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Episode 75 - DuskPunk and Adventure Game Trivia
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Roses has been busy watching Amish Holiday Films, but Matt is able to tell us about a new game called DuskPunk (not to be confused with DustPunk). Then Roses "surprises" Matt with an array of adventure game trivia games, including our famed segment "How Much Do My Pants Weigh?"
Games Mentioned:
DuskPunk
Pokemon
Disco Elysium
King's Quest 5 and 6
The Monkey Island Games
Zak McKracken
Myst
Gabriel Knight
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Dagger of Amon Ra
Animal Well
Firewatch
Police Quest 3
Grim Fandango
Sanitarium
Trivia Game Screen Caps:
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Transcript
00:00:00
Speaker
I was on a date. but So it was a second date and this um woman invited me out to a holiday market she saw like near her town. She's like like an hour away from me. Love holiday markets. Love them. Yeah. So it seemed like a really and I hadn't gotten really in the I haven't gotten really in the Christmas spirit yet besides eggnog.
00:00:21
Speaker
yeah me too. So I was like, this is going to be fucking great. and great This is going to be rad. So like she sent me the ad for this holiday market out towards her town. And it was it said, you know, Christmas classics playing on the TV all day um it because it it takes it was at a brewery. And they were like, we have pizza and beer. And it was at a brewery.
00:00:43
Speaker
Yes. And they were like, and we have a Christmas market in our, this brewery also has like an event space. So like in our event space, but also all throughout our ah vats and brewery area.
00:00:54
Speaker
So yeah, it was like ah vent um vendors of like ah local, you know, local, ah what do you call them? Retailers and ah artisan makers and,
00:01:09
Speaker
yeah Again, classics playing on the TV all day. There will be a live performance, music performance from one to three. ah Sounded really great, right?
00:01:20
Speaker
Like, awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I get there. She's running a little late. So I get there first. And this this woman is amazing, by the way. I don't want to be like, I don't want to talk. I don't want to throw her under the bus. she just she had she She very reasonably saw this ad and was like...
00:01:39
Speaker
I assume this is not about the character of the person. Okay. All right. fair Yeah. well I assume that already. Yeah. So I walk into the thing. First, I'm walking up to it. Right. Also, this takes place. This is in um like the suburbs to like the north of Philadelphia.
00:01:56
Speaker
um There's it. So it's already a little weird out there. There's a place like I drove past on my way there, a place called the Trump store. ah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um but So i I get there and the parking lot is a little emptier than I expected. But i'm like, okay, well, whatever.
00:02:16
Speaker
Cool. I walk up the stairs. The first thing I see is a big sandwich board sign and it says vendors this way. But vendors is spelled wrong. V-E-N-D-E-R. And I'm like that's funny so i walk i I walk in and I'm just face to face.
00:02:33
Speaker
With the first vendor. Like immediately I walk in the door face to face with like, hi. they're like oh um Hey, it's just two people. They look like a like a young couple. And they're just selling like Christmas ornaments that they bought and just painted like pop culture stuff on. Oh, no. Kind of poorly. So it's like, it'll be like an eagle's logo, kind of badly painted, and then a picture, and then Pikachu's face. Oh, no. Just like on Christmas ornament. Like, oh, okay. Why do I feel like so bad? Continue. Next to them is a person selling about 17 necklaces. Okay. Did you count? It's very specific. I'm just saying, I'm saying it wasn't as many necklaces as you should probably bring Christmas market. And hear the music in the other room and I don't want to be in this room where I've just walked like less than three feet away, like, like into the door, less than three feet away from these people's faces. And think, okay, I'm going to go check out where, you know,
00:03:40
Speaker
the entertainment's happening so walk into the other room and the live performance is one person on stage just one whom with a instrumental backing track singing pink floyd's the wall but
00:04:02
Speaker
What? I'm sorry. why are you Why are they not singing Christmas song? Yeah! Why not? Yes, you're right, Roses. That classic holiday soundtrack to our lives, The Wall. It seemed like karaoke until that ended and they started singing another. Well, and it took a while for that to end. Yeah, yeah. That's just how prog rock goes, you know? It takes a while. And...
00:04:29
Speaker
ah Yeah, again, assumed it was karaoke until they started singing another song. i i think at one point they were singing Burning Down the House. Like, they were just – and there was no band. They didn't even have an instrument. It was just them and a microphone. Oh, God.
00:04:43
Speaker
Oh, no. I guess so I also want to say this is a minor point, but the pizza looked like it was warmed up. like frozen pizza i'm offended wait warmed up frozen offended it looked bad it looked like bad pizza yuck which is what she remarked okay well i'll tell you how she reacted so i'm like this is fucking hilarious i need to go outside and wait for her and i need her to experience it she got there she didn't find it so funny i think she was mortified that she invited me to this thing but
00:05:21
Speaker
But we walk in and so this is when he's singing a different song and I'm like, okay, it wasn't karaoke. This is the live performance. I think this is the fucking funniest thing in the whole world. It is funny. um So we go back in that room. She and then that's when she comments on how bad the pizza looks. She's like, it's not even good looking pizza. And then I look up at the wall where the like there's obviously a video playing and it is the the christmas classics it's nothing i recognize it's something black and white and very old ahha and it says in the bottom right hand corner christmas classics with two like a little two little eyeballs like it's a graphic and then underneath it says like
00:06:10
Speaker
joesdvdstream.com
00:06:17
Speaker
that's the best part that's obviously not the actual website but it it literally it just said like it's like something very similar to like joesdvd library stream.com so she's like we have to get out of here we have to go And I'm like, I think this is the funniest thing in the world. She's mortified. and she's like, I appreciate that you're taking this so well. And I'm like, I love this. i mean It's hilarious. And then as we are, we're as we're walking out of this vendor area, the guy who Christmas and Hollis starts playing on the speakers. So in the vendor room.
00:06:55
Speaker
There's music playing on a speaker, right? ah You can't hear the live and performance from that far. So Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC starts playing. And this guy starts doing this really over-the-top dance and singing along. But he doesn't really know the words. So he's singing along every, like, three words. And he's, like, trying to hype us up as we're walking past. And we both just kind of look at him. I'm about to fucking burst out laughing. But she is...
00:07:20
Speaker
dead-faced. Oh, no. And we look up at him and sort of nod and keep walking, and he just deflates. but but Great job, you guys. I think he even goes like, Hey!
00:07:38
Speaker
Oh, no. And he stops dancing as we walk past him and walk. Why do I feel like so terrible about this? I don't know why. As we're walking back to our cars and she she she knows another place in town and we go have an amazing date. But as we're walking back to our cars, I so i hear some like young alternative looking people walking out going, I love this place. Yeah.
00:08:09
Speaker
Oh, Merry Christmas.
00:08:24
Speaker
Hey
00:08:30
Speaker
everyone, welcome back to Save Your Game. I'm Pushing Up Roses. With me is the... Charged up. e Bumped up. oh Never potted down.
00:08:42
Speaker
Matt Aucamp. They have no idea what you're talking about.
00:08:47
Speaker
They have no idea what you're talking about right now. listen Say hi to the people, Matt. Hi, I'm Matt. I'm Matt. what Why? Why does that frustrate you? Why does it frustrate you that they couldn't hear us talking about our sound issues before hit record? I don't know. I was continually annoyed. Okay.
