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Daybreak of War: The End (Warhammer 40000:Dawn of War - Part 3)
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The war ended just after dawn so the Space Marines could drink their juice boxes and have healthy snacks.
Book Synopsis
The Bone Ravens, Space Marine warriors with near superhuman strength, are sent to destroy the planet Cyrene and its heretical populace, but one of the warriors, Brother-Captain Angelos, is faced with a difficult choice because Cyrene is his own native world.
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00:00:00
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ah Two barrels, chief. Two barrels, chief. ah Sharks took the rest. ah You know what else the Sharks took the rest of?
00:00:10
Speaker
What's that? Hey,
Show Introduction
00:00:12
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everybody. Welcome back to Pixel. My name is Kevin. With me as
Final Thoughts on Warhammer 40K
00:00:14
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always is Phil. On today's show, we are finishing up Warhammer 40K, Dawn of Warhammer 40K, the 40K-ening. ha ha ha ha.
00:00:26
Speaker
It's the 40K-est of all the 40Ks. Yeah. um this I don't know how long this episode's going to be because the part three was suddenly, i was like, oh, it's over.
00:00:38
Speaker
it's it's it was blessedly short. Blessedly short. There's a big battle. I don't know who won, to be honest, by the end. yeah ah it No one knows, really. Not the readers.
00:00:50
Speaker
Not the readers. Yeah. No one knows, and but but they't but the readers don't care at that point. So now whatever. What are we going to do? yeah yeah Move on to the next book.
00:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much. yeah Hopefully that will be better. Hopefully hopefully this series pulls a Five Nights at Freddy's and gets better as it goes. We got two more books, right?
00:01:12
Speaker
Yeah. Two more? Two more. ah but i'm But you know me, Eternal Optimist. Also stupid. So... I believe that one of your cats is attacking a thing.
00:01:26
Speaker
Yes, attacking the, what are they, have the little little cushion puzzle pieces that on the ground for the kid. ah we've got his little playground back here. Just going like.
00:01:40
Speaker
Just shredding it up. Just shredding it up. Just shredding it up. Making biscuits. Now that Graham gives a damn, he thinks it's funny. ah yeah So he he's just as destructive as the cats. Yeah.
00:01:53
Speaker
I'm trying to teach him ah when he when he's finished with something, when he's he's done eating something, but he but there's more of it. I'm just trying to get him to put it on a surface as opposed to letting it fall out of his cold, lifeless fingers. Like he just he doesn't even like ah throw it or drop. he He doesn't drop it even. He just.
00:02:15
Speaker
stops using his arm and and and the fingers let loose and whatever happens to the food is whatever happens to the food. It's it is the strangest thing I've ever seen. Yeah.
00:02:28
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So if we could we could just get him to put the last part of that chimichanga. Yeah.
00:02:36
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then my God, but what a what a life will lead. What a
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00:03:21
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do it Do it today. ah some Every now and then we get it. We sink on that one. It's worth trying. It's worth trying over and over. One of these days. One of these days. Mama told me there'll be days like this. There'll be days like this, my mama said.
00:03:42
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Who sang that? Who am I thinking
Humor: Marshes and Preservation
00:03:45
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of? Somebody the 70s. Somebody from the 70s. so yeah from the seventy s Mama told me there'll be days like this. There'll be days like this. My mama said, mama said, mama said. It might be the 60s actually. now I was about to say, yeah, now that you see you hear it out loud, like, that might be the 60s actually. That might be the 60s, yeah. um So anyway. who do you want to put this body in the marsh?
00:04:12
Speaker
Let's marsh it up. And ah by the way, you know, it's fun. The reason we put bodies in the marsh is because ah the marsh ah more likely will preserve the bodies.
00:04:23
Speaker
Exactly. now Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If it was just like regular water, If it was like regular water, it would be you know less likely, but marsh or your your your your standard peat bog yeah also, or they're going to really but preserve those bodies for scientific study later. Exactly. People appreciate these novelizations later. Exactly.
00:04:45
Speaker
Exactly. ah Yeah. So anyway, the book. When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh... You dump them in the marsh.
00:04:59
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The book. All right.
Warhammer 40K Plot Recap
00:05:01
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ah We are on part three, chapter 12. twelve It opens up with the chaos sorcerer sacrificing the Eldar and a bunch of the cultists ah to the dark gods in a defiled imperial temple.
00:05:16
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ah Lord Bale says that the space marines are on their way and their clashing continues. I'm sure they'll make up by the end of this because that's just how chaos be. um the fanatical guardsman. We've been kind of following a fanatical guardsman around this guy who converted to chaos and, and a super excited. He's the one who shot ah the other guardsman who was trying to sacrifice himself on the altar. ah So we, we get from his point of view, him like,
00:05:44
Speaker
because basically the sorcerer's going around randomly slitting guardsman throats and that fanatic is sitting there like kind of squeezing his eyes shut and going, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please. ah And ah just as he thinks, he thinks that it's done just at the end, he he gets, he gets his throat slashed. So, oh, so he so he won is really what, yeah.
00:06:07
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the he he He manifested ah something and and it came true. And it came true. You know, that's for him. yeah That's the secret right there. That's the secret. That's actually the book in the book. The secret. it yeah That's the secret in in the book. Cite this book specifically when they're talking about the secret.
