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Zenless Zoning to Zero with SomeMellowFellow
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Tony is joined by Vtuber, Twitch Streamer, YouTuber and The Game Lounge's Official Hoyo Reporter SomeMellowFellow! The two talk the Capcom Next event, Zenless Zone Zero's big release and Horror Games alongisde your Bi-Weekly Gaming News Update, and upcoming game releases!
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Introduction and Disclaimer
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Disclaimer, all views expressed on this podcast represent the host and his guest and not the companies or agencies they are associated with.
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Welcome to Tony's Game Lounge, a biweekly podcast that covers everything in the world of video games, TCG, tabletop, and more. Here's your host, Tony Fourteen. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Tony's Game Lounge. I'm your host, as always, Tony Fourteen. And joining me this week, he is a VTuber, Twitch streamer, Gay Eye, and our Hoyle reporter, Sunmello Fellow. Man, I'm still not used to hearing you say 2014.
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I know, a lot of I mean, that' it's you it's regulars, it's you regulars, my friends. It's my friends. You guys are the ones that aren't supporting my change of my... it's only It's only on the podcast that I like to go by the full thing. Like, when I introduce myself, like in Twitch streams, it's just, hey guys, it's Tony. ah Ha, ha, ha, ha. It's your boy. It's your boy. Swaggy. Also, also actually I do have want to give one shout out um to early guest one of our early guests that we had on back in the first season first two seasons of the podcast our boy Nick Nielsen Who's college friend? He's been on the podcast a bunch if you listen to those really early episodes um He is now um doing doing play-by-play in the whl hockey league
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And I just got to say super proud of his him and glad to see him moving on up in his play-by-play career. um So got to give a shout out to the boy. Got to give the shout out to the boy. Mellow.
Hot Takes with Sunmello Fellow
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I mean, it hasn't been actually, you know, it's almost it's been a couple of months since you were last on. We were last on it with the ah the Game Awards special. The end of it's been a bit, but we have a new intro segment for our returning guests. It's called Hot Takes. Oh, where we asked our guest for their hottest video game take. Shit.
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I don't even. I don't even know where I mean, the obvious one card is overrated. I mean, that's yeah. yeah But that that is that even a hot take nowadays? Yeah, that that's just that's just common knowledge. you Exactly. Games are way better than AAA.
Indie vs AAA Games
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That's I mean, common knowledge. Yeah, like nine times, out like nine, nine, ten times. You barely see a stinker of an indie. Yeah. Yeah. The indie developers are like you really good at this stuff. Yeah, because they take the time on the games. they're yeah They actually care about the project. well They're able to set their own timelines. So that way it's, ah you know, they'll maybe say, hey, this this is this is being worked on. Don't know when it'll be out, but it's being worked on. um You know, like the guy who made choo choo Charles showing off his brand new game at ah
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ah Summer game fest that looks hilariously fun and I am excited because you know that the game logic crew is gonna get in on that Yeah ice chain to to Charles and my god. I Mean it's it was fun for a bit Can't wait to see what what else is there to come? Oh, it's a the prison that prison escape game are all koalas oh Yeah, that that yeah, that's the that's the guy who gave us choo-choo Charles the same Same person. It's gonna be great i'm excited for it ah But hot take you don't really guess you don't really have one then Hey, if I gotta be honest, I don't really understand the hype of Five Nights at Freddy's
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Ah, you know what? but you know what that's that's that that's that buts that's That's a good take. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to all the pre-hupescence, all the adolescents out there who are... I don't know why would you listen to this, but I'm sorry. I just don't get it. ruyfacebeer who who they He's knocking on my door. Shit. now shit They got him. They got him! No! No! No!
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but bell scream Oh God ah the you know yellowll i do I do miss it. We need to we need to play like we need to play Phasmo again We need to you know we we need to we need to we need to do some game lounge I gotta get you on my like some horror games I've yet to find somebody to play out once human I Well, you know what give me you make me play some horror games come October. How's that sound? Hello? Hell yeah, that way that way it's like you into the facility Oh God ah
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oh God you get your ass over here god yeah I was gonna make a think a comment about staff because obviously it's so big because of the matpat game theory videos. Oh, yeah all of that also shout outs to matpat because he's now like the producer of The theatrical the the onstage show like the theater show of your lie in April I am yeah, I saw that on Twitter. I'm like my god My god, that's crazy. Oh, that's awesome. Uh, yeah, that's that's crazy
Capcom Showcase Highlights
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like wow. I thought you retired that ah Yeah done but ah you done me
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but yeah um but Anyway, getting into the bulk of things now, it's time for to get into our headline of the week, which is we starting with ah Capcom Next, which was the Capcom Showcase. That kind of happened after all the other summer showcases, and it's i mean it was all right. it they were only They focused on three games. um commits Kunizugami, Path of the Goddess, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and Resident Evil 7 coming to mobile devices, but also they also did say one other thing about that which we'll get to. um Starting off with Kunizugami, they gate kind of give a general game overview. This is a hybrid tower defense game.
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where you during the day cycle you'll build defenses on the location that you're at assign jobs to the villagers and in the night phase it's and then assign them certain roles and stuff and in the night phase combat where they'll do their thing you do your thing but uh like fight but you can also reassign them as you need be ah You upgrade both yourself and all the support roles that you assign the villagers. The demo is out now and also there's gonna be an Okami collaboration adding costumes and weapons but and music from the classic game Okami. And there's they're having a bonus campaign of like if X amount of people play the demo or something like that, ah it'll be a free update um and not paid to DLC.
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which I think that's a cool incentive to get people to play a demo of something, I think. Yeah, that that's pretty cool. i think I think that's a really neat business model to take on a game, and I i would actually like to see that more implemented, because it gets more people to try out a game that they may be on the fence about or you know they're excited about and whatnot, and it's a great way for bill play to play a demo, because I don't think enough people play demos nowadays. Yeah, it's more like, hey, if you like this stuff, why not like wait a little bit so like you pay stuff? Yeah, exactly. The game comes out July 19. Then Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. This is a full remaster of the very first Dead Rising game. So improved graphics, quality of life stuff, i.e. moving while aiming, because that wasn't in the first game. When it was first released, you could not move while you aimed. There was no auto saving.
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um But you know all of that stuff it comes out September 19th digitally ah And then they talked about Resident Evil 7, because the whole thing of this show, it was a weird show of like, of like, when they got, like the Kunizugami stuff was pretty normal. And then when they got to the Dead Rising stuff, it's like, oh yeah, we also interviewed all of these developers. And I'm like, okay, cool. But it's all you would you would think when they would do interviews and stuff like that, you have the announcer voice, but then you have like a secondary English voice to like be the voice of like the interviewers. No, it's just the same guy reading everything.
