Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Donkey Kong Bananza Nintendo Direct Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast 06.18.25

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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What's up and welcome back to another kind of funny live reaction this time to the Nintendo Direct for June 18th, 2025, all about Donkey Kong Bonanza. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Getty's. I'm joined by Blessing at Ae O'eA Jr. Good day, Tim. Greg Miller. Let's monkey around. And Andy Cortez.

Are we going to see Stanky Kong? Stanky Kong. The long lost forgotten Kong? We can only hope. Greg, what com's we've seen in this? Donkey. Okay. Oh, the main variety.

You'll see Diddy, of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. There's been a lot of chatter from y'all. Chatterheads about, hey, where is he? What's going on? Then we saw the redesign on the site.

They wouldn't be redesigned and put them on the site. They're going to be in this fucking game. That's very true. Then do you get cranky? Yes. You definitely get cranky. We can saw cranky in the preview we played. But I'm just saying he's going to show up today.

I don't feel he will. You know what I mean? Maybe it's like James Gunn where they hit him. You know what I mean? Maybe you saw cranky, but that's actually Diddy. Wow. Superpost. Dang.

Very different sizes, but... Wow. Yeah. What's the Kulio Kong? What's which one's that one? Funky? Funky. I was thinking the word Kulio as well.

Kulio. My mind is your mind. Holy shit, dude. I don't know. We still gotta figure out where Funky Kong was on January 6. Funky? Yeah. Okay.

Donkey Kong 64. Let's not forget. Lanky. Lanku was at home chilling. Lank was watching the news like the rest of us being like, oh, God. That's not good. I see, I, I'm Team Dixie over Team Tiny.

You know what I mean? So I'm hoping to get my girl back. But the more congs the better. The more congs the merrier. I agree, but I don't know if Nintendo agrees. I feel like having more Kongs is such a rare thing. I feel like rare is in the studio.

Yeah. Like that I feel like Nintendo likes to keep it to just donkey and sometimes Diddy. No, I mean, I think it's the tropical freeze crew, right? It's donkey, cranky, diddy and Dixie. And funky, right? And funky. Yeah. Okay.

You know what? That's a good chunk. That's a good handful. Yeah, not Chunky Kong, though. Not Chunky Kong. No, we're not seeing him back. That's fat shaming. That's why they won't let him back.

He's not like, he's on a Zempic now. Yeah. Skinny Kong. All right, everybody. Let's get into this director. I think it's like 15 minutes or so. We're going to react to that. And then we're going to get into the kind of funny games cast,

breaking down everything that we see. Let's get into it. Not the clap. When the world. felt so cool what are you doing it's our baby girl the point i'm fucking right oh yes oh man look at this ugly fucker i can't wait to be friends with him i'm glad i love that there's a vocal theme this is awesome i'm glad pauline's thing is singing yep after odyssey she has to he has to this is her or she a singer or she's a mayor she's both you can't be both

She's a jump-up superstar. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Terminator. Yeah. So you're saying that she's the Arnold of the Donkey Kong universe? Show me what you got. That's where it's Smith. He's real like orange. Fucking dies.

The rock is her. She was the rock. Golden banana. The Discovery of the Century made right here on Ingin Isle. Hell yeah. This is excellent news for number one banana fan, Donkey Kong. This voiceover gives like D.K.'s square. A sudden tempest sends him deep down underground.

As his adventure begins, D.K. teams up with Odd Rock. Odd rock. It's no rock at all. a talented young singer named Pauline. The feature man. But she's actually not a talented. And Pauline wants to find a way. It's said that one's wish will be granted by reaching the planet cool.

Yes. So the unlikely duo set off on a strange subterranean adventure. That's like them King Kong movies. Yeah. The story takes place in the underground. No, but where they go underground? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. under the world some layers just make sense in the layer design we're talking about it's hard to believe you're underground oh okay can't run jump more of a gallop that would say and climb through each environment using his incredible physical problems you can freely move in any direction wow that's no air dash who yeah oh all this by part is about to go insane list you can smash crash crash and bat Some good hit stop right there. Animation.

That looks good. You can even do this to a massive rock formation. Oh, my God. You know, if you want. As you barrel throughout the car of the switch here right there. You'll also collect golden bananas. A lot of nomads guy in this game. Yeah.

More on those later. Let's turn to orange. I see how he's how he's how. Kong can do. Punch. Smash. walls this looks really good

yeah the ground and most things you can get your hands on with incredible force destruction can lead to discoveries so set off a chain reaction and see what happens

it's gonna be astrobot levels of vibration and feel punch you rumble too unleash a powerful punch directly downward how deep you punch into the ground depends on the strength of the terrain

roll forward Roll at high speed and send lighter objects soaring. Combine this with punches and jumps to really mix things up. Hand slap. Make some noise to collect scattered items or detect hidden objects using sonos. You can even use your feet when your hands are occupied. Tear off. Grab a chunk of terrain and tear it off.

Or tear up turnips to find items. and even tear chunks off your foes. So why is the rock the child? Oh, it'll make sense in you, but. Grab a chunk and swing it to a test. Because he has a thing on our wrist. Or chumps can be used to break stone with ease. Or smash.

Odd Rock's wish will be to be a real girl. Yeah. Wow. Chunk jump. Chunk jump. To double jump. That's cool. This will help you reach new heights.

Oh, cool. Not from chunky. Throw. Throw a chunk. Chunker. Is Chaco Mountain the name of the Mario Kart level? I want a Chaco Mountain level. Wow.

It's time. It's time. If you throw chunks made of softer material, you can stick them to a surface. Oh, that's fun. That's cool. Holy shit. That's cool. This lets you ride on chunks.

Yeah. There's so much breath of wild in this game. Speed up and aim for smaller enemies to knock them away. Make music. The power of Pauline singing helps show you the way. It can also remove these strange seals that

someone left behind. I'm really Pauline. I'm definitely coming around to like, why is she a rock? You never know what. Like all his game plays as her as a kid. They didn't want to reveal it. You have to put a whole rock mechanic? It's a lot of you're wrong.

It doesn't make sense if you play. She wants to be a real girl. Yeah. want to be a rock no more. But she'll learn that along the way that odd rock is all she needs to be. That big knowing. The mini layers of the underground world. They update Mario Odyssey and like the mayor is just a rock.

Oh shit. Some are mysterious. I do love that this is basically a prequel to Mario Archie. And Donkey Kong. It looks like cranky. There is. But like Cranky Kong's old. He's all right.

But like he's the donkey Kong in the. That dude's name is Ramby. But what if it just is a cycle? It continues. Like it's Elwood? Time and time again. Oh, no. This is a different cranky.

Now, bless us this pre-Cong war. I mean, it would have to be, again, the cranky of it all. Yeah, we need term limits. Those old guys got to get out. She can make donkey Kong transform. Holy shit. destructive power, even hard terrain poses no problem. Oh, look at that ass.

Yeah. Jesus. Hey man, they made it. They kicked him up. It ain't on me. It ain't on me. It can transform into a zebra. What the fuck?

I don't like that. He can even breeze over water. Or crumbling pathways. That's the swift. That's a lot of questions back guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He can also turn into an option.

