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Episode Date: September 18, 2024

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Wednesday, September 18th, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Getty's today. I am joined by Blessing at Ae O. Yee Jr. Good day, Tim. And Andy Cortez. Fear the old blood.

I always do. We get some reverb on that in the post when we go out of the post. I don't think we have post. Yeah. I don't think that's how this works anymore. Edit it live, maybe. Can you imagine asking Cool Greg to add reverb to something? Do you figure it out, though?

You would lose so much sleep over it. I don't know if it's too much or not. It sounds like a big room. I don't know if you're going for more of a cave-like scenario. Bless, how are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing good.

Nice. I'm a little bit tired from soccer last night. Oh, yeah? How to go overall? Overall, I think it went well. I think we have a very solid team. It was fun. This is the first season where our, like, 95% of our team are, like, people that we know.

Like we're going into this. No, I'm pretty much the full squad. We had a couple of people that are new to us because the problem is, we only know one girl that plays soccer. And our team requires at least two girls that play soccer. Ideally, more than two girls that play soccer

so they can sub out and all this stuff, right? And so, like, I just, for some reason, we know a bunch of dudes. For some reason, we know a bunch of dudes. Yeah, yeah. That's how it goes. That's how it goes, everybody. Yeah, I can't get any of my girlfriends

to play soccer. friends that are girls that are like that's a weird praising. But like I can't get them to play soccer. And so it's like, all right, cool. We went into this. Most of us, you know, we had the, I guess, interpersonal chemistry, but we didn't have the soccer chemistry. But I feel like by next week or the week after,

we're going to get there. It takes a while to get there. Yeah. Like, Blas, you got to understand for the first like 18 games of the Miami Heat, the Hedels, what they call them, the Hedels. Shut the fuck up. You know, LeBron, Bosch, Dwayne Wade. Oh, yeah.

They went like eight and eight at the start. things were looking real bad it was like what is going on it takes time chemistry takes a while to sort of cook you know the heatles the heatles sometimes you hear somebody and it changes you forever oh my god Andy how are you

I'm doing fantastic Tim I'm excited to talk about this video game because the topic of the show is all about you today Andy Cortez but we'll get into the details in a second because I first need to let you know that this is the kind of funny games cast each and every weekday we get together

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For a chance to be part of the show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Today, we're going to need some super chats, need some suggestions for anything. We're talking about Bloodbored. So if you have any questions for Andy Cortez about Bloodbord, what his favorite weapons are, what his favorite bosses are, what's favorite anything. Ask them.

Ask the super chat questions and we'll get to those. Little housekeeping for you. We are an 11-person, small business, all about live talk shows. So we really appreciate your support. We just did a KFGD about the Switch 2's design, possibly leaking, so you can hear all about that from Bless and Snowbike. Mike, after this episode of the Gamescast, Mike, is going to return to Kingdom Hearts 2. I can't wait to see some of the new worlds. He's probably going to get to today.

If you're a kind of funny member, you can get today's Greg Way all about the return of motherfucking Freedom Wars. What an announcement, bless. Crazy. What did this mean to you last night seeing Freedom Wars remastered coming out? We live in Greg Miller's world. Yeah. Right.

Because I only touched Freedom Wars for like a few seconds. But I... But why did you? Because I listen to podcasts. 100%. It's so funny. Like, that's everybody's sort of touchstone to it. It was Greg and Colin playing Freedom Wars nonstop.

I didn't have a, you know, a Vita back in the day. But I wanted that damn game because of how much they freaking loved it. Yeah. So now it's getting remastered. Now everyone. Very, very, very, very odd. And Beetlejuice in review is coming later this afternoon. Beetlejuice, too.

Beetlejuice, we're finally getting to it after the issues that plagued the theater that Joey was in. And also Nick is back now. So Nick will be joining us for that, which only feels right. He did? Nice. Very cool. Thank you to our Patreon producer, Carl Jacobs and Delaney. Twining.

Today we're brought to you by Shady Raisin Hymns, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. Are you guys reviewing the Beatles' musical by any chance? We're not. Okay. We're not. We're not. Wow.

Although when I was in Mexico, they were such big fans of Beetlejuice and the mask and the idea of those characters. Who's them? We get off the airport and there's just airports everywhere, dude. It's everywhere you go. It's Beetlejuice and the mask. The Mexican people love Beatle Juice? I was like, I know that, oh, beetlejo, there's a new movie coming out, so this makes sense. It blew my mind, man.

It feels like we're inventing a new stereotype in Timmy. No, no. You're not allowed to do that. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I got the airplane. There was a lot of promotion for Beetlejuice and the mask as a unit, which, like, makes sense, but it also doesn't. You know what I learned about his mask? Jim Carrey the mask, yes.

As, as. Okay, so is it coming out again? That weren't sister hands too. Oh, really? Okay, damn. Because, like, everybody knows the Mexican people, we, you know, we love Goku. Oh, yeah, see, that I know. Like, there are, there are legions of Mexican children around the world that grew up Dragon Ball Z fans as if Goku, like, he's an honorary Mexican, everybody always says.

It's like, he has the Mexican card, right? But I didn't know Beetlejuice and the mask were like that. I didn't know they were on the... that level. I don't believe it honestly. No, dude. I'm telling you. Like, oh my God. Like, I have never talked to one of my heart. Because she's at work, so she's not going to answer. But like, no, she was there with me. She saw it. It was bizarre. There was just so much the mask propaganda. That's crazy. That's wild. That's really wild. It was wild. Anyway, I don't know how we got.

Why is to making this up? What does he have? This is a fucking bizarre thing to make out to make up. about a group of people? A group of people. I'm not talking about a group of people. I'm talking about a place. The Mexico airport. The Cabo San Lucas Airport.

