Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Splatoon Raiders Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

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Starting point is 00:01:11 Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. I'm on your host, Blessing, Adioia Jr. Joining me is the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez. Hello, blessing. Many blessings to you. Good morning, Andy. Many Andy's to you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Andy's nuts. Oh, fuck you, man. Yeah, that's how we saw it off a Nintendo review around here. You got my ad. Got you. How you doing, Andy? I'm doing great. I'm trying to boot up the games so I can play with the clouds.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Yeah. Listen, we're putting each other onto things. Yeah. Because we've both been separately playing Splatoon Raiders to review it. And, like, I taught you that when you boot up the game, I don't think we can. But when you boot up the game, you see, like, cloud formations. And if you use the touch screen, you can mess with them and deform them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:57 Andy didn't know that. I had no idea. I'm always playing docked. I'm always docking. Yeah. And then Andy told me about a feature that I can't talk about. Yeah. But like, Andy told me something.
Starting point is 00:02:05 I was like, what? Yeah. Why is that in the game? I know that was there. Of course, the game we're talking about is the one and only Splatoon Raiders. This is our review of it.
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Starting point is 00:02:25 The Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, Delaney the Slamtwining, and Lax Nomad. For now, let's begin with topic of the show. Tots, dot, st, dot, dot, st, dot, Stop, stop, stop. Spatoon Raiders.
Starting point is 00:02:40 It is the single player, in quotes, single player iteration of the Splatoon franchise. From Nintendo's website, it reads, in this single player focused game, plays a mechanic working with Deep Cut, a trio of swash-buckling musicians, and venture out into the mysterious spiralite islands. Customize your character,
Starting point is 00:03:01 kit yourself out with mechanical gadgets and ink-splattering weapons, and take on waves of enemy salmonids. Saminids? Yeah. Salmonids. Sammonids? Samanids.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Yeah. Salmonids. Yeah. Saminids. Or in the game, they go, wow. That is what they're calling the game. That's a good point.
Starting point is 00:03:19 That's a good point. As you raided the islands for treasure. Andy, you've been a sputoon fan for a very long time. I have, yeah. A little bit surprising to me, if I'm being honest. It was one day, maybe like when Sputon 3 came out, then you're like, bless you playing Spatoon?
Starting point is 00:03:33 And I was like, no, I'm not really Spatoon. Spatoon guy, and you're like, really? You didn't, it surprised you that I wasn't into Splatoon. I don't know why something about the Jet Force Gemini thing, you know, these kind of cool-looking characters with weapons and awesome music in a video game, I just, just feels like So Your shit. But something about lobbies and getting into multiplayer games, you know, is not exactly, I could see why somebody wouldn't want to play this game like Splatoon because it's,
Starting point is 00:04:04 You know, not everybody wants to get into multiplayer games and figure out what the meta is and things like that. But it's funny because also I do like multiplayer. Like the closest thing I can think of to a game that has the energy of Splatoon is a knockout city. And knockout. Yeah, man, that's right. Yeah. And Knockout City is like, I think about knockout city regularly. More than any person should.
Starting point is 00:04:26 So there's something about Splatoon that like I think should work for me. But in the reverse way, when I think of you, I think I think of like, no offense. I think of cooler games. I feel that. Yeah, I feel that. You know what I mean? I think of like Dark Souls or even on the multiplayer side.
Starting point is 00:04:41 I think of, I think of Call of Duty, even though I know you're not like a big Call of Duty person. Started off with war. I mean, Warzone was very huge for me in the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Or like an Overwatch or something. Yeah. I don't think of these little cute squiddlings. I mean, like, I legitimately think that like here's the, now we're in the Andes, sort of, you know, let's do some therapy.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Yeah, Andy's therapy. And this is just me telling you, like, I've always thought Splatoon is cool as shit. I think that from the outside, it's, you know, a goofy little game with, you know, squid kids and you're putting ink everywhere and you're trying to beat the other team. But the music's always awesome. The in-game fashion is always cool as hell. And I've always enjoyed the way that the Splatoon world has their own language and alphabet and different bands and musical artists that exists in the world that like if you open up the the splatoon music app which i i did quite a bit over the last week they have like you know uh the different bands with their different music you know maybe this
Starting point is 00:05:55 band is more electronic and that band's more you know rock punk or whatever and that band sounds more like every song that they have sounds like the intro to an anime, you know, like there's, I just, I love the world of Splatoon and the world building that they have within it, that the fact that they have like in, in-world musical acts is like always
Starting point is 00:06:14 been really cool to me. A, um, or I'm sorry, the Nintendo music app. Okay. On the Nintendo music app, you can like search for Spiltoon. They have all of the different, like, in-world albums from different bands that are in-world. Oh, that's fun. You know, and so I've always appreciated how hard they go on the world building.
Starting point is 00:06:34 I also just love that, like, I love their in-world alphabet and just how it lends to, like, really cool graphic design and logos and things like that. I was going to say this on a previous episode of a show, but I got interrupted. But, like, I view you as, like, a Splatoon ambassador. Like, if the cartoon was a country, Andy's the ambassador of, like, I'm going to tell you all. the cool, neat customs that we have. Let me tell you about our alphabet and our style and our music.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Our cultures. Our cultures. I don't know. I've just always been into it. I think it's a really neat game. And, you know, for a lot of people may be intimidated by it, I know it's a massive game in Japan.
Starting point is 00:07:15 And, you know, I didn't, no, granted, I didn't really play Splatoon 3 as much as I thought I would. Splatoon 2 was the one where I was playing for, you know, probably 50-ish hours, which isn't much to a big Splatoon fan, but it's certainly
Starting point is 00:07:31 a lot for me when we're talking about games that, or when we're in an industry and we have a job or our job is to play a lot of different things, like, you know, 50 hours any multiplayer game where you are just going match by match, and it was one of those, it was one of my earliest games that I remember working at kind of funny
Starting point is 00:07:47 in having the one more match type of mentality. It's got to go one more time. Like, really, really fun video game, great mechanics, cool world, cool little characters to customize. And so, yeah, the idea of a single-player game was always very fascinating to me. Because you could always get the, there was always like the inkling.