The flying ostrich Oh shit And soar through the sky What the fuck? This makes it don't do at all You can use updrafts to gain more air You let those eggs hatch what's gonna be To send enemies scatter

That's right It's ostrich bonanza Bonanza Transfamations don't last forever though You can transform again by collecting gold to build up your banana goes back to the normal form is vomit we're just saying words but nanos this was all talking about yesterday with the Xbox like marketing he had too many terms but was it Benert Benergy or Beninergy but nanergy

banana oh okay standing in our hero's way is the void company oh my this is so honestly coded like the stupid enemies that no one cares about yeah Rumpy Kong works to create I kind of fuck with the void company I did more than yeah I think these guys Poppy Kong Subterranean info gathering

While void calm is in charge You got Mojo Dojo Yeah At least they're still Kong for us like This No idea they're just like Bodies for some fucking reason A banana stealing maelstrom on Ingrid I

And they're heading straight down to the Planet Core Void Coe blocked off all the roots to the lower layers so no one could them bastards DK and his pals will come face to face with the enemies guarding these roots so use all the power at your disposal to take on a host of powerful foes those are gonna be some fun boss-fights man by defeating them giant sinkholes will open clearing a path to the lower layers of the underground how do you guys feel about

more in pants you know I was thinking about that I kind of fuck with it want to dick out Throughout the underground walls are golden bananas. Eritobically correct. Panandium, more words left. They're not only words. Sometimes they're buried in the walls. The ground and other places. There are a whole bunch of the fun.

The remix songs are going to be so. You can also obtain these gems by completing challenges in the ruins found throughout your adventure. That out, Grant Kirkgo. Challenges include time limited battles. This is David Wise. Oh, you're right. This is David White. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Courses where you'll need clever solutions. Oh, that's awesome. Very cool. Side scrolling stages. Yeah, sick. Oh, yes. Bramble Blast, baby. Oh, wow.

Keep your eyes peeled to find the Benandium gems. Those look like some sticker brushes. There are plenty of rules to stop. Oh, you know they're playing that symphony, baby. Give them a try. Oh, that's cool. It was awesome playing that song. Nick the first time.

Yep. It seemed like, oh my God. Like, it needed to be a YouTube video of like 40-year-old man listens to DK. Former band major listens to DK sound like. As you collect

binadium gems, you gain skill points. These can be used to increase stats such as your max health or the destructive power of your punches. Power up Donkey Kong to match your play style. For example, if you strengthen your sonar

you'll be able to detect treasure from further away, which could lead to new discoveries. Or use skill points to learn new skills. There are all sorts of items to find as you explore. Tim, I'm going to go out of lim to say this game looks fun.

Banadium chips are shaped like slices of banana. And they can be traded for benadium gyms at the chip exchange. those at an airport i'm always disappointed these gold go on i get these are 14 dollars yeah called for banana chips you can exchange going for useful items at the stuff shop they came up with words for everything else

except they're like oh we're done we're tired you can train these for different fashions and local style shops give me some good outfits oh yes just open the closet and customize the perfect fits for donkey kong and polly this is very much the mario honesty yeah 100 percent Or even change up your fur color. Oh, yes. That's too much for Donkey Kong.

Or two. Naked Kong. Almost every article of clothing comes with its own benefit. Dude, he looks sick. Turn that off, you know what I mean? It's good to be so cold. What's the call when you can, like, do a different posse married in the trance hog. Yeah, they have transbog.

Give me translog, please. Give it a location of banana, jims. Give it some donk Kong term for it. Banana mong. Pretty helpful. Banams mug. You can also see which items you collected,

making it easy to see how close you are to completion. Damn, this game looks really cool. Can you imagine if Mario Kart had this? There's plenty more to do in the underground world when not adventuring. Need a rest? Carve out of space and enjoy a getaway or you can recover a bed.

And enjoy listening to tunes with the music player. Mario Kart. Fucking take notes. You might even find. discs when defeating enemies. This is what the extra month went to. Minus $10. When it comes to moving between layers,

subterranean eels have your back. I can't believe they're playing the D.K. I know. Fuck yeah. We've made it. Between layers you visited at any time. Bring back Lanky. And if you get lost,

no need to work. You can always tealaport within the layer your Tierra port. Like peel. Your banana peel. Tio. Yeah, that's a big spread. I think that's the animal's name.

Like, T.O. Lee. In photo mode, you can freely change the in-game camera angle and adjust other settings to snap picks. I'm changing colors reminds me of the multiple-vode. Get a photo like this. Or? Yeah, right? Unleash your inner shutterbug and create your own captivating seeds.

By sharing a JoyCon 2 controller or using a second set, you and a pali can control Donkey Kong and Pauline separate. Very much Mario and Capi energy. swap play. As Pauline, you can unleash vocal blast using JoyCon 2,000. That looks cool. You can also copy the material of nearby terrain to give your vocals even more texture. That's going to love that. By working together, even tough enemies don't stand a change. Oh, cool. Cappy was like pretty useless, right? Yeah. There wasn't much going on. This game also supports game share. Even if only one player has the game, they can quickly share it to another player so they can join on their own

system. Oh, hell yeah. It can also be shared locally to a Nintendo Switch system. Hell yeah. Plus, you can play online between Nintendo Switch 2 systems using GameShare via game chat. Fuck yeah. Wait. I wonder how that works.

I think you can do that with MarioCard as well. Assist mode is the way to play. Really? I think. It guides you in the right direction. Haves the damage you receive and more. Assist mode supports you in your adventure to be the best car. you can be using the power of the cloud probably the rest be like some streaming there's a mode where you can carve stone using mouse controls called dk artist oh cool

everything in here rotate to paint the music and he's gonna make some shit oh man carved material oh that's seabrush dude or add some back poop let's take the maris four title screen you can even more functional Add delectable banana effects. Chats pulling it out. Here's your Mario Poteen. Andy. Here you go.

Wow. This game also supports amoebo accessories. A new Donkey Kong and Paul Lee. I can't believe to have a given up on an Mibo. That's crazy there. The opposite of giving up. Scanning it unlocks Pauline's diva dress. Whoa.

Yeah, Switched you has a NFC. I assume it has the NFC. Shown here. Good for them. Gold Kong tiles with explosive power will appear. There he was, he was. He was there. He was there.

Told you. Why'd they hide him? You'll get giant spheres like these. Oh, that's all. Thought those are going to be something in that sphere. They're putting vocals over the DK thief. Maybe if we get to the surface, you and me, we can make it more than a dream. What's the point doing here, bro?

I love it. Oh, you can do it here. Let's go. Cut to his imagination, to his thoughts. He's like, I don't understand what you say. Who is this girl? He's just picturing bananas. I have no idea with this creature here.

Join the powerful Donkey Kong and the talented singer Pauline as they set out on an adventure to the fabled planet cool. Wow. Special power? Donkey Kong. The drama. Available July 17th only on Nintendo Switch 2. Pre-orders are available now on Nintendo E-shop. The Donkey Kong and Pauline Amibo will also be available July 17th.

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For now, let's start with the topic of the show. Toysot! Donkey Kong Bonanza. We just saw the in-depth direct, one of the, I would say, infrequent, but Oh, for sure, infrequent. You know, fairly, fairly common over the years solo game directs from Nintendo, right? Of the deeper dives of let's get into it. Don't expect announcements. Don't expect all this other stuff.

I will say right there, even though I wasn't expecting announcements, I am a little surprised that Donkey Kong 64 coming to NSO. And more specifically, Donkey Kong updates for Mario Kart were announced here. Interesting. There's always still time. There's a lot of time. But I did think that that would have been like a, you. have a month away from this, like, do a couple cool things on your Nintendo Switch, too. Listen, the world doesn't look as favorably upon Donkey Kong 64.

