Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - FINAL Nintendo Switch Direct Breakdown and Analysis - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, March 27th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Getty's. I am joined today by blessing Adioia Jr. Good day, Tim. And Andy Cortez. Tomoguchi. Tomoguchi. We learned something today, or did we just hear someone say something wrong a couple times?

We got to get to the bottom of this. We know how Nintendo is. Nintendo has the most stringent fucking, like, if you do something wrong, you will never ever play Nintendo game ever again. I mean, there's no way they would let that go out. I don't know if they have respect. I think that it was incorrect. You know?

They ended the show with Tomodachi life. Tomoduchi life. I don't even know how to say it. You know what I mean? I think that was Tomodachi. Yeah. Yeah. Well, right now I'm looking up Tomagachi enunciation.

I can't figure out how to spell enunciation. Pronunciation? Pronunciation. Pronunciation. Is it an annunciation? Oh, you're right. It says gachi. Yeah.

Ga. G. Ga. G. G. G. Yeah. Yeah.

So we're right. You're wrong, Nintendo. Yeah. Yeah. Take that. Well, everyone, we just... What the hell was that? That's my volume.

Tomogachi. Yeah, there we go. There we go. Tomogachi, everybody. Well, welcome to the Gamescast. We're about to break down the final Nintendo Switch 1 direct that we just watched.

We're going to talk about every single thing we saw what we thought about the showcase overall. And what we think it might mean for the Nintendo Switch 2 direct that's coming in just a few short days. Of course, this is the games cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the latest in reviews, previews,

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Today we are brought to you by Stash. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's get into it, the topic of the show. So we're here. We just watched the Final Nintendo Direct. How you feeling? It was a direct. You know, we talked about this for the last year, the Four Horsemen, the games that are announced and the games that come out, which feel like they're signaling the end of the switch and feel like they're a result of how late we are into this generation, right?

And like that feeling of, oh, Nintendo's holding the big guns for the next thing. And so don't expect anything big. And like this direct very much felt like that. I think when you get a direct surprise announced for the week before the Nintendo Switch 2 direct, you know what you're, you know what you're getting into, you know what's going to be par for the course. And so like,

we go through this and I look down at the announcements and I'm like, okay, yes, this makes sense, even though there are surprises here that are delightful. I think Patupon being announced for a switch is delightful,

just because it's such an unexpected thing. And I think what that signals for the future of PlayStation, especially when we lump in, everybody's golf into there, there is a conversation we had as far as, oh, wait, if everybody's golf in Patapon can come to Switch,

just out of nowhere, developed by B-N-9AMCO for some reason, like what else can that mean? I think there's a conversation that we'll have later about that. But then you get other neat games. Which Brook is a big one.

That's the game that I know a lot of Starbby Valley fans have been looking forward to. I think if you asked Joey about that, Joey's going to go crazy over how like, which brook is one of those games that has felt like it's been in development forever. I had a friend texted this morning

that was like, oh, there's a game that was announced. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but I've been waiting for those games since 2017. And I thought, I was like, oh, did they announce Hollenite Silkson? And then, you know, seeing Witchbrook, I was like, that makes sense, actually.

That makes sense that that is the one. That's been development since 2017. That's been development for a long time. I think they're waiting for it since 2017, so I don't know if that's just like since Starry Valley or if it really has been since they announced it. That's cool. But then you have other bizarre things, the virtual game card thing. We're going to talk about that.

I think it's weird in how they presented it. And I still don't think I fully understand what it is. But, you know, I'm excited to talk to you guys about that. But overall, like, there's a lot of stuff here where I'm like, I really just don't care about a lot of these games, but also not everything's going to be for me, right? I think the pocket of games that are for me, I'm excited about, even though most of the stuff here

doesn't really do it for me. What's up, Barrett? Was there any Wind Waker today? Oh, no, there was. Was there any Twilight Princess today? I owe you a fucking pizza, don't it? You owe me a fucking pizza today, bless. Pizza bit. And that's...

I was to say, that's another thing is, we got to have a conversation about the things that weren't here. Because that's going to be such a fascinating, what does that mean for the future? Because, yeah, there was no Zelda, but also I'm wearing my Donkey Kong shirt, my DK64 shirt, there was no Switch Online stuff here which makes me think, oh, we're, why are we going to get more Switch Online stuff

at the Switch 2 presentation? And what form does that take? We save that for the meal, not the appetizer. Donkey Kong 64? Yeah, baby! Fair enough. They're shutting it all down for Switch Online 2. They're getting rid of everything else. What did you think of this?

I thought it was, I thought it was okay. We got what we expected. this was like if I were to average out every other direct we've ever watched and boil it down like this would be the this would what will come out of the lab this is the result of it all right it's a bunch of you know a couple of games

that look interesting and stuff that I might want to play and a lot of other things that I have no interest in but there's clearly a fan base for because they're always pushing games like that I thought which book which brook look uh fucking secret live of Walter Schmidt or whatever Eternal Life of Goldman. That's the one. Cool look at Metroid. Hadn't seen Metroid in a while, right?

This is the second time we've seen actual Metroid gameplay. Really, really neat seeing what they're cooking out over there. And then, of course, that awesome scene at the end with the new suit. Very cool looking. But, yeah, just some weird stuff with the game cartridges, along with this little app that I can't wait to talk more about. Tim, what did you think? Yeah, I mean, kind of where you guys are, I think maybe at the end of the day,

maybe a little higher just because I appreciate me. I appreciate that Nintendo directs in the last couple, maybe like year or two, have made space for collections of old games, like the gradiest thing and stuff like that. Like recently we got the Marvel versus Capcom collection, the fighting collections. Like, they just keep putting out these collections that I think are good.

And like I'm such a fan of those old things, so it's nice to see them back. The amount of H.D. remasters of classic JRPs. Like we're somehow not done with that yet. You know what I mean? Sire Frontier 2 remaster. I appreciate that they're like,

hey, we're going to do them all. You know what you mean? And they're clearly like anything is an audience for those. So I think that stuff's great. But on top of that, there was multiple announcements here that I'm excited about. Like eternal life of Goldman. Like first time I've seen that really hype for that now.

Everybody's golf and Patapon. Like that's kind of big deal stuff just in terms of the inside baseball. Like what's that mean? And like it gets me so excited for, some PlayStation IP that I would have never would have thought would ever come back in any way. But now it's like, all right, cool. Well, if you open up to that level of an install base for weird games and Nintendo, Patapon could be a Nintendo game.

You know what I mean? Right. So I think that that's cool. I do think it's a little weird that Nintendo seemed to almost tit for tat have like a call and response for games. It's like, cool, Patupon is in this direct. Also, Rhythm Heaven, yeah. You know what I mean?

And it's like, Tomah got Tomahogachi, whatever. It's like, all right, that's interesting. See Metroid Prime, it looks amazing. Like, this looks, there was a long time. I was like, wow, Metroid Prime before we knew what it was. It's like, it is going to be something totally different. And then when it became clear, Metroid Prime 4 is going to be Metroid Prime 4. I look at this.

I'm like, thank God they're about to nail Metroid Prime 4. Yeah, you know? I couldn't, I mean, Metroid Prime, right? I played for the first time with the remaster that came out a couple years ago. And I look at that and I look at this. And I'm like, these look like the exact same game in the best way, right? Like obviously Metro Prime 4 has its own things that it's doing. Psychic abilities.