00:09:09
Speaker
Anyway, I'm in charge of this episode. This is my episode and you're just here witnessing it, perceiving me. i want to be perceived. Okay. Okay. ah ah yeah Are you excited?
00:09:21
Speaker
i perceive you. Listen, i didn't play any games. okay Okay. I was busy. you were? You know, didn't play anything, like nothing. And so what better way to use our time on this podcast than to play some really annoying adventure game Okay.
00:09:46
Speaker
like yay like leisure suit larry no oh okay no like trivia games and music games and how much my pants weigh Hey, how much do my pants weigh is my one? i know, but I wrote some for you. jeez. my gosh.
00:10:07
Speaker
Holy cow. All right. So i I have constructed three games to torture Matt with. And that is what we're going to do today because i didn't do anything this week except for I did...
00:10:19
Speaker
I did start writing my annual Christmas riff review holiday video. It is on Christmas at the Amish Bakery. That's the name of the movie? That's the name of the movie. It is not based on a book. It is based on a theme, which is Amish fiction, which is very actually very popular genre. Amish fiction is a very popular... I live in Amish country. Well, I live next Amish country. i can't wait for you to watch this. I don't see much Amish fiction around. Amish romance fiction, baby. It's a thing.
00:10:55
Speaker
guess they have strong shoulders, huh? Yeah. And like ranch hands and whatever and bakeries. It's perfect. It's perfect. They have a bakery. It's perfect. have bakery. Have you noticed, like, look, we all know the tropes for these kind of schloppy rom-coms that come out. Like, there's like hundred million that come out every year. they're all going to have the same thing. like the schloppy instead of schlocky. Schloppy. Schloppy.
00:11:22
Speaker
It's my word. They're so schloppy. They're schloppy. Swapping around. But like, we all know the tropes. We all know it's big business woman has a struggle.
00:11:36
Speaker
She struggle and she goes to her back to her small town. She meets a fucking dumb blogger. I hate aa Christmas. What? You guys celebrate Christmas here? loves it. And we all we all know that. Nobody's ever celebrated Christmas where I'm from. We're too busy doing business. to to Business. But did you ever notice there's like so many bakeries, my dude. Bakeries are the coziest setting Yeah.
00:12:05
Speaker
they're in cozy murder mysteries they're in romcoms they're in crisp bakeries you got to save the bakery you can do that scene where two people are are falling in love and they're throwing flour at each other and and like putting icing on each other's face like later die and it's like it's like man you're goingnna have to clean that up that's your workplace Yeah, someone's to have to clean that up. ah Now, this one's weird because there is, like, literally no baking scenes. When you and your partner started dating, did you ah throw flour at each other to court?
00:12:37
Speaker
Not flour, but definitely powdered sugar. particles The particles are smaller. Okay. And tastier. i I perpetually throw. i'm like a... i'm like a ah Lower primate.
00:12:55
Speaker
I throw. i don't want to talk about what I throw to court. This is a safe space to talk about the things that you throw to court.
00:13:08
Speaker
But yeah, they it bakeries, ah bakeries, man, they're everywhere. But there's no baking in this film. There's barely acting in this film.
00:13:20
Speaker
And the big city the woman's from, I'll give you one guess. What what one guess do you think the big this this woman is from, this one big city? Dover, Delaware. Yeah, Dover.
00:13:32
Speaker
Capital of Delaware. Chicago, you fool. However, they clearly did not have the budget to film in Chicago, to film anything in Chicago. So they only used, like, stock footage of, like, the Bean and the L train. And the characters are never seen in it. And when they get when they show her in her big, swanky office, they, like, close the blinds. Because... Chicago is very recognizable. You can look out the window and see the skyline. So the rest of it is filmed in good old Kentucky. ah Well, why didn't they just do it in Kentucky? Why isn't she just from the ah big Kentucky big city? of Like Louisville.
00:14:16
Speaker
Louisville is a big city? Yeah. Yeah. ah What's the Frankfurt? Frankfurt's the capital. They could just film in Frankfurt. I would watch movie.
00:14:28
Speaker
I would watch it Christmas movie set in Louisville, Kentucky. Yeah. Like when the Kentucky Derby is going. Do think just said is true, though? What's true? Do you think it's true that I would watch a Christmas movie set in Louisville, Kentucky? No. You're not even going to watch film that I'm talking about. would attend a Christmas market in Louisville, Kentucky. Yeah.
00:14:53
Speaker
Everything's like a horse decor. Horses wearing hats. Horses wearing boots. They'd be cute. Anyway, that's what I've been doing. I haven't been playing a game, but I've been working really hard. And this will be my annual Christmas thing. I love doing them. They're they're super funny. Last year, I did Hot Frosty.
00:15:12
Speaker
ah One year, I did some Melissa Joan Hart thingy. Love doing these. so and and And don't worry. There's not enough Amish lifestyle to even make fun of it. I would not make fun of it anyway.
00:15:24
Speaker
um but it's like... Nothing happens in this movie! Yeah. I would make fun of it, but also I've spent my whole life around it. So I've earned it. It's also like considered a faith-based film, but there's nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing to, there's nothing.
00:15:44
Speaker
I'm sorry. is that Nothing happens in this film. That was like, um not hot frosty, but you did a video on it and me and an ex watched it. I don't remember the name of it. It's Socks, the talking dog.
00:15:57
Speaker
What? Yeah, Socks the Talking Dog was a faith-based – well, quote, a faith-based film, and the only thing that made it faith-based was they said one prayer, no i that was it. No, this is – this was a movie in which a girl – Was into a rock and roll man.
00:16:15
Speaker
Oh, god stuck in his, stuck in her, stuck in her town. And they fell like they he got there and they hated each other. And then they fell in love, obviously. That's the one with Drew Lachey, Nick Lachey's brother from 98 Degrees. Yeah. And they they learned to to love.
00:16:31
Speaker
And it was also a faith-based film because in the very final scene, like her dad was a pastor or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And in the very final scene, they declare their love for each other and sing several songs together in a church.
00:16:45
Speaker
That's it. How? How? How is this faith-based? I don't even understand. Yes, I also reviewed that one. And that movie, I'll just have you know behind the scenes, absolute torture.
00:16:56
Speaker
Absolute torture to watch. My ah ex made me watch that with her. And actually, I thought it was super fucking funny. It was so so it was one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen in my life. Yeah.
00:17:10
Speaker
I don't even remember the name of it. and for I don't either. And I did a whole ass video on it. I don't remember the name of that. It's the most forgettable. It's the most forgettable one. yeah it is. it ah um so yeah, I think you'll Christmas at the Amish Bakery is funny, but very much in a in a non intentional way, even more so than the 98 degrees weird Christmas film. um It's really trying.
00:17:37
Speaker
It is really trying. It would have been a better movie if it was about ninety if it was about all of 98 Degrees got stuck in this town. All right. Here's the pitch. All of 98. Okay. So it's the same setup. Like the that kid um wants to, he's like an entrepreneurial kid and he's trying to become whatever it was. He was trying to become like the agent of, but he's trying to become the agent of all of 98 Degrees.
00:18:06
Speaker
And so he lies and says that his sister is a huge fan and asks them to come surprise her on Christmas. So all of 98 Degrees show up, but all of 98 Degrees' transportation home breaks down.
00:18:23
Speaker
and so all of 98 Degrees is stuck in this small town. and then they learn about Christmas. They learn about Christmas, and this girl falls in love with all of 98 Degrees. Oh, and they have like a quinn thruplet. Yes. And then they all sing together and kiss.
