Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Review - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. Of course, I am your host, Tim Gettys. I am joined today by Roger Percorny. Dirty Zero Sugar, Mountain Dew, Cream Soda, Dew. It's a lot of words. Don't be swinging on it. That's what Andy's drinking right there. But Andy B.
Starting point is 00:01:57 It looks dirty. It looks dirty. It does look distrusting. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not going to defend any of this. Like, you know, Roger looked at all the different words and said, oh, shit, it's also low calorie, five calories per bottle. It's not good. I don't like it. Oh, you don't like it. No.
Starting point is 00:02:13 I just, you know, this is my first time trying it. Oh, okay. I think I've seen you with this one before. No. Yeah, you think you did. No, no, no, no, no, no. Absolutely the fuck not. Get your facts paid. Is this how it's supposed to look? Because I think something's wrong.
Starting point is 00:02:25 No, this is a little lighter. This is, no, but that does look way. You know, the burgers always look puffy on an advertiser. That's so true. Yeah, it's a little light. Yeah. We also have Andy Cortez. It does look like it came from a, from a faucet.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Like when, this looks like what AOC brings out in Congress. This is the drinking water. You think it's fine. You have a drink. Look at what your AI data centers are doing. And of course, we have Greg Miller as well. Hello.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Here's the fun thing. Ring a ding ding, ding. I have a secret challenge for this episode. There will be one winner. I'm not going to tell you what the challenge is. but the winner will get a high five for me. And that means you know that the challenge has been completed.
Starting point is 00:03:12 Nice. I like that. That's stupid. If you're watching live, you can be part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers on patreon.com slash kind of funny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney, the Somme Twining, and Lax Domit.
Starting point is 00:03:30 I'm so used to having Delaney be the final one. Yeah, yeah. So I always say, and I have to have to. Add another and for Lax Nomad. Shout to Lax No Mad. For now, let's start with the topic of the show. That's, not, that's, that, that's, that's. The Adventures of Elliot, the Millennium Tales Review.
Starting point is 00:03:49 The theme description is as follows. A brand new action RPG from the creators of Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default, the Adventures of Elliott, the Millennium Tales combined stunning HD-2D visuals and exciting action-adventure gameplay for the very first time. It's from Square Eunx, released on, June 18th, 2026. The Metacritic, a 78, a 78. But where do we fall next to that? We will find out.
Starting point is 00:04:14 We're about to find out. I actually don't know. I forgot it. I forgot like that. That's great for me. Because you have it on the team? I mean, I counterpicked it against Mike. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:25 That's great for me. That's not about it. There was a lot of worry going into this. So like anytime we would see it again, I'd go, man, I'm going to get JRP'd on this. Yep. I think that this game may be like sort of fine or whatever. during the demo period and it's going to come out of 92. I'm going to be like, how the fuck? Come on, guys.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Got it. Okay. Okay. But didn't you counterpick it and think it was a different game? No, Mike thought it was a different game. Oh, okay. But then back to it thinking that acting as if it was the game he was thinking of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. So then real quick, I just want to get a super top level. Have you beat the game? Roger. No. Andy.
Starting point is 00:04:58 I have rolled credits. Wow. Yeah, I've rolled credits twice in two different endings. I love that then. Let's start with you, Greg Miller. What review score on the kind of funny scale do you give? I've been waiting for the adventures of Elliot and his dumb hat for quite some time. Obviously, you know, Octopath Traveler's Year on my game of the year last year, and a big fan of the Octopath series in general. So to see them go to action RPG mechanics and gameplay, I was incredibly excited for it.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Sadly, this one does not live up to my hopes and dreams. I think my Steam clocks is 28 hours invested in Adventures of Elliot. it's hard because of the saves and jumping around and whatever going on. So I think it's a little bit less than that, but I don't know how Steve adds it all up. And I would give this a 6.5 on the kind of funny scale. I think this is okay. I think there's a lot to criticize and a lot to enjoy in this game. But I think what's most telling is when I rolled the second set of credits last week,
Starting point is 00:05:56 I put it down and moved on to a different game, and I have not thought about Adventures of Elliott once. There's a true ending that I have not doubled back for. because the story just doesn't matter for this game. I have no connection to any of them. And the idea of doing that is not exciting, and I've had my time and my fill with it. For a game that is enjoyable to play,
Starting point is 00:06:16 like, I think it's important that they're going to get another bite of this apple, because Square, of course, lets their teams try again, which I appreciate so much about them. And I will be very excited for whatever comes next for Ellie and his dumb hat. I think there's a lot to enjoy here mechanically and gameplay-wise, but it also isn't reinventing the wheel,
Starting point is 00:06:34 and does not live up to the story expectations I have after Octopath and is a fine time, but I struggle to know who I would recommend this to. If you were to stop me like, oh man, lots of games all the time now. Should I be playing your adventure?
Starting point is 00:06:47 I'd be like, no, you don't need to go play adventures of Elliot. You're fine. I want to ask you a specific question. Last time I talked to you maybe over a week ago, you were sitting at a seven. Yeah. What happened?
Starting point is 00:06:59 I took a week off. I took a week off. No, legitimately. This is like one of those things we talk about with our jobs in, reviewing games and how much fun it is, but then also, all right, here's the game. It's on a Thursday, and you got to review it on a Tuesday. Like, fuck, fuck, fuck, you just play, play, play, play, play, and you come out and you're hot and this is what it is, right? Yeah, I was settling in while playing.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I'm like, this is a seven. It's good. It's a good game. But in, after sitting and marinating on it, like, again, I've had, granted, 20-some hours of an experience with it, but nothing's compelling me to go back. You know what I mean? I still have Octopath Traveler Zero on the steam, the ROG and my Steam library because I still need to go get that true ending. That haunts me that I don't have that true ending. I need to so put in like 21 hours to go get it, right? Picture you in bed and I like, fuck. Yeah, I can't.
