Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - PlayStation State of Play Japan Review (November 2025) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

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This episode is brought to you by aura frames and shady rays, but we'll tell you about that later. What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Gamescast for Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the second one of the day. Earlier today, we reviewed luminous arise and possessors. You can check that out. But today we're talking all about the PlayStation State of Play Japan that we just watched. If you want to watch our live reaction, you can check that out as well. But we're about to break down everything that we just saw. Of course, I'm Tim Geddes.

I'm joined by Blessing at AEOA Jr. Good day, Tim. Snowbike Mike. Hello, Tim. And Andy Cortes. Hey, Tim. Hello. So you all. Very excited to get into this, of course.

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Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the song, twining. For now, I'll start with the topic of the show. Tots, tuts, tuts, tuts. The first ever PlayStation State of Play Japan is in the book's blessing. What did you think? I really enjoyed that.

I think we all went into it with lowered expectations, just because this was a new thing, right? New brand within the state of plays, a brand with a specific focus on a specific region, and the way they talked about it going in from the PlayStation blog. All the words I read made me go, all right, let me not think the world of this thing.

Did it deliver the world? No. But for me, I think it delivered a certain flavor, right? Like, focusing in on that certain niche, I think, really gave this presentation character. More character than I feel like we used. usually get from PlayStation. The fact that Barry, if you can remind me the name of the host or at least some of the

roles, Yuki Kaji, who's the voice of Aaron Yeager in Attack on Titan and the voice of Shoto Todoroki in My Hero Academia. I think he really centered it. I really liked them having a host that is somebody who is all right, here's a personality that some our audience might be familiar with that is going to interview people

that is going to, you know, lead in between segments and do all that stuff. I think that gave it a really solid base. And also, I think the games they talked about here were a good mixture. I think you know, on the indie side, really like seeing motion wreck. That game looks really cool. That's the 2D like low bit, low-fi platformer where you can rewind time. And then also closing off with Marvel Tocon Fighting Souls, Night Rain, the Forsaken Hollows.

For me, I got a lot that I really enjoyed out of this. I had a good time. Mike, Tim, I had a fine time. It was a nice time. It felt very targeted for a certain audience. I like that they had a different theme and vibe to it. I think they really nailed the flow of the show on the interview side. They kept it short, sweet, just a couple of of questions and answers, and it really got in and out. We never felt like it dragged ever. This, as a presentation,

felt like a lot of games I already knew about. A nice little, hey, let me just remind you of the incombinis of the world that you might have not keeping on your list. I continue to see Dragon Quest 7 reimagined, and I say, there's a world where I play that, right? There's a world where I dump

everything and play Octopath Traveler, because I know I want to experience that. I just never have the time, nor do I. But I got treated as some cool-looking horror games from broken lore, unfollow and ascend, which I really like. Fatal Frame 2, the remake of that, I'm excited to play that. So this was a nice, hey, here's some games that you might have forgot about, Mike, but this was probably a really good one of like, hey, we are targeting an audience here.

We want to set the stage for what could be the future. And I think they did a good job at that. Andy. I enjoyed my time. I like these even if there's stuff that maybe doesn't necessarily speak to me. I think we had a lot of laughs and a lot of fun on this reaction. I think that it was like totally fine, mediocre for the most part, until we really kind of got a hit with Marvel Tocon Fighting Souls

and getting those updates there, along with Elder Ring, Nairing, Forsaken Hollows, which is like, oh, shit, was not expecting that, especially after the recent reports of, it'll be out before March of the fiscal year and thinking like, okay, we'll probably get a notification about this or a trailer in February of next year. So awesome surprise there, Tim.

Don't forget about Damon and Baby. Ah, Damien and Baby. Yeah, that'll be after a fucking family guy on Fox. Tim, what do you think? I'm kind of in line with you guys. I think that this was very good. I think more than anything, I'm impressed that I think it served its purpose very well. Like, in terms of achieving its goal, they nailed it.

Like, this was very much to sell the Japanese audience on upgrading to a PlayStation 5 from the PlayStation 4. I was surprised at how many times we heard the words PS4 throughout that entire presentation. Then yeah, them ending it kind of like reminding people why the PS5 has value, why you'd want to jump in now, explaining the PlayStation portal. We could look at that and be like, why are they doing this? They made it very clear, especially offering a discounted Japan-only PlayStation 5. It's pretty, there's a strong argument to upgrade or buy one for the first time based on the games that they showed that audience, right? have you said that 99% of these not for me a lot of these we have heard about i do think we did get a lot of of release dates though that we didn't know before and i always talk about presentations answering the

questions that we have and i think that they answered a ton of them here um and yeah some just like updates and on things that we we've heard about like that's cool obviously the bigger heavy hitters marvel and uh elden ring night rain it's like they got some big ones i don't think that they really brought it with the marvel side i would have liked to have seen a new character like or at least more stuff there. But Elders Ring Night Rain, that is bigger than this thing could have had, right? But I also think that's a good example of where this is.

So I support this and I haven't even talked about the presentation. Loved it. Right. I feel like this, the interview, the having a person that is, we can like latch onto and kind of like walk us through and not have the interviews go too long. Like all that stuff is awesome. I want to see more of this.

