Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Reviewing the GOATs: Mario Galaxy 2, Nier: Automata, Dark Souls - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

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Buy one prescription pair and get 20% off any additional prescription pairs at Warby Parker.com slash Kind of Funny. If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com slash Kind of Funny. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. I'm on your host, Blessing, Adioia Jr. Join me is the Nitro Rifle. Andy Cortez. Bless, I don't know if you know that Nintendo, they're little troublemakers out there. there. Oh, yeah? Yeah. They were causing mischief?

Yesterday, I opened up Tomidachi Life. I'm a lunch break. I'm like, I'm gonna get back to Soros. Yeah. We're reviewing that on Friday, by the way. Yeah. Pretty pumped up about it. But I'm like, let me open up this Tomodachi Life

because I need to make Roger. And, you know, I'm trying to get the whole kind of funny office created. And I open up the little store. The Nintendo store, the e-shop. Well, the store The in-store Tomodachi life thing Open up to go see

What sort of meals can I make? Or what meals can I buy? There's a brownie for sale Oh Selling for $4.20. Oh. Who knows what that brownie is Laced with?

Wow. But Nintendo's like that. Nintendo, I didn't know. I didn't realize they were chill like that. It's like, you know, it reminds you like when you're, maybe you're uptight, uncle does something. You're like, whoa.

Like, damn, I didn't realize. Nintendo. Wow. Kind of crazy. That's kind of nuts. They know what they're doing. And you share, I think I saw you post this online. Yeah. And I was like, that can't be real.

No, absolutely real. Yes. Yeah. Tomodachi Life, let me tell you. I've not gotten to play since the official launch. I played a little bit during the demo. That seems like a really funny game. I want to know more about the development team working on Tomodachi Live.

It's so funny. Because there's an energy there where I'm like, I wish there was more of this energy in other parts of Nintendo. Like it feels like almost like pent up and put into Tomodachi life with the weird shit they get into in that game. It's so goofy. Yeah, I'm having, you know,

I'm not playing it a whole lot. However, I did draw a Coke Zero can. Like I did my best to recreate a Coke Zero because they were like, hey, you could draw on your items or whatever. And so one of them, they gave me a red can and I said, oh my God, I got to have some CZ in here. So then I got like in the Duffy.

And I'm like going pixel by just trying to recreate the Coke Zero can. Also, another very important one that I had posted on social that I'm going to send through to assets right now. Posted this one on threads. And this one is like, you know, I play video games to escape real life blessing. I play video games to not be inundated with reality at times. I understand that, yeah. You know, the escapism of it all. But if Kevin, you can bring up the link that I just sent through.

Snowbike Mike's character is in his house. And there's a little, uh, little notifier on it says, Mike is bored and wants some company. The most Mike thing of all time. You gotta be shitting me. It's hilarious. You have to be shitting me. It's so crazy how Tomodachi life will absolutely like nail.

So like somebody's soul and personality because you have this Mike thing. You have the fact that, you know, in Greg's game, I married Sabrina Carpenter. Oh, yeah. Identical, yeah. It's like Amidachi Life knows us. Exactly. Like Andrew Francis has their art imitating life.

Also, Nick Scarpino said, I want to be friends of blessing. Wow. In the game? And they said, what do you all want to, what should I talk to him about? And I said, psych. Duh. That's good. That's good.

Have you all too talking about psych? Nick wants to be friends with me. And he's like, Nitro Rifle. I want to be friends with Andy. What should we talk about? So I said eating chewable vitamins for dinner. And that's what we sort of like bonded on. A lot of friendships happening.

But right now Mike lives with Tim. Mike moved in with Tim. He said, I want to live with Tim. Interesting. Yeah. I don't know if that's going to work out. I don't know either. I feel like there's something between those two that may not work as much, you know.

I don't know either. Oh, yes. Go ahead. Nick Scarpino. Yeah, Nick Scarpio. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Come to the stage if you'd like. Yeah. Thanks guys. Hey, Nick Scarpino from Kind of funny. Hey Nick, how's it going? Hey, blessing. Good to see you. I can't wait to talk to you all about my trip.

Just a quick question on this, Andy. I was kind of watching some of the stream over the weekend, and I noticed that I think my character was as markedly shorter than all the other characters. How so? Well, I mean, did you just look at sort of like the height differentials, and no one else is quite as small as my character? and I was just wondering if that was like a glitch. Is it a glitch or something?

Yeah, so I think I put through the link to assets, Nick. I thank you for your concern, but I think there was some sort of technical issue when Greg transferred the character to me. I think something sort of happened in the transfer. Yeah. I don't see what's wrong. Okay, well, so you see like, okay, you can see like, you know, like Tim's taller than me

you know Greg's taller than me Andy and I think you know we could be closer in height is what I'm saying this seems pretty close and I just feel like maybe I'm a little bit smaller than everyone else for like maybe it's an update like a firmware

update thing yeah maybe it might be a switch two thing honestly hardware yeah because it's a switch two it's a switch one game who knows Nick a lot of stuff I have is but yeah well thank you thank you yeah thank you for thank you for right thank you for voicing your concerned. That's you on the far right, Kevin, but

you can't see, do you have a top bun? You got a back bun. You got a back bun. And then I ended up not loving the back bun because a lot of people looked at this and were like, that's a they were like, what's that Timu asked Roger? I was like, no, that's Kevin. You just can't see the back bun. So then I ended up adding like just, I did like just long back, long hair to come to the back, you know?

I want, this is what I went from Nintendo. Uh-huh. I want the Tomodachi Life development team, temporary, relocation program where all the other Nintendo teams for maybe like a year get somebody off of the Tomodiaci. Absorb the weirdness. Yeah, absorb the weirdness. You know what I mean?

Like you get somebody from the Tomodachi team to look at Pokemon champions and go, all right, but what if he make some of these Pokemon freaks or you have somebody who's like, you know, they're on the Spatoon team and they go, ah, let's add like another laugh here or there. Let's get kind of weird guys. My guy right now when I opened up Tomidachi life, my character was looking at the ocean, yelling, I love the ocean. It's so blue. It's just so goofy.

When Greg infamously on this show said that Mario was overrated and then he continued to explain himself and like as he explained himself I started to understand him more and more talking about just the he's too polished, he's too, he's just a guy. Yeah. Right? Like Mario in ways

doesn't really have enough personality nowadays. I think that's what they take all the personality, they shove into this one game. Isn't it such a? Aren't they so like Sony Japan? Like it It just, it reminds you of a weird Sony Japan era that it's like, let's bring that quirkiness elsewhere. Yeah, dude.

Quirkiness is the word for sure. And this is going to be a quirky games cast. What's up, Keff? Are my eyes closed and like my mouth permanently open? No, no. It was just a bad shot. Like, you blinked in this shot. But every, at this screen, you see how Blessing is doing T-Pose?

Yeah. He's actually, he's stretching. Every once in a while, the characters will just like start dancing and moving. And it's kind of annoying because I'm like, I'm trying to get the heights right, but you're like doing a weird little dance or whatever. But yeah, your character, I think it was laughing there. Mix little elbows are so adorable. I love that he's wearing a ghee.

Yeah, Greg got him a ghee. Greg sent him over to my housing in a ghee. So I sort of absorbed the ghee. Also brought that in as well. That's amazing. That's amazing. Like I said, this is going to be a quirky games cast. Because he's got a lot to talk about.

Remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by superchatting in over on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. and my super chat question for y'all today is what goats do we need to check out for top 100? I'll explain that more later, but before I do, remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com slash kind of funny.

