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Switch 2 Impressions, Stellar Blade is Horny, and SGF Gets Heavy
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In this episode of Unqualified Game Chat, Spencer and I reunite to talk all things Switch 2, including the surprisingly low-key launch, our hands-on impressions (or lack thereof, in my case), and Nintendo’s ever-questionable release strategy. We also touch on our favorite games to play on the new hardware, debate the effectiveness of “mouse mode,” and explore the eternal frustration that is Joy-Con drift. Later in the episode, I dive into my review of Stellar Blade on PC (yes, it's sexy, and yes, I talk about it), and close things out with my thoughts on Summer Game Fest, including a raw, personal reflection on what it’s like to enjoy games while facing real-world chaos just outside the venue. This episode is a mix of laughs, insight, and a touch of heartfelt commentary on immigration and labor in America. One of our more balanced and real convos to date.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Updates
00:00:01
Azario Lopez
Hello and welcome to episode 118 of Unqualified Game Chat. I'm your host, Azara Lopez, and with me today is the My Hair is So Perfect tonight, Spencer, The Legacy.
00:00:13
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:00:16
Spentopia
Hi, everyone. Hope you've all been well.
00:00:19
Azario Lopez
We missed last week.
00:00:23
Azario Lopez
ah Do you have anything to say for yourself?
00:00:25
Spentopia
They should expect that we're going to miss some weeks now.
00:00:27
Azario Lopez
You know what?
00:00:28
Spentopia
We say that we do whatever we want.
00:00:29
Azario Lopez
It's not an us thing anymore.
00:00:29
Spentopia
It's not true Yeah, it's nice it's you got to expect now that there there's going to be weeks where it doesn't come out.
00:00:31
Azario Lopez
It's not an us thing anymore.
00:00:36
Azario Lopez
We're unqualified. What are you?
00:00:37
Spentopia
We're on quality. It's in the title.
00:00:39
Azario Lopez
Yeah. you knew what you You knew what you were getting yourself into when you clicked on this this podcast.
00:00:40
Spentopia
It's really your fault. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:00:45
Azario Lopez
I will say that this podcast is recorded every Wednesday and hopefully posted to Patreon early, a week early. um, on Thursdays. Um, and we, e what else, what else? It's on YouTube the next day as well.
00:01:02
Azario Lopez
So you got that. And, uh, yeah, I did it.
00:01:06
Spentopia
You did
YouTube PAX Coverage and Anime Expo Plans
00:01:07
Spentopia
it.
00:01:07
Azario Lopez
Uh, I should, so for some housekeeping, keeping, uh, we do have our packs coverage on, uh, on our YouTube channel.
00:01:07
Spentopia
Good job.
00:01:15
Azario Lopez
Um, please check out those packs videos. They generally do like Pretty low numbers because they're they're very left ah field of our what are what we usually cover.
00:01:29
Azario Lopez
So we can't expect ah readers and viewers to jump on that when we don't really.
00:01:34
Spentopia
This is a Spencer plea. Please go watch.
00:01:36
Azario Lopez
boom
00:01:37
Spentopia
Please. I beg ye.
00:01:39
Azario Lopez
um i i have I do see that the shorts that we put out for just the interviews that go out, they do a lot better.
00:01:49
Spentopia
Shorts seem to do really well.
00:01:50
Azario Lopez
The shorts are the so So we're putting... Hold on, let me get these animals out. Get out of here.
00:01:57
Spentopia
get these animals out of here and drink from my sonic cup
00:01:59
Azario Lopez
here.
00:02:12
Azario Lopez
I'm back.
00:02:13
Spentopia
he's back
00:02:15
Azario Lopez
um Yeah, there that I mean... I get it. It's long form content from a channel that usually does eight to 10 minute stuff. So, um, but I will say that if you enjoyed like classic G4 or our cool, just dev interviews and learning new games, this please watch and get feedback.
00:02:36
Spentopia
Perry Kivolowitz- Exactly.
00:02:38
Azario Lopez
I think we're, I think, um, PAX West, we're planning our coverage now actually, but I think there's going to be a few more bits in there. Some, some more, some more fun stuff, um, in the episode, not, not, not in, not at the developer's expense.
00:02:46
Spentopia
Kivolowitz- who.
00:02:57
Azario Lopez
So, um, other than that, Spencer, what have you been up to?
00:02:57
Spentopia
Kivolowitz-
00:03:02
Spentopia
Oh, we should say there's probably not going to be an episode next week because you're you're going away.
00:03:04
Azario Lopez
Oh, oh yes, it is, it is, it is, it is. I'm going to Anime Expo.
00:03:10
Spentopia
yeah
00:03:11
Azario Lopez
I got a ton of cool interviews lined up. I got some cool demos lined up. um I got some really cool interviews lined up, actually. let me I'm thinking about them now.
00:03:25
Spentopia
Look at that smile.
00:03:25
Azario Lopez
I got some good coverage on the way.
00:03:26
Spentopia
Look at that smile.
00:03:26
Azario Lopez
I got some good coverage on the way.
00:03:27
Spentopia
He's excited.
Game Purchases and Reviews
00:03:29
Azario Lopez
I also bought a game the other day.
00:03:32
Spentopia
Ooh.
00:03:33
Azario Lopez
ah Warriors of the Lost Empire on PSP.
00:03:37
Spentopia
Wow.
00:03:39
Azario Lopez
I don't know what it is. I just, I like the key art.
00:03:41
Spentopia
Who made that?
00:03:42
Azario Lopez
a UFO published it and ah entertainment for life developed it. Their name is retain.
00:03:50
Spentopia
Interesting.
00:03:52
Azario Lopez
Let's see who they are. Ertain.
00:03:55
Spentopia
Well, fact, they created Mario and Sonic.
00:03:58
Azario Lopez
Yeah. They're like, ah they're like, yeah well, I will say UFO as a publisher.
00:04:00
Spentopia
They're the Forrest Gump of the games industry.
00:04:04
Azario Lopez
um They're, they're pretty big. They, For a while. i i i don't think they're around anymore. um They did like the Raiden shmup in the West.
00:04:17
Azario Lopez
um Yeah. Balloon Pop they published. But it was... What is it? Founded 1999.
00:04:17
Spentopia
They're shmup fellows.
00:04:28
Azario Lopez
Oh. UFO Interactive Games. Yeah. I'm reading their... I think they're still around. Oh my god.
00:04:35
Spentopia
Wow. Go UFO.
00:04:36
Azario Lopez
Maybe they just got bought. Oh, it's a subsidiary.
00:04:41
Spentopia
a
00:04:42
Azario Lopez
Someone owns them. Who the hell owns this company? Oh, it's an official third party of Nintendo of America now.
00:04:50
Spentopia
oh not a bad ending for their story
00:04:51
Azario Lopez
So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got Nintendo's claws. And yeah.
00:04:57
Spentopia
yeah minamoto he's pulling the strings mm-hmm
00:05:01
Azario Lopez
Well, that was fun. I don't know anything about this game, but it is a hack and slash. You can craft. And you could choose from four distinct characters. Never heard that one before.
00:05:11
Spentopia
Wow.
00:05:11
Azario Lopez
And you explore dungeons and swap items with a partner in multiplayer mode. I hope that's still going on. What else do you need?
00:05:16
Spentopia
Whoa, you can craft, you can mine. What else do you need? um Ah, it wasn't a UFO.
00:05:20
Azario Lopez
What else do you need? I will say it was these it was this anime girl that got me to buy it.
00:05:28
Spentopia
I thought it would have been the UFO.
00:05:28
Azario Lopez
No, I'm not a UFO fan.
00:05:31
Spentopia
Not a UFO.
00:05:31
Azario Lopez
ah It's anime girl first UFO.
00:05:33
Spentopia
ah That's where the priorities lie.
00:05:34
Azario Lopez
like
00:05:35
Spentopia
I see, I see.
00:05:35
Azario Lopez
Yeah, there's a there's a higher There's a hierarchy there. Now, wait what have you been up to?
00:05:38
Spentopia
i see, yes. I've been playing a bunch of games. Um, most recently I played Tron catalyst by Bithell.