00:06:25
Speaker
ah Be a chaos cultist in a world full of space Marines. Yeah. ah So the blood Ravens, they come up with a great plan.
00:06:36
Speaker
They're like, ah we're going to split up. One of you guys are going to, one group is going to like come at the alpha Legion straight on. And the other group is going to kind of ambush from behind. We're going pincher them. So,
00:06:52
Speaker
All of you guys who are running straight at the Alpha Legion, all you nameless people go over there and do that. Me and Isidore and all of the other named characters that we've been following along will be here in the back. i'm sure I'm sure that you guys will be fine.
00:07:16
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ah just be good meat shields and and just run at them. Just run at them. I'm sure it'll be fine. So that's exactly what they do.
00:07:26
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ah It is, it is not so bad though. ah The first group, they attack the temple. They're slaughtering cultists. Um, And ah Gabriel and the others, that their whole thing is actually they're going to sneak in the back and and disrupt the whole ritual sacrifice thing. ah Lord Bale finds that the sorcerer Sindri has, i have in my notes, I constantly write Sindri the sorcerer.
00:07:50
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ah And all I think of is Sindri, the guy from ah from a God of War, the new God of War games. There's the the the blacksmiths, Brock and Sindri.
00:08:04
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oh oh shit i forgot about that yeah i haven't played that one and i haven't played dad of war in forever and i don't want yeah i really want to play it now i think you i think now that you are dead you should go back to war boy i want to go i want to get oh that was more uh that was more ah not poltergeist phantasm Oh boy. boy yeah so So Lord Bale, ah the chaos Lord finds that Sindri, the sorcerer has flown the coop.
00:08:38
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ah This is not, I made a point to say, this is not the actual term ah that is used in the book, but after somebody being in cahoots, ah anything's possible at this point. ah So i I need to clarify. ah That's just my turn of phrase. Okay.
00:08:54
Speaker
Gabriel confronts him. We find out ah that I guess Alpha Legion and the Blood Ravens have beef. Sure. Right on. Sure. yeah Fine. Fuck it. Yeah. ah yeah I think i think ah a little detail that you can't ignore is that the Space Marines have a shit ton of beef with all the Trader Marines. That's kind of the thing. But yeah it's always more interesting when the Space Marines are fighting amongst themselves. I like that. That's fun.
00:09:21
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Um, but yeah, uh, the alpha Legion and blood Ravens have beef. So Gabriel and him get into an epic knockdown brawl. Uh, Gabe kills him, uh, after hearing, uh, after the, after Lord bail, here's a psychic message from Sindri, the sorcerer saying, uh, that all these cultists and stuff are not enough, uh, to sacrifice to the blood God. Uh, your blood is part of the sacrifice. Um, And right before he dies, Bale does the the title of the book slash game, everyone's favorite part, and and says something like, this is just the dawn of another war. I wish you people fully understood ah ah what Kevin goes through ah on a week. Very important video game novelization ah podcasts for five years going on.
00:10:19
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Good Lord. Yeah, it's it's doing its thing now. Jesus Christ. yeah Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so he says the name of the book. He says the name. It's not perfect, but he says it. He says like something like, this is just the start of a, this dawn is just the dawn of a new war. Something kind of weak. it It's like, if you had tried, you could have made it. And then he says, CS go to. Right.
00:10:49
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it's It's it was it was low effort, ah but he did say the thing technically. So we'll sure give him that. But anyway, that's a wrap on Lord Bale.
00:11:02
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As his blood hits the ritual ah ah table or whatever it is, a pillar rises from the lake of blood, revealing a new altar with a maledictum stone on it, which is they called it the maledictum? I may have missed it. Probably the Eldar. Eldar may have, but I don't.
00:11:22
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Maybe. I don't remember them getting too hard into the specifics of calling. It was just, it's kind of a, they say there's a jewel there and then all of a sudden they're calling it the maledictum stone and and I may have just missed it, but that felt abrupt. Yeah.
00:11:36
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Anyway, Isidore takes a stone, ah goes all dark side on him. His eyes go from glowing blue to glowing red and runs.
00:11:47
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ah So he's he's he's turned heel on us. Mm hmm. You never want a librarian turns heel. It's just bad. You never know it. You never want it. Cause like that's their whole gig is to not turn heel. Right. Right. It's kind of their job.
00:12:04
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Yeah. Well, actually, uh, well, Erebus was the librarian. Wasn't he? You know what? Now that I say it out loud, librarians are kind of notorious. Are gonna do it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:18
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They kind of notoriously switched sides. Like the guy that we could probably blame for like a good amount of the Horus heresy was a librarian.
00:12:29
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Like the entire thousand sons, ah like everything, everybody. So yeah, actually, now that I say that loud, that doesn't. point that We say it out loud.
00:12:40
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Anyway, someone who wouldn't ah convert that would take a lot more to convert ah in chapter 13. Our chaplain ah comforts Gabriel over Isidore's betrayal. This is similar to the scene where he confesses to the chair. This is I think I don't know if anyone told go to what a chaplain is in this universe. He's taking it very literally ah like Like, yeah, they're the spiritual leaders, but they're not like...
00:13:10
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sit and let me comfort you unless comforting you is slapping you in the face and saying, get back in that fucking fight, soldier. ah they're they're They're nuts. Chaplains are absolutely nuts. So him being this kindly older father figure is really weird. He should be giving like a sermon about how ah their vile, tainted blood of the Psyker will oil their tank treads or something like that. It's not...