We'll talk about that shit, right? But yeah, I look at that. And I'm like, that looks like the thing I just played, and that's all I want. Are you still surprised with no date? Yes, I'm incredibly surprised. Like,

that's why it's like, I'm not like, I don't love this direct by any means. I don't even think that this. I'd say that this was good. I don't think that it was bad. And I think it's a little better than fine. I do struggle a little bit because,

like, I feel like I'm always looking for the answers and to the questions we're asking. It's time for a prime release date. And maybe we get that in a couple days. a little weird about. It just kind of seems like maybe an oversaturation of... I'm surprised because one of the things I predicted was that we would get

maybe a little taste of Metroid Prime 4 here, and then they would say, look forward to the Switch Tube Direct for even more about Metroid Prime 4. Because if Metro Prime 4 is coming out on the Switch 2 release day, then it makes sense of why you don't say it here. But then if you're going to have it here and not do the baton pass the Switch 2 direct, I just think that's weird. Yep, and I think, you know, it's very likely

that it is a launch title for the Switch, so all that makes sense, but it's just watching this direct, a little disappointing, I would say, even though game looks great to me. Pokemon Z, the Royal Tournament, I'm like, that's kind of what I want from a game like that. I think the nighttime stuff looks way better than the daytime stuff. Not like it's a pretty game by any means, but it's like I think it looks better. It looks fun.

Yeah, it looks fun, which is great. And then, yeah, I just think that overall there was a, the Marvel game popping off for that. Dottingu have really been crushing it and they just continue to like with Ninja Guide and then there was that game, Absalom that I previewed a couple of weeks. ago that is a new IP from them and it is awesome had a great time with that but yeah looking at this i'm like this is cool and as such a big marvel fan i love that they're like all right cool we could just go with the straight up old school we're bringing the x-men back or whatever i like they're going cosmic i like that they're like hey people understand these characters in a different way nowadays

let's like get a little bit more weird and have like some of the main characters be like marvel captain marvel characters it's not a nova nova no yeah um so that's kind of cool but also still have Storm, which is badass. But super stoked for this. So I can't be mad at a showcase that introduces a game like this. But on the Nintendo side, like the business Nintendo side,

not one but two bizarre ass announcements, like the just the way they presented the digital game stuff is weird. I want more info on that because that has to be a good thing. This has to be a step up from what we had. It just didn't make me believe that from how they they showed it, right? They didn't present it well. They didn't present it well. The messaging was really

not executed well. And then the Nintendo Today thing, having Miamoto come out for that that is a WND into like, oh wow, this feels like 2013 Nintendo. When I watched that live at first, my first instinct was same as Andy's of like, oh, it's got to be a park thing, like maybe something we don't know yet.

And then I went to what you said at one point of like, oh, Super Mario Brothers 2. And like the complete left turn, again, yeah, bringing him out for that is so, why are we ending on this? This is so, weird. But it feels so right. It feels so right for the final Nintendo Switch 1 direct. It felt

You see then that's the funny thing is I thought it was going to be like a hey this is the end of Nintendo Switch 1 you know focus directs or something like that right of hey this is an ushering into the next generation of switch even if it was just that I would have been like oh that's fun like great that they brought me a Moto in for it the him coming out for this I think is yeah weird but also I do wonder if we are downplaying

what they're trying to do with it. Tim you know better than anybody like the smash like it was in the smash brawl era where they had like a new smash announcement every single day maybe they're trying to recreate that for the switch two and use this as a really big marketing push of hey there's news to look forward to every single day after the switch two direct about the switch two i mean then they literally said like hey we're going to like put out information about switch two after that which i do think is exciting the idea of pigment four comics there's a lot of potential here we'll just see how far they take it and six months ago or whatever they put

out the nintendo music app and i think that that also has a lot of potential and so far I wouldn't say it was a failure, but it also isn't succeeding as much as it can. Like, they keep making weird decisions. They put out Kirby in the Forgotten Land soundtrack a couple days ago. They only put 23 songs from it and we're like, hey, the other songs are coming later. And it's like, you're drip feeding half of a soundtrack? Like, what are we talking about here? I will be setting an Alarmo alarm to check the app.

Exactly. I got you. Do you guys also think that this is probably just future proofing for Twitter? Because, like, Twitter's already a place where it is. That's a great point. That's the Nazi app. Like, that's like, you know, Elon Musk's, doing its best to fucking, you know, fuck that place up.

Maybe this is a thing of, oh, man, we've been relying on Twitter for so long for a lot of our social media interaction. Let's have a place that we can own that we know if every other social media platform goes down, this is still the central place to go for Nintendo News. Yeah. I just don't see it working. Like, to me, I feel like, like, that's all a great idea and that's awesome. Even just looking at Nintendo's, like, social media presence, like, they're very bizarre and

just like Nintendo, there's no rules. but like the amount of times they've promoted Donkey Kong country Returns HD in the last like four months they promoted this game more than they promoted any game ever and it's like kind of weird it almost feels like a very tone deaf type of thing

and I understand people's jobs to promote the games it's weird when you like go look at Nintendo of America's Twitter and just scroll back the last couple months and tell me it's not fucking weird I just feel like it doesn't really give you what you're looking for and I love Donkey Kong I love it I just think it's weird

So I don't really have faith that, oh, we're going to get interesting content every day. I guess that's what I'm saying. But more than that, spreading it across a bunch of apps is not a good idea. Like, if this was embedded into a Nintendo Switch online situation where there was one app that got you all these features that connected with your games and it got you these social features, a meverse, if you will. Like, I think that there's like levels there that could be cool. This is just being a Nintendo news app that might have some comics for a bit until they decide it's not worth it anymore. Yeah. I just don't know. I hope I'm wrong.

I hope it's awesome. this exciting news coming out, but the thing that works so well about Smash is it was a single game with a single understanding of what would make the fans excited. And they would drop like a new stage in the background there'd be like a picture of an item we hadn't seen and people lose their minds. If they do that

and it's a screenshot of Donkey Kong Country returns HD and people are just like you could jump. You know what I mean? It's like and that's what I think it's going to be. Man, I think it would be so sick if for switched well it won't be OLED so that sucks but like you know you know with OLED

when OLED is first introduced on handheld products or whatever they have like the night mode where you just like leave your phone doctor whatever and it's you only see like info that lights up and not the whole screen is lighting up or whatever yeah but if this whole new's app

was implemented into an OLED device obviously the switch one has an OLED variance of it but it would be so cool to like wake up and on that app you get the first news blast that like there's a direct coming tomorrow and you're like oh shit this

this came here before twitter or before you know any other sort of news outlet they put it here first yeah if you start putting news there first then people will know to check that first i just don't do they will but i you're right though i think they i think they will because this because it's way more important than like checking a soundtrack right like i that's such a different element and i think if you condition the audience to know this app is going to be the place where we're putting shit first. Unless they just move everything to 4chan.