00:05:46
Azario Lopez
o
00:05:48
Spentopia
Um,
00:05:48
Azario Lopez
The old Tron theme song. I am Tron. I am Tron.
00:05:51
Spentopia
I'm drawn.
00:05:52
Azario Lopez
We are Tron.
00:05:53
Spentopia
We are drawn.
00:05:53
Azario Lopez
We are Tron.
00:05:54
Spentopia
We are drawn. You are drawn. You are drawn. Everybody here is drawn drawn drawn drawn.
00:05:57
Azario Lopez
Everybody Tron Tron.
00:06:00
Spentopia
Um, I love Tron, uh, since I was a kid. So I have the the poster for the original one was up in my apartment. Um,
00:06:08
Azario Lopez
Big Tron head? I didn't know this about you.
00:06:09
Spentopia
I'm big Tron head. Yeah, I'm a big Tron head. I love it. I love Tron.
00:06:14
Azario Lopez
You're like a kid looking at your fucking Sega Saturn and just imagining going through the wires.
00:06:14
Spentopia
It's cool.
00:06:20
Spentopia
Inside to meet all the cool little programs. Yeah. when When Kingdom Hearts 2 was in Tron World, I was ecstatic.
00:06:27
Azario Lopez
that That was the peak.
00:06:28
Spentopia
I was so excited to go to Tron.
00:06:30
Azario Lopez
The fucking peak.
00:06:31
Spentopia
Yeah. And then Tron Legacy came out and I was like, oh, oh,
00:06:34
Azario Lopez
Oh, when the dude came out.
00:06:37
Spentopia
oh.
00:06:37
Azario Lopez
When the dude.
00:06:37
Spentopia
Yeah. Oh, man. Whew. I was in heaven. I saw that. I was so happy watching that in theater.
00:06:42
Azario Lopez
When Lebowski was running the town.
00:06:45
Spentopia
I was watching Tron Uprising on on Family Channel here. ah
00:06:49
Azario Lopez
Jeez.
00:06:50
Spentopia
But yeah, so i um I was like, yeah, I'll review Tron ah trod Catalyst.
00:06:55
Azario Lopez
Say less. How was it?
00:06:57
Spentopia
And it's an isometric action adventure game. Yeah. The most important thing is that throwing the disc is fun because that is Tron, you know, the whipping the identity disc de-rezzing people with it.
00:07:09
Azario Lopez
Let's try it.
00:07:13
Spentopia
um And that's very fun. The combat I had a good time with just like countering and parrying and and whipping the disc and kicking it and doing all sorts of cool tricks like that. And then there's light cycle segments where you're driving down the street and you can just lay the the light ribbon and and people drive into it and disappear. It's very cool.
00:07:33
Spentopia
um There's an interesting loop mechanic that at first I didn't know much about the game. So when the loop mechanic popped up, I was like, oh is this a roguelite? And it's going to be like, oh but it's not.
00:07:47
Spentopia
it's the, it's more of a ah plot mechanic than anything. It's like, Oh, you can open this entrance and then loop back so that you can go through it and avoid these guards or something.
00:07:59
Spentopia
um So it's, it's an interesting game um in that regard. I think the pacing towards the end gets a little uneven. because a lot of characters show up and there's a lot of looping and you're like, I've seen a lot of this before, but it's not that bad.
00:08:18
Spentopia
Like the whole game is like 10 hours. So it's, it's not bad at all that period.
00:08:21
Azario Lopez
I assume.
00:08:22
Spentopia
um And it's very fun and interesting. And it's a side of the the grid that is ah not explored so often. It was cool to hear people talk about ah Tron and and Flynn like they're religious figures and that they don't believe in them when you're like, oh, they're real. They're from the movie. What do you mean?
00:08:42
Spentopia
um and it's cool to to meet all these crazy programs that have their own neon light colors um and go through the story there, whether you're fighting in an arena or driving around on a light cycle.
00:08:56
Spentopia
um It's a very solid 10-hour experience if you like Tron which I do, um and I highly recommend it for that because ah I still need to play Tron Identity. I have it on my Switch, but I never played it.
00:09:12
Spentopia
um I don't know if it connects or not, admittedly. But, you know, this is the Tron here Tron Ares is coming out, unfortunately, as Jared Leto and doesn't have Tron in it, as far as I know.
00:09:19
Azario Lopez
o
00:09:26
Spentopia
But, you know, could be...
00:09:28
Azario Lopez
What is that with Jared Leto?
00:09:30
Spentopia
Yeah, he's in Tron Ares. He's the main character, yeah.
00:09:33
Azario Lopez
Really? They got, oh mr ste what is his name? ah What was he? Morpheus?
00:09:39
Spentopia
Morbius, yeah. They got Morbius to be...
00:09:40
Azario Lopez
Morbius, yes. is The singer, 30 seconds to Mars.
00:09:44
Spentopia
Yeah. so that's He pops up in places where you I prefer he didn't.
00:09:48
Azario Lopez
He doesn't belong.
00:09:50
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:09:50
Azario Lopez
He doesn't belong. He stayed on stage.
00:09:51
Spentopia
He doesn't belong.
00:09:52
Azario Lopez
just go
00:09:52
Spentopia
Yeah. Just keep being in Morbius.
00:09:54
Azario Lopez
That movie.
00:09:56
Spentopia
That's your niche, you know?
00:09:57
Azario Lopez
yeah Yeah, Morbius needs you more than Tron, the world of Tron.
00:10:00
Spentopia
Yeah, you're not the Joker. You're not ah Tron character.
00:10:04
Azario Lopez
That is interesting how he's staying in Disney. I wonder if there's ah some connection there.
00:10:10
Spentopia
yeah because he was in the Haunted Mansion movie, too. It's weird.
00:10:12
Azario Lopez
yeah he probably There's probably some contracts to be fulfilled in this Leto agreement.
00:10:18
Spentopia
Yeah. They were like, this Jared Leto character is a hot character. Let's sign him for a bunch of movies. And then bunch accusations come out. And they're like, oh, shit.
00:10:25
Azario Lopez
Because he was sending bat heads to people and and peeing in their mailbox.
00:10:26
Spentopia
Oh. Yeah, and it's like, oh, maybe he was not not the one to sign for 12 movies.
00:10:33
Azario Lopez
Geroletto keeps peeing in my mailbox.
00:10:36
Spentopia
Jared Leto keeps sending me dead rats because he's the Joker, IRL. And then Disney was like, I don't know about this.
00:10:45
Azario Lopez
bro. he keep He keeps coming out of my PlayStation 1 and telling me to save the universe. Because...
00:10:53
Spentopia
Someone get Jared Leto out of here.
00:10:55
Azario Lopez
ah What cheat code do I need get him out here?
00:10:59
Spentopia
i am plugged in he's still there yeah so good game i enjoyed it i recommend it um and then yeah i uh yeah it's mostly just playing that and i still play team fortress 2 every night because i'm still having fun with that yeah so it's a fun little thing to do what have you been playing
00:11:19
Azario Lopez
Easy.
00:11:24
Azario Lopez
Honestly, I've been pretty bad about the games that I was supposed to review this month. I've kind of um just been really set back on editing videos every goddamn day of my goddamn life.
00:11:29
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:11:36
Azario Lopez
And it's like, I can't play game. I can't write, edit, play games. edit, write, play.
00:11:45
Spentopia
yeah
00:11:45
Azario Lopez
it's so So I've been trying to take... So so at least at these months, PAX, Summer Games Fest, Anime Expo, I've like tried to limit the reviews that I took.
00:12:00
Azario Lopez
I did review Stellar Blade on PC. I actually never played the PS5 version. I even bought a PS5.
00:12:05
Spentopia
Oh, we talked about that last episode.
00:12:06
Azario Lopez
Oh, okay.
00:12:07
Spentopia
Remember we said that it was a Zario coded and it was surprising that you didn't play it.
00:12:09
Azario Lopez
Oh, yeah. It was very surprising. It was very surprising. So that's like the last thing I actually like really put my whole review.
00:12:14
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:12:18
Azario Lopez
And then a few previews from Summer Games Fest came out. um
00:12:21
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:12:21
Azario Lopez
The Wu Chang one did pretty well. um The Crimson Desert one. Listen, online I see all these ah different um ah websites praising Crimson Desert.
