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Switch 2 Launch Lineup Hot Takes: Mario Kart World Meh?
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Spencer and I rip through the freshly announced Switch 2 lineup and decide which games get a day-one preorder and which earn a polite shrug. From Mario Kart World’s lackluster debut to the welcome return of Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD, we talk shop about platformers, RPGs, and every oddball reveal in between, plus some very serious flip-flop discourse. Join our chaotic deep-cut chat and see whether your hype meter matches ours.
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Introduction & Co-hosts
00:00:21
Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 116 of Unqualified Game Chat. I am your host, Azar Lopez, and with me today is the ever so handsome today, Spencer, the Legacy.
00:00:36
Speaker
hi everyone. How is everybody as we approach the end of May?
Weather & Seasonal Attire
00:00:41
Speaker
How is your May, Azario? April showers bring May flowers.
00:00:50
Speaker
um I didn't see any flowers this month. I'll tell you that much. I live in a desert. lion I live in a goddamn desert. That's my yeah that's true. Yeah. A little big cactus flower. Actually, my cactus did get a flower a couple weeks ago, but it died after couple days.
00:01:06
Speaker
It's really quick. Isn't it just hot all year where you are? Yeah. No, we have some cold, cold wind. It's like frosty cold. It's not like... It's like 30 degrees, but I know you don't know what that means.
00:01:18
Speaker
No, I don't know. I don't know the numbers. I don't know what that is.
00:01:25
Speaker
It's hot. I tell you that. um But other than that, you know, the electric bill goes up, but I prefer the summer. i i like I like being able to wear shorts.
00:01:40
Speaker
I'm a short guy. Shorts nice, yeah. I like shorts. I like flippy floppies. Yeah, flip flops are a pleasant thing to wear. I don't let the dogs out like everywhere I go, but around the house or like when I'm walking, to when I go to the store real quick.
Fashion & Shopping Trends
00:01:54
Speaker
floppy floppies on yeah it's summer why not it's yeah everyone forgives you everyone forgives the the vans wears where who don't wear socks during the summer you know they're like oh that's a that's a style topia right there oh you know what you gotta be fashion isn't comfortable spencer you have to really pay the price to look how how long like when i think of vans you gotta be like Young to pull that off. Don't you see you would? Yeah, you would think that. But vans modern day 2025 vans are like 90 bucks. They think they're Nikes.
00:02:34
Speaker
Oh, modern day. So ah so I do. Here's the hack. Yeah. Black Friday, they do a ah buy one, which is already 20% off, but buy one and get one half off.
00:02:46
Speaker
So you but you're getting two pairs, but you do the girl math and you're getting... Girl math? What's girl math? It's like, ah you haven't seen TikTok where the girls like, and be like but then but then I returned this dress or I bought the dress and I actually got two dresses because one was on sale and I paid but you pay the regular price, but you get more somehow yeah at the same price.
00:03:14
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah, it's ah it's a hashtag. I'm missing so much. I'm not a misogynist. It's not a misogynist hashtag,
Podcast Schedule & Interaction
00:03:22
Speaker
Spencer. didn't imply it was. I didn't know what it meant. It's a wholesome hashtag. I think, yeah, it's wholesome.
00:03:30
Speaker
Wholesome is Yeah, I was like, oh, here we go. let it Oh, here we Manosphere is Ario. Oh, boy. um Before we get into the episode, because we have stuff to talk about, please remember that this ah podcast is recorded every week and posted to podcast services on Thursday.
00:03:51
Speaker
seems like I'm hitting the Fridays over the past two weeks, but around Thursday. Should be Thursday. um But yeah, so it goes up a week early to our Patreon subscribers and then a week later. But if you're listening to this, wherever you're listening to it, please drop a comment.
00:04:10
Speaker
And yeah, let us know what you think are any ideas that you have, any questions that you have for the- It's like Twilight. Are you team Azario or team Spencer? I think they're team Spencer.
00:04:21
Speaker
i don't know. I've pissed off- I pissed off too many people. Maybe. do it Yeah, Losey loves you. does, it's true. Sabatier likes me, follows me on Instagram.
00:04:34
Speaker
Yeah, you've got you've got your army of nerds. you're a little Your little VB avatars. Yeah, that's true. No, the Black Mage. Black Mage, sorry. I think it's VB.
00:04:46
Speaker
yeah Yeah, it's either or. mean, Vivi is a black mage, sure. but But you know what? If we're going to get nerdy about it, Vivi's his own character. Yeah, Vivi's his own character. That's literally the entirety of the
Gaming Console Updates
00:04:59
Speaker
fucking... That's his whole plotline. And you just you just diminished his entire quest. I'm pretty sure recognize that picture of Vivi.
00:05:08
Speaker
his entire quest. Oh, you're right. It might be Vivi. Yeah, forget about it. I'm pretty sure it's like promo art of Vivi. Why don't it? Why don't anybody not check what Losey's avatar is so that I'm always right?