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oh yeah it was weird Yeah But they ah they basically the big thing of this of Resident Evil 7 coming to mobile devices first The first half or part of the game is gonna be free to play And then you have to pay to play the rest of it on mobile devices But they also did confirm that they are working on a brand new Resident Evil game um There is a new one in development right now i Well, at least that's something I mean, it's kind of weird that half of it that's like free to play um to me yeah Yes, yes and no I feel like that's kind of going back to the day of like a couple other games though that were on mobile I was like, oh, yeah, it's free to download and you get to play X amount but I was like, oh, yeah now we're gonna pay while you I've seen I like it's it's been a while since it's like we've seen something like that and
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At least in my opinion, I don't pay attention to the mobile gaming scene aside from like, Oh, what did Huyo do now? Because they're the big mobile game devs, really. Hey, Tony, what's the ah other half of your username?
00:09:59
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You mean the game lounge? You want to join the game? One of those funny little numbers and let her stare. Yeah, exactly. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Not to throw any shade. Not to throw any shade, yeah, to a certain... ah But, yeah, that was that's the headline of the week of Capcom Next. It was all right. It was a solid five, I would say. Like, it was a it wasn't a bad show at any means. It was just like... They they told us three games getting showcased, really two and a half. But, you know, they said, oh, yeah, we're working on New Resident Evil, and I'm sure that made people happy.
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Yeah. ah But to now talk about everything else that happened in the past two weeks, it's time to dive into the Week in
Game Pass Highlights and Impressions
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Review. Recapping the major stories of video games and the world of tabletop, looking over recent releases and reports from the Game Lounge crew, it's the Week in Review. It's starting off, some of the game past ah major releases within these past two weeks. You had the first Descendant, Zendless Zone Zero, which, because our toyoho is here, we'll be talking about a little bit later in the episode. ah The Legend of Heroes, Trails Through Daybreak, Anger Foot, Once Human, and Lifeless Moon also came out.
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Angerfoot, of course, if you remember our ah Summer Game Fest episode with Nick Green, no score Nick Green, um he said that this game looks incredible and you should go check out Angerfoot, ah being published by developer Digital. So yeah, um as for the world of video game news starting off, Seven brand new n NES games were added to the Nintendo Switch online service, including Mock Rider, Urban Champion, Donkey Kong Junior Math, and Cobra Triangle, which I talked to one of my coworkers um who said, Cobra Triangle is a fantastic game that you should absolutely try out if you have not ah heard or heard or played it before. um So that's ah that's the scoop from my ah coworker.
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ah Don't try it if you don't like math. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's dangerous. Donkey Kong, hey, hey, hey, don't you dare knock on Donkey Kong Junior Math. That game is goated. That game is the game of the year. But I don't like math. It's scary. It's Donkey Kong Junior Math, though. Mellow, it's easy math. Donnie, I'm a bottom. I don't like math. It scares me. That's because you get subtracted out of people's lives. but
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But I get it. Add this in. Redacted. All right. Oh!
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Whoa! Jesus! I added redacted. To my. Redacted. Bitch. Oh my God. Wow. PG-13. No, it's this. Bello, how are you worse than Carrots? Carrots, Carrots give me a heads up. What do you mean? You Carrots give me a heads up before we recorded that episode. She's on the same level as me, okay? I don't know. There was no talk about her on the episode. Just saying. We're 13 minutes in.
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ah Anyways, in Sims news, The Sims 4 unveiled their next, actually, on the topic of- Redacted. ah The Sims 4 unveiled their next expansion back, Lovestruck, adding a brand new dating app, turn-ons and turn-offs, polyamory and more, coming July 25th. Okay, that was by accident. I didn't need to. You know what? you know what that's how That's just how we roll, folks. That's just how we roll. Uh, but yeah, so now you can be polyamorous into Sims. Uh, congrats. I really don't know what to say to that. I, I mean, dating apps into Sims because swipe left and right.
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Uh, rust is getting a brand new update called the road renegades update. It's adding motorbikes, bicycles, a vendor in an armored truck and handcuffs. Whoo. um Yeah, I again that there you go rest players some new shit to do aside from call people slurs. Yeah ah Satisfactory will be leaving early access and enter 1.0 September 10th Also with this though the game will be increasing its price by $10 to 40 USD But they are giving us flushable toilets with this. So I think that's fucking go
00:14:43
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You played satisfactory, right, Melo? Yeah, I have for like a little bit, but it is definitely like, well, it's in the name. It is definitely satisfactory. Excellent. That's that's great to know. Exo primal remember that game that Capcom the the new Capcom dinosaur game. Well, it's ended its ongoing development in seasonal content They are stopping it no more seasonal content. The game is just ah it's in its final state. So You get everything I believe they're just gonna be rotating the seasonal content going forward. But yeah, that's uh, it's ended seasonal content.
00:15:23
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I had no idea that game existed. Oh, really? Yeah, I think it got a good amount of what's it called? ah Publicity and marketing stuff, what it came out last last year? I think it was last year, if not two years ago. It's been a while. In Dragon Age news, Dragon Age of Vailguard had its difficulty options revealed in a preview to Game Informer. um Showing, up ah which also showed off the brand new custom, the custom difficulty or unbound as it's called, which has an option, which is controversial to remove dying from the game. Oh, OK. Yeah. How do you argue about that? You are immune to like dying like you have unlimited power. It's kind of makes sense.
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I mean, sure, in the name, but is that is now again, it's a custom difficulty that you it's a custom difficulty and you would toggle it on or off. Yeah, but like it's fine. I mean, I guess it's fine. It's weird, isn't it? it's It feels weird, though, doesn't it? So like, you know, in a game in a game that, you know, like death is, you know, it's going to happen. You'll die. You'll fail. You'll fuck up. But then you try again. That's weird to not have that a little bit. I mean, some games do it all the time. ah Yeah, but but. But I it's it's weird, it's. For the genre that it falls into, it's definitely weird to see this as a toggleable option in the custom difficulty menu.
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Well, let's see what happens. We will we will absolutely absolutely I think obviously it's a great wave I I would say you see here's the thing if this game was like rated T for teen and not M for mature I'd be like, you know what? I think it's a great way to get your kids into a video You're like younger kids into like a game with like cool stories or whatnot But this is an M rated game with blood core all that stuff. Yeah, you sure you
Imagining a GTA with Custom Difficulty
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can turn it off But it's like still it's like you really want to have like a young infant playing this game. Not really but Yeah, my parents when I wanted to play GTA.