00:12:38
Azario Lopez
from Pearl Abyss and I get it. It's a very pretty game, but I've played and seen that I've played this game now, but I've seen it. Oh, maybe like four or five times at past events as it, as it's been in development for a very long time.
00:12:52
Azario Lopez
They have not once showed one cinematic the scene, one narrative drop,
00:12:56
Spentopia
Hmm.
00:12:58
Azario Lopez
Nothing. They always start me or show me six hours into the game. And I'm, and I'm finally playing it at summer games fest.
00:13:03
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:13:05
Azario Lopez
And I'm like, you guys are just making up your own control scheme here and expecting me. He's like, Oh yeah. Okay. So jump and do a half court, half quarter spin, uh, press R2 and you'll aim.
00:13:18
Azario Lopez
Okay. Now that you're aiming, uh, now you can throw your hook arrow, but, but you got to press down on the L3. And I'm like, dude, dude,
00:13:29
Spentopia
You're an overload.
00:13:31
Azario Lopez
Let me play the game. If you wanted to me to like learn how to play this game, why don't you just like start us off in a tutorial or something or create Anyway, to me, it just looks like a fucking ah ah tech demo for their new engine.
00:13:38
Spentopia
Hmm.
00:13:45
Azario Lopez
they i think it's called the Black Engine. um It's very pretty and it handles particles and elements very well. But this just looks like a fucking playground of what the engine can do. It can burn elements. It can...
00:13:59
Azario Lopez
load huge spaces. It could, it can um do weather effects and all of this is in it. And, and they wanted me to talk about it over GDC. They showed me a thing and I was like, you know what? Like, I don't know.
00:14:13
Azario Lopez
any of this like tech stuff this is not what like i'm here to tell people like if the game is fun or not i'm not here to tell they know they can so clearly see if it's beautiful or not like i don't need to tell somebody that something looks beautiful you know like you can see it you and unless you must i'm sorry if you're blind okay this is not ableist conversation okay um or colorable
00:14:31
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:14:35
Spentopia
Sorry, was telling you right now. It is beautiful, though.
00:14:37
Azario Lopez
Yeah, it is. Yeah, i'll but I will. I will be the one to say it. I will say it out loud. It is beautiful. But. ah yeah I don't know. It's ah it's it's a very confusing game.
00:14:50
Azario Lopez
And I really need to see some of these narrative bits because um and yeah I need a reason. At least Assassin's Creed playing it. I had plenty of reason to continue throughout the story, even if I was kind of making it my own in ways.
00:15:03
Spentopia
yeah
00:15:06
Azario Lopez
um But with this, it's a it's a it is a character, a male character that you play as. And ah yeah, I'm interested.
00:15:17
Azario Lopez
I'm interested to see how it evolves. And Yeah, that was the only one I was iffy on. Wu Chang is cool. um I'm curious to see how the Souls community kind of approaches that game. as a As I was playing it, I really liked the momentum base. like You're swinging a pole, you know, like Dynasty Warriors.
00:15:34
Azario Lopez
You can kind of feel the weight kind of slow.
00:15:37
Spentopia
Hell yeah.
00:15:37
Azario Lopez
Yeah, it feels good. feels really good. um But... Yeah, a lot of previews. So I'm holding off on reviews, at least till after Anime Expo, because I'm just and we're putting out these PAX videos. So I'm also doing that. We're we're doing stuff.
00:15:53
Spentopia
What about, I think there's one other game you you previewed.
00:15:56
Azario Lopez
Oh, yeah. Digimon.
00:15:57
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:15:58
Azario Lopez
OK, let me tell you story. ah So ah I don't know if I I don't know if I told you this after the if I told this. Did I did I tell the. ah No, it would have because this came out. I think there was an embargo on this and I couldn't talk about it.
00:16:12
Azario Lopez
Okay, so I couldn't... Yeah, you're right. Because this how this came out last week, and we missed that episode.
Digimon vs Pokemon: A Comparative Debate
00:16:17
Azario Lopez
but um So when I walk into the Digimon meeting at Summer Games Fest, I didn't know the producer of the Digimon series was going to be in this meeting.
00:16:27
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:16:28
Azario Lopez
They may have said it in an email. I don't know. Sorry, any PR listening. um but ah So I come in, and I know the people in there, so I start singing, Digimon, digital monsters, Digimon are the champions!
00:16:41
Spentopia
Hell yeah.
00:16:42
Azario Lopez
And I'm like, you know, hyping up the room a little bit because it's dark and it's just me in there with some people. And I'm like, OK, I got it. First, I got to I got to tell these people that I'm cool. You know, got stop the stage.
00:16:51
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:16:53
Azario Lopez
I'm I'm one of you. All right. I'm one of you. um So automatically I start looking how to evolve to ah the ah angel woman. and
00:17:07
Spentopia
Yeah, that clocks out.
00:17:10
Azario Lopez
And ah who does Gatomon evolve into? The the them ah the don demon girl?
00:17:17
Spentopia
Oh, Debbie, Debbie, Debbie woman.
00:17:17
Azario Lopez
Yeah.
00:17:20
Azario Lopez
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah ah I did that. And I was i was not...
00:17:25
Spentopia
Lady Debbie mom. That's it.
00:17:29
Azario Lopez
I was not let down.
00:17:32
Azario Lopez
I was not let down.
00:17:33
Spentopia
That's the whole, that's the whole preview.
00:17:35
Azario Lopez
that was like That was what I wanted the preview to be. But I know that Digimon fans are very... um
00:17:41
Spentopia
We're loyal.
00:17:41
Azario Lopez
They need more than that.
00:17:42
Spentopia
literally like every Digimon you see, you have to be like, okay, we've confirmed that this Digimon is in the game.
00:17:44
Azario Lopez
I'm easy.
00:17:49
Spentopia
Cause I saw people on Reddit ah saying, oh, this one appeared in noisy pixels video.
00:17:49
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:17:54
Spentopia
So they we confirmed mummy mon or something. And I was like, shit.
00:17:56
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah. They were, that, that was really cool.
00:17:58
Spentopia
That's cool. Yeah.
00:17:59
Azario Lopez
Um, I tried to show as much as I can. They had limitations on what we can show in that footage. So I tried to show as much as we could even pass like the audio bits, um, which I don't think Bandai knows because we're supposed to talk over all the audio, but I just threw it on the end there.
00:18:05
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:18:16
Azario Lopez
So if you want to just watch an audio versions of the gameplay, you can know when it's said anything this far.
00:18:20
Spentopia
o
00:18:22
Azario Lopez
So I think we're good. um
00:18:26
Azario Lopez
it's a I got to play it, and holy shit, they finally put budget into this game.
00:18:32
Spentopia
Thank God.
00:18:32
Azario Lopez
um
00:18:32
Spentopia
I'm so excited.
00:18:33
Azario Lopez
Oh my god. it the The open world, was the little hub world was fun. um the The combat system, the the the enemies you can see on the field...
00:18:46
Azario Lopez
um
00:18:48
Azario Lopez
so there's no, there is no, um, random battles. Like you can see the, the enemies there and and avoid them if you want.
00:18:55
Spentopia
Yeah, that's great.
00:18:56
Azario Lopez
They, uh, I think that's, I think that's cool. Um, the, the way that, the way that you, uh, did you evolve, um, is connected to scanning.
00:19:06
Azario Lopez
So you have to fight scan and that'll like learn about the Digimon that you're getting. And then,
00:19:12
Spentopia
yeah you get a percentage of data, right?
00:19:13
Azario Lopez
Yeah, yeah. And but anyway yeah, yeah, it it's it's that it's it's the same cyber sleuth, except I think the did you did you volutions?
00:19:15
Spentopia
Like cyber-sleuth.
00:19:25
Azario Lopez
They're a lot easier. They're a lot easier. This one where you can kind of see the silhouette and just go into the menu at any time in a dungeon or outside of a dungeon.
00:19:32
Spentopia
Yeah, you don't have to go to MIRE or whatever name was.
00:19:34
Azario Lopez
Yeah.