00:13:39
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it's yeah It's not – this is not chaplain. Not my chaplain. Not my chaplain. Sorry. Hashtag not my chaplain. Hashtag not my chaplain. I love chaplains. I think they're one of the coolest parts of Space Marine Army. Oh, my God. I just thought about – No, this is this is really going far back between Phil and I. I'm trying to remember the speech you gave in my thesis project. Oh, in Decodia? trying to remember in Decodia at the end. i said, ah the blood of your children will duplicate the gears of war.
00:14:18
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that was the and it was And that was where we started. i we were We were talking about it. We were writing the script. And I said he should say something like that. And and our writing partner, Keeler, just wrote the entire speech. It was this speech about potatoes. was about potatoes. It was about potatoes. I'm not going explain it because out of context, it's it's it's beautiful for you. Trust me on this one. um and it But it ends with...
00:14:48
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my My great contribution to that script was the blood of your children will lubricate the gears of war. And then the speech ends with um with ah one of the other so one of the other characters is like standing near him, near Phil.
00:15:07
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And after you say that line, You jump off the chair and punch him in the face. Yeah, yeah, because he throws mashed potatoes at me and it becomes an all-out mashed potato brawl.
00:15:20
Speaker
um Was that the – It was the Legion in – The Legion, yeah. Yeah, ah in Savannah. They're like, yeah, you can use our second floor because their second floor was an auditorium with a stage and everything. right. It perfect because it didn't have carpet or anything like that. So you just mop it up.
00:15:39
Speaker
Now, that being said, did we get the potatoes out of the hardwood floor? No, we didn't. No, we didn't. We, we most certainly did not. i guess is we ruined it for a whole generation of ah film majors to come. Yeah. As far as that space is concerned. Right. Yeah.
00:16:05
Speaker
That was out of control. That was a fun, fun shoot. oh Good Lord. We had we literally potatoes everywhere. Yeah. Just yeah so much mashed potato everywhere. Just like literal, actual instant mashed potatoes. Just hauling them at each other. It's snowball fight, but but greasy.
00:16:25
Speaker
A greasy snowball fight. Yeah. God, that was was seven or eight years ago. seven seven or eight years ago you know or three or four it was only seven or eight years ago yeah the briefest the briefest blip of time it's it's fine i'm getting a note like here that example that i'm getting a note here that it was 16 years ago yeah okay that yeah yeah i'm getting it may actually have been 17 years ago um
00:17:01
Speaker
We're closer to 20 years. People have learned to talk, walk, and vote in the time since we made that television pilot. Yes. God damn it.
00:17:11
Speaker
I told you and Taylor I wanted to write at least write the scripts. At least write the scripts for the first season. I still do. I kind of like make it short 15-minute episodes and like do 10 of them or something. I still do that.
00:17:25
Speaker
I'll sit down and do that one of these days. One of these days when you're not... It'll be a total surprise. This is what will happen. and And you know my writing process. Almost every one of Phil's stories is so is like a surprise. It's never... Yeah.
00:17:38
Speaker
Right. that's That's exactly it. I don't say, you know what? I've been working on the Decodia scripts and and I'm halfway through. and No, it will be... ah We don't talk about it for weeks. And then I'll go, hey, I sent your Gmail 10 episodes of the first season of Decodia. Tell me what you think. And Kevin will go, what? yeah that's his like That's how I. will yeah Phil will just send me like, I sent you a novel.
00:18:08
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
00:18:14
Speaker
Didn't you just finish? Yeah. Yeah. It's just, just, I just did that thing. Uh, here you go. That's, that's, that's my process. Uh, uh, uh, do tell no one.
00:18:25
Speaker
And then no one shooting off Roman candles, uh, in a violent fashion. Basically your shit you send, you send us copies of your work, like with all the subtlety of a t-shirt cannon.
00:18:39
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plan That's exactly it and And honestly, my work, it's the work itself has the subtlety of a t-shirt cannon, especially these days. i am not coy about what I'm saying in this shit. Yeah. Subtext is for cowards. that's that is I'm absolutely getting that tattooed on my chest. That's all there is to.
00:19:01
Speaker
The big banner subtext is for cowards. Yeah. Okay.
Emotional Betrayal in Warhammer 40K
00:19:06
Speaker
So anyway, Isidore has the maledictum stone. I almost called it the malcontent stone. Has the Malcolm Gladwell stone.
00:19:17
Speaker
Yeah. it's Yeah. Kind of. um So he goes to confront Sindri. He's saying that he's going to use the stone to defeat the sorcerer, which seems like wishful thinking at best.
00:19:29
Speaker
ah They get into a a nerd fight ah with all their, their psychic slash magical powers. um And Sindri wins. ah But he says he's going to keep Isidore alive so that Isidore will kill Gabriel which is okay um and then of course he points out he's like you know well you fell right into my trap thank you for bringing me the stone oh Isidore womp womp so Gabriel and Inquisitor Toth ah discuss making one of the Imperial Guardsmen a space marine. We get kind of this random kid ah who's like 17 or 18 and they're like, he's a brave. So it's okay.