I think that this has a really nice home alongside PlayStation's other marketing beats and maybe this could be a place that some of the less interesting to me games that we see in some of the other state of plays can kind of like fall into this you know because they are speaking to an audience with a lot of the um the games that like i couldn't even write down because i don't know how to spell them you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah the type of stuff that that's clearly literally not for me um so yeah i want to shout out like to get back to the whole stuff right like I think they found a really good tone here that I appreciate where there's character to it. I feel like there's been past PlayStation's data plays many of them that I felt dry.

Like dry would be the word I'd use for them even though there is quality in the production and the graphic packages and stuff they use. There's still a level of all right, cool, I'm just looking at shapes between games or you know, Sean Benson or whoever will come in between games and like tell us a little bit of things then go away. I the host they had here I thought did a really good job of kind of balancing the all right we still don't want to go full goofy here with PlayStation because you know that I think that's just something they stray away from I wish they leaned into it more but there was there was a certain level of charm that I think the host brought here that like had me I think allowed me to have more fun than if these were just trailers after trailers because absolutely yeah if it was just that I think I'd be here like oh yeah okay that was boring as hell but I think he did a great job I think they stringed along nicely Andy, I want to kind of start at the end a little bit here. You pop the fuck off for your boy Artorius.

Mm-hmm. You nailed it. Yeah, yeah. Tell me more. He's the Abyss Walker, Tim. Oh, well, it's just awesome seeing added old bosses that, you know, much of what Eldon Ring night rain is is the final aid bosses you set out to go defeat or were all brand new things. But many bosses along the way would be bosses that you've seen throughout the Darkstall series and throughout Elden Ring. And we were always wondering.

who's going to be the next to show up in, you know, whatever the following DLC will be. And, you know, I was always hoping to see Artorius. And there's a handful of others that you would want to see. Just feeling like, all right, who would lend itself best to a multiplayer-type boss fight? So really awesome to see Arturius there, especially just to see him, you know, this is a, that's a Dark Souls one title. So it's like, I'm excited to see how he looks in this full kind of more modernized engine. but yeah new world to explore in sort of this new ghost haunted snowy area in the forsaken hollows which looks really really awesome and yeah one of the the first boss that you ever took on which was like this three-headed dog that

then splits out into like just three separate like wolves or whatever looks to just be a field boss now or maybe they're just putting them in a different section. And, you know, that's kind of what happens in Souls Games, Tim, where you beat an early boss, and then later on, they're just demoted to just normal dude. And it's kind of fascinating to see that. But yeah, we also got new looks at nightfarers, which is kind of more than I could have asked for for this DLC. Like, this is super exciting to get not only a new area to explore new mini bosses and new nightfarers. Very, very exciting stuff.

I mean, is this, let me ask, like, are you, I don't even want to ask, is this going to bring you back? Are you out of Eldon Ring Night Rain? And are you only out because there's no new content? There's just too much to play. The amount of times that I've wanted to go back to, to play with other friends or whatever, it's always like there's something else more important.

And I already beat it. So like, you know, when they were dropping all the ever-dark bosses, which were just a way to kind of tied players, over until the big content drop, but the ever-darks were like, all right, that new boss, that, that boss that, it's getting an ever-dark version, which isn't just a tougher boss, it isn't just like, hey, we're giving it more health and higher damage, but we're adding new phases to the boss fights or whatever. And that was, I think, really, really smart for a lot of the player base to keep players engaged there. But, yeah, I mainly fell out just because there was too much stuff to play. So December 4th, just around the corner, is this like priority one for you? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, I mean, brand new from software content is, it's crazy.

Like, I can't believe that it's this soon. Again, especially after the reports that it would definitely land before the fiscal year ends in March. And I just did not assume that we'd be, I thought we'd get a, if we did get a trailer, maybe like the date of February or something. But that's pretty nuts that it's this soon. Mike. Yeah, I fell off Eldering after we completed Night Rain.

It didn't hit for me on the live service side that I wanted to. I know we really talked about that of it. Their approach wasn't, hey, we don't want this to be

a live service as I wanted it too, right? I wanted it to keep me all springing into summer long. I wanted to stay in this universe.

It very much felt like when we completed all eight or ten of the bosses, I didn't have much to go back to unless I wanted to learn a new character. And so,

yeah, anytime you get new from, software content like Andy said, I'm jumping right in to have some fun. I can't wait to see what they've added. The new zone, hell yeah. Like I can't wait to see the new zone, the new pressures that they put on us, the decision making with Andy and Bless.

And whenever we played with our friends of like, hey, how much time do we have? Can we push to that volcano and get it done? Can we push into the main castle and get that boss done? Now adding a new zone that clearly will be the hotspot. It's like, okay, how do you keep that pressure on me of like, Hey, you got this, but you don't have this. Keep moving. So, yeah, this is a, this will be high on my list of Goody, for sure.

Like, for me, Elder Dene Night Rain, I've said it before. It's one of my favorite from software titles ever, right? Like, the idea of bringing in a multiplayer and having you experience a from soft title with your friends. And like that kind of push. The highs, the lows. I loved this. So, yeah, anytime that we can jump back in, I'm all about it. I'm excited to see who's a new character.

Will I vibe with that character? right. It's great. Yeah, getting a new glimpse at what that boss is. Like, there's something so special to me that, like, it's like one of your favorite directors putting out a new movie or something. You're like, oh, we're going to get a glimpse at what a new front software boss is. What are they going to do with it? How are they going to fuck with us?