00:05:21
Speaker
That's so true. I didn't even think of That's a good point. um So we just move on after that. Yeah. The Switch 2. It's coming. and's so It's coming up quick.
00:05:33
Speaker
ah It's kind of crazy. Do you feel like a... ah console is coming no because it's like mid-generation it's out of sync with uh with the playstation and xbox you know so yeah feel it doesn't feel like a it used to be like it felt like a big build-up because it wasn't that spaced out where it was like oh the new consoles are coming but now it's you know it's in the middle between the ps5 and 6 so it's like oh i don't know
00:06:06
Speaker
I saw these things that much for the launch. Like there's many Nintendo first party thing, so it doesn't feel that. Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's not going to be a lot of reviews day one and it's due to um the switch to requiring a day one patch to even be operable. So if you'll probably see media outlets like IGN, if you have a dev unit, I think you can um you'll see reviews from those big outlets, but ain't nobody getting dev units and game couch dot com.
00:06:41
Speaker
Yeah. um But so you so it's going to be a crazy launch, kind of. It's going to be like a very. um I just don't feel the hype.
00:06:54
Speaker
No, I think, you know, if it was launching with a smash or like a. Animal Crossing. Then it'd be like, yeah wow. Mario Kart obviously is like the a great multiplayer game and blah, blah, blah. guess, yeah. yeah But there's no... There's nothing like...
Gaming Preferences & Skills
00:07:13
Speaker
don't know. That's what's bogus. That's really... That's honestly what is There's no new Zelda. No new Mario.
00:07:22
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ah Split fiction? like Come don't know. would like... i don't know i
00:07:29
Speaker
i would like a new Mario game. I need it. I need an, I'm on this platformer kind of, know, the kick run. Yeah. Like I just reviewed Pip Estrello and now all I want to do is play like retro and even modern platformers. I think all platformers are great.
00:07:50
Speaker
I was trying to think of like what genre Azario likes. And it's so easy to say Final Fantasy seven is my favorite game, but do I like JRPGs? I don't know.
00:08:01
Speaker
and Yeah, you do. What are you talking about? Look at the shelf behind you. how many of those are JRPGs? It's all ironic. It's all it's all me being ironic. Huge commitment to the ironic bit.
00:08:14
Speaker
Dude, i I commit to the bit. We made a whole series about RPGs that didn't come out. I don't know. I just played Pipestrello. And I'm going to say
00:08:26
Speaker
i like a good gable but Game Boy Advance game. yeah I like Golden Sun. I like I like that that it's almost pseudo ah like ah diminished cap like those Zelda games on there like those games are so much.
00:08:41
Speaker
There's so much imagination at these types of like yeah ah ah experiences. And I think the Game Boy Advance just went into great nailed it.
00:08:52
Speaker
Nailed it. Absolutely. So. Not that I don't like JRPGs, but I think right now in my 36-year-old life, platformers and retro-style games are my like personal favorite.
00:09:08
Speaker
Hmm. interesting. beat Claire Obscure, and I beat Pipestrello, and... I got the same type of fat. I didn't cry at the end of Pipistrello, that's for sure. But I got a similar satisfaction out of completing 30 hour game versus a eight hour game. You know, I still felt that same sense of reward.
00:09:30
Speaker
I still felt challenged at specific times. I got frustrated. I smiled. I had fun. And, uh, I will say that I'm just going to be looking out a little more for games like this so that I can review and and test my hypothesis.
00:09:47
Speaker
Interesting. This is an unexpected character development that I did not anticipate. I think i've just I'm just going to where my skills lie. And I think I'm really good at platformers.
00:09:59
Speaker
I think I'm obnoxiously good at platformers. You're going to do You're going to speedrun some platformers? Yeah, give me one of those Mario, those mods or whatever.
00:10:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah, Kaizo Mario? Yeah, yeah. I want to be the guy and be like speedrunning it? So see, just me even knowing that, I know I've passed some mental test in your brain that's like, okay, maybe this guy does know his platformers. mean, was like... Early was lots of kaiso kaiso goodness, you know? Yeah, there was that one Mario YouTube video where that guy was just getting really mad.
00:10:37
Speaker
Really? invisible he like Yeah. He's like, I'm to do some pushups and he shows the Mario character go up and down. So now anytime I play Mario, I always do like I always press down and I say, I just got to do some pushups like doesn't even look like. Yeah.
00:10:53
Speaker
But he was saying it that that 2009 video. So that's where I'm at in life. And we'll see where that goes. We'll see where that goes. Why, have you changed? Are you still ah i so like wholesome game? I don't know. what's here When have I ever been the wholesome game? What are you talking about? I don't know if you've changed too.
00:11:16
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i' I still love RPGs and fighters and platformers and ah like two shooters. i enjoy. but i want I want to like fighters, but everyone gets so much better than me too quickly.