Let's go all in. Let's embrace. Sammy boys. Yeah, very, very interesting stuff. But let's get into the thing by thing, game by game conversation here. I started it off with kind of some back

to back Japan classics here with Dragon Warrior 1-2 HD 2D come in 2025. Dragon Warrior. Pantsy guy over here, huh? Don't want to call it a Dragon Quest. I fuck it up. every freaking time growing up reading goddamn magazine

you get it you're all cool no I'm not I am so I'm so ignorant of this franchise and I apologize and people call me out about it all the damn time but yeah this is cool I'm happy it's happening but this is another example of like no new info here right

like we already knew that these games are coming 2025 so yeah it still looks good yeah then we had the the isomino isomniin files

yeah no sleep for doctor And did you notice a super chat From the person I called out Jace who was saying yes, bless That is the same Developer from 999 Oh okay, I got that right. Holy shit Yeah, if you look at the super chat

They called out the name of the director I didn't see the exact name But it was the director Chase says PSA Play the Somnium Files It's a goaded series Yes Bless same guy behind 99 Uchikoshi don't miss

Yeah as far as I understand These are games that Sickles Love so if you're a sicko like yeah check out somnion solomian files check out 999 these are games honestly where if I had all the time in the world I'll for sure check them out because the way people talk about I'm like oh that sounds fascinating that sounds really cool so if you want some deep shit

then we had uh radial remastered the mystery of the soulless army coming June 19th this is uh one of them Atlas games Barrett bless never heard of this uh but it looks neat I like that Atlas continues to kind of look back at their older stuff and you know bring it to newer audiences

Andy hey this is this is the one for you because it's not turn base so you know this is the one for you you think this the one for you to play Andy you you just hate turn base so much finally in yeah next up we have the shadow labyrinth which is the the Pac-Man game we finally get a date here July

18th I'm excited about this but I got to be honest I was a lot more excited seeing at the game awards like seeing a little bit more of like the gameplay just happening here. I'm like, I don't think this is going to be as good as it possibly could have been. And again, I know that I am being very hopeful of wanting

this to be cool. Yeah, I really like the idea. I like how bizarre this has been as a rollout, right? Because it got that episode in secret level that was based on Pac-Man, but then you watch it and you're like, oh, this is a weird take on Pac-Man and we get this announcement, we're like, oh, all right? I guess

the episode take is way more about this than it is about the core Pac-Man thing. I think that's lovely. I love that kind of order of operations. I look at this. I feel what you're saying as far as this doesn't look as, I guess, high budget as you'd want it to look, but I still, I'm still very intrigued and I still, this to me still looks fun. This looks like it's a game that I'll get lost in, right? Like, have they talked about it being, have they said Metroidvania or have they

talked about deeper about like, no, but I mean, it clearly looks like a Metroidvania with like Mega Man influences to an extent, like the more action side of things. This, this one is, one that I think could surprise people if they get the gameplay down right. I'm again, I want this to be cool because I like the idea of a weird Pac-Man Metroidvania. I guess

the thing to me is it looks like a PSP game. Like it has just that vibe like art style-wise and I'm like I don't know something about that. It lies on that thin line of do I fuck with this 2D art style or not. Unfortunately it's on the other side of it where I

don't really vibe with the way the character moves or animates and especially when they when you get into that big sort of meck thing and you're gobbling up, it's just, it's got that puppet tool flash thing that I just do not love. It's very 2010 coded in terms of like

indie, yeah, art direction. Then we got, even the way the character's moving right here, you know what it reminds me of? That one Nickelodeon show where it's all like it's like the real kind of human faces mixing with like weird and Ramona.

Are you talking about in Cabalam? Yes. Oh, I think he's talking about the Kablam show. I don't know. The thing that opened up the Digimon movie? Yes. Angela Anaconda? Probably.

Yeah. Probably. That's what it reminded me of. The way the meck thing was moving, that's what it reminded me of a lot. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. You're talking about Angela Anaconda.

That's, the Digimon movie opened up with a big kaiju thing. Yeah, that's exactly. You are also talking about the Nickelodeon because I know exactly what you're talking about. This is that. Wait. Is this the same thing? Compliam. No, Angela and Anacana wasn't Compliam.

Yeah. it's got to be yeah hold on this is the most important thing yeah no we had to get to the bottom of this because I was never able to make no it's like

yeah that wasn't a part of complaam I'm pretty sure because then it was part of complam and then the complam or Nickelodeon would then just like put out the they'd play a bunch of the cablam like sub-series it was on in between different um yeah huh yeah that's so weird yeah I never connected that

anyway that's what I remember I take that chat yeah Jesus All I'm saying is that it said that show, country of origin was Canada, and this, uh, Kaplan was United States, and, you know, we don't mix. I don't know that's true, though, because Ka'blam had a bunch of Canadian things, too. I don't know that's true, though. Like, maybe it is, like, actually, like, headquartered in America, but, like, I went down a Ka'Blam rabbit hole a couple years ago. You know what I mean? So I remember some things?

Don't remember most of them. It doesn't mean. It does. Dude, like, action league now. Yeah. the fucking action figures. Prometheus and Bob. Prometheus and Bob was my shit.

Super strong, super naked. We have Pat upon one and two replay come in July 11th. Greg Miller. Is it real? I mean, I was questioned it for a while for so many reasons because this just seems so bizarre. I know we're in a world where Lego Horizon exists and the Xbox

PlayStation boundaries are broken, but Patapon one and two being announced in a Nintendo direct is just a bizarre a world I didn't know could happen. I'm still fascinated with the Bandai Namco of it all. And what does this partnership look like? Pulling out a lot of stops here with Bandai Namco.

Yeah. I mean this and then of course, uh, hot, everybody's golf, hot shots. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Some weird partnership going on here. Of course, yes, of course, we have the full press release for Pat upon one plus two replay, coming to consoles and PC. However, notable for both of these PlayStation,

uh, popular owned IPs, right? Uh, everybody's golf and this, not coming to Xbox. So July 11th, PlayStation 5,

switch and PC via Steam for Patapon. Hayden as Hayters. A petty bitch. Very much so. Very clearly. PlayStation fucking player haters. This is exciting to me, of course, because I love Patapon.

Everybody knows that. It's also got a bunch of stuff that are showing here that it wasn't in the PlayStation remastered, right? Like, it looks like some love and care did go into getting this package together and giving you some special stuff, whether it be the options you just saw their difficulty or going on in there and having all the commands at the bottom. As I remember, if I remember correctly, that used to be in the PSP, or maybe I'm wrong about that,

but I remember back in the day having him on the screen. It's really cool kind of seeing the, you know, I mentioned it a million times in the reaction, but like that is the Nintendo font in the Patapon game.

It's very odd. It's ridiculous. Very weird mix up. Cool stuff though, Tim. I mean, you're the Patapun guy. Like, you know, you've played the remastered when they came out. Like, is this like getting you back in?

I never got out, right? I'm going to get a code and I'm going to tinker with them both, right? But I think I'm not like, It's awesome that they're here. It's awesome. They're there. You know how much I love Patapon,

and Patapon, and Patapon 2 remastered for PlayStation. Remember how weird that was? Remember how I had previewed Patapon remastered at some event? And literally, it took years until we ever heard another peep. And then it was released. We did the whole Mission Accomplished banner and stuff like that. And then Patapon 2 came out and nobody gave a shit. And I mean, like, just industry-wide,

it wasn't like this is a big deal anymore because it wasn't given an event space, right? So the fact that it's getting something like this here, it's cool. again, as a PSP fan, it reminds me a lot as being a Vita fan of getting Freedom Wars out. I didn't, you know, get lost back in Freedom Wars. I've already got my trophy. I platinum padd upon one. I never

made it around a Pat upon two, but I already have those games remastered. It's just cool to see them to for a new audience. Yeah, for sure. And again, Nintendo audience, which I think that this type of game. Makes sense. Yeah, of course. Yeah. I think the same thing for a PC, right? I see a Steam Deck's going to be the code I request. And yeah, sitting there on a plane and having that, I'll be stoked about to tinker with it here. I just love the idea of, like,

in the meeting rooms at PlayStation, how or else they're like, right, let's put Patupon everywhere, right? Let's put it on PC, let's put on Nintendo. And then somebody raises their hand. They're like, what about Xbox? No. That'll move the needle. Are you aware of what Phil Spencer's been trying to do?

Put forts on PlayStation? Yeah, exactly. We'll put our games only anywhere about Xbox. Greg, I already added everybody's golf hot shots to my Steam deck wish list. Sure, sure. You want to move on that one? Can't wait. Let's do it.