Oh, man. Anyways, Beetlejuice and reviews later today. But we're talking about Bloodborn. The old hunters, Andy Cortez, has never played it. He has now, and he's reviewing it in 2024. The original Bloodborn was released on March 15th, 2015. And the Old Hunter's DLC was released on November 24th, 2015, a few short months after the release of the core game.

And Andy just played it for the first time. But why, Andy? Why didn't you wait so long to play the DLC to one of your favorite games of all time? I, you know, I have principles. And I always, I put my foot down. I said, I'm never going to play this DLC until I can play it in 60 frames per second. And stupid-ass 2020, Andy, right before the Pandy, right? I mean, it was February, it was February. It was February. The, the Pandy was, we had no idea what was about to happen, right? But I mean, I just assumed, like, when this PS5 comes out, yeah, they'll boost that shit up to 50, or to 60 frames for second. Why wouldn't it, right?

So I'll play the DLC whenever that happens on that eventual day. And it just never happened. And I took, I took that opportunity and I said, I'm going to make it happen, Tim, with a lot. lot of money. With a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. Principal money.

Yeah. Together. You put those together, Tim? I mean, you could do anything. Yeah. So, yeah, I bought the old stock PS5 factory sealed, got that shit modded, got the, got Bloodborn running up on it. Took a long time.

Took like a week and a half just of nights of frustration and things aren't working. Finally got that shit going and was, have been playing through all of Bloodbourne again. for the first time in four years, but finally experienced what all the Zool from Soft Nerd say is the best DLC end. You have no idea until you play this. You have the... You don't know

shit, dude. Well, again, I mean, like 30, I didn't want to do it in 30, you know? So, a quick question before you get into your actual review in scoring Bloodborn, the Old Hunters. The DLC, is it integrated into the experience, or is it like a post game? It is integrated into the experience, yeah.

And so what you are reviewing today, have you played through the entirety of Bloodbourne with the DLC? I haven't played through the entirety of the game because I still have like to play the rest of the video game Bloodbourne, which is like maybe two or three more bosses. I'm like right near the end of it. Okay. But I did play through the entirety of the DLC. Okay. Yeah. So now.

And in order to start the DLC, Tim, you need to go to the Grand Cathedral. Or you go to Cathedral Ward rather. You go to Cathedral Ward. you walk out and you have to walk to the graveyard but you have to make sure you have I think it's like the eye of the Agamoto or some shit you have the eye of Agamoto you stand near a little graveyard

there's a dead body there and it depends on like if you do it before you kill um fucking Ron the Vacuous Spider who once you kill Ron the Vacuus Spider Tim he or she rather

sorry I don't want to misgender Ron the Vacuous Spider when you kill Ron the Vacuous Spider she then shoes away as she dies so does like this fake reality that's been around you so imagine Thanos when he does like the reality stone and all the world

sort of changes or whatever the whole time you've been seeing this sort of dusky world or whatever and as soon as she dies the real horrors are now presented to you and there's these big amygdala freaking uh cthulhu type creatures hanging on the walls that you you didn't see them there but they were there the whole time tim so if you do

if you decide to do the DLC before you kill ROM, a weird sort of like spirit orb imagine Mew 2's like shadow ball sort of thing, right? if you stand near that little thing with Iago Motto a spirit bomb will like grab you and whisk

you away and you're like what was that what is this thing but then once you if you killed Ron the Vacuus spider which I did in this part of the DLC Because I did Ron the what? Rom Rom Rom. Ronald yeah Ronald Ronald the Rom the vacuous spider Vacuous. I'm glad you're asking questions because you will be

quizzed the year yeah exactly exactly I'll see what was the word you dropped besides Cthulhu? Amygdala Amygdala. Amygdala is like one of the bosses that you fight, but they are just these large like Cthulhu like creatures or whatever. So because I'd already killed Rom now I stand at that

graveyard and I see the giant monster on the side of the building, right? It's obviously you can't miss it. You take a right at the right at the fork and you see his big ass hand grab you to him and it whisks you away and you hear the words of some mysterious voice saying like

you know, no child left behind or some shit like that, right? You know, save the whales. And you get whisked example. And he just says a bunch of things to me and then he'll just throw in some things that aren't true and I don't know what's what. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He does say save the wills. You get, you get whist away to this other realm that looks really, really familiar. And it's because it's a lot of the world that you've already explored through Bloodborn, but it's all remixed in a different way because you're seeing it in a different form. It's like a nightmare version of

itself. And it's really, really awesome. And all those familiar spots. are still there, but because everything's kind of overgrown and weird, level design is different now, but it still loops back on each other and just really, just godlike ways. Like, God dang.

I mean, I think Miyazaki is a great one, actually, bless. Oh. Yeah, I think he may be a great one. Yeah, I think he is a great, a cosmic horror alien, yeah, yeah. He does have an obsession with, like, space. Yeah, oh, yeah.

Yeah, Eldon Ring, for sure. Yeah. You know, like, I noticed that, like, when I was watching the Levati video about Eldering, Oh, so just like Bloodborder? Yeah. Like, what is up with you

and like space aliens in their effect on the world? George Haramartin would not have brought that shit in. No. You know, railroad Martin would not have had any sort of cosmic shit, you know? But the greater wills out in space, Tim.

Greater wills, everybody. Now, without any further ado, Andy Cortez, I would like to hear what score you would give Bloodborn to old hunters on the kind of funny scale. And there's been so much hype him leading up to this DLC. It's the best from

software DLC that they've ever released. It has the best music Andy.

It has the best boss fights. Coolest weapons. You don't even know what the you're fucking

dick's about to explode. A lot of people told me that. And I would give Bloodborn

the old Hunter's DLC a 10 out of 10 masterpiece. Everybody was right.