Starting point is 00:08:08 There was always the inkling that there's some cool shit they could do with single-player with the first sort of salmon run mode. And then they introduced with one of their DLCs, their rogue light mode. And it's like, oh, there's kind of some neat DNA that we can maybe play with here. And yeah, so the idea of a single-player game always, really fascinated me. So for you as somebody who's a fan of Splatoon, how does Platoon Raiders live
Starting point is 00:08:35 up as a video game? Splatoon Raiders, I think, is some of the most fun I've had all year playing a video game. This is one of those games that I
Starting point is 00:08:50 can name the things that I don't like about it. And if it had those things, this would be like in nine out of ten territory. for me. I have played this game for close to 35 hours. I have been doing nearly all of the endgame content. Like I am so deep in this video game,
Starting point is 00:09:13 way more than I thought I'd be. I'm usually the soon as I finish the game, I move on to the next thing or whatever. But I'm having so much fun with the build variety. And right now I would say that Splatoon Raiders is an eight out of three. 10 for me. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:31 And it's an 8 out of 10 that I love like a 9. You know, like I, I look at its shortcomings and I go, wow, there's are some really, really close. Those are some aspects of the game that I thought you would have nailed. And because you didn't, like, I have to,
Starting point is 00:09:47 I have to subtract some points for you. Like, what's one of those? So, like, if you were to tell me, Andy, there's going to be a new Splatoon game coming. What are two things that you think are, going to be awesome about it.
Starting point is 00:10:00 I would say music and fashion. Customization, character customization. And this game, like, if we were doing the GamePro, graphics, music, whatever, you know, story, all that bullshit, if we're just going category by category, I think gameplay is like nine out of ten,
Starting point is 00:10:18 fun as hell. It is so awesome to be using all of your gadgets against a shit ton of enemies whenever the game runs great. And when there are what feel like a million enemies, on the screen, or even just one big boss that you might be taking on. It is so much fun with all of the different build and play style variety that you have in it. That's like nine out of ten for me.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Gameplay is just like, it's so damn fun to just play this video game, and I love it. Music for me, it's like, I'm not going to mince words, it's just straight up bad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:54 It is really disappointing that every Splatoon game, game, that's one of the staples of it. I already mentioned that, like, on the Nintendo app, there are different in-world bands that are of different genres that maybe that one's more, you know, dance music style. That one's more rock. That one's more. I don't know what the thought process was here for the music, but it is so fucking disappointing.
Starting point is 00:11:21 It's just, like, to the point where I just would have Splatoon music in the background because somebody has a playlist on Spotify that I ended up. up looking for. It is really disappointing. It's a pretty big bummer that really only the final boss fight has a cool song. And everything else, it's like, what are you going for here? And I wish I could have clipped out some gameplay because when you're, you know, what is the gameplay like? You're going out on these little expeditions. They're just a little small. You have a big overall map and you could just select that level. And that level, you're required to be level 10. And you know that it's going to be this type of level where you're going through very linear, taking down all the enemies, getting all the spiral light, getting all the currency you're trying to get.
Starting point is 00:12:08 And some of them, it's like there's a hint of music. And it's maybe there, I think it's like them trying to go for like a sinister tone or something with some of the levels. And then you get the final treasure. And it's just like, what? This feels so disconnected from what I just. experience, you know, and then you go back to your Hubworld, and it's, you know, you get some kind of cool little, you know, just some
Starting point is 00:12:34 beat playing, lo-fi beat in the background. But the music is just so insanely disappointing in this game. And what's another thing I would have assumed that a good Splatoon game would have had? The character customization, the fashion of it all. And
Starting point is 00:12:50 that also sucks. I think it's really disappointing in this game as well. There are about, I'm going to just throw a rough estimate out there, maybe about 30 outfits to unlock. But it doesn't have this platoon thing of
Starting point is 00:13:05 oh, I want to get those shoes. I like that top. That would look cool with that hat. Ooh, I want those glasses, but maybe I want those pants. You're just unlocking full suits. There's no piece by piece customization. And it's almost like,
Starting point is 00:13:20 man, you could have just ripped that from the other games and put it in here and I would have been way happier. You could have ripped that character customization out there. Part of me thinks that they are going for we got to be more true to the lore here
Starting point is 00:13:33 because you're not in the main city you don't have all these fashion stores around you to shop at you are kind of just putting things together which is why all the guns look very kind of piecemealed and you're engineering and getting pieces from the bottom of the ocean to make these weapons or whatever and so yeah the fashion really disappointing because you're selecting from what feels like 30-ish different
Starting point is 00:13:58 suits, but it's really more like 10 because one of the suits might have like this one has a crop top version. There's a lot of crop tops. There are a lot of crop tops. I think like 60 to 70% of the suits in this game are, you're wearing a crop top. Your belly, your abs just showing. It's kind of like, it was like, I don't know if I love that they're almost all like this, it feels like. And so I didn't feel really stoked about any of the fashion options. There are three extra additional unlocks that you could get if you have like the amoe that I don't have so I didn't get those.
Starting point is 00:14:37 But yeah, kind of a bummer fashion-wise as well. So music and fashion, huge miss, I think. Like really, really disappointing. And I know for sometimes in our reviews we can, you know, get a little too critical and people go, damn. So they liked the game and they were just shitting on it the whole time. I think the game is just so much fun. aside from the issues that I have with it. It is like such an easy recommend.
Starting point is 00:15:03 I think it's, I think it's $60. $50 digital, I think $60.000. I see. It's a freaking blast. I like this video game a lot. I've put in a lot of time into it. And again, for people who want the Splatoon experience or want to get into the type of gameplay,
Starting point is 00:15:24 but don't really want to be getting into lobbies and immediately feeling out matched or anything like that, I think this is an awesome entry point for anybody to get into the world and to just understand what it feels like to play this video game, which I think it has some amazing gadgetry and cool abilities and awesome weapons and maneuverability. The game's just a ton of fun to play, and I could not recommend it more at the $50 or $60 physical or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Bussy, how much have you played at this game? So I'm approaching the 20 hour mark. Damn, that is way more than I thought you play. This game is one of my biggest surprises of the year. Wow. I'm shocked by how much I'm enjoying Spatoon Raiders. Full disclosure, I've not technically beaten the game yet. I'm at the end of the game.
Starting point is 00:16:14 I thought I was gonna beat the game yesterday for this review. And like you mentioned during your part, right? When you highlight a mission, the mission will tell you, oh, this is the recommended level. Like, you wanna do this mission, you gotta be level 22, 23, or whatever, and then you look at your level of you. go, oh, do I want to do this? Do I want to try to do something that's higher level than me?
Starting point is 00:16:33 I'm at the end of the game. And when I booted up the game yesterday thinking I was going to finish it, I looked at the level of the mission and went, oh, no, I thought I was going to beat this. I need to go back and level up. And so I'm probably going to beat this game either today or tomorrow because I played more yesterday, just did not, was not able to cross the finish line. But I'm still going to score it because I do feel like I played enough to be able to confidently feel how I confidently say how I feel.