How is the music going to sound? How, what are the patterns going to be like? It's something that's, like, just so exciting. And to see that glimpse of, like, those eight Valkyrie women or whatever across the screen, like what the hell are they going to be doing with us? Super, super exciting. Bless, do you share this excitement? Oh, yeah, 1,000%.

Like, this would be the thing that brings me back and hopefully brings me to actually finish the game. Like, that was one of the things that, you know, to the unfortunate thing that Andy brought up as far as there being other games to get to and more important stuff that you want to focus on, right? Like, I spent so many hours playing Elm Ring Night Rain and then I got to the last couple of bosses and I just went to, um, Descraning 2 and other games, right? DK. Bonanza and decided to shift my time there.

And so it's always been on the back burner and I've been waiting for the time to get back. and DLC coming back means that Andy and Mike will be playing and other people I know will be playing and this is the perfect shot for me to get in there

and play more of that game and so yeah everything that Andy and Mike mentioned as far as new from software content new bosses all that shit excites me especially a new class

that really excites me it was the type of game team that whenever friends were trying to get through the experience I will hey let's do this let me help run you through it

or whatever and like I know that the player time count may also count on Steam from like the past betas or whatever, but I'm at 112 hours in Night Rain, and that ain't shit compared to a lot of the hardcore players, but 112 hours in a game that has an end. This isn't war zone where you're hopping into new matches

and always like playing against new things. You are fighting a finite amount of enemies, and once you beat them all, you know, I kept on wanting to play. I kept on going like, hey, who else hasn't, let's do this. I want to play a bit more. So yeah, this is just super, super exciting. Chat saying the DLC is $15. I'm just going to assume that that is true.

Any thoughts on that? That's a solid, great price. Depending on how much they add, of course, but I do think $15 is an easy, hey, if you had a good time, get back into it. Hey, if you had a friend drop off and you got to kind of sell it to them, $15 is that price range

where I don't think you really think twice on it. You don't really, M&Haw over the 15 there. So I think that's a solid price. We'll see how much they add. but I think that's right in line. I agree, especially when we talk about not being nickeled and dined in an industry that loves doing that when it comes to cosmetics and when it comes to, you know, teaming up with, now you're getting My Hero Academia skins and now you're getting Cowboy Bebop and Overwatch. Like, for them to keep this experience as pure as it can be shows like, I shouldn't be surprised by this, but it shows just like a lot of restraint for a game that blew the fuck up. Yeah, no microtransactions.

They could have had me in the studio, and I'm different for me. There's no store. I would have been like, we're releasing a new boss every week or every other day. Like, let's go. Get the store in there. Let's sell everything that we could have. Because this game had that trajectory. It easily could have done that.

And yeah, they held back on that. So good for them. But yeah, impressive. Bless, I want to stay with you and move on to what I would consider the second biggest thing I here, which was Marvel Tokon. Fighting Souls, December 5th through 7th. seventh we're getting a little play test, no breaks. How you feeling?

Oh, I'm feeling so good about it. Yeah, I know, one of the things I was wondering about was characters because during the last beta test, we had a believe, about six playable characters. And here they're adding in Ghost Rider and Spider-Man as the highlights of the trailer and, you know, them being playable for the next big beta test. Very excited about that. The characters look awesome. I don't know how much you've been paying attention to him to Marvel Toa-Con, but it's

4V4, which is a lot. That's a lot. It's a lot, but also it's like you have one central character. You can switch characters or whatever, but like it is essentially one health bar that you're working with as you're playing through this game. And so you can play as one character. You could like switch between characters, do all that stuff. But like this is a game that is very chaotic.

It has a lot going into it. And it still works. I think that was for me, my main takeaway when I was playing the first beta that they did was, oh, I'm still following along with everything. Everything still presents really well. Like they showed off a couple of new locations here, including X-Man. and, you know, in the beta that I played earlier, visually, the game looks fucking insane. Like, the game looks so good. And so hearing them talk about some of the new locations really

excites me because knowing how well some of the other locations looked, I'm looking at X mansion, and I'm like, let's freaking go. Like, they're going to, you know, fill this thing with detail. They're going to fill this thing with color. They're going to make sure that it pops off the screen. And so that I'm excited for. And yeah, like, you know, the fact that we're getting a beta test so soon, I like the cadence so far. I hope that it is like this as far as us getting regular play test for this thing until it comes out. And yeah, I'm just super excited about this game. The hub area as well.

You know, Mike mentioned it during the live reaction, but he loves the hub areas. I can take them or leave him. But with every new fighting game, it seems like every fighting game is committed. Yep. We're making a hub. Every major fighting game, I forget if Moral Kombat has one, but every other one has a hub that you're hanging out and, you know, going up to arcade machines, playing with other people. And I do think they're getting better and better as these games go.

And so I'm excited to check out that and see how that works out here. it in the last thing, but them reaffirming it here has me curious. Has there been any talk about a story campaign of any sort? No, but that was one of the things that interested me in the interview, because they talked about with Ghost Rider they have Robbie Reyes as the

as the playable character, and they mentioned that they wanted to do that version because of the story. And they kind of left it at that. I'm very fascinated to see what they mean. Because there was also, there was a scene following that of, it looked kind of like an arena and it was like orange smoke, and it was like

the orange side, whatever. Is that just kind of gameplay, orange side versus blue side, or is that? That's gameplay. Okay. Yeah, there's always like an orange side, blue side sort of thing going on. Do we have an MCU update, Tim, on Ghost Rider?