Starting point is 00:07:43 God damn. Michael, every time I fucking run into Michael Hyam, Roe, do it? No, I have, oh, you don't get so mad at me for not doing it. Yeah, like, this one is a game I played. I enjoyed for what it was and moved on from. And I think if I wasn't reviewing it, I could have put it down way earlier. There was a great conversation at SGF. I had a very romantic dinner with the one and only
Starting point is 00:08:04 Russ Frustick. And he was talking about trying to play this on the plane and kept falling asleep. And I'm like, yeah, you know, it's not great as this the other, but I'm like, you know, I got a good. He's like, how many hours? You know, 15, 20's like, Greg, you can stop. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:08:19 He's like, no, you can do a best. He's review. If we played seven hours, we get it. We don't like it. Like, I'm like, no, I like it. And there's a lot to enjoy and like, but like inter, I said like a lot there. That's embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:08:30 In terms of me ever being like, at the end of the year, I'm not going to think of Adventures of Elliot for any of the top 10 lists, any of that jazz, you know what I mean? Like, it's got the art style I love. It has one of, if not the most annoying characters I have ever heard in a video game to the point, Tim,
Starting point is 00:08:47 that I switched to Japanese to give myself a break. So I didn't have to hear this person anymore. And even in the fucking menu, where you can turn down how much they chime in. They still chime in way too fucking much with that grading goddamn, I have a great It's a fun game You can have fun here
Starting point is 00:09:06 There are games doing what this is doing So much better And I think you know Especially in a time where As somebody who did the preview For Mina with Andy And then walked away from Mina Like
Starting point is 00:09:15 Mina is lights out Such a better game than this And so for it to be in its shadow Of like hey we're like Zelda It's like well go play the other Like these are both trying to be Zelda Go play Mina Andy Cortez
Starting point is 00:09:27 I rolled credit once, right? I didn't and I don't really have a whole lot of urge to go back. I think the Adventures of Elliot is a super serviceable fine game. I struggle to say
Starting point is 00:09:43 that it's not a seven at least because it's, the gameplay is, can be fun, right? The gameplay is like not this thing that I'm dreading or whatever. It's not the most, like Greg said, it's not reinventing the wheel. It's nothing that you're going to go, dude, the way
Starting point is 00:09:59 I tell people, if you care about Zelda likes, play Alabaster Dawn. That mechanically, gameplay-wise, puzzle-wise, fucking holy shit. Cannot wait for that game to fully come out because it's in early access right now. And I always wondered, would this game kind of be living in that, would it be fighting those ghosts of Alabaster Don? And sure enough, it did. Because I, not to say that if I didn't play Alabaster Don, I'd be way higher on this. It's just really, really.
Starting point is 00:10:29 tough for Adventures of Elliot. I will say if I were to do the Game Pro, you know, super smiley face, you know, maybe mediocre, not too stoked face or whatever, and their rating system. The soundtrack, this is a 10 out of 10 soundtrack.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Music in this game, fucking phenomenal. 1,000% legitimately so good. It will be in my smileys, like, soundtrack of it it will, it needs to win shit. It is fucking great.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Story-wise, you know, I'm... I'm... I'm okay with a game not having a good narrative. I'm all right with that. It's just like, you know,
Starting point is 00:11:17 if I told you, Greg, that, you know, if you don't like pepperoni on that pizza, you can just peel it off. And then I give you the... I give you the pizza and there's 90,000 pepperonies. You're like,
Starting point is 00:11:29 fuck like that's a lot crust is made of pepperoni that's that's the thing that i i you know experience a lot with you know um even with octobat traveler although later on they did some really cool shit thank you and this unfortunately never kind of gets there yeah i was always hoping for that shoe to drop yeah we're going to turn the corner and this is going to go somewhere but adventures of elliot guess what tim elliot is an adventure he's an adventure that's the job that's the whole job title i'll do it i'm an adventurer why do you do good things i'm an adventurer i just feel like you're an adventurer go adventure i feel like it never gets there narratively and like greg mentioned the there's just so much writing for it to be this bad like the if you don't
Starting point is 00:12:17 have a whole lot to say you don't have to be talking be doing a whole lot right and just like Greg mentioned in the settings. There's a fucking, I need to clip this out, but when I played the demo on stream and I was like, oh yeah, she's, she's kind of yapping a lot. Let me, let me go into the settings and there's a setting where you could go from talkative or whatever to reticent. Go to reticent and we walk into a dungeon. It looks at you can move that block there.
Starting point is 00:12:44 And it's like, I thought I, how did you get so good at this? Let me fucking double check these settings to make sure that I put you in. Yep, I turn. I hit that guy. Damn, Sandy. Everywhere I go, I am having to double check. Did I tell this character's a not gas on once and I went it back and I'm like, did they update the game and default the settings? I didn't know what the word reticent meant. So I was like, is that is just, is that talking? Did you know what the word meant or did you just contextually know what it meant?
Starting point is 00:13:13 No, I knew. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I had Google. I had to Google. I've never heard. I'm a great speller and a lot of that comes of context. Got it. Yeah, a lot of that stuff. But like Greg mentioned, I still think it's a fun game. I think there's really cool moments of combat, some fun boss fights. And if you don't mind that and you're, if you don't mind skipping through dialogue,
Starting point is 00:13:37 like by the, by the latter half of the game, I am just skipping through everything. Like, nothing you're saying is interesting. It's not well-ridden. It's not really well-acted either. And it's really grating. I turned the voice, the speech volume all the way to zero. it's just a lot.