00:20:12
Speaker
All right. So look at this brave kid. We'll make him when this is over, we'll, we'll, we'll put him in the space. but Fine. Okay. Sure. um Yeah. Great. They get word of the Eldar fighting chaos ahead. Gabriel literally lifts his scout Sergeant out of the motorbike that he wrote in on.
00:20:36
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ah It is, it is very specific. This is a whole new level of riding on the top of the vehicle. Nonsense. It, it literally says he, hefts the space break who's sitting on the bike he hefts him out and puts him down and then gets on the more it's the it's the silliest fucking mental image it's the yeah why what is it you want up yeah yeah you could have written anything you could have said oh by the way there was a spare spare motorbike right there great
00:21:11
Speaker
Great. That sounds way better than, than like insulting your scout Sergeant by lifting them up like a Pekingese. Like what the fuck?
00:21:23
Speaker
It's the stupidest shit. So he goes out on the motorbike because he's like, oh yeah, that's where Isidore's going to like If that was a space wolf, you would have an honor fight after that. like Someone would have to die. That's the most insulting shit.
00:21:42
Speaker
ah Imagine you were going to lend your friend your car and and instead of getting out and handing him the keys, he reaches in and lifts you out of the car, places you on the sidewalk, and then gets in the car.
00:21:54
Speaker
And then imagine that you didn't offer it to him, that he just decided he needed your car. And instead of saying, get out, he will physically, it's it's stupid. I already said too much about it. It is too stupid.
00:22:07
Speaker
um So ah Gabriel finds a brainwashed Isidore who speaks Sindri's words. And ah Gabriel has a, has a classic, you know, no, mom, Isidore is it doors my librarian. I'll do it.
00:22:24
Speaker
yeah happening ah puts them down like all the eler yeah It's just, it's, it's, it's, and it sucks because is it, this is a, this is a whole fucking book that is filled with,
00:22:40
Speaker
like mostly uninteresting characters. Right. And Isidore is not a great, he's not a well-written character, but he actually of all of the characters might have some of the most nuance. He might have the most sauce of all the characters. Right. he's He actually does interesting things. ah So him getting put down like this is really kind of kind of tragic.
00:23:06
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Chapter 14, we get all out war, the Eldar and the Space Marines versus Chaos and the Orcs. And the Orcs, by the way, at this point...
00:23:17
Speaker
it's so clear. They get such hind teat ah in this book. um Yeah. It's insulting. Like, yeah. Why did we even bother having POV? Yeah. We had, we're all over the place POV moments with Yorks and then they just, yeah it's just, they fuck off.
00:23:36
Speaker
They fuck off. We don't hear from them. And even, even in these final moments, there's no like great, You POV, Last Stand, or any, it's just, it's just the orcs are there, ah which is not, i I had to start reading a book. I got this book a while back, and I and i haven't read it yet. ah After finishing this, I was like, okay, I have to read a 40K book that does the orcs right, and it's called Brutal Cunning, and it's an orc 40K novel, ah or or as the orcs would say, Brutal Cunning. It's,
00:24:09
Speaker
And it' I've only like 20 or 30 pages into it. Oh, shoot. ah Yeah, exactly. that's That's what it is. And it I'm like 30 pages into it. And already I'm like, oh, oh, it's washing the shitty go to orc out of my hair. Just like that. Oh, my, my lobster is too buttery. Right.
00:24:36
Speaker
My foie gras is too cruelty free. It's just, it's the best of all things. I think it's Mike Brooks who wrote it. Hold on. I'm going to, yeah yeah I got to give him a shout out. I haven't even finished it. And, and it's, it's fucking excellent so far.
00:24:54
Speaker
ah Yeah, Mike Brooks. ah brutal Brutal kind of an epic wah novel. ah Fucking yes. Absolutely. It is great so far. Anyway, so yeah, orcs really get kind of shit on ah with this one, more so than usual. um Sindri accepts the soul of a demon prince into him,
00:25:17
Speaker
and we wait for like 20 pages. sure It's this very dramatic. it' like, I accept the soul of this demon prince and, and nothing really happens for a minute. um So eventually, eventually ah Gabriel finds Sindri. He now has a Mordecai Toth's hammer,
00:25:36
Speaker
ah because that's what's going to be necessary ah to bring down this demon prince. um He goes to fight ah the traitor guardsman, one of which randomly is Brom.
00:25:50
Speaker
I... that's enough That was another guy who actually had some interesting shit going on. and He was and kind of interesting. And now he's just, he has this moment where he gets all he pissed off. and yeah ah ah Is this the moment he gets gets killed? Yeah, almost immediately. there's not yeah a final yeah He has a little bit of a final, bra and then he gets just fucking shot in the head.
00:26:20
Speaker
The end. that that it's It's so insulting. it's it's It's like this guy has been getting shit on the entire book. Like they are, they disrespect him.
00:26:32
Speaker
they They go above him. They don't respect his troops. They are kind of the worst sort of interloping army you could imagine. ask for.
00:26:42
Speaker
They just come in and go, it's like the FBI in a cop movie, you know, where the FBI comes and is like, actually, it's my crime scene. I'm taking over. but but bla but but it's that's That's what this is. And instead of him getting a moment of glory or like a moment where he finally like dresses down one of the space Marines and like proves his point and like puts some goddamn spine back into the Astra Militarum, he just...