Starting point is 00:16:58 feel about this game and that's an 8.5 out of 10. Nice. I think everything you said is spot on. I agree with you about like the fashion and the music and, uh, I think from my end, it's been fascinating playing Splatoon Raiders because I'm somebody who's not as into Splatoon as you are. I try Splatoon 3. Didn't really vibe with it as much.
Starting point is 00:17:14 And playing this game has enlightened me on so much of what actually does work about Spatoon. It is the weapon variety. It is the different things that you can do with ink and paint and like, you know, figuring out all right, I want to do this weapon because the way that this weapon splats out, is it ink or is the paint? What are we calling it? Yeah, it's all ink. The way this weapon splats out ink is slightly different from this one because it's more of a vertical, like, I'm making it on a line in front of me versus this one that's more horizontal.
Starting point is 00:17:43 It's like shotgun blast versus this one that's more continuous. And so I can continue to make these paths in front of me. And I'm going to review this almost like it's Splatoon One because it's kind of my Splatoon One. So sorry if this feels like very foundational to how I'm talking about it. but I think it's genius. Dude, it's awesome. And I wish I played this on the Wii U or whenever the first platoon came out
Starting point is 00:18:03 because I'm playing it. I'm like, oh man, so you're telling me this weapon type is able to create paths for me in this way? And like, if I use this gadget, I can, you know,
Starting point is 00:18:12 have this do work for me and then go under the ground and then refill my thing and then pop back up and then, like, it's so fun. Add a modifier to this weapon, to this gadget,
Starting point is 00:18:21 which then leaves a trail of ink over there. So I know I have like a good, you know, I'm creating paths for myself essentially. Yeah, it's so fun, and I was not watching the trailer because I want to call out sort of weapons, but I want to make sure I'm not spoiling anything.
Starting point is 00:18:34 Foxxx is, y'all heard about the Splatoon game? You all heard about Spatoon? Hey, turns out Splatoon is pretty cool. And so, yeah, going from using a submachine gun type ink squirder to the, like, the roller that it is. If I hold the button, I'm going around and I'm just painting the whole place with ink. I find it so satisfying.
Starting point is 00:18:53 I think the enemy variety of this game is really good and really interesting and really fun. Way more than I thought in me. I love how many different types of enemies there are and how much you see certain enemy types but then they ramp up that enemy type
Starting point is 00:19:07 in a way where it's like, oh damn, you're persistent throughout the entire game but the way in which I'll see you. Like I'll see this enemy, for example, that's just a big blob guy that shoots out lasers
Starting point is 00:19:16 or this guy that's kind of like the big spiny guys from Mario where he's like, the real head is at the top and you got to take out all the bottom pieces to then bring the top to the bottom and take him out. the way that you see these enemies and it's like, all right, I know how to deal with one of
Starting point is 00:19:30 these guys, now I got to deal with three of these guys, now I got to deal with five of these guys. Now there's a new version of this guy that I got to deal with. They kind of do that with all the different types of enemies and it creates a really fun thing for replayability here in variety as you make your way through the game. So I love that. I love the three different gadget or tank types,
Starting point is 00:19:50 I should say, in this game. Because there's the, oh man, you did this last time. Tactical tank. There's the tactical tank. There's the speed. tank and power and then there's a power tank and each of them have their own abilities and strategies to them and so for example with a tactical tank you can just put out a turret that shoots for you and the ways in which you can upgrade the turret I think are really cool and opens up the game in a
Starting point is 00:20:11 really fun way because with each of the abilities you get with these tanks comes as almost like trees of things that you can do ways that you can improve them I think the upgrade system to this game is really fun dude it's so deep like It's so deep. It's way deeper than I thought it'd be on the customization level. When we talk about just min-maxing everything possible. Yeah. And this is the most I've played an end game of any of these games.
Starting point is 00:20:40 It feels like a game like the division or destiny or something with like going into your build and really trying to get the most and maxing out all these points. There are just so many, again, with all of the gadgets you. have. You get a gadget, like Blessing mentioned, let's say the turret. Yeah. And the turret is part of the
Starting point is 00:21:04 tactical tank. And you throw your turret out there. And each of these gadgets has, I think, at the start, 10 empty slots. And you, with each of those empty slots,
Starting point is 00:21:20 you might get a modifier that is worth four of those slots. And that modifier might be, you know, fire rate up. Fire rate up, range up. Yeah. It explodes whenever you throw it. Whenever it ends.
Starting point is 00:21:33 When it lands, it explodes. Or when the duration of it ends, it explodes, you know, and hurts enemies around it. Or there's one that's like a sprinkler that shoots out around it, you know, or whatever. So there's all these little tiny modifiers that we've seen, you know, games do before. And then the way that those modifiers evolve. and get stronger. And then that one's a gray modifier, meaning that it's like the worst one possible.
Starting point is 00:22:04 And it keeps your turret up for an additional 60% of the time. And now there's a green modifier that only takes up four slots instead of five. But it's a little bit less than the gray one. So, and then you can evolve those things. And then those things level up. And dude, it is such. a freaking blast to fail during one of these
Starting point is 00:22:30 little, you know, raids or whatever you want to call them. That's what the game calls them, grades. You failed during one of the raids, you go, oh my God, but I unlocked that. What does that do? Let me see what... Oh, shit. I can... Constantly feel like you're progressing. And when you get back to the hub, it's like, oh, snap.