So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Somme twining. For now, let's begin with topic of the show. Tots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots, dots. Our topic of the show today, it's been highly requested.

me, Andy, and of course, other people in the office, Mike, Roger. We're all gearing up for Top 100. Our Top 100 is happening later this year. Fingers majorly crossed, of course, if you watch the buzz, Tim gave sort of the update on what's going on with the Top 100, because basically we're going back and forth in the city. In order to hold a live event, if in case you missed it, top 100, we want to do it as a live event, having an in-studio audience for it,

make it a big thing, right? When I have a lot of fun. But to do that, in order to host a lot of the event, live event, have to talk to the city in order to give us permissions to do that. The conversations with the city have kept getting pushed on the city side. Tim's latest update that, again, you can hear directly from his mouth on the buzz is that they've pushed it. There's a date, right?

It's supposed to happen soon-ish, but our original plan has been August. We don't know yet if August is fully going to happen because of the push plans. We want to give people enough time to plan travel, plan stay. you know, we don't want to make it a thing of like, oh, it's happening tomorrow and then y'all have to be able to make it happen. So because of that, like, we're, we still have it planned for this fall, but loosely right now, our goal is August. It might get pushed later in the fall.

But we have been playing a lot of video games, appearing for the top 100, and it's been highly requested that we talk about a few, all right? I, of course, over Christmas break, I played and beat Dark Souls for the first time. Andy, you played. and beat Neuritomita not that long ago. And recently, you played and you beat Mario Galaxy 2. And so we're going to review all three of those games right here, right now. Again, my super chat question for y'all is what other goats do we need to check out for Top 100?

Because we are closing in on Top 100 voting here at Kind of Funny. And so this is kind of our last chance, honestly, to fit any game in. Yeah, we're coming up against it, you know. Yeah. The nighttime has been me on my... On my... Einrand? Ein RAND.

On my Ein Thor. And I saw J6 say, Andy needs to play symphony. Then I guess what I've been doing. Been doing that for the past couple nights. But not only that, been replaying through, it doesn't really count necessarily

as like playing for the first time at all because I beat this game as a child. But playing through Link to the past for the first time since I was like really, really young and getting through that. But yeah, using the Ein Thor to get through some older classics that are kind of replacing the nighttime steam deck gaming, you know? Okay. Because the nighttime Steam Deck gaming was always, what indie game are we reviewing? What smaller title can I play on my Steam Deck that I don't really care about, like, visuals and all that?

The Thor has kind of been my nighttime. Let's get in some nostalgia hours. Yeah, my version of Uriplaying Lean to the Past has been Pokemon Leaf Green where Pokemon, the first generation of Pokemon has always been

one of my favorite games ever, and that's mostly due to I played that. I'm the perfect age for the Pokemon nostalgia, right? Like I came into consciousness as Pokemon was being birthed into the world.

And so my earliest memories is of me watching the Pokemon anime on TV and then playing the game and playing it over and over and over again. And it's been a very long time since I revisited.

those games. What channel was the anime on for you? Hartney Network. What about you? Because I, it was so hard for me to find back in the day, and I feel like at times it was on, uh,

like, was it WB? Sometimes it was on kids WB. It pissed me off. Yeah. The, uh, it was just very inconsistent that like I didn't have a place to go to

to always watch Pokemon. It was weird. The syndicate, I don't understand how that stuff worked. I'm sure it's like kind of based off of whatever area you're in as well. Yeah. But, I remember watching the new episodes

religiously on Cartoon Network, but I think you're right that maybe it originally was on WB and then later came to Cartoon Network as like new episodes. Yeah. Because when was the, when was the Pokemon anime,

when did that come to America for the first time? When did that launch? Was that 98? It feels like it was 98. I don't think I watched it. Well, Pokemon 2000 was the movie. So maybe it was 99. but like wasn't the first movie before 2000?

Because there was Pokemon the first movie. Was it like a Madden thing? We're like, you know. Because we got Pokemon the first movie and then we got the Pokemon 2000. What was it, Kevin? September 8th, 1998. Okay.

Damn. Wait, hold on. Did they put out two Pokemon movies by 2000? They had them working quick out there. That's kind of crazy. Was Pokemon 2000? Did that come out in 2000? That's why I thought it was called that.

That's what I assumed. Why else? what it'll be called 2000. I guess you're right. Yeah. Damn, that's crazy. Christopher says Pokemon 2001 Chibble Platinum in my TV room. Dude, for real. Because I want to say when I was watching Pokemon, yeah, I guess I must have been five or six years old and I was five in 99. So yeah, that all lines up. I guess it doesn't matter. Either way, yeah, no, I came into consciousness watching that on Carton Network. It was fantastic. I never had that on Cartoon Network. I don't know. And YuGio, which also was on WB.

and Teen Titans. WB and Yu-Gio and Teen Titans makes a lot more sense to me. Like, that combination, you know what I mean? Static Shock was a kid's W-B as well. Batman and the animated series, I believe, was on both. You ever watch the Men and Black cartoon? No.

Oh, man. That sounds like in the era of Jackie Chan Adventures. It was. I was my era. I don't know if I ever had access to those. Yo, Kevin, fuck this. The fuck the game's cast. Let's talk about it.

cartoon. All right. Let's start off with Mario Galaxy 2. Let's do it. Recent game. Andy, you've been talking about it for the last week or so. You've been saying it's the best

3D Mario. Do you still feel that way? Yeah, this wasn't just a recency thing. That wasn't just me kind of, you know, the latest one that I experienced was the one that I fell in love with the most or whatever.

My history of 3D Mario games goes like this. I beat, or, you know, Mario 64 was a big part of my childhood. I definitely remember beating it, but like, I don't remember fuck all about it. But it's one of those games that whenever an emulator comes around, Mario 64 is always a game that you just kind of booed up anyway. That's just one of those, you know, it's like when you get a new TV, you turn out, you put on interstellar, that sort of thing, you know? And so Mario 64, um,

was a big part of my childhood, as was, um, all of the other Mario 2D games. And Mario World has always kind of been my favorite Super Mario video game. Once I beat Mario Galaxy 1, I was like, damn, this is probably my favorite 3D Mario. And that was after I had already played Odyssey. I never fully beat Odyssey. I got like towards like the second to last chapter or whatever. But something about Galaxy, I found more magic in it. And that's just totally, that's just totally a me thing.

I could totally understand why anybody would feel Odyssey is better mechanically. In all the different ways, right? Something about Galaxy 1 just spoke to me a lot more. I really, really enjoyed my time with Galaxy 1. And obviously, I couldn't play Galaxy 2 because that fucking combo, that, you know, the triple, you know. Mario 3D All-Stars. Collection or whatever.

Yeah. The one that came on Switch 1, it was only 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy 1. Weirdest decision of all time. Very odd. Yeah. And also made a big mistake. maybe not a big mistake in retrospect, because I feel like if I had played Super Mario Sunshine first,

then I would have never tried out Galaxy. Yeah. I feel like there's a... That's one of the things I wanted to ask you is like, do you have a PTSD when it comes to starting new 3D Mario? You know, I mean, not initially. I would have said no, not initially, but there is a part of me that wonders how much, you know,

um, enthusiasm would I have had to start up a new 3D Mario. Yeah. But after playing Super Mario Sunshine for the first time, which was after Galaxy 1, I was like, this is my least favorite Mario game, possibly, of all time. And then it was just waiting for this Mario Galaxy 2, and then I kept on

looking for other methods, other illicit methods. Yeah. Found a bunch, and it was just like kind of finding the right window. I was supposed to stream Galaxy 2 for my birthday, but I ended up swapping that out with Witcher 3. I'm playing that for the first time. But then, you know,

this collection was just kind of perfect timing. And then along with the movie, I was just in the Mario Spirit and decided I want to play Mario Galaxy 2 before top 100 voting. And I just fell in love with this video game. Like it's got some corky, weird, rough edges with what Nintendo games do sometimes, especially in these 3D forms when you're running around a planet and suddenly the controls are reverse. And you're just like, oh, why is my, you know, whatever. That happens like a handful of times.