Y'all were right. For once It's better than Shadow of the Urd Tree. It's

more concise, obviously. Like, it's not a big, gigantic open world experience, because you didn't really get that until Eldon Ring. But it is, it's so efficient in always kind of managing to, to wow you. And it, it's just like such a, it's such a fulfilling experience that is so quick to get you to the next surprise, to the next NPC, to the next boss fight. and you're constantly finding really, really awesome secrets and cool

little side characters not even like necessarily big boss fights or whatever but just standard kind of NPC baddies right? You walk around, you see a dude and that dude actually was related to Jura. Remember that

freaking question I got right on Kind of Funny Game Showdown? Jura the Old Hunter, it's like, chat was like, Andy, read that description on the item and I read it was like, holy fuck. Oh, this guy knew, oh, this guy knew Jura and they were like, wow, is he standing in front of this cave? I was like, because he's fucking protecting the beasts that were in the cave. He's protecting them from the hunters because they, because the beast used to be human beings,

Tim. Oh my God. And it's like, hey, they were just like us. Why are you killing them? You know, like we all turned into them, you know? Oh, man, it's just so fucking good. And I totally get it. I totally see all the hype now.

I think level design is freaking fantastic. Boss designs and optional bosses. There's a, there's, I believe, one. optional boss, which is Lawrence, and he looks super, super familiar because he worked a Funhouse. Every time you tweet about Lawrence, I think you're talking about Lawrence.

Spall with you. Spell with you. But this, you know, it's obviously a very familiar looking boss, and that's because it's essentially the cleric beast from Bloodbore and the core game that one of the first bosses you interact with, or you know, if you happen upon him, it's

a very scary sort of moment. Gigantic beast, big old, like, gigantic arm, tiny little right arm, the J-O arm is what we call it. Okay. And this dude's this dude's massive. And usually when you fight a beast, Tim, you're like,

I need fire because beast don't like fire. This motherfucker's on fire, though. Oh, wow. So what do you do? I don't even know what I did, but I first tried his bitch ass. So I wish I could have heard the music a lot more, but just, yeah, I didn't even... Didn't even get his name. You knew that plus? We got a fucking

over here. Didn't even get his name. But that was a struggle. That was a very, very interesting one because I I knew that on this PlayStation 5 mod, it's broken. You cannot fight Lawrence. The cutscene breaks. When you walk into

the room, the cutscene that's supposed to play, I tried it out, it cuts to a black screen, and it just stays there. I'm like, oh, man, this still, like, is not working. Lance McDonald, the homie who essentially made this game playable in 60 frames per second, ended up patching it through just because he was so interested in my journey with it

he patched a fix but that fix was never implemented on the PS5 thing so it's out there fix it's just waiting to be implemented but it wasn't working for me so I was like I think I'm just going to have to miss out on this because the other solution would be just play the game that actually came out in 30 minutes per second well no the solution would be play the cutscene in 30

you can quit out go back into 60 but the way I did things it installs the DLC and the 60 frame per second patch at the same time. So when I tried to open up the game in 30 seconds, it says, hey, you don't have the DLC, you can't start this game. Oh. Bummer. And you can't verify it because you're not connected to the PSN, right?

So I had another terrifying fucking moment because this review almost didn't happen had I not like panicked too much. But I was like, well, what if I uninstall this, you know, because Greg was like, oh, you, Greg and Tim were like, you should be done with this review, right? by next week. Can you have the review? I'll be done with the DLC by then. So I uninstalled like the core game and I have another

sort of a, it's the old hunters like Game of the Year edition. And I installed that bad boy. I was like, well this has a DLC on it. Maybe it'll help me play it. And the game finishes the song and all it says is a new game. I was like, oh no. Where is that save at?

I had a pretty big panic attack. and I was like, is everything lost? I hope not everything's lost. And I uninstalled that quickly. I was trying not to panic on stream. And somebody in the chat was like, oh, no, new game, that's not good. And I was like, I was just ignoring it. I was like, shut the fuck up.

So I ended up, anyway, finding a way to get everything back and was going to skip Lawrence, essentially. I was like, I'll just watch a cutscene of him. I'll watch like the fight or whatever. You know, it sucks, but that's how it is. But then I remembered my old PS5 that I left in my parents, back in the back in Texas and I called my dad and I and I and I said dad can you open up the PlayStation five let's do a little FaceTime right here because I I need you to upload my cloud save I need you to upload the save to the cloud I love this and this cloud save hadn't done anything DLC wise so I

not only had to buy the DLC so add that to the tally of how much all this costs but I had my dad is and first off, you also got to remember that like, my dad doesn't know what okay and what back are on the controller. So you had to have him download the deals, purchase and download the deal. I just had to have him upload my save and then, but it was still like, you're going into that with the knowledge that everybody knows what the A button is and the B button is, but this is X and circle. I'm like, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, dad, sorry, sorry. The arrows on the left side will move you to the buns or whatever. So what I had him up. upload the save, it was an adventure, and then got that save on my other PS5 at my apartment.

And I had to play through a lot of the D.L.C. on that save, all to just get to Lawrence first try as bitch ass. You know, let me come out. What are you going to do, right? And that was a great time. And so that was an adventure and I'm glad I was able to do it. And immediately I unplugged the HDMI, plugged PS5, 60 frames is back up. Shout to the people. One of the dudes in chat was like, it's in 30. I can't tell, Andy. I was like, all right, well, let me plug in this other PS5 motherfucker. And then you'll be out and he was like, oh, yeah, this looks a lot smoother. And it's a much nicer gaming experience.

Bloodborn, the old hunters, very, very good. It's exactly what I wanted it to be. It is not this overdrawn experience that sort of waste your time in any way. How long did it take you? Without all the bullshit. I would say around eight hours, eight to ten hours maybe, maybe less. there were a couple moments that I may have had to grind that I was kind of worried about because the way BloodBorn works, it's not a...