So I think the Nintendo state of mind is, let's not ruin people's appetite before we get to Bonanza. That's fair. But even then, seeing Dixie, it's like for how limit, seeing a baby Pauline, I was thinking it's weird that Mario Card doesn't have a baby Pauline. Yeah, that's weird. She's not really a baby. You're right. She's odd rock.

She's a rock person. She's a shape shifter, I feel, and something. sense we're going to figure this out when we get in there. It's a bracelet. It's like the outsider that HBO show. Yeah, exactly. Like just some sort of like nefarious creature. Yeah. So top level, I want to start off here because Bless and I got to

play this game in New York. And I feel like we kind of differed a little bit in terms of our experience. I, from my gameplay was a little let down by this. It felt lesser than when you're expecting a 3D Mario from the Odyssey team. And then you get this. I'm excited.

I love Donkey Kong. I'm one of the bigger fans of the Donkey Kong games. But seeing it and playing it, it felt a little bit mindless. Like the controls are interesting and fun where it's the top left and down face buttons correlate to are you punching

up left or down or side or down, which is cool. Definitely fun. But into the 20 minutes we played, it already to me got a little samey and a little bit like I am just kind of button mashing my way through this. And it just felt geared more towards children, which is

not a problem. These are Nintendo games we're talking about. But as somebody that really cares about, like, the challenge and all that other stuff, collectibles, I was a little concerned. Watching this, it doesn't fully assuage my fears. But there's a lot going on when it comes to the challenge courses and even just like the abilities and the skill trees and all that stuff. I'm like, all right, cool.

Maybe I'm still obviously keeping an open mind to this one. But I did like the showing quite a bit. What did you think, plus? Yeah, I really enjoyed the showing. It's funny, I was thinking about this this morning before we got to watch this of like, you know, I had like a little bit of feeling of nostalgia slash sadness as I thought back to what Donkey Kong meant to me, like as a kid where I'm playing DK64 and I'm thinking about like what is classic Donkey Kong to me, along with like, you know, the original Don Kong arcade game, which was playable in DK64. So I fell in over that way. But like, you know, I think there was a sense of thinking forward to what we were getting in this direct. and also thinking about how, man, that Donkey Kong is done. Like, we're getting a brand new kind of interpretation of what Donkey Kong is for Nintendo going forward. We have the redesigns. We have a new 3D platform and all this is exciting.

I think the thing that excited me the most about the thought was thinking about my nephews and thinking about how they're going to get to experience Donkey Kong. And, like, this is the beginning for them. And I think that's the thing that I come out of this most excited for is like, oh, this is going to set the tone as far as what DK's feature is for, the current generation of children. And as I'm seeing all the features, as I'm seeing all this, right? Like me and Bear will talk all the time about how much we love DK64.

But for me, I'm like, I look at this and I'm like, all right, this is a DK 3D platformer that is, as I'm watching this, going to be fantastic, right? It's not going to have like the weird thing of like, oh, yeah, I love DK 64, but it's too many collectibles or too many switching between Kongs and all the issues that come with that game, right? Like, I look at this and I'm like, wow, you have a fun story set up here where you have D.K. and Pauline, like, you know, Odd Rock. Sorry, Odd Rock,

aka Pauline, you know, nefarious creature. We don't know what was going on there, right? But even when Supergirl was Supergirl, she was still the Matrix and Post-Crisis. So that's what we're dealing with here, I think. Is this a post-crisis, don't? Heavily influenced, I've heard. But I would assume that she started off as Pauline and then turned into Odd Rock. No, no, no. I think Odd Rock saw Pauline in the multiverse and, you know,

cute and just like, again, Matrix Supergirl post-crisis, before they actually did interdies cars, or, of course. I don't know what any of those words mean. Yeah, I don't either, dude. But you have this, you know, fun, like, you know, buddy story between the two. You have so many, so much of the musical tracks that helped define my childhood present in the game, remixed in ways that bring me back to Mario Kart World, where I'm like, yo, this is giving me the Mario Kart World soundtrack of Donkey Kong.

Like, oh, we're cooking. Like, then we're winning. And we heard like six or seven different Donkey Kong songs there. So I'm pretty sure, yeah, we're about to get a lot more of all the heavy hitters. You had that stuff. You have, like, I think a vastness to this game, too, that we're seeing here that is already beyond the scope of what I was expecting. Because it coming out of the Nintendo Switch to reveal for D.K. Bonanza, I think I was contextualizing it more along the lines of a Kirby and forgotten land in terms of, like, vastness and scope versus a Mario Odyssey, which I see is just a much more bigger and mainline thing. The more we see out of this, the more I'm like, oh, this might lean more toward the Mario Odyssey side as far as like scope and size and all that stuff, which is excited.

but also I think is a big challenge to make this kind of platformer appealing on that level. And I'm excited to see if they're able to live up to that. Because this isn't Mario Odyssey in the sense of, you know, you talk about getting your hands on the controller at the Nintendo Switch 2 event. I think one of the big things with a platformer from this team is the game feel. And with Mario, it is all about the movement. It's all about throwing Kappi, diving off of Kaffi, like bouncing up and like how good it feels to control the character.

in this game you don't have that like it is I think there's a different focus as far as the way they want you to play this game like as I'm watching the gameplay right now right it is very much more tinkery as far as like what you're doing with the environment what you're doing as like destruction what you're doing as far as like

the collectathon aspects and like kind of like digging into the world like literally digging into the world and I think that is going to be an interesting thing to see how that vibes of people and if that turns people off that might want a straight up Mario Odyssey.

Like, I just want the controls to feel good type experience. But my question for that, because I watch this and as somebody who loved Mario Odyssey and really push hard that year for it to be Game of the Year, as much as I love Breath of the Wild. I look at this and see so much Odyssey in it, but also don't get turned off by the idea that it's not going to be as precise. Even when you're talking about the Dodge Jump or whatever, you were air dash when it popped up. Like, I feel like he's going to have a movement. Do you, when you two played it, did you have access to all of these moves?

Were these things that you didn't get to see? Were you surprised by the air jumps and toss the platform and double jump off of it, that kind of thing? I mean, I think part of it is that we didn't have enough time to really explore the movement options. But also, like, there was definitely things like the chunk surf or whatever it's called where he was like serving on top of one of the big rocks. Like we had that, right? And like we're digging through and all this stuff. Yeah, I mean, we see a lot of this in the presentation we saw, but even in what we played. Like, I do feel that the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in very different ways, kind of foundations.

of not just gameplay, but like the systems of that game are in this of obviously being able to climb anything, but without a stamina meter, but also being able to break anything and like the way that physics all kind of like play together seems to be such a big part of this game. So it kind of reminds me of breath of wild in the sense of like you start the game off and you have all your abilities already. And it's like you have your tools. It's just a matter of using this game. I mean, we didn't get all of the things they showed, but it did feel like, oh yeah, we could pull the thing out of the ground, surf on it, throw it at something else, stick it on something like yeah there was a lot of stuff at our disposal immediately and i i you know when we played

this at the switchu event we had like like nintendo representatives with us to like help guide us or whatever and like there's so many times where they had to tell me like oh yeah and if you do this and if like or i would try to like break a piece of concrete out the ground and i kept pressing the button that would help me like you know pull dirt yeah i kept trying to do it to concrete and it wasn't working and i was like am i doing something wrong and he was like oh it's concrete so you're gonna have to hold it longer And I was like, oh, okay, and like, hold it in, like, it is a big like, pull and then like pull it out the ground kind of thing. I think in those ways, it's just less intuitive, but more, I think appealing to if you are the kind of person that likes to like tinker and like, you know, it reminds me of tears in that sense, I guess, in terms of like the way that they want you to think about the game and think about like putting things together and the different types of surfaces and stuff. And it almost feels like more of a thinking man's platformer in that sense, which excites me.