No big deal. I just love the imagination behind this game. There's so much creativity. I kept on just bringing up like the word of the whole playthrough in the chat was it's the concepts chat. Every time I answer a new level

I go oh I love this concept I love that they're playing with a new thing here and you get teased by a little bit and you go oh this is going to be the whole level this fucking rule. It's the reason why I think Nintendo will forever be relevant in video games that will never go out of style is because they're so playful

it's the thing that I love the most about Astrobat where Astrobot is the game that you play and go Hey, I see where you got this from, though. Like, I see what inspires you, right? Because every level I'm doing something unique and different, and it's a new concept. Mario, especially Mario Galaxy's 1 and 2, man, do they go crazy, like finding ways to switch things up level to level, and they all feel so creative. And adding, you know, the extra challenging levels,

which is like the something comet, I forgot the, on what it was called, the actual name of the term that they use. But getting more challenging levels in certain. areas. You know, it's, it's just, in my opinion, it's like the perfect formula for a 3D platformer. We're going to give you a world with two or three different stars to go get, and then we might give you an extra challenging one that is really going to be maybe a bit more annoying to get or whatever, but it's just, it's just so much fun to play.

There's no other real way to put it than like, this game, this game is just so much fun to experience. The music is awesome. I love the little detail that whenever you hop on Yoshi, the music adds bongos to it. Yeah. Every, any track that Yoshi has, you jump on Yoshi. Now there's bongos in the background. It's so sick.

And yeah, it all just comes down to, I think, a really cleanly designed game. There is such amazing structure here going from universe to universe, the way that they are making you say, hey, you can't keep going forward. You can't go to the boss fight at the end of this little, like, area because you need four more stars. Awesome. Because the last seven areas that I was in, there's at least, you know, five or six extra stars that I could get there. So you go revisit those and you, you know, and then it's a, it's a twist on the formula. How can we remix this in a way and keep it fresh?

And I just turn after turn, level after level, you are experiencing something cool and something unique within this world. I think Nintendo are masters at this and halfway through this experience I was like this is my favorite Mario of all time I would put this I would put this over Super Mario world Wow I just I fell in love with this video game That's awesome and it's so hard to

Not want Galaxy 3 Yeah I mean there's stuff we can unpack there But I want to go back to a few things Because you said a lot that like had me wanted to to hop in there but I guess Firstly How do you feel about the hub area Because that's one of the thing

Like when I think back to my experience Playing Mario Galaxy 2 I of course loved it as well I think there are a few things In the moment of playing it Where I was like oh man I wish we did X Y Z thing But in retrospect when I look back

I think I think about the positive things More than like the little nitpicks that I had But I remember one of those things being I mean you got rid of the comment Observatory which Honestly that's probably fine Because the common observatory Didn't really have much going on in it

Right it wasn't Peach's Castle Yeah But even still I think there was a level Of something missed there for me when I would hop into the level selector and just straight up a world map as opposed to me running around even though I know they have the spaceship

that's shaped like a head. But is that something that you had any takeaways from it all? I mean, I would say it's maybe the weaker part of the game. I think I enjoy the comment of the observatory more just aesthetically and kind of what it represents.

But I never necessarily dreaded going back. I think that it may be the most like it may be the part in Galaxy 1 that was that was just an afterthought like if I were to say anything is an afterthought in this game it would be the hub world and I'm not too worried about it because I just get right back in there and go out into the world but

the idea of bringing back an MPC and then you got Luba going like hey there's a new guy here what was his deal and I just felt like all of that was so thin there wasn't a whole lot of like anything to chew on there. The MPC that you're bringing back isn't, this isn't like a Dark Souls game where he's going to, you know, I don't know, try to kill everybody in the Hubworld or whatever.

It's just like, it's so whatever. I didn't really mind it. I just got right back into the world and kept on progressing because that's where, that's where the fun is. And that's, I think that's where I wanted to be more anyway. Another question I asked for you. What was your favorite level if you had one? Okay.

I would go with, you know what, I would switch it up to favorite concept. Favorite concept. Okay, I like that. I like that. The favorite concept in Mario. That's a little theme song. I'll get ready for that. We got to clip that and then. For Galaxy 3. I would say, well, one of my tried and true concepts that Mario does in a lot of different games, the timed switches.

Yeah. Or jumping at making the switch go. You know what I mean? Like where you jump in midair and it makes the- jump makes the switch switch is flip yeah the platform turn from yellow to blue or whatever love those that's just like such a dude it's such a time like we can do that in every platform or i'd be okay with it's such a winning idea like that's such a an awesome thing for then

to fall back and i go we haven't done one of these and that's always fun so let's do that um i also really really loved how in the boss fights against bowser the idea of bowser coming into you're on a tiny little planet and bowser's like about twice as big as the planet. Yeah. Him punching the planet, which does a wave of fire

that you need to dodge and get out of the way of, but him also bringing down asteroids that knock into the ground, and you want him to punch close to the asteroids so they get knocked up in the air. And then you jump to the asteroids that are knocked up into the air, and you're able to run against them

because they have their own gravity, and then you butt pound, you butt-stomp the, the, the, to knock into Bowser. Yeah. The idea of aiming those things, so much fun to me. I just love the, like, it was such a great rhythm, I think.

I think back to some other levels, the, um, eating the little pepper that makes you run really, really fast to the level. Oh, yeah. Like, it's such a, a kind of quick frenetic. I'm going insane right now with this, but those levels are always a blast. And any of the challenge levels that I think added in extra levels of difficulty were a lot of fun as well. I'm trying to think of like what my there was definitely a least favorite concept where

I'm like not my favorite one. So what you said, Andy loved rolling on the ball. I do like rolling on the ball. Yeah. Like it's hard. It's, it's annoying, but I love the motion control aspect of that. It's more of like a frustrating fun, but not the type of unfun that I experienced so much

not to keep on bringing back to like how much I don't like Super Bar and Sunshine. But it just felt like at every turn in that game, they decided what's the least fun thing to possibly do here let's do that i there there was no amount uh there was no part in galaxy or where i'm like frustrated with this it's it's it's always like i'm laughing and i'm kind of frustrated but i'm not pissed off at the game yeah for what it's asking me to do you know how much you do you like yoshi as in addition here you know definitely a lot less yoshi than i thought there would be

i was expecting you know it was gonna be like the whole game was i mean on yoshi you you kind of or at least i thought there would be a big ass portion with him, but you know, you start off with him in the game and you in my mind thought, all right, we're setting the stage. We're going to have a lot of these levels where I am using my Yoshi tongue to kind of like propel myself and all these little

um, you know, there's like those little floating platforms in the air that you shoot your tongue out at and then you get like sort of launched or whatever. I thought there'd be a lot more of that and I don't know, I felt like he was kind of an afterthought. There was times where I'd go back to the Hubble and go, shit, you're still here. I forgot you're here. Yo, my bad.