Starting point is 00:13:53 They're doing it a lot. And it's like when you when you don't have the Steph Curry three pointer green light don't take the shot as much as you are. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:14:04 And that's my problem with like that's why whenever I played something like Neo3 or Ninja Guidein the most recent one. How are you doing this yourself, Andy? You don't need this. But I have to because
Starting point is 00:14:14 but I have to because it's okay. Let's throw that in there. It's okay to be more reserved if you don't have a whole... If you know that my team doesn't have the talent narrative-wise, you don't got to shoot the shot as much you guys do. Just be reserved, just like give me... You could just fucking do the bullshit thing of going like,
Starting point is 00:14:36 well, we want the gamers to kind of like, you know, it's up to their interpretation. You can just lie to me and have like the most minimal dialogue and I would have enjoyed the experience a lot more, but man, you're trying to really succeed in that department and you rarely ever do. So this, it's a bummer of an experience, but gameplay-wise, I would say it's still fun
Starting point is 00:14:55 in a lot of moments, and it's really, really gorgeous, and the music is outstanding. Before we get to your thoughts, Raj, you guys made a very clear point here of how you feel about the amounts and quality of the narrative. Do you think that there will be people out there
Starting point is 00:15:09 that really do vibe with it? Is it like a style thing, or is it more of like... Zero percent. I would say, like, if they are, like, I can't believe I vote in the same country, you. Well, like, we're at, we're at that level. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I kind of want to yes and you, but, like, I think my thing is, I, if I was, like, 12 to 13 years old, I would, I would be digging this.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Not, like, the, not loving it, but I would be like, oh, this is, like, a cool little adventure. I don't know. Like, after, like, experiencing so many different stories and so many different RPG stories, I just don't understand how an adult can, can, get vibe with it. Man, I don't know. I, like, you know, after playing, linked to the past earlier this year, obviously there's no voice acting, but you know, it's efficient and it's giving you just a line here and there
Starting point is 00:15:54 and you get what you need to know and you move on and you keep playing the video game and man, they really want to succeed here. It's like they really want to show off that we can do this. It's like, dude, you can't, man. You know, we just did previews and me and Mike talked about it yesterday of Minecraft Dungeons
Starting point is 00:16:10 2. Stick with me. And then we're talking about it's baby's first action RPG A RPG, right? Your first Diablo right? I feel to your point, Roger, Adventures of Elliot could easily be your first action RPG of this genre, of this ilk if you've never played as elder, done it and stuff. But that's my problem with it is that it is enjoyable, but it's so basic that I feel like nothing gets out of that point, where the story we've already lamented, and I'm sure we will to some degree again. But it's also the fact of the narrative, I should say, in the writing. It's also the fact that the gameplay, Tim, while enjoyable, for sure. The actual enjoyment I get isn't the moment to moment combat because I feel like
Starting point is 00:16:51 that's super simple and grants you can turn up the difficulty but just more hit points right. It's the removing the fog of war from the map as you go through
Starting point is 00:16:59 right and you do that like that was where I was finding like okay let's just go let's go get it's the map is littered with treasure chests and temples to go get your next piece of heart
Starting point is 00:17:09 it's literally just fucking Zelda to get a new fairy power to increase this night like there's cats to fucking just collect in the world and stuff. And they are voiced by humans.
Starting point is 00:17:19 And they all have different personalities, the meows. You walk up to a cat's like, meow. And there's a cat boy too. It's like that. It's cool. I like that. Yeah, no, no.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Yeah. When I have the speech volume down, I'm not expecting a meow. And it still happens. It doesn't count his dialogue. No, it doesn't count his dialogue. Yeah. The back is littered with stuff to go do.
Starting point is 00:17:44 And like, I could see so many people being like, this is my podcast game. I just want to sit down and go have a, I'm an adventurer tail and have fun, again, and not know where the tail is. And do the thing or whatever. Boss fights I do think are really great and enjoyable. But then they also squander a really cool idea, Tim,
Starting point is 00:18:01 where this is the Millennium Tale, you know what I mean here? So there's four different time periods you exist in, and you can go between them and stuff. And when they introduced that, I was like, oh, this is cool. We're going to go back. I'm helping the king right now.
Starting point is 00:18:14 I'm going to go back. I'm going to change something. thing. I will come back to the future, the present. Then he won't be king anymore. None of that happens. Like, you're just doing these things and you'll even bump into people and be like, oh, hey, I know, I know. I'll go bop over there and you talk.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Like, it's frictionless in that way. The boss fights are my favorite part. So much deja vu being at this exact desk. You and I talk about Dragon Quest, seven remake and like the exact same problems. Yeah. That's funny. Raj. Yeah, I'm talking about Groundhog Day and everything.
Starting point is 00:18:42 I feel like I'm in Grouten Hog Day playing this game because I'm only like seven hours in, but it's my like before I go to bed video game. It's replaced the Kindle now. I'm just playing video games because, you know, I'm a bad person. Fuck breathing. And I'm booting this up. And I like play 30, 40 minutes.
Starting point is 00:18:56 And I'm like, man, I'm enjoying the combat having fun. The boss battles are really good. The music's fun. And then I just sure shit hit some point of like story. And I truly am falling asleep. Like I need to talk to Russ because it is every single night. I am falling asleep playing this video game when it comes to the story. And it's like I almost want to compare it to like,
Starting point is 00:19:16 Saturday morning, like anime that you watch as a little kid, but that's a disservice to anime, because like, this is so surface level. There is, the story is just a big old nothing burger. And yeah, to everybody's point, like, there is, there's no way to escape it. Like, there was one moment last night where I'm falling asleep, like, literally struggling. And Leanne's like, can you save? Like, can you get to a plate, stable? And like, no, babe, like, there is so much dialogue. And she's like, can you save? No, no, can't save. I've got to figure this out now. um, they,
Starting point is 00:19:44 the amount of writing, they think they're like David Fincher. Yes. With like, like, hey, we got the skills that man, people will,
Starting point is 00:19:51 people will sit through this four hour long, uh, you know, Quentin Tarantino, we're all sitting in a cabin together. It's like, you don't do that, you don't do that.
Starting point is 00:19:59 You really don't. Um, but yeah, no, I, and it sucks because they had an octopath. You know what I mean? And I would imagine there's part of that where, uh,
Starting point is 00:20:08 we're going to do it and we're going to have this HCT style. We know what we're doing and the music and we're going to be able to delivered the same caliber of story, and I really feel like there's one narrative thread with a couple. But I'm like, all right. Like, I'm interested in this, but not like I was with Primrose and Octopath Traveler 1, right? Not like I was an Octopath Traveler Zero with just in general the revenge I'm trying to extract.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Yeah, and something about it's fucking Elio, bro, in his dumbass hat. Like, he, he's just, it feels like. Andy Cortez, stand up. Oh. He did it. He gets the high five. Why did? What? Andy Cortez was the last person
Starting point is 00:20:45 To not insult the hat Oh wow, yes Greg was on it immediately I fucking hate this hat I hate this hat I hate it But I'm just an adventure And he does
Starting point is 00:20:55 Get out of here You fucking loser But but But fucking Elio man He's walking around And he like All he feels like a A side character
Starting point is 00:21:04 In an anime That you would like Because he only shows up In one arc And then he just Completely disappears And shows up Maybe 10
Starting point is 00:21:11 10 seasons later You're about to die, like his blade comes in and stops the king. But like being the main character, it actually made me, I think during our hot takes episode in gaming or whatever, I said like, oh, all of these, we're fresh off of Dragon Quest. And I was like, man, I wish that all of these characters, just the main characters had voice acting. I fucking take that back.