The reason why I prefer Dark Souls sort of leveling system is if you die, you get your heels back, right? But with Bloodborn, you can go grind to have a consumable for your heel. And if you run out of that shit, then you got to go get more. Or you just won't have any for the next several fights. and that is an aspect of BloodBorn that I really, really hate. But that's also when we talk about

what our 10s out of tens are, what our masterpieces are, even though I have gripes with that system, everything else surrounding it is just so freaking perfect that that is not going to hold me back from saying this is a 10 out of 10 experience. A good question there. Currently working in the chat says,

what would you give the base game of BloodBorn if you're given the old 100th century? Yeah. I mean, yeah, I think Bloodborn is like easily my favorite game of all time. It's a, it's a, it's up there with all of my favorites. Like, it immediately became that,

join the list. Yeah, it's a contender for like my all time, for sure. Um, but yeah, I just, I had a great time with it. And I, I think that it makes a lot of sense to me now looking back and having some issues with when I play the Dark Souls three DLCs and not necessarily loving the, boss fight and sometimes you may get to that next boss fight and it may let you down a little bit and the adventuring in between

it, the enemies that were sort of in between and the mobs and stuff like that. I didn't love a whole lot of the Dark Souls 3 DLCs but when those boss fights hit, good lord they hit. This was like from software is

just cooking at max right here. I think it's just like one of the most satisfying experiences I've had gaming it's just incredible in so many freaking ways and the level of the amount of variety that you have with weapon choices and unfortunately with bloodborn you can't just switch up your build but there's a lot of ways to farm extra like souls or blood echoes

and try to use new items and new weapons and things like that I just had a freaking great time with it man I know we've been talking a lot about bloodborn in the last couple weeks because of your journey here when we did the episode of Gamescast breaking down how you got the 60 frames per second working, you were excited that it seemed like we were also on the precipice of a PC port or a PC... The mod.

...the mod happening. And I don't know if it's just my algorithm or if things are just starting to really pop off, but it seems like it's happening? Like really happening? Oh, no, yeah. I mean, it's been happening. I've allegedly ran it at 1440 p, 60 frames per second, and it's so cool to see it looking.

that sharp, you know. It's still really broken in a lot of different ways and they're still working through a lot of that. Like, if a cutscene won't crash, then you'll have vertex explosions and the polygons in your character's head will just shoot out into infinity, you know? Or particle effects

are just way overblown and way too bright and like it it's got a lot of wonky shit going on with it. But it is accelerating at a pace that nobody ever thought it'd be, right? Like, you know, it felt like within a 24 hour period. They're like, hey, we can get into the title screen now.

And by the end of the night, they were like, hey, we have it running in 130 frames in this certain area. Yeah, there's a lot of, a lot of mod and just like emulation work being done by the Shad PS4 crew or whatever. Yeah. We got a couple of super chats here. Talking about our Freedom Wars here, SD Turtle says, Greg Colin and every Vita owner bust, Vita owner busted in their Vita-filled jeans last night. Jesus. Yeah.

Jesus. Yeah. Greg does walk around with multiple Vitas in his jeans. Do you hear that? Yeah. And then, uh,

Siddharth Rites and saying, uh, those two sharks in that well can go F themselves. Sharks in a well. Yeah. Some people were like, Andy, go into that well. There's like two big shark guys. And like,

they killed me once and I was like, this isn't like, you're interrupting my final boss experience. I don't really want to be here. The sharks are the people asking you to go see the sharks. Well, they're these shark dudes. They're like shark men.

Yeah, kind of. Cool. I didn't really care to be down there. Chat was just wanting me to be down there for the punishment, you know. This large shark men. I forget about the shark man. I don't know if I went down that well.

I mean, you definitely saw the shark men at some point because you have to like travel through this sort of boating town or whatever. But they are in a well and one of them is like hiding on the ceiling. It's like, okay, what are you going to do? When are you going to find these guys? these motherfuckers, yeah. That is horrifying. Yeah, they're real scary, man.

So why don't you not like the sharkmen? I feel like you'd want all the lore, all the juicy bits. They're so tanky, and I had already started the boss fight. I had already started the final boss. And then I was convinced to go into this area, died after battling him, even though I got really close to, like, killing at least one of them. One of them is hard enough to fight, but two of these motherfuckers in the same room, not great. And there's also like a ladder leading up to like, I guess the surface area or whatever.

I was like, not right now. This is not important right now. Get these shark dudes out of my face. I don't want to be here. You call them Sharkman. I don't think I would have clocked that as a shark guy. Me neither. As we started talking about Sharkman, the image of my mind was a cartoon like tree sharks.

Tree sharks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, in my head it was literally just like what we think of as like just not even a cartoon. cartoon shark it was just a normal ass shark just with human legs like a suicide squad yeah oh yeah yeah human legs I'm talking like

I thought he had human legs I mean he has legs he has anthropomorphic legs his name is king shark right yeah yeah I'm talking about straight up human legs okay shop off Tim's legs put him on a shark he does have shark legs you're right some from software shit you know what I mean Miyazaki would just give

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Bloodborn. Oh, Eldon Ring. Oh, the music's so good. Tim, you should listen to it. Oh. And then you slack me and things. I'm like, damn, this shit's really good. Pretty sick. It's really good. Almost makes me want to play through the games. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you said that you're giving this a 10 out of 10, and one of the things people told you was that it would make your dick explode.

Yeah. But something else they told you is that it has amazing music. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you said it lived up to the hype. It sure did. Yeah, yeah. I prepared a little top five. Top five. Prepare to top five. I just want everybody to, you know, if you're in the car right now, just relax. We're going to play about five second clips from each song.

Something tells me they're not going to be relaxing songs. No, probably not. They're, you know, if you have like a smart watch, you will get like a, your pulse is too high sort of notification. But, Barrett, if you could play number five for me right now. This is Lady Maria of the Astral Clock Tower. my least favorite Last favorite Soundtrack?

