was like pretty lost, but I did like a lot of the mechanical design, I did like a lot of the character design and I liked the world building like I said, yeah It does not look like you can buy this film on blue. Oh dang No Hold on hold on. I'm wrong 4k ultra HD Kingsglave Is available on blu-ray 4703 reviews Kingsglave is available on Blu-ray. 4,703 reviews, 4.5 stars.

Starting point is 01:06:31 So people on Amazon love it. Good disc. It's in 4K. It is only in English. That's a little bit of a lover. I'm shocked. Oh well. Well, there was something else they did that for where they were just like, you know what, this is a thing that we're intending for English-speaking audiences because

Starting point is 01:06:51 that's the biggest audience. I can't remember what the hell that was. Wasn't it Final Fantasy XVI? Might have been. Might be what I'm thinking of. Yes. Yeah, I think that is what I honestly, I think that is exactly what I'm thinking of. Yes, yeah, I think that is what, I honestly, I think that is exactly what I'm thinking of. Actually, no, you can watch it in Japanese with English subtitles on the Blu-ray, but it is considered a dub. It is not, so this was, this is an English format film.

Starting point is 01:07:20 And the Japanese language track is a dub, huh? Asked and answered. King Regis' son is Noctis. Yes. Am I supposed to piece that together for the movie? Well, because did you not? Okay, hold on. Because you're like,

Starting point is 01:07:37 You're like, I wish there had been like an introduction that told me all the stuff. That's literally what happens. There's like a voiceover at the beginning and it's like the kingdom of Lucia's, the kingdom of Niflheim. These two countries are at war and it's like voiced by the princess and it's like the young prince Noctis, son of King Regis, was in Tenebrae to do some kind of, like he'd just been injured and you see Naktis in a wheelchair.

Starting point is 01:08:08 Like that whole, it's just goes over. I do remember that. Yeah, I think I just tuned out at Nippleheim. I was like, all right. I know, I was like, did they say Nippleheim? Oh my God. My favorite part was when King Regis yelled off camera to Gelman

Starting point is 01:08:29 And he was like Gelman should we go to break? Gelman I'm worried there's a coup going on Take my ring of power Do you think this is the most Regis has been talked about in on a podcast in the last like five years probably I can say with certainty no because it was another podcast God bless him. A broadcast. Great entertainer. Yeah. Broadcasting legend. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:08:49 RIP. I guess the most shocking thing about this feeling I'm having right now is that I am enthusiastically happy about the movie, but still somehow on the opposite side of a take from you guys. Like. on the opposite side of a take from you guys. Like. Like. Like I'm not like, I'm not, I'm not grumpy

Starting point is 01:09:12 and I'm not frowning and I'm not like, this fucking podcast is gonna fucking kill me. Like, like I'm like, but, but didn't you like the, the cars and the shoes and the hair styles and the cool world and I know styles? I did like that. And I know you did. I know, I know. But but like, I'm like, oh, and and you guys are like, this this sucks.

Starting point is 01:09:34 So you're feeling this way. And this is the first time I felt like you. We freaky Friday. Yeah, we did, especially since it's a Tetsuro more thing because you you normally are the guy who's like, man I don't know what the deal is with those guys in the hoods those cloaked guys in but I you know I like them and I want them to I want them to get hurt by my my my boy Sora Maybe organization 13 you're speaking of. Yeah. See? Regis's first television exposure was as Joey Bishop's sidekick.

Starting point is 01:10:16 Joey Bishop of the Rat Pack had a TV show and Regis was his sidekick. Isn't that crazy to think about that life is that long Who want to be a millionaire wants to be a millionaire was one of the rat packs like like yeah, you know buddies Such a great host for that. That's crazy. Yeah, um I I'll I'll say this I'll reiterate that this did make me want to play Final Fantasy 15 I do plan to do that at some point. I also will say I meant meant to do it in the past, I just never got around to it. I also feel like although this is intended as a prequel for FF15, the game, I feel like if I played that game and then watched this movie, I would have more appreciation for it because I just have a little bit more context for everything instead of just this

Starting point is 01:11:03 barrage of new ideas and new vocabulary. Are the teleportation knives in the game? Yes. Good question. The way, so the teleportation knives are a sort of weakened version of Noctis' main power, which is that he, so all of the blades of the kings are like a power that he inherits.