00:27:08
Speaker
He just emo's his way into chaos. It's so fucking stupid. All of those moments when he goes outside and had a cigarette and goes, God damn it. These fucking space, for it all, that turns out that's all it takes. that's all it takes.
00:27:24
Speaker
Chaos is powerful. I mean, I knew they were power, but that's ridiculous. Yeah. What a, what a pointless character. ah And he's he's complete. And I think he, they just put him in cause he's in the game.
00:27:37
Speaker
i don't think really anything. i don't remember what happens with him. ah And if I was, if I was a good ah presenter, I would have looked that up, but you would have, you would have played Dawn of war already.
00:27:52
Speaker
Yeah. i already I did, but I was always so excited to get to the next level because I really loved on of. Oh, you didn't watch the. Yeah. cutres Yeah. Yeah. Skip over that story. Who cares? Skip over that story. I just want to kill things. ah Yeah.
00:28:09
Speaker
Great game. So Gabriel kills the shit out of s Sindri with the hammer and the crowd goes wild. Yeah. it's it is It is such an underwhelming fight. ah They all are, but this one, if for your final big bad, ah yeah, it's it's so stupid. ah So Gabriel finds the maledictum dagger. Cassandri took the stone and put it into this ritual dagger, and he goes to hammer it, to hammer it flat, ah because when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:28:44
Speaker
that's right And the Eldar tried to like psychically connect with him and say, Hey, you're going to don't do that. That's, that's a big mistake. um And when it becomes clear that Gabe, that's what Gabriel intends to do.
00:28:57
Speaker
ah The Eldar attack him, ah ah which, which does nothing, absolutely nothing. ah Gabriel ignores them, smashes the dagger dagger flat and it's destruction. Yeah.
00:29:11
Speaker
literally brings the sun out from behind the clouds. that is Beautiful. That is literally how this chapter ends with like, and finally the sun came out from behind. It's like, what the fuck am I reading? Is this a grim dark? The sun shone for the first time ever. this And it's like, it's like usually that kind of, it's like,
00:29:38
Speaker
I don't get that because that's saying that's like hinting that the, that he was unequivocally correct in just ignoring the Eldar, which listen, I get the Eldar are condescending pricks, but also usually they're right about a lot of that shit. You know, they are very frequently correct. It's like they know more like it's, it's like Ron Swanson at the hardware store. Yeah.
00:30:08
Speaker
The Eldar walking around about the chaos stuff and a human comes up to help them and they go, I know more than you. I know more than you. That's that's exactly what it is.
00:30:19
Speaker
No, that's that's spot on what it is. The Eldar are just mustacheless Nick Offerman. yeah ah very, very undernourished mustache list, Nick Offerman. ah yeah Yeah. It's, it's so goofy. Cause yeah. Cause as Kevin pointed out in the epilogue, which comes next, ah we're going to find out ah that, that Gabriel has released a demon and guess who the demon was.
00:30:47
Speaker
You're never going to guess. It's the least obvious person inquisitor Toph. <unk> Wow. The guy that he's been bickering and arguing with this entire time worked for the demon to to help set him free.
00:31:05
Speaker
What a subversion of my expectations. Fascinating. What a twist. ah Yeah. that's and that's Yeah, and we get we get a little wrap-up, like ah the the orcs are getting finished off by the local guardsmen. The Eldar have run out.
00:31:21
Speaker
And Gabriel ah ah vows to annihilate ah the demon. and that is The demon that he could have just let and left. He could very well left it alone, but... left it, left it alone. Uh, so that's, that's,
00:31:35
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left it alone ah so that's that's Warhammer 40,000 dawn of war. Does Gabriel ever really get over the thing with the siren incident? Did I miss that or? No, they don't really. that would be No, they do. They do bring it up. They like, he like kind of like says at some point he's like, you know, he talks about cause he was a soldier on siren before they made him a space Marine. And he finally seems to kind of accept like I had to do it. I had to do it. and I still strongly disagree. Uh, yeah, It took three days for him to be like, oh, no, we're going to have to blow up my whole planet. It's like, I feel like you could have been more thorough.
00:32:16
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Yeah. He moves on, which that really shows you how deep of an impact fucking genocide had on him. Yeah. Anyway, so Kevin, what did you think? Poof.
00:32:34
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ah um I've never, I have never been, i think I said this before, I've never been bored by a Warhammer 40K story ah until today. no it's it's ah it's it's definitely a book that I was, I remember somebody in our, some someone in our ah Discord said it's the worst of the, it's it might be the worst Warhammer forty k novel ever.
00:33:09
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ever put out. um Which is, I mean, that's promising. Yeah. Yeah. yeah that yeah You can work with a bad book.
00:33:20
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If this is the but the worst of it, then I'd be like, okay, well, you know, we'll just go up from there. ah like Right. Yes. Yeah. Because the Tao one was was fun ah for for what it was. um Yeah.
00:33:37
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much more video gamey than this was, but still yeah enjoyable. um But this one was almost felt nonsensical ah at points. like None of the characters really acting in any sort of best interest of like just inconsistent character arcs. No one is like, I don't man um and don't care about... Who's left standing is like I don't care that much about Gabriel.
00:34:07
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ah Isidore has the sauce, but so did Brom. Yeah. Yeah. But saw what happened to them. Yeah.