What do you mean? Like a reason why they would do that to maybe tie in with the films of the universe, of course, as we know, like... I think that's kind of, the MCU tie-in stuff is kind of over. Like, that phase is done now, because, like, you know, now that Marvel literally bought every... bought box and bought stuff. It's like, we're back to X-Men.

You know what I mean? Like, it's all I spend all the time at this point. But Ghost Rider's been in Agents of Shield and, like, MCU adjacent, if not officially at this point, stuff. Robbie, who's other ghost writer? Johnny Blaze. What's, do they have very different relationships to the wider MCU, or not MCU, sorry, Marvel universe characters outside of them?

Because I wonder if that's them maybe talking about character intros and how they talk to each other and how they team up with each other and stuff. Yeah, definitely. And they're very different characters. and one of them ends up being a lot more cosmic. There's the cosmic ghost rider, which is pretty cool. Is there a reason you think they would go Robbie Reyes as far as types of characters they're including?

I'm not the guy to ask. Like, Ghost Rider is not my thing, but I think Johnny Blaze is a sick-ass name. And Robbie Reyes has cool-ass hair. Yeah, he's got great hair. Johnny Blaze and Johnny Stone, they got beef? Probably. They should. They're both fire dudes.

You got a sick-ass names. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody has to like take the, like, only I can do fire. Yeah. You can do the skull thing, but like, you can be named. Johnny. But Andy, I know you are

not a fighting game guy at all. Is there anything about this that makes you go, maybe this is the one? No. I mean, I'm stoked to see it played on a very high level at an Evo or something like that because I think it is so visually appealing. I love how,

despite how detailed everything is, it isn't like noisy, too noisy to look at. I'll give it a shot. just like I did with 2XCO when those betas were happening and, you know, I will definitely still be playing this and give it a shot, but I'm not in any way thinking that I'm going to stick with this.

Especially when there's just, there's always going to be a shitload of games and next year is looking to be even more packed. And yeah, this will be one that I definitely want to try out anyway. Tim, Marvel versus Capcom too is one of your favorite games of all the time. How is this speaking to you?

I mean, it speaks to me. Definitely. But I mean, like, again, I'm not good at this shit at all. and the chat is correcting me that Cosmian Ghost Rider is actually Punisher. I fucking love comic book. Oh, that's crazy. That's pretty awesome. I'm interested, but I need a story bone.

Like, that's the thing. It's like I love Marvel versus Capcom because it introduced me to the world of Marvel in such a real way, like in the 90s and just the little opening and like the story bits, right? The little tiny things that you would get of the character interactions that was just text-based essentially. Like my imagination filled in all the gaps.

Now that I am way, way more versed in Marvel storytelling and all that stuff. And just fighting games, just inherently just playing them, doesn't bring me the joy that, like, video games back then did, like that arcade kind of thrill. I need a Mortal Kombat, modern Mortal Kombat style campaign to, like, keep me going an injustice type thing, right? So I, so for Arc System Works,

I wouldn't be surprised if you had some sort of story mode or campaign mode because they've had adjacent things in both Dragon Ball Fighters and even Guilty Gear Strive has like story stuff in it, but it's like very much almost like visual novelty where you'll go in, read a bunch of stuff, and then like, I forget if they even have fights in there. I think it might just be reading. Dragon Ball Fighters had its own story stuff,

but even that, I remember jumping in being like, okay, I don't really care about what's going on here, and I jumped out and just played competitive. This being Marvel, I don't think you're going to get a, like a Tekkenade or a Mortal Kombat style thing, but I could see, and this might be the meeting in the middle, right? I could see it being a comic book style, they put the pages on the screen and maybe they have special animations to it and have fights in between.

It being our system works, that's almost the furthest I'd imagine they go with it, but maybe it could be cool. Yeah, I'm interested, but I just don't think that this is going to be something that actually, I can tell you for sure. This is not going to like make me a fighting game guy. Oh, for sure. Let's move on. Let's start at the top and see where we're interested. Dragon Warrior 7 Reimagined coming February 5th, 2026, which I think to release date was new information. but maybe not

Mike you said that in another world yeah continues to call to me right like there there's something interesting to me about Dragon Quest I would love to play it I like the Cheeby art style here I like the Cheeby giant heads as well and there's something that's like

one day I would sit down and play these games for sure I don't know if it will be February 5th but it is always high on the list of you could see Snowbike Mike playing this game one day I love the art style except for when you have characters that

are look like they're supposed to be grown as characters. You know what I mean? Like there was the one dude who's standing and he looks like he's the fucking sword warrior motherfucker and he looks goofy to me. I don't like it. I just really appreciate that there's a vision for the remake art style. I don't like it at all

personally. But like I like that it's not just everything has to be HD2 or everything's just kind of uprest stuff like this is going back to the drawing books, right? Like on that scene that was just playing the three characters to the right like the three younger looking characters I'm okay with is this motherfucker with the beard that I don't I don't vibe with

I don't like how he looks but I'm thrilled for people that are Dragon Quest people because I know that this is a big one for them and it's been remade before and people really like that but this very much seems to be what they're what the people are asking for besides just a new one uh and then next up we had incan incombeene Combeini. Combeini.

A 90 slice of life story about a girl taking over, I think, her mother, grandmother's convenience store. Yeah, Combeini means convenience store. Thank you. And so, yeah, you'll have a little fun one. It gives Lake vibes. If you remember that of like, it is a sim style where you'll be running the convenience store. But it will also have a story involved. I think it's going to tug on your heartstrings.