Starting point is 00:21:27 I wish this guy didn't speak. He did not need to speak as much. I think if he did not speak, I would actually have a lot more fun. But I think the story would go by a little bit faster. Yeah, I think it was, you know, uh, uh, I, Barrett was also playing. He's off this week. And he was checking with me here and there. And one time he checked in.
Starting point is 00:21:43 he's like, after playing this, I am now more staunch than ever that Link should never speak. It's just not good. Somebody in the Twitch hat said, yeah, these these HD 2D games just aren't for Andy. I disagree. I think if you pull back the amount of dialogue and make just the writing more enjoyable, I'd say that this is like an easy recommendation because like the gameplay is serviceable, but still like fun in a lot of moments. but when I, again, thinking back to my time with just the 12 hours I played of the
Starting point is 00:22:16 Alabaster Dawn, early access. Get alabaster. There's no voice acting, but the writing is quick and efficient and it's, it's got heart. It's got feeling. I got a flying guinea pig I'm talking to and I like that guy. I like to get, I'll kill this Barry. I'm with it. They're corky.
Starting point is 00:22:34 They're quirky. They're witty. They're creative with it. And this just, uh, it's just, it's just not enjoyable to, experience. But again, a lot of people will say, hey, I don't need the narrative there. Totally fine. I think if you play this, not giving a shit about narrative, you'll have a decent time. Yeah, that's me last night is that I found a dungeon that actually made me like smile. It was like a nice little puzzle with mirrors and everything. I was like, oh, wow, this is like really
Starting point is 00:22:58 nice. But then, yeah, immediately right after that, just hit with the with the story of it all. And again, that's, you know, I feel like as lame as the, I'm an adventure part of it is. Like, that's where you, if you lean in, you're going to have fun. Where it isn't even about what you're doing and who you're talking to. It is about get, let's uncover all the map. Tim, one of the things I think some people might find, find frustrating I enjoyed quite a bit,
Starting point is 00:23:20 was the looking at the map and, oh, I need to get up into the northwest corner and you start heading that way and you just hit the, hit a wall. Yeah. And you walk along the wall, and it's like, oh, shit, it isn't direct. So then it's like, you got to work your way back of like,
Starting point is 00:23:33 fast travel is incredibly simple. There's a lot of fast travel point. So it's like, well, if I fast travel to the southwest, and then I work my way to that, cave there with the question marks. There might be a connector that gets, it was like, that whole thing of like trying to piece together how to get is part of it. Being in these dungeons and it being like, cool, I still have one treasure chest over there.
Starting point is 00:23:52 How do I get that treasure chest? Okay, how am I going to figure that out? Like, that's the enjoyment factor here for me personally. Again, combat, I think serviceable is a great way to put it, where it's like, I enjoy it fine, but since it doesn't offer a challenge, nor do I feel it offers a great reward. It was just something I'm doing. And I was like, okay, cool, I like this more than terms of.
Starting point is 00:24:11 based because I like being active, but I'm also not vibe. It's one of those where the story isn't amazing and the gameplay is an amazing. And so for me right there, it's like, okay, well, what's going on here? And so to be talking about service, we'll talk about this. It's like the things that it excels out, I think, are the art style, is the music, is that feeling of exploration of going through and doing things. I never realized the hat was on the A. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. We love that. A lot of time I thought that was Faye, you're right, that is the hat. That makes me even more angry We got some super chats Some of them are hat-based Joshy Frog says the hat's cool I never wear it but it's cool
Starting point is 00:24:48 And this guy says hot take The hat's getting too much hate Play the game Because it also just doesn't fit in the world It just doesn't Why? Let's be real, let's talk about the hat He clearly was trying to walk into
Starting point is 00:25:01 fucking Pax West They went through a portal and now he lives here And he's fucking living with all these Rural people The kingdom. Look, look, I know less about a lot of like JRP lineage and things like that. But a lot of, there's several people going, that's what red mages wear. I don't want my fancy characters with cowboy hats.
Starting point is 00:25:20 I'm sorry. I don't like him. I don't know. Get a hood. He's also not an age, you know. I don't know. I'm a hater on the hat. I just like making fun of it.
Starting point is 00:25:30 But I mean, it is fine. I mean, it's the only redeemable thing about this guy's character. You know what I mean? Like, it's interesting about him. Redeemable? Oh, you didn't get to the part of that one, yeah. Just killing all those kids.
Starting point is 00:25:42 It's crazy. Mike Legg Music says the demo was my bedtime game. It gives those vibes. For sure. Helps you fall asleep. And then Fate says, have any of you played any of the Manna games, like Visions of Manna?
Starting point is 00:25:53 If it's the same as that. This game's heavily inspired for Manna from Dev interviews. No. This looks, I mean, a lot of these images of these red hats with the Red Mages, these look a lot more like, like red blood. Blood-born hats.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Elliot's just kind of has like a full-ass brim, though. Like, I don't know if I... These look like the same hat. Yeah. But I think they're dumb here too. See, I disagree. Like, but these are pointing.
Starting point is 00:26:21 These hats. These hats have some kind of style. Like, he's just wearing a red fedora. Well, let's see the actual key art of, of Elliot. If we could pull that up because I want to see it. I like the ones with the point in the front, you know?
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Starting point is 00:30:15 They don't skip, they stay for hours. They don't move on. They manifest. They're not a demographic group. They're fans. Spotify advertising. You're among fans. And we're back. Kev, do you have a picture of Elliot
Starting point is 00:30:31 to bring up? Okay. Okay. Here's him in game. It's a fucking fedora. It is a fedora. It's just a normal ass fedora with a yellow feather. But I think that that... Give me the back angle going to the 5th. You know, I'd be way cool with that.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Does anyone else wear a real hat in this game? No. Maybe I get so much frustration. The true ending is going to be he was fucking walking into 2012 facts. Fell into a wormhole. Here he is. I also, I wanted to bring up just that quick thing
Starting point is 00:31:06 you were talking about. Kyle Bond, VA says in all caps, it looks good. Kyle, I'm going to find you right now and see what your fucking fashion sense is.
Starting point is 00:31:15 I wish that there was more creativity with the whole time traveling, like Greg has mentioned. There were several times that I even tricked myself into going, okay, well,
Starting point is 00:31:28 if I were to enter that cave in this time period, I may be able to do this and then it'll unlock something in the place where I needed to be and it's like, no, they were, there are four different time periods, but they're all, they're not affected by each other. They're just like, things are different about them, which is cool.