But I still had fun in those levels. I just feel like it was not utilized as much as I would have liked. And you played this via the new release that they put up out on the Switch 2. And it looks fantastic. Okay. Like. I love hearing that. Yes.

Wide screen? I assume widescreen. Yes. Yeah. Wide screen as well. I think the original you could have played. Yeah. There was a, there definitely was a thought from me of should I play this, you know, in an illicit way.

Yeah. or should I play this on? And so I was like in my own free time looking at pros and cons of visuals and I'm like this, the Switch 2 version or the Switch version looks so damn good. I'm just gonna play it here. The visuals are sharp as hell.

The textures are all up res. Like this is such a beauty. This game looks amazing on OLED. Yeah. It's so colorful. Nintendo's art direction I think is just so perfect. Make me want to replay it. Dude, this game is just so like,

oh, it's doing that thing right there. where I'm like trying to run and start, but the direction is kind of fucks up but I love this video game. This is my, this is my favorite Mario of all time now.

And it's one where it's like, if you were like me and kind of missed out on the Wii U era, or the Wii era rather, like absolutely go back and play this. This is a must play and there's a reason why it's obviously one of the highest rated games of all time.

That's the thing is the Wii has, I think a handful of, oh, you got to play this sort of games. It's not that many. It's funny you mentioned playing through illicit ways, which you didn't do. I think allegedly, I definitely played this in an illicit way.

In the way of back of the day, the Nintendo Wii may or may not have been really easy to hack. And so I had a friend. Damn, really? Yeah. I didn't even know that. I had a friend that would give my Wii to, and he, like, did a bunch of stuff allegedly.

And I might have allegedly torn it out. Whoa. half the Wii library, bro. I didn't even know you could do that. Like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's when I was, that's when I was out of the game. When I tell you, I played so many Wii games.

I, like, right now, shout out to Gav Murphy from our. RKG. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Because I went to a video game shop in Berkeley. Shout out to Experience Share. And I saw they had a copy of. the last story, which is a

JRP for the Wii made by the creator of Final Fantasy, which is funny because it's called The Last Story, which is just another way to say Final Fantasy. But like, I posted a picture of it being like, damn, they got the deep cuts in here. I love Last Story. And he responded, he was like, oh, dude, I got a signed poster by, oh, I think he first thought it was the director

and then turned out it was Nobuo Umatsu. I'm like, either way, I don't care. I'll take it. You know, so I have that in route. Lucy James has it. Whoa, that's sick. But, like, I played Last Story. I played The No More Hero Games.

I played Twilight Princess. I played Mario Galaxies 1 and 2, all through allegedly these means. You know what I mean? I'm just joking Nintendo. I'm lying Nintendo. Yeah. But, yeah, dude. The Wii has a library.

I had no, well, I just, the Wii has a lie. I had no idea people were doing it like that back in the day. Oh, dude. Yeah, I just was not in my gaming era. Yeah, dude, that shit went crazy. I was playing Tatsunoko versus Capcom. And then I started getting deep.

I started playing. I mean, Totsdam versus Capcom is deep. I was saying. Yeah, you're right. What was the game? Those red steel. Red steel one and two. Do you remember Red Steel?

No. No, how many people know. Is it a, is it a ship game or an airplane game? No, it was like a first person, like gun and sword game. Oh, no. Yeah. What else? There was a dead space on real shooter.

Oh, Red Steel, dude. Yes. I played Mad World. You remember Mad World? I do remember Madderworld, yeah. Man, I missed the Wii. I missed the Wii, y'all. I went half and a half buying a Wii with an ex-girlfriend,

and we broke up, and there was no discussion of me taking it. Damn. And she took it. I was like, hey, man, like, I'm the gamer. Are you sure you want this Wii? What do you got to do it? There's an alternate timeline, because I know probably our biggest gap here, as far as a franchise, that kind of funny.

This is Red Steel, by the way, if you're watching the video version. The biggest gap in my, in us, right? Xenoblaid Chronicles. Yes. And when I tell you, I came to a crossroads in like 2011, where I chose between playing the last story in Xenoblade Chronicles. And I went with the last story, which I'm happy about. I love the last story.

But I always think about what if I was a regret there? Yeah, what if I went Zeno Blad Chronicles? Because I know how sick people are for ZenoBlade, and I could have been the fan. That would have made me. I think Xenobledi Chronicles is the epitome of a game that you had to be there when it came out. I feel that because

you know I see the homie Gene Park talking about it constantly and I know you and I tried to go back to it and then it wasn't until you brought it up

that I felt brave enough to be like it just I just didn't it didn't work for me I that's to me that's a game that like I had to have loved it

probably back in the day in order to love it now it was really hard for me to get back in there and be like I'm okay but like is that with

when X came out again yes yes because I wonder if maybe we'd try to jump in at a numbered release because that's like a remaster of like a Wii U game that wasn't a mainline thing. But then I also in my mind go, but this is probably the way that they go,

this is how you should play it now. Yeah, yeah. And it was just like, ah, it just didn't quite work for me. Didn't quite work for me. I want to bring in some super chats because y'all been talking about the goats that we got to get around to. Tavin Bothel, 5158 says,

I just reviewed all the FS games up until Bloodborne, oh, from Soft, I see, at two penny. games for our video game book club series. Overall, they're great, but all have serious problems. Dark Souls 1 is my favorite of the Soul series, not including Bloodborn. We'll talk about Dark Souls in a minute. M. Ray Game says, bless, please finish Final Fantasy 10 on stream. Please, why did you stop? Are you afraid to cry on camera or something? Here's the deal. I don't know why I said that, like I'm Tim Geddies. Yeah. Here's the deal. The city is not letting us. The city is getting to the way of being Final Fantasy 10. No, I want to continue playing Final Fantasy

10. The problem, and this is really, it gets back into the thing that I'm, I feel like I get tired of saying this so much because I know that the audience is probably annoyed whenever we say it. There are just so many video games to review and it's a long JRP. That's why during Christmas break, that's when I, that's when I'm able to dive into my backlog the most because we're not, we don't have video game reviews to do and stuff, right? So other games got in the way of me playing Final Fantasy 10. And then I looked at my time that I put into that game so far. And then I ask people, I look at the walkthrough and I'm like, shit, I got so much of this game left and I want to get back to it, but it's scary if I'm being real. You can be like me and ignore your, ignore wanting to strive for better personal health and getting muscles and not go to the gym.

You could just ignore that, bless. No. You could. You could be like it. I love one of the gym. like me and after a long after a long stream gaming session you end the stream

at like 930 10 you take a shower whatever once you're it's one in the morning you're like I can game for an hour and a half you know what I mean? You could just ignore anything that would better yourself personally because I think I think about what I have what I'd have to sacrifice to finish

final phase 10 and y'all don't understand I know it sounds this sounds like hyperbole but I promise you this is the truth like I would have to sacrifice my social life to beat Final Fantasy 10 within a reasonable time because it's really the thing where I look at Mike who Mike finished Final Fantasy 10 and Mike is so good about being able to play

through all these games or whatever but also like if you follow along with Mike's schedule Mike comes into work he works he streams you know he streams for like three hours a day or four hours a day like that kind of funny right he's on the kind of funny content finishes up work at five

I mean is at home by 515 live on Twitch and we'll play for the whole evening and he does that every single day and I'm like, I don't know if I got that in me. Mike's got that dog in them. Well, you would have to look at. You would have to, in the way that when you try to better yourself personally, and you look at the schedule and you go, I want to block out this and this date, go to

the gym or whatever, X out one of those. Make it a Final Fantasy 10-night. And just make it like a, I'm going to start at 8 or whatever, 8 p.m. And like at 1 a.m. Don't go to the gym. He Final Fantasy 10 is one of those games that I would need more, I need more time. I can't put it in an hour a day. I got to put in, or I can't put it an hour a week or something like that, right?