We've played it before at some GDC mixers. It is a lot of fun to stock the shelves. There are kooky, fun characters that will stop by the store and talk with you. And so, yeah, if you're imagining a lake-style game where you were the postal service delivery, you picked it up for your dad, and, you know, you had that kind of moment. This is what you're going to get. And so, yeah, I'm high on this. It was at the Xbox, right?

Yeah, I was going to say, it might be a game, game pass game as well. Then we had coffee, coffee, coffee talk, Tokyo, April 2026. not too much here but I think that April date was new as well like before it was just 2026. I've never played a coffee talk I've been a barista in my day back in the day I've been a barista

I've slaying some coffee before. You want to play this one? Probably really bad for me. Yeah What is this Has anyone ever played a coffee talk? I have not. Is it me making coffee? Is it doing cool? I'm pretty familiar with it. Foam designs or is it just we're just chatting the whole time? Yeah, definitely a Greg Miller joint. Like I'm like I'm

99.99% sure that Greg would talk about. Because I hear nothing about positive stuff when it comes to the story and the emotions, but I don't know what the game is. Let's see here. About this game, Coffee Talk is a game about listening to people's problems and helping them by serving up a warm drink out of the ingredients you have in stock. Oh, I'm fantastic at that. Yeah, so there you go.

You have to be a barista. I'm going to be great at this. Then we had a back-to-back of broken lore. These are first-person horror games that I'm unfamiliar with, but they both looked very, very scary, cool. good and interesting. So we had Broken lore Unfollow and then Broken lore Ascend.

So unfollow's coming January 16th and Ascend in summer 2026. Unfollow is about the horrors of social media, which is interesting. And then Ascend is about somebody like trying to become YouTube famous by doing like risky climbs and stuff. Both very novel

concepts that like, yeah, like you combine those with the look of the game. Like they might be cooking here. kind of feels like what Silent Hill was trying to do with, uh, what was that one with the moat with the social media one. Yeah. Social media one. When they, when they were trying to like hit different stories and have their own little, uh, beats. I mean, hey, similar to what, uh, Kojima's doing with his horror sort of franchise. The one would be OD. Uh, yeah, OD, yeah, the Jordan Peel one

led. And then he, you know, he's going to work on other little episodes that are all kind of insular. They're all kind of like, you know, this isn't a sequel by any means. It's just, a completely different story. Fascinating. Yeah. Keep your eyes on this one. Somebody remember to tell me if this is good or not, because I'm going to forget about this.

January 16th. In fact, I think me and Roger are going to play on follow if I'm going to be honest with you. I'd like to stream that. Yeah. Yeah, let us know like 10 days before so we can request codes. And then Fatal Frame 2. Crimson Butterfly remake coming March 12th, 2026.

It looks, I think, surprisingly good. This is way more effort than I would have ever expected and then putting into a fatal frame remake. But that excites me. This is a very scary game, and it's the first game to ever give me nightmares. Maybe the only game to ever actually give me nightmares. Yeah, and I don't know if I played it today,

if that would be the case. But, yeah, this shit was terrifying, man. And it was, like, some of my first exposure to Japanese horror, which is a very different thing. Like, in 2003, this is, like, you know, right in the ring and the grudge and, like, all that stuff. So, yeah, this one hit, man. I'm staying away.

I'll be playing this 100%. Oh yeah. We're riding the high off of Silent Hill F. You can turn this thing on right now. I'm ready. And then Dynasty Warriors origins. Visions of the four heroes coming January 22nd, 36. Dude, Dynasty Warriors is so back, Tim. Like, we wield it into existence,

and now it's back and it's going to be here to stay. It's not going anywhere. More DLC, always exciting, more gameplay, more characters that we all look at and go, who the hell's that? But it's somebody important. It's always going to be someone fun to fight in the game. I'm all about it.

This game will be an underrated gem of 2025. I think if people jumped on and played it, they'll tell you I had a good time. I think a lot of people will just skip this one because it's been such a packed year, but it was nice. I really enjoyed Dynasty Warriors origins this year. Yeah, I think it was blessed,

that I'm sure somebody's like popping off for this when the guy caught up. Maybe it was Andy, but someone in the chat was like, that's me. Like, I'm the one popping off. So it's like, it's cool to think that, like, Yeah, like those people are out there and they were in our chat. Next up we had Grand Charismo 7, the Power Pack.

I was a little unclear. Like this obviously was a bit harder of a showcase to kind of like take all the information in. And the Grand Triismo 7 stuff was hard because it was a lot of subtitles. They're talking about stuff that I just don't understand. But it seems cool. I love how much their support in the game. They're saying that this is the biggest update they've had. They announced that last time, but now there's even more stuff.

So cool. game just looks so good Every time I see gameplay With Grand Tourism I want to play it And then I go home and I don't download it I got a wheel here I'll set you up man We can get you race anytime you want

Dude I'm down Higham has a wheel too no I am does have a wheel Dude those are the time where I'm sure I've talked about this before I try to set it up with my PlayStation VR2 So I like I dragged his big old wheel to my room Set up the PSCR2 And then I hit play on the game

And then the game The wheel didn't work right So I immediately veered left as soon as they counted down from three, and I felt it in real life. And so, like, I almost fell out my chair. Like, I veered, like, oh, shit. I felt like I got into a real car crash

and then I took off the VR. Remember when I got my PPL this year? You're what? My PPL. Oh, yes, yeah. You can sell your soul for a whole week and just play Grand Turismo. It's a good time.