Starting point is 00:22:44 Okay, now I can do X, Y, Z thing to make my character better. Or maybe I get a skill point that I can put into making my damage higher or making my gadget damage go higher or increasing my HP. Like, There's so much that you can do between these missions, these raids, that really makes it satisfying to then go, all right, now let me go back in and do slightly better than I did before. I like the bite-sized nature of the missions as well.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Yeah. Like, I, you know, I think when they first announced this, I assumed it was going to be a run-based thing or like a rogue light or not. It's like, it's not a rogue light or anything like that. These are very much linear missions for the most part. Like, you're just doing one mission as the other. and they last anywhere from, I think, at the smallest, like, or shortest, five minutes, and then maybe on the longer side, 15 minutes. And it's been really fun to be like, oh, I got time.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Let me run one of these real quick, and then go in and do a fun challenge. I also like that some of these challenges kind of get into the, like, D.K. Odyssey or, or not D.K.O.O.D.K.O. Bonanza or Mario Odyssey style challenge rooms. Like, you know how when you get to a challenge room and it's like, all right, get to the end of this while taking out these enemies? They got some, they got a very similar style of challenge in this game. But you're only using, you're only using these gadgets without that weapon, without, you know, try to get the, you know, that's the best win condition or whatever. I think it does a great job with giving you variety in those missions. another thing I think that would
Starting point is 00:24:19 you know that would have made me a bit more happy with the game in terms of like me giving it a nine I wish that there were maybe like three mini bosses three additional type of mini bosses in addition to the big bosses that you end up fighting I did have a lot of fun with those big bosses it reminded me very much of like what you just mentioned
Starting point is 00:24:41 the way that DK Bonanza or in my short time with DK Bonanza the way that it introduces its bosses, similar to really any Nintendo game with boss fights. Although they did a really cool job of presenting those in a way that, you know, gave you a cool little cutscene and showed you, showed your squid kid or your,
Starting point is 00:25:00 or your octaling with the other NPCs in the game. It does a really need job of giving you a lot of things to collect with cool production value, I think. And, you know, that's one of the weirdest ways I'm going to recommend this game to people is to say that this is a Nintendo-ass game. And I didn't realize that it was a Nintendo-ass game game until I got to those moments where I was like, oh, this reminds you of Odyssey.
Starting point is 00:25:23 This reminds you of Bonanza. Like, there's a level of game design here and energy that feels so derivative off of those, and I really dig it. Now, obviously, it's a different kind of game, but the influence is there so strongly. And if you're somebody who maybe didn't like Splatoon for the multiplayer aspect
Starting point is 00:25:39 and you do like a Bonanza, you do like an Odyssey, again, you're not going to get, this is not an open world 3D or open No, no, no. or anything like that. But I do think that there are some of those status, satisfying moments here that feels like, oh damn, of course Nintendo made this. Like, this is Nintendo game design at work here. And it's very fun and it's very impressive at times. And yet to, you know, for things that it could have done better. Yeah, like again,
Starting point is 00:26:03 I echo you on the customization options. Like my character is on a crop chop crop top right now. Yeah, we're all, chat, we're all like Ezekiel Elliott in his early days of the Dallas Calvert was it just, it's, Everybody's got a crop top. Yeah. Every one of these outfits, it feels like has a crop top. I'm just kind of annoyed by it. And like a lot of the dialogue just didn't work on me.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Like it has that similar sort of energy you expect, I guess, from a Splatoon or any of these Nintendo style games. I don't know. This time around, I found myself wanting to rush through it a little bit more. Like I'm reading what they're saying. I'm kind of like, I get it. You know what I mean? We're looking for the treasure.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Yeah. We're going on these expeditions. But I kind of just found myself wanting to get back into the gameplay, which is a good problem to have. But also, yeah, like those in between. moments between missions and being in the hub, I wish could have been a bit more interesting as far as having me invested in the mystery of where we're at in the game. Yeah, I agree with you there. When it came to the actual real cutscenes, I enjoyed them just because it was cool seeing that
Starting point is 00:27:03 level of production in Splatoon games where I'm just not used to that. But when it came back to getting back to the hub world and talking to the NPCs, I'm like, okay, I don't, you know, there's some cute lines here and there that make me chuck. but nothing that I'm like extremely riveted by. I think the mystery of it all is is somewhat fascinating and I did try to, you know, I did try to read the little lore bits that you are unlocking and it's, it's fine,
Starting point is 00:27:31 but it's definitely not why I'm there. I think the gameplay is definitely what kept me going because I just had such a freaking blast with it. Andy, we're going to talk more about Splatoon Raiders, including answering at least one Superchat because we only got one so far, but remember make sure to Superchat, Super chat. We can read your questions. We've got a lot of time to talk about this.
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Starting point is 00:29:21 to see Rush at Madison Square Garden Oh happy birthday Brandon That's awesome I'm pumped for you I actually ended up having to turn down going to see Rush in Toronto because I'm going to see
Starting point is 00:29:35 San Antonio I was also going to go to Toronto but I have the scheduling conflict so that that kind of thing you were going to go to Toronto just to watch Rush, yeah. Because that's where they're from and it's like, that's cool.
Starting point is 00:29:46 Like, I want to see Rush in Toronto. It's like your Jay-D in New York. Yes, exactly, exactly. The Juan 1 writes in and says, is it summer in Sputoon Raiders? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the sun's out. Yeah, the sun's out.
Starting point is 00:29:58 Suns out, guns out. Ab's out as well. Crop tops. It's the only thing that happened. It's all crop tops. It's all they got, man. Marcos. I'd definitely not say your name yet.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Right. But Marcos. Lute here writes in and it says How's the online system? Is it easy to play with friends or is it typical Nintendo? Also, you should do a co-op stream with Mike. It's pretty easy. You just kind of create a lobby with
Starting point is 00:30:28 code or whatever. Like you have the lobby code. I didn't get to do that during the review period. I only did it when I previewed it. And it's easy. It's not difficult at all. It's not weird process. And yeah, I mean, I would be down to stream with Mike if you ever respond to a text message. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I asked him to stream The Mound on Friday night. And no response. He hasn't responded like over a month. I mean, his phone's probably broken. He said he'd only respond if I asked him to go golf. I'm like, well, that's just you're being a shitty person. Yeah, it's not being a good friend. It's a bad person.
Starting point is 00:31:04 That's crazy. I'm sure when the game is out, I'm sure we'll stream it here. Yeah. When is the game out? Is that out Friday? Well, we're streaming it. Friday, I think. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:15 It was streaming Friday. Yeah. If the game is out on Friday, we'll be streaming it on Friday with the one and only Ray. Yeah. Ray Narvages will be in town. Me and you. It'll be fun time. Which I can't wait for because I didn't play much.
Starting point is 00:31:26 I didn't play any multiplayer during the review period. I can't imagine how chaotic. Because it can get chaotic in this game. Dude, playing this game single player has me excited to play it. This seems like a game that would be great for most players. Yeah. And then Firefly 46 says Andy, LeBron is definitely a warrior now, right?
Starting point is 00:31:42 I don't know. I have no idea. I think he's going to Miami. So, platoon Raiders. Is there anything else you got to get off your chest that we haven't gotten off the chest yet? I like the missions that they have. Yeah. I do wish there was a little bit more
Starting point is 00:32:01 mission variety. Like, there's basically like three types of major missions. Maybe four types of major missions with some side ones, right? Like, there are ones where you are, You start on sub-level one. It felt like Don Kong Bonanza when that comes up, by the way. It's like, all right, you're here, you're looking for treasure.