But yeah, like overall, I'm excited about this. So much fan service here as far as music, world, all that stuff. And then also RPG elements kind of caught me off guard, but I'm open to it, right? That stuff seems fun. This game just seems jam-packed in a way that I'm looking forward to. So I really like this direct. Greg. Yeah, I have no affinity for Donkey Kong.

Of course, being a Sega kid and joining with the N64 era, even Kong 64 wasn't my jam. I think this looks incredible. This looks a game I won't be able to put down. It looks like one of those. All right, cool. want to do today? Do you want to go find the bananas? Do you want to take on the boss? Do you want to go into these little mini games they have there? And the story seems interesting enough, right? I think more than anything, it is the idea that as a blessing just alluded to, you see that skill tree pop up

and I am like, oh man, I'm going to immediately invest in the sonar because I know I'm going to want to get the bananas to do X, Y, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, beyond that the boss fights look great as Andy called out in the reaction. The world looks gorgeous and it looks, I guess the biggest thing is it looks fun to explore. It looks, as I watch this, it reminds me of how much I loved Odyssey and how I put Odyssey down and never came back to it. And that is a regret to me, right, in terms of how much I loved that game. But to look here and be like, oh, man, like, I'm going to get the same vibe out of this of going through, changing my clothes, you know, building a load out, challenging myself to get those little things on the side path right there he didn't get. I'm looking

forward to this because it does seem like a game I'm going to get lost in isn't the right word, but I feel like it'll eat up a lot of time where it will be that I come home and, hey, Ben, you want to play some Donkey Kong and he gets on that second controller to control Odd Rock, aka fake polling. Yeah. I refuse to admit that she's Pauline until I have some confirmation. Folene, exactly. But I think there'll be that.

I can see plane rides being, all right, cool, let's go through and try to get some of these bananas. Let's go through and try to get these things I've missed. I'm looking forward to finding the secrets of it, the smashies of it and everything else. I thought that looked incredibly impressive. I'm way more hype for that than I was before this. Andy.

Yeah, I would say I'm more excited than I was. for it. I don't think it's going to be something that I'm like, holy shit, we're two weeks away from. Oh my God, we're a week away from it. But it's something I'm definitely going to want to mess around with. And a lot of it just comes down to the tinkering aspect and how fun and silly all of that, all the interactions look. I just, I love in really any survival game when you can dig into the terrain and get the really, really nice sort of, oh, it just makes your brain feel good and fuzzy when you hear it. the feedback of the gems coming towards you and breaking of the stones and all of that. It seems like I had mentioned, it reminds me a lot of the sort of interaction with the environment that you have with Astrobot.

And I don't mean the breaking of things. It's just like all of the little particles, all of the little objects kind of, you know, popping up whenever you break a mountain and you see all the particles and objects on the ground. It just, it looks like a really, really fun time. It doesn't scream to me that this is going to be for, you know, if you were the hardcore Mario 3D player, you are going to be, you know, super into this. This just feels like it's kind of going for a little bit something different.

And I really like that. I think it seems interesting enough to where I want to definitely give it a shot whenever it comes out. But I'm not like the most stoked for it. I'm mainly excited for a lot of the music callbacks, you know, because that's, I'd say the Donkong country games were, you know, really massive parts of my childhood. So, yeah, I think it looks awesome. That's fascinating for me because, like, yeah, I mean, I don't know wrong.

I understand different opinions. But like, for me, this is a, holy shit, July 17th can't get here soon enough. Like, I want to play this one. Yeah, we're one month out, like, less than one month out, which is very excited. I am, I'm an insider guy. So I'm like, oh, man, I'm counting down the day. Oh, sure, yeah. Well, I would say, if anything, I am really excited to see.

a switch two exclusive game. You know, like Mario card is, it's fun and I have definitely been playing that more than I was around when launch came out because I was so busy with Night Rain and Liza P. But, you know, finally getting the chance to-

A single player, Switch 2, let's invest a lot of time. And I want to see it on that screen. And I want to see it plugged into the die. It's a game that I'm stoked to see like, oh, this is what the hardware is doing now as opposed to an older title being

updated or maybe run better or I was telling Bless how bummed out I was that you know Scarlin and Violet got the 60 frame per second push but RCS is still cap at 30 I was like oh damn that's a game I would have loved to have seen run a little bit better so yeah I'm I'm pretty jazzed up to sort of to see this game whenever it does launch because it just looks like a lot of fun to run around it doesn't seem like a game that if you have nothing to do that you're going to put down and be bored by it because of the tinkering nature of things.

The way that I am when I'm sitting down at a table and I see a wad of paper and I start tearing it up and just, you know, it's sort of like that fidgety type of deal. It feels like it's going to be really satisfying and it's going to scratch that itch. I think coming off of Mario Kart World, I think before World got here,

I had slightly less hype for this game because I thought World was going to give me all of like the open world collectifon like that single player experience in the free row mode. And then once we got world and realize like, oh, okay, it's just the P switches, which is fine, but like not necessarily what I wanted out of this. I'm way, I have a way bigger appetite for this now. Like I, to your point, Andy, like, I am kind of prime now to be to what that like, you know, switch to current

gen exclusive, like, you know, collectathon that I know I'm going to lose 20, 25, 30 hours to just collecting everything. Um, I think they've positioned this well as far as like how, how they have the first party slate going. Yeah, I'm really into the Pauline stuff. Like, I'm happy that, like, that was a reveal that they just got over with. And it wasn't like, oh, halfway through the game, you get Pauline and whatever. It's like her being a character and them leaning into that. Obviously, Nintendo's giving Donkey Kong a huge push with his movie appearances and the theme park and all that stuff.

But, like, the redesign and everything, like, let's give another franchise of Nintendo a chance to, like, be that top tier, one of the big five. Yeah. He sounds like a WWE. Getting the push right now. But real talk. Like getting that push and Pauline as well. Like I think it's cool seeing her start to appear in the sports games and cart and now getting this new iteration and like kind of like fleshing it out. And also it being a little girl I think is kind of cool like for this to be a kind of boy feeling game of like this big monkey breaking shit.

But it's like oh like it's about a girl as a singer. Yeah. It's getting a lot of like frozen vibes as well. I just feel like this is like a very well marketed game to an audience that is going to absolutely adore this thing. like boy girl otherwise. We don't know what the we don't know what Jenna the rock is so that's not this fucking rock situation.

I am a little bit like why are we over complicated this? I won't see her in the game but like why I imagine because like her she has like a little rock bracelet on her wrist which I assume is the thing that's turning her into the rock if I'm going to dispute some of Greg's claims here So you think she's a girl first

than a rock second? I think she's a girl first in the rock in a rock second. She's trying to infiltrate the rock like tribe. And I think it's, here's the thing, I played Jack and Daxter for the very first time. Yeah, the precursor legacy. Yeah, the pre-cursal legacy. And in that game, for the very first time, yeah, I've never picked it up before. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. In that game, did you know that daxter was a human that turned into an otsoe? Yes. And the game in the series is kind of like, trying to get him back and make jokes about this. Yeah, for a long time. Did you know that? Yeah, because he's just kind of,

he's kind of fine with it for a long time. He did know that's the whole point of the game. Yeah. I wonder if there's an element here where it, where it is. you gotta get this bracelet off of you, Pauline. Like you keep turning into the rock. Like you're cursed. You keep turning into Dwayne Johnson and we got to keep you as Pauline. I could see it maybe being something along those lines. What I will say of the Pauline stuff is assuming,

because have they ever confirmed that this is the Mario Odyssey team? They still haven't, but it is. Very clear. Now it's more clear than ever than it is that team. I do appreciate how much they're keeping the continuity of, all right, Mario Odyssey going into D.K. Bonanza. Like this feels very much like a prequel in that way of, Like you got the same sort of Pauline, like, character model there.