It sounds fun. It sounds like a fun time. I thought you said to your Pee Pee out. Just get ready to get ready to one day. Oh, man. There's no better time to say, Here's the word from our sponsors. I got loose.

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we're tied at number one with one other team. Wow. When will you play them? Oh, that's a really good. See, now you've got to be looking at the schedule and going, when are we going to play them?

I don't even think we play. I don't see them in the, we don't play them in the tournament then. We'll see them in the big finals. Oh, wait, wait, no, I'm meeting you wrong. We'll see you in February. We play them next week. Oh, wow, big matchup. I'm out next week.

Oh, I'm not going to be at that game. You're the heart and soul. Oh, man. You got a cat's tough. Oh, man. You know when like people in like big sports, whenever they have children, sometimes they're like, no, man.

I can't, I can't be there. Can't abandon the team. Yeah. Can't abandon the team. This child will not remember this anyway. Before the season started, I made plans to go to a concert for an artist who's like one of my favorite rappers right now, Little Sims. And she's showing up. She's not going to be her off. You got to do it. I got to do it. Mike's favorite game. Little Sims. You love Little Sims. You also love cool little puzzle platformers. Oh yeah. Motion rack coming spring 2026. Yeah, dude. There's something about just this trailer did it for me. You know what I mean? Like just seeing the gameplay. I'm like this looks like a zombie special. I like that they showed it here.

It fell out of place in a good way. Like I wouldn't expect to see a game that looks like this these days from a Japan-focused showking. Yeah, you know what I mean? Going into this, we wouldn't have expected it. Exactly. That it looks very cool. There's something so fascinating about devs choosing to be, like, to play really either fast and loose or to get really creative with color schemes.

The fact of this game was just white little pixels on a, black screen and every once in while there's some splash of colors here and there and I feel like if this game were full on color I'd be less interested in it like there's just art design for you there's there's something about just like how striking the art style is that like I feel like if they would have fully rendered out this game with all sorts of shit that I'd be like it looks kind of whatever but I'm way more into it the fact that it looks the way it does with just here are these color blocks in a black and white world oh look you're recording what you do and then you're playing it that's it now I'm learning in real time that's cool

this game came out October 27th on Steam Oh wow So it must be upcoming on PlayStation And so I can play it right now Yeah so for those listening right Motion Rec is a recording

Based puzzle action game Built around the concept of recording and playback You use the ability to guide Rec is wreck the name of the character To guide wreck the civilization Recording robot Through a devastated world I'm all I love this type of shit dude

I'm busy with Metroid Prime Remaster that got that double jump too Oh, man, really opened the world. Double jump in a bedroom. So many high clips. I can get to the top of the shelves. You're your brain starts going back, thinking about all the places you can go.

My mom put the hot Cheetos up there on top. I got to get it. Next up, we had Wandering Sword. This takes place in ancient China. It's coming May 28, 26. I am interested as well as you guys are. Didn't say that, right? But you know what I'm saying?

Where it's like, this isn't made by square, but it very much looks like it's made by square. Yeah. You know? This is a kind of developer, I believe, right? Chinese developer, pretty sure. Makes sense, yeah. Yeah, this is one that looks like a lot of the other project.

Octopath Traveler games, 2.5D. HD2D, right. Tilt shifts with pixel art, but like with, you know, kind of just a lot of focus on the lighting and depth of field. Yeah. I mean, it's very, very pretty. The studio is the Swordman Studio, which is headquartered in. in Shanghai, China.

You nailed it. I saw... Already out on Steam, if you want to check it out. Interesting. About two years ago. Oh, shit. We went to go watch a movie last night, Tim.

We went to go watch the running man. Can't say much about it. I know, but I saw a movie poster for the Jack Black, Paul Rudd Anaconda. And that's all it took for me to have nightmares about snakes. I was at my aunt's house,

but snakes all over the yard. Oh, my God. Oh, no way, really? In the dreams? Yeah, in the dream. Oh, awful. I thought, like, And every spring you was a kid.

No, no, no, just in the dream. Kind of like just walk to the front door. Oh, my God, there's snakes all over the place. Oh, and also the bloodborne, the bloodborne bundles of snakes were there to you. Oh, I hate that. Yeah, balls of snakes. All from a movie poster. Yeah, it's a lot of tech.

Then we had AI, the Sama Niminium files. This is the one that completely broke my. You said that the way British people say aluminum. This is when, this is the moment. Can someone please tell me what this game is? Please. Every game just kind of flashed in. front of me so quickly and I got so lost. Yeah.

It was giving Digimon vibes. That's why. And so I just didn't understand what was going on. Yeah, it's, uh, I don't really know much about this franchise, but I know the homie Jace Baldridge is always like, hooting its horn. But it seems just like, it seems like a weird one that I don't, I don't know if I'd want to see how deep it could go, you know, like I don't want to get on the dark web. Yeah, no, I don't That's what you're talking about. You know what I mean? It's like, oh,

put on a list. Oh, what's that one game? Fucking. Yeah. Exactly. Yes. It's like,

Deng and Rampa, you see it on the store. You're like, oh, that seems like a perfectly normal game. And then like, you start to like look around the community that plays it.

And you're like, what's going on over here? Yeah, I, I, you know, I'm not. Never mind. Then we saw Tokyo Extreme Racer

coming February 26, 26th. Looks awesome. Well, we know what this is. Yeah. It is. it is very cool.