I got to put in. That's what I'm saying. One of those is one of those nights he started at 8 p.m. He start at 7. You go until 1 a.m. And you say no gym tomorrow. And that's okay because I'm killing it in the gym the other days. It's fair.

Think about it. This is what I'll do. Okay. This is my plane though. Because we're reviewing sorrows. And realistically, I can't, like I've looked at, like, I've looked at, I've looked at my calendar and I can't find like any spot to where I would play anything else that's not Soros right now because I'm trying to review it because y'all like when we finish games for reviews. So I'm trying to do that for Soros.

After Soros, I think there's a window there. I think there's a window post Soros that I might be able to get Final Fantasy 10. Yeah. I see the question from Boxbox says, why has it got to be Jimmy's aggravated? I only say the gym because he goes to the gym like a six of the morning. Yeah, that's why. I go to sleep at like 10. And you need to go to bed a lot earlier in order to get to the gym at 6 and not be an emotional mess.

Exactly, exactly. But I want to finish Final Fantasy 10. And the plan is for me to play through Final Fantasy 10. I just got to find the right window. Kabab says, Undertale and Delta Rune feel essential. I feel like the people at the office that would be Undertale slash Delta Rune fans are already Delta Rune slash Undertale fans. Because it's being buried. I don't know if there's anybody else at the office.

as that would like Undertail. I think that I would really fuck with it narratively and, you know, trying to look through the lens of the developer and like, I just appreciate creativity, you know? And I know that guy, that game has it in spades. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just, it's one of those I'll eventually get to.

I just don't know if, like, I'm just running out of time. Yeah. I've run out of time, bless. I understand that. Yeah. I mean, under sales, that's like,

like six hours. Maybe nine. I don't know. Those are two very different numbers. You're adding on a whole extra movie right there. Maybe 12 hours. Tri-force power writes and it says, maybe a long shot,

but a horror game like Soma or amnesia, I don't see being on the top 100. Also, Dead Rising 1 and 2 are goaded in my heart. I think there's a shot for Dead Rising. Roger really loves Dead Rising. I think Mike loves Dead Rising. I think Greg loves Dead Rising.

as well. I think there's a shot that those could be the, you know, these nostalgic games that you look back on with a lot of fondness. Yeah.

And that's one thing I was worried about with hopping into Link to the past and being like, is it as good as I remember and it is. It's awesome.

That's one thing I'm really, really happy about not having the lens of recency making me go, damn, maybe this isn't as good

as I remember. Like, is it going to go lower on my list now? I love that I'm like still loving the hell out of this game. But blessed, there's a game that you played recently that I so dearly love. And it's called Dark Souls. Yeah, it is.

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That's 20% off additional prescription pairs when you go to W-A-R-B-Y Parker.com slash Kind of Funny. Two more things I want to throw out real quickly before we talk about Dark Souls. one to mention my Final Fans 10 journey so far been loving that game that game is great I can see why people absolutely adore it the combat even though at first I don't know if I was feeling it it grew on me in a way where I'm like oh this is really good I like the way that they make you switch between the different characters

and how each character kind of has their own thing going on really really cool can't wait to continue the other thing I want to bring in real quick before I get too far from Mario Galaxy Zane Fair writes in and says Super Mario Galaxy is my favorite game with Galaxy 2 close behind I love the mix of levels and presentation in one,

but both have amazing soundtracks. Also, Halo and Mass Effect Trilogies are top 100. I think you'll get probably both Halo and Mass Effect in the top 100. 1000%. That's another one I got to finish actually.

Mass Effect too. I love Mass Effect one. Oh. And then, yeah. So you want to play the better, yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. If you loved one, in my opinion, too, is better.

I don't know what happened with two. I think maybe I just tried playing them back to back and it was too much Mass Effect. But something about one was stickier for me. me than two, which I feel like it's crazy to say because I know how much people love two more than even one.

I mean, one is definitely, in my opinion, way underrated. People always talk shit about the combat being, you know, it was too early and Fireware hadn't found like they're sort of what makes a shooter feel good. Arguably, I don't think they really quite found that until three, but like despite, Like, one's writing is immaculate. I really, really enjoyed one. It's so good. Another one that I enjoyed.

Another one. Another one. Dark Souls One. Now, here's the deal. It's been a while. Since I played Dark Souls. The wheels. Yeah.

It's going to be tough for me to, like, give you a very detailed review of Dark Souls 1, having now played it four and a half months ago. But to talk about it a little bit. Yeah. How many games have you played and beat? Since then. Like enough.

I've played enough to where like, yeah, it's been a while now. Definitely enough. But that said to talk about it a little bit, Dark Souls 1 is, I don't know why I got to a place where I'm like, damn, this is better than I thought I was going to be. But I somehow got there. Like, I've heard everybody talk about how good Dark Souls 1 is.

And yeah, by the time I got into a flow with it, really what it was was, of course, last year we did our Dark Souls streams. And I think planning those out, building a cadence with those was kind of tough for how long the game is and how packed our streaming schedule was. But getting to find that cadence by myself

at home and just being able to play back to back to back days during my Christmas break, I was able to kind of get lost in it in a way that made me feel the same way I felt when I played Metroid Prime. You know, I've never heard anybody link these two games, I'm sure people have, but like, that's

the way my brain sort of helped myself understand why I like this so much, is that it's It's not a Metroidvania, but it gives me the same feeling of playing a Metroidvania as far as how much you kind of need to familiarize yourself with the areas and how much it asks you to backtrack and remember how these places link and explore and do all these things. You know, I've gotten that from Eldon Ring before. I've gotten that from Blood Born before.

But something, and even Sekiro, but something about the world design of Dark Souls feels so just like cool. and like naturally connected and really interesting and really exciting to find the next path and figure out like, oh, I haven't been here yet. Okay, let me go here because this might give me the item or whatever I need. It's so abundant in its secrets

in a way that really resonated with me. I really enjoyed getting lost in this one. And it was really cool to see where so much of the systems and stuff originate. Of course, Demon Souls was before this and so I know there's so much there as well, but to play Dark Souls and to sort of like

see and pinpoint how great FromSoft was this early to making Soulslight games really really incredible especially when I consider this as a this is a PS3 game right yes yeah when I look at this as a PS3 game I'm like damn dude they had it back then that's fucking crazy

yeah it's wild it's definitely the whenever I see people play it for the first time and be just completely mind-blown, as was I, with all of the interconnectedness of it. It's generational. Yeah. There's a blessing, there's a lot of, I always just shit on this NBA player,

and for no real reason, but there's a lot of Paul George's out there, blessing. Okay. There's a lot of PG-3. There's a lot of, like, great players that'll make the Hall of Fame, but there aren't a lot of, generational players like LeBron or Steph.