00:11:34
Speaker
Like I really liked Guilty Gear Strive for like two weeks. I was playing it every day, man. was like trying to do some... ah like get online and do some of the dailies, but I just
Shooter Games & Communities
00:11:45
Speaker
couldn't keep up. Everyone just got too good.
00:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. And have an era. Any game does that. a Yeah, that's why that's why platformers, I don't get to have to interact. well Shooters too. thing Shooters too. I like to pretend to be, i sometimes I pull off some pretty cool stuff on shooters, but I'm more frustrated than having fun when playing like Call of Duty or our ah Battlefield.
00:12:10
Speaker
ah It takes a very special shooter to keep my, like, the ones I've deeply loved are Team Fortress 2, which I started playing again recently in downtime, and it's still very fun.
00:12:22
Speaker
um I liked Overwatch 1 a lot when it first came out, and Fortnite's fun. That's, like, that's about it. tried Warzone. I've tried whole bunch of stuff.
00:12:35
Speaker
Yeah, you know what the problem with Overwatch? It was one of those games where, like, I thought it was cool. Yeah. But... like the people I didn't like the most were into it. And not like there were bad people. That's so you.
00:12:48
Speaker
Yeah, I just didn't think they were cool. And so I'm like, well, if this uncool person loves this game. To be fair, I had, I remember its fan base was,
00:13:00
Speaker
There was a lot of like crazy individuals that fan base. I knew more about the hentai than the actual game. Well, that's get that yeah that was a big part of I remember that the models got lifted and that yeah um but yeah no it's ah it's ah It's a genre that I find tough to break into other than those few. But those few and and like single player ones like Bioshock and shit, because there's no expectations. No one andt expects anything of you.
00:13:32
Speaker
So from that, Switch 2 is going to have an interesting launch lineup. And today, Spencer and I will be doing a special yay or nay, going through the ah June 5th stack of ah games coming to um Switch 2. A lot of them are ports.
00:13:52
Speaker
Yeah, there's a lot of ports. um But that's okay. well Yeah, you need need to catch up. You need third-party support. They're probably happy. um Yeah, there's Wii situation. There's play, so I guess we'll just play Hogwarts Legacy again. you know i don't know what people that that well yeah I guess we'll get into it.
00:14:15
Speaker
Yeah. So, yeah yeah yeah yay or nay. Whoa, you got to clip that. Use that as the... Every month. she's just okay or na We got to get Mark to do ah us an animation. we need a yay or nay animation.
00:14:33
Speaker
Yeah. Mark, get on it. um We'll start at the top. Yeah. Mario Kart World. that's the That's the big one. yeah That's it.
00:14:46
Speaker
That's the big Nintendo... The description is in Mario Kart world, you can go off the racetrack and drive virtually anywhere. Race seamlessly across connected roads and racetracks that deliver Mario Kart racing like never before.
00:15:01
Speaker
Participate in the knockout tour mode where you'll barrel through back to back courses with no pit stops along the way. and then there's free Roma. Hmm. Meh.
00:15:14
Speaker
ah Yeah, like it's it's fun. Mario Kart's fun. But i'm not a bit like I'm not big on racers other than Mario Kart and Sonic Racing. So i wish there was like an RPG or something too.
00:15:31
Speaker
But I'll i'll i'll enjoy Mario Kart, especially with friends, you know? Like it'll be fun to to fuck around and Yeah. play but kind of a test of their online ecosystem too yeah yeah it is a a math to a light yay i feel like i'm being gaslit like everyone's like oh this looks so cool or oh look at and i'm just like the best mario kart in recent history that i can think of was that ds1 what was it mario kart ds yeah what see the original ds
00:16:06
Speaker
Yeah, you didn't have to buy it for everybody. You could just connect. Yeah, because your friends could be shy guys if you did the communication. Yeah, I remember that. That was the best one. Bring that game to college and everybody's going to gather around you and play a couple rounds. That's our age difference right there.
00:16:22
Speaker
I was in elementary school. Oh, yeah. Sorry. That's age difference. Bring it to college. I'm in high school. I'm in high school. Something like that.
00:16:36
Speaker
I don't know, Ty. I'm not very good. wait Everything from a year and a year ago. Mario Kart DS came out 2005. So I was nine. Of course it did.
00:16:48
Speaker
and yeah and But you could play you can connect all your friends, right? You didn't have to... like It was wireless and like everyone play. Yeah, you could do transfer play or whatever. was going Or wireless play. Eight people or something like that. would all be like green shy guys. So you couldn't pick a character, but you could pick any...
00:17:05
Speaker
any little place to be. was good system. I remember in high school, I used the DS to send messages to people to doncha So where you like draw
Switch 2 Game Lineup
00:17:15
Speaker
the little pictures and and send them.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah. Little, little hearts to all, to all my Valentine's. all the GFs. They'll have their DSs on their table. Not to my best friends. Oh, that's beautiful. Let them know I'm thinking of them in math. To your BFs.