Starting point is 01:11:31 And I believe that he inherits that power by being... Like as soon as the king is dead, he inherits the power, like, you know, sort of as royalty. And the way you fight as Noctis like, you know, sort of as royalty. And the way you fight as Noctis is you throw those fucking swords at monsters and teleport to them. So the combat is also like throwing a sword up in the air and then throwing a sword back down at a monster's head

Starting point is 01:11:57 from up in the sky. Like it's really kinetic combat. And I think some of the action in both Final Fantasy VII remake and in Final Fantasy XVI owe to that single concept of throwing the blade and then teleporting to it, because what's the dude's name in XVI? Machinau. Clive.

Starting point is 01:12:27 Clive, there it is. Clive does that move. He can teleport to different parts of combat, which is a Noctis move. I don't know. Clive Rossfield. Clive Rossfield. Good name.

Starting point is 01:12:44 Clive Rossfield Clive Rossfield good name You're fine with it if they give them if the old time stuff doesn't mix with the new time stuff I'm learning stuff about you Apadaka, I'm learning. I mean I didn't dislike that I was just like it was just confusing to me because I just wasn't sure because it's it's for the first like 10 minutes You don't see any of the new stuff and then they go outside and all the stuff's new. And I was like, what the fuck is this? This is crazy. But it's like that's an element I can just take it face value

Starting point is 01:13:16 and not have explained to me, not have justified. Like there was a great war and so some technology was lost, but other remain. Like I don't need that. Like that can just be baked into the world. I more just mean like, you know, what's going on between these characters and just defining things a little bit better. But also it's possible I'm just dumb and I didn't get this because I'm a dumb guy. No, it was like that stuff was like the end of the village to me,

Starting point is 01:13:39 but like the first 10 minutes of this movie. What the fuck? What? 10 minutes of this movie. Wait, what the fuck? What? I mean, I wish I liked it, but maybe it wouldn't be as fun to talk about, right? But I, yeah, this didn't do it for me, but I do think that after I finish Rebirth, I probably will start Final Fantasy XV.

Starting point is 01:14:04 Because I want to see what those guys in the car are up to. That was really interesting. That is a great tag. It does make you just want to be in that car. You get their vibe. Yeah. The crew's vibe immediately and you're like, I kind of want to hang out with these guys.

Starting point is 01:14:17 Yeah. Yeah. Kelman, the main guy in the car, that's my son! That's my final answer. Okay, any other thoughts on King's Life? This is the best movie I've ever seen. Richelle, you didn't watch this, did you? No, I watched a trailer and I was like,

Starting point is 01:14:40 I'm not gonna understand this at all. I wish I had done that. That probably would have helped me out a little bit. Hey, it's time for the question block. All right, these are all from our discord.gg. Here we go. This first one from Unagi Roll writes, if any restaurant in a video game were real,

Starting point is 01:15:08 which one do you think would be your favorite? Persona 5 coffee shop. 100% with a bullet. Yeah. I mean, that's an easy one for me. I'll try to think of a less obvious answer, but just that is so cozy. And we all talked it. We were texting about this back and forth.

Starting point is 01:15:25 I'm sure we talked about it on our Persona 5 episode. And I was continuing this as it played through all of Persona 5 Royal. It introduced me to having curry and coffee together. That's right. And that's such a great combo when they offer it there. And it's just like, oh man, that just makes me wanna hang out there in the rain with some acid jazz playing.

Starting point is 01:15:46 That was like a really fun time because I remember there was a- Cafe Le Blanc, that's what it's called. Cafe Le Blanc. Yeah. There was a time during that where you just sent us a photo of you at a curry place and you were just like, I'm eating curry. It's rock. You saw it in the game and then you went and got it.

Starting point is 01:16:05 There's rules. Yeah, that's a really good answer. I don't like to eat at the restaurant, the bar from Dave the Diver. Get some beer and some sushi. Yeah, some like fresh caught sushi. Yeah, that'd be great. That is actually awesome.