Now, you want to say that, of course. I'm not saying trouble in the air. Uh-oh. But this is not a clap hands, everybody's golf. Right. Yeah, I don't, I don't like that. I ain't vibing with that off the top. Clap hands, of course,

are you, folks who did everybody's golf and the hot shots forever. Are you of this sort of, is this sort of the same vibe of like, this ain't a Kojima's metal gear solid? That's exactly how I explained it to Roger out there. When Roger's like,

why does that matter? I'm like, hey, I mean, these people did this the entire time, right? Like they've been, like,

the last hot shots was so freaking, or everybody's golf was so freaking good, right? Like, I look at this and of course I'm excited to get more everybody's golf slash hot shots. golf and I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out. Well, the fact that this is the name both, does that say anything to you?

Yes, that I think they confused a lot of people. Of course, that, hey, hot shots golf on PSP and PSP or hotshots golf on PSP and then Hot Shots Golf Open T2 on PSP. And then like all of a sudden, they're in a yakuza like a dragon situation. Yes, that's exactly. It's everybody's golf and it has been forever in America. It was Hot Shots Golf. So now, fuck it will put both in the same title because I assume there was enough people

they think confused by everybody's golf that that wasn't there. But for me, yeah, it's an interesting one of. I don't like that clap hands isn't the folks on it. Hide is who's making it. I look through their thing. Nothing of note that jumped out at me is something we've seen before. I'm excited to have more.

Again, I forget if we've done this. It's the exact same thing. PlayStation 5 Nintendo Switch and PC via steam later this year. No Xbox stuff on there. And so it's cool, but if you don't mind running it again, Barrett, as a fan, like for me and especially coming off everybody's golf PlayStation 4, right? It was about that customization.

It was about that depth. and what I'm getting glimpses of here, I don't feel look like they're going to have that level of depth to it. And that's just a first, you know, glance. They do talk about new customization options. They're also, I think, very weird in the way they're talking about it, right? Because it's like, at first I was like, oh, is this a, are we doing some kind of open tea bundle thing too, right? Because it's like, uh, da, do, do everybody's golf.

Formally knows how to Chats Golf Nguyen gets upgrades with improved graphics, new gameplay modes, and new customization options. It's like, what do you, what do you upgrade? It's like, you're upgrading the gameplay is how this sentence would read, right? It's one of those long PR ones. So it's like, I guess so, but is this, is this like a, like a, not an HD remake, but is this like a sort of report of everybody's golf? Not the everybody golf. We know.

It might be an old one or whatever. But like, yeah, the sentence is long. So stick with me, right? Develop a hide and published by Bandai, Namcoe, Interactive America, Entertainment America. The beloved golf gameplay from the hit series, everybody's golf, formerly known as Hot Shots Golf in North America gets upgrades with improved graphics new gameplay modes and new

customization options. So the gameplay is getting upgrades to the I think they're just saying that like this is a step forward in the series. I guess that's just a weird thing with this going on. Because I will say in watching the trailer I did get glimpses of oh this does look like a step forward a little bit right like the animation of the girl like jumping

like getting in place before she's about to like take a swing right like that seemed like a step forward. That ain't new. Oh is that not a name? Okay, well, that's in the menus too where you had the characters kind of like, you know. Street Shadow says this is an update of the Vita game. No, it's not.

No, it's not. Is it? No, it's not. Show it to me again. Show it to me. They didn't show me the dumb fucking medals. Would this be a good thing? Hold on, hold on.

No, I didn't like the Vita game. I didn't like the progression system. If they've changed that, I'd be fine with it. But I did not like the way hot shots progressed on the Vita, no. Last thing clapans worked on was ultimate swing golf for iOS. In 2024. No, for meta. everything.

2021 was easy come, easy golf. What about clap hands golf? Trying everything, that. Who made the VR game? That was, what do you mean? The PSVR one?

Yeah. The PSVR one. The PSVR one. The Square is saying that this is a, sorry, sorry, the World Invitational remake or whatever. The PSVR one was clap hands. The one for Meta Quest

that came out last year was also clap hands. And then they also made Clap Hands golf, right? For a phone for mobile. Yeah, easy come, easy golf. That can't be real. I don't think that's what it's called. It's called Easy Come Easy Golf. Didn't they just put out of that shit on Android?

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cool I guess and then Metroid Prime for beyond coming 2025 Andy talk to me um

I mean I the art style looks fantastic Metroid Prime one remaster is one that I really really need to get to and it's one that I

just didn't have enough time for the I guess was it two years ago that it came out. Sounds right. Yeah, it was like near the end of the year. I was like, ah, it's just like I have too many things to play right now.

But it's still amazing how they can pump out visuals like this on this hardware. Switch one. Yeah. Like, it's still super impressive. I was kind of, you know, I was hating for the most part on a lot of the earlier looks of, I don't like that suit with the purple glow. But I was also spoiled by the Metroid Dredsuit. That's the coolest looking suit of all time.

Seeing the new suit here at the end looks fantastic. kind of with you that I still don't love the purple glow mixed with that, but I think it's much more preferred to what we're seeing here. But blessing and you mentioning, what is Metroid Prime 4 going to be? And it's seeming to be a sequel to what you expected it to be. It's like, okay, sick. That's what you wanted.

That's what a lot of fans are going to want as well. Yeah, and it's funny because it's like Metro Prime, one of the best games of all time. A game I'd recommend, especially the remastered version to anybody. But here we are now, Andy. Maybe you should just wait and play this one. Like, I feel like that might be the move. Because, like, they're going to be very similar games.

But, like, I do think that this one's going to be even more modern feeling and stuff. And, like, I just don't want you to get primed out. You know what I mean? What do you? Oh, you disagree. I disagree. Play Metroid Prime 1. Metro Prime 1 is so fucking good.

And, like, that's the thing is I look at this. And there are multiple scenarios of either this is somehow as good as Metroid Prime 1. And guess why? You just play double the Metroid Prime. Yeah, who cares. You're having a good time. good stuff. Or maybe it doesn't live up. Like that's a very realistic thing of this game could come out and like just be like,

all right, cool. It's good as good as two or three. Yeah, exactly. But like maybe not, you know, live up to one. It's still you played the best one. Yeah. That's the thing is I look at this and I'm like, this is, this looks to me like just more Metroid Prime. And for me, that is the best case scenario because I played Metroid Prime for the first time in 2023 and that shit hit like it was a new modern game. That shit was awesome. That shit was fun.

I think one of the things I see when I see this as well is, you know, I look at some of those enemy animations and I'm like that even that still looks like it's not that far of a jump ahead of what I just played with my Troy Prime 1 remastered. But sometimes I'm okay with good games as being good ass games. I think in terms of presentation or our style and art direction, I think it's doing the job. I think there are some things here as far as like, okay, it still does look like a Switch 1 game, which is kind of tough when I'm also playing PC games and PS5 games and other shit, right? But at the end of the day, I still look at this and I'm like, this looks like a good game. good ass time. And I'm very excited to see, like, all right, what are we talking about with some these abilities that you're unlocking?

They talked about the psychic stuff. They talked about, like, controlling, like, some of your, not bullets, but I guess plasma shots or whatever. And, like, I'm already thinking about, like, what puzzle it might be stuck on trying to control where the fuck this thing is going to go and try to navigate the level. I don't know. Every single thing they've shown off in this trailer is working for me as far as what Metroid Prime is.

Yeah. Speaking of the Prime, we just had Mato. Subscribe for five months. Oh, thank you, that was really good. I'm so hyped about this. I love Metroid. I love the Prime series.