Starting point is 00:32:20 You start off at sub-level one. Take out the first wave of enemies. All right, you beat them all. You're going down to sub-level two. Take out another wave of enemies. And then, it's on level three. You beat a boss. I like those missions the most.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Yeah. There's another type of mission where you're in a bigger open level. And you see these like these beams of light going up into the air. and those are the spiralite little bunches. Yes. Yeah. And so it's like your mission is to go to those beams and take out the enemies that are there
Starting point is 00:32:50 and then you're basically digging in there to get loot from them. But then there's one beam that's like, that's the end beam. Once you do that beam, the mission's done. Yeah. I don't, those missions, I thought were good,
Starting point is 00:33:02 but like I never looked forward to them. I always wanted to just do like the hoard mode. I only enjoyed those. Well, because I guess for me, with as deep as I've gotten into the game, you can replay a lot of these missions on spicy difficulty. And whenever you, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:20 you can go back to different parts of the game that you've already played and you can go to that second or third mission you did, which required you to be level eight. But now you could redo it on spicy difficulty and it's level 25 requirement. And you can still try it out if you're 20 or 21 or whatever, but you want to be around a 25. and the rewards you get are better and the enemies there will be a lot tougher to deal with.
Starting point is 00:33:46 I really enjoyed those missions because you had a threshold you need to hit in order to finish the level, but it lets you keep going. And Spirlight in this game is the main currency, and it gets real tough to come by near the end of the game. I mean, not in, I'm not saying it's like the most rare thing ever, but by the end of it, you'll be like, damn, I, oh shit, I try to upgrade this weapon and I'm already low on spiralite because I want to upgrade that one thing. And, you know, I'm already low on currency.
Starting point is 00:34:18 By the end of it, you will feel like, by the end of it, you'll want to be going back to go do those missions to get more of the currency. And so, again, you can finish these missions because when you're out on the missions where you're getting the spiral light like bless mentioned with the beams of light that show you, all right, there's spiral light over here. there's spiral light over there. You can, those things like refresh. Yeah. And you could beat the mission. You know,
Starting point is 00:34:46 you'll see the bar up top and it says like, you just need to reach to this threshold. And when you do, you can beat the mission. Or you could go past it and just get a bunch of extra spiralite. And then you'll hit your limit
Starting point is 00:34:56 and then you can leave the level. I always like went past it because I just wanted more of that currency near the end of it. Once you're in it, it's like I got to go all the way. Yeah. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:35:05 the missions that you mentioned, I, you know, you start off at sub-level one and then you clear the hoard, then you go down, and then you go down to the third one, and that's when you get the treasure. There are ones also where it's just one sub-level, and you get the treasure immediately, and those are really fun. And then there are the challenge rooms where they are telling you get through this obstacle course using only these two items or only this item. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:30 And we're going to teach you fun ways to use it because this level is more like a puzzle or this levels more like run away from the enemy. There's an actual maze where you have to like go through the maze while enemies are chasing you. But you don't have your guns. You can't just, you know, play the way you're used to. There's a lot of like little fun ways that they mix it up. But I do agree.
Starting point is 00:35:51 I wish there was like a tinge more variety. One thing I will say though about the search for spiral light levels with the beams and stuff is as we're talking, I'm realizing those would probably hit real hard in multiplayer. Like if I had other people, I was playing. playing with and we were like should we extract i'm down my last life because he had like three lives yeah in these i'm down in my last life and somebody else is like oh i feel like we can do one more to go for go for the loot i think that would elevate the experience a lot for those
Starting point is 00:36:20 levels whereas i think just these regular hoarder levels where it is you're maybe dividing conquer divide and conquer i think that's the strategy there too that could work um but yeah these hoard mode levels i think we're just way more fun for single player dude now i'm like i'm locked in i'm like all right I got to take out how many enemies. I'm getting overwhelmed, but I just upgraded my gadgets. And so, you know, let's see how these guys do when I throw out a turret that has a bigger explosion or whatever. I do this other thing. Like, I was so locked in during these sublayer challenges.
Starting point is 00:36:49 And for me, that was my favorite thing to do in the game. It, I mean, it reminds me so much of playing an amazing roguelite like Hades or even something like Destiny 2 or, like, For chat, for people who know, yeah, I would say more something like witchfire, where whenever you get that new unlock, you're like, man, I want to use this now. Yeah. How is it going to affect things? Oh, shit, I am seeing immediate returns on how quickly it's taking out those enemies. You know, I have, on a, there was this one mission I was really struggling with yesterday
Starting point is 00:37:23 on a really tough, like, higher end difficulty because it's these enemies that kind of, it's these salmon, it's across you, but they have a cage and. front of them. And the, you have to shoot them a lot in the cage, in the front of the cage that's being blocked, it's like their shield. You have to shoot the shield a lot in order
Starting point is 00:37:42 for them to get stunned, and then you swim around the back and you shoot them from the backside. Yeah. Back shots. That was really, really tough with the buildout that I was using because I have this one turret buildout where I was able to throw out two turrets
Starting point is 00:37:57 and they, the turrets were also doing like crazy good damage, but they are just hitting the front of the enemies so the enemies weren't dying yeah well there's another gadget that i really really liked using and it shoots out like five streams of ink in a straight line and it's not like it's shooting it's just like five continuous streams that are always up five lines of of ink and i have an upgrade on those that bounces off the walls so when the streams hit a wall, they bounce off multiple times. And then I had an upgrade where wherever it's bouncing, it's creating a little bit of an explosion. So if enemies run into it, they are also getting
Starting point is 00:38:40 like explosive damage. So what I was doing to beat these enemies that cross slowly towards you to have a shield in front of them, I would, I would just like heard them all through the center area, throw my beam thing at the wall, and it's bouncing everywhere. Yeah. And the enemies are getting hit by all angles now and I cleared it immediately once I switch that gadget and it was like that's pretty safe. Fuck, like that's the magic of this. That's why it feels so good to
Starting point is 00:39:08 play when you are able to go, well, I've been dominating with this one build out but maybe I should switch that one gadget that I've been using because it's not great against these dudes. And then you talk about flying enemies and it's like that's where the turrets are perfect. Like dude, it just
Starting point is 00:39:24 it's just got so much variety. It's, it's, there's a lot of stuff we cannot talk about in terms of how the progression goes, but it's a fucking blast to be able to see, like, how deep the customization actually goes. You had to take out the backshot enemies by hitting them from all
Starting point is 00:39:40 angles? Well, with the bouncing thing that explodes? The bouncing, the bouncing squirts were hidden them in the back. Because of where they were bouncing from. Yeah. Because they were getting hit from all angles. Yeah. That happens. Yeah. That happens. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:56 It was a lot of aggression, but a lot of freaking fun, man. Like, I, it's, again, we can't get two in the weeds with how the, because of just embargo purposes. Yeah, of course. But there are like, school and don't spool things. When you think the game is done letting you upgrade things or unlocking things, you're not. It's just, there's always, there's always an extra level of things to get.