Least favorite soundtrack Okay I was about to say Least favorite soundtrack I like that sweeping I would say Yeah you know it's romantic Sturing You're in a romantic moment

With a baddy Yeah Yeah like absolute baddie You know she caresses you She hugs you You showed me that She does the She does the

The Sudoku thing Stabes itself in the stomach Blood comes out everywhere Sidoku Yeah Let's listen to number That's what he means Listen, number four right here

This is This is the orphan of cause Big wet man chasing you right here Tim I don't like that I don't like the big wet man Stop chasing me God damn

Imagine being the most stress You never put The beginning of out of the music is playing Yeah Just imagine you are like Stress is at an all time high bless Yeah You have like three assignments due in an hour

You have a doctor's appointment You need to reschedule You're six hours into fighting the same boss You got a flat tire It's a disaster Just attacking you from angles That you didn't know could be attacked Yeah, exactly

I'm like, why does a yo-yo go that way? I'm sure Orphanaka cause gets Like, I'm sure I have it lower on the list Because I was so focused on the fight But still that's number four My second least favorite Number three right here Is Lawrence the first vicar

You get a freaking chance Chagorean Chanting Choir. Let's go. And I'm so glad I fought him. And it gets way more intense later on as well. But this one kicks ass. For sure. Lawrence kicks a whole lot of ass.

Number two. Living failures. Sounds like Star Wars shit. Oh, yeah. Dude. It's the horns. Yeah. It's the horns.

It's so awesome. And it gets way more intense, obviously later on, second phase type shit. So we're in number one here. What could it possibly be? Number one is Ludwig the accursed, the horseman. Oh, yeah, easy. And this is the music you hear the first part of phase two. Oh.

And if you can click the second link right here, Barry, because this is where shit pops off even more in an unbelievable way. I got chills. You have a big. video of this boss fight? Because I feel like we gotta show Tim what the shit looks like. I do, yeah.

This is awesome. This is number one for me too. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So those are my top five favorite sound show. Nasty.

And now you may be wondering, Andy, what are your top five favorite boss fights of the D.LC? I was wondering that, yes. I'm glad you were wondering that, Tim. Because I also submitted those to Barrett, and I'll filibuster as long as I need to.

But, uh, Baird, you kicked ass with the fading out. I love that. You got out of reverb to my voice in the beginning, though. When I said, when I said, I feel the old blood. Live, that's not really, like, you're a video editor. It would be cool.

You know that's not how that works. Fear the old blood. I mean, Andy does have some echo sometimes live. I guess he does have buttons for that. Thank you. Best boss fights. Number five. Living failures.

My second favorite soundtrack. Not the, not the craziest boss. it's uh you're fighting a bunch of these um it's my least favorite kind of boss fight yeah you're you're fighting a bunch of a thing that have a collective they have a collective health bar health bar yeah um i also like apparently was just dodging out of my mind because everybody was like holy shit you didn't get hit by any of those goddamn things and also one of its moves broke on me and i it didn't happen like there's a part later on in the boss fight with living failures where it basically summons the cosmos and like rains down meteors on you.

Like Thanos with the moon. And so it happened. If you fast forward like, oh man, I couldn't even tell you how far to fast forward because it's such a weird. But you'll see like on the screen it starts to get really, really dark and just the galaxy is around you suddenly. And nothing happened because the,

I guess the meteors may have been hitting some collision item in the world that just didn't happen here. But you'll notice bless the the sunflowers. like a lot of Eldon Ring vibes there as well. Like the big sunflower that is sort of in the middle. Yeah, I agree with my least favorite boss fight, but I still had fun. I think a lot of it was because the music was so damn good.

And so for this to be like the DLC's weakest boss fight, still had a great time with it parrying all those dudes. Number four would be Lawrence, the first vicar. And this is the, essentially the cleric beast of the big J-O-arm. Dude, he looks sick. He's awesome. he essentially you cut him in

I think you eventually do enough damage to his lower half to him that his whole lower half just crumbles because it's under fire right so he just becomes a torso that crawls at you and his second phase is essentially him dragging around like molten sludge in a trail so you can't really just follow him or else you get caught in that sort of

that hot molten oh there it is now he's cut in half right there and uh and I it was a little testy there for a second I got a little worried that I may not do it but we popped off. This visually looks cool as hell. Yeah, look at that.

Yeah, I mean, I love the, like, all of this sort of pieces of fur that are just kind of like, I love one bloodbore. And especially why I love this, the Eileen cape that I'm wearing, because it's all the feathers kind of flying around. It just looks really, really badass. Number three are our collective wife, Lady Maria. No way. Of the Asheville Clock Tower. This is my number three. I don't know why they make me laugh every time.

Because, and I put it at number three, because I wish she was harder. I think she's a little too easy. Now, see, that's how I feel about Lawrence. Where Lawrence, I feel, you said you got through in one, in one attempt. I forget how many it took me, but it was also one of those ones where I was like, okay, that was it.

Like, I beat them and I was like, all right, cool, on to the next one. Yeah, I, I, I, now, I'm not going to say I first tried her. It still took me like four or five tries, but I feel like I heard so much about Lady Maria. She's the cover athlete, Tim. She's goddamn Michael Jordan out there. She is the cover athlete from the box art. And she has very, very low poise.

And what does that mean? When you hit her with a weapon, she'll stumble. She, like, easily kind of stumbles and falls back, right? And you can kind of just really, really bully her and start swinging away a whole bunch. But the movement of it all, mixed, With that music, mixed with the mood,

she has a really, really cool second phase where each one of those big swipes then leads to a secondary swipe of like blood and fire. It's fucking ridiculous. It's such a cool little thing.

I don't know if you could fast forward a little bit, Barrett, just to kind of, when she's like lower than half health, maybe, um,

and you'll see like those big slashes of, it's so badass. She'll float up into the sky and like gather blood from, I don't know what the fuck she's doing. She's crazy though. Um, but she's awesome.