Starting point is 01:16:20 That is great. And that'd also be a great environment because you're right by the ocean. Yeah. What was the, can I hear the wording of the question so I don't like Damn myself to hell. It's if you can eat in any restaurant from a video game. Where would it be? Which would be your favorite? I'm gonna go with whirling and rags. Oh What's a great answer a lot of drama there though? Yeah a lot of drama

Starting point is 01:16:42 But like to be able to sit at the bar and like have a little bar food and like listen to these guys I'll talk to each other and see karaoke night No, it'd be a good restaurant to hang out at I don't remember the name of the restaurant from Final Fantasy 7 in the in The walled city right in the, the walled city. Right. All I know is just when he's talking about the Midgar,

Starting point is 01:17:10 like the plates that cover the city and calls them that big pizza up there, like the Barrett line or whatever it is. Okay, so I looked it up. The restaurant is called Restaurant. I like that one. I would like to try the restaurant, restaurant from Final Fantasy VII.

Starting point is 01:17:24 I also, I also- restaurant from Final Fantasy 7. I also really like the Geldin Kuei restaurant from Final Fantasy 15, which is a very French Polynesia inspired island restaurant. And it's got, because of the mismanagement of assets in Final Fantasy 15, the food in Final Fantasy 15 is still the best looking food in any video game ever made. So you'd be like, hmm, that food looks pretty great.

Starting point is 01:17:53 I tell you what, I always love a bar restaurant you can hang out at in a game. Yeah. That's a fun thing. I mean, that's a big thing. The way I liked about the Yakuza, like a dragon series now is just like, and I can't think of a specific restaurant from there But just that you could go and like

Starting point is 01:18:08 Whatever I'm just gonna go have some teppanyaki or something. I'm just gonna hang out for a minute. I'm just gonna go get a fast Food burger. I'm just gonna sit in here. It's great. I would also like to Have coffee at Brewster's cafe from Animal Crossing. Mmm. That's fun Thanks for thanks for the question, New Noggy Roll. Great question. This next one is from Not Rock. If you were a pro wrestler, what game tune would you use for your entrance music? This is really interesting.

Starting point is 01:18:39 Kenny Omega already has used one wing at Angel, and that um, and that's his finisher, so That kind of takes that off the table. I feel like he kind of owns that. Yeah. Yeah I Be I want something you'd want something big and bombastic, right? Like you'd want something that's sort of like to click like is shorthand for your character But also tells you you're here to to do business and gets the crowd all amped up, right? I think mine would be tells you you're here to do business and gets the crowd all amped up. Right. I think mine would be, ha ha ha ha, mine would be Ryu's theme from Street Fighter II, just like a classic game theme.

Starting point is 01:19:17 But my first answer was the character select screen from Marvel versus Capcom 2, which is just gonna take you for a ride. Oh yeah, that's really, really good too. So first, we'll break in. That's really, really good. The first thing I thought of was Superman by Goldfinger from Tony Hawk's First Gator One.

Starting point is 01:19:38 It's kind of a cheat because it's just like a regular song. But that was the first thing that came to mind. I think I would probably take one of the versions right now just because it's what's in my head and it's what I've been playing and it's from my favorite game. I think I just take down by the river from Baldur's Gate 3 and one of the most like, you know, maybe not the character selection version, but there's so many different orchestrations of that, some instrumental, some with vocal throughout the game.

Starting point is 01:20:09 So just like whatever the biggest bolt is like fucking, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Oh yeah. Just fucking like here I fucking am. Okay, my new answer is Nick doing that. Uh. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Starting point is 01:20:24 Also, I feel like I accidentally said reuse theme. I meant Giles theme. Giles theme is like the classic Street Fighter 2 theme. Oh yes, yes, yes. Goes with anything. This next one is from cassette indexed and I was tagged in this. Okay.

Starting point is 01:20:40 So, Maddapadaka, now that you're all about Final Fantasy XVI and Baldur's Gate III, how do you feel about once proclaiming that space is better than old? Wow. Seems like you're a bit of a flip-flopper. Many games combine space and old. Final Fantasy has done this for ages, Fantasy Star as well. What do you think is a good ratio for space and old?