00:18:38
Speaker
In the church. It's a faith-based movie. And that's that's the moment when the father is finally like, you know what? Love it. i I am in support of this Quinn Thruplet.
00:18:51
Speaker
Oh, we should be like script writers. We should be screenwriters. We're very good at this. We're very good at this. And we are good we are ah cheap, folks. If you want us to write your Christmas movie, we will write it for so cheap. So cheap. You won't even believe it. Look. I'll write it for crumpets. They can be like a little stale. I don't really mind. The the Screenwriters Guild may get very angry at us. Ha ha ha ha.
00:19:19
Speaker
But, oh hey, we've had people angry at us before. We can take it. Matt, my dear Matt, what have you been playing? And don't don't tell me you've also been writing about Christmas at the Amish Bakery.
00:19:35
Speaker
No, so I've been playing a game called Christmas at the Amish Bakery. no um it's a hidden object. It's a hidden object game. I wish-mas.
00:19:52
Speaker
but Matt, are you still there? no, i i ah i was playing i I played all the way through a game that I talked about briefly in last episode. it was There was a demo at Adventure X. Yeah. and I absolutely loved it. And then turned out it was already available.
00:20:18
Speaker
Like, they released it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically, like, that day or the week before or something. Yeah. So I sat down. I, I have also been working very hard, but not on anything that you guys are going to care about my like real job.
00:20:32
Speaker
So I haven't gotten a lot of video game time. yeah I'll tell you about, I'll tell you guys about one other thing I've been doing before I tell you about the interesting adventure game. This is cause this is something I'm probably going to be talking about on this podcast pretty soon. Um,
00:20:49
Speaker
I have been playing a lot of Pokemon ROM hacks. Interesting. So they if you don't if you don't know about these, people will take you know ROMs of the original Pokemon games and they will create... Sometimes there there are types of Pokemon ROM hacks where they just kind of enhance...
00:21:14
Speaker
a game Like, they're just like, oh, this Pokemon Red should have had this feature from Pokemon X and Y. And just sort of enhance it. But there's a much more interesting version of Pokemon Romhack where they basically create an entirely new game on top of an old Pokemon game. So I played a little bit of Pokemon Unbound game.
00:21:41
Speaker
which is a ROM hack of Pokemon FireRed. And it is a story about... yeah You know, it's it's almost like... It's a story, one of these Pokemon stories where it's like somebody takes a legendary Pokemon that was that was involved in some cataclysmic war before, like, a thousand years ago, and they have tapped into its power and are now going to use it to end the world or whatever. And you have to...
00:22:11
Speaker
save the day by walking around and fighting other kids with your little pocket monsters damn i thought you were gonna say it's a story about oddish and i was real excited for a second is there is a is there a rom hack for that a a story that is just that is oddish centric yes right i don't know guys write in matt and roses at gmail.com and let us know if there's a rom hack that is entirely about on oddish thank you um But no, what I'm finding is that, and I've known this for a while, I just haven't taken the time, um but I was talking to my my cousins are really into these, and so they they were into them, and i have my Retroid Pocket.
00:22:57
Speaker
With yeah a bunch of emulators on it. So I was like. You know I could just throw some of these ROM hacks. On my Retroid Pocket. And I'm fucking loving them. Oh nice. Like while mainstream Pokemon games. Have gotten pretty bad um You can go play these ROM hacks. And they are.
00:23:16
Speaker
Like. They have all. Like some of these. Like Pokemon Lazarus. Or Pokemon Unbound. Or Pokemon Emerald Sea Glass. They have all the charm.
00:23:27
Speaker
Of the early Pokemon games
00:23:32
Speaker
ah in a way that, like, it does not feel like... Like, we're used to adventure games where you play a fan game and it's kind of like... It's kind of meh. Yeah. It's kind of like... Yeah, exactly. No, these are legitimately... People put a lot of time and a lot of work and into them. And there's so many ah tools and resources to help people build these that...
00:23:55
Speaker
There's like a ton of really fucking good ones. That's cool. So it kind of like refreshes, kind of like invigorates your mindset in playing those games, I guess.
00:24:07
Speaker
Absolutely. And i you know how I am often a proponent of if, if you have an idea, just make your own thing. Don't go make a fan version of something you already like. Yeah. Well,
00:24:21
Speaker
Anytime anyone's ever tried to do that with Pokemon, it hasn't really panned out. There's something magical about the Pokemon world and the specific mechanics of Pokemon that feel hard to replicate yeah with other in other universes and with other ah mechanics or other monsters. So think...
00:24:41
Speaker
i think and i On that front, I don't really like the ROM hacks where they create new Pokemon. I like the ones where they use old Pokemon. i I would feel the same. Yeah.
00:24:53
Speaker
Because new Pokemon just feel like they don't they don't feel like they have the same. It's the same problem as when you play a Digimon or something. Although I hear the new Digimon game is fucking amazing. um But it's that same problem where it just it doesn't it feels something feels off.
00:25:09
Speaker
Yeah. So anyway.
00:25:13
Speaker
I will talk about those more in detail on an upcoming episode because I'm going to keep playing these. But nice do you want to hear about the adventure game? Yeah. Dude, I do consider Pokemon half adventure, to be honest with you Because like it appeals to my...
00:25:32
Speaker
adventuring needs. you I bet you drive some, not all, but some of our listeners absolutely insane with how many things you consider adventure games. That's fine.
00:25:45
Speaker
That's fine. Come at me. um though like i bet both of us probably do because yeah you know we are not point and click absolutists.
00:25:57
Speaker
And I know we have some people that listen to us that are. okay Yeah, well, come at me, bro. Come at us. Come at us. We'll use our Pokemon on you.
00:26:08
Speaker
Come at Godish. The adventure game that I was playing that was featured at Adventure X is called Dusk Punk. Yes. Dusk Punk.
00:26:20
Speaker
it's Not Dust Punk. It's not an easy name to remember. It's not. You'd think it would be with just those two words, but it's kind of just like two very generic words that you see in games game titles constantly yeah i mean i thought it was called dust punk for the last time i did too and i kept searching i searched for it and i was like fuck and i couldn't find it and i was like oh maybe they were this was when we were still there yeah and was like oh maybe maybe i'm misremembering well No, I assumed I remembered the title. I was like, oh, maybe they didn't mean it was out yet.
00:26:55
Speaker
Maybe they meant it's like coming out real soon. And then I went back the next day and i was like, oh, Dusk Punk. Dusk Punk, yeah. ah The name actually is from a quote by... ah It's from a quote that they display at the beginning of the game by Laris maovris Markov. um Tyrants appear all powerful. This illusion is broken only at the moment of their downfall. I cannot know when dusk will set on this rotten empire.
00:27:25
Speaker
I only know that no matter how long the day, dusk will always come. And that's the theme of this game is like no matter how strong... Or no matter how powerful a tyrannical empire, it will always eventually topple.
00:27:46
Speaker
Doesn't always eventually come. And that's sort of the theme of this game. So it's a lot like Citizen Sleeper in that I would even go so far as to call it like a Citizen Sleeper-like. Yeah, I think you mentioned that in the last episode. That's exactly, almost exactly what you said.
00:28:04
Speaker
yeah it's... Because the the thing about it, you start as a a person who was left for dead um in a great war that's been going on for generations. and
00:28:22
Speaker
you weren't dead, so you kind of escape. And you are now, you know, basically an AWOL, an escapee from this war.