And, yeah, I had a great time with Lady Maria. Number two. Ludwig the accursed. I mean, this dude just kicks so much ass. So the horseman, here he is. The horseman. This is the second phase where he busts out his moonlight great sword. That's the moonlight.

That is the moonlight great sword. That is the moonlight great sword. Yeah. That is it. In every video game that Frum's off has made, even armored cores, like you have a version of it in there. It's not always called that, but it's always, that's the moonlight sword. great sort of this game. Elvin Ring is a lot more blue.

This is a lot more on the green side, which I think is really, really neat. But yeah, this whole boss fight kicked a whole lot of ass. I had a great time using the sort of, I used Ludwig's, oh shit, I used his old weapon. Ludwig's Holy Blade is the weapon that I was using. And so you have that sort of heavy two swing that'll really stagger him if you hit him at the right times,

had a great time with it, really, really cool boss patterns. And number one, the hardest of the DLC, the final one. Not the coolest look, and I'd agree with Barrett, that, like, visually, he just looks like a dude, like a zombie man. But it is such, it's a difficult fight. I don't like this. This is, again, this is a little baby, Tim, who was just born out of a great one, and he's holding the placenta that he was born with, and it's tied on a string. Like, he's using, like, the umbilical cord that's tied to his little belly button.

to swing this sucker around and he'll kind of like control it like a yo-yo to what he'll swing it around and it'll have like a far reach or whatever but this was such an awesome boss fight and it it gave me it gave me everything i wanted from also maybe if you want to play the put up the audio a little bit barrett i know i'm talking through a lot of it but i want tim to at least hear his yells Holy shit He just It's terrifying It's fucking terrifying

It's fucking terrifying The fucked up thing about this is how Like the direction in which his placenta Yo-yo goes It's so unnatural to like how you would move in a boss fight Yeah Where you'd want to roll one way and somehow Like it'll just fucking sweep around and hit you

And I'm like I don't know what to do against this guy Everything about that's like some of my least favorite things you've ever ever said with me Like I do not like the look of it The moves of it like the yells That, when I fought orphan of cause, at the time that was the hardest boss fight I've ever faced. Yeah. Right?

Like, that took me hours and hours. I think nothing topped it maybe until I got to the end of Sekro, which might have been a month later now that I think about it. But still, like, the Sechro final boss fight was difficult. And then, like, I think after that, I don't think it's been until getting to the final boss fight of the Ellen Ring DLC, where I'm like, all right, this is way harder than an orphan of cause for me. Yeah. I, I just, there's nothing that feels better and, like, there's nothing. that quite lights the fires of this is a tough boss fight

but I'm seeing the patterns and I notice like I always try to rhythmically do what the attacks are so he has a move where he swings and he goes he goes swing swing and then he has one that kind of leads and takes just enough time

but you're always mid-roll while that happens so you end up getting hit by it because you're just kind of panic rolling and I love just like dodge dodge dodge And I just like, once you're kind of in that rhythm and finding out what the patterns are and you're trying to download what the movesets are, it's such a freaking fun time. Chad also told me that he has a lightning phase that I never saw. Oh, yeah. And that is rare too.

And it's such a FromSoft thing to, I fought this dude for an hour, Tim. And it would be like I feel like I was maybe one or two attempts away from that happening had I not beat him when I beat him. Because it is the most Frumsoft thing to be an hour and a half into a boss fighting and go, what the fuck is this move? That was literally, you've never done this. That was literally my experience. Because I fought this boss for probably five, six hours or something like that.

And I think hour three, I see him bust out, like a lightning thing. And I was like, bro, what the fuck? Yeah. Like, I've been fighting you forever. I've not seen you do this once. It's the most diabolical from software shit ever, where a lot of bosses in their games will do that. Well, they'll have this random sort of move that pops up in the rarest of occurrences.

And sometimes you might see it early on within the first 30 minutes or 40 minutes if you get to that second phase but sometimes it just takes a while for that R&G to kick in and I never saw it and I feel like maybe I was one or two attempts away from getting it

but I didn't want to waste any of my items because these items are very very expensive like these little buffs, you take this little beast blood pellet and it just it's basically steroids you take these like steroid powerups and then you can light your blade on fire with fire paper or you could light it with

electricity with bolt paper and I was like I don't want to waste these items until I feel like I have a general idea of what's happening in this boss fight and I because you waste them early on then it's like well fuck now I'm just shit out of luck and I hope to maybe get some enough

maybe I'll grind later off stream and I was getting close to ending the stream but then I had one attempt where I died but I was like deep in the fight I was like ooh I think we got this shit and I'm in the next attempt and I got this motherfucker and I parried him, visceral attacked him,

did the big crit damage, had him in about a third of the health, maybe like right underneath like a half health. And I was like, I'm going to use my abilities. I'm going to use like these power-ups because I think this is it. And I take my beast blood pellet and I light my fucking like my saw cleaver on, I think I did it on the bolt paper or whatever. So it's got like electric sort of vibes to it.

and then I busted out my torch, which I didn't realize you have a gun in your left hand, usually, Tim. Okay. And that's what you use to parry when the enemy's about to attack you. If you time it perfectly, you shoot them, they follow their knee for their critical attack. But while I'm panicking with the D-pad to switch to the item that I need to power up with, sometimes I'll hit the left button on the D-pad just by accident, and I bust out my torch. Luckily, I wasn't using the gun for that second phase, but it happened in one of my fights with Maria, where I lit my sob cleaver on fire

and in doing so in getting to that item I also bust out my torch so there's several times during the boss fight where she's about to attack and I just do that with my torch but I'm not realizing that I have my torch out because I see like my cleaver on fire and I was like what is going on?

Why is my gun not firing off? And I was like oh my God I had my idiot, fucking idiot. Luckily I knew I wasn't going to use the gun in that second phase for Orphan Akaz but that was such an awful. awesome boss fight. And it's like just the right amount of difficulty that I had with it. I initially on, I was like, dude, this guy is so much tankier than all of the other enemies. Like, I swing once on this dude and it is doing way less damage than any other enemy has taken so far.