Starting point is 00:31:47 You know, there are caves that, you know, maybe you can explode that wall now and maybe you can't do it in the other eras. But I was hoping for some sort of interconnectedness and I was wanting them to mingle a bit more, but they just, that doesn't really happen, unfortunately. Yeah, it just feels like a way to kind of remix the same map, a few different ways. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit more about the actual gameplay. Greg
Starting point is 00:32:07 okay oh I knew it Kyle Bonvié goes to pecks How many padoras do you own How many fedores do you own Kyle He's a voice actor I don't give a shit I got a dead to rights
Starting point is 00:32:23 You're lucky You only have seven photos on your Instagram because I guarantee on your phone You got one of you wearing a fucking fedora I'm like you're dead to rights Here's what I'm saying. Kyle Bond, I know you got a fedora photo on your phone. You put it on Instagram right now.
Starting point is 00:32:45 All right? I'm going to f-5 this page after I answer Tim's questions. I better see a goddamn fedora photo there. That's right. What's your question? Gameplay. Right. So again, action gameplay and Tim, as somebody who,
Starting point is 00:32:59 you haven't touched this at all, right? No. Zelda. It's just straight up. Like, you start. with your sword, you eventually get your shield, the mirror shield where you can parry back with stuff. Of course, you're getting bombs, you're getting a boomerang. I mean, you just name it, you're getting these things that Elliott is using and just ripping off from Link. But again,
Starting point is 00:33:16 this 2D HD art style works really well, is enjoyable. The entire combat thing, and what I really appreciated was experimenting with the kit. You know, you start off and you have the sword, of course, then you get your bone arrow, and okay, cool, I was pretty committed to my bone arrow. Then they have this thing called magicide in there, which is your way. to augment all your different ability or your different weapons, right? So you start with a very small magicide box, which only allows you to say, I'll say,
Starting point is 00:33:42 Tim, let's just say. Ten, is that what it started as? I'm going to say six, but you have ten points to assign. And so as you're beating up creatures and unlocking chests, you're getting new magicide fragments, and then you can use those to go trade in for magistrate abilities, or sometimes you find the ability in the bigger chests. And the really good magistrate might be eight points. So you only have two left.
Starting point is 00:34:01 Exactly. You understand this. And then, of course, you take the money you're earning, and you can buy a bigger Magycite box so you can keep increasing your kit and really build it out. By the end, I had, my boomerang had turned into like a glave
Starting point is 00:34:12 from Dark Sector. That was pretty fucking cool. I think we even call it Death Glave. It's purple. I loved it. But you could send it out and it kills people and I'd add it in making it bigger and different attacks,
Starting point is 00:34:22 elementals and yada, yeah-y-dada. Charge it. There's always a different. But one of the things I was doing that I really appreciated was on the sword I had gone into him and said, okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:34:29 I'm using the magic site to make sure I'm getting more critical attacks that they're doing more damage, etc, et cetera, et cetera. And then with the glave, I'd put a new ability on that that was, if it's out, my crit chance is up 20% or something like that. So it'd be this thing of walking into a battle and just
Starting point is 00:34:43 throwing it out at somebody and then just killing everybody and slice it mom. I'll tell you what I love to. Go into a big ass open field of grass. Throwing that boomerang and I had it set to a slower speed with one of the things where it's like, it becomes bigger, but it's slower. So I'd throw it out and I would just run and it would follow
Starting point is 00:34:59 me and cut all the grass. That's real satisfying stuff. That reminds me of Link to the Past where you get the run ability and you can just run through. So good. But speed to Link to the Past, Andy. How does this compare, you just played Link to the Past not too long ago,
Starting point is 00:35:13 feel wise in terms of the action combat? Well, I mean, it's the modernized version of it. You know, like Greg mentioned with the Perry. You're not just holding block to block. Now, everything else, I would say animation-wise, I wish they did a bit more to kind of, you know, up the presentation because the art style is so gorgeous. But, like, my first issue that,
Starting point is 00:35:33 that I had with it when I first played the demo was when you spam X, it's just the link, ching, ching, tink, you know, you're just swiping the sword. I was hoping for a bit more flourish or whatever. Not a whole lot of, you know, production values there, unfortunately. But the, like, it's as responsive as you would want it. There's no dodge, but you do have a jump, and there will be boss, you know, attacks where there's a wave on the ground, you've got to jump over it at the right time. And so it's, it's the modernized version of it, where it's meant to be a bit
Starting point is 00:36:03 more actiony. Do you have an example of a game that does the more stylish swipes? Alabaster Don. Alabaster Don. Hyperlight Drifter. You know, there's a lot more like flourish to the animations. But there are a lot of different abilities in this game because not only do you have your kit like Greg is mentioning and when you're in battle, you can hold right trigger
Starting point is 00:36:30 and it brings up the little weapon wheel. and you could set, you know, X is set to whatever weapon, Y is set to another weapon, and you can on the spot, like, you know, hot swap out, your weapons, but then your little fairy also has abilities, and your little fairy... Alabester Dorn, what up, everybody play this game? Your little fairy can light things on fire.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Your little fairy can have you teleport to it. There's a lot of, like, different abilities. Eventually, you could run, you can fly. You know what I mean? They get pushed around with it, which I know. Roger saw me doing hours in he's like how the fuck did you that ain't yeah I'm desperately in need of a dodge in this game
Starting point is 00:37:07 of some type of dash or something I'm like seven hours in I was like every every time every PlayStation I'd be like this is the play session I'm gonna get it I'm gonna get them and it just never happened for me and I think that that's like budding up against me having like a really really fun time where I just doesn't feel like I had that agency to like dodge roll
Starting point is 00:37:23 do something like I just got the Perry I see the chat right now we have Kyle Vaughn saying I don't have a fedora made a post with my dorky is hot. All right, let's pull it up. While Greg is doing that, I, your ferry does have that ability.
Starting point is 00:37:42 There's an ability that you could, um, you could teleport to it. You could also make a clone of yourself, wherever your fairy is. And they just don't do enough thing. There's, there was one moment where like a bunch of arrows
Starting point is 00:37:55 were being shot out of a wall. And I couldn't cross it without dying. So I had to use the right stick to control the ferry to go around the wall and then I teleported to it and I was like, cool, give me more of that and I just never really had more of that unfortunately.