00:19:35
Spentopia
to yeah
00:19:35
Azario Lopez
Yeah. So you can just do it before battle or, um, and you could see all the paths, uh, too, but it's, I, I think there's a lot more to this game that they're holding because, um, a lot of the questions that I had there, it was, it was just like, yeah, we're not talking about that right now.
00:19:37
Spentopia
That's helpful. Yeah.
00:19:53
Azario Lopez
Um, but I'm glad it has a release date, you know, and I'm glad that there's likely going to be another preview event before.
00:19:53
Spentopia
Ooh. Yeah.
00:19:59
Azario Lopez
Um, and, um, I hope to be a part of that because I have plenty more questions to ask. And I think because it's so early, i think um that's like the thing is like, they're not saying stuff, but I think closer to release, they'll answer a few more questions.
00:20:16
Spentopia
Yeah, for sure.
00:20:17
Azario Lopez
And yeah, I'm excited about, I'm excited. Everyone else is excited for Digimon. I don't like the takes about like pitting it against Pokemon because what are we fucking 10 dude?
00:20:25
Spentopia
Yeah. It's not 1999 anymore.
00:20:27
Azario Lopez
Like, yeah. What the, like,
00:20:30
Spentopia
Like, I understand the and the impulse to be like, look at, like, Digimon's animations are insane and then Pokemon's not trying at all. I understand why people are like, they should try hard.
00:20:41
Spentopia
Like, sure, but they're different beasts entirely.
00:20:42
Azario Lopez
Yeah.
00:20:44
Azario Lopez
Yeah. there you
00:20:45
Spentopia
It's...
00:20:46
Azario Lopez
I don't think Pokemon could... Digimon is a little more mature. um Pokemon gets by... you know in In early 2000s, Pokemon they got by with the swim girls and stuff like that.
00:20:58
Azario Lopez
They had some pushy little bits of like anime, but it was nothing like...
00:21:00
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:21:05
Azario Lopez
Digimon, they just go full anime.
00:21:07
Spentopia
Lady Debbie. martin Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:21:10
Azario Lopez
There is some Digimon that look just like girls. it's ah
00:21:15
Spentopia
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:16
Azario Lopez
It's a interesting. ah But that's why it appealed. I guess that's why they appealed to different gamers. I think Pokemon is a ah game um for kids um and young adults and kids.
00:21:30
Spentopia
Digimon is for people who grew up with Digimon.
00:21:33
Azario Lopez
Yeah, i did that's exactly it.
00:21:33
Spentopia
We're adults now.
00:21:35
Azario Lopez
and then And then maybe 24-year-olds who grow out of Pokemon and want something a little more mature.
00:21:35
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:21:38
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:21:40
Azario Lopez
But I still think I can pick up a Pokemon game and enjoy it the same way.
00:21:43
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:21:43
Azario Lopez
ah But I enjoy Pokemon the way I enjoyed it as a teenager. i don't go into a Pokemon game and start ripping it apart as, oh, why isn't their voice acting or why isn't blah, blah, blah.
00:21:47
Spentopia
Mm-hmm.
00:21:55
Azario Lopez
I really have to, I really try to tap into a more nostalgic like, uh, kid, um, approach to, uh,
00:21:59
Spentopia
Mm-hmm.
00:22:02
Spentopia
I would love for Game Freak to try harder, but I have long since accepted they're probably not going to. So I'm fine with what Pokemon is because I have alternatives like Digimon and Shimagami Tensei and stuff.
00:22:13
Azario Lopez
yeah.
00:22:14
Spentopia
So, yeah.
00:22:15
Azario Lopez
Yeah. And, uh, there's, i mean, i think Pokemon does what it needs to do.
00:22:22
Spentopia
Mm-hmm.
00:22:22
Azario Lopez
i think, I think, um, Well, what what would make it... Because Arceus, I think that was their attempt at a more Digimon-fronted...
00:22:34
Spentopia
That was a very fun game.
00:22:36
Azario Lopez
that was in and i And even Pokemon Black and White but were kind of...
00:22:40
Spentopia
Yeah, they were the stories were interesting in those ones.
00:22:43
Azario Lopez
Yeah. like So I think Pokemon... I think it's within their means. And I guess all we can say is like we hope.
00:22:50
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:22:51
Azario Lopez
We hope that...
00:22:52
Spentopia
We'll see how Legends ZA is.
00:22:54
Azario Lopez
Yeah, you got it. you they i think I think what they need to do is they they're very afraid to change anything too drastically. And theyll they'll only do like one evolution each time.
00:23:05
Azario Lopez
So you have Giga or you have this or you have that.
00:23:05
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:23:07
Azario Lopez
But they just lean so far into it. What if they did a few multiple things and didn't?
00:23:11
Spentopia
That would be cool. You can Dynamax or Mega Evolve, or you can
00:23:17
Azario Lopez
Yeah, it's like, I don't know. i think I think they put all their eggs in one basket each iteration of these games. And I didn't like the three different story routes of that last game.
00:23:28
Azario Lopez
I think, ah what was it? What was the last one that came up?
00:23:31
Spentopia
Scarlet Violet.
00:23:32
Azario Lopez
Yeah, Scarlet. I played like maybe an hour, man. And I was like, well, I should try to play it on my Switch 2, actually. I hear, yeah, I should i shouldn continue it because the frame rate for for once did bother me.
00:23:39
Spentopia
Apparently it runs well on the Switch too, I've heard. Yeah.
00:23:45
Spentopia
It was bad.
00:23:47
Azario Lopez
um But anyway, Digimon's great. Pokemon's great. um Yeah, i I mean, pick your favorite.
00:23:51
Spentopia
and love them both.
00:23:54
Azario Lopez
Mine is Digimon, but I don't think they could be pitted up against each other.
00:23:59
Spentopia
Yeah, I think they're two different now, despite both being monster catchers.
00:24:01
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um So we're not doing we're not doing an episode next week, but we we have
Upcoming Game Releases and Excitement
00:24:10
Azario Lopez
yay or nay. And I'm not going to do all the yay or nays, but i will we will go through some of the special releases.
00:24:15
Spentopia
Just the specials.
00:24:16
Azario Lopez
July 1st.
00:24:19
Spentopia
Mm-hmm.
00:24:19
Azario Lopez
um july first We have Mecha Break, where you discover an array of assault, melee, sniper, renaissance, and support mechs, each with unique playstyles. Engage in immerse aerial and land combat, employing strategic tactics for close and long-range encounters.
00:24:38
Azario Lopez
Unleash devastating power firepower, scorch foes with precision beams, and rain mut missiles upon the battlefield. This game has... ah very defined female protagonists and um I liked it.
00:24:54
Spentopia
Hmm. I like mechs, so...
00:24:57
Azario Lopez
Yeah. and And males, you can make a buff male guy um or a well-endowed male guy or a busty girl.
00:25:00
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:25:06
Spentopia
Wow.
00:25:07
Azario Lopez
It's whatever.
00:25:07
Spentopia
They have the Xenoblade slider.
00:25:09
Azario Lopez
yeah Yeah. You get the slider.
00:25:13
Spentopia
They moved it from Definitive Edition to here.
00:25:14
Azario Lopez
they would depend the position to hear.
00:25:16
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:25:17
Azario Lopez
um I think this company is going to do some, what's that, what is that a mech game on Xbox um that just got canceled? um
00:25:27
Spentopia
Oh, uh,
00:25:27
Azario Lopez
Where you jump inside the mechs or whatever. i Someone's in the, someone in the comments will, we'll say what it is, but I think they're going to do something like that.
00:25:33
Spentopia
yeah. Hmm.
00:25:37
Azario Lopez
Whatever that is, that name I can,
00:25:38
Spentopia
I'll say Yeri. Yeah.
00:25:39
Azario Lopez
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, I think, yay. It's a little fast. It's a, do, do wait for coverage. Um, we will review it probably after launch so that we can play in the multiplayer settings.
00:25:51
Azario Lopez
Um, but, um, expect coverage all the same.
00:25:54
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:25:55
Azario Lopez
I'm going to say, yay.
00:25:56
Spentopia
Yay.
00:25:57
Azario Lopez
Pretty game. Um.