But it had just the right amount of like difficulty with the right amount of patterns at this guy that I kind of had to learn and kind of had to download. Freaking awesome fight. Those are my top five boss fights. I got, um, I got Lady Maria and, uh, Lodd Whig higher than Orphan Akas, but I feel you on the ease of Lady Maria. I sent a video to assets that I posted, like, I guess what, four years ago when I streamed through the DLC, my Lady Maria boss fight. You just fast forward to like 30 seconds in. There comes a point where I just get her cornered and it feels like, well, I'm playing Tekken. Right?

It's like, having a corner. I'm just swinging off. And at this point, I believe Imron's in the call with me. And he's, as I keep swinging, he's like, no way. He's like slowly like, what the fuck? she's got that low poise and if you swing away Merrill then she'll just keep on kind of like

ugh, yeah, so I feel like if she had a little bit more poise and gave me a bit more trouble maybe I'd like it more, what does that say about me that I'm like I wish the fight was harder? Like she's so cool though I think conceptually she's her and Ludwig are my favorites

like the thing that Imron told me about her where I was like oh that's fucking cool is of course like she's here in this clock tower right and that's her whole thing she has she walks two swords the swords the swords are different lengths it kind of represent like the two hands on the clock the clock and I was like that's the coolest shit ever it's like the fucking like the ozalia clock tower astral astral it's even cooler yeah yeah you use the iago motor to get there that's awesome man it's the

coolest Eddie I know you're not the biggest platinum guy or like trophy guy at all have you platinum bloodborne or do you have any interest in platinuming bloodborne uh not really I think if you need platinum it, you have to do some of the chalice dungeon stuff, which the chalice dungeons was a different experiment that From Software did where they were, they are essentially these procedural dungeons that will spawn some unique bosses. So there are some bosses that you won't see in anywhere else aside from the chalice dungeon. But I, I know that that's like a lot of people's least favorite part of the game and like getting the platinum required them having to do some of these like pain in the ass

chalice dungeons I don't really have a whole lot of interest in it maybe I don't know I would say it's not likely that I would do a whole lot of that do you want me to explain the cum dungeon to you you know what I would

yeah I can spend the cum dungeon to you because Greg knows about the cum dungeon I know Greg knows about the cum dungeon Greg knows about the cum dungeon because in order to beat Bloodborn Greg used the cum dungeon to level up So it's a dungeon that

It's a procedural dungeon that you go And you type in a code Which loads a dungeon But it's C-U-M-M-M-P-F-K And that's the code that you have to type in But everybody's like, oh, it's a cum dungeon And when you do so, you walk in And you go near the door,

The entry way of this little dungeon Your J-O-R-R-M turns on the fire J-O-R-R-R-T turns on fire But a boss just magically dies off-screen And it gives you a shitload of blood echoes, like 80K. Now, if you have your carol ruins,

if you have some runes that'll, like, give you more blood echoes, you could stack three of them, that 80K turns into like 120K. What color are these little blood echoes? They're like red pushtools. That's good. Like red little, you don't say plushules. Pustules popping.

You're popping these pussions. Very satisfying, though. Get all those echoes. It's like a little caprice sun, too. So wait, did you partake in the Cumb dungeon? I partook in the cum dungeon because I needed to get my other save that I needed to fight Lawrence on. I wanted to be powerful enough to where I wasn't struggling to catch up to my place and my real play-through. So it's the first time I used it because I'd heard a lot about this cum dungeon.

The fact that Greg used it is like really, really shocking because I know a lot of people were when he was playing Bloodbourne off stream like a piece of shit. I think about the views that we would have had out there. Yeah. Like the other Bloodborne video of Greg playing Bloodborn did really well view-wise. And there's so many people that are like, wait, Greg played this? Yeah, yeah, go look it up. It's out there. We played it over the pandemic.

But then Greg played the rest of it offstream. But he did use, a lot of people were telling him to use the come dungeon tactic. So he got all cummed in there. Again, bless. You don't know what's real and what's fake in these from software worlds. That's true, Louise. Yeah, a lot of kudos getting pounded on them to come dungeon. A lot of cooters getting pounded in the Cumb dungeon.

Good game, man. Good game, everybody. We got some super chats here. Dear Sixlet says, Vita means life and life finds a way. It's true. It's very true. And then Dexter Schwelletzer says, Tim, after hearing about Bloodborn,

would you come give it a try if Andy was there to help or try Liza P? I love what you guys do. Tim thinks he wouldn't like it, and I know for a fact he would love these guys. Oh, you would love. Look, look, look, look, look, look. You need to understand, Tim that while you're talking about the fucking, uh, the nobody's and the goddamn heartless, fucking heartless, like, it's the same bullshit, Tim.

I get it. I get it. But that's not the way. It's like the same bullshit, but it's for adults. For adults. It's not for fun. Come here. It's not for fucking children.

The way we've talked about like bloodborne lore and Eldon Ring lore and even like armored core six, which I know is like a different conversation, that does seem like, Tim, like shit, you would be into Tim. I think it's just, it's the gameplay that I just don't think you're going to be able to get him. I disagree. I think Tim would be in the gameplay. I don't, I think the lore stuff might be the stuff that to put Tim off. I think the way that Tim loves action games, Bloodborne, or Souls style action games, I think are just the next evolution into what those are. And I know how much Tim loves like a devil make cry or a seafood.