Starting point is 00:38:09 Yeah, because you control the ferry with the right stick. Right. It's a little bit like a little too slow. Kind of a no, yeah. She's a little slow. You can't use it in combat, but it doesn't really work out. There it is.
Starting point is 00:38:18 Okay, yeah, there we go. There's the hat. That's, but again, that's a nice hat. All right, Kyle. That's a good hat. We can't talk shit about this hat. So what I did is I made about that for sure. I don't believe him.
Starting point is 00:38:32 So I made an artist surrendering of Kyle wearing the red fedora at packs. Kevin, can you? Oh, wow. Wow. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You have to post this on your Instagram. That's a great job.
Starting point is 00:38:54 It's like all my skills. But yeah, not enough, not enough creative. puzzles, you know, there aren't, there were not any moments in this game where I said, oh, shit, nice. I, you know, I figured that out. I can't, I overcame that challenge. Everything is very, very obvious. It could be a good, like, Baby's first Zelda game.
Starting point is 00:39:15 But there's Zelda for that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there would be moments in Zelda when I was a kid that I'm like, how the fuck do I, what, how do I figure out this dungeon? There's none of that here. Like, I feel like this is, it's very, very surface level. Yeah, the amount of dungeons I would walk in and be like, oh my God,
Starting point is 00:39:30 there's seven floors. This is going to be confusing. And I think it speaks to being frictionless and being welcoming that that never happened. It would be you just keep going and eventually maybe you hit the wall, but there's probably a fast travel point there that you could get back to or whatever. Yeah, the fast travel is very, very nice. Like Greg has mentioned you can fast travel to any of the little bonfire checkpoints or whatever. But also in dungeons, I would often forget that I could fast travel. And it was always so...
Starting point is 00:39:54 You're doubling all the way back to the front door. And that happened a couple times. And then I was like, you could just fast travel back to the... the other spot in the dungeon knows very helpful. So they do a lot. They're doing enough there to lessen the frustration
Starting point is 00:40:07 because I always think back to the devs of Phantom Blade Zero and then mentioning like when you're hit when you're hit a Takamiyazaki and you're making a soul's like you're giving a lot more grace and when you're not him,
Starting point is 00:40:21 players are quicker to give up and say like I don't want to deal with the frustration. So I'm happy that they made some concessions and said like, no, let's just you fast travel right off the rip. Let's let the player explore as much as they want and quickly get around and adventure to their heart's content.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Raj, there was the system you wanted to talk about. I was the, uh, the magistrate, the magistrate things, which is, I think it's an early game situation right now where I'm just basically the, the, there's no like traditional upgrade system for any of these, you know, weapons, right? So you're just kind of going to the, uh, to the dealer and you're getting a bunch of random ones where you're finding them around the world. So the ones that I'm getting, I just feel like aren't really like doing anything that I can kind of figure out. Of course, the crit damage is kind of nebulous to me right now.
Starting point is 00:41:06 But it seems like it goes to a place that gets crazier as you go on. You eventually will. I'm interested with it. Yeah, you'll find two star than three star versions of those weapons. And then as you level up the box, you get you earn more, you have a better chance at getting those higher star ratings. And then you can. But it's also back to just the fact that game doesn't challenge you to make this worthwhile to a degree. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:27 I feel like I could have equipped. none of the magicite had been fine. I did make a mistake in the, like, leading up to the final boss of whatever, the first ending, that, uh, I, I sold, like, all of my magicite, uh, just to try to get money. And then I realized, like, oh, shit, I'm kind of screwed right here because I, so I had to go do a couple of other things to get just some things to add on or whatever. But, um, you get to a point when you upgrade your bag or when you upgrade, like, the amount of, the, the, the amount of gems that you're making.
Starting point is 00:41:58 will level up the rarity of the magistrate you're getting right. And when you hit level five, I believe, you then get the ability to make magicide for specific weapons. And you don't have that initially. Yeah. It costs more. So if you, you know, you could just make like, if I have, you know, 20 magicide, you know, gems or whatever,
Starting point is 00:42:22 that's four random gems that I can make because they cost five gems. They cost five, right? Yeah. But if you want to make, if I just want sword ones, they cost 10. And so each, if you want to make specific ones,
Starting point is 00:42:35 they would cost 10. So they cost a little bit more, but you would know, I'm fucking with this sword. I don't want to get gems for weapons I'm not using. Let me just make gems for this sword. I think I'm not like level three right now. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:42:44 and then they all pop up and, you know, they'll all be like, you know, after a pair of your crit does this, or you shoot out three waves of energy now. The swipe is a lot larger. You know,
Starting point is 00:42:54 they do get, um, a bit, they get a bit more detailed i would say yeah one of the basic things that i think turn me off um and i'm glad i went through it because i think it's gotten better the more weapons i get is just the way that you move your characters and you and your character and you fight it is that it's on a eight axis right so you can't
Starting point is 00:43:16 you don't get like that full 360 of movement so there was a few moments where i'm like trying to attack somebody and they're just in that in-between area and i'm just getting that annoying hit and it's like okay i need to kind of adjust and restart it of Of course, that gets better depending on what weapon you use. And, of course, when you have, like, bigger, you know, shock waves and stuff like that. But in the very beginning, that turned me off a little bit there. Yeah, what's the readability like? Because I'm watching this and I haven't played, but seeing some of the boss fights because
Starting point is 00:43:39 of the HD 2D art style and it's being way more action focused than the turn-based ones we've gotten in the past. Like, it does seem a little bit difficult to read. Like, did you experience that or not? I didn't. That's usually my complaint with, like, beat them ups, right? Even cosmic invasion or something like getting annoyed. Personally, I didn't have that issue here.
Starting point is 00:43:57 I thought I was able to deflect or, you know, bounce it back or get in their attack everywhere. The bosses, I think, again, are the stellar standout of the combat here. Like, they are inventive with them. I wish there was more of them. The ones you get into are real cool. Oh, I should say that. My secret delight for this game, Tim, is there's a frog who plays a saxophone that then puts a little bubble around his friends. I like that guy a lot.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Sick. It chills them up. Real good tune. We should get that for our album. You guys are going to love Chrono Shaker. Like, when they finally do just decide the timing is right. Right. We did an HG2D Chrono Trigger.
Starting point is 00:44:27 There's a lot y'all said at this that I'm like, that's the game for you. Yeah. Yeah. That's exciting. There's a frog in it. I know. I've started Corona Trigger several things.