Catamari DLC. Hell yeah. Oh, right. Roll up. Is this a new catamari game that came out? Or is this like a remake of an old catamari game that came out? Okay. I mean, well, luckily it wasn't the last band Dynamco title.

Like, we saw this and I was like, oh, night rain. Nope. Nope. Very, very different. Pac-man World Repack got a Sonic DLC available today. Your Pac-Man in Sonic's World. Rolling around on the island. Plus was very good.

confused about this. A lot of question. I look at this. You can't show this to me. Because I look at this and I'm like, oh, what Sonic game is this? I want to play this. And they tell me it's Pac-Man. And I'm like, well, what the fuck are we doing then? I can play in a Pac-Man game. Also, Chad, do we have any report on if Bless can just jump into this DLC or does he

have to play the entirety of the other? Yeah, do I have to play the entire Pac-Man game to play this DLC? Or can I just play the deal? Because he really disowns. He looks cute to Sonic, though. Yeah. He looks really cute. And I'm not talking shit about Pac-Man.

I just don't want to play, like, the 3D-Pman game. games, you know. This is good, though. Then, like, why weren't more kids in middle school talking about it? I was playing Glover. It's way better than Glover. What about Blasto? What about Rocket Robot on Wheels?

Way better than all of those games. If I'm being honest, it's a 7.5. Wait, what are you trying to say about Rocket Robot on Wheels? It's a 6.5. You don't fair. 7.5, that's... I mean, it's kind of close to Metroid. I fucking hate you.

Oh, my God. The thoughts I just had him. Digimon Time Strangers getting some some DLC. Put the snakes in your house. We saw Omnimon in black.

That's kind of cool. But I don't understand the context and I never will. Ignor O'S I'm sorry. Yeah, this is the first DLC coming. Mike, you going into this? I had to put the Mons down, unfortunately. I had to put down both my Mons, Pokemon and Digimon.

If I was to return to one of them, it would be Digimon though but I don't know if I will so unfortunately I don't think I'll be getting to this one What are the chances this gets nominated for Best RPG at the Game Awards? Hi. Damn, I would say pretty high.

But I also think RPG means a lot of things so we do have Outer Worlds we do have Kingdom Come Deliverance like there are things I think could kind of maybe edge this one out I'm gonna give it a 25% chance Yeah, yeah I think there's too many good RPGs

Clear upscere Oh yeah Yeah, you're right. Jesus. Super Robot Wars. Why has Common Rider? I think that's the news. And Big O. Big O.

Oscar Robinson. Okay. Big O. Monster Hunter Wilds is getting free title update 4 on November 16th. Five days from now. Who's the thing about Big O? Always hated the arts though. About the Big O.

Oh, no. Not the Big O. The Big O's Oscar Robinson. Yeah, but like some could say, well, now it's Russell Westbrook. It's an organism. Why? See, that's what I thought. It's a fucking or something.

Oh, I see. That's your Oafing. And also the Joker now. The Big O was the little death. But here's the problem with the Big O. Lippity more. The Big O was always just like the show I had to shogle through in order to watch Outlaw Star. And Outlaw Star was really like the really cool Tsunami show.

Big O is just kind of lame. I'm glad you picked up what I was putting down. We're doing four different things. We're doing four different shows. I never in my life thought I'd say La Petit Mort out of my mouth. It's a beautiful way to put it, though. The French were cooking when they talked about the little people. The Petit Moore.

The French are cooking with that one. Le one? La Petit more. The little death. The little death. What they call orgasms? Yeah. What?

Really romantic. Never grave. Oh, no. Sonic Racing Cross Worlds. SpongeBob. Come in November 20, 2025. never grave the witch and the curse coming March 5th, 2026

Oh, this is the Hollow Night like Yeah Nah, no It was disconcerting, no It was a incongruous In Congress, yeah Yeah

No thank you No thank you Entropy Effect X Coming Is a blaze blue one Is the blaze blue one Coming February 12th, 2026 looks sick as shit

I still don't know if this is like a whole new standalone. Oh yeah, that's right. That's what this game was. ProDULUS is they're growing. They're expanding faster than we could have imagined. I still don't know, Tim, do you have like a press release?

I don't know if this is like just DLC or if it's like a, the definitive edition or something. But this game looks so fucking rad visually and a lot of cool special effects and awesome particles and all sorts of cool slashes.

But it's a very neat looking pretty side scroll in Metroidvania. See, I feel like the internet doesn't know either because fucking game informer calls it, but they call it a new rendition of Blaze Blue entropy effect. What does that mean? Raw. It's a roguelite adventure. Is it like Person of Five Royal? Yeah, that's why I'm assuming like a different.

Maybe. An epic remix of Roguelight gameplay infused in the DNA of Blasbleu. Well, no, that's explaining the first. That's the whole like entropy effect, yeah. But like, so the game originally came out just blazed blue entry entropy effect, and now this is entropy effect X. So we're trying to figure out what the X is.

What the X is, yeah. Extra video game. Yeah. Exfinitive. It looks awesome, though. God damn. Art style is fantastic. Yeah.

Then next up, we had... Tim just gave up. What else was I'm just saying about it? It looks fucking cool. You know? He didn't want to try. He went on the research. I just read a whole goddamn PS blog, and they don't know what they're doing.