You have like this, like, world that feels like, here's the thing, right? Going back to him, I remember on either KFedere games cast me and you were talking, and I think it was you that gave the prediction of like, yo, this game's going to end with a little Italian plumber coming up some, you know, a structure and trying to save Pauline from you Donkey Kong. I've never been more convinced in my life that that is going to happen, and that's going to lead into the continuity. J.B. Bonifio says, final stage takes place on a construction stage with an evil Italian

Plummer trying to steal Polly. And yes, I did say that. The moment that the Pollyne thing leaked, it's like, oh my God, can you imagine? I am not sure they're going to do it. No. Well, here's the thing. I'm of two minds here. Cranky's in this and the timeline, bless, the timeline. It doesn't add up. So, so. More than anything, the timeline doesn't fucking matter. These are just characters to Nintendo. They don't really actually give a stuff. Colleen being a child already, like, disrupts that whole, like, cranky Kong was the original Donkey Kong. exactly yeah yeah so it's like makes sense anyone

none of it makes sense none of it matters well don't forget it's a fucking rock and we've seen these challenge courses that have the that show the kind of old school Donkey Kong

tower going on too so are these like in some like subspace or something who they hell knows like their references speaking to these though I hope there's a ton of them

and I'm so excited this is the time of shit that I want yeah like loved how they looked obviously very 2D Donkey Kong country inspired

but going through the different worlds that we're familiar with. I mean, this right here is K-64. You know what I mean? Like, that's a game that when I talk about some of the complaints of that game, too many mini-games is like, what are the things, right? And none of them are really great.

Yeah, but it's also part of the identity, I think, of Donkey Kong. So for them to have, yeah, this, right? Like, all the Bramble and the Brabable last. And then the mind-cart stages, like, they just seem to be pulling all the most important memorable things from Donkey Kong's history, both the arcade game, country, and the 64. And also like some of the things we're seeing here like clearly this is the Mario Odyssey team. This is the galaxy team.

Yeah. There's so much just fun flipping perspectives and trying weird different things that we rarely see in other games that have that much gameplay variety. But yeah, and also all the transformations. Like there's someone about this. I said this in our first preview, but it almost feels less like a 3D Mario and it's more like a 3D Mario, the 3D like the Wario land games. And yes, it's Donkey Kong and it's different.

But the level of platforming, what you're doing and how you're moving about the world, it's a bit more about attacks than it is about platforming. You're chunky, you're aggressive. You're breaking through things. Those boss fights look so much fun. I'm so stoked to see exactly what the mechanics are. They just seemed like, okay, these enemies look like they're large enough that I want to take down with throwing the rocks at them, exposing the weakness, seeing what the patterns are.

I don't know. It reminds me a lot of having fun with Kirby. Kirby, the forgotten land boss fights. Very similar bosses. Yeah. I love that. We got a bunch of super chats that I want to get to. But we'll do that right after a word from our sponsor. This episode's brought to you by Shady Rays. Get ready for the season ahead with quality shades built to last. Our friends at Shady Rays have you covered with premium polarized shades that won't break the bank. Shady Rays is an independent sunglasses company offering a world-class product rated five stars by over 300,000 people.

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that grew up playing the DKC games and wanted to make one. I've heard the Kremlings are making a return. 3D Mario's still on the way. I hope that's all true. Every single thing said there. You don't buy it? I don't buy it until I get some official word. Mario comes out in the next year.

Yeah. I mean, I will say this does seem like a, this does not seem to the scale that I would have expected the next game from that team, from what we're seeing so far, after the amount of time that we've had to wait. So the dream scenario for me is we get multiple projects and this is awesome. And I'm not even saying this is a small scale. I'm just saying it is not, this doesn't look like the holy crap. We haven't seen a game from that team since 2017. Officially, I mean, we got Bowser's Fury, but like, you know, that feels like a smaller. I expect this to be much bigger than that game.

Really quick before you get into SuperChef, something I saw on social media as well is just like the deep cuts of like this nice canceled Donkey Kong racing game that's right don't get me started man about Donkey Kong racing what we could have had you fucking Xbox had to go buy rare ruin everything up yeah

what we could have I love this we're getting Dixie dude that's awesome that's really really cool can you very happy about that Barrett can you rewind to the parts of where we did see Ditty Kong and yeah let me let me find where

they're sitting at like a table let me find out where it is Thank you. Got a lot of Super Chats. Ricardo says Nintendo putting the donk and Donkey Kong. True. Oh, yeah, that ass is real shaped. Yeah.

Ultra Hyper J-Dub says I'm about 15 minutes behind, but I'm happy to get to watch this live with y'all. I'm in vacation this week, and I don't usually get to listen until the night. You guys rock. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you very much.

And thank you all for real. I think this all kind of started with the, our number of delayed flights from the Xbox thing. and then like reacting to something late. I think that's so sick that people want to watch us be enthused. Yeah, we can sleep in now. Very cool stuff. A lot of Quest says calling it now game of the year.

I feel like that's where a lot of my hesitations, I guess, negativity comes from. It's like, from my experience with this, I'm going to love this game. I just don't think this is going to be a 96 on Metacritic. No. You know? And like, that's what I want from this team. So me being let down, it's like only compared to some of the greatest games of all time. and also a 20 minute gameplay demo that I did.

How much did Mike spend on this game again for Fantasy Critic? A ridiculous amount. I love him. Is anyone getting Game of the Year vibes from this? I think it's a contender for like the list. Yes. Oh, for sure. I think it'll be high 80s, mid to high 80s.

I think it's, I'm with that score right now in terms of I can't wait. Like this looks, I'm going to play the shit out of this game. I can't wait. Yeah, it's tough to say. I think for me, it will be determined on just getting my hand on the controller. Right?

Like I think the thing. that immediately strikes me as like a, oh, it's not blowing my mind, are the visuals. Like I don't look at this game and I go, oh, this is unlike anything I've ever seen before, but I also just don't have that expectation for a Donkey Kong game on the Switch 2. But it is the Switch number two. You know what I mean? There should be a uplifted expectation for visuals and graphical fidelity, but also, like, I know that that's not what this game wants to do.

I know this game wants to push to tech as far as destructability and, like, textures and stuff like that, right? So, or like, I should say textures of like the breakable surfaces, not textures as far as the texture is looking amazing. Yeah, at one point he's holding up one of the rocks and I was like, man, that looks like a real low ass, real low res sort of looking asset with the lighting. But, you know, you got to make some, you know, you got to make some concessions if everything's going to be like super destructible. So I totally see that.