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i say but I imagine GTA having a custom difficulty menu where it's like it turns all the guns into water guns. its her No blood, no gore. ah If you kill somebody, they just float into the sky like ah on a balloon or something to make it like cartoony-ish. And all bad words are replaced by like kitty words or something. There will be riots in the street. I know. I think it would be absolutely hilarious if GTA did that just because of the kind of game GTA is. This is going to pull up on a rockstar and bang on the door. Give us the full like no words. Give us the guns. I don't know. I'm saying it's just a toggleable option. So it's still there, but you can turn make up water, guys. Pew pew pew pew. Yeah.
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ah Hey, hey, it's Bob version. You know, kids, Bob should get into the video game industry. I'm just say I can't wait. but Where is my rock band kids, Bob? Give me that. That's how they break into the industry. And then from there, it just gets worse. Uh, in the weirdest story this week, a man in Warwick Shire in the UK has been jailed after approaching police officers while wielding a master sword and they didn't let him go. no ah So Anthony Bray of God, I'm going to butcher this. Newton Newton, he has been sent down for four months um for possession of a bladed article in public.
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I mean, to be fair, it is the Master Sword. Yeah, i be true. I mean, i would i true. If it was just a regular sword, it would be three months. But no, it's because it's the Master Sword. To be fair, Your Honor, that is one hell of a weapon. it To be fair, Your Honor, yeah, they were probably like, oh, we're going to give you three months. that off Judge, please, this is the Master Sword, not just some common blade. This is a legendary sword. Give me some credit. Goodness, give me some credit. Who will pull up the cops for that? Lee and the company added a bunch of new things in their latest update, including its first vehicle and two new enemies, the barber, who plays music. He'll teleport all throughout the the place, the thing inside. And don't get close to his scissors because he'll cut your head off.
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And the kidnapper Fox who hides in red bushes outside and basically drags you if he gets a hold of you into the bush to eat you. And yes, that one can go sneak in into your ship. But that one's killable. The barber is not. Good luck. and It's been a while since I played some lethal company. Yeah, same. We should we should we should do that again soon. Oh, 100 percent. Rooster Teeth's animated series, Ruby, finally has a brand new home and new new production new productions will be starting soon at Viz Media. ah congrats ah Congrats to the crewbie for getting a new home since Rooster Teeth is no more and dead. Rest in peace.
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ah Good job, crew bees and the Froubies. We're proud of you. Well, no. So the crew bee is what they call the crew of Ruby is. that That's why they call it the crew bee. That's still the R.W. I was thinking about like fans of Ruby, you know, the fans of Ruby from Sonic fans of Ruby. Oh, oh, the Froubies.
00:21:42
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God's had it. I heard Phantom Ruby, and I'm like, the Phantom Ruby from Sonic Forces? You know the thing that is infinite power? What? Yeah, there you go, Phruby. There you got they go, Phantoms. You got Ruby. Hell yeah. Shout out to them. Shout out. The world's first Dragon Ball theme, the music park, is currently being developed in Saudi Arabia.
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Yeah, I never expected, but here we are. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about it just because it's Saudi Arabia. No offense to Saudi Arabia, but like Saudi Arabia have like war and shit that they're like. Yeah. i Yeah. I mean, hey, if you want to go to Saudi Arabia to go visit the Dragon Ball theme park, what it eventually finishes, who knows what that'll be. Be my guest, but I'm not going. yeah i would say i won't stop you but ah yeah you go do your thing
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ah a animal and a expo happened this Past two weeks, that happened, and a few things were announced there, including Bleach, Rebirth of Souls, which is a 3D fighter for Bleach. This is also the first standalone Bleach game to be published by Bandai Namco. So they showed off a little bit of gameplay and the in the trailer, which was cool. Also, Arc System Works revealed the teaser trailer for the brand new Guilty Gear Strive anime called Guilty Gear Strive, Dual Rulers. ah So if you're a Guilty Gear fan, look forward to that.
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In some collaboration news, Battlefield 2042 is collaborating with Dead Space until July 16th. This is the first time we've seen Dead Space in something in years. If it wasn't dead already. If it wasn't dead already! And also, it just to lay the news of an already dead game, season two of the Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League has been delayed to July 25th. More delays in this game? Who'd have thought? Wow. i is The joke writes itself. I honestly didn't think... All right, I'm ignorant of like a lot of new games, so I didn't know Suicide Squad got a game. That game has been delayed. So we've been talking about that game for how long do we talk about that game for? I'm like, oh, yeah, it got delayed again. I think it was like a good year that it got delayed by. It was funny. Yeah, it's also just not a good game.
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ah But that's all the general news moving on to live service game news, starting with Final Fantasy 14, which if you're wondering where I'm at at the MSQ, I have not gotten far. I'm I'm so I'm only on like the level of ninety three, ninety four quests. Like I'm still not super far in into it ah because I've just been busy with other things. But I'm somewhere. You're in Shadowbreaker still, right? Yeah.
00:24:59
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He doesn't even experience big fat tacos, guys. He doesn't even know about the big fat tacos that'll wait for him. I'll get there eventually. ah Eventually, eventually. ah But, hey, with Final Fantasy 14 stuff, until July 29th, if you watch six hours of Final Fantasy 14 on Twitch streams that are including drop rewards, you can net yourself the choco poker amount. Hey, it gives me a reason to watch Tony's Gamelands. Dude, I haven't streamed 14 in a while. We're on that Ace Attorney grind.
00:25:34
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We are. We're actually, by the time you're listening to this, we will almost to be done with a Spirit of Justice, the sixth Ace Attorney game. We're on the bonus trial of that game, um and then we'll be on the great Ace Attorney games. ah we what we If we're lucky, we should be done those before Ace Attorney Investigations comes out. ah So, yeah. And now with a quick Hoya report, um because Mello was gracious enough to make one, um just some early, I guess a quick
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One minute, done a dirty report on Zemnas Zone Zero. Take it away, Mello from the past. Hey, everyone. My name is Mello, and this is a different kind of foil report. This time, I will be reviewing my experience in Zemnas Zone Zero. The game finally came out a few days ago, and I'm already in love with both the game style and combat. Someone in my Twitch chat commented saying it reminds them of the combat system from Kingdom Hearts. Now, I have not played any game from the franchise, but I did watch a few people play it, so I guess it looks a bit similar, but I digress. The plot itself is not entirely clear yet, but we do get a brief understanding of new Eridu and Hollows. I'm pretty sure that Hoyoverse will release the main plot in future updates.
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So far, for my initial rating, I will give this a 7 out of 10. It would have gone into full 10 if they didn't make us wait so long. My name is Mello, and this has been my Zendizone Zero review. Thanks for the report, Mello. We now move on to our esports news. um Starting off, Mortal Kombat player Dylok has managed to overshadow his own Mortal Kombat 1 tournament win at the CEO 2024 Fighting Game Championships. Right after landing the killing blow on his opponent rewind, he stood up, picked up his chair, and hurled it off the stage, accidentally smashing a light fixture. girls we're not al modern and with the like He won $535. The light fixture was 3K.