They just keep saying see of possibility. They say see a possibility. Nobody knows what this is. We have Damon and the dog, right? No, David. Wow. I can't tell. David and baby.

I can't tell you, like, think lowly of babies or highly of dogs. David and baby. This one's crazy. There's like a lot of game in this. It looks like 10 genres and one. Yeah. It's like one second, it's kind of Mario 64, and then all of a sudden it's near Automata,

and you're like, I guess. Yeah, I can't wait for it. I don't even know why I can't wait for it. Yeah. It just looks fun. I think the, in certain sequences, the art style looks so,

like pretty to look at. And other ones, I'm like, I don't like that game. But I like the game in the last level. Yeah, I think it's got a really cool kind of vibe to it, though. This doesn't seem like the kind of game where you should be buying real looking guns

You know like in the menus we were just in he's buying fucking shotguns Yeah, that's a Tommy gun from the mask Like that's a gun for call of duty Another one we had this is one I have struggled to write down But it's from the creators of Disgaya It's Keiro ran something or other I don't know And then we had fate trigger after that

Oh this was When we were seeing these games, this is where I was like, huh, you're showing me the logo of the game, but you're not saying like the word, so I'm having trouble kind of figuring out what the word is. And the next trailer had two subtitles on it. That's what was going on.

Yeah, Faye Trigger is that what looked like Fortnite anime, third person sort of, you know, base building, shooting game, which I thought was oh yeah, those things. Damn, man.

Not to break the TV. But the third-person shooter is one that I could have sworn that... Mike, when you're setting up, like, Twitch streams and stuff, it was all... I could have sworn there was like a third... I saw Tim the Tapman play. There was an anime third-person shooter that was always a Twitch bounty. 100%.

That was kind of like Valerant-ish or whatever. And I thought this was it, but I think this is a totally different game. But either way, it looks so generic and not... I hate how many games we're getting that, like... Everything, I feel like a lot of games are starting to look the same. Like a lot of games are starting to like, I think try to be everything all at once. I want to be a Fortnite and an anime and like XYZ thing. Now we get like multiple games, game trailers a year that are different games, but I look at them and I'm like, is this not just this other thing?

We had an Octopath Traveler Zero demo today. The save data can continue on. The game comes out on December 4th. Looks freaking awesome. I love that Square continues to put out these demos that. The save file carries over. That's amazing. Yeah, that's the big shoutout right there, yep.

Then we had Marvel Tokon. We already talked about that in the Eldon Ring. And then we ended with the whole PlayStation 5 reminder situation, PS5 Digital Edition that is on sale in Japan only. It looks to be about 360 American dollars, but obviously that's different for them. Thank you to the person in Twitch Hatts History Nova was the game I was thinking of. Thank you.

And there was a lot of it. here and I got a little lost, but they reminded us about the pulse elevate speakers. But then they also talked about a PlayStation monitor. Have we heard about that before? I thought we have that. Yeah, I thought we have. Well, it's not, you know, I thought of TV. Yeah, I thought it was just like the Sony branded thing. There's PlayStation. I thought we saw the monitor and the speakers together during. Did we? Introducing a new gaming monitor. Oh, yeah, this is a new thing. This is new. Because this isn't the Sony. Oh, they spent zero time on it then. It's not the Sony gaming brand, which was

In zone. In zone, yeah. Yeah. I like this little like controller holder thing. It's kind of sick. Yeah, that is kind of neat. It's a charger. Cute.

Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Cabob's writes in and says, Love the show's personality. Keep this man. I agree. Coba says,

Kiefer coming back in the party and Dragon Quest 7 is a pretty big deal. I'm very happy for you. Unironically. Kiefer. Yeah, that's his name. I hate that it's called Kiefer also. Like, shout out to Kiefer.

I like the name. Who's the guy, Tofer. It's like another Tofer. You know what I mean? Like, you know the Tofer TikTok? But Tofer's short for Christopher. What's Kiefer short for? No.

Krista Kiefer. I don't know. Yeah. Really? I never knew that. Oh my God. I didn't know that either. Wait, really? Really?

So Tofer Grace is Christopher. You would think so, yeah? I would think so, but I know a lot of Christopher's that are called Tofer. I don't know of a lot of them. That's crazy. That's a lie. That's nuts to look at Christopher. He'd be like, I'm going with a tool for him.

His full name is Chris. Chris is right there. Chris is right there. You got to stand out, you know? You got to have a good, like, stand out. I'm going to call you, Cooper. No, no.

You're not going to stand out calling yourself Chris Grace, you know, Tofer Grace. Is Jonathan, is Nathan short for Jonathan? No, I'm just fucking. Nathaniel. Oh, you're right. Okay.

There used to be a picture named Joe Nathan. You're like. Like first name Joe last name. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, just one thing Joe named. Yeah, I thought it was one way. I thought it was one name. Holy crap, we are falling apart here, everybody.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us all day long for this fun-filled day of street here. Kind of funny. We'll be back tomorrow. Remember, it's Mario Galaxy trailer day, everybody. Let's go. So Games Daily will be, bless and I breaking down the entire trailer, everything that we think about it. But also, our reaction to the Super Mario Galaxy movie trailer will not be locked. because then we'll get claimed.

So we're going to record it separately, and it will be posted as a VOD. I'll explain this all again tomorrow. If you're watching games daily, just show up at 10 p. 10 a.m. Twitch, YouTube, you know what to do. Love you all. Goodbye.