Starting point is 01:21:00 50-50, or do you tend to favor one over the other? Now look, am I a bit of a flip-flopper? Absolutely. John Kerry asks. I'm fucking John Kerry up in here. Okay. Nick's wearing flip-flops right now. That's true Wait, where was there a modifier there? Are you just saying? Yes, but I am yeah, I absolutely But you know I have I have completely changed my mind in a way that I think is gonna be Rock some world. Okay. I no longer care about space This is insane you are a flip-flopper. I don't care about it at all. I've done about spacing forever

Starting point is 01:21:41 Wow You're gonna get into like no man's sky in like a month and be like I love space. I mean if I do I'll do it but right now I'm saying old is better than space. Wow. I've reversed my stance completely because at least with old there's at least stuff for me to do. Yeah. Space? There's nothing for me up there. This is the you know what I think that I think part of this, part of your current stance might be reinforced by the relative success of these other RPGs, the aforementioned RPGs versus Starfield, which kind of came with a whimper. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:19 And the problem with space is that it kind of seems sort of vast and empty and formless. Yeah. Now, so interesting point, it keeps coming up. Dune, Dune does is space, but also old. It has old. Feels a little old. It feels like sand. Yeah. Sand is shorthand for old. It was sand was once rock.

Starting point is 01:22:39 Yeah. And also some of the clearly some of the technology that's going on in that movie. Also some of the, clearly some of the technology that's going on in that movie, it's like stuff that it feels like a step backward has been taken from where we are now, but I mean, that's also part of Frank Herbert's lore. They don't have phones. Yeah, they don't have computers. They got Min-Tats. Yeah, they got that freaking box you put your hand in.

Starting point is 01:23:00 Yeah, keep me away from that thing. Rachelle Ranch, where do you stand on,? Yeah, you're we learned your nickname ranch last week Do do we where do you stand on old versus space? I've been trying to figure out what the context of space and old is so Old is sort of like whatever you think is old Space is like, space. Like space.

Starting point is 01:23:28 Outer space. Here's an example. Here's I think this, that it would be like science fiction versus fantasy. Yeah. Or versus like, you know, a Western. In terms of video games or just vibe? I think it's just vibes, right?

Starting point is 01:23:43 I mean, this is your thing. It's purely vibes. I'm just characterizing. Yeah, vibe? I think it's just vibes, right? I mean, this is your thing. It's purely vibes. I'm just characterizing it. Yeah, yeah. I think old. Wow, your team old. Old is where it's at right now. And all the cool young people like me and Rachelle

Starting point is 01:23:53 are saying that it's old is good now. I've been saying, first off, I love here and old is good now. I am, I think I've been kind of a space guy my whole life Yeah, but not that I just I don't really can think about them As opposing each other I also love old I've always loved old, you know But I think I probably leaned more into science fiction, you know, I'm actually detecting the exact point where it changed for me Yeah, was when the movie old came out That was sort of like the I Saw my own shadow that day, you know

Starting point is 01:24:32 And I was like, oh, maybe I like old cuz I really really liked old yeah movie. I loved it So this questioner tried to kind of call you out trying to put you on notice and you're basically Defying this question and and rejecting the premise of the question and saying that, yes, you do, in fact, you are a flip-flopper, you do like old, better than space, and that's okay, you can do that. And this is how I will dodge every controversy going forward. I will just say, like, yes, I did do that, and basically so what? Wow, Matt is president. No collusion. Thank you for the question, Cassette Index,

Starting point is 01:25:12 and sorry that I changed my mind. Can I say something I realized about myself in the conversation we've had just now? Please. Which is that I like old and I like space. I like them very much. But in talking about Kingsglaive and in thinking about Final Fantasy VII,

Starting point is 01:25:31 I think my favorite is sort of sideways from both of those which is old combined with space. That's cool. I really like, I really like the swords and the cars in Kingsglaive. And I really like swords and Midgar in Final Fantasy VII. I think my favorite aesthetic might be old and space together. Yeah, that's like, I mean, I know he's like a monster, but like one of the things that worked really about Firefly,