Starting point is 00:40:21 And that makes going back to those, those older levels a lot more fun because you have that new toy you want to mess around with and like how is this gadget going to change up my gameplay now um there we like like we saw in the trailer one of them is a it's almost like a like a grapple like you batman spider man swing and that oh yeah and that's so much freaking fun to kind of mess around with whenever you're really in danger or in a pinch somewhere just grapple away and you're going to swing over to that area it's like they they found so many different ways to expand what makes the gadgetry fun.
Starting point is 00:41:01 Can we talk about the like the buddies that you get? Yeah. Like your ultimates essentially? Yeah, absolutely. If you have three that you can choose from the members of what's the name of the band, Andy? They're called Deep Cut.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Deep cut. We don't like. Yeah, they're a musical group. And Shiver is the girl with the blue hair. She's an octoling. And you have her ultimate, which whenever you build up. Whenever you've gotten enough
Starting point is 00:41:28 salmon it eggs, you build up that ultimate. And her ultimate is, she gets on top of a big-ass megaladon. A shark, it's a megalat-don. And you see a big-ass cylinder of, like, how am I going to
Starting point is 00:41:44 guide her? Where am I going to tell her to go? Yeah. Go towards the big boss or the big horde of enemies. Send her out there, boom, huge amounts of damage. You also have Fry. Which one did you use a lot Which is Frye? Is he the, um... No, that's, that's a big man.
Starting point is 00:42:00 Big man. Big man was my guy. Big man was my guy. I found him the most useful. I used him the least. Really? That surprises me. That's exciting, though.
Starting point is 00:42:10 He was helpful for me because like basically big man, once you pop his old, he, um, you're basically riding a, I think you're riding on top of him, but you are... He's a, he's a big man to Ray. He's a big man to Ray. That's a good thing to put on. And he always just says the word A. Which, can I be honest? I hated that.
Starting point is 00:42:25 I kept reading it and I'm like This is fucking up my reading He always just says A He says A and then parentheses It'll say what he actually is saying Yeah And so like I would read it and I'd read like A And then whatever he says
Starting point is 00:42:36 And I'm like we gotta stop we gotta drop this bit It's like it's just that's just not a bit It's like A and then parentheses Man we really gotta fucking lock in right here Yeah yeah yeah yeah it's exactly like that And I'm like guys we gotta drop the A man This is I don't like it But basically you're riding around
Starting point is 00:42:50 And then you're tapping the shoulder button To like throughout these tornadoes And like you're going like a faster speed than you usually do and you can climb out things easily and all that stuff. So it makes you extra mobile and then you are throwing out
Starting point is 00:43:01 these tornadoes that are doing damage to the enemies. Loved it. It felt super powerful. So I used shivers quite a bit initially which is the big megal on that I mentioned. But then there is fries.
Starting point is 00:43:13 And I ended up using fries the most by the end of it. Frye she, so Frye, I guess her like family lineage that have to do with like Manta rays. Like she, oh no, I'm sorry. Eels.
Starting point is 00:43:26 Okay. She has like a bunch of eels that whenever you use her ultimate, all of these eels spawn in the sky, and it's just a gigantic AEOE, and it's all these eels hitting the ground, hurting a lot of enemies around you. And then eventually she's riding on top of one of the eels, and then she's like kind of the final hit
Starting point is 00:43:44 and does a lot of damage or whatever. I used hers the most in a lot of those later levels because of just the amount of, first off, it was kind of like a good, get out of jail-free card. Whenever I'm getting really over, I'm like, oh, my God, I'm on low health, I'm about to die.
Starting point is 00:44:01 There's a shit ton of enemies. Let me pop this old. Hopefully she could just save me or whatever. And then one of the... And then all those ultimates evolve as well. And the more that you use those ultimates, you build your friendship bond. And that's how they...
Starting point is 00:44:17 That's, you know, how they evolve or whatever. And then when I'm in danger, I use my R1 ability, or my R ability, which was my leap into an AOE blast on the ground. And I used that constantly to not only just get around levels, but because it did, it was just super useful for me in gameplay. Of course, we don't want to spoil anything. But do you have a go-to or a favorite build in this game?
Starting point is 00:44:49 Yeah. Like a favorite weapon, gadget, and ultimate set? I mean, the way that things unlock later on that we cannot spoil, get really cool and creative. But to start with, I would say that I would say this the speed tank with that leaping ability was insanely useful for me. You leap pretty far. And then again, you have this leaping ability unlock that you can then modify to say, I want to jump further. I want to jump higher in the sky while I'm doing this jump. want my explosive damage when I land to be bigger.
Starting point is 00:45:25 Or when I land, there are additional blasts of damage around me that happened. Like, there's so many different ways that they, there's one of them that, there's one modifier that makes it so that you are tossing the thing that's making you jump. So you don't, so you could just like use it as a grenade almost. Oh. Yeah. It's fucking crazy. I didn't know that was.
Starting point is 00:45:46 So you're no longer, you can add that modifier. If you're like, well, I don't really use it for movement. It's more of just like, I want to toss it. at an enemy or a pack of enemies. So there's so many different ways to modify that. And so I would say that one was like priority number one. Yeah. On the turrets are fantastic, of course.
Starting point is 00:46:06 The power one had a... The power tank had one where you throw out the... I think it's the boo-ya-rank. Oh, okay, yeah. And it's just a boomerang that goes out. And the way you modify is that you might get a modifier that makes it go out further or you might have a modifier that makes the damage
Starting point is 00:46:26 on the way back to you a lot stronger. There's a modifier that makes it return a lot slower to you so that it stays doing damage more to enemies, which is awesome because you could throw that shit, run to the other side of the level. Yeah. And it is still moving and tracking towards you
Starting point is 00:46:42 hitting enemies along the way. And you could run around in circles and it'll take forever to get back to you. Like still, it's still deployed out there, you know? I didn't use much of the that power tank. I was more so on the speed tank and the technical tank. Technical thing being my favorite because my favorite gadget was the turret, like being able to level that up to where,
Starting point is 00:47:01 yeah, where it lands, it explodes or you increase the fire rate that always became clutch. I forget what my second Dairy ability was early on. I don't want to spoil the one I got later on. The slash one where you like, you rush in, you do dashes and then you slash it.