Yeah. Wemby. Oh my God. Go Spurs. Go. Bam out of bio. You know, you know, Ban's one of those greats. He's the record. He's a great. He's a great. But this is, this game is one of those that

did it the best and did it first. And that's the most important thing for me. Like when I talk and look back at the the legacy of Dark Souls 1, it's, it did so much of this first and everybody has tried to be as good since

and everybody always falls short and most developers aren't even isn't going to sound stupid but like most developers aren't even brave enough to try to do what they did I agree because of I can't even imagine how much of a pain in the ass it was to plot out this whole world and to make everything connect

and to you've been adventuring for four hours and you've gone through what feels like six different biomes and then you hit a switch and you start rising up on a little like rise or whatever elevator and you arrive and you're back in the hub world and you're like how the fuck i'm here how is that possible and there's i think this game just hits you with so many of those wow moments um and it is i mean it's one of the classics for a reason man i i i think it's so i think it's so awesome to just sort of see where it all started like what it means foundationally to the genre yeah um i i yeah it's it's one of the greats it's generational for sure honestly it's a game i play and I go, man, to your point, I think a lot of other developers maybe not misunderstand but aren't able to capture

the same thing of what makes these games great as far as level design and map design. Even Eliza P, which like me and you both love Liza P. I put Liza P up there as well as you do as like the best non-from-software souls-like. And even Liza P, I feel like, doesn't do a lot of the things that truly does make a Dark Souls game

great as far as like pathing and level design and all this stuff LizaP does so many other things fantastically maybe some of my favorite combat in a video game period but there's something about exploring the Dark Souls world where I'm like

damn dude like this is I can't believe how just well connected everything is and how exploring this world feels so natural and again like it's that it's it's you know I want to compare to Metroid Prime which I do but even Metroid Prime isn't as like

weirdly connected as this game is as far as how the pathing goes. Yeah, I think it does a great job of masking the game development. It does a great job. With a lot of video games, you know, I love a good shortcut in action, RPGs and Souls likes. I love looping around and going, oh, shit, we're back here now. I love that. And a lot of games do that.

And that's, to me, that's always awesome. And that's smart. and not only just from a design standpoint, but from a player experience standpoint, that's good to experience, right? But in a lot of these levels, if I blur my eyes, I can see the gray box.

I could see how it looked in engine. Before they added textures, I could see the way it looks like when you're in game development and you're designing a level and you put a gray cube there and you put a gray cube there and you're kind of just building things out

in a very just, you know, pre-art way. This game, it's so much harder for me to see that because of how everything feels natural. Where, like, I think the time I felt at the most was in Jedi Fallen Order, where I'm like, you're giving me shortcuts and stuff like that in this video game, but, like, if I close my eyes,

I can just, I could see this game so, like, kind of plainly built out with just gray boxes. This game does such a great job of just making everything feel organic in the way you explore it. 100%. A couple more things I want to shout out. This was the only from soft game where I actually, after a certain point,

started to really read the item descriptions. That's always been a thing that I've heard people talk about of if you want the lore of the world, you got to read the items. And I'm playing Eldonry, I'm like, if you like the lore of the world. If you like the lore of the world. And playing Eldry, I'm like,

I'm not reading that shit. I didn't waste my time reading. This game after a while, and I think that's another Metroid Prime thing that I kind of compare it to where after a while I did start to read the items and go, okay, that's interesting,

oh, that's cool and reminded me of doing the scans in Metroid Prime. Right first, I was like, I don't really want to scan and then you realize like, oh, no, I should read the scans. And so that's one thing.

Shout to A. Orlando. Just as an area. Oh, man. The fucking Ornstein and Smog. Smog. Smoh. Smoh. Smoh.

Oh, G, is silent. O'EA is silent. Ornstein and Smog. I always used to say, Smow, but now I go Smow. Ornstein and Smog. Onus. Let me tell you, these two guys, fuck them.

Yeah. I understand. And I'm like, it was very, it felt nice to finally beat that boss fight, but man, when I tell you, I hate my, the worst trope I hate in like any difficult action game is when they make me fight two motherfuckers at once. All right, I forget the name of the guys that were in Eldon Ring, the twins. The godskin

apostles. The godskin guys. The godskin duo. Fuck them too. Yeah. I don't want to. I don't want to fight two people at the same time, man. That's one thing. Another thing, and there's a complaint actually, and it's funny, coming from Christmas break, I remember coming into the office and telling you that I might like Dark Souls more than Bloodborn.

And since then, I've calmed down on it. Okay. Since then, I'm like, you know what, never mind. But one of the things that does bring it down is the last area. There's like a lava-e area in the game that's like very late game.

And I don't know what they're doing. with that one. That's one of the ones where I'm like, damn, if you had figured this out, maybe I would have upheld this is competing with Bloodborn in my heart. Notorously known as the rushed

area of the game. Yeah. In all of the interviews and every sort of time Miyazaki or anybody at Front's side have talked about the development of Dark Souls 1. It's similar to when Erdogan

hits the, kicks the helmet, he breaks his toe and yells. Yeah. In Dark Souls 1, it's this area. was very, very rushed because they just ran out of time and budget, apparently, and they didn't have, there wasn't a whole lot of,

as much thought as they would have liked to have put into that area. Lost Isoleth is the name of it, I believe. Yeah, no, that was one where I was like, damn, dude, this, this kind of sucks, and which is a feeling I did not feel throughout the rest of the game. Oh, I found out I have a really good impression

recently. Of who? Hopefully you can guess this. Okay. My sis, are you that? My sis. Is that the lady at the boss fight, the Lost Isliff?

Well, she's the spider. Well, the spider sister. Spider sister. The sister who's like, you know. Oh, yes. Found out as her, yeah, found out I did that recently. I was like, damn, I didn't know I had that in my bag. I like that.

That's pretty good. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. But yeah, I don't know if I had much more to say about Dark Souls. I wish I could give you guys more fresh review, but again, very long ago. Favorite weapon to use were you? Dude, do you remember when we first played Dark Souls? We got a bunch of the Black Knight stuff.

Yeah, we got a black Knight sword at the very very. beginning. I think I stuck with that thing throughout the entire game. It did, I did become very overpowered. And part of that, I blame Ornstein and Smote. Ornstein and Smow. O&S. Smoh. I blame them because I started grinding. Because of them, I started grinding real hard. And I got way overpowered. So I started just killing everything. Damn, that's a, you know that. I mean, O&S will be on my, on my, my tombstone first try to. No big deal. No way, really? No way. First try. No way. You first tried O&S? On stream, yeah.

But the thing I love about O&S is, and again, this is O&S is one of those fights that could have gone like a million other souls boss fights. Where I get him super low and I go, oh, let's go, baby. Time to get him the second try and I die for the next 10 tries. Yeah. This is just like I just popped off on the first try. But the thing I love about their design is, whichever one you kill first, the other one absorbs their power.

That's so sick. That is cool. I love that. That is pretty neat. And I also just happened to like, I kill the one that everybody prefers you to kill first, which is I killed Ornstein. So then Smoh took his electricity. Yeah.

And everybody said like, that's the easier path. And I just happened to do that. So I was like, fuck yeah. I think I did have the thing either in my first or second try where I beat one of them. And then I'm like, oh, yeah, let me lock in for the second one. And then I died. and then I proceeded to be stuck on the first phase for like the next five hours of playing.

And so I got unlucky there. I love seeing you with that, with the grass crest shield. Yeah. You got to rock that. Yeah. You got to have that extra Stammie bless. I've really even though my favorite boss was,

shout out to the big wolf with a sword. Siff. Sif. Yeah, shout out Sif. Shout out. Now did you... I know we were going to ask. I did play the D.L.C.