00:26:02
Spentopia
Thank you.
00:26:02
Azario Lopez
Missile Command Delta. Missile Command Delta reimagines Atari's 1980s Missiles Defense arcade classic as a turn-based tactical game set against a mysterious narrative that leaves you questioning whether you're trapped in a simulation or truly defending cities from attack.
00:26:17
Azario Lopez
As players explore an abandoned half-century-old facility, they will encounter locked doors, disheveled rooms, massive superpowers, supercomputers, sorry, and and other stuff.
00:26:29
Azario Lopez
it's a It's a cool game. It's like Missile Command. or I think Atari is doing... like ah you should you you get Everyone should probably watch our PAX coverage because we have an interview about this game on our PAX coverage.
00:26:42
Spentopia
Oh.
00:26:43
Azario Lopez
And... um I'm going to say yay based on the reactions of the people that I saw playing it.
00:26:49
Spentopia
Interesting. I'll say me because i don't have any Atari knowledge or nostalgia, but it sounds interesting.
00:26:57
Azario Lopez
um
00:26:59
Azario Lopez
o
00:27:00
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:27:02
Azario Lopez
July 10th. Pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pon. Pat-a-pon.
00:27:06
Spentopia
Pawn, palm pat Pawn, Pawn, Pawn.
00:27:06
Azario Lopez
One plus... a pump on I just pawn.
00:27:09
Spentopia
I love Pawn.
00:27:10
Azario Lopez
i I smashed the pawn.
00:27:11
Spentopia
Ratatant,
00:27:12
Azario Lopez
Pawn. Pawn. Pawn. Patapon 1 plus 2 replay. um Interesting release with Rattatan whatever coming out.
00:27:17
Spentopia
yeah.
00:27:21
Spentopia
pradiania
00:27:22
Azario Lopez
but ah Beat the drum, make a fever. A small and delicate yet mysteriously endearing creature, the Patapon, are guided on their adventure through the rhythm of four drums. This is a remaster of the PSP games that came from Japan Studios.
00:27:39
Azario Lopez
I think in in the same...
00:27:39
Spentopia
I wonder whether you include three.
00:27:43
Azario Lopez
that's an issue That's interesting. didn't Did 3 come out on PSP? Or was that a PS...
00:27:46
Spentopia
Yeah, as a PSP game.
00:27:47
Azario Lopez
That was... Okay.
00:27:49
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:27:49
Azario Lopez
Did it also come out on PS3? Oh, I don't know.
00:27:51
Spentopia
I don't think so. Do it.
00:27:55
Spentopia
Let's see on the show.
00:27:55
Azario Lopez
There was...
00:27:56
Spentopia
Live research.
00:27:57
Azario Lopez
I remember playing Patapon Remastered, the first one, and hating it. I think it came out on PS4. It was such a bad port. you
00:28:05
Spentopia
Uh, no, just PSP 2011.
00:28:06
Azario Lopez
It was such a bad port. Oh, okay.
00:28:08
Spentopia
twenty eleven
00:28:09
Azario Lopez
Crazy. Crazy.
00:28:10
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:28:11
Azario Lopez
Wow. Sony does know how to support a console.
00:28:15
Spentopia
That's a big yay for me. I love Patapon.
00:28:17
Azario Lopez
Yeah. If you did, if you played the Patapon remastered on PS4 and hated it, um I suggest playing this one because they fixed, they fixed everything. I think, I think it took a a couple of releases to really figure out how to remaster games, but companies are on it now.
00:28:33
Azario Lopez
Some of those earlier masters are really bad. was like, they were just like,
00:28:36
Spentopia
I always wanted to play the LocoRoco ones too.
00:28:39
Azario Lopez
Yeah. this it So Patapon is in that same vein of like those, that Loco Roco. And I, I think the same teams kind of worked on these games, but amazing, ah addictive, kind of frustrating because you can make, you can make some pretty big mistakes and just like, right yeah, you can really fuck up.
00:28:47
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:28:52
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:28:57
Spentopia
You can fuck up.
00:29:00
Azario Lopez
um I'm going to say yay. and
00:29:01
Spentopia
Yeah, I'm going
00:29:03
Azario Lopez
July 11th, Tony Hawks, pro skater three plus four.
00:29:06
Spentopia
to say yay. Here am, doing everything can.
00:29:11
Azario Lopez
That's Tony Hawk 1.
00:29:12
Spentopia
That's Tundahawk 1.
00:29:12
Azario Lopez
This one is...
00:29:13
Spentopia
I know. This is 3 and 4.
00:29:14
Azario Lopez
this one is donnna na don danna no no na no no no no no no na na no no no So going to be honest with you.
00:29:14
Spentopia
I never played 3 and 4.
00:29:20
Spentopia
yeah I only had 1 and 2 on Dreamcast. I never played 3 or 4.
00:29:26
Azario Lopez
I didn't even know there was a 4.
00:29:28
Spentopia
Wow.
00:29:29
Azario Lopez
I only played 1 through 3, and then I went straight to Thug ah Underground after.
00:29:33
Spentopia
then Thug. Yeah.
00:29:36
Azario Lopez
I did not know a 4 came out.
00:29:37
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:29:39
Spentopia
This is your chance to experience it in full glory.
00:29:42
Azario Lopez
You know what? It's going to be like the first time playing. And I played through the demo. um There's like a pre-release where you can get into the demo.
00:29:48
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:29:49
Azario Lopez
um I played it for like an hour and a half and I was like, okay, I got i still got it. I still got it. They definitely, um it's fun. It's still fun. It's Tony Hawk.
00:30:01
Azario Lopez
I mean, i don't
00:30:01
Spentopia
Yeah. Arcade-y skateboarding. They're rocks.
00:30:05
Azario Lopez
i don't I think they're smart to return to these older games because it it does get a little weird after this with Wasteland and Project 8 and stuff.
00:30:12
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:30:14
Azario Lopez
People like those games, but I don't know.
00:30:16
Spentopia
remember playing them, but they're not, they're not thps one to four to one and two for me, but
00:30:19
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah. But alternatively... I don't know where they take the series after this, because if they do, they should, they should, they should honestly take thug and just redo the whole game.
00:30:26
Spentopia
you think they'll do thug?
00:30:32
Spentopia
Yeah, that'd be interesting.
00:30:33
Azario Lopez
So thug thug remake.
00:30:35
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:30:36
Azario Lopez
like or a reboot or something because the thug, the thug Tony Hawk pro skater underground. The core concept is you create a skater, you find a shoe deal, you find a, you get pro, you get amateur, you know, you go through all these stages and then your best friend fucks you over at some point, but it's so good.
00:30:47
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:30:53
Spentopia
Go over. Yeah. Eric. Yeah, it is good.
00:30:56
Azario Lopez
What's his name? Eric. Fuck that guy.
00:30:57
Spentopia
mark Eric, Eric, Eric Sparrow, I think.
00:30:59
Azario Lopez
What's his name?
00:31:00
Spentopia
Eric Sparrow. I think.
00:31:01
Azario Lopez
Oh yeah. Fuck that guy.
00:31:03
Spentopia
Yeah. Yeah. Fuck that guy. He sucks.
00:31:05
Azario Lopez
ah dude he tried out he tried to pull a fast one you know envy yeah yeah uh is it um dog dog town and z boys whatever um july 15th i'm gonna say yay for turning up
00:31:08
Spentopia
Yeah. It's a very like 2004 game, curious. two thousand game so i'm curious yeah
00:31:19
Spentopia
Yeah. I'm
00:31:23
Spentopia
going to say yay. Yeah.
00:31:25
Azario Lopez
July 15th, Eden Zero. This a 3D action role-playing game based on the space fantasy comic anime Eden Zero by Hiro Mashima, the creator of Fairy Tail and Rave Master. It is centered on Shiki Granbell and his friends' cosmo-spanning adventure.
00:31:41
Azario Lopez
The players control a diverse cast of characters as they embark on an epic adventure across planets while battling powerful enemies. This game resembles... um Any PS3 era like anime game that you've ever seen before in your life.
00:31:57
Spentopia
oh That's not...