00:17:32
Speaker
um Next on the list. An interesting game considering um Fantasy Life Eye has been doing fucking numbers online right now. Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma is coming to Switch 2. It's actually coming to PC in Switch 1 also.
00:17:50
Speaker
um The Celestial Collapse, a calamity caused by a colossal object crashing into the eastern lands known as Azuma, The devastating impact sent fragments of terrain to the skies above and the seas below.
00:18:02
Speaker
With the earth shattered, the power provided by the ruins ceased to flow. The gods of nature vanished soon after. And then I guess that's where you come in to... It's really saved the day. This is like pseudo action characters and like farming. Yeah.
00:18:20
Speaker
But I guess it's like a and then there's romance. But they it seems to be that there's a new like game flow for this particular game. And I think they're trying to see they're trying to take.
00:18:33
Speaker
The series in a. more modern direction but modern in the sense of stepping away from like those harvest moon shibby style characters like like really differentiate story of seasons and rune factory and i think that's smart yeah because i've played room for the factory and enjoyed it so i i'm curious about this one especially the modern and thing you're talking about Yeah, what I'm... It sucks that but that Fantasy Life is doing so well right now. That's bad timing. Everyone just fucking bought that game. That's a $70 game, dude.
00:19:09
Speaker
Level 5's not playing around. can't play the same genre game over and over. and like ah People are going to want to take a break. They're too similar. They're way too similar. The good thing about Rune Factory, though, is you got XSeed money behind it. So you have the English voiceover. You have the Japanese voiceover. you have ah quality of life menuing.
00:19:28
Speaker
um And I think it's only like 50, 60 bucks too on top of that. I don't think that's going to be the price for Switch 2. um And all the physical the physical games of Rune Factory have the game cartridge on it.
00:19:42
Speaker
um I'll say yay. saying I'm going to say meh for Mario Kart World. I don't think I'm going to play that game at launch. Yeah, I'll say yay Rune Factory. that's ah That's an interesting one.
00:19:53
Speaker
I'll say yay. Will I ever play it? Yeah, that's the that's the real question. That's the big one. ah Something interesting. The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild will get a Switch 2 edition. I'm curious.
00:20:09
Speaker
What your opinions on these Switch 2 upgrades? they are they Do you have to pay for those two or are they part of the Nintendo Switch Online? I think one of them is one of them's like a $10 upgrade. I don't know which one it is. That's cool.
00:20:23
Speaker
The Rune Factory upgrade is like a 250 or something. Some weird number. Weird. It's like they don't know what to charge. The exact amount they calculated to be like, how much before? yeah How much time did we invest?
00:20:36
Speaker
Oh, okay. If we spread it out, it's 250 a person. Yeah. Literally, like that that's such a weird number. Give it to over three, you assholes. What the fuck, man It's goofy. It's so that you can use your gold coins before Nintendo gets broken. Shut them down.
00:20:51
Speaker
and might It might also be that Nintendo's back end, like their eShop on the Switch 2 doesn't support upgrades. Like PSN and Xbox, they actually designed that into the hardware. Like it is a part of that OS.
00:21:07
Speaker
And I just don't think that maybe Switch, maybe Nintendo didn't. like Silly Nintendo. Yeah. People are going to upgrade. Can we do it for free? No.
00:21:18
Speaker
We should have most of the launch titles be ports. Okay. Should they have an upgrade? um No. No. Okay. that's true You can play the games on Switch and they'll benefit from some of like the updates, some of like the better hardware. But if you buy the pack, you get like all the extra little stuff. I don't know. i'm I don't feel the need to play either of those again.
00:21:42
Speaker
like i i enjoyed them. But they're big games to ah to revisit, so i'm I don't need the upgrade. Although, if you never played them, I suppose that's the never better time if you were a patient gamer. Yeah, I've only played two hours of each of them.
00:22:01
Speaker
I beat them both, and I enjoyed them, but... they're They're too big to replay. They're too much. I made my girlfriend start playing them.
00:22:12
Speaker
she breath She beat Breath of the Wild. Wow. Nice. um Tears the Kingdom, she's pretty far in. I had to help her with one of the puzzles, but I don't think I helped her very much.
00:22:23
Speaker
You cracked your fingers. You were like, move over. Yeah. Oh, let the real gamer come in. Step aside. Step aside. The boyfriend's here.
00:22:33
Speaker
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00:22:44
Speaker
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00:22:54
Speaker
or a new zelda um maybe more link less cell There's already not a lot of Zelda. She eats game. Actually, actually that gave one game and a body i game they gave that she got was pretty good, though. That was good. Echoes of Wisdom was great. i loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah that was his game That was a good game.
00:23:13
Speaker
ah um For like a puzzle adventure game, was fun. It was very fun. It was like Gmod Zelda. It rocked. Yeah, like RPG maker, like, I don't know, just like really cool. Like, it just felt like just felt like you were being a game designer in some like playing The Sims adventure. I don't know. It's cool. It's cool.