So I think that's, if I'm watching a director or if I'm watching a trailer, that's one of the things that immediately doesn't make me go game of the year. But like I think I could see it being one of those ones where once I get my hand on the controller and I get through the game being like wow, like that was a feast of content. Like wow, this really brought me back to childhood or this really uplifted this character in this world for me. I'll say it's a contender for being a contender. Yeah. And you know, one thing that like I feel might be divisive, but I'm actually really into the voice acting and like the weird story bits. Like we don't really get story from the Mario side of the Nintendo games and them even just.

trying at all. Like, I feel like that could go a long way with these enemies that you know, seeing the enemies, you're like, okay, cool, it's the Odyssey team that made this, but they look way more interesting and cool than the, the Odyssey villains. And if they're actually... I don't even remember Odyssey villains. There are a bunch

of bunnies. A bunch of buddies. They were the wedding planners. At some point, you got to talk about Mario and bunnies. Because I feel like there's like a weirdness as far as like how... 54 you're chasing one. Yeah, like I feel like bunnies fit into that world in a weird way. Oh yeah, and even in galaxies, like running around a little thing.

Yeah, rabbits. Weird. But yeah, I feel like there's a chance for if the, I don't know if we had evidence of the villains being voice acted as well. But Pauline seemed to be talking a lot to somebody. So it could be cool to actually get some level of like more movie-like feel from these Nintendo characters as opposed to a Mario that just says let's it go. Yeah. This dude in the middle reminds me so much of the one of the bad guys in third. Season 2 of Arcane.

They're like kind of rat looking dude. A rat owl thingy. Yeah. And then yeah, like it just reminds me so much of that. That design, also Mojo Jojo as well. Yeah. I will say they have subtitles, but whenever she speaks, she doesn't.

And so I imagine they'll do like D.K. speak. Or they're just kind of making noises and we get the subtitle interpretations. Oh yeah. When she's singing and he's like, ooh. Dan says, I thought we may get a Diddy Dixie announcement for Mario Kart World in this, but at least we're definitely getting some good skins for DK and Pauline. Yeah, one weird thing about Mario Kart World is DK and Pauline,

but DK is the more crazy one, only have like one costume, like one extra unlock costume. I mean, so you can get DLC after this game comes out. Yeah. Kabab says finally Tilu reboot I can love. Yep. Oh, the last of us. Man and his girl. Oh, I see.

BK2. Sorry, BG2-580. So shout out to Nintendo. Getting the Universal Studios bands working as Amibos. Excited for the E-rated Last of Us. D-K's here. That is awesome. I saw that and assumed as much,

but like the theme park wristbands you can actually use, like, to get the same. I was wondering what those were. I knew the Amibos, but I didn't recognize the wrist watches. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. That's cool.

And we just saw for a second, like the big Kong, like the Ambrals give you like the Kong letters. Yeah. Like there was so much love for all the, DK stuff here that's like, that's what I'm most excited about. It's like, how deep are we getting into this? How deep is you?

I mean, I think that's the work that you probably should have been doing for a long while as Nintendo as far as what Donkey Kong means to the business. Like, building out that lore, building out that like excitement for all things, DK. This comes back to the top five conversation of like, yo, is, is D.K. One of them ones? If it is, like, you got to treat it like it is and give it the love so that you can have kids and featured generations attach themselves to it. Think about

sticker brush something and how good of a song that was. Look at those Kong letters and be like, oh man, that gives me a feeling on the inside. You know what I mean? Totally. Ali says, birthday tax, I love that I got this gift from Nintendo and from all of you. I'm so hype for this game and can't wait for your review. Sending you some sweet nasty love from Germany.

Happy birthday, Ollie. Thank you for hanging out with us. Living Legend says I was on the fence initially, but after the direct, I'm very excited. Growing up in the 90s, I never liked Mario or Zelda. I was a a kid, but I love Donkey Kong. CJ Splitsle says sticker brush symphony remix with lyrics

and credits. If they give sticker brush lyrics, they're going to do it. You're right. They're going to fucking do it. I mean, that is game of the year. That's awesome. Sorry, boop prints. Colin Barry says, what's the TTP mythic quest on building features? What's the time to play? So we get to them building features?

Pretty cool. I mean... I mean, we were already kind of doing it I don't know where we were in the game, though. We did still have The Rock, though. We didn't have Pauline. Yeah. No, I think they dropped this. I think that would have been the first game played segment that we picked up at the demo.

I don't know what cutscenes were before that. Yeah. I'm going to say you get a two-minute cutscene. Yeah. And then you're punching. And then you're in. Then you're punching, break and building. Kevin T says my first game was the original DK country and I got a switch to play with my

three-year-old with this being one of her first games. Full circle moments. That's awesome. Yeah, that's going to be great. Yeah, let's talk about that two-player mode for a suck, right? Yeah, let's do it. It seems like a iteration on what we've seen from Nintendo a bunch of times, like from Galaxy to Odyssey, where it's not a full-on you're doing the same thing.

It is kind of just you're helping. Yep. I'm excited to try it with Ben. I imagine, though, I will end up being Odd Rock. You know what I mean? Like, I think he's going to want to be Donkey Kong, which is fine, and that'll be great. And I want him to have that experience. But it doesn't sound fun.

It sounds like you're kind of pushing back against it. sucks. I mean, I don't want to be odd rock. But I'm down to help him. And like, again, Nintendo's so good with the assist mode, right? Like, I think it's going to be fun to see Ben jump into this. And he, like, remember when we show, he watched us react to the Nintendo Switch 2 originally. It's when he saw this, this is what made him go, I love Donkey Kong. This is just the trailer for this, the reveal of Benanzi.

He was like, I, Donkey Kong is, like, Jen sent me a video of him talking about Donkey Kong. So he's going to want to be Donkey Kong, which will probably be, maybe this is where we both get our switches up and running. We both play the game on our own. But I think dropping in the assist mode for him and then if I'm going through and being Pauline for him and throwing stuff, we great. This share stuff's awesome.

And I'm a little confused about it. I definitely want some more info on this. Barrett, did you find anything? Oh, I have not. No. Yeah, totally cool. But yeah, if anyone in the chat understands this, like I would love to know more because I didn't,

what's going on? How are you able to play this game on Switch 2? Is it cloud? Yeah, it's got to be. It's got to be similar to what it takes to does and the other one they just came out with split. Is that cloud? I thought that was like they no. Wait, really?

Yeah, it's cloud. No way, really. When you are the added player, when I hopped into somebody's game, I was like, oh, this looks noticeably lower res. I am watching like a feed right now. You know, I'm not getting a native version of the game right now. So you're dialing in as a controller and streaming the, yeah, the footage. Um, and, you know, obviously people immediately will worry about that, but I talked about this yesterday, Blessing, on the kind of funny happy hour. That Mario Kart session at LA, on LAX Wi-Fi, pretty fucking crazy.

Pretty good. That it was awesome and it was smooth. Now, granted, Blessing did get kicked before the final match. Yeah. But, like, on LAX Wi-Fi, we were able to play with other people. We had Ignacio Rojas, who is one of our community. members who on the stream was like, and I'm in Chile and that shit worked. That's crazy.

Crazy, dude. Like, so obviously anything internet related, it's really, really natural to go, oh, Nintendo, come on. But I think that a lot of stuff has been fixed and will continue to get better. And I was really blown away by that Mario Kart experience. And I could totally see this being almost another proving ground and say, no, this shit works. Yeah, no, totally. And I'm there.

And the chat is telling me, like, they explained this in the, the actual direct, which I don't fully remember, but I'm just shocked about the Switch 1 part. The Switch 1 being able to do this is like, that's crazy cool, like, but good for them. And I guess it's not that big of a surprise, like someone was bringing up the Wii U of like a very similar kind of kind of system too.