00:31:58
Azario Lopez
It's the same thing. It's like those early like Dynasty Warriors games or Neptunia games or trails. Maybe you can throw trails in there or tails, tails.
00:32:05
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:32:07
Azario Lopez
Sorry. um Yeah, i just nostalgic almost.
00:32:13
Spentopia
Hmm. Interesting.
00:32:15
Azario Lopez
Yeah, like an early and yet it's ah but I've never I didn't I've never seen Eden Zero.
00:32:15
Spentopia
don't know anything about the series itself.
00:32:21
Spentopia
No, yeah. I vaguely know a fairy tale, but that's about it.
00:32:23
Azario Lopez
It looks cool. Yeah, i've I've seen plenty of fairytale. I have not gotten into Yuzuru, but the characters look just like fairytale characters. um
00:32:31
Spentopia
Yeah, they do. Yeah.
00:32:32
Azario Lopez
um I think this one kind of... People are saying that it's sent censored because so there's some there's some scene changes from the manga. But I think... um I think I've seen some of the character.
00:32:45
Azario Lopez
ah There's a massage minigame. I think we're fine on the fan service point.
00:32:50
Spentopia
yeah
00:32:51
Azario Lopez
um I think people should know that anything like groping or anything in in manga can't be put into some games because it automatically ups the ah the rating.
00:33:01
Spentopia
Upstrading, yeah.
00:33:02
Azario Lopez
So even those those tropes about falling on ah girl's boobs can be seen as groping now. and and they'll they'll take that And they'll take that off.
00:33:09
Spentopia
The
00:33:11
Azario Lopez
So while it works in anime, and doesn't always work. In the game scene. so Sorry nerds.
00:33:16
Spentopia
interactive medium.
00:33:19
Azario Lopez
I'm going to say meh as well.
00:33:19
Spentopia
I'll say math.
00:33:23
Azario Lopez
A game I know you're excited about.
00:33:28
Azario Lopez
On July 16th. Hunter x Hunter. Nin x Impact. hunt tracks Hunter x Hunter.
00:33:33
Spentopia
Yeah, baby.
00:33:35
Azario Lopez
Nin x Impact is based on the Hunter x Hunter. Do I say Hunter Hunter? a Hunter i Hunter.
00:33:39
Spentopia
Hunter. Hunter
00:33:40
Azario Lopez
Hunter Hunter anime, which which ran from October 2011 through September 2014, with the manga still ongoing and weekly Shonen Jump since March of 1998.
00:33:51
Spentopia
Hunter.
00:33:51
Azario Lopez
Developed by Bushido Road Games and published by Arc System Works, Hunter Hunter Nin Impact will feature blistering fast 3v3 team and assist-based fighting game action true to the can competitive spirit of the anime and manga.
00:34:07
Spentopia
Hell yeah, baby. Hell yeah, I love Hunter Hunter a lot. A lot.
00:34:12
Azario Lopez
um
00:34:12
Spentopia
why And this is by Aiding.
00:34:13
Azario Lopez
i
00:34:15
Spentopia
And they rock.
00:34:16
Azario Lopez
you What do you love most about it?
00:34:18
Spentopia
About hunt Hunter Hunter, the power system and the characters, which lend themselves very well to fighting games, I think are going to be a lot of fun. It's by Aiding. And they did UMVC3 and Tatsunoko, I think, right?
00:34:33
Spentopia
So... Those are good fighting games. So this is going to be a good fighting game. You know what I mean?
00:34:38
Azario Lopez
Yeah, I think. I think they kind of borrowed some of those animations to...
00:34:42
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:34:43
Azario Lopez
ah
00:34:44
Spentopia
It looks a lot like Marvel 3, and that's fine with me. because
00:34:46
Azario Lopez
That's fine.
00:34:47
Spentopia
That's fine with me, because you know what? I love Hunter Hunter, and I love Marvel 3. So I'm going to be in heaven.
00:34:53
Azario Lopez
a It's definitely one of those series that had that its reputation reputation kind of precedes it where like the... the cosplayers and fans are almost as fun as the actual anime.
00:35:07
Azario Lopez
Like the way that they do like the hair stuff and but yeah, the way they pull all that off.
00:35:10
Spentopia
the Yeah, the one his huge hair and the memes.
00:35:14
Azario Lopez
It's like, it's kind of like you want to be a part of the community because of how fun everyone is.
00:35:15
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:35:18
Azario Lopez
I'm going say yay because I played this game once and it was fun and I'm going to play it again.
00:35:21
Spentopia
It's a big yay. It's a big yay for me.
00:35:25
Azario Lopez
Big yay. July 17th. Maybe another big yay for a big boy. Donkey Kong Bonanza. o
00:35:32
Spentopia
Oh, banana. D.J.
00:35:35
Azario Lopez
who That's my Donkey Kong.
00:35:39
Spentopia
Donkey Kong.
00:35:40
Azario Lopez
so I don't know the song. Sorry.
00:35:43
Spentopia
Do you know the DK rap?
00:35:45
Azario Lopez
I probably do. Don't test me on it. Get ready for Donkey Kong Bonanza.
00:35:48
Spentopia
He's the leader of the pack.
00:35:50
Azario Lopez
a oh Bonanza? Are we going to are we goingnna have to fucking copyright them, dude? Are you going have to ace?
00:35:58
Spentopia
My people are looking into it.
00:36:01
Azario Lopez
Okay.
00:36:01
Spentopia
That's all I'll say.
00:36:02
Azario Lopez
That's all I got now.
00:36:02
Spentopia
That's all I'll say.
00:36:02
Azario Lopez
That's all okay. Get ready for Donkey Kong Bonanza, a brand new 3D platforming action adventure. but available exclusive available exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2.
00:36:16
Azario Lopez
Crash, bash, and climb through nearly everything in DK's path and tear off chunks of terrain to swing around and throw in groundbreaking exploration. The more that is demolished with powerful punches, the more areas open up to discover.
00:36:32
Azario Lopez
He's like hanging out with Pauline in this. Is that the is that the deal?
00:36:33
Spentopia
Yeah, child Pauline.
00:36:36
Azario Lopez
I don't know about that.
00:36:37
Spentopia
I don't know why she's a child, but I see a bunch of people who are like, what are the lore implications? I'm like, what lore? This is Mario and Donkey Kong.
00:36:45
Azario Lopez
Yeah, they're really...
00:36:45
Spentopia
What timeline is this?
00:36:46
Azario Lopez
Yeah.
00:36:47
Spentopia
What are you talking about?
00:36:47
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah, just chill out. but Enjoy the game.
00:36:49
Spentopia
Just a little bit.
00:36:50
Azario Lopez
I attribute it more to Wreck-It Ralph.
00:36:51
Spentopia
Fucking Metal Gear. Yeah.
00:36:53
Azario Lopez
Wreck-It Ralph.
00:36:53
Spentopia
It's a Wall-Eck record, yeah.
00:36:55
Azario Lopez
Yeah, I saw an interview with John C.
00:36:56
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:36:58
Azario Lopez
Reilly on Wreck-It Ralph, and I kind of applied to this where he was like, there was no romance story. This was a story of friendship. And he's like, and I've never really done something like that, but it plays so well on screen where like there isn't any...
00:37:06
Spentopia
yeah
00:37:12
Azario Lopez
connection between these characters other than their friends and you know i think we're too quick to fucking ship people in this in this fucking community that we see oh man like chill on it you know like i'm stoked
00:37:20
Spentopia
yeah i love friendship oriented stories yeah remember the three core tenets of jump manga
00:37:35
Azario Lopez
hmm hmm
00:37:35
Spentopia
friendship effort victory friendship that's a big one um i was excited at first and then i saw that direct and i'm super excited i was uh they showed a lot of stuff that looked really good yeah that was a good direct
00:37:39
Azario Lopez
yeah Yeah. Friendship is the first day and the biggest.
00:37:47
Azario Lopez
Okay. Same. i think I think I was not... I don't think I give a shit before that direct, to be honest with you. I was kind of upset that I even bought the Switch before that direct.
00:37:56
Spentopia
yeah
00:37:56
Azario Lopez
to it's Yeah, it's...