00:23:32
Speaker
So nay for Zelda. Yeah. But I'm sure new plenty of people are going to love that game if it's your first time. um An interesting release. Bradley defaults flying fairy HD remaster.
00:23:45
Speaker
um What's the Japanese what's his name? What's new in this version? You get a dancing mini game and you get a ship mini game.
00:23:57
Speaker
Oh, everything else is, I think, the same. Okay. I see. I'm curious if they censored the outfits again. Oh, is that a thing that happened the first time?
00:24:09
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I didn't care about it. It was a 3DS game, right? Yeah. so they censored some of the bathing suits that you can get in some of the outfits for the female characters. But I will say, didn't, I didn't, I think ah kind of cared.
00:24:22
Speaker
Like I was like, that's weird. That's kind of dumb. But the one that I got kind of like, that's going too far is they pub, they took the time to publish the Japanese art book in the West and they literally removed art from the book. Yeah. That's silly.
00:24:38
Speaker
And I'm like, that's a really strange decision. that's a i don't care like I don't care that much about like the Xenoblade slider or the costume. I don't care.
00:24:50
Speaker
Whatever. um But to remove it from the art book, that does seem a little strange. I don't know about that one. The best argument I've heard for the Xenoblade slider to include it was from um kind of a heavier set woman that I know.
00:25:07
Speaker
yeah but she was saying when she like when she makes games she wants the girl's breasts to look as grand as as her grand that's not the word I anticipated you saying at all I don't know of respect for her legendary knockers oh my god oh my heavens this girl map all over again but ah But that is the only ah that is the only defense that I've heard for the slider.
00:25:40
Speaker
i don't care about it either. i don't care one way or another because i just I always just make my characters me. so And I don't have big breasts. Yeah, but she does. yeah She does, Spencer. You know what? God bless.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah, God bless her. You're absolutely right. don't know.
00:26:00
Speaker
I might have cut something that I said before, listeners, and that's why we're trying to move on as quickly possible. Yeah. Because I would have gotten little rowdy.
00:26:11
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ah
00:26:13
Speaker
But they are booked. Yeah. It was like ah an image of like Agnes kind of tied up or something. There's like rope around or something. And they removed two of the images. And I thought that was like a little too much. But we'll see if it come if it if it's in this.
00:26:28
Speaker
all here in the least I do want to replay this game. I've never played it. What was the original Bravely Default name in the West?
00:26:39
Speaker
Wasn't it like just Bravely Default? Was it like the Fairy Flies or something like that? Or Bravely Default, the Fairy Flies? Because Flying Fairy, I thought, was the... Flying Fairy is what it's called in Japan.
00:26:54
Speaker
Here it was just called Bravely Default.
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah. Because I remember when that menu changes, there is a subtext there. okay. Interesting. I didn't... I never played it. Is it... What do what is it? Should I try it out on the Switch 2? It's a good game.
00:27:19
Speaker
Oh my god. You haven't played it? No. Dude. Dude. Yes. Okay. I know I just talked about earlier how I'm big retro platformer nerd now, but let's forget about that for a second. We're already reverting back.
00:27:35
Speaker
That's pretty quick. That wasn't even one episode.
00:27:40
Speaker
already back You're like the kid who's like, I like Sonic better than Shadow. And then you see Shadow and you're like, I like Shadow better than Sonic. And you see Sonic better than Shadow. I chameleon around, Spencer. Who am I?
00:27:54
Speaker
Whoever I'm needed to be at the moment. Yeah, yeah. ah I do think you should play Bravely Default. I think there is a twist in this game that was kind of not...
00:28:04
Speaker
was kind of not
00:28:10
Speaker
utilized enough in the second one. um Yeah, you know, they took chances on the narrative and that's what pays off. And that's why I think this one really deserves a nice replay for me being a little older.
00:28:25
Speaker
um and think it's a great game. I'm going to say, yeah. Cool. Yeah, I'll
Game Preferences & Nostalgia
00:28:30
Speaker
say yeah. I'm i'm curious to finally play I've heard good things. And you get a yeah you get a little dancing mini game.
00:28:37
Speaker
Yeah. Extra mini games. I will say i tried the mouse function on the Switch 2 and I hated it, dude. Oh, really? that interesting Interesting. I thought it was so silly on my knees.
00:28:50
Speaker
Like, what if I'm wearing, what if I'm not, like, kind of hairy legs. Like, what if I'm wearing shorts and I'm on my leg with and getting all, getting all my hair, my my leg hair in the Switch controllers and little nudges?
00:29:03
Speaker
I gotta wax. You gotta wax. You gotta wax. You tend to switch to, you have to wax. And then I tried using the table, but if it's a coffee table, I can't bend over, like, like, ooh, on the coffee table. i have to sit on the floor, put my arms on the coffee table, and then use the so use the mouse like that, use the Joy-Con like that.