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Thankfully, the light was able to be repaired rather than replaced, and an agreement it was reached with dialogue to pay $365.44 to cover labor and parts.
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ah
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Yeah. Yeah, that was ah that was a good one. That was that's a that's that's a great story to see that in action. But that's just funny. I'm sure it's about there's probably a clip somewhere. yeah It has to be on YouTube somewhere. Exactly. In the world of TCG with Pokรฉmon, Shrouded Fable drops August 2nd and Stellar Crown drops September 13th. In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Infinite Forbidden drops July 18th. Light of Destruction booster packs on August 8th and the 25th Anniversary 10 Dueling Mirrors on September 20th.
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In Magic the Gathering, the Assassin's Creed universe is beyond. Set is out now. Balloon Burrow drops August 2nd. Duskborn House of Horror comes out September 27th. And Magic the Gathering foundations on November 15th. And in Disney Lorkana, Shimmering Skies releases August 23rd. 25th, 23rd, fuck. I'm tripping over my own words. And in tabletop news, we got a couple things in the tabletop news department. I haven't seen much, um but we got some two things. First, Quest from the Infinite Staircase, um which is the final anthology of adventures published for the unrevised fifth edition of D&D, is all available for pre-order right now, full release on July 16th. And in wild news from Sega, they announced their brand new partnership with Kesco, which is featuring
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a Sonic the Hedgehog tabletop game called Sonic Speed Battle. This dynamic game channels the spirit of Sonic Adventure 2, offering three quick and fun card games for two to four players. The game will be arriving first at Barnes & Noble, both in-store and online this summer, followed by a wider retail release online at Target and Amazon. And I think I'm going to order that because I like Sonic. I also like Sonic Adventure 2. I think this is going to be a neat little, a neat little game there. I mean, it sounds all right. Don't know who to play with, but it sounds all right. Yeah, no, absolutely. um Hey, if maybe maybe if we're lucky, it'll come to Tabletop Simulator and then we can all play it.
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We'll see. um But that's all the news that happened these past two weeks. The big stories, at least. ah
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Any final thoughts on any of those stories, Melo? No, that's pretty much it. Alrighty, well with that, it's time for us to now look ahead to see what games are coming out that should be on your radar from July 15th to 26th. From AAA titles, indie hits, hidden gems, and hot pieces of garbage, here are the games coming out that should be on your radar. And starting off on the 15th, Supernatural comes to the PC.
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On the 16th, Aerial Knights We Never Yield comes to everything but the Switch, Deliver Us to the Moon comes to the Switch, Evil V Evil comes to the PS5, Series X and PC, Flock comes to everything but the Switch, Let's School comes to the consoles, and Magical Delicacy comes to the Xboxes and PC. On the 17th, nobody wants to die! Comes to the PS5, Series X, and PC. TMNT, Splintered Fate comes to the Switch. On the 18th, Bow, Path of the Tail Lotus comes to the PlayStation 5, Series X, PC, and Switch. Dungeons of Hinterberg comes to the Series X and PC. Flintlock, The Siege of Dawn comes to everything but the Switch. Nintendo World Championship, NES Edition comes to the Switch.
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Skim or Shim, I'm still not sure how you pronounce it, comes to everything but the Xbox Series X. On the 19th, EA Sports College Football 25 comes to the PS5 and Series X. Kenizugami, Path of the Goddess, comes to the PS5, Series X, and PC. On the 22nd, the new Denpa Man comes to the Switch. On the 23rd, Ete comes to the PC. F1 Manager 2024 comes to everything about the Switch, Raw Men, Food Fighter Arena comes to the PC,
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The star named Eos also comes to the PC, Switch, Series X, and PS5. No games on the 24th, but on the 25th, a Ranger, a role-puzzling adventure comes to the PS5, Switch, and PC. Earth Defense Force 6 comes to the PlayStation and PC. Kingdom Rush 5 Elias comes to the PC and mobile devices. Brasher comes to the Quest 2 and 3 and PC VR. And on the 26th, Tokyo Xanadu EX Plus comes to the Switch, and One Piece Odyssey also comes to the Switch. Holy Xanadu.
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ah Holy Xanadu indeed. um ah the gay On the topic of these games, um the bigger ones, Aerial Nights We Never Yield. This is a sequel to Aerial Nights Never Yield. Other games that are Dungeons of Hinterberg. Do not sleep on this game. This game looks really great. ah Check it out. Also, Shim, check it out. it look It's a really cool game. I played the demo with Steam Next Fest. It's great. Please play it. Go play it. It's looking like a great game. The new Denpiment. It's free to play when it comes out. It's also weird as fuck.
00:33:56
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um I did see the trailer for ramen on epic games. It looks it looks like your average like battle royale, but It looks pretty fun. Not gonna lie. How raw are these men mellow? I'd say they're pretty raw. Damn need to be steamed damn ah and Of course one of the big ones um earth defense for six I know that our our boys I wiggles <unk> I know that they're Earth Defense Force fans. My coworker, ah Ryan, he's also a big Earth Defense Force fan. He's he's told me how excited he is for Earth Defense Force 6. A few of my VTuber friends play it. It's more like a weekly thing at this point. Damn. But yeah, but that's those are all great. Obviously, just because of his name alone, Tokyo Xanadu EX Plus. Great name. Yeah.
00:34:55
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ah Definitely go check those all out. um But yeah, that's ah that's that's about it for all the games coming out in the next two weeks. And now it's time for us to dive into our main focus. And here's what we're talking about this week in the Game Lounge. Conversations of past and future games, the state of the gaming industry, how big decisions affect gamers and anything else that's important to us. Here's what's going down this week in the Game Lounge. And starting off, our first topic of the day, horror games, the future of horror games. Uh, which I think it's a good fit because you are, you're, you're kind of the horror guy, mellow. You, you, you you play a bit of horror that here and there.