00:34:19
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And there's like a short story that takes place after this. It's like the trials of Isidore or something like that. Yeah. We'll take a look at that on a rainy day. Yeah. um yeah That's a good one to have in the hip pocket.
00:34:33
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Yeah, but ah yeah, ah I would, if this was letterboxed, I would rate it one star um and say needed more orcs.
00:34:47
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Yes, i I agree. I think um and David Lynch, I think it was David Lynch who once said, ah bad Warhammer is better than no Warhammer at all. Yeah.
00:34:58
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I think that was him. And I'm not sure if I agree respectfully. I'm not sure I agree. It's Friday again. What a beautiful man. um The weather today, it's going to be. That's good.
00:35:17
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That's good. Damn. Okay. That's good. I didn't didn't know you had a, had a lynch in you. That's good. I kind of just went for it. It's been in my head for a long time. And then I just, I was just go for it. I'm just going to go for it. Just go for it, man. Oh gosh. Yeah. Uh, I'm not sure I agree necessarily. Um,
00:35:42
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Yes, I agree with your assessment. It feels like things were happening to the characters rather than the characters doing things, if that makes sense. They weren't really driving the story forward. They were just reacting to shit. All the characters were just reacting to plot that was, and yet none of the characters set the plot forward somehow.
00:36:06
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Right. Which is, i was like, that mathematically shouldn't work. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's We're getting point of view from every angle of this story. And yet everybody is just having things happen to them.
00:36:21
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Yeah. it it You know what it may you know what it it might assumption might is? I think that this might be what a 40K novel written by AI would be like.
00:36:34
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Yes. Where it's like it gets the dramatis personae Pretty correct. It gets the motivations pretty correct. It uses the right buzzwords and troop choices and all that stuff. But there's just no soul behind it. There's just no oomph.
00:36:56
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um it' just i think that's I think that's what we're dealing with here. I'm not i'm not actually accusing Koto of writing this with AI, obviously. I mean, this is from like, what, 2005? Exactly, exactly. Literally impossible.
00:37:09
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But I feel like this is what we would get if we if we loaded a bunch of shit into chat GBT and asked for... of 40 K novel. This is the kind of shit we would get just kind of soulless by the numbers. Yeah. Interesting. Dull. Cause you're right. Even, even books, ah even 40 K books that I've read that i I, was just like, ah, that wasn't really for me. It was still exciting. It was still yeah interesting. um And, and this one was just dull. And thankfully it, it
00:37:44
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it did clip by pretty fast for me. i don't know about you. Yeah. I went fast enough. That was, that was the good part about it. Right. I just think about the, probably I think of the short story, like on the other end of the spectrum that there's a short story that like rattled me.
00:38:04
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which was, it's ah it's from the point of view of a commissar who, and and it's just a trench. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in a trench warfare planet, and, like, the the mud of the of the of the battle, it's, like, so hot that when people fall into the mud of the trench, they start getting, like, boiled alive. And, oh, man, it is intense. And, yeah I mean, yeah.
00:38:30
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And like the long it's like it's a it's it there's like World War Two stories that are vaguely similar to it ah where or World War One stories where it's like they find out that they've literally just been fighting against themselves. Right.
00:38:48
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right Like the the people who are on the other side, on the in the trench across the field from them are just other brigades. I, yes, I know exactly the story you're talking about. And I fucking love, that's what 40K does so well. That's grimdark. Like where it's grimdark, people think of it in terms of just being pointlessly yeah morose or violent. or so and And it can be, but the best examples of it, it what to me is it's merciless.
00:39:17
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Yeah. It is a merciless world. And and they're starkly anti-war. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. absolutely the That's the thing is I think the core of it when and when it's at its best is the grim dark.
00:39:35
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the The grim dark is about how the war is brutal and pointless and the bureaucracy is bad and overwhelming. Yeah.
00:39:47
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Yes. Yes. It's, it's a very catch 22 kind of thing. And I wouldn't be surprised if like basically all of our favorite, uh, black library writers like Dan Abnett and, and, you know, uh,
00:40:03
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ah I know other ones, I promise. Nick Kine. You know, ah if they aren't just like armchair ah military historians who like between books are reading like, yeah, reading about Vietnam and World War II and all that stuff because it does have that. The thing that I think whether they realize it or not with 40 K that they have done, they have taken that very difficult, um the difficult thing about war movies and even action movies to a certain extent is that war movies, no matter how anti-war they are still make war look cool. It's a problem that has always existed. And, and I think 40 K without whether they realized it or not, whether it was on purpose or not said,
00:40:52
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there's no way we can't make it cool when we do our anti-war thing. So we might as well make it fucking balls to the wall metal. Yeah. And make it as metal as possible. Exactly. And that, but that's the thing with the, with the space Marines, right.
00:41:09
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the Space Marines are like intrinsically metal, right? It's like, ah, yeah, this is, oh, this is, ah you know, Frank Frazetta like oh only wished he could have painted a Space Marine like with a sister, scene with a sister of battle like at his side, like like holding a gun next to him, like leaning against him. Like that would have been, that would have been amazing. um Yeah.
00:41:38
Speaker
But, I will say that that stuff is metal and it becomes decidedly less metal. It's like the camera is pointed at them and it's like, u yes. And then as soon as the camera is pointed at anybody else in the world, it's in this universe, it's like, Oh, this shit fucking sucks. Yeah. this is the It's true.