And looking at this, I'm like, this just looks like what I want. I love the idea of the Avatar-like planet with the big tree. Like, Prime games need a great setting. And I feel like everything we've seen so far, I'm like,

I'm into this. I think this is Nintendo art style at its best of like, sure, technically it's not the best thing. But like, I love how this game looks compared to some modern games, just because it has that style to it. Has an atmosphere to it.

For sure. Troy needs the atmosphere. I, like me and Eddie were saying, like, I'm never a fan of that, like, glowy purple stuff. Like, it's my least favorite thing of, like, the Transformers, Fall of Cybertron, war for Cybertron. Great games, but all of them look kind of generic and, uh, because they're just glowing. And I don't like that Samis looks that way, but it's first person, so I won't need to care too much for the majority of the time.

But this looks awesome. And I think that I am obviously under no belief that they, you know, belief that they this is going to be better than Metro Prime 1. I don't think that that's possible. But I want it to be. And I do think that there's signs here that it could be better than 2 and 3 that are still great games. Like I would say probably prime 1s of 10 to me. And 2 and 3 are like 8, 5 to 9, you know.

But the thing about this one that I liked what we saw is we've seen bits of this before, obviously. But the way the scanning is used seems a little bit more in depth. it feels a little bit more gamified organic. Whereas like Prime 1, it was a lot of just like lock on the thing, scan it.

You get the data from reading the thing. This was like, okay, cool, we're going to scan this to hear about the wildlife and like what it means,

like how to open it or whatever and she blasted it. How deep is that going to be? I don't know, but it seems a little bit more advanced than what we've had in the past. And that combined with psychic abilities and stuff that obviously we immediately are like,

okay, Nintendo's going to puzzle their asses off here. retro specifically. Is there anything they could do to make this better than Metro Prime 1? I mean,

I think that that's just impossible because of what Prime 1 is and because of the fact that we just got Prime 1 remastered on the same hardware that this is running at and it's already going to be

a generation behind because of it coming out on Switch 1 instead of 2. I think that because of all of that, it's like, there's going to be too many comparisons that are able to be made between the two.

And Prime 1 was like one of the most revolutionary games ever. you know, taking a franchise and turning it into a, like, one of the most graceful transitions to 3D we've ever had, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I think that's one of the things I look at and I'm like, okay, I'm okay with what this is

because it doesn't look like it's trying to buck what Metroid Prime is. It just looks like more of it. Even the psychic abilities that we talked about, right? Like, that feels like a very safe way to be like, all right, what's another way we can just give you more of those same kind of upgrades and mechanics that you already know from Metroid and you already know from Metroidvania's. And I'm okay with that. I'm curious to see, like, if we get to MetroD's.

Metroid Prime 5, I would like to see like a step beyond, no pun intended. I would, sorry, pun intended. I would like to see a step beyond. I would like to see like what does an evolution of the genre look like? Because I do think that Metro, what Metroid needs to be is to be the best at what it does, right? It needs to be the, like the game you go to if you're wanting this, like, you know, either first person or to you, whatever, like, depending on which Metro you're playing. I need a, like a perfect Metroidvania. I need like a refined Metroid.

I need like a game that gives you the best things about what that genre is. And I think Metro, I would hope Metro Prime 4 can give us enough of that. I know that's lofty, but it is what it is. You're Metroid. So I would at some point though, like to see it step beyond that and give me something where I'm like, whoa, I didn't know a Metroidvania could do this. Absolutely.

My counterpoint to that would be it's not like we get as many Metroid primes as we get Metroid Vanias. Yeah. You know, like Metroid Prime, we have three of them. And there's no other game like it. Like I literally can't think of a game that I'm like, I'd put it in the same genre as that. You can stretch and make some concessions be like,

oh, this one's kind of like that. This is kind of like that. The aura of Bioshock or whatever, but it's not a Metroid Prime game, you know? So I feel like getting a fourth game in the series isn't necessarily like, oh man, we're just doing the same thing over and over again, even if we are.

And I look at like Metrodvania, the Castlevania DS games and Game Boy Advance games, full trilogies on each system, right? Like sometimes we, when things work, it just works. And we know Prime works. So I'm hopeful, but yeah, it's, we'll see. And also, when the fuck is it coming?

2025. Is it a launch? I mean, that makes me think, I don't know, it makes me think that is going to be launch. It makes me think it's going to be launched. Because like, why else wouldn't they announce it? They announced games for 2026, bro. You're right.

Then they have Disney villains's cursed cafe available later today. More classic Nintendo direct stuff. Disney partnerships, cafe games. This is definitely a bingo card. Yeah, I want to have a one-on-one conversation with John Drake. Because I want to know, like, what is the strategy when it comes to, like, how you approach certain games for certain IP? Because this makes all the sense in the world to me, and I don't know why.

Like, I look at this and I'm like, all right, this is obviously, well, I don't say obviously. I think for the most part, probably not for the people in this office, even though I kind of want give this a try. This looks like a game that I'll play on... In the late 90s on PC. like on Disney's like website or something 100,000% but it's also one like not just a random one though right? It's like Teen Titans Battle Blitz where we still talk about it to this day.

Like this looks like the one that I would have played on Disney.com. But like how did we get here? How did we get here? I want to know. And then yeah, next to we had a couple back to back. I'd call them bangers. Which Brooke looks like it's made for an audience is the note that I put there. It's like everything about this.

It's like, huh, this looks a little higher quality than, initial glances might make you think. But yeah, you guys were saying from the publishers of Star Dew Valley. So much about this as the trailer when I feel like just got like cooler and cooler and more like, oh wait, this could be this could be a major hit. Especially with the multiplayer component. I just love the art. There's so many pixels on the screen.

Yeah. This screen. A lot of NPCs walking around. Yeah. Those might be players. But like just a lot of NPCs on screen. Yeah. I think there is such an appetite for games like this,

especially mixing in the mystical, magical element, right? Like, we've seen a lot of games like that, but I think, you know, games like Fields of Mystery having this sort of fantasy tie-in really hits with even bigger to a much larger crowd. I think this looks like it's going to be a hit. I would not be surprised if this is a massive hit. There's such like a Venn diagram between folks who,

love like the farming like cozy sims and folks that also love like a cottage core in witchcraft yes yeah one thousand i'm gonna say it's not a bed diagram it's a circle you gotta say it but on top of there's a third element here though which is like designing things for etzy and they let you do that here too oh my god if i call up my friend like one of my best friends meg if i call her up right now and told her look up the trailer for which brook when i tell you she would be like oh yeah i'm gonna play this for my life that trailer looked like her as a video game 100% yes it's there's a lot of people like Meg. Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Yeah. Anyway, that one definitely, definitely looked cool. Then we had the Eternal Life of Goldman. This is a hand drawn. You get cane upgrades. It's a platformer coming this holiday. Definitely one that I'm like, oh, I'm wishless in this. All hand drawn, all hand animated.

No puppetry. It's all just, you know, every sprite is going to be hand-on frame by frame. It looks so freaking cool. Oh, my God. Getting that duck tails. I'll just say, what is this invoking? It is a ducktails, right? It's like a,

the hand-drawn shovel night to me. Oh, yeah. Dude, look at that in the background. Yeah, that's so cool. My one hesitation is the character model looks a little big in some of the things, and I always worry when your character's too big, it makes platforming, like,

you're not going to get those, like, precise challenge platforming. It's going to be more just about getting from point A to point B. Well, there he looks big. He looks big. This is what I'm talking about. But for the most part, that's cool. But, yeah, I feel like a lot of it.