00:35:43
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Yeah, I like I like the horror games here and there. You like the horror games, bit of a horror horror. Yeah, that is true. I guess I guess that's what you could say. Respectfully a whore. Yeah, I'm gay. He can say it. ah A step in for approval. OK. ah Great. Awesome. ah Where is you rate horror games and where they are today? uh honestly like the indie developers actually like do their research and no horror like i mean i'm more leaning into more of the like analog horror like things that make you go like what the fuck what the hell is that like i i play more of like inscription flathead flathead is like a very unique game it's a very like
00:36:43
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good take on like a higher or lower game. Like if you like guess the thing wrong, like this creature like creeps up on you. Yeah. Yeah. And Pacific drive. It is more like a calm, like anomaly type game. that's Yeah. That's like a creep it has like creepy vibes, but it's nothing like it's nothing super bad, right? Yeah. Same thing that same thing goes to like once human a stream that like last night and by the time these listeners hear this might have been streamed a few days ago. It's actually pretty fun. It's more like a online survival cosmic horror type beat. Oh, and we fight against Cthulhu. Oh, not actually Cthulhu, but like
00:37:37
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like stuff like related to Cthulhu, like the Elder Ones. Oh, Eldritch Horrors. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. I mean, I think Eldritch Horrors, I feel like Eldritch Horrors aren't explored enough in horror nowadays. Exactly. ah We need to explore that a bit more. I think we need more Eldritch Horrors. Get Cthulhu in a 2-2. No, that's an Elgin Tor. Ah, got it. i got that You know, Tony, the script you gave me, it was like kind of messed up. There were like like a few typos here.
00:38:20
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ah Yeah, Cthulhu in a 2-2, that's what we call it, Eldritch Horror, guys. When Cthulhu wants to whore it up, he puts on a 2-2, or it puts on a 2-2. I'm not gonna assume Cthulhu's gender here. um But it puts on a 2-2, it's just gonna go to town. Hey, he doesn't hear those tentacles for nothing. Oh my god!
00:38:52
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You see, this is why I love recording with Mellow because it it gets so unhinged and it's great. And it's like, you know what? We need one unhinged episode every season. You know, you know, you need like a good comic relief. I'm that guy is that guy. He do be that guy. He's that guy. Oh, God, um where where would you say today's horror stands compared to like horror of yesteryear and like the early like where would you rate today's horror horror horror games compared to like classic horror games? Honestly, I'd say we're coming back. Oh, we're coming back for the vengeance. We're bringing back creatures you never thought existed. Hell, yeah.
00:39:41
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That's good. I mean, especially like you have like a lot of like classic horror games coming back to like Silent Hill 2 getting it's like getting a really properly done a remaster ah plus there is that also that free That there's another side he'll give they're working on but there was a demo kind of demo a free it's a free Silent Hill game That's a short one um I don't know if you have a hell F ah that's so That sounds right.
00:40:15
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Because I saw the trailer like, I i believe a couple months ago. and yeah that's the that's on the up cup That's the upcoming one. Yes, Silent Hill F. Yes, that is the one. Also, on the topic of Silent Hill 2, can we talk about the fucking price? $93? That's that's fan nice for the deluxe version though, isn't it? ah Hold on, let me check Steam.
00:40:42
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Oh, is that just the Steam version's price? Silent Hill. Yeah, the yeah, the base pre-purchase 9349 Digital Deluxe 10649 Canadian. Gotta love the Canadian dollar. Wahoo. Wahoo in.
00:41:08
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Wow. Anyway, what do we want to talk about? Well, I mean, look, it's going to be I think people are still going to buy it. I mean, oh, yeah, I'm going to buy it. You're going to buy it. You're good. I'm not. I never got into Silent Hill. I never got into the first Silent Hill. It's pretty fun. Nice. Are you going to go for all the endings when you play Silent Hill to? Are you going to go for the sheep, a dog ending and the. other endings. I never played the Silent Hill franchise, but this is the good time to do so. I mean, yeah, it really it really is. It's a great time to play Silent Hill games, honestly, um because I'm sure that would like work in a closer window to choose to remakes release. ah I'm sure that is probably going to be a massive Silent Hill sale to get all the other ones.
00:41:59
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Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Because that's what a lot of like, I think that that's a big thing that people do know that studios and publishers do is like, Oh, let's, uh, makes, Hey, Phil, let's make money. Sure. Coming out in a in a franchise. Perfect. Put them all on sale for 50% off 50%. Yeah. Because the new one's going to skyrocket sales anyway and make up our dividends. we Hell yeah. yeah um So it's either from Silent Hill what other upcoming horror games are you looking forward to?
00:42:34
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they I'm I'm not too sure i I'm pretty glad with like the games that I have on my PC like flathead once human
00:42:46
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ah I would say lethal company counts as horror because there's a spooky factor It's spooky factor, but I find that games like lethal company and It's more like a horror comedy horror comedy. What's the other one? What's the other one with that? You're making the YouTube for that we played Oh content Yeah content content warning Yeah, content warning. That's what it was. Yeah, content warning and lethal company. It's like, yeah oh, yeah, it's horror. But like because of like you're with your friends, it becomes a comedic experience. I don't know if you saw this. It's kind of on the topic of like games with your friends that like are kind of scary, but like it becomes a funny thing. There is a storm chasing game that you can play with up to 12 friends where you're chasing tornadoes. I think I've seen somebody say that before.
00:43:44
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Yeah, it's in early access, but I saw this and I'm like, oh, that's interesting. I don't know if like it would be a good game for us to play. I'd be willing to try it. because it's like it's like it's If you're into like storm chasing, it seems pretty like accurate with how storm chasers do things. um I wouldn't know. i like you I'm like, ooh, storm chasers. I'll maybe watch a couple things of that, but then leave it like after that like day or like hour of watching that shit and then go back to what I was doing. um But see i did sting it seems I kind of figure out what the name of that game is again. Yeah, it was a weird name too. why It was a couple more consonants than vowels. I remember that much. Yeah, there there was a lot of... I almost said Constantinople. No, that's Istanbul.
00:44:35
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yeah and the jokes right the so ah It's one of those days, you know where you just you just want to it's just To want to justify ripping somebody's head off. Yeah, exactly sure I guess Listen, I'm a creature. What do you expect? Okay? okay um What are your thoughts on Blumhouse making like a game publishing studio?
Blumhouse Enters Gaming
00:45:05
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Okay, so before you, before this recording started, I looked this morning and thought, what the hell is Bloomhouse? And then I remember they, they were behind Five Nights at Freddy's movie, insidious, uh, Ouija paranormal activity, sinister, uh,
00:45:27
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the purge.
00:45:30
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They do the purge as well. Yeah. Wow. I'm looking at the list right now. Yeah. Yeah. blood but Yeah. But that was the famous film studio who's done a bunch of horror and thriller shit. um You know, all the making game publishing studios. I figured because we talked about it on the summer game fest episode, I want to know what your thoughts are as like a horror buff guy for the games as a horror game guy. Honestly, it's not surprising to me. Like we've seen like lots of like movie companies like that ball into video games. I mean, that's what he says that all the time. I mean, OK, yeah, but Disney's different because Disney, dis Disney's Disney's Disney's I'd say the exception. Disney and like Universal Studios were the exception ah for for that.