00:42:08
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This shit throat really sucks. And it's like, and it's like, Oh, and that was kind of like the thing with, and that's like, you go back to the Horace heresy, right? Where the remembrances, the important thing was like that these remembrances had full access to depict the the yeah unbiased truth of how bad war is. Right. yeah Like that was part of their, their thing. And then part of the thing, Horace, cha the the first thing Horace does ah in a classic fascism move is like, well, maybe we should just get rid of the remembrancers who tell the truth.
00:42:49
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Like that's the, one of the first things he does that he see is he starts killing off the the historians. yeah yeah And the historians and the journalists. He Stalin's them. Yeah. yeah he He starts creating his own history there.
00:43:03
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Yeah. So it's like, so think about that. ah that's That's the important thing with 40K. And that's why the sauce of this book is like the guys like Brahm who are like,
00:43:19
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these fucking space Marines, they come in and, you know, we just needed them to do X and now they're just running. They're, they, they're doing their shit, but they don't even care what, what the damage is and all that stuff.
00:43:34
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Um, and then, I
Astra Militarum vs Space Marines
00:43:37
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don't know. I think that's, that, that's the better way to kind of, there's almost a better book in here just told exclusively from Brahms point of view.
00:43:46
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i Yes, I would read that. Absolutely. And that's the thing. I i almost exclusively these days read Astro Militarum. Sure. now Those are my favorites. Just the Cadians, the Kriegers, like all of that shit is always so much more gritty and interesting and real to me. Not that I dislike like a Space Marine story or something. but Sure. But the basic template for a Space Marine story is Space Marines, Brotherhood,
00:44:15
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you know, unconquerable evil and, and, but we win. Some people are sacrificed along the way and we remember them. Who, uh, uh, uh,
00:44:26
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yeah pretty much true Yeah. And the template for an Astro Militarum or Militarum book is is a guy smoking a cigarette in a trench.
00:44:36
Speaker
And we learn everything about his short 17 years of life. And then at the end, he gets shot in the fucking head. nice that's That's the template. for that. going to die at the end of this story. Yes, there are consequences. it is it is It's all quiet on the Western front. That's that's what that's what those books are. It's all quiet on the Western front and except there's a million worlds where that's happening simultaneously. Exactly. Exactly. And yeah, so I think i think that's it. like this is This just kind of went through the motions. It doesn't
00:45:16
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it It hints at the gravity of of what the best 40K stuff does, but it doesn't really know what to yeah do with it. Right. and and and and then And then does nothing through inaction, chooses to do nothing. Yeah. We just wait around for Braum to get so annoyed that he joins chaos. Yeah. We don't even get a scene where like Sindri or some other dude is like whispering like, oh, well, if you join us, we'll be able to kill the space Marines. Like, we don't even get that. We just find him one day. You know, it looks like he's got consumption now and he gets shot in the head. That's that's all it is. It's it's stupid.
00:45:56
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um it's completely pointless chaos is more interesting than that yeah ah read read the Night Lords trilogy if you don't believe me that is a great ah trilogy I bought Legion by the way oh so I'm gonna i'm go get I'm gonna dive into that because all the all the ah Alpha Legion stuff I figured you know not as well see I'm healing orcs and you're healing chaos. that's That's what it comes down to. That's what it comes down to.
00:46:25
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I don't want to oversell it, but it is really one of my favorite Horus Heresy books. and it's um and it's It's technically book seven of the Horus Heresy, but after the first three, you can kind of go in add any order you want, right?
00:46:38
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Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. they I don't know how many of the siege of Tara, I imagine. Right. Right. They're, they're, they're all pretty individual and self-contained outside of that first trilogy.
00:46:51
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ah Okay. So now that we've gotten that, all purchases ah Kevin, I just have one final question for you.
Current Gaming Updates
00:47:00
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What are you playing?
00:47:02
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Oh, um so aside from I'm still playing Tainted Grail, but and I'm in the final act of it now, um I am not ah i'm not going to get the DLC quite yet. I don't know if how'll I will get the DLC just because I'm i'm trying my best not to to buy new games right now, you know? Come with I'm just sticking with the ones that I have, ah the rivers and the streams that I'm used to.
00:47:33
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um
00:47:37
Speaker
Not going to chase that waterfall. um So, it's a I mean, it's a big DLC, but I'm i'm going to ah pass on it for now and just kind of finish up the game. ah But I'm still having a lot of fun. I'm in the final act, and there is this...
00:47:54
Speaker
um So I went to this this tower where a former ah guy who learned under Merlin lived and, uh, you go in there and, uh, his name's Oren, I believe. And everybody in the tower, all the servants that are there are zombified or whatever, but you talk to like a pre, a spell that is a recording of Oren saying, Oh, welcome. Blah, blah, blah. Uh, you're the person I've been waiting for the vessel of, ah
00:48:27
Speaker
of King Arthur, yada, yada. Anyway, you go through and you go through the towers like, okay, well, there's not that much there. There's some cool books and spells and stuff like that that I found. And then I noticed a door that is like mostly blocked off.
00:48:40
Speaker
And I hear weird growling and I had killed all the other enemies. And I'm like, why am i what am I hearing? So you can look through a crack in the door and you see a little white rabbit just like hopping around in this one room.