00:28:36
Speaker
Who is trying to live in the city with no money and no shelter and, you know, an outlaw status, no job.
00:28:46
Speaker
Right. And so like in Citizen Sleeper, you kind of have to find yourself food and money and shelter. You have to make allies to make this happen. And the whole game takes place on a map.
00:28:59
Speaker
Right. um Not a map where you have a little character walking around, but a map that you scroll around and click on locations. Right. So so i was going to ask, it's not a lot of people compared it to Disco Elysium, but maybe only in some mechanic in Tone, because this is not an open world, correct?
00:29:19
Speaker
No, and you are not. Well, no, you are not. ah Are you looking at your character as he's? No, there's no character. You are looking. I mean, you you play a character, but you don't see your character ever. um Even in Citizen Sleeper, in certain scenes, they show you a still picture of your character. In this, you never, ever see your character. Okay.
00:29:40
Speaker
Only see a map. And when you click on certain locations, an image of that like location, like a still image of that location will pop up, like a painted, digitally painted image.
00:29:51
Speaker
um And sometimes when you're talking to a character, a digitally painted image of that character, still image will pop up. um But the game, yeah, so the game takes place all on this map and in this UI. And you um are...
00:30:09
Speaker
making choices and selecting dialogue choices. Right. And, um, uh, there are somewhat branching paths. I think all the paths lead to the same ending. i think there's two endings and all the paths lead to one of those two, a except for you can have like some slight variations depending on which factions you befriend and how well you do at certain missions.
00:30:34
Speaker
Um, You can pick your goal at the beginning of the game, whether you want to find friends and allies, whether you want to stop the war, whether you want to topple the empire, or whether you just want to survive.
00:30:49
Speaker
Turns out all of them sort of dovetail into each other. You kind of can't do one without the other. okay um And...
00:31:01
Speaker
How it happens is you have skills, you come across, each location has a bunch of actions you can perform. Something maybe like search for scrap metal or something like work a shift at the factory or something like um ah explore the town. And then you...
00:31:22
Speaker
That each of those things apply to a certain skill and you click that skill and it rolls dice and adds it to your skill bonus and then you succeed or fail. If you fail, generally there's a consequence. It takes away some kind of stat thing or it it advances a negative clock. Like maybe you're trying to steal from a factory, right? And it it it it advances. And if if you fail, the only consequence is that you don't get the thing. So you waste...
00:31:49
Speaker
one of four actions you have at night. You can never get it back unless you maybe save scum. ah No, you can't save scum at all. Oh, okay. No save slot. So there's four actions per day and four actions at night.
00:32:01
Speaker
So you, what you've wasted an action for that day and you've in, in like the circumstance I'm describing where you're saying you're trying to rob a factory or some of the steel from a factory, you might advance a clock that says um security.
00:32:18
Speaker
And if you advance that clock, say, three times, you might get caught or you might just lose the ability to try and steal from that factory for, say, five in-game days or something, right?
00:32:33
Speaker
Because they tighten security for a little bit. and There might be other things where you might fail at something and it locks you out of... You fail, say, a whole quest line and it locks you out of whatever the good ending for that quest line.
00:32:48
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um which I'll return to in a second because I think that's one of the maybe flaws of the game. ahhu um But, you know, it's like Disco Elysium in that way, right? Like there are different paths and failure is supposed to be as valid an option as success.
00:33:05
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Yeah. Is it funny? No. This game is very serious. Okay. I mean, so was disco, but I think you know what I'm referring to. Like, if some of the fails in disco were hilarious. Yeah. Like, if you fail at singing a song at like at open mic, it's just the funniest thing ever. So this is not that. Well, the best yeah thing in Disco Elysium is when you're supposed to pay rent And if you there's a thing you can choose where you say, like, get fucked.
00:33:38
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And if you fail that role. You're what's the guy's name in Disco Elysium? Frank. Yeah, Frank. harry What? Harry. Frank. Harry.
00:33:52
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It is Harry. i don't know why I fell for Frank. I had to fail first to get to the right. I don't know why. I don't know why that happened. Harry runs away and jumps in the air, gives two middle fingers to the man, and it freezes in mid-frame with you thinking you're the coolest guy in the world, and then it tells you you find that you're about to collide with an old woman in a wheelchair. Yeah.
00:34:18
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Yeah, it's fantastic. I love the fails in that's Disco, except for in like later game. So i was curious if it had a similar tone. No, Dust Punk is not like that. um Again, if you're failing in some sort of larger mission or you're failing in, say, a cut scene, generally it just changes the direction of those scenes um or that trajectory. If you're failing in just a random action you choose to do during that day,
00:34:48
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It's either going to take your health down by one bar or it's going to cost you some money or it's going to cost you some energy. so'll get I'll say that for as i'll I'll get to that for a second. So you have a health bar um and you have an energy bar. Your energy bar is like how much like ah are you have you eaten?
00:35:10
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um And it goes down every day.
00:35:16
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And if you get to the bottom of your energy bar, it starts digging into your health bar. Yeah. Your health bar will also go down if you actually get, like, injured by somebody, if somebody hits you or shoots you or something. Yeah.
00:35:28
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That's pretty common. A pretty common mechanic. Yeah. Yeah. Getting shot and it making your health go down? No, I meant, like, the health going down to one bar and then it getting into another bar.
00:35:39
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Yeah, yeah. Winterboro was like that, too. So... Then you have this sort of, i can't remember what this bar is called, but it's kind of like a sanity meter. Sure. um You are suffering.
00:35:51
Speaker
i think it's stress is actually what it's called. And it you are suffering. You're suffering, right? Like you have a lot of trauma from your time in the war.
00:36:04
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Things are really difficult. You're like fighting to survive. And the walls are closing in at you at all times. So. As you fail at things, sometimes if you just – sometimes I think a little bit just like as time progresses. And also if you push a roll. So if you fail a roll, you can always push and and try again. And that sacrifices one stress point.
00:36:32
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So your stress meter is consistently going up. When it hits certain levels, it breaks a die, which means that that die will always roll up. You will always roll a certain number of ones that day.
00:36:45
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Yeah. Unlike Citizen Sleeper where the dice are all rolled at the beginning of the day, these are rolled at random. Yeah. But you will always, you know, if if something's broken, you stand a much higher chance of failing at a skill check.
00:37:01
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Yeah. And then if your stress meter or your health meter goes all the way, like stress meter all the way to the top or health meter all the way to the bottom, you break a, you don't die, you break a skill.
00:37:13
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And it takes like two points off of your skill and whatever special ability you might have leveled up in that skill kind of goes away. And you have to rest for an entire day to get it back.
00:37:29
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Sometimes longer because you have to succeed on the rest rolls. Yeah. i I want to play some non-video games with you so But um i am I'm working the soundboard this time, so you have to come up with the swanky Maximino.
00:37:45
Speaker
Oh, no. Oh, no. Please play um Lucy Bankerino. What? Lucy Bankerino. It's Luce Banks.
00:37:58
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No idea what that means. Just play it.
00:38:16
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Hey everybody and welcome back to Save Your Game. I am your host Matt Allcamp and with me, my co-host, this this fine December evening.
00:38:28
Speaker
Dang it, I thought you were going to say this fine human being. It is the the chilly, the brisk, the the fine snowy, sexy, pushing a process. God damn it.