00:46:19
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ah But like seeing like other i'm like ah a well, a well established movie studio do this. It's kind of. Unheard of a bit. Well, yeah, it is definitely like unique, like they they put their name there on like different franchises, maybe not the best reviews, but
00:46:46
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It depends who you ask. Yeah, it does depend on who you ask. Yeah. Like to me, like I haven't. Well, I've seen clips of like there are like franchises and stuff. It looks. Good. It does look good. So I'm kind of curious to see what what they're looking towards. Maybe they're like an insidious game or I know that they they know that. Again, they're working with a lot of indie horror developers to make time for their first time. I just I just saw something maybe like an online purge. Like, that right you know what? Honest to God, that would be a cool
00:47:28
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game for them to develop in house. If they, just if they, cause right now they're just publishing. Uh, but if they get like a a team or they, they get a team to do that, that would actually be a cool game to do. Boom house. If you're listening, hit me up. We'll make it happen. Do you know anything about game development? A little bit. Okay. That's more than I can promote it. I can promote it. How the Game Lounge crew will be the face of your game. I don't care. I'll sell out like that. I'll do it. If you pay me like 20 bucks on this, twenty dollars is twenty dollars. That's what they say. um Where are you hoping that things go for the horror game industry in the future? Um, honestly. Like maybe they can like step a bit further into the beyond, like
00:48:25
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and venture more into like the cosmic eldritch horror stuff because cosmic horror to me doesn't, doesn't really get to like be talked about that yeah because nobody knows what it is. That's what scares them. True. But if, but then if we don't, and when we do know what it is, it's even scarier. Exactly.
00:48:51
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all right Nobody knows how to deal with it. So like they're like standing still like like what the hell do we do? This is a creature from hell or space. We don't know What what if it's from hell space or space hell? Then we call in doomsday. I mean we are I guess we are getting space hell I I mean did we get no we got space hell with doom eternal, right? Yeah. Yeah now we're getting medieval hell Yeah, medieval hell. Yeah. thoughts ah ah du the dark ages i because you you played the doom games um What are your thoughts on the the trailer for that? Honestly, like.
00:49:32
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It looks promising. Like I'm willing to try it out, but it doesn't feel the same without make Gordon. Yeah. and That a lot of people have said that, but it is very understandable. It's very understandable. It's and understandable. Yeah. It's a shame that he's not going to be a part of it because I think Bethesda, fuck yeah the the two, the the two sides. They fumbled. They fumbled with make Gordon. They really did. Oh yeah, they did. Oh yeah, they did. It wasn't pretty, but he is helping out with like something else. I have it on my steam wish list here. I'm just looking at it right now. What is the name subliminal? He's helping out with subliminal. Oh, what kind of game is that?
00:50:27
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Uh, it's kind of like a back rooms type game. And oh, yeah, this is oh, oh, yeah, I'm just looking at the images and I'm extremely. gravely
00:50:45
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Yeah. Also, in regards to horror, I'm still looking forward to whenever it will get more news. The story is closed. ah Oh, yeah, I have heard about that. Yeah, that's the i paul totally not an IKEA, but it's an IKEA ah survival game where you build things in IKEA and then you fight the the staff because they're evil creatures. Like there is an SCP like style. Yeah, that's what it's based on. Yeah. I've seen like I played the game. Like it is definitely fun. But like IKEA like they they're like very picky. ah Like, well, I mean, how they're like represented. Copyright copyright. It is copyright. Yes. That's why. So the this is like their take on like dodging like the IKEA bullet. Yeah. The handmade IKEA bullet.
00:51:43
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The handmade bullet we had to build the bullet and then the gun ah Hey John, how do you read Spanish? but Yeah, bay yeah how yeah that that that is basically that's that's that is how IKEA handles copyright strikes. They build their bullets and then they fire it. That's that's great. i love I love that. I love that. a doubtlic I love that so much. You have no idea how much I love that. um Is there anything else you want to add on horror before we move on to our second topic of the day? I think I pretty much said what needed to be said.
Zenless Zone Zero Overview
00:52:26
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All righty. Well, with that, it's time for us to dive into our second topic, which is zenless zone zero.
00:52:37
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Hey, yeah, you you've been gaming for six hours straight with no hydration station. You're starting to look like a ghoul from Fallout four. Go drink some water. Yeah, that's it. That's the whole message. Drink water, you gremlin. yeah I was so happy to play this. but i yeah My first reaction when I streamed it, I pretty much said it itself. like I love it. like It is like a good spin. It fuses Genshin and Star Rail into an urban atmosphere. but like ok I don't know. like
00:53:19
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Like, as you heard from the audio, uh, someone commented on my Twitch chat saying like the fighting style reminded them of like Kingdom Hearts. Which I kind of see. Like, like in the sense of like, what, of like, you push one button to win or? Well, no, like you push a button and then you send like another character. Like, I don't know how to explain it. Like how? What, you you said to another what? Like, like, ah like ah ah of Huyo games.
00:53:57
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Does, how does it compare to gameplay wise more of, is does it compare? Because ill yeah it's not turn based, it's more action based, like Genshin is correct. Yeah, it's more like an action thing in Genshin. Okay. ah Instead of like you choosing like the character that and you want out, like it kind of decides for you, like it decides like, hey, do you want to bring out this character? Yeah, yeah, let's bring them out. Okay. hey I, it's kind of interesting. You're going to have to like play it. Look, as a guy, as a reformed Hong Kai star rail player who played that game nonstop for three months. And I find I'll assume it for you. Then you can understand and way too much money on it. I'm not touching a Hoya game ever again.
00:54:53
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Honestly, that is fair. So, in your words, how would you rate Zemazon zero? Compared to Honkai, compared to Genshin, where does it stand on the Hoya scale?
00:55:13
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Honestly, like I can't compare it to like those two games because it is like its own entity. like like it does It does differ from Genshin and Star Rail, but it does fuse their characteristics onto Zendless. But it it does bring the modern hip, the modern sleigh, modern pretty much anything. So for like people to like ease in on like what Hoya verse is and like what they're about. So far for like 1.0, I'm giving it a like a seven or five. Okay. I said okay. Maybe like a 7.5.
00:56:06
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But ah I just want to say, like, I love. Oh, I love the little bunnies that they have. Oh, yeah, that's their mascot for this game, isn't it? Those little rabbits. Yeah. I forgot what they're called. Yeah. So like a high bond is the mascot of. of Yeah. And Pom Pom is for a star rail. Yeah. OK. OK, so what is the general plot line of this game? OK, so what what I got to.
00:56:42
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ah We deleted our like main. Our main like. Thing to like use for like getting into hollows and stuff like our main account to like people like. give us commissions and like help out with like taking down hollows and helping them out and stuff like that. What the fuck is a hollow? It's like a little dimension, a little pocket dimension. OK, pocket. OK, so we're dealing with pocket dimensions. Yeah. Who? I feel like I should have asked this. Who's the main character? What's what's what's kind of the main character story in this?