00:37:57
Spentopia
and then they showed that you can you can go into carving mode and make little statues
00:38:03
Azario Lopez
it's um I think this should have been a launch game, but whatever.
00:38:07
Spentopia
I kind want that Amiibo.
00:38:08
Azario Lopez
I digress.
00:38:09
Spentopia
I don't need it, but I kind of want it.
00:38:10
Azario Lopez
How much is it? Like 30 bucks?
00:38:11
Spentopia
Like $30.
00:38:13
Azario Lopez
ah
00:38:14
Spentopia
When Smash 4 came out, Amiibos were fucking $12.
00:38:17
Azario Lopez
I know.
00:38:17
Spentopia
What happened?
00:38:20
Azario Lopez
Thanks, Obama.
00:38:21
Spentopia
The Street Fighter ones here in Canada are $42.
00:38:25
Azario Lopez
No.
00:38:26
Spentopia
yeah Yeah. $42 for a Street Fighter Amiibo. Nuts.
00:38:31
Azario Lopez
Unfair. Unfair.
00:38:33
Spentopia
Nuts.
00:38:34
Azario Lopez
um that same I'm going to say yay.
00:38:36
Spentopia
It's a big yay for me. yeah
00:38:39
Azario Lopez
July 17th also has another great game release. um Robocop Rogue City. unfinished business uh following following the success of robocop rogue city which captivated over one million players tae on studios calls the half man half machine 100 cop back into action with an all-new standalone expansion unfinished business to reach the top of the omni tower now overrun by elite mercenaries players will have access to new weapons brutal finish moves and special missions
00:38:49
Spentopia
Hell yeah. the Including me. happen
00:39:14
Azario Lopez
If you want a perfect 7 out of 10 game that becomes a 9 out of 10 while you're playing it It's so good.
00:39:20
Spentopia
Holy fuck. That RoboCop game rocks so hard.
00:39:24
Azario Lopez
It's so fucking good.
00:39:24
Spentopia
So hard.
00:39:26
Azario Lopez
I can play it right now.
00:39:26
Spentopia
Insane.
00:39:27
Azario Lopez
like if
00:39:27
Spentopia
I can play I can play it 100% and I can play right now.
00:39:30
Azario Lopez
I can play it right now.
00:39:31
Spentopia
Yeah, fucking wrong.
00:39:32
Azario Lopez
It is a very fun game.
00:39:35
Spentopia
I love it.
00:39:35
Azario Lopez
Very fun game. ah glad Glad they're paying attention.
00:39:36
Spentopia
love it.
00:39:38
Azario Lopez
This and like that Terminator game.
00:39:40
Spentopia
I need to play that.
00:39:40
Azario Lopez
Really
00:39:41
Spentopia
I really need to play that because I was so into the RoboCop game that I was like, oh shit.
00:39:45
Azario Lopez
Yeah.
00:39:45
Spentopia
If they're doing that with that too, that's pretty good.
00:39:47
Azario Lopez
yeah Yeah. Play them. the they They updated it a little bit, but um yeah, they only made it better after they got some feedback on some of the bugs that it launched with. but and
00:39:57
Spentopia
I gotta check it out.
00:39:58
Azario Lopez
Cool game. I'm going to say yay. An astounding yay.
00:40:01
Spentopia
Big yay. Dun dun dun dun dun.
00:40:02
Azario Lopez
oh
00:40:07
Azario Lopez
a Robo want Oreo.
00:40:07
Spentopia
I fucking love you.
00:40:10
Azario Lopez
Well, Robo ain't going to get Oreo. Sam wants Oreo.
00:40:12
Spentopia
They're alive. You're coming with me. Oh yeah.
00:40:15
Azario Lopez
ever
00:40:15
Spentopia
Robo one Oreo. Yeah. I remember that. That was good. i was like That's a good thing. I like that.
00:40:22
Azario Lopez
Robo what Oreo.
00:40:22
Spentopia
Yay.
00:40:24
Azario Lopez
Robo what Oreo. um Teep cup. ah Say yay for RoboCop. Next day, July 11th.
00:40:33
Spentopia
ya
00:40:35
Azario Lopez
Another nostalgic hit. like Missile Command, Shadow Labyrinth. Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer with a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic Pac-Man. As Swordsman number eight, awoken by a floating yellow orb, but Puck, on a mysterious planet where relics from the past wars remain.
00:40:53
Azario Lopez
You are chosen to become the instrument of its will. To survive, you will need to discover many secrets. Start preying on your enemies, ooh, and become the apex predator.
00:41:04
Azario Lopez
in this adventure um hu i played this game recently for like three hours under preview embargoes done i need to i need to write about this so expect more coverage probably next week but um i tell you i'm behind anyway um i'll say it here exclusive i was playing this game and i was like
00:41:13
Spentopia
Oh,
00:41:29
Azario Lopez
Fuck, I'm like walking around, and I feel like this is a maze. And i I was like, oh, Pac-Man.
00:41:35
Spentopia
oh it's a metric. I don't know.
00:41:39
Azario Lopez
And I kind of laughed.
00:41:40
Spentopia
ah They got you.
00:41:41
Azario Lopez
I laughed at myself for even like...
00:41:44
Spentopia
Yeah, that's pretty good.
00:41:47
Azario Lopez
Yeah, so um it's a pretty cool game. It's really hard. It's fucking...
00:41:51
Spentopia
That's really interesting. Hmm.
00:41:52
Azario Lopez
It's fucking hard. It's fucking hard, man. It's like a Souls-like Metroidvania. And you know what? They do this thing, in at least in the parts that I played, where they kind of split the game up into different sections. So while you're looking for items, you need to find three of whatever.
00:42:10
Azario Lopez
But it's like a platforming, ah ah a um puzzle, and then enemy fighting. like
00:42:18
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:42:19
Azario Lopez
you So whatever you're doing... Um, you'll only, they, they kind of separated the entire experience. Like you, you're not doing the two things at once. You're not fighting. You sometimes you're fighting, but you're not doing like wave based fighting and platforming at the same time. You're, you're doing one or the other or the other, but they separated into paths.
00:42:38
Azario Lopez
Like you can like, yeah, the central. So, so imagine a square and you'll come down, take an elevator down to the square. And then you have three paths from the square left, right, and down.
00:42:46
Spentopia
hundred
00:42:49
Azario Lopez
And this is basically the same for any area you go to. And that I've played. um And mean if you go left, it's a puzzle. If you go right, it's a platforming. And if you go down, it's like a wave-based enemy thing.
00:43:02
Spentopia
Interesting.
00:43:02
Azario Lopez
um Yeah, it is...
00:43:07
Azario Lopez
Because each section is so fucking hard.
00:43:11
Spentopia
Yeah. Huh?
00:43:13
Azario Lopez
Like, like they really test you like the, the timing for some stuff, your, the, the checkpoints are very nice. I actually liked it more for that in a way.
00:43:23
Azario Lopez
Like it was as if the frustration was keeping me, pushing me and and like,
00:43:28
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:43:30
Azario Lopez
the the the The controls are so responsive that when you fuck up, like, is you're like, fuck, well, that was my fault. I know that I wasn't aiming there. I know I did didn't do XYZ.
00:43:40
Spentopia
That's a good feeling.
00:43:40
Azario Lopez
um
00:43:41
Spentopia
It sounds like it's not, but when you're like, I died because of me, it's a good feeling.
00:43:44
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
00:43:46
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:43:46
Azario Lopez
and And as I slowly got better by hour three, i was, like, really powering through. I understood, like, the equipment system and everything like that. And, like, there's some there's some depth to this thing.
00:43:58
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:43:59
Azario Lopez
this game and there's secret paths and there's like different play styles that you can attract. And I, I'm into it. I need, I need to play. I really want to beat it before release. um So here's, here's to, here's to hoping I, I, I get, I get through it. If not, then some Bailey will probably review it, but you expect a preview from me next week.
00:44:21
Spentopia
Hell yeah.
00:44:21
Azario Lopez
I'm going to say, yay.
00:44:22
Spentopia
going to say yay. That's an interesting one.
00:44:25
Azario Lopez
um Sorry, they decided to mow. My neighbor decided mow their lawn while I'm doing this, but it's okay. um
00:44:34
Spentopia
don't even hear him.