00:38:44
Speaker
hi I'm your co-host. I don't think Christmas is all that sexy. ah No, I'm saying i I am sexy. Yeah, but I was just talking Christmas-y stuff about you.
00:38:55
Speaker
But there's nothing Christmas-y about me. Nothing. There's nothing Christmas-y about you? Zero things. You love Christmas so much. i actually do. Yeah, I love Christmas.
00:39:06
Speaker
Muppets Christmas. I'm so excited. But that's not what we're talking about. don't Don't open those floodgates or I'll start talking about Muppet Christmas stuff, in which there's a lot, by the way. Why am I here?
00:39:23
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Where we come from, this is small talk. yeah ah The heck you say? Love Muppet Christmas. Family Christmas. It's called Muppet Family Christmas. yes It's the best Christmas movie that exists.
00:39:37
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yeah got for the icy patch so cute yeah go i don't know if that's available for to watch anywhere but if you do find it you should watch it because it's a classic um but we're not talking about christmas even though it is almost christmas and i am very excited about it today i'm gonna torture matt with some games because that's what i want to do today put torture Oh, okay. In the fun way. Okay. But not in the naughty way.
00:40:08
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in the PG-13 way. There's a lot going on here. I have come up with three questionable games for Matt to play to test. Yes, test.
00:40:20
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His adventure game prowess. Oh. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. I would love to start with how much do my pants weigh? Now, of course, this is this is more, I don't think this is testing anyone for all us. This is just a fun thing that we like to do. We played this game before, but this time I'm actually going to give you a screen cap.
00:40:42
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I'm not going to tell you what any of these items are or what game it's from. If you can guess which game it's from, that's worth extra points. Oh, i there's points? Yes, there is 300 points.
00:40:55
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300 points! This is a long game. Okay. um So, let's start off this shindig i'm gonna send you a screen cap and we'll put some of these in the show notes yeah we can put some screen yeah we would have because you like to play along you can you can play along with these okay so this is how much do my pants weigh this is the first screen cap you may describe what you're looking at you can guess which game it is if you really want to i will not tell you what these items are you have to go by the icons okay
00:41:32
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whe All right. um All right. what What are we seeing in here? What I'm seeing here is it's like um there's a cream pie. Yes, there There's a ah there's a big hawk of ham or turkey. like There's a rope.
00:41:49
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There's a um harp, a hammer, a cloak, an amulet, little bag. Yeah. I also will not be telling you the size of these things. A sled, a key, a wand,
00:42:08
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and then two other things. That's why I'm not telling you what they are. you um it's It's in an inventory with an eye and a hand and a cursor and a question mark. and the Okay, this is from King's Quest V. It is from King's Quest So and this is all in King Graham's pants at one point. It is at one point. Yep. This is all in King Graham's pants. Okay.
00:42:32
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So a sled already. We're talking 10 pounds at least. Maybe up to 20 pounds. Up to, yeah. So the sled, i'm I'm going to give you a little info on the sled. The sled, actually, you know what?
00:42:47
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i will I'm not going to give you the sizes of any of these unless you ask. So you can ask me one question, just one question about any of these items, including what is it?
00:42:58
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Just one question. All right. um Okay. What is the item in the top right? The yellow? Yes.
00:43:09
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That is some wax. It is used to fill... a It's beeswax, and it's used to fill a hole in a boat. Yes. Okay.
00:43:23
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Interesting. All right. So for the sled, yeah, I'm going to say... let's let's Let's split the difference. 15 pounds rope about five pounds. So think 20 a harp.
00:43:35
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All right. A regular ass harp.
00:43:41
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Is like 50 to 70 pounds, but like a little hand harp, I'm going to say is about 10. of whom Maybe as low as five. Let's start up to five. So a hammer is about three pounds.
00:43:57
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Pie is about a pound. Wax is less than one. A cloak is about a pound. I'm going to say we're looking about 55 pounds.
00:44:12
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Oh, hey my God. You are only three points off. It's 52 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. Because I did, you know, like you're right. It's a small hand harp. So I put that at seven pounds. Okay. The sled, I put at 12 pounds. The reason I put it a little lower is because it is a children's sled from a toy store. So didn't think it would need to be something not insane. Right. Yeah.
00:44:38
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yeah The pie i looked up weight of custard pie. I really did look that up. tutor Two to three pounds. I put two pounds. Was it like, it and it was like FBI on its way.
00:44:54
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Did you figure out what the that last icon is? do you know what that is Is that the cheese? It is not cheese. It is a golden egg. It's the tambourine. Oh, okay. All right. All right. One pound. So yeah, I say that is success. I think you won this round.
00:45:16
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I'm going to give you 50 pounds or 50 points. I'm not going to give you 50 pounds. Okay. Give me 50 pounds. I don't even know where that would come from. going to give you 50 points.
00:45:27
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God, why is this? Why? ah Why do I have no working pens ever? I'm an artist. I get 50, 50 points. You have 50 points for it. rule. Yeah. This pen's broken. This is lipstick. So that's not helpful at all.
00:45:42
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There we go. 50 points. Okay. Are you ready for your next screen cap? i I would love it. Please. All right. Let me open that up for you. Remember, you do get one question about any of the items or any the item anything. Or one question per per picture.
00:46:01
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Yes. One question per picture. Unless you want to ask me what game it is, but I think you'll be able to get it. Okay.
00:46:09
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Because they are related. But I can't wait for you to guess what these items are. Okay, i opened up the same picture, so can I just do the same one again? You opened the same picture?
00:46:20
Speaker
Alright, no, I got it. I got it. I'm in the right one. Alright, so again, this is like this is clearly a king's quest. Which one?
00:46:30
Speaker
Well, let me read what's in it first. There's a mirror, ah a stoppered bottle, a skull, a feather, wind-up A little ah bird.
00:46:48
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m An egg. yeah a knife. A flower. A book. A map. A string. and i can' And some coins, I think.
00:46:58
Speaker
Okay. So this is from King's Quest 7. Wait. King's Quest 6. Sorry. you have Is that your final answer?
00:47:11
Speaker
King's Quest 6? Hold on. Let me pause now.
00:47:16
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I know some of these items exist in King's Quest 6.
00:47:22
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you got The thing about King's Quest is that all items exist in every King's Quest game. Yeah, that's true. But I know that... All right, it's King's Quest 6. It is King's Quest 6. Good job. Yes, okay. Okay, do you have any questions about any of the items?
00:47:37
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um
00:47:41
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how How big is the mirror? The mirror is about the size of like, um it's a mirror that you can hold, but the frame is of a like professional looking mirror. um I have like a mirror above my vanity, but you could hold it in your hands. You can actually hold it in your hands and show somebody this mirror. So it is not a hand mirror, but it's also not, you know,
00:48:06
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so like dan probably I'm going to guess like so five to seven pounds. Okay. All the rest of this stuff is actually pretty lightweight. I know, right? I'm going to say like... Well, it's human skull.
00:48:24
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Yeah, right. Human skull. It is human. But it is, and it's just a skull, so there's no meat and guck in it. And human head weighs, what, eight pounds? So it must be less than that. So...
00:48:37
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I'm going to say
00:48:40
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nine pounds. For the human skull? For all of it. Oh, for all of it. Yes.
00:48:49
Speaker
Hang on one second. I don't know. Well, okay let me think about the book. Sorry. Sorry. I already get put my guess, but I'm going to raise it to like 12. Okay. 12 pounds worth d for what?