00:57:23
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ah So far, none. If think character, I mean the player character character that you picked at the start of the game. I i picked wise because he kind of reminds me of like Dante from like Devil May Cry. OK. And Belle, who is the female character. OK. And together they're known as a proxy known as faith in. OK, so proxies are like your I guess your guilds or groups. Yeah. OK. So our guild account got hacked by by who know who knows who. So we made a new account, which we have to like build up. Oh, OK. So your base. So you're rebuilding your reputation then.
00:58:16
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Yeah. Okay. So where do all the other characters fall into this then? What is the 1.0 storyline with how far you've gotten it? it what What's the the key points that have happened to the key characters that you've that we've met? So far there is another guild which which one of my favorite characters, Billy, comes into play. Which by the way, he kind of reminds me of like Ryan Reynolds when he plays Deadpool. Okay, so witty, comedic, and violent.
00:58:53
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um Maybe a little soft on the violent, more like a dummy. Gotcha. And then for like the other people, we just run into them. Like they just come to us. Especially with like the one of the. I forgot her name, but she's like a shy maid, but we run into her and then she she brings us to like her organization, which brings a like on the goddamn wolf daddy. Ah, yes, the wolf parents. By the way, I vote for him like for free. I got him.
00:59:38
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I'll take it that he's a five star then. Yeah, like they they rely more like on like a letter, more like a number phase for like numbers and stuff. So S tier, that is the five. Oh, oh, they're doing it by. Oh, they do letters with this game instead of stars. OK. Yeah. ah So S tier is your five star equivalent. A tier is your four star and B tier is your and B is the three star. ah you should Okay, um does it follow the classic hoyo formula of you roll for your weapons and Relics and characters or is it just weapons and characters or like what are you what when you roll on the gacha poles? What are you rolling for? ah you roll for These ball things that help you out so basically like relics and weapons well well
01:00:35
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Yeah, you roll for relics and characters. That's basically it for now. OK. OK, so but you're not rolling for like specific weapons. It's just the the relic. yeah No, no specific weapons. Just like relics and characters. OK, relics in the shape of balls. That's they're basically there to help you out. Yeah, no, I. Yeah, that we if you know the. classic So it's the classic Genshin formula still though. Yeah, basically. Hoyo formula. I mean, you have the basic Hoyo formula. We love it. Yeah. um Who are the most popular characters in the game right now? Like, who are people? Who are the people sipping for? Lycon. OK. That's basically it. What about the what about the waifus? Any waifus? Uh, hold on.
01:01:36
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I forgot her name. ah There is it that I've seen that pink haired girl. Is she the waifu right now? Yes, she is one of the waifus. There is a maid who is like, yeah, I don't care. And she has that attitude of like, yeah, I don't care. ah I forgot her name. Then again, but we're still like very new to this, so.
01:02:06
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Yeah, no, it's very brand new, so you you don't have that many characters. We don't have that that much attachment yet. But give it time. OK, I'm looking at the official site, right? Oh, OK, I see. Oh, yeah, the maids. There's the wolf. Nicole, that's her name. Yeah, Nicole, that's her name. Ah, OK. So that's how they're doing it. It's like, OK, you have a bunch of different groups and it's I'm assuming they're all vying to become like the most popular of these. Groups, I guess. I would say so, yeah. OK, so at the setting of this, is it's ah like an urban cyberpunk. Yeah. OK, OK. Yeah, which is which is like pretty cool, like. I'm pretty excited.
01:03:04
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i Ellen, Ellen, that is her name.
01:03:11
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ah What are the waifus? Her name is Ellen. Okay. All right. Well, uh, zenless zone zero. It's out now free on the Epic game store and mobile devices. Uh, you can download it now for eight. If you download it with a certain codes, you'll get 83 pulls like every other fucking hoyover's game and every ad I've seen about the game. Just be like, Hey, you want 83 pulls? Download it now.
01:03:43
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um Still wait hoyo still waiting on you giving mellow a sponsorship Because it's like just give it to the man's already like I mean stream elements helps out with that. I mean, yeah, but like But like but like an official. Yeah, that's right. That's really me right. Yeah Yeah, man. I gotta to reach out to them somehow
01:04:08
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No, they'll contact you. They're there. there yeah They're in China. They'll contact you. they They spy on us anyway. Yeah, maybe with enough subscribers. We'll see. Possibly. Is there anything else you want to add to that list of zero before we move on to the bonus level? I just realized the the name of the ah bunnies are bamboos. They're called him. Like Bain and Boo. Oh, Bain Boo. Oh, and they're so cute. They're going to be. They're going to be boozle us. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Moving on. Moving on. Let's dive into the bonus level.
01:04:54
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crazy lists, great deals, and recapping gaming history. It's all here in the bonus level. ah Starting with this week in gaming history from July 15th to the 28th, here's what happened in the past. Starting with major events, um July 15th, 1983, in Japan, Nintendo ships, the family computer, or the Famicom ah video game system. The price was 14,800 yen.
01:05:23
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On the 16th, 1981, Nintendo unveils the second widescreen Game & Watch titled Octopus. July 21st, 1982, Atari signs a deal to make a video game based on the film, E.T., the Extra Terrestrial, for release September 1st for $25 million dollars royalty payment to Steven Spielberg. And as we all know, it became the worst game ever created and was burned. With very few surviving copies.
01:05:59
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Yep. And on July 28th, 2017, Nintendo launched the Nintendo 2DS XL handheld video game system in North America for 149 US dollars. And in game birthdays, Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic turns 21 on July 15th. On the 19th, Final Fantasy X turns 23 in Japan. ah the twentieth bastion turns thirteen ah the twenty first platoon two turns seven On the the 22nd, Final Fantasy 4 turns 16. Oh, sorry, not 7. Final Fantasy 4 for the Nintendo DS turns 16.
01:06:53
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On July 26, Catherine by Atlas, that that game, turns 13 and Wii Sports Resort turns 15 years old. ah The Wii Sports Resort is 15 years old, guys. I'll be right back. I'm going to take a sponge bath. ah Wow, 15 years ago, the greatest Wii game ever made. One of the greatest, one of the greatest. I feel old. Yeah, holy moly. Holy fish moly. July 27th, Dr. Mario turns 34 and Mario Golf 64 turns 25. On the 28th, Mario Golf Toadstool Tour turns 21.