It'll depend on how well they use, like, yeah, like how much they scope in and out for certain scenarios for sure. I was very confused by this section because when they cut to the Gradius collection, I was like, oh, that probably means that goddamn Goldman. I was going to say Walter Schmidt. That means that Goldman is probably already out and it's not. But I was just very confused by the messaging of what this little section was because they were like, here's a collection of stuff.

And they threw it one of the coolest looking things and just kind of a throwaway section. They called it like action, arcade or whatever. It very much felt like, fuck, we have like these three other games and we don't have a good section. Just fucking lump them in together. Yeah, very odd. Gratius origins coming with all the gradius games, including Salamander 3, a new entry. That's awesome. This is awesome, man.

Like, the music in these games are great. The gameplay is timeless. Very, very, very, very cool. Excited for that one personally. Did y'all, were you ever into Gradius like that? I was, yeah. I think, uh, I played like a lot of different free versions of games like this.

Thunder Force wasn't free, but... I don't know how I had access to them, but it was more of less of like, this is what I had. So that's why I was playing it, you know? I couldn't tell you if I've played Gradius. I don't think I have. As I look at this, I'm like...

On the Super Nintendo. That was like the... Maybe. I'd say the big one. Maybe Turican. Because yeah, what era was Gradius? I assume like... Super.

Super. Okay. No, not Tyrion. I guess I played the old ones because I definitely played like fucking Space Invaders and Galaga and shit. And then we got Rift of the Necro Dancer, Rhythm-based Combat, we're getting Celeste music tracks available later today. They're cooking. Very cool.

Yeah. This is one where if you're watching the gameplay and you're like, this looks like my type of shit, I would definitely recommend checking it out. I think it's very fun, right? It's a different take on what Necro dancer could be, but it is the thing like Guitar Hero track, you know, track, You are fighting monsters that are on the track, and each monster kind of has like a different way to, or like a different effect to do it. So like some of them take two hits.

Some of them you have to like, you know, you can hit them, but then they'll jump to the next rail. And so you have to like know it to hit like up and then right. And then shit evolves from there. I love that they're adding Celeste music to it. That's enough to make me want to boot it up again. Hell yeah, man. Then we got Tomaguchi Plaza coming June 27th. Tomoguchi.

Goji Cool And then Pokemon Zah The Zia Royale The tournament arc at night More new mega Pokemon will be announced Still coming late 2025 I wonder if we'll get the date for this

Probably not At the Switch 2 thing next week Yeah God the Switch two thing is about to be interesting We're doing our predictions topic tomorrow So we don't need to get too deep into everything But So excited

I'm hyped You think Greg's gonna go through with it I don't even like saying that on I know, on the microphone That, what a monster And then yeah, rhythm heaven groove The first rhythm heaven game in forever Imron Khan posts on blue sky saying

If people didn't know, the series was on ice for so long Because the composer, Sunuko, was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 And had Had to take one of his vocal cords removed They made a note of him coming back for this one actually kind of a big deal. That is cool.

That's crazy. Yeah, get a new rhythm, which I'm excited about. I love rhythm games. I love Nintendo games, and I've never played this. So I'm excited to give it a shot. Do not like having to wait until 2026.

That is, I'm going to say it, unacceptable. Don't talk about this. Yeah, I think this is one you could have held for a September direct. I think it's kind of, it's early to announce it. That said, there's such an audience for it.

There are so many people that, you know, played rhythm heaven. on DS. I forget if there was one on 3DS. I imagine there probably was. Actually, I have no idea. But I see so many people on social media on TikTok,

on other places, like reminiscently playing Rhythm Heaven on TikTok lives and shit, right? Because it's one of those games that people either grew up with during their childhood. And it's also one of those one-of-a-kind kind of things where if you know, you know, if you played Rhythm Heaven, you know how fun it is, you know how cool it is. It's like if Warrior Ware went away and, like, you were just left to play the old Warrior Ware games and play, and play like, you know, indie-inspired games that have a similar thing going on.

And so for me, my entryway was melatonin, the game that I was talking about earlier, where I played that. And I was like, oh, this is fucking awesome. And then I realized that that is exactly what Rhythm Heaven is. And I was like, oh, I got to play Rhythm Heaven. Like, that seems like some cool-ass shit. And so I'm very much looking forward to this. But yeah, way too early for an announcement.

Yeah. It's, I think, very bizarre and especially for Nintendo who recently have been announcing games and then they release within like three or four months. months. So it just seems bizarre, especially for a game. Like it's, I'm not saying that you can't announce a game in 2026 this early. Just not a game like that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it would have to be a big IP for it. Okay, cool. That makes sense. But that looks like it should be coming out in a couple months. It seems perfect for the like, bless us mentioning a September type deal, right? Because you do it on the second that there's way too many bigger announcements coming out that day, you know? Yeah. George says, listen to him, you wouldn't be complaining if it was like a new D.K.

or any first party Nintendo thing. I get 2026 is a minute away, but people have been dying for this. I mean, like I was just saying, it's like, yeah, I do think certain IP get the luxury of calling your shot that long. Rhythm heaven simply doesn't. Pretty fair.

I feel like, I feel like we all said Donkey Kong country returns when they announced it for like the next year. That was crazy. That was also a crazy thing. We were like, oh man, that seems like a far away thing. Yeah, but even then that wasn't that far.

That was September of January. I think that was summer. Was it? I mean, Don Kong returns. Yeah. Even then, though, we're still talking about longer time

for this. but um then yeah after that we got the nintendo switch digital conversation coming in april um virtual game card i'm i'm pretty confused about this honestly like they and i'm only confused because i don't think it's confusing they just presented it they explained something that's so simple but we already know how things like we're aware of the way well you know they sharing sharing games works with hands. They explained to us how cartridges worked to start this thing off. And I think that throws us off. It's, yeah,

it throws us off, but it's also one of those things where I can hear the marketing room meeting where they're like, all right, we have this new functionality where we want making sharing games with family and friends easier. And like, somebody in the room was like, oh, we got to figure out how to compare this to something.

Yeah. We got to figure out how to make this super easy for them to understand, oh, what if we call it a virtual game? cartridge and just explained it like it's a virtual game cartridge. Now it's just way more confusing. When you guys were watching a chat was like, so it's DRM with extra steps. And yeah, if that's like a conversation of DRM that they were having in like border meetings, they're like, how the fuck do we sell that to fucking families?

It's the most like, hey, how do we Nintendofi this thing and like make it kind of cute? I know that they said virtual game cartridge, but the way it was being presented still made me feel Like there was a physical component to it. Like I was like, oh, so are they selling like still something? Because they kept on showing these fucking little squares going into the into the. Obviously, yeah. I was like, what, what are you doing, man? It's weird to me because, again, I own multiple switches.

One of them being a switch light that I use fairly often for games. And it's pretty inconvenient because you need to have like your primary account and then a secondary account. And you're kind of limited on what you can do that the secondary account has to like check the internet for like verification you're able to play or whatever which like minor inconvenience but i've had more than my share of issues of for some reason it just taking longer than i want it to or not working or whatever so that's been inconvenient on top of that not every game has cloud save compatibility so like things like the Pokemon games and i think even animal crossing um that can get very frustrating so this doesn't seem to solve that at all and more than that

As a Nintendo fan, the biggest issue I have with the physical digital conversation is I buy my games physical, but then I don't get them digital. So when I buy a physical game, I can't then play it on a different system without physically putting that card in. And that's something that I was hoping they were going to be like. Guess what? Yeah. That's how it felt like they're setting it up at first. So I don't know. That seems like this seems like a letdown to me there.