Starting point is 00:47:16 Was that a speed one? I think that was power. Okay. No, I didn't even do that one. I think it was just another thing that I'll throw out. You have it on your... Probably, but like, the one I have now, I don't think is one... I don't know if that's one I want to talk about.
Starting point is 00:47:30 Because it's one that you unlock later. Which is why I'm dancing around it. But, um... Let me check. No, yeah. So the booeyerang was part of the speed tank, my mistake. Hold on. But one modifier I did get for the boomerang ones was you throw out an additional an additional boomerang.
Starting point is 00:47:48 So there's two out there doing damage. well yeah booie ring I was also using yeah and then I added a scorch modifier on to that which then burns enemies for like you know damage over time
Starting point is 00:47:59 and then I had a weapon modifier that does more damage to enemies that are scorched so it's just like oh man that that min-maxing just got so much fun the bomb balloons oh yes
Starting point is 00:48:10 the bomb balloon is what I was using which is basically there are these big balloons that you would throw out that if they could hit they explode but also if you put out multiple they tether to each other
Starting point is 00:48:19 and they're doing damage via the tethers. And so, like, I'll put one here, shoot one the opposite direction, and you'd see them, like, float, and then connect, and then enemies that are caught between those will get damage. And you can put out, like, three at a time. Yeah. But I'm sure if I upgraded it more, I could even
Starting point is 00:48:34 put out maybe more than that. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you upgrade the amount of how long, the duration that they stay up, like, I had, like, six of them connected at one point, and then you pop one of them, they all, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was my, that was my early game go to, and then I ended up
Starting point is 00:48:50 switching to another gadget that I don't want to talk about yet. But I love where you can go with the gadgets. My favorite types of weapons, though, like, I got super into the boomer, or not the boomerang, the bow and arrow. Oh, really? Okay. The bow and arrow shocked me. And I think something about just the gameplay thing of when you, oh wait, is it the bow and arrow,
Starting point is 00:49:11 when you hop, when you jump and use the bow and arrow, oh, yes, when you jump and use the bone arrow, it does like vertical stuff, but if you're just like on the ground and use the bow and arrow, It shoots three to the side. It shoots like three or five to the side depending on how much it's upgraded. I got so into that. Like strategizing around that, popping out of my squid form
Starting point is 00:49:28 into the air, shooting a path, going back down to my squid form and traveling through it. That's sick. So satisfying. My favorite weapon was either the standard
Starting point is 00:49:38 assault rifle, wherever you want to call, just shoots like mid-range, shoots fast. And that's mainly because the sound feedback is so great. It's really good. So, like, of course, I usually, whenever I play any sort of third person, first person shooter, I love a single shot, either a sniper or a, or a DMR type of, like, you know, semi-automatic weapon.
Starting point is 00:50:01 But in this game, you're only hearing, pah, pah, because it's so short. But when you have, when you have a weapon that shoots as quickly as some of these do, to hear the, like, it's so, it feels so good to hear the feedback, to see the feedback and the damage that you're doing. and then another one I used was it was a kind of like a longer range version of it where it shoots a bit slower but you have a decent amount more range on it and then I paired that with
Starting point is 00:50:30 one of my little perks that you could take along with you that you can you know equip up to like three of them at the start and one of them was you do more damage to far off salmonids so I'm doing 20% extra damage because I'm further away from them so that weapon was really great to use and then I also had another one that was
Starting point is 00:50:47 pretty long range, but wherever the projectile was ending, it would kind of burst. They had a big, kind of like explosive. And it shot fast enough that I was really happy with it. And it felt good to take down, like, big masses of enemies and see the, it's going really far out there and it's doing a decent amount of damage to a lot of enemies. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:10 I want to bring in a super chat from the one and only Logan Plan. Oh. From IGN, who says, great review guys. I played 40 hours. and I'm enjoying reading slash watching everyone else's today. Platoon is such an underrated Nintendo series. I'm happy that I'm into it now. You know, like, it's one that I definitely have underrated for years and years.
Starting point is 00:51:29 As we were in the ad break, thank you, Logan, plant, once again, for your Super chat, very kind of you. I told Blessing that if he ever hops into just standard Splatoon, he's going to look at the fashion customization to be like, man, fuck, I could have had this. I could add something like this in Spiltoon Raiders because it really does feel like a massive miss.
Starting point is 00:51:53 And again, that's just me going back to the stuff I didn't like about it. But yeah, man, the gameplay in the loop is just such a freaking blast. Somebody asked in the YouTube chat, are all the enemies so goofy looking? Any cooler humanoid enemies? No, they're all these salmonids. The whole story is based on, you know,
Starting point is 00:52:09 these saminids that are being attracted to something out there in the spiralite islands. And we don't really know what it is. But yeah, they're all these. I was, like you mentioned early on, I was really impressed by the amount of different variety of the different types of that. And some of them are fucking assholes. Oh my God, don't give you started. There's some of them that are flying that don't look like the dragon types, but they are, they're almost like an arsenal.
Starting point is 00:52:34 And they shoot out like these almost like air drop grenades. Yeah. And you'll be fighting other shit. And suddenly you're drowning in their ink. And you're like, God damn. There's one of them out there. And I didn't really realize it. and those are pains in the asses.
Starting point is 00:52:47 For me, it was the tower guys. The tower guys, they got to pick out the bottoms of because, like, they're basically, they're fucking, they're sniping you from above. Like, all of a sudden, you'll be running around and then you'll feel a laser on you, and it's like, what? And then you, if you're, sometimes it's like three or four of these guys out at a time.
Starting point is 00:53:03 And so you're just getting lasered from four different directions. And it's like, brother, like, let me breathe for it. And if you fail, you could start right over, and I go back in and I'm like, all right, I'm going to throw a turret there. Yeah. And since I had the upgrade to have two turrets, I'll throw another tour.
Starting point is 00:53:16 on the far left side to get both of those turret guys and then I'll go for whoever, you know, like, so many cool ways of strategize. Big complaint for me, actually. There's not a retry button, like a replay button in the podcast. You always go back to the home. You always have to go back to the home. Yeah. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:53:31 That's like such an oversight in my opinion. It reminds me of, there was a game like this recently where I'm like, just let me retry and let me. Yeah. But I forgot what game was recently, chat, you might remember, but I had the same complaint about another video game where I'm like, just let me get back in there.