01:07:50
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And hey, Pikmin, which was that spin off pigment game for the three. d Yes. Turns seven. be me
01:08:01
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um We now move on to top five. What? Who? And this is just general Hoya over smell. Oh, your top five Hoya characters of all time. Oh boy. Now these are just people that I play like the most of. Uh huh. So I'm going to go from Zen this to Honkai to Genshin. OK. So sorry about Resen this. So far, it's just like on like on Billy. But again, I love the two characters. Yeah. Remember, this is just top five loyal versus characters, not but not by game, just your top five. Yeah, I know.
01:08:53
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I don't know if I... It's kind of hard to choose between Hong Kai. I haven't played it in a while, so... I've been meaning to stream that for a bit. But I'm gonna move on to Genshin for a bit. Yeah. ah ah Zhao, I love his backstory. Phenomenal character. Phenomenal voice actors as well. Jean Lee. Keith Silverman. Love the guy.
01:09:24
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hu and And last, I'm going to go with Bennett. Yeah, I was about to say, like, if Delo doesn't say that, I'd be surprised. but He is the best bean. I love him.
01:09:42
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Excellent, so that's that that's the top five whole universe characters my list is You see if you want to hear my list ah my number five ah March 7th by number four March 6th Yeah, why didn't I go for my birthday? do i mean Six
01:10:06
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In my opinion, March 7th is still best girl. Um, she will always be best girl. And I'm glad that I'm glad that they gave her a costume, uh, a new costume because it just makes me appreciate her more. Um, we've now moving on to head to head to, uh, in this case, three games that are one game leaves, uh, zealous zone zero versus Genshin impact versus Hong Kai star rail. What's the winner? Uh, Honestly, Zenna's Zone Zero is like still in the baby phase, so I was just gonna push them aside a little bit. So it's just gonna be between Genshin and Star Rail. Star Rail, it has like a good story. Same with Genshin. The plot is like like ah more like a main plot versus subplot, which is standard in anime.
01:11:05
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I've heard a lot of people talk more about Star Rail, but like me personally, in my opinion, I had more attachment to like Genshin Impact. All right. Alrighty. Genshin takes that. um We did move on to Tony's game poll, our season poll ah for season eight. ah And now the question is, if Kingdom Hearts 4 was to add any Disney Pixar world to its game, what Disney Pixar world would you hope they add?
01:11:40
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I've heard not that many people talk about Wally, and that's like one of my favorite Disney movies out there. But, oh, maybe Emperor's New Groove. Ooh, that's a good choice, actually. Emperor's New Groove is a solid choice. Man, that's been like my hyper-fixation for like a good while now. And I can't, I wish for Kingdom Hearts like, we now Emperor's New Groove. I want to see Kuzco. I want to see Kronk again. I want to see Yzma. Yeah, and honestly, they could easily do it as a world where it follows the plot line of the story where Sora and the gang join Kuzco and Pacha as they're making their way back to the palace. Yeah, Kronk and Yzma go after them. Yeah, and they could do the fucking scene. pull that out of Kronk.
01:12:36
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I mean, they have to at that point. and They got to follow through. Oh, my God. Yeah, that would be great. That would be i honestly, that's a great fucking answer, Mellow. That's a great answer. I love that answer so much. ah Moving on to our deals of the week, starting off your Amazon. Your epic free game is floppy nights until July 18th. Also, Amazon Prime Day is coming up on July 16th and 17th, so taking advantage of all the deals there that are there. I'm sure there's gonna be some video game deals, but it's also just other deals.
01:13:13
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wo And on Steam, um there's a Dragon Ball franchise sale that ends around the 16th or 17th, and the Asper publisher sale, which ends the 18th or 19th. Also, they did announce ah the brand new games coming to PlayStation Plus premium and extra members. One of the games that you can play for free soon will be Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, or sorry, Final Fantasy 7 Ah, oh, fuck. Crisis core reunion. Well, there's the seven reunion crisis, the the crisis core remake. That's going to be free to play soon. To be fair, that is a mouthful. It's yeah. There's too many reasons. There's too many reasons.
01:13:56
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we The achievement of the week is in zenless zone zero shop at the Explorer, which is to unlock five stores in new Eredu. And the game of the week is going to ship. This game has been on my wish list for forever, which is why it's there. And, Mellow, our guest game recommendation, if there is a game old or new that you would recommend to the audience to play, what game would that be? I mean, I've all popped this, they go to zenless, but in my opinion,
01:14:28
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Y'all should go check out Once Human.
01:14:32
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alrighty Alrighty. And with that, that wraps up another episode here in the Game Lounge. Mello, thank you for coming on again. Yeah. Y'all should check out a Once Human. You can you can choose like everything ah on the body. like Oh yeah, I heard his character creator is pretty wild. Dude, you can have a fat ass! He's got a bush slider? He's got a bush slider? Yo, Final Fantasy 14 doesn't even have a bush slider. Yeah. Puggies. I gotta stick to my form. Excellent. Well, Melo, where can we find you on the internet? Well,
01:15:19
Speaker
I don't know if you heard, but last time I was on, I wasn't streaming that much, but I am streaming pretty much all day. ah Not all day. All day, but's all day, every day. This is a 24 seven. um I'm streaming every weekday and sometimes weekends on twitch dot.tv starts some mellow fellow just remove the W from mellow. And you can catch me on Twitter. And it is going to be a mouthful. So write this down. S.U.M.M.E.L.O.F.E.L.O. I had to make it fit somehow and on my tick tock at some fellow and YouTube. ah It's kind of dead at this point, but I am planning on bringing it back. Yeah, bring it back, man. We missed the submallow fellow content because we were in it.
01:16:15
Speaker
don't you still have like that That's how you miss it i mean yes why i miss it It's like You know, there's content there. Where's the content? I mean I've been bad at my YouTube, but I I do this and play video games too much I'm an addict, which is why There was a fine time like I will edit like a few videos, and then I'll build them some point, some point during the year. We'll see. Hell yeah. We look forward to it. And of course you can find me at Tony's Game Lounge everywhere on X, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube. Just type in Tony's Game Lounge. You'll find it there. And be sure to like, share, and follow this podcast on whatever platform you're listening to it to. Like, share, follow. It helps us grow.
01:17:05
Speaker
Mellow, thanks again for coming on the podcast. Always a pleasure to have you on. Always a pleasure. And thank you, the listener, for tuning in. We will be back in two weeks with hopefully some more guests because no one's getting back to me. um Hopefully some more guests. um we We have a potential, another VTuber, potentially coming on. They said they're interested. I'm just waiting to hear back from them about dates. I'm not going to spoil who because it may not go through.
01:17:36
Speaker
Uh, but potentially, uh, and, uh, that's all I'm going to say. We'll see you guys right back here next time in the game lounge. Bye. Thanks for listening to this week's episode of Tony's game lounge. New episodes release every two weeks. Make sure to follow like and share the podcast on your streaming service and follow us on Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X.