00:44:35
Azario Lopez
Cool. ah July 24th, we have a Souls-like game coming out. Wu-Chang Fallen Feathers. You play as Bai Wu-Chang, a pirate warrior cursed with Ornithropi.
00:44:48
Azario Lopez
And uncover Ornithropi? Whatever.
00:44:53
Spentopia
I hate when that happens.
00:44:53
Azario Lopez
and know And uncover the secrets of your forgotten past. Wu Chang Fallen and Feathers suffer offers a challenging combat experience with multiple weapon categories and magic. Explore interconnected environments, encounter historical figures, and make choices that will shape the fate of Shou.
00:45:09
Azario Lopez
Shou. This is Stellar Blade meets Wu Chang. Wu Chang. Wu wu Kong.
00:45:16
Spentopia
Wukong? Uh-huh.
00:45:18
Azario Lopez
um Black Myth, Wukong. I've played it a few times. It's really fun. I'm interested to see how the community kind of approaches it because they haven't really talked about like narrative stuff. and there's a couple There's a couple costumes that they haven't shown but I've seen and I'm kind of curious.
00:45:37
Spentopia
going to be a bit of a shit storm online.
00:45:39
Azario Lopez
ah you know, they, they know their audience.
00:45:43
Spentopia
i I see.
00:45:43
Azario Lopez
Can't, can't blame, can't blame them. Can't blame them there.
00:45:46
Spentopia
I see.
00:45:46
Azario Lopez
It's a fun game though.
00:45:46
Spentopia
I
00:45:47
Azario Lopez
If you're looking for mechanical souls, like it's fun. And you know, the fun thing about action and pretty characters, men are women. um it's that you can dress them up in whatever you want but if you put that player in a very challenging situation there's no way that they're watching the character or can argue with shit yeah you get the character at all because you're playing the game and i think that's what works so well with stellar blade is that they have these these grandiose like environments so you don't get bored of the character designs where in something like a ah a hentai kind of dungeon crawler um
00:46:03
Spentopia
see. They're not looking at the dress. They're panicking.
00:46:10
Spentopia
Mm-hmm.
00:46:22
Azario Lopez
that labyrinth Omega Labyrinth game for the Vita where it's just girls going through a dungeon and you rub their breasts over and over. You start skipping that scene because it becomes monotonous. It's not fun anymore. The way they keep these games fun is by putting like these these huge like ah stuff to look at, and then you come back to the to the the pretty bits. And it's like's it's just a very it' this a very smart way to do a well-rounded package. But the problem is is that all these... like no skilled developers are like, all you need is pretty women and that's it. And that's not the case. they The gamers won't show up for that. There is a certain group that will.
00:47:00
Azario Lopez
But the the global
00:47:02
Spentopia
you'll need more than that to be profitable yeah
00:47:04
Azario Lopez
Yeah. Yeah. And, or to design a good game. So all of these different things need to connect to make your game a hit. Um, I have no doubt this is going to find its audience, but I would like to see what it, what it, what kind of, um, stories come out of a success in this field and then kind of what games we see come after it, because there's so many games that are proving this like true sex positive in a way.
00:47:30
Azario Lopez
um
00:47:31
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:47:33
Azario Lopez
But like, I don't know. i'm I'm curious to see where where the conversation goes. Because with games like Baldur's Gate 3, and they just have dick slap physics and stuff like that, and and how like openly accessible or openly like um congratulatory all everyone is of these games and just praising them, don't
00:47:53
Spentopia
yeah
00:47:58
Azario Lopez
I'm curious to see what games we get out next year from studios like this, because it's going to change. You're going to see difference from Sony. You're going to see difference from Microsoft. The games that Bandai creates are going to be different. The games that I think they're just, I think they're leaning into the maturity.
00:48:09
Spentopia
Things are going to get sexual.
00:48:13
Azario Lopez
i think, I think they're following their audience because the Fortnite crowd is not leaving Fortnite, unfortunately. it's it's It's too hard to pull teenagers from those game those types of games, and that's the only reason to dumb to um less mature your game is to grab some teenagers.
00:48:27
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:48:33
Spentopia
yeah
00:48:35
Azario Lopez
But they're not they're playing Fortnite. They don't have money.
00:48:37
Spentopia
have Fortnite and Roblox. don't care about anything else.
00:48:38
Azario Lopez
and Yeah, they play with blocks. they enjoy
00:48:41
Spentopia
I will say a lot of teenagers play TF2. They'll get on voice chat and I'll be like, what the fuck?
00:48:44
Azario Lopez
But on Wuchang...
00:48:47
Spentopia
How old are you, dude?
00:48:48
Azario Lopez
Are they on there?
00:48:51
Spentopia
Yeah.
00:48:52
Azario Lopez
There's some kids on Counter-Strike sometimes.
00:48:54
Spentopia
Yeah, I'll be playing and then like some teenagers will make like a bad joke and I'll be like, what?
00:48:54
Azario Lopez
yeah
00:48:59
Spentopia
This is TF2? How do you even know what this is? This came out before you were born.
00:49:03
Azario Lopez
Is it free?
00:49:04
Spentopia
Yeah, it's pretty...
00:49:04
Azario Lopez
Is TF2 free? Yeah, a lot of free games like that do well because they'll their favorite streamer will talk about it and then they'll go play it. um But yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
00:49:16
Azario Lopez
I'm in the middle of a meh and a yay though on this.
00:49:19
Spentopia
yeah i'll say meh because i still need to sync with a ah souls game to be true
00:49:24
Azario Lopez
a I understand. July 25th. No sleep for Kaname Date from iTheSomniumFiles. Uncover the truth hidden in reality and in dreams. Join special agent Kaname Date on the case to discover the whereabouts of internet idol Iris, who has been trapped in a mysterious escape game.
00:49:47
Azario Lopez
um This is not from... this is not from the 999 scenario writer, Uchi Koshi.
00:49:56
Spentopia
Oh, that's interesting.
00:49:56
Azario Lopez
um He did not work on this game. um He oversaw some of the the scenarios, I believe, or maybe like, I don't know what he did, but it's going to be interesting.
00:50:07
Azario Lopez
um There's some stuff going on at Anime Expo about it. So I'm going say yay because they haven't let me down yet, but I'm curious.
00:50:15
Spentopia
I'm going to say yay because I really enjoyed the first game. i still haven't played the second one, even haven't. But ah yeah, Mr.
00:50:19
Azario Lopez
Mm-hmm.
00:50:22
Azario Lopez
um July 29th, Tales of the Shire. I don't think this game needs an expansion.
00:50:27
Spentopia
Frodo. Yeah, I'm going to say, man.
00:50:27
Azario Lopez
I'm going say meh. Yeah,
00:50:30
Spentopia
Just re-release Return of the King from GameCube in HD.
00:50:32
Azario Lopez
yeah what are you doing?
00:50:34
Spentopia
That would rock.
00:50:35
Azario Lopez
ah July 31st, we have Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. I'm going to say yay.
00:50:38
Spentopia
Ooh, I previewed that.
00:50:39
Azario Lopez
I'm going say hell yay.
00:50:41
Spentopia
It's a good game. I'm going to say, yeah, hell yay. I hate to cuss, but hell yay.
00:50:47
Azario Lopez
And that's the... ah that's You know what? Okay, on July 31st, this limited run games game is coming out by the solo developer. They're just publishing it, but it's called Earthion, and it's like an R-type shooter developed like in 16-bit graphics.
00:51:02
Azario Lopez
It's really fun. um It's called Earthion. I'm going to say yay for it, but expect our coverage ah later on.
00:51:09
Spentopia
interesting.
00:51:12
Azario Lopez
And for that, that's it.
00:51:14
Spentopia
That's it. You guys got a 50 minute episode. That's pretty good. do you feel?
00:51:17
Azario Lopez
How do you feel? How do you feel about yourselves? um Thank you so much for listening and hanging out. It means the world to us, actually.
00:51:24
Spentopia
Mm-hmm. It does.
00:51:26
Azario Lopez
And we'll see you in a couple weeks with Anime Expo Stories.
00:51:29
Spentopia
Hugs and kisses.