So it's like, all right. But cool to see them do it. Yeah, absolutely. Like, is this, you know, no question, the dumb question. Does this use, like, internet or is it via? Yeah, I would not do, right? Or is it like that ad hoc stuff? Yeah, I know.

That's why I'm wondering. Like, is it the thing of, hey, if you're in the same vicinity, Twitter's can just speak to each other. I was incorrect about Mario Kart World, but these are the, right now, the share locally, um, able games right now.

Interesting. I mean, I do think that that's cool. It sucks that it's not for Mario Kart, but for the second big exclusive to have that feature with switch one is very smart. And obviously, I would say majority of people that have Switch 2s at this point also have Switch 1s in their household.

Like, I don't know if we'll ever. know that, but like, I feel like that's a pretty safe assumption. So that's cool to be able to give Ben a second one. Well, the other Ben's the world that don't have the luxuries. Not the Ben whose dad is like, you will never want for anything.

There's a switch two downstairs boxed ready for you. I did take the dock out. So I got a dock downstairs. Oh, I have a dock downstairs, but I'm all said. Find familiar game says my friends and I just left our secure, stable job to launch a new game shop in Ohio. Thanks for inspiring us. Just go do the thing and chase our dream. Congrats. It's beautiful. I saw this one. I've been looking into it.

I backed them on Indiegogo. They had a, they have an Indiegogo up you could go. You can go to find familiar games on Instagram if you want to check it out and do that stuff. But I'll be getting a T-shirt. I'm very stoked about that. Mount Vernon, Ohio. That's,

that's so cool. You know, not to add more work to your plates, but there's a couple of YouTube channels that I've started following recently that are just game shot, like retro game shop owners. And they just like make weekly videos of like the people that come in the shop and like what they get is the trades they make and all this stuff.

And my, this is so freaking cool. So, like, hey, if you want more work, make a YouTube I'll watch it. Wendell Shoemaker says, I will not stand for the slander towards the brudels from Odyssey. Love seeing a new cast of villains outside the

Kupling, and they had fun boss battles you could exploit to finish faster. Yeah, I mean, all the brudels. I mean, they're definitely better than the Astrobot enemies. Come on. Think about that stupid-ass fucking I remember the green alien, dude. I don't remember any of these goddamn bunnies. I remember Bowser, dressed to the fucking

eyes, ready to marry beach. Yeah, it's, I'm I want to say I'm torn, but I'm not. I didn't like the brudels. I want to see a new cast because I get we can't just do the cooplings over and over, but we haven't ever done the cooplings in 3D, right? Am I wrong about that? I guess not, yeah, I think you're right.

Let's do it, you know? It's the same thing here with like the Kremlin's, man. We haven't seen them in hell long. Were they not in galaxy? In any of the galaxies? No. Okay. No.

We got to have like a like a summit for 3D platformer, like villain. like groups of villains you know what I mean like I think Andy as an artist support group yeah and like more of a we just got to get it together because I feel like even the big dogs are failing on this like you know with Odyssey with Astrobot like why are these groups of villains I think we have to have Kojima as a speaker ah you will look back at all the Metal Gear's it's like always amazing villains you're doing the beast yeah how do we translate that to 3D platformers you know you're right though dude it's important we should have a summit let's have the summit I think these I think these will

You know, at one point, the kupilings were nobody's to us, right? I think, I'm using the same rationale. I was like, look, at one point, Will Ferrell and your favorite S&L cast was nobody to you. But I think these people, this group, what were they calling? The void. The void bastards. I think they can really, really. Yeah, I think they're going to stand out.

When you look like a gremlin, I'm down. They look better. I think that these look significant. better than the cast of Nintendo villains that are brand new like groups that we've seen in and I'm including tropical freeze and Donkey Kong country returns. I think that this group feels like it has a lot more personality than the brudels for sure. So who were the from Kirby and the forgotten land villains? There was that big monkey. There's a big, just a bunch of big animals. Yeah, we got to fix this. Armadillo. We got to fix this. Enough with just the big animals. Really quick, bless. Just another thing that made me think about DK K-64. If you see in the kind of top right corner of the G here, you see this gong over here. Yeah. A lot of

Yeah, you're right. Oh, we're still back. I do want to call something out from the official press release here, all right, because I was trying to get all the names of the Void Company or whatever. But more importantly, they do call out that the Void Company, they are also responsible for turning Pauline into Odd Rock. Oh, wow. So it is not Odd Rock

turning into Pauline. It is, in fact, Pauli can turn it into Odd Rock. According to Nintendo, if you want to believe that, they could be swervenous. They could be swervenous. The whole direct ended with a dramatic moment of her falling into a void. Uh-huh. Right?

And then him reaching out. Like, what if the dramatic end of this game is they have to make it sacrifice and like, do we save this entire world? Or does she turn into a rock and Donkey Kong fucking punches that thing into oblivious? Jesus. It's like the live in truth. I think the end of this game is either going to be them facing Mario or Donkey Kong fucking destroying Pauline as a rock.

sure but that sacrifice will let her come back as a human being you're so right i mean the whole the whole game is the anti you know anti-rock agenda yeah wow crazy stuff he's this so violent thought as much as i want the the mario ending um mike minotty made a good point on uh last of nintendo dogs where it's like nintendo it's it they don't want to have Mario be seen as like a villain quote unquote or like as a bad guy you know but like I don't believe that that like that doesn't sound like a real thing

I know you're gonna tell me knowing no one's gonna give Mario a gun you will see Mario in Fortnite with a gun at some point I stand by he had a gun in the UiSovic Remember when they were horrified when Rare gave Donkey calling a gun and also Mario was frowning in like the Smash Brothers games He's been scowlingly

He's got stabbed by that's different than being in antagonist though. I think that if you, you know, at any point were really, you know, attracted to the visuals of Sonic the Hedgehog and you go, oh shit, he's, he's fighting my guy in the Olympics. Yeah. Yeah, he's my villain right now, you know? Yeah, it's great point. He is my Russia in that one hockey game. I also do it. I don't see it as also, I don't say it as like an antagonist thing. I see it as like a USSR. Mending Easter egg of like, oh, that's Mario. Oh shit. He's coming from me. Again, we're going to follow the Last of Us thing.

We're seeing Last of Us Fives here. Like, Donkey Kong is the bad guy. Marr's the good guy at the end. Think of it that way. What if halfway through you have to play as Mario, and then you learn a lot about the connection between people. They're holding a lot back in this direct. Oh, man.

You're like, I never thought he'd win me over. Yeah, I was like, wow, I like Mario board. Donkey Kong, that's crazy. The DK artist mode. Oh, crazy. Very cool. It looks kind of cool. It looks great.

Yeah, it kind of reminds me of tilt brush or I'm blinking on the actual app name for it but it was one of those kind of first apps that you get whenever you have your VR glasses because you're essentially using the joy constant and manipulate everything I think it looks really rad I mean what a weird addition to throw in here that makes really no sense but they're kind of just throwing everything in here it feels like one of those things where once you have the systems of the games established and you realize how much like good destructability you have here it's like well we could turn this into a sculpting thing pretty easy if you wanted to.

This feels like the game was done a year and a half ago. Yes. And then they were like, oh, it's done for the Switch 2 launch. And they were like, oh, we delayed that a year and a half. And I'll show we got extra time. What do you guys want to do? So much of this game screams to me like a kid's first adventure.