At the end of the day, though, this does seem like they are trying to speak to the families that have multiple switches that are about to buy a switch to ensure them they can continue to play and share it within the family. This all seems like good stuff. If it works better than the account switching, which is finicky, good. But yeah, I think that's the part that for me was confusing, but hearing you explain it makes a lot more sense, right, where I don't have multiple switches. And so as they're explaining this, I'm like, is this a problem that exists? Because I, like, the way I do it, right, with PlayStation, for example, I have a PlayStation at work and I have a PlayStation at home, right? It works so easy.

I'm just logging a PlayStation at work and then I can play. I didn't know for Switch. It was such a hassle to do that shit. And I think about the casual Switch audience that maybe only owns, you know, a couple of switches, maybe one or two, but they, their whole life have known, yeah, you can put any Super Nintendo cartridge into another game or whatever. You know, like that's, it's always been just a natural thing. to just put a game somewhere else.

Why doesn't this work for our switches? Why is this so tough? I mean, you know, maybe this sort of bridges that gap. I don't know. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how this actually plays out. I don't think it's going to affect most of us here. I think me probably the most,

just because I do have the multiple systems. But I don't know. We'll see how it shakes out. Maybe we'll get more answers with the Switch too. This graphic is insane. Like, at first I was like, if it's a virtual card, do you have to download it?

Is it just, what is happening? You'll definitely have to download. No, I know that. In the moment, it was just so, I think the biggest thing here,

I think this was, all of this is just to be able to lend copies of, digital copies of things, people in your family group, which I think it's very select use cases. I think it'll be great for parents and stuff. I mean, I don't think that's select use case.

I think that's a pretty major. Yeah, yeah. if your brother wants to play the Mario game. Yeah, exactly. Or like even when Alyssa saw me playing Bellatro on my switch, she was like, how do I play that? And I was like, I own it, but like, how do I get that? Like, she doesn't want to buy it.

How do I do that? Stuff like that, I think is great. But, yeah. Yeah, it's very weird to me that it seems like you need to be with the people. Like, it seems like a local internet thing. Yeah, I was wondering if you have a family plan with someone in Ohio. I imagine you can do it through internet, right? I think that did they say that?

I feel like they might have said... They did, but they showed them real close to each other. You have to be in the same bedroom. We'll see, man. We'll see. And then, yeah, after this, we got a little montage of some third-party games coming high on life, coming in May, wandering village, a couple other things. Then we got an HD remaster of Saga Frontier 2, launching later today.

Definitely didn't impress me visually. Then Monument Valley 1 to 2 come in April 15th. Cool. Monument Valley 3, summer 2025. That's neat. Yeah, everybody's golfing. He talked about that. Followed up very quickly by

Dot Emu's Marvel Cosmic Invasion coming holiday 2025. I'm going to read some of the press release shit here. You got Tim Gates reading off a paper. I know. It's very weird. I saw him like rifling through sheets. I don't know.

I don't know. Highlighted it. I appreciate it. But opening with spectacular hand-drawn. animation reflecting the game's visual homage to colorful 90s era Marvel comic books. Dot Emu revealed the first set of playable characters. So there's going to be more. That's exciting.

That's nice. Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man Storm, Filavel, Venom, and Nova. The trailer sneak peek at gameplay finds these legends, uniting to throw down against menacing enemies and classically inspired side-scrolling brawls. Seems like we're going up against the Anilis Wave, which is cool. Again, like that they're focusing on the cosmic stuff. So that's interesting. But the biggest news comes from 20.

Twitter. Teelopes tweets out saying it's a marvelous honor to announce I've once again teamed up with Dot Emu and the extraordinary tribute games to bring you Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Please enjoy the trailer with music by me and the spectacular Johnny Atma on guitars. This is about to be a banger. Shredder's Revenge was a banger. This looks to be no different. I love that it's a brand new thing. I love seeing Wolverine in that outfit. Hell yeah. I love this. They just have the best art style. I don't know if anything can really take this on visually. I love the look of it. I love the way the characters look.

They have their own, they have their own personality, even though the characters are still obviously who they are. I just love the way that they sort of make them their own still. This looks awesome. We got to put them, like, I think, higher up in the conversation of, like, developer. Dude, I've been saying this for a couple months now after my preview,

because Absalom was amazing. Like that game, I think, is going to, like, really take people by surprise. And then Ninja Guyton looks incredible. NinjaGat and Ragebound looks awesome. They're doing metal slug tactics, which looks fucking awesome. And they got Streets of Rage 4 that they put out, like, what, four years ago that was also fucking awesome. Like, people loved that game. So, yeah.

They remind me of a, you know, a blue point when we talk about studios that specialize in a specific thing that are really, really good at that specific thing. Shout out to y'all. Oh, they're publishing, um, publishing. Publishing. Thank you. Really quick, one armed wonder superchatted $10 and said first time super chatting, but a day one KFBF on project lead for cosmic invasion at Marvel. Glad to see you're all excited for it. We aim to make this game truly special.

Very, very cool. Shout out, dude. Played at Windjammer's too. Yeah, man. Dude, like they're really, really, really good. And Wonderboy and all that stuff. Like, yeah, love them. Wonder boy.

Tomidachi life was the last. game that we saw. Tavidachi Life, Living the Dream, coming in 2026. What are we talking about? This one is the first new entry in over 10 years. Barrett, can you do me a favor? Can you go to the end of this trailer? And I want to watch it again.

With sound, please. Oh, the... Oh, the giant. Yeah. Did this act away something on you? Because this is a thing for people. I'm just saying. Did you want? Too tall.

Fucking Hitting kinks the video game. Come on. It's only a dream. Just lurking in the back, dude. It's not no dream. That was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Yeah.

But as the music was playing before that moment, you were like, this is just so Nintendo. And it's a combination of the music, the weirdness. They just, they do things, they march to the beat of their own drum. Yeah. I will never forget. And this is a little different,

but also very, very in line with what we're talking about here. I'll never forget, it was E3, 2013, I want to say. Super Mario World, Super Mario 3D World is being talked about, and we go in to do the demo, and it's all the grown men in Cat Out. I love that. You know, and it's like, this is that energy. So when does this game get released?

Meow. Oh, 2026. We're doing that, okay. I, Tim, you know this. I never owned a 3DS, right? I was unfortunate, couldn't afford it. I was, you know, I was the squirred meme looking out the window seeing everybody having fun with their 3DSs. I remember the Nintendo direct where they announced Tomidachi Life for 3DS.

And when I tell you that I always wanted to play it, never got around to it, obviously, but like, this might be my gateway. Hey, you just need a wait a year. Yeah, 2026, I'm about to be different. And then, yeah, they're like, that's the last game. But hey, guess what, motherfuckers, we have one more announcement. We're going to bring me a Moto out. And hey, Nintendo today. Wow. Wow. We'll see. We talked about this at the top of the show a bit, but I don't have high hopes for this. As always, whenever I'm pessimistic about a Nintendo thing, I hope I'm wrong. But I don't have hopes for this. Yeah, their first example being Pickman for comics. You cannot start off with that. You can't, yeah. You got to be like, oh, new character for the next smash game. Theoretic, like, you got to do something exciting. It gives me vibes of, you know, every week we're going to put out a new Concord little.

video, a little animation. Wow. I forgot about that. What do you think happened to all those all those cinematics? Yeah. Those have to link at some point. Yeah, hopefully.

Let's get through the super chats to close this out here. We have Kyle saying, bless, what's your level of regret on stars in the bank? On a 1 to 10 scale? 11. Yeah, yeah.