Did you fight Arturius first or Sif? I fought Siff first and then I fought Artorius Okay Is that the wrong way to do it Well that's like

There is no right or wrong way That's like the least cool way Okay Because if you fight Artorious first And then you go fight Sif When Siff jumps on you He like smells Artorious on you And he like

He isn't Super just angry all the time Like there's a moment of like Oh shit You saw him like you saw my master you saw yeah oh it's so I'm getting goosebumps right now but like if you do the DLC after

beating SIF isn't there a thing as well oh you have to save SIF from the abyss that's right there's a weird way yeah yeah oh I see yes because there's a cool optional thing to see I remember that of like being in the abyss and now we're getting deep in the weeds but being in the abyss and then seeing did I see SIF there's a thing there yeah yeah yeah like a very small like smaller version yeah yeah yeah and remember

that shit confusing the hell at me. I was very confused by all of that. Yeah. But the Manus fight. No. Manis? Manus. I'm thinking of Simon Manus now from Liza P. No, there's Manus is the fight in the DLC. Okay, yeah. His name is Manus, right?

Now you got me tripping. Chat, is this name Manus? I can Google this. Oh, that's right. Siff recognizes you. If you see Siff in the Abyss. That's what it was. Yeah. So cool. Yeah, Manus is the DLC boss. Simon Manus. That's all I hear from Liza P.

I also played near automata. Yeah, let's talk about near automata. You played one of my, one of my goats. Oh, man. I mean, it's, it's, it's been a while, but it's still so damn fresh in my mind. And hopefully, wherever he's at, Tim Gettys is playing this. I mean, he's in Japan. Yeah.

And we could say that. But he said, I am loading this up on my steam deck, and it plays awesome. I already checked it out and tested it out. It plays great on the steam deck. And I just hope that he plays and beats this video game. Because I know in my heart of hearts, this will become one of his favorites of all time. 100%. And this is immediately one of my favorites of all time.

Hell yeah. And this is one of those, like I just mentioned, bless, there's a lot of Paul George is out there. There's a lot of PG-3s, but there's not a whole lot of LeBrons. and this is a LeBron. This is a generational video game generational experience. Because we talk about every other year, we talk about the greatest year in video games. You know,

2023 happened. We're like this greatest year or whatever. 2017 is still my goat. Because this came out in 2017 along the likes of Zelda Breath of Wild and Mario Odyssey and like persona 5. No, this is 2017.

Oh shit. Yeah. This is a goat year for video games. Yeah, this, I mean, you know, everybody makes the jokes of the gooner game. It's the gooner game. Got a hot girl. That's the only reason people play it, right? And I feel like there's not a whole lot to beat the allegations.

Like initially, if you're just looking at this from the outside in and you don't really have a whole lot of context for it, it's going to be goofy and silly. Whatever. You got to get past that shit, man. You have to. Thematically, storytelling, everything this game does, don't be a dummy like me,

and put 20 hours into the game, beat it, and then say, I'm done. And then people say, go back and play, play throughs B, C, D, and E. Play the other endings.

And then you go, fuck that. I got to do, I got to play 20 more hours for, you know, times four. That's a lot about, it's not like that.

Every, every next play through is every subsequent one play through is shorter because you're doing different things and you are experiencing moments from the game from different perspectives from different characters and everything that this game does is just so my shit I am such a sucker for the Kojima breaking of the fourth wall I love the um I love the you know is this a game or am I talking to you right now player and am I just talking to the character am I you know I love whenever games do that and kind of like freak your mind a little bit.

This game does that so much. But the action's great. And then swapping over to 9S, who is like the little dude that you're running with. And in Play-Thru 2, you're like, I don't really want to be this dude. And you're hacking the whole time. And it's the sickest shit because every time you hack, the music turns to 8-bit, and it just rocks. And you go back into the world and it's back into the orchestral sort of soundtrack.

Yeah. And you hack again is do-to-do-do-do. And it's like, oh, this is so sick. I love that little touch. But the hacking is something I thought I would get really, really tired of. I never did. It was super efficient to take down enemies, but it was also just a lot of fun. Just what this game does, storytelling-wise, is just...

It's why we play video games. Yes. This is damn near impossible to get the same feelings across if you are merely watching it or... or rather like, you know, I know there's an anime out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it would. You gotta play this as a video game. But this is a video game, man.

It's a, it's a game that is great because of what it does uniquely as a video game. It is the medium that helps it achieve what it does. And it is so fucking masterful in how it does those things. And I loved getting updates from Barrett, who was playing it because I played Batman Arkham Asylum for the first time. And he said, I'll play in your automata. and was coming back with updates, said, man, I just finished ending B. Yeah.

I just did this and that. And holy shit. Just the stuff that this, the stuff that this game does, the side quests are so amazing. And it's just one of those games that you think you know what you're getting into and you just don't know a goddamn thing.

Yeah. Easily must play. Play all of the endings. I don't care what you're doing. This shot up to like, this will easily be, like top 25 for me. Top 20.

It's like, it's platinum. I make the joke sometimes of every now and then you get a developer that just like releases a masterpiece out of nowhere and it's like, what the fuck? You know, we got MBA Street volume one and then they release volume two and it's like, whoa.

And they didn't even replicate that magic of volume three. Something happened with volume two of MGA Street where it's like, what the fuck? Same with, um... Whenever I think about near, I'll tell when I think about MBS Street. There was another weird example I had. Like, burnout three. It's like they woke up one day.

Crichterian woke up and was like, let's create one of the best games ever made and then never really did it again even though Burr out Paradise is great. But you get what I mean. Platinum, of course, we love platinum. They made Melger Rising Revengeance. I love that game.

They made Bayonetta. In fact, Bayoneta 2, I'm sure plenty of people will be like, yo, that's a greatest game of all-time contender as well. And I don't disagree. I'm not played it, but I don't disagree when you say that. Something about near automata,

it's like they woke up. And they were like, what if we made something that was one of the coolest things of all time? and like not only is the gameplay platinum firing in all cylinders and I mean that pun intended when you're talking about the third person shooting that they got going on along with the heck and slash combat but then also you have one of the greatest soundtracks ever made in a video game and probably my favorite soundtrack ever made in a

video game orchestra is going to Seattle I mean it's one of the first dates are they coming down to the Bay Area or in California at all well I would go to Seattle for that there they're not any I think the closest one would be San Jose I think is what I saw okay I can be but it's back because that was one of the big things when I was playing this game constantly saying this is one of the best soundtracks they've ever experienced and people going do you just miss it on tour it just the tour just ended and then about a couple weeks ago they notified everybody they're like hey we're going back you know

so it'll be at near the end of the year I believe yeah like the music is incredible the like I said gameplay combat's really fun the story has such a layered and interesting component to it when we are talking about the different endings which I know whenever we talk about this game it is the endings that make people go I don't want to replay this like you mentioned

but I would look at the endings as big chapters more so than replaying the same game like it really is you are getting different parts of the story through these different endings and the more you play the more context they give and they make you go wow like that's good that's what was happening over here that's crazy if you end after play through

one you go, that's a solid 8 out of 10. That's an awesome experience. I had a great time with that. That's a great video game. 100%. And the rest of it is 10 out of 10 masterpiece. The rest of it amplifies it and gives context and is all just like supplemental stuff that doesn't

feel needless. It doesn't feel like watching deleted scenes from a movie and you go, oh, well they didn't, I'm glad they deleted that because it shouldn't have been there anyway. It's like you cannot play this game with only playing play-through a like you have to play all of them and i think it equaled up to about like maybe

35 hours for me in total yeah that sounds about right yeah all of it in total uh in totality but holy shit man and it's just like by the end of it like full tears of my eyes like this is an emotional an emotional moment just appreciating humanity yeah like especially right now with so many creative, artistic people getting, losing their jobs due to AI and AI being so prevalent in this game as well. But like, by the end of it, I'm looking at this game and just looking at the creatives and going like, this is art. Yeah. This is art and this is creativity at, you know, at its full power.