Starting point is 00:44:34 Yeah, I got to the frog guy in Chrono Trigger. Well, the coolest. Turn it off. I don't support this. All right. Anything else y'all want to talk about? I'm bummed that I didn't love this. I really, when everything we were seeing for it,
Starting point is 00:44:48 I was like this looks like exactly what I want from this studio, from this art style, from this, blah, blah. So the fact that it all come together is it stinks. I mean, again, I think it's an okay game. If you're hearing us talk about it and you want a bedtime game, you want just to... I mean, K. Bazza, in the chat says,
Starting point is 00:45:03 after playing the demo and hearing all this, I legit can't wait, this game's a 7 out of 10. I'll love like a 10 out of 10. Just nice junk food for before bed and on a plane. I like that. Yeah. If you got time for it, absolutely. I just...
Starting point is 00:45:12 I'm at that point where I'm like, there are a lot of awesome experiences out there that are about to come out or have already come out. Also, shout out. Or the backlog. Yeah, and it might, you know, I just don't know if it would be worth my time then, but I will say shout out to video games New York
Starting point is 00:45:26 that I visited I went to the video games New York retro store you know used game store and uh... Did you buy Arrow the Acrobat? No, I didn't buy Arrow the Acrobat Did you kind of look at it and kind of remember how he loved to you and I was like yeah he's a bat
Starting point is 00:45:41 yeah he's bad but I did I was looking at their their inventory I was like you got adventures of Elliot is that is that out yet? He's like no but we could sell it I love it.
Starting point is 00:45:55 Hell yeah. Break his street day. I love that. I love that. It was a freaking wonderful. Anyways, even though this one didn't live up to my expectations,
Starting point is 00:46:03 I'm very excited for a sequel. I'm very excited for the next Octopath that they'll do. Like, I still really love this art style in this studio. So, yeah. I should say, this is my first HD2 game
Starting point is 00:46:12 that I don't actually, like, synced any time into. And you know what? Not fully, not fully blown away by it. I like HD2D fine. It gives me like a little fan game vibe. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:46:23 That's just like my weird take on it. I don't hate it. I'm not like a hater on it. It's just like doesn't blow me away in motion as much as I thought it would. I think when it first came out, you know, we've had this discussion of like it may have lost its luster. I think this is the best looking form of it.
Starting point is 00:46:38 There are no squirrels with misnumbered or missized pixels. I will say that. The game, they do a great job. I swear to God, they listen to that game's cast. I swear to God, because there's a thing that you do in game development.
Starting point is 00:46:53 that's called like a imagine like a noise map Roger like a noise map that's like tileable so it just goes everywhere right and you often do that with close up textures where like I can I can you know texture in all the wrinkles on a face
Starting point is 00:47:09 but then you can add a pores noise map that you could add a bunch of pores and you could make the map bigger so they get larger or whatever but they're all tileable or whatever this game all over the environment has like a sort of like square by square um like it's just you see a bunch of squares all over the ground like pixel
Starting point is 00:47:28 as if like they want everything to look to scales like they listen to that podcast they know that like man we can't disappoint andy on this one yeah all the stones have the same size pixels as elliot does it's a great job great job 10 out of 10 game they did it they did it everybody um well cool that's the adventures of elli that's the um leviour's i want to but octopath traveler zero play alabaster dawn Play Alibaldi. Fuck, play Alabaster Don, dude. I want to bring up another game that I've been kind of rocking with recently.
Starting point is 00:48:01 It's a game that I recommended to Greg and Roger. Roger. I'm going to, I'm bringing it up right now on YouTube so I can get that link for Kevin. It's called The Spell Brigade. Maybe Kevin can get it faster than I can. The Spell Brigade. For anybody who fucks with vampire survivors games, that sort of genre. This is a
Starting point is 00:48:24 multiplayer style video game and it is so much freaking fun. It's pretty much vampire survivors but you could play with up to four friends or just solo and the art style is very like League of Legends. So if you're, I know when we played vampire
Starting point is 00:48:40 crawlers, Bless didn't really, bless doesn't really fuck with like the different clashing art visual styles of the vampires games. You know, like how they do their visuals. This game looks a lot more like League of Legends. It has like a lot more of a, you know, the arts style looks like it was made by one person.
Starting point is 00:49:01 And it's not really all over the place. So if that bothers you, this will kind of help that out. But it could be up to a four-player multiplayer. You can go res your friends whenever they get downed. You can turn off like friendly fire. I'm having a lot of fun with it right now. It's 1299. and it's definitely a lot more active than what vampire survivors is.
Starting point is 00:49:24 There will be like just random quest that pop up that say go collect, you know, 20 of these things on the ground and you have to go search for them while also trying to not die. And all the abilities so far are a lot of fun. I think it's like a really, really cool promising time. I don't know if it's early access or not. I assumed it was. No, no, it's out.
Starting point is 00:49:43 Okay, so it's fully ass out. All right. That's awesome. But yeah, the much, like vampire survivors, much like you know, Megabonk or any of those, you start unlocking new different characters that have different perks about them.
Starting point is 00:49:57 The, yeah, it's, it's really fun so far. I would say, I highly recommend it. PlayStation 5 and Steam as well. Wow. Wow. Wow. Fully ass out. Speaking of HD 2D. Oh. Final Fantasy Resonance. Resonance.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Any effect on your hype level for that game after Elliot? I'm hoping, like, I'm hoping the writing is good. That's, that's, a lot of it comes down to that for me. Like, I,
Starting point is 00:50:27 I, I, I, I, I, I, I want characters to care about. I want, I want someone to drop a bar and go like, damn, that's hard.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Like, that's a cool thing to say right there in that moment. I just, I want my characters to feel cool and lovable, and I want some people to really hate and just, like, go, damn, you are so easy to despise in this moment. There's, I'm thinking of one in Octopath Traveler Zero, that really stuck with me by the end of it,
Starting point is 00:50:50 and I hope that it can offer things like that. I can't wait. This doesn't, yeah, I, I'm the opposite of Roger. I eat up this 2D-HD stuff. I love it. Obviously, having such a history with Octopath, another one like that, and bringing in Final Fantasy,
Starting point is 00:51:06 which I've never really connected with with the exception of remake that one time. I'm excited to see what they got up their sleeves for it. Yeah, I'm worried about it because I think it looks great. Like, I think that for the HD-2-D style, it does look like it's doing something differently. Like there's a lot of new effects and there's the tilt shift, not just on the background,
Starting point is 00:51:23 but like on some of the characters. Like we saw that dragon and it looked like it had multiple layers to it, which I thought was really cool. And just some of the like particle effects and just kind of like fogging stuff. Like it just looks like not next Jed HD2D, but like kind of a step forward. But I find that I don't really like the everyone is here type games. And like this had all like summonable like Final
Starting point is 00:51:47 fantasy. He was like a little too gimmicky. It reminds me of like Fire and Bloom engaged, which did pretty much the same thing. And this, I love crossovers. Like y'all know, I love Smash Brothers. Like, and I, I think what Spider-Verse does so well is it, for the most part,
Starting point is 00:52:03 like into the Spider-Verse movies, they kind of created their own characters. Like, they didn't really rely on Andrew Garfield and you know, Christopher Barnes, like the 90s, Spider-Man or whatever, like they're just cameos.