00:29:24
Speaker
um Yeah, not cool. I'm curious to try it with, like, Metroid and, like, shooters, but that's, don't know. Maybe it'll be kind of fun with adventure games.
00:29:38
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, or like some like old school like RPGs where they're kind of text-based. Yeah. textbased yeah Yeah.
00:29:49
Speaker
Yeah. I just couldn't find a comfortable sitting position with it. It worked. I'm not going to sit here and say it didn't work because it worked. It just wasn't comfortable for me. And maybe it also needs. I hate the Joy-Con.
00:30:01
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I will always hate the Joy-Con. I will get a pro controller as soon possible. You don't like it and hear the ice ting-ding? You know, it's cool. Remember when Reggie did that? we're just now They're just not big enough. That's the problem.
00:30:13
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They really hurt my hands. We have yaoi hands. yeah yeah it's these gaijin it's such a hesitant yeah to yell yeah yeah yeah these gaijin boy hands yeah um
00:30:30
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Yeah, i I hope for a third party like 3D printed stupid mouse attachment. Put that in there. um Yeah, put that on the pizza. Maybe I'll, yeah, like some $5 Tyco shit.
00:30:45
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I'm there. um So yay to Bravely Default. And yes, you should play it. Okay, I'll yay it then. Yeah. Well, here's a Spencer game, if I've ever seen one. Yakuza 0 Director's Cut.
00:31:03
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Yeah, I heard it has new cut scenes. but Yeah, it's kind of weird because the voice actors are saying stuff like it's so good, like it changes the narrative or it really... Bring it down to fucking consoles! What the fuck? Not only that, but how much can change? This is a prequel to like eight games. How much can you change yeah of the narrative?
00:31:23
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Yeah, you're going to you go to directors cut the entire series now? We're going to have fucking rebuy everything now? I'm curious if it's like all new cutscenes or if they like George Lucas, the bunch of cutscenes to just have like small changes.
00:31:39
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It's when they cut out that dog from ah from Itchy and Scratchy. Yeah, Poochie. I have to go back to my home planet now. have to go back to my... You look like you have something to say.
00:31:56
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It's like, just cut in words. Yeah. Kiryu, I must go now. Someone said a funny comment on our Pipestrello review video today and they said, remember, because it's a yo-yo game and the person said, remember when Edna ah hated yo-yos and then Bart, and the episode, that was just their question. And then right away I was like, oh yeah, when Bart wrote her that letter, it's like, yeah but gal the fucking guy's name. know how to get to your heart.
00:32:28
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And hate yo-yos too. Oh, Woodrow. um
00:32:37
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They know how to get directly to our hearts. Little Simpsons. Simpsons quote. A season, a preseason tense. Season i one. We got you. We got you. We got you down. Because is there? I probably not going to play this game again, but I will say meh for the people who haven't played it. It is a great game. It's a fine game.
00:32:56
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Yeah, I'll say yay because like I'm curious about the story. so i probably I'm not going replay it all to see the new story stuff because there's enough stuff to cover at launch. But um I'm curious. I'm curious about the... There's like that brawl thing that like... Yeah, multiplayer thing, right?
00:33:12
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Yeah, but dude, no one's pointing this out, but it's clearly just a way for Sega to practice how many assets they can put on a screen on the Switch 2. They're just like testing the hardware limitations right now. Like, how many people can we but can we put on the screen? Okay, let's test it.
00:33:30
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They found it. They did. So a lot of these launch games kind of like even even Bravely Default, including like the touchscreen mini games and stuff, all of that has to do with the mouse and stuff. It's all taking advantage of the yeah kind of Switch 2. It's like when the early PS5 games had all had adaptive triggers.
00:33:47
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Yeah, or like something to do with the PS4 with the touchpad or whatever, something had to do with like The Steam Deck ah Aperture desk job where it's like the only thing where pressure on the on the thumbsticks does anything.
00:34:02
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yeah ah yeah I will say on controllers, Xbox controllers are the most comfortable to me. Interesting. I love i i I have an elite, too.
00:34:14
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This isn't a sponsor. thing I'm a PlayStation man. Controller wise. i don't know what it is. i don't know what it is, but like.
00:34:24
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I don't know. It's probably analog sticks and where they're they're located at, you know? Yeah.
00:34:33
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I do like the adaptive triggers, though. going to say meh on Yakuza. What'd you give it? I'll give it a yay. I can't meh a Yakuza game. It would break my heart. Yeah, that'd be sad, actually.
00:34:45
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But it had to be done. There's a lot more fucking ports. Oh my shit. That's it. I guess Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour. Yeah, that should have been free. Yeah, that should have been free. That's a little silly. This is the game I'm going to bring over to grandma's house.
00:35:03
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Yeah. This is the one that you present to your friend who doesn't play games we're like, oh, you got the new Switch, right? Can I try it out? And like, they're only going to play Mario Kart and Mario Party when it comes out. Yeah. So you're like, yeah, try this out. And they're like, whoa, whoa whoa whoa.