But even then, like, I feel like I'm way more on the like, I just want to mash buttons and cool things happen. type of guy. You know what I mean? Like, I want a little challenge, but just the littlest challenge. I want to be able to be somebody like, I feel a little good about myself. You know what I mean? I don't need that satisfaction of like, I overcame something and I took me a hundred tries. And like, I know for a fact to, like, if we got Tim on board with a Bloodbourne play through, I know he would like struggle with the same shit I struggled with, which is what you brought up, and you is like the whole grinding for blood vials and shotgun shells. It's like, I really appreciate what Bloodbourne is and I've tried it so many times

and I think my most recent attempt was the furthest I've gotten in but like... Did you try getting in the cum dungeon? I don't even know where that is. Yeah. Is that like somewhere early in the game? It's anywhere you wanted to be. Wow. Oh shit. Yeah. I can find Cun wherever I want. It's just like a you know like the right gravestones that take you places.

Sure. The left gravestones are essentially these chalice dungeons and you can walk up to any one of them activate it and it's like type in a code and they're all like set by codes or whatever and it's just spelled in a silly way. We gotta get Tim to Sekaro. Here's it. I think Tim would be into Sechro.

Secoro is the gateway drug for Tim. Because someone in the chat brings up a good point. It's like Tim, you do enjoy games of the hard variation like Cuphead. Yes. And I would argue that Seqoro is a way more palatable thing I think for Tim because there's less of that item management stuff that you have to worry about. It is purely just here's the gameplay. and you're getting good at it.

I played a bit of Sekiro. And I see it. It is fast-paced enough where I'm like, okay, there's something here. But again, it just has levels of like, the moment you need loadouts

and you need to worry about it. It just gets a little bit. I like God of war. You don't need that for Sekiro. Like, securo is like the most straightforward, I think, of the from software action tools like that stuff.

Here's something we put on the, on a future Patreon thermometer. You're going to say, can I say something before you even say this? Sure. The last thing. The last thing. The last thing.

The last. thing anybody wants to see or deal with is me playing through one of these games on stream. It is going to be so endlessly frustrating to everyone involved, myself included, and I'm willing to punish myself. And here's my rebuttal. I'm willing to. But y'all are going to make fun of me. There will be no recovering from you dealing with me trying to play these games.

Here's my rebuttal. There are easy mode mods. I know. But then I'm being made fun up for a different thing. How do we sweet? Here's how we sweet in the pot, Tim. We bring James Birkin. I mean, I don't want to hang out with him.

You know? And I think I could see Tim really enjoying this game off stream, though. Right? Because I think with Sekiro, it is just about understanding what the game wants you to feel. The thing about it, like, from software games just feel different from, like, more traditional action games. I think once you get to, like, a boss, once you get to, um, Gino, is Gino, is Gnichro the, like, the big.

I think even Lady Butterfly. Yeah. Once you get to the flow of, boom, boom. And you're feeling how the, like, how a good Perry feels like, you're going to be like, oh, I get the rhythm of it. Because at his core, Sequehals combat system, it's a rhythm game.

And I know you fuck with the rhythm. Because we could easily find a mod that is not going to dumb it down to just story mode or whatever. But there's like ways to make the game less of a punishment. In ways that I,

it's why I want to sit down with blessing and watch him watch Interstellar. You want them to experience these big hype moments. I'm like, holy fuck, dude. Like, I just, I want that for you. Yeah, I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

I want to see you play devilmaicry. I feel like there's a regression necessary here for you. I mean, I played D.N. Yeah, I mean, like, I, dude, I mean, the amount of times I wanted to die my hair as a 12 year old. Yeah, dude. Because I was like, this motherfucker's guns are named Ebony and Ivory. That's the coolest shit of all time.

Yeah, like, I love Devil May Cry as a kid, but like, I, I'd say, that I and also because they weren't too scary because like Resident Evil was like way scarier but I was like

oh but like this is more the music is more hype and shit you know but I never played DMC 5 I think you'd love it man I really do or Devil May Cry 5 sorry and 3

3 is 1 Edelma cry 5 is sick yeah um well we'll see I'm gonna is devil like

do you fight with a motorcycle in that game what game I think will swing a motorcycle okay yes yes I thought I was crazy for a second. I was like, there's no way they let you do that in the double-crime game.

Oh, dude. Oh, yeah. They go so hard in those games. Like, here's the thing. Well, the motorcycle, a couple different motorcycles in the Double-Bic Cry. Dante gets a move where he kind of like has two halves of a motorcycle in DMC-5 where he fights with those, almost like a, I don't even know what you call. Boxing Glove-Gloved gauntlet type things. Oh, yeah.

But in Devil McRye for the character, oh, my God, what's his name? Virgil. No, it's not Virgil, not Nero. No, not the other one. God. Nero. Is it Nero? It is Nero.

It is Nero. Nilo, Angelo and Nero. Yes. Nero is like the fucking rated type or the Roxus type situation where it's like, oh, it's not Dante, but it's kind of Dante. Him, his sword has a, the motorcycle rev thing. Oh, yes. Yes. I remember this.

So it's like, when you use the triggers to like get extra like bonus down, Oh my God. Shit's so sick. I love definitely cry. Anyways, everybody. Let us know what you think about Bloodborn. Devil May Cry. Sackero, hating me, making fun of me for not being good at games.

Whatever you want to do, just let us know in the comments below. Tim, you beat Cuphead. Don't put yourself down like that. I did. I platinum seafood. That's crazy. I platinum seafood, everybody. Hell yeah, Tim.

Is Kevin laughing because some of my mic snoring? In background, Mike's like, no, my snoring. He definitely was. Or are you just breathing, Mike? Who knows? Can I tell you? We had a team meeting yesterday, and I thought Greg was sitting behind me,

but I heard, like, very heavy, like, breaths. And I was like, what's up with Greg? And I look behind me at Snowback Mike. We're all going to breathe this one. As Snowbike Mike continues, his kingdom hearts to journey. Mike, you ready for that? He said he'd ruin his life.

Oh, my God. I love it to everybody. stay tuned. If you're on Twitch, you can stay right where you are. If you're on YouTube, you're going to need to make the jump to Mike's Kingdom Hearts 2 video. Until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.