Starting point is 00:53:48 But a lot of it is the game's way of saying, you unlock stuff, go, go unlock things. You're failing for a reason, which don't get me wrong. I would have loved the retry button.
Starting point is 00:53:59 But you always are unlocking things that you could probably go. I'm not excusing it, but I get it. You can understand why they... Yeah, because there may definitely be people out there going,
Starting point is 00:54:10 games too hard, what the fuck? It's like, no, you're... It's there's a specific challenge that's kind of like a, it's a timed thing. I guess all of the things are timed things.
Starting point is 00:54:18 Pragmata. Oh, Pragmata. Whenever you die in Pragmatah, you go back to the home base. Yeah. The, the, um,
Starting point is 00:54:25 there is, one of the, basically like the sub-level challenges, right, where you gotta take, you gotta get the eggs before the time runs out. Um, one of them,
Starting point is 00:54:35 actually, I don't want to spoil it. I will say load times are fucking awesome, though. Low times are great. Whenever I go back, like, the retry is as,
Starting point is 00:54:44 like, I walk two steps. I hit the thing and I spam A and I'm right back. Like, I'm really impressed by the, I'd be more noted with it. The low times were really shitty. But I still wish I was a retry. There's a very specific challenge that I'm not going to give the details of because I don't
Starting point is 00:54:57 want to spoil it. But like, you're not getting, you're not killing enemies in this challenge. And it's very much one of those challenges that it's like, do it over and over and until you get it right. And that was the one where I was like, please let me hit a retry button. Because then like, I'll get halfway through and no, I'm not beating this thing. And then I'm like, all right, I guess I just got to see it through. and then get kicked back to the hideout.
Starting point is 00:55:16 And okay, let's try it again. Fuck, I'm not doing this fast enough. Get kicked back to the hide out. So that specific challenge, maybe you realize I really wanted that. But I kind of get the thing of always upgrading. One thing that I buried the lead on. Andy, I understand it now. Gyro controls.
Starting point is 00:55:33 Oh, shit. This is my first time embracing gyro motion. Yes. Whoa. Yes. Have you been sleeping on gyro controls? Am I saying it right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:43 Gyro? Yeah. Oh, man. Let me tell you. I was cooking. It's so awesome. It's what got me into gyro. Like, you know, early on, you get your ass
Starting point is 00:55:52 whipped in Spatoon Multiplane. You're like, how are these people so fucking good? Yeah. And it's, you use the right stick. It's, I had to force myself at first because I was like, I'm going to let the gyro rock because I know Andy talks about it a lot.
Starting point is 00:56:03 And it was probably 25% of the way through the game where I started like seeing the Matrix a little bit. I'm just sitting there like, like, it's rotating around. And, you know, if you play not a hand-hand-house, I think it's a lot easier because you're not rotating the screen at the same time. But the, I mean, it's a very similar, it's a very similar mentality to playing keyboard mouse where the right stick is used for the big movements and you're using gyro to just hone in on target to target.
Starting point is 00:56:31 And it feels awesome when you're able to get really good at it, you know? I don't actually pronounce hero. Hero controls. Thank you. Thank you. I'm hungry. The, I'm trying to look for one of those type of mission because I think, I think you can
Starting point is 00:56:46 retry during a mission. Hey, really? Like, you could hit start and then, I think you can hit start and go to retry mid-mission.
Starting point is 00:56:56 No. But if you fail, then you get kicked out and you have to go back. No. So I'm gonna... I don't think you can hit retry during your mission.
Starting point is 00:57:03 That's my thing is I want to pause mid-mission and be like, because you're like, I had a bad start, like false start, let me retry. Because, yeah, I was trying to do that.
Starting point is 00:57:13 But as you look that. Final impressions. You can hit retry. Yeah. So it's like Fuck, when did they add that? Like, if you hit Sartreed, like, like, because I had it during one of them that
Starting point is 00:57:30 required, it was like a race to the end. Yeah. And that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Wait, hold on. I'm booting up that shit. I'm being gaslit. This is gaslighting. I would not have it. But if you fail. Is it a, is it on the type of mission?
Starting point is 00:57:45 I don't, I, I think it's only the types where you are being told to use either these items in the, like, it's, like this one, I'm not, like, this is my main, hold on. Okay, so, well, it's only in the ones that are like, in these type of challenge rooms. Oh, wait, in the, like the gadget focused ones? Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. That's what I thought you were having.
Starting point is 00:58:12 No, that wasn't what I was talking about. That wasn't what I was talking about. We're having to be intentionally vague here. Sorry, Pat. Yeah, for a second, I was like, I thought I updated the game. Like the latest version. Yeah, final thoughts here on the game. I'm loving it.
Starting point is 00:58:26 I'm surprised by how much I'm loving it. I can't wait to finish it. But also, I want to savor it. Now that we're, now that this is the review, I don't have to rush myself to beat this game. So I'm just kind of like going to play it on my own pace and like, probably do some of the end game stuff as well. Like hearing that you're having fun with it.
Starting point is 00:58:42 Dude, yeah, I would want to explore that. I would say, like, if you're feeling. Like, damn, I need better guns or I need better this and that. Like the, I think it's so well structured in not, I think it's such a, it does such a great job of not being obtuse in how to make your thing stronger and to, whenever you, whenever you want to upgrade something, you know exactly where to go and how to do it. And it isn't, in my opinion, I think it does a great job of not being like a mess of menus. it's not the most it's not the most like you know obvious thing ever
Starting point is 00:59:17 but it's like it does such a better job than a lot of other games that try to do this I'm going for end game things what do I need to do how do I upgrade that where do I go for that I think it does a great job of
Starting point is 00:59:26 when you open up the big map that you continue to unlock new places to go you could just hit that left trigger button and it gives you category back category all the levels and you go by through the list and it'll show you the two categories of like normal difficulty was a level eight and you completed that and you got two of the collectibles there normal difficulty for the next one was level 12 and there's one collectible you didn't get but the spicy one now that your higher level is level 32 yeah and that one you have not completed yet and it does a great job with just listing everything out it's very easy to read and and player friendly in that way well that is our review of splatoon raiders and he gave it an eight out of ten i gave it an eight point five
Starting point is 01:00:11 out of 10 with the asterisk that I've not rolled credits, but I'm probably about 30 minutes away from rolling credits. Once I get my level up. And you'll finally hear like a good song. Yeah? Okay, I can't wait for it. I can wait for that. Let us know in the comments below.
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