00:35:19
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ah that Those old Sega commercials with the explosions. Whoa. Yeah. Turned into a skeleton. Mouse mode. Like. Buy me Bone Storm or go to hell. Yeah.
00:35:34
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Yeah, if you want it. You know, it's gimmicky. it's it's It's what you're there for, though. I think everyone should probably own this game if only to practice with... EA. I'm going to say yay because I think it's going to be the best way to to get the most out of Switch 2's hardware at launch. I'm going to say meh because it should be free.
00:35:57
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The Astro's playroom can be free. That's true. The price is weird. Yeah, it's very strange. It's very strange. We could do some rapid fire ones right here. Yeah.
00:36:09
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Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition. Never played it. Maybe this will be how I play it We'll see. I don't even know. I don't even know what Cyberpunk 2077 is, dude. I don't know what it is. Is it quick? There's a GTA RPG.
00:36:23
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Oh, sound. You know what I really you know, bring back that one dude, the hack dude. He hacks. Who? He like Square Enix owned the IP for a while.
00:36:34
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was like it was an IO Interactive. You're going to guess Oh, Deus Ex. Oh, OK. The hack guy, you know. hack guy. I was like, yeah on his back I don't want to play those cyberpunk bullshit.
00:36:50
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I think those are different companies. I don't, I don't think it's up to CD project red for, for ASX to come back. Get them on the phone. Get them on the phone. Get them on the phone. Which are one remake. Forget what you're for.
00:37:04
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Sir, we have no connection to that IP. Why are you asking us this question? We enjoy Deus Ex as much as the next guy, but that's literally not our thing at all. But we're here showing you this... what we worked on.
00:37:17
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Nintendo, why aren't you putting out new Crash Bandicoots? Well, and this is awkward.
00:37:26
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That's my problem. When you're interviewing a like narrative designer and you ask him something about... like like an action or something in the game and they're like well I just I just wrote the game yeah why you like know this character your design and they're like I don't so what you're telling me is you know you didn't do everything yeah see that's all oh um Hogwarts Legacy is next on on our list oh I'm okay I'm good on Hogwarts.
00:37:58
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I bought it on PlayStation used and I had a good time playing it, but I don't... Yeah, I wouldn't play it again. Same. I had a fine time. ah fine time I didn't pay for it, so... Both of us... Neither of us gave J.K. Rowling money.
00:38:12
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no, no. She's not nice. Is it a fun game? Yeah, it's a fun game. It's a well-developed game. It's a... Everyone who who loves Harry Potter and talked for years about wanting a Harry Potter game like this was satisfied with this game.
00:38:29
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Yeah. Yeah. I like, I, but teach their own. Don't throw them. There's plenty of other games to play. There's a lot. um I got this alert today, and it kind of got me a little excited. a Hitman World of ah Assassination is coming to Switch 2.
00:38:46
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if if you have not If you've stepped away from Hitman for a while, this is actually a really good collection. It's it's the entire... only played one of the new ones. I played the first. That's it.
00:39:00
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So this brings, this brings together one, two, and three, all the main campaigns, ah contract modes, escalations, elusive targets, and just puts them all on like this launcher on your switch. So you boot up the hit man launcher and then you can choose what you want. And like, it has all the, the, um the contracts that you can go to and you can go, it's really cool.
00:39:23
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will track you did a great job. Yeah. putting putting all of these games together and keeping them cohesive. They're all fun, too. You can't go wrong with Hitman.
00:39:34
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Play the same stage 50 fucking times and just do weird shit. Like, it's fun. Yeah, just fuck around. Yeah, it's a fun game. It's a weird game. Take advantage of, like, the bad AI. You know, it's just like a it's just a video game. Yeah. um I'm going to say I'll say yay. Hitman's fun.
00:39:53
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Split fiction. Yeah. It came out already like month ago. I'll say meh. I'll probably play it on PlayStation with someone. I'm going to say meh on Split Fiction.
00:40:05
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Unless someone else buys it and gives it to me. Yeah. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S. Sure. It's a good game. You're going to have fun. yeah I'm not going to play But you're going to have fun. Kunitsugami, we were just talking about this.
00:40:19
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Yeah, great game. Play it. Yay. yeah Sonic X Shadow Generations. Yeah. saw It was a year. so Yeah. um What is this?
00:40:35
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Shadow of the Matrix. This weird game is coming out on Switch on the launch day. It's battle a battle royale shooter RPG. Shadow of the Matrix is an exhilarating third-person shooter set in the futuristic. You're already getting fucking shovelware? I think that's PC. I think that's on PC. Oh, okay. it's a port.
00:40:51
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Okay. i think it's just PC. I was you're already getting random. Yeah. It'll come. Don't worry. It'll come. Oh, it comes later that month. It comes on June 26, 2025. Yeah. All You get a buy.