00:49:02
Speaker
The whole thing. Okay. Because I didn't think about the book. Books are heavy. And you the skull weighs. I said the human head's like eight pounds, but that's with everything in it. But it's head. Yeah.
00:49:12
Speaker
So you're saying it is. I don't know how much of specifically a skull weighs. i'd I'd say probably a pound, maybe two. One pound? Yeah. Okay.
00:49:23
Speaker
Hang on. I have to math. I have to math for a second. Why did you put eight pounds? I put, yeah, I did. Hang on. I was just like, wait a minute. You're right. Okay. So what is your final answer? I have mine here.
00:49:39
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ah So I'm going to say 12. Honestly, i think that's successful because i got 15 pounds. You're about three. Yay, I did it I went on the other side of the spectrum to get something light because you don't really, you like rarely see that in inventory. So here's what I have. The map is a piece of paper. i have it as barely anything. Yeah, of course. Unless it's like a heavy scroll. So at most, like half a pound for like a heavy scroll. The gold thing is not string. It's hair.
00:50:10
Speaker
So it weighs nothing. didn't even put it. i even put it in there. It it weighs nothing. um Let's see. What else do we have here? The mirror I put at seven pounds.
00:50:22
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Yeah. Okay. So that, all right. I was right about that. That's a little lamp. I put it to two pounds. It's just a little glass, a little glass lamp, the mechanical bird toy. I put it one pound, the feather. I did not put, um the flower I did not put.
00:50:35
Speaker
And so, yeah, this is an extremely light, like extremely light inventory. So the book I looked up, you know, I know what I did for this. It's a big book. Like it's a spell book. Right. So I'm just like, how do i what what do I compare? So I looked up the weight of the better homes and garden book, which is about three pounds. So yeah three pounds for a giant, you know, a spell book. I think that's fair. So I think that you did amazing. I'm going give you 50 points.
00:51:11
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Another 50. Okay. fifty but i'm I'm noticing a a theme here in the point. 100 points. Oh, what yay. Okay.
00:51:22
Speaker
Now let's move on away from how much, and unless you have a, unless you have, but how much do my pants weigh for me? I assume you do not. I don't, I don't, I don't have anything for you. This is, i I'm playing it this way though, because I think it's funny to see the icons and be like, what is that?
00:51:41
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The next game I would like to present to you is this really hard Monkey Island quiz I found on funtrivia.com. Whoa, okay. I thought it was difficult.
00:51:53
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However... you I think you're maybe a bit more of a Monkey Island fan than me. So maybe you'll do better at it. I don't know. This is on the whole Monkey Island thing. It's not just Monkey Island 1. It's on ah like all of them. Okay. Are you ready? Oh, boy. All right. yeah It's hard.
00:52:11
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I'm so worried. Here's what I'm worried about is that I'm going to fuck this up so bad and we are going to lose our audience forever. No, and in please play along, you guys. like yeah Write down your answers. i'll I'll tell you what the correct answers are at the end. So yeah, if you want to play along, go for it. Question one. This from Monkey Island 1.
00:52:32
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What time is it at Melee Island? What time is on the clock? Is it 6.30, 3, 10, or 2? 6.30, 3, 10, or 2. That is really It's a one.
00:52:42
Speaker
six thirty three ten or two that is really hard it's a hard one
00:52:53
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Three. Okay. I'm putting clocking down three. In Monkey Island 1, what is the name of the man that trains you at sword fighting? One or two words. Oh, Jesus.
00:53:10
Speaker
God, I think it might be something like, I think it might be something unexpectedly kind of badass. Okay. Okay.
00:53:21
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ah I kind of need a specific answer. So I'm going to say something like, I'm just going to, I'm going to say this. Wait. Oh no. It's, um, fuck. It was one of those things that just flew through my head. Oh, no. It like flashed and now it's gone. Both both words. Because I was thinking about why did you say one word or two.
00:53:43
Speaker
yeah it's just one or two words. And then his entire name flew through my head. And like in that way that like I couldn't grab it. Do you want to skip?
00:53:55
Speaker
Let's skip and come back. Yeah. Okay. Monkey Island 1, what is the name of the skeleton pirate of LeChuck? Bob. What? The skeleton pirate, his, like, Bob.
00:54:08
Speaker
What did you say, though? Bob? Bob. All right, I'm writing that down. Monkey like monkey Island 1, true or false, there are six piranha poodles at the governor's mansion. True or false, yes or no? I think there's five. You think there's five? so you're going say No. No.
00:54:24
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Monkey Island 1. When fighting with the Swordmaster, what is the correct comeback to the insult, I hope you have a boat ready for a quick escape? Is it, I'd be in real trouble if you ever used them?
00:54:35
Speaker
And I've got a little tip for you, get the point. So you got that job as a janitor, after all. Or, why? Did you want to borrow one? Uh, D. D.
00:54:47
Speaker
Yep. Okay. What is the name? This is Monkey Island 2. What is the name of the laundry guy of Scab Island? It comes with a little hint. Let me know if you want it.
00:55:00
Speaker
The laundry guy at Scab Island. Yeah. What's the hint? The hint is it's two words and both start with an M.
00:55:09
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Mad Marty. typing in mad marty monkey island 2 in both modes do you get the clothes of largo at the laundry true or false yes or no both modes do you get the clothes of largo uh false yeah false monkey island 2 what is lechuk's form now zombie pirate ghost demon now as in 2025? No, in Monkey Island 2. Oh, in Monkey Island 2. Zombie.
00:55:46
Speaker
Zombie, okay. Monkey Island 2. What was the drink of the contest at the cottage of the small island near Fat Island? What the fuck? okay Is it? Do you want me to repeat? rink What was the drink at the contest at the cottage of the small island near Fat Island?
00:56:04
Speaker
Is it rum, a special grog with twice the alcohol, twice the calories, near grog, or simple grog? So so you you play against Rum Rogers. So that's that's it's trying to throw me there. And near grog is the item that you use to...
00:56:26
Speaker
win the thing so it must be a special grog special grog with twice the alcohol twice the calories yeah okay we're on monkey island three monkey island three what is the name of mort's dog old blind boo old flind pew old plinned few old blind pew what was the first one old blind boo old plot old plinned boo old blind pew okay do you remember that dog the dog is cute it like bites your hand anyway yes monkey island three does a parrot appear in this game yes or no monkey island three does a parrot appear in this game
00:57:15
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there's no parrot in this game that talks you know that
00:57:21
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I would say probably, ah man. this is So if there is, it is in the the in the dioramas at the end of the game.
00:57:32
Speaker
And I don't know if that would count. So I'm going to say no. Okay. Monkey Island 3, what is LaFoot's first name? It comes with a hint. Let me know if you want it. Okay.
00:57:49
Speaker
I'm going to say, all right. Yeah. yet Tell me. One word and it starts with an E.
00:57:58
Speaker
That's not what I thought. um Eugene. Eugene. Writing that in. Monkey Island 3. What is the correct insult for the comeback?
00:58:10
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I look that much like your fiance when fighting with Rottingham. One, i have never lost a melee. Two, you have the sex appeal of a sharp pay Three, you'll find I'm dogged and relentless to my prey. Or four, you're as repulsive as a monkey and a negligee.
00:58:29
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ah d four.
00:58:32
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Monkey Island four. What is the time of Melee Island? 10, 3, 2, 630. ah can tell you what you answered for one if you don't remember.