Starting point is 00:52:20 They're not even in it. Well, whatever. You get what I'm saying. Like, Spectacular Spider-Man is a cameo in that. But their cast of Spider-Pi-Pi-Pi-Pyper. That's just a new character that they were able to just have a full story for. And so things can happen to that character that I'm not constantly thinking. It feels out of character for how he would have acted in this way or whatever.
Starting point is 00:52:43 And so it just doesn't feel like it's really them. You know what I mean? So then having Cloud and Terra and stuff, I'm just like, well, it's not really them. So why are they here? And I just can't get over that. They are summons, so they won't like, they're not going to be with you out of battle. Yeah, but like, I don't know. So no, I'm with you right there where I'm like, I'd rather than just be big monsters.
Starting point is 00:53:03 I'd rather than be big creatures in that moment. What's the word on that game? Because I've saw that, of course, the announcement, but like, it's based off a mobile game. Is this Octopath Zero level of X-Eus? It's beyond that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. where they were like they were hiam had a thing in his thing we talked his thing Jesus Christ his preview that went live right around it where we read it out loud
Starting point is 00:53:23 and it was even more than that I can try to find it for if you know okay well that's exciting then yeah this I mean I'm jazzed about that every year I look for one JRP to pull me in and a fucking HG 2D final fantasy game I mean it's definitely I try that out the fact that they're putting the final fantasy name on this it's like that's we'll see what they what they do with it yeah that's that's crazy that it's so close and then the final super chat of the day now you might be thinking how this is like how Octopath Travelers ear was a revamp of the mobile game
Starting point is 00:53:53 Octopath Travelers Champion of Continent However, resonance is a lot different This is not a port or even a remake of Brave Exvis Rather it serves as the narrative foundation With a whole new combat system in overworld Its story has been tuned for a traditional RPG That's informed by Brave Exvis first season With everything else built from the ground up
Starting point is 00:54:13 It's got airships chocobos and summons you know in love and an HD 2D art style. Greg, look at me. X-Fias. That's a made-up word. I'm going to say that. I refuse. Talks,
Starting point is 00:54:25 Sarge says, have any of you played a JRP called Chained Echoes? I fell in love with it recently and has a nice art style and combat system that felt fresh. I get this recommended often whenever I talk about just being bummed out with narrative.
Starting point is 00:54:38 It came out like three years ago, I believe two years ago. Yeah, I have it open here. It came out 20-22. Take up your sword. Channel your magic. or board your mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG
Starting point is 00:54:48 set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as pilot mechanical suits. It's funny. It looks great. I'm on the kind of funny YouTube account and we've watched this trailer before. That's awesome. It's come up. Yeah, this is, yeah, Chained Echo. It has a great art style.
Starting point is 00:55:04 It does seem like it keeps on getting brought up whenever we talk. Maybe we should just play it and stop complaining about other games that maybe we don't love. Just in general. I love the art style. Can you look up another one up for me, Kevin, called Sacrifier. It looks like the word sacrifice, but it's an R at the end instead of a... Because you really hit the sack there.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Sacrifier. I often do. I really hear the sack. I often do. How do you spell that one? Sacrifier is another one I think is not out yet, but it is coming out. Sacrifier. Sacrifier.
Starting point is 00:55:42 Sacrifier. You get caught up. You're going to need a spell check on that one. S-A-C-R-I-F-I-R-E. Yeah. They keep making fucking terrible last names. Are you challenging me or do you need help with it? But then he also wanted to challenge you.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Yeah, it's like the word sacrifice, but you've replaced the C at the end with an R, so it's Sacrifier. S-A-C-R-I. Just a laugh from Kevin. Are you going to bring it up, Kim, or? S-A-C-R-I. S-C-R-R-. And then the word fire.
Starting point is 00:56:15 I put an O in there for some reason. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I heard it. I heard the O. You heard the O. I heard the O. Holy shit. Sorker for her.
Starting point is 00:56:26 And I spelled it for him and he was, he was, he was talking. I was talking over you. You said it. I was doing the thing for you. Here's sacrifice. There it is, everybody. Was it cool? Was any of this worth it?
Starting point is 00:56:41 Yeah, but it's got sort of that similar HD 2D look without a lot of the tilt shifting a love letter to classic JRP. Sack and fires an upcoming RRP. Bosting unique combat system elaborate pixel art and music by genre legend Motoy
Starting point is 00:56:56 Sakuraba Ezekiel, young priest, struggles to keep his faith in the world he loves when it's threatened by a war between gods and demons the adventure begins. Coming in 2026, pixelated milk is the dev. That's hot. I'm adding to the wish. Looks pretty sick. Awesome. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:57:12 Pretty good. Out Sacrifier. Sacrifier. Sacrifier. So you get that O-in there, everyone. Let us know in the comments below if you are still interested in Adventures of Elliot, the Millennium Tale. And what you think about Final Fantasy Resonance, and if you think it's going to be good, I really want to know. I made the choice not to get it.
Starting point is 00:57:35 I'm a fantasy critic. Oh. Yeah. It's a roll of the dice, but I was like, hmm. Mm-mm. Michael get it. Did no one get it? Elliot?
Starting point is 00:57:47 Mike has it. No, no, no. No, he's a lot of nasty resident. Oh, don't you guys? I got dragons about dogma too. Dragons. Dragons dogma? Dragon's dogma two, darker risen.
Starting point is 00:57:57 You think he's going to get enough reviews? Yeah. And also it comes with a bunch of updates and shit. It's going to be great. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see.
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