Like this is going to be so many kids' favorite video game or first favorite video game. And adding like these extra little modes that seem more fleshed out than they should be. It doesn't just seem like an afterthought. It's like let's really get in there and add fun little gimmicks and things that kids are going to want to do like the turning on the lights and adding the animated backgrounds and stuff like i've said this before but like getting mario paint i found so much fun in that game and it was just a freaking ms paint clone you know what i mean with like minor mini games and stuff

and the music chill out did it had the music uh composer like fuck to that music but that was the thing is like it gave you so many things to do that felt like you wanted to do and i feel like with this like the kids are going to have so much fun like the seeing the mario and donkey con and all that stuff I imagine those are going to be preset standards and you can just like load those up and then fuck with them like kids love coloring books you know what I mean allow them to like play with this stuff in a video game I think that's really really cool

hell yeah awesome I can't wait the transformations are interesting to me very Yoshi coded which is a good thing I like the gameplay variations but I'm not seeing too many variations here I think that's my biggest problem is so much in this game is like you're just punching and breaking shit. And then it's like, all right, here's your ability.

You go faster to punch and break shit. Here's another transformation. Well, you're running on water. He's running on water there as a zebra. Yeah. The ostrich is used for flight and gliding. He's got eggs. He just wants to hate. For me, it takes me back to like the non-con country games where

you had transformations in those. Did you transform into Ramby or did you ride Ramby? I'm forgetting now. He wrote them. In the same. The same... Yosche's Island. You transform into the thing. Swordfish is... 64 is as well. Form into them. Yeah, you transform.

Wow, they really couldn't figure that out in 64. Like, just make him turn into the fucking thing. But I guess, like, if I'm counting those as, I guess, transformation slash power up situations, right? Like, that had two or three between Ramby and then the swordfish. The ostrich. And the ostrich. Oh, the swordfish would have been a cool addition.

I mean, I'm sure he's in this. Do you think so? With how much they're showing here. Like, I mean, even look at that. Like, the design of the rocks has the, like, old school. See, I see. You would need to be under a lot of water. What? Mario versus Donkey Kong, right?

What are they fighting on? What is that? A construction site? Yeah, yeah. I know where you're talking about because I tried to name it earlier and I couldn't think of the word I was looking for. There aren't garters.

Not ramps, but like... Yeah, steal girders. A little wrecking cruise you. I'm not sure, but... Will we get a swimming banana for in which animal? I mean, that would be the the swordfish if there were to be one. A marlin, if you will.

Remember when... Roger didn't know the word marlin? No. Are you trying to create new narratives because you can remember croissant or whatever? Oh, bagel? No, about a... Well, that was me just forgetting the word. They're trying to bring other people down with you.

That was just me not being able to remember the name of a word in the way that I never remember words. But yeah, I remember like bringing up the word swordfish and I brought up the word Marlin. He was like, what's a Marlin? I was like, what are you talking about? That's crazy. What is the Marlin? In New York, they don't know. A marlin looks like a swordfish.

Yeah. I'm gonna be honest. I didn't know what this was either. Matt in the chat says, give some love to my boy squawks. Squawks is the parrot, which we did see in here. He was one of the things that you can...

He smelled it so wrong. It brought him a completely different definition. Maryland Monroe's popping up. He said Maryland, M-A-R-I-L-I-N is a feminine name or Lagree Gorgon. Oh, that is an eye there. I put an extra eye.

Oh, my. my god, I love that. Oh, did we, sorry, Bear Mena have brought up the Diddy Kong part, and I just wasn't maybe paying a kitchen. Yeah, we froze on it a few times of them sitting at their little desk. Damn it. The store, the stuff shop. Stuff shop.

Yeah, it's all just Mario Wadis. Yeah, exactly. It's crazy how much it is. Just goofy-ass costumes. Hell yeah. So much of the UI in this game is Mario Odyssey with a slightly different font. I'll take it, man. Let's fucking go. Like, you bring them up again.

I miss them every single time. Yeah, yeah. They're at the desk. Yeah. There seems to be like a competition thing going on here, so maybe they're judges or some shit. That's cool. And then he smashes the desk. They walk him there.

We don't have your reservations. There are no kings, he says, and he smashed the desk. You just take out Dixie Kong? Yeah. She's okay. Yeah, I don't see any ostrac. Blessings Google search right now. There's a Marlin.

There's it. I didn't know what these. I didn't know they're called. So like, is swordfish, not the scientific name? I'm sure there are different genuses or species or species or something. something different. I love the color variants, man. It's one of my favorite things in gaming, you know?

Yeah. It's what, you know, seeing Mega Man get different colored armor is so cool. Back in the day for me. Yeah, one of his power-ups is he turns into an ostrich. Oh, you know what? Sorry, I was thinking of the swordfish, my bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was thinking of the Marlin. Yeah, I'm with you, Andy. And then having different skills, very cool. I hope there's the trans-mog or whatever it's called stuff to not, like, to be aesthetic. pleasing and have the power-ups. They won't. I guarantee you they won't have that. They don't know what that is. Them having the music. That is. Actually be able to go in and like choose different songs. Thank you. That's awesome.

And it seems like that there's going to be like a sizable library of songs. So. And I loved the Odyssey soundtrack. It was such a different vibe. Yeah. Yeah. So I kind of wish that there weren't these RPG mechanics. Not that I'm like ever again. I'm never that type of person that like when a game adds that stuff, I'm always like, like, I'm never that dude, but I would like it if just as you progress through the game, all of that stuff

became stronger, and then you could go, oh shit, now I'm seeing stuff way deep in that mountain. Let me go back to the first world and see what I could have missed there. Would you rather be, yeah, the more you use it, it levels up automatically, so if you're ping it sonar all the time, it's leveling up? Well, no, because I don't want you to be

at your desk doing the lock pick mechanic in oblivion. That was a lot of fun, though. 30 minutes It was 15 Everybody to get it to 99 or whatever Last 30 seconds I've just watched Blesco From tab to tab to tab

Looking at different versions of swordfish And then he slowly goes to Marlin From Finding Nemo And clicks on it to get to his like Wikipedia page To like learn more We're a broken society Why would they call the clownfish a marlin? That's confusing

As a child How am I supposed to grow up Knowing what a Marlin is? when Pixar's told me this whole time that this fucking clownfish is called Marlin. That's just his name. Yeah, but that's confusing as a kid. I guess I also grew up, you know, I'm an Atlanta Braves fan. The Florida Marlins were a team and are a team and then now they're the Miami Marlins.

That's the only reason I knew. I knew they were a baseball team. That's probably where I first heard it too. Yeah, I keep going back and forth because swordfish and Marlin, very different, but also, I don't know, it's cool to see how. They share some DNA. They share some DNA. You know, I'm trying to figure out where this is.

For sure. Was it Who was it somebody on this panel that asked me about orcas recently? I don't know. You may have dreamt that. Maybe it was Roger. There's somebody that didn't know what an orca was and had to teach them. Really?

Stop making up these narratives. No, I swear to God. Stop making the narratives. This happened. What are the narratives you have about Donkey Kong, Benanza? Let us know in the comments below. We are about to do an episode of Kindet Funny Games cast where we are breaking down the WB games situation.

What's going on there? And after that, we got a. super fun stream uncharted to continuing naughty dog week leading into this Friday's Barrett Courtney video essay where he replayed every single naughty dog game. What are his thoughts you'll have to wait and see on Friday? But until then, I love you all. Goodbye.