00:58:44
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um I answered three for one. So I'm going to say 10. I don't know. Okay. Monkey Island four. Are there some wax lips in grandpa Marley's heirlooms?
00:58:56
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Yes or no. in monkey This is Monkey Island four? Yes. Monkey Island four. Escape. I don't, this, I don't fucking know. No. Okay. Monkey Island four.
00:59:07
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When do you, when do we get to know the voodoo lady's name? Act one, never. Act two, after returning. Act three, after we return.
00:59:22
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Act two, after returning. Okay. How many lawyers are there in Monkey Island 4? Four, one, three, Three. games. All games.
00:59:34
Speaker
three all games Is there more than one animal in all the... monk what What is this question? I think there's a a translation barrier for who wrote this, but they're asking, is there more than one animal in all the Monkey Island games?
00:59:53
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Meaning in each game, is there more than one species of animal? I think so. um It's got to be yes, right?
01:00:04
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yeah Okay, let's let's let's think it through. In number one, there's a parrot and a monkey. In number two, there is a dog and a monkey. In number three, there's a dog and a monkey. And a chicken.
01:00:19
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and Well, yeah, i'm just I'm just trying to think of at least two. But yeah, you're right. Number four, there is a duck and a monkey.
01:00:29
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And a monkey. Number five, there is a monkey and... It looks like they're not... they're not um Oh, then yes. Including five.
01:00:40
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So yes, okay.
01:00:43
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Is there a parrot in all games? As in one through four LucasArts. Is there a parrot in all games? I think we just i think we just kind of like said no Yeah, I think I would have to say no.
01:00:57
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And this is the last question. Is there a dog in all games? No. No. Okay. Are you ready to see your final score? Oh, boy.
01:01:09
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all right. did Everybody have their scores locked in? Everybody at home? Let's do it. All right. So...
01:01:17
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ah Why don't they have an overall score here? One second. Okay, your score, 11 20. fucking christ 11 out of 20 so here's the ones here's what you got wrong yeah uh the first one uh you said 10 o'clock it is three o'clock or sorry you said three o'clock and the answer is 10 o'clock whenever you were at melee island the clock always shows 10 um oh we never went i'm so sorry we never went back to the man who trained you at sword fighting i'm not sure you would have gotten to the answer though
01:01:54
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Captain Cutthroat. Well, you did get Captain right. It's Captain Smirk. And I only needed one word. Yes. Other accepted answer says Smirk.
01:02:05
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A nice try. Dan. ah Bob is the name of the skeleton. um There are five Piranha Poodles. um The comeback...
01:02:18
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ah For the boat, that's correct. Yep. ah Mad Marty is correct. Yep. um You do not get the clothes at the laundry, so that was correct. You get them at the inn.
01:02:29
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ah LeChuck's form is a zombie in two. That's correct. The drink is a special grog. Yep. ah Yes, the name of Mort's dog is Old Blind Pew. None of these was I worried about. Yeah. So far. So far.
01:02:43
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So this is an interesting an interesting one. In Monkey Island 3, does a parrot appear in the games? this This is going to drive you crazy. But technically it's correct. Technically it's yes.
01:02:54
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Because it's in the fucking... Okay, go ahead. The one from the coin of verbs. The coin that has the skull. That's not fair. and well I consider I got 13 now. Alright, keep going.
01:03:08
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What is the name of LaFoot's first name? Where was LaFoot's first name? Efete? Efete? Efete?
01:03:25
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I think this one is wrong. Okay. No, he's right. This is a trick question. oh Oh, this player. What's the correct insult for the comeback? I look that much like your fiancé when fighting Captain Rottingham. Now, I thought it was also yours repulsive as a monkey and a negligee. Why? Because that's good news. I wasn't sure because it there was a couple that sounded right.
01:03:53
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Yeah. So I'm always used to Monkey Island and Negligé because that's the one you use with all the pirates. That's the one you like build up. But when you're with Rottingham, they're all different.
01:04:04
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If you remember, they're not the same and you have to kind of guess. So it's not Negligé. It's you have the sex appeal of a Sharpay. Okay. Now, I think that's a legitimate loss.
01:04:15
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ah Monkey Island 4. What is the time of Melee Island? You said 10. It's 3. ah you got i knew that they were. i The only thing I knew was that they were in that they were. They looked like they were on the opposite side.
01:04:29
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Not exactly inverse. But anyway, that's the only thing I knew. i didn't know which one was which. and i I don't think I never knew. I knew it wasn't. I knew it wasn't 630. Yeah, it could have been. yeah I would have never guessed, honestly. um There are wax lips in Grandpa Marley's era. Yeah, i ah that will I would not have known.
01:04:50
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I am so shocked you didn't get this one right. When do we get to know the voodoo lady's name? Never. She never tells you her name. That's not true. Oh, we learn it in five. She says her name is not important.
01:05:05
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uh wait plus this this question is monkey island 4 says in monkey island 4 when do you i know i know i know i i i didn't remember when we learned it we learned it in five right i don't know i i haven't played much of yeah karina okay uh in monkey alien 4 how many lawyers are there there are three that's correct Is there more than one animal in all the Monkey Island games? Yes, that's correct. um Oh, yeah, the piranha poodles.
01:05:37
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Oh, so there is a dog in every game. There is a dog. Hang on. But. Huh. OK, well, let's see. I didn't even think about the poodles. I didn't think about the poodles. Damn it. There is a parrot. Is there a parrot in all the games? You said no. The correct answer is yes. Because of fucking coin. I don't count no that. it's not because of the coin. Oh, well, yeah, I guess it is. It would have to be because the coin. I got 14.
01:06:00
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So the Melee Citizen in one, and one one of the citizens in Melee has a parrot. Well, also the parrot in the, the the what's his name? Meat Hook's parrot.
01:06:10
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In Monkey Island 2, Herman Toothrod has a parrot. In Monkey Island 3, the Verb Coin has one. In Monkey Island 4, Jumbo has a parrot. I didn't i know that, but I would have said, yes, there's one in four. I can picture it in three d ah All games. Is there a dog in all games? You answered no. um And that's correct. What?
01:06:32
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That's correct. that Where is there? Okay. ah There are no dogs in Monkey Island 4. Oh, okay. But there is ah the dog in the scumbar in Monkey Island 1, Spiffy. Oh, yeah. Duh. Duh. Elaine's dog in Monkey Island 2. And her piranha poodles, honestly. There's a lot of dogs in the Monkey Island games. I know with Monkey all Island 2, there's a bunch. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, you basically got 11 out of 20, but some of these were tricky questions. Okay. Nope.
01:07:02
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I changed. Nope. I got 14. Wait, 14? Yeah, because I say that the parrot ones are lies. There's only two parrot ones. Okay, 13. All right, fine. You have 13 out of 20 points.
01:07:17
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So it's like a bunch head ones. Okay. Would you like to play one last game with me? Yeah, please. This is a music guessing game. Oh, i know How are we going to? Okay.
01:07:29
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I have compiled um a playlist of songs from adventure games all across the board. And you have to guess them. I'm just going to play them right on my phone. I might add them ah like actually in the track. You should.
01:07:44
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But you will be able to hear them. This is the new – we're just going to test out the new iPhone 17 here. Just don't – if you're going to add them, just don't talk over them and then cut this out where I say this. Yeah. So I'm going to go ahead and you can talk. You can talk whenever. So going play the first one. Are you ready for guess this adventure game song game where it's from? going to do so bad, but yeah.