Starting point is 01:26:03 the show Firefly, was that it was old and space and that that was just fun. Yeah, and also there's just something about like kind of the sideways like it's like adjacent to because I think there's something of Final Fantasy 15, at least what we saw from Kingsglaive that's kind of like adjacent to reality in a way. Yeah. And so it's kind of like something like Highlander, where it's like, yes, there is this is reality, but also there are immortal beings and they wield swords and they try to be hold each they had each other

Starting point is 01:26:33 because there can only be one, you know? Yeah. That one's not as expansive in terms of how the world is altered, but it's the same sort of science fiction or fantasy concepts existing when within our low fantasy, I think some people would call it. Yeah, yeah. It's also, I think, a part of why I love the show that we're covering in our sister podcast, Get Animated.

Starting point is 01:26:55 Oh, fuck yeah. Mm, God man. Which is solo leveling is dudes and rooties carrying swords, raiding dungeons and then having to pay their taxes. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, that rock, that show rocks. That's a great, great point, Heather. And finally, this last one is from Gorillacropolis.

Starting point is 01:27:16 Great name. Great name. Gorillacropolis writes, you can choose any vehicle from any video game to use for personal transportation. What would it be? I thought about this. My first thought was the Rocket League car.

Starting point is 01:27:33 Wow, that's a big car. Big car, but also can go upside down and like fall around and stuff. Really safe, yeah. It would be safe. Really, really safe. Any vehicle from any game um can I grab a star from Kirby yeah just sort of fly wherever the fuck I want it's where I would say like it's a vehicle but you can use it for personal

Starting point is 01:27:57 transportation like it that's a vehicle within that game so that's allowed that feels like that's like physical fast travel I could just grab that star and it's just gonna whisk me away to where it's like I wanna go. Just like into the corner of the screen. Could be so cute. That's a really good one. A Mario Kart would be fun to drive,

Starting point is 01:28:15 but it's like kind of normal. Yeah. Is a horse a vehicle? Yeah, but you can't do what you do with them. Oh, I was like to clarify, ride them off cliffs. OK, I'm going to pick the high end luxury car from cyberpunk. Oh, um, cause that you spend a lot of time on the interior of that car in certain, like when you're in certain cutscenes and stuff, and it just looks so plush.

Starting point is 01:28:57 It just looks fancy as shit. I've never been in a space that fancy and the idea of it being like dropped off at my house. And then that's my car. And I could probably has a lot of auto driving features. So I could just be like, yeah, take me to the grocery store. And it would be like right away. Perhaps you would like to get some gasoline along the way. I'd like to drive a gummy ship from Kingdom Hearts just to see if it's as alarming as

Starting point is 01:29:29 it seems. I'd ride a Chocobo because that's why I asked if a horse was a vehicle. Right. Yeah. The Chocobo riding is fun so far. I like it. it feels good. I also might return back to Persona 5 and just say a functional rail system

Starting point is 01:29:55 would be kind of amazing. Yeah. You got that thing and you see some silhouettes and you get to where you want. You don't have to wait too long for your train. You wouldn't be concerned that the entire rest of the world was silhouettes and that you're the only human man there? No, and then I could walk through them?

Starting point is 01:30:09 No, I'd be all right with that. No clip, it didn't save me some time. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Also, not for day to day use, but it would be the Normandy in Mass Effect is awesome. It's just like, grab to have this big ass spaceship that you can just like hang out in and that's all your crew is there. Like anytime you have like a big ship that's also like a base of operations, I really like that in a game.

Starting point is 01:30:33 I know I just said to you that like there's nothing up there for me, but if there was like a thing where I could go to like a big spaceship for like a weekend, I would do it. Yeah, of course you would. I just want to hang out in the spaceship, see what's going on. But that's it for the question. They push you out the airlock for talking up old so much. That's what you get for talking about old. M Night Shyamalan tries to save me.

Starting point is 01:30:59 He's up there too. He's like, leave all alone. That's it for the question block, everybody. Thanks for writing in. And if you want to write in, that's discord.gg slash get played. And thanks a lot, guys. That's this week's get played. Our producer is Rachelle Chen, aka Ranch, Yard underscore underscore Sard.

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