00:41:08
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You get a buy this time. And... And are you going to play the GameCube games? What is What's the what's what's your GameCube game of choice? There is one that I thought was kind of cool. Those three.
00:41:21
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i do love. ah Well, that's tough. I love all three. I love Wind Waker is my favorite 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is a good fun game. My favorite racing game. And Soul Calibur 2, that's probably the best version. I grew up playing it with Spawn on my brother's Xbox. Yeah, that's the only one I've played a shit ton of Soul Calibur 2. Link is really cool choice.
00:41:41
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Soul Calibur 2 had... Was that a GameCube exclusive at the time? No, because because they each version had different characters. So GameCube had Link, and PlayStation had Heihachi, and Xbox had Spawn.
00:41:56
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So I think that it was on all three. um Yeah, F-Zero GX is actually a really good game. and I hope it has the AX content. that you on the arcade machines.
00:42:09
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And let's be let's be real. Like hopefully this like I always think. like We can't expect developers to come into a studio and know everything or Nomura doesn't have to keep up with the advancements of tech like you have new young developers that come up and I love the way that acquire approaches this and this is this is probably done in more studios and acquire, but this is the only one that I can reference.
00:42:34
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um They do this thing where they, after a big project, they'll split up into teams and they'll do smaller projects. Yeah. just to keep funding Just to keep funding going for for small games and and keep the studio afloat.
00:42:50
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But um I always imagine that these returns to old games have to um invigorate like ah some of these young developers.
00:43:03
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Yeah, 100%. Seeing F-Zero, I want a new F-Zero. So hopefully someone sees this game and been like, holy fuck, like I can create something like this. Yeah, i I think you can only do good to add more and more. i agree.
00:43:17
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and i agree and I know they're adding some peak because in that preview video, they had Pokemon XD, Drox. They had Firebloom Path i Radiance, which is very exciting.
00:43:28
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because that's like a $500 game. you want to play it, you have to emulate it. Yeah, I'm not buying that game. Not the physical, at least. Yeah, yeah and not the physical. I mean, like, yeah, I'm not either. GameCube's the system that I've never collected physical for, because every GameCube game is over 60 bucks. Yeah.
00:43:47
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I have, like... I have a few that I really like and like. I own Melee. I own Pikmin 1. and I own like i own a few and I'm just like like content. I'm like, all right.
00:43:59
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00:44:01
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I don't need to own any other ones. That's what I did with Super Nintendo. i bought Mario RPG. I bought Final Fantasy 2 3. um Secret of Mana.
00:44:12
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And then like well like Mario arsla All-Stars um with the um Super Mario World on it. and was like, fine. Oh, and Mario Kart. have Mario Kart, too. But I was like, fine after that. Yeah. i can go to You can into like Super Star Wars and stuff like that.
00:44:26
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yeah That's just cheaper. yeah that yeah The non-first party stuff is easy. But, you know. I got Spider-Man 1 and 2. I got...
00:44:40
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Sonic Heroes. Mega Man Battle Network Transmission. X-Men Legends. You know, the stuff where it's like not... $500. Yeah. yeah But I'm, yeah, I'm excited for, for these games to be added to, uh, I hope they add, uh, all the, the hard Nintendo first party ones to get like all the star Fox games and the Pikmin one and two. And I mean, I would love for them that animal crossing. I never played Pokemon X team.
00:45:07
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Pokemon XD is cool. My memory of Pokemon XD is my friend came over for a sleepover and he brought it over. when I was in the bathroom, he named the character penis with all exclamation points. My mom walked down and was like, why, why does it say that? And I was like, that's our name in the game. And she was like, okay, she went upstairs and then he didn't bring a memory card and I couldn't find mine.
00:45:27
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So we left it on overnight and kind of far and then had to turn it off. I had to do that with the bugs life. Don't worry. Damn, yeah, that's ah that's a rough one to lose your bug-slide process.
00:45:42
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and And you hear it because those consoles are loud too. So when you're sleeping with them on overnight, they do get a fan turn on. You're like, oh, is this going to burn the house down?
00:45:57
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No, I would I would keep on my my PlayStation and turn it on. and like 2 a.m. m or something and like be really sneaky about it. Yeah. But those are the good old days. i was sneaky with the Dreamcast, which is it had to be pretty far away from my parents because that thing is loud.
00:46:12
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Yeah. To turn it on. and be like you yeah It's telling him into the modem. Yeah. The disc laser is so fucking loud. Yeah.
00:46:25
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Well, everyone, um that's our show. We should have an episode next week before Summer Games Fest. So we'll we'll do an episode on our Summer Games Fest bets.
00:46:37
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Maybe we'll talk about what's what's going to be revealed and then we'll see how how we are yeah how accurate it we are next week. And I won't say anything that we know of.
00:46:48
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We don't know anything. What am talking about? We don't know anything. No, none of us know anything. um But other than that, have a good week and thank you for listening. Bye, everyone.
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