100%. What a game. I realize we haven't given scores any of these games. Do you want to give scores? 10 out of 10 masterpiece. for both for Galaxy 2 for near Automata

for different reasons obviously but Andy Mario Galaxy's story's too but it's not about that it's about like what it's doing for the genre but you hate in the desert for the story

you know you with Mario Galaxy too yeah I mean these are the best of their genres yeah Dark Souls I would probably even 9 out of 10 and Lost Isoleth actually does kind of weigh heavy on where that comes from

And then also, like, I think things here are there, as far as, it's, it's tough to review a game like Dark Souls this far out after Dark Souls because I've played Bloodbourne and Eldering. And I see the things that they've clearly made better since then. But even still, like Dark Souls, I'll still give a high school. That's fucked up. I hate it. I know. I just chat on it. I just chat on Dark Souls.

I'm sure if I played Dark Souls in 2012, whenever Dark Souls came out, I probably would have been like masterpiece as well. Oh, it would have turned you on, yeah. Yeah. And Final fans to 10, 0 to 10. Okay. Before we get out of here, I want to bring in some super chats for you. We have a lot of people talking in here. E. JRPG says, have you guys tried Neer Replicant?

I've played through Neer Replicant. I love New Replicate. I haven't beaten Neer Replicant. I only started it and never fully got back to it. And I know that, like, did I install it immediately after Neuro Automata? Yes. Like that's how amazing that experience was. And then I just looked at the rest of the calendar.

I was like, which or three has to be next? Yeah. Like I also don't want to near myself out, you know? That's fair. Near Replicant is also a game that I don't know if it would end up on your top 100. Like near Automeda, for sure. Near Replicant is probably in like my, it's in my top 100 for sure, but probably lower, like way lower on the list compared to where Automata is.

Let's see, Laser Shark in chat in the super chat says, blessed. We need to see Hitman world of assassination on the list somehow. Don't worry. I got, I got it likely very high on my list because I view that is probably the best stealth game, stealth gameplay ever made. I don't know about the others, but I love Hitman. Dexter Schwarzler says, please, for the love of God, play Jade Empire. Mike, are you going to play Jade Empire? He said it's on his list. He said it's on his list. Dexter. Shadow Killer 9955 says Halflife 2 for sure. Half-Life is one that I've tried to get into you multiple times. One day it'll stick. It's like a Dark Souls situation for me where I tried playing Dark Souls and Bloodborne multiple

times. They never stuck and then they stuck. I think Half-Life will be the same for me. Are we talking about games that's on the list for the boys? Half-Life is on a big one. Have you played Half-Life one? So now I've been waiting for Half-Life 2. I played Half-Life 2, but I wanted the big one was the Nvidia G-G-Force remix that I wanted you guys to play. And they gave us a little demo, but it's like, where is that? When are we going to get the next level performance for Half-Life 2? But it's still worth the play-through. Okay. Yeah, that's

one that I did install over the weekend, both of them, but I'm with you on the like, seeing those, when we did demo that, I'm like, fuck, this is sick. And I wait. And I want to wait, and it just never came. Like, I install that thing, and it's still those same two levels. Half-Life 2, episode 1 and 2 as well. You've got to add on to it.

Then Half-Life Alex, that's my line right now because I did Half Life 1 and 2. I have the back half now to do. I got Last Guardian in the mix. Return of the Obradan is in the mix. Have you played Shadow Colossus? I was just going to say, Shadow of the Colossus. Play Shadow Clausus before you play Last Guardian.

Really? Yeah. That's crazy that you have Last Guardian before that. Well, I mean, I got a list. They're just jumbled. Okay. I was going to say I love Last Guardian, but I feel like not that many of us do. I got that PC, PC, PS2 CX or whatever emulator. Oh, okay. Trying to see what's up with Shadow the Colossus, but also trying to compare that with the Blue Point remake,

which I know some people got some issues with, just like they do with, you know, with Demon Souls not looking at nice. What's just arriving? Lord of the Rings, the two towers video game, bolly. Oh, shit. Nice.

Classic. Yeah, though, I, Shadow Colossus, I think partly for me is more impressive with the PS2 version because it's one of those things where you're like, wow this is happening on the PlayStation 2 like it's a fucking insane game playing on PS2 the PS4 version with BluPoint still incredible still looks visually impressive

but like something about that original PS2 version hits for me I wish they updated it and because the PS4 version has like graphics mode and performance mode and it's clear that performance mode it's 60 but it's like clearly

like I don't know 1080p or something yeah so I just wish they just Just like, just open the floodgates. Yeah. Just flip the switch, but Blue Point's gone, so probably not. RIP. God damn it. Don't remind me.

Not Alvin Perez says, not an RPG person, but I went back to play Ultima, definitely dated by, I think, a historically important series that I would recommend checking out. It convert me on the genre. It's really cool. That's my old boss. I used to work for him. Oh, really? Richard Gariate, yeah.

That's cool. EJRP says, I played the remake on Switch. It was good. I couldn't get into two and three is in my personal top ten. games made me feel so many emotions. I'm not sure what game he's talking about. Wait, which one? EJRPG.

He says I played the remake on Switch. EJRPG. Well, his name is EJRG. Oh, okay. Yeah. But he just says he played the re- Oh, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

Computer figure out what he's talking about. Zeno Blade. Ah, there we go. Hader John says, may I mention some dream cast games? Powerstone Shenmu, Skies, or Arcadia. Um, I know, there's some Powerstone lovers here, I think. I think Tim like PowerStone.

I have the, there's a Capcom Fighting and Collection that came out recently that has Power Stone on it. So I got to check that out through that. And then I'll bring in one more from OM OM Gerber who says, Bless, you have to continue and finish Final Fantasy 10. You can ignore Blitzball from here on

out. You're only depriving yourself of one of the best stories in media history and one, I guarantee you will love. All right, I'm going to do it. There has never been a better time. I'm going to do it. Y'all convince me. A few more. Oscar Navarro says chain decoes.

Sir Doom says if Deshonored 1 and 2 aren't on the list, I riot. I love Dishonored 2. I should check my list to see if Desaher 2 is on there because I actually don't know. I think I might have... Actually, I won't spoil it.

I won't spoil it. I wish I had time for that. I'll be honest. I played like halfway through Dishonored 1. I never got to 2. I think the version of my list I have right now has Death Loop on it and maybe not Dishonor 2. I might go back and replace Deathloop

Loop with Dishonor 2. I think because I think I made it more fresher to when death loop came out so I was higher on it but in retrospect

I think anybody who are fan of Mimsims would say yeah that should be reversed and then one more here from Curious Gamer who seconds chained Echo that is it for Super Chats

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Yeah, two towers. Extended edition. No, I don't know about it. Wait, is the one you gave me the extended edition? Scott, yeah. Is it like both on there? The first three discs are theatrical for the trilogy. And then the next six discs are Fellowship One and Two,

two towers one and two return of the king one and two they also have all the special features which is why they're excellent but the special features are like you know some of the coolest pieces of media that's amazing I love the idea of you only give me

the extended editions and like tricking me in no other option I'm like oh shit that's all there was until next time it's been our pleasure to serve you