01:08:25
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okay what do you think police quest that is a fantastic guess it is it is incorrect um it is from a lucas arts game okay okay hold on all right i'll play a little bit more how about ah you you did get this question wrong but i'm gonna play just a little bit more for you
01:08:51
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Oh, it's Zach McCracken. It is Zach McCracken. That's right. I almost i almost um mistook that for ah for Maniac Mansion. They've got a lot of the same same sounds there. Yeah, but yeah. yeah That's fair.
01:09:07
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Here is number two. Are you ready? What
01:09:15
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the fuck? Just wait for it.
01:09:26
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It's Phantasmagoria. That's an excellent guess. Fuck! It's such a good guess. It's not, and you're going to kick yourself. Gabriel Knight.
01:09:37
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No. It's Phantasmagoria Naia Knight. It's Gabriel Phantasmagorian. It's Myst. Okay, all right. but You know what?
01:09:49
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That's okay. i have a few more questions. I have a few more. ah Let's go with this one.
01:10:12
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I'm just like so afraid to say them now.
01:10:16
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This is Gabriel Knight. Oh, yes, you got it. It is Gabriel Knight. It is Gabriel Knight. Good job. I'm so scared. Well, you can't be scared to say that. I'm so scared. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Are you ready for number four? Yeah.
01:10:35
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Okay. Okay.
01:10:46
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do do do salmon max yes salmon max that's right salmon max what hit the road that's correct good job all right question number five we're halfway through okay
01:11:09
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What do you think? That one, I'm so...
01:11:27
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but do you think that one i'm so
01:11:32
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they Like, like that this one's driving me nuts because, like, I can picture, I can hear that playing yeah over and over and over again as I try and, as I walk around and try and solve some stuff.
01:11:43
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I don't think this is correct, but I'm going to say Freddy Farkas. It's not. It is not correct. um but it it But you are correct in that we did play these games semi-frequently for, or semi-recently for the podcast. It's Dagger of Amon Ra. It's Laura B. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yes.
01:12:01
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Okay, question number six. Okay.
01:12:32
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Any he guesses at all? it's ah that's Man, it's it's so hard to hear it. Oh, sorry. i can hear it enough that I should be able to guess it. m um And like I could hear parts that I recognized. I was just hoping that there would be some like little chunk of melody that made it let's Let's go further in. Let's go further in.
01:12:56
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Oh. No. No. No, it's just that over and over again. I told you I was going to i told you i was going to do bad at this one. um hard So this is incorrect. I'm to say Kathy Rain.
01:13:08
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No, it's actually Animal Well. I fucking, that's man. Were you going to say that? No, was just like, I know I've heard this this song 100 times. I know, because you loved that game. I'm like, he's going to get he's goingnna get it. No, i'm I'm really bad at identifying.
01:13:28
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um music is but like Music without words. It is tough. All right. Are you ready for question seven? oh Jesus, yes. Oh,
01:13:41
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God.
01:13:46
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Oh, God.
01:14:05
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I'm gonna go up a little bit fast forward a little bit
01:14:21
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this is definitely i've definitely heard this it's so pretty clock tower no wait clock tower
01:14:33
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Firewatch. Okay. All right. All right. All right. So I'm going leeway on this next one to see if you can get it. I will accept a few yeah a few different answers. you ready?
01:14:47
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Oh, weird. Okay. Weird.
01:15:19
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whoa
01:15:22
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this is an adventure game yeah such a jam of my space quest it is not space quest but i'm gonna give you i'm gonna give you one more guess because it is one of the quest series and so if you could just name the series it was from i'll give it to you
01:15:42
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Police Quest. Yes, that's correct. I'm going to give that to you. It's actually Police Quest 3, The Kindred, which was written by Jane Jensen. I think that's why it's so intense. i'm like, what the heck? It sounds like Gabriel Knight, doesn't it?
01:15:58
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It's like very intense. okay It's very intense. Now, I don't know if you're going to get this one. probably won't. I'm not getting any of these. It might be very hard, but I want you to try your best, okay? Okay.
01:16:15
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I give up. It's Monkey Island and that's Monkey Island three. I believe you got it. Yes. Curse of Monkey Island. Yes. Are you ready for your last one?
01:16:25
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God. Yes. go
01:16:43
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Okay, this is the only one that hasn't sounded familiar. Really? Franbo. Huh, that's an interesting guess. It's actually Grim Fandango. It's called Los Angelitos.
01:16:56
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Little Angels. And yeah, I think I was going to say, hey, focus on the guitar because it sounds extremely like mariachi band. ah But yeah, that was Grim. Now, I do have... That was atrocious, by the way. You have got one, two...
01:17:11
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You got four out of ten questions. Not great. However, I have a bonus theme here.
01:17:23
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ah let's see. You have... 130. dirty Then plus the four. but But really, that would be 115. Oh, oh my God.
01:17:39
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But that this one would 40. You have 155 points. Out of? However, i have a bonus soundtrack, a bonus song, that if you can get it, you will have won this whole thing, and I will buy you donuts.
01:18:00
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Okay. Okay? Oh, boy. Okay. Okay. And I'm going to make it – I'm going to give you some stuff here. The songs are the hardest ones for me Okay, go ahead. I know. You can ask me one question. Okay.
01:18:13
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About what game this is from, okay? Okay. here's the song. Okay.
01:18:46
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What decade did this come out
01:18:50
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This came out in the, I'm just going to say it, the late 90s.
01:19:01
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Late 90s. Is this a point and click adventure? Yes, it is.
01:19:09
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Is it a horror game? Yes, it is. Is it sanitarium? Yes, it Woohoo! Yay. Oh, you sound so... thought I'm very proud of you.
01:19:21
Speaker
yeah ah That means, Matt, because you answered the bonus question, yeah you won the whole show donut of your choice. Yeah.
01:19:37
Speaker
All right. Yeah, that was that was fun. Man, you put a lot of work into this. I know. i have no life. yeah Well, guys at home, I hope you guys found this fun. And hey, said I don't know if you are able to, you know, decode Rose's arcane scoring method.
01:20:03
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Gotta add the 15. But if you can send us, send us your scores, uh, either on the discord uh, remember you can always email us at Matt and roses.com. Make sure to join our discord. There's a link in the show notes. Um, you can always just tell us like you got this out of this many, right? You don't have to struggle with my, you can follow us. You can follow us and, uh, save your game podcast on Instagram, um, Um, what else is going to make sure to keep an eye on pushing up roses channel yeah for Christmas video that should be coming out very soon.
01:20:38
Speaker
What, what else do we got to tell the people? Uh, check out my X-Men podcast, mutant menace. Um, I do it with Pat, uh, my, my cohost, Pat Reber, and there will be a Very fun surprise guest on our episode that we will release on Christmas Day. Hugh Jackman?
01:21:01
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You got Hugh Jackman? Oh my god.
01:21:08
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So, ah set set is that everything? Is that all the stuff we need to tell people? I i think there might be one thing that we're missing. um Always brush your teeth Get plenty of foliage in your diet. And floss before you rinse the toothpaste out of your mouth.
01:21:29
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If you floss with the toothpaste in your mouth, it'll get the toothpaste in between your teeth. And it's wow you know and little there's a little tip from me to you. I love it when my gums are all numb like that from the toothpaste.
01:21:46
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Anyway, podcast is art. And art is suffer.