Melo Felts says, I love kind of funny. I love stars in the bank. Thank you for this gift, Greg. Bless, and I'm assuming Barrett. Truly thank you. God, I, after everything I've tried to do for y'all

you know I don't want to say I've given you anything but I tried so hard I went to bed early last night Cozy Bear says hot take I expect Metroid Prime will still be great but that trailer felt very banal I hope they bring the sauce in the Switch 2 direct I'm incredibly interested

in how they show MetroD Prime next week how they position it it being here really makes it feel to me like they are just looking at it as like hey it's just another game yeah I feel just weird. I think it's just because it's hard to show off Metroid Prime.

Like I don't mind it being here because I still expected to be there next week. If it's not there next week, then it is, I think then it'll feel like, okay, well,

what are we doing? But I do think to the super chat, I, Metroid Prime 4 is, I think, one of those games where it's like, all right,

how else are they going to show it, though? You know, I definitely feel the feel of, all right, this doesn't feel like a Zolda trailer. This doesn't feel like a Mario Odyssey trailer, right?

Like, there's not that pompant circumstance and, like, you know, personality and all this shit. But what they do show looks exactly like Metrae Prime and like, I think it'll have Metro Prime fans excited. But yeah, I do wonder how it's going to hit for people

that are outside of that fan base. Yeah. Demon Hacker says, if you lend the game, do you lose access until it's returned? I guarantee. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I think that. Street Child says Sony owns everybody's golf and patapon. They're licensing the IP to Bandai. It's a strategy to find partnerships to bring back old IP. I love it.

I love that. Ricardo says Blessing was on the money for cozy games There it is Thank you Samsonel I don't know that I would describe

Tomoduchi Dodchi as a cozy Not with that giant woman man It started off and I was like Oh it was the Animal Crossing And then she tooted I was like This is not Animal Crossing

Tuted They don't do that in that game Having her toot in the mother That's exactly what she did She didn't fart She toot Yeah she did too That's so fucking funny

Samsonel says welcome back, We News channel. Shit. Yeah. God, that's hilarious. In app form. Pretty dude says, PS porting pat upon and hot shots everything, but Xbox is funny. Makes me think they still care about some lines that they don't want to cross. I really do wonder.

Like, my gut tells me it's not some petty bullshit. Like, I think that there must be business decisions of they're just like, it's not going to sell enough. It's not even just worth it. But, like, that feels wrong. But I don't know. I mean, I could see that, but I do. And like, I wouldn't describe. not putting the games on Xbox as petty.

But I do think that probably they have like a red line of, we don't see Switch as a direct competitor, as much as we do see Xbox as a direct competitor. And so for an arbitrary reason, we don't want to put these things on Xbox, just because that's how PlayStation works. I do think those walls need to come down. It's ridiculous.

It is ridiculous. It's silly as hell. It's too on Xbox. Yeah, it's silly as hell because I don't, no, no die-hard Xbox user is going to buy a PlayStation to play games like that. but if the opportunity comes up that it's on their store,

they have a chance to buy it and that might happen. You're preventing something that like just definitely doesn't have a chance to happen. I don't know. It's kind of annoying. Kabab says we're definitely getting another Switch 1 direct.

I don't know. I highly doubt it. Like a Switch 1 phone? I mean, why? It's going to be backwards and paddle, right? So like if you have more Switch 1 games to announce you just announce them during a Switch 1? 2 direct.

Come on the Chatsin, I think we are. I mean, I don't know. Like, what game are they going to announce? I can guarantee we will not get a direct that only has Switch 1 games. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you there. I mean, I've already heard people, there's already reports of Switch 1 stock, like being

taken down at stores and shit, you know. Really? Yeah. Like, what kind of stock? Like accessories and stuff like that. That seems like premature. Sure. Maybe it's just the store's shutting down. Maybe just retail shutting down.

Yeah. Before you take down the switch one stuff. Then we got David Eiler saying, is virtual game card to combat piracy somehow? Nice to share with family members, though. A new rhythm. Heaven. Hell yeah. I doubt it. Like, I think that this generation, like, the piracy conversation has shifted so much gen to gen for what it means for Nintendo. I think with where we're out with Switch right now, they're in a complicated space. because it is easier and more accessible for people in the know than ever to play the mystery machine. Yeah. What they call it?

Mystery machine. Yeah. Because they're not allowed to talk about it. You know, it's, oh, does this device play PlayStation 3 games? Yes. Does it play Nintendo Wii games? Yes. Does it play the mystery machine?

Switch. Oh. They don't want to get in trouble. I shouldn't even be saying that. I'm exposing secrets. Wow. I didn't know that. Damn, dude.

But yeah, this is one of the situations where you're like, all right, you can't tell anybody this, but. Yeah. The virtual game card thing, I truly feel like it's just them trying to comfortably get parents to buy a Switch 2 and understand that it's an additive experience to the Switch 1 and you can play with your kids and like you're not wasting money, that type of thing. That makes a lot of sense. Phoenix Warrior says, I believe that Winwaker and Twilight Princess will show up in the GameCube

virtual console for Switch 2. I don't know that. Because I want like, I don't want a GameCube version of Winborder. No, I want a remaster. Like, I want it to be... They already exist. They've done the work. If I have to do the Triforce Quest,

uh, GameCube version, like I'm not playing Wind Waker on the switch. Straight up. Yeah. So it's the GameCube virtual console, I think is, uh,

not impossible, but I also don't think likely. Um, yeah. And I also, I don't really know if we're going to get NSO stuff at the, uh, switch two event,

or at least like not like virtual consoles type things, not old consoles. I agree. But, yeah, I don't think that, I feel like it's going to be pretty focused. I think of anything, DLC for new games, or that's the way that the Switch 2 enhancements work for Switch games being tied to NSO, but I don't think we're going to get GameCube or Donkey Kong 64.

Fuck you, Tim. I could see World War, what if, and again, weird Nintendo decision, stick with me here, if GameCube is only accessible on Switch 2 through Nintendo Switch online. Absolutely. I could see that, but not like having a whole five-minute block of showing a bunch of games. it's just like a 30-second, like, GameCube for Switch 2 or whatever. I mean, that'd be amazing. I don't see it happening this next week, but I'd be so stoked. Only Switch 2 would be, I'm going to get a Switch 2, who cares?

Yeah, you're going to get a Switch 2. So are you. I mean, you're right. You're right. Fuck the rest of the y'all. And also it's like, whatever, whatever. It's just one of those things where I'm like, you could make it work on Switch 1, though. That's like one of those arbitrary Nintendo things that I totally believe could happen,

but I would also be like, you guys are some, man. They're trying to sell things and make money. They're putting out GameCube games. They're also remake and put it out for $60. Push the button and just put it on the other thing. I don't know. Push the button. Push the fucking button. Chocolate Fox 9 says the best announcement was Greg farted in Tim's car.

One arm to wonder said first time super chat. Oh, you already read that one. Congrats on working on Cosmic Invasion, dude. That's awesome. Hell yeah. Danger Daddy D says it's someone who got into SMT late in life. I'm excited for the ride-out remake as the original is difficult to find. physical copies like 80 bucks and it's not on steam.

That's cool. And Demon Hackers says, My Cruise Experience with Rhythm Heaven is the Terry Cruise Memes. Do you know this? No. I don't know this either. I don't know. I have no idea what it is.

I'll look into it. Cool. Well, everybody, thank you for hanging out with us as we reacted to the Nintendo Direct and broke it all down. We still have games daily. We still have Alien versus Predator Requiem in review. We still have Nuzzla.

I think whatever it's a great day of content hang out have fun until next time do some Nintendo shit