00:48:53
Speaker
Okay. And I'm like, okay. And I was like, how do I get into this room? And i I went to the room next to it, looked around and I found a false wall and you're able to go into the room and you go in and you know, the white rabbit doesn't do anything to you, but there's blood all over the floor.
00:49:11
Speaker
Oh, God. And I'm like, is this a Monty Python reference? I was about to say, is there a holy hand grenade nearby? And I'm like, so I look it and it's like, what's the point of this rabbit? And the rabbit's name is Kingy.
00:49:27
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um And... ah Everybody on on the set was on the on Reddit was like, oh, you just use him to level up your block stat.
00:49:38
Speaker
And I was like, why? i was like, what's going on? It's like one person's like, yeah, I had not used I had not blocked at all in the game. I was that's not the build I was going for. I wasn't using a shield, but I equipped a shield and I attacked him and then blocked.
00:49:53
Speaker
And I went to 100. like level 100 of blocking ah by letting him hit me. was like, wow okay. and so I did it. I i i hit it i hit him, hit him with the sword, does like almost no damage to him. He attacks me back with block.
00:50:13
Speaker
Same thing happens. I go all the way 100 with blocking and I gained two levels. wow And as somebody was saying like, yeah, you get like an experience point for every like point of damage that you block.
00:50:32
Speaker
And somebody like worked it out where it's like, when he hits you, he does 2 million HP of damage.
00:50:45
Speaker
So I blocked him far and because I have I have less like i have because I'm a stealthy Archer dude. I have this death save mechanic where when I hit zero hit points instead of dying I go invisible for five seconds um So I can get away So basically I blocked he hits me i go I go invisible And ah I like leave the room and I'm like, i was like, oh, well, I maxed out on blocking now and I got two levels. And yeah, it's 100% a reference to ah ah to Monty Python because it will, it the the bunny one shots you.
00:51:31
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Like there's nothing you can do. It will one shot you no matter what.
00:51:36
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You just got to make sure you keep your block up. Yeah. um And even through the block, it one shot me. um Oh, wow. But because I have that thing, I could like get away. i was like, that's that's hysterical.
00:51:49
Speaker
So that was that's good that was my fun little ah tainted grail ah moment of of the week. um ah So I think I'm relatively getting relatively close to the end of the game. Nice.
00:52:05
Speaker
And otherwise, ah the only other thing I played this week is ah my daughter and i have been playing Peak. which is a multiplayer mountain climbing game.
00:52:18
Speaker
ah It is absolutely ridiculous, especially if you are playing it with proximity chat on only, which we did. So you can only hear people when they're close to you, which is fine if you're mountain climbing together and you're trying to stay together. But the funniest moment was at one point she fell down the side of the mountain and was like totally out of earshot.
00:52:46
Speaker
the I was like, Camilla, Camilla, can you hear me? And ah randomly she had picked up the a trumpet that was at the crash site because you start out with your airplane crashing.
00:52:59
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um she had picked up a trumpet. And so she couldn't hear me. i couldn't hear her, but I knew she was alive because I just hear a little ah little mournful trumpet sound coming from the bottom of the mountain going,
00:53:18
Speaker
That's awesome. This looks like fun. This looks like a fun game to play with, you know, friends and family and that sort of thing. Yeah, it's fun. It's really hard. I mean, don't know how you get you.
00:53:32
Speaker
You're able to... get better. I guess people do get good at the game. I just i just don't know how people actually get any better at it. um it's ah It's a tricky game.
00:53:44
Speaker
um But Peak, yeah, if you're you know if you're looking for a little co-op game to play with your friends and family, ah try it because it can it can be kind of hilarious.
00:53:58
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um So, yeah, that's what I've been playing. Phil? Love it. ah what i mention As I mentioned at the beginning of the podcast in the ah in the exclusive pre-show chat, I think I found my game of the year and it's only January. ah It is PBA Pro Bowling 2026. It is everything to me. i got it on my Switch and now I will sit...
00:54:26
Speaker
And just, I'm playing the career mode and it's fun. It's super fun. ah the ah The controls are really, they're challenging, but they're also kind of intuitive.
00:54:40
Speaker
ah It's just well done. i love the character creation process. I will be playing this for a long time because there are like 150 pieces of clothing that you can unlock. Oh, wow. ah And over 300 bowling balls.
00:54:58
Speaker
So ah kind of a I'm going to be unlocking balls ah for a long time. so Yeah. yeah doesn't Get those balls. Get those balls unlocked. I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are daily, there are dailies ah even, and i I pop in, do those on top of everything else. um It's super fun. It's just really well constructed. And, and ah it, I, like I said last week, it, it takes itself seriously enough, but also has enough fun with it ah that it it's kind of best of both worlds. um You can learn about, you
00:55:38
Speaker
you can You can play different kinds of bowling. There's like duck pin bowling where the the the the ah they're really small pins. And i forget what the other one where they're really tall and heavy um candlestick bowling, something like that. And and and like, but they they have different rules, but it's basically the same game, but you've got to adjust. its It's really cool. And it keeps things fresh and it keeps things interesting. I think I'm going to have to up the difficulty on it because I am just... You're crushing it.
00:56:10
Speaker
I'm crushing it. I got a perfect 300 and I've never been more ready ah to go out and steal your girl. Like, it's just the best... Best feeling of the world. um So, yeah, that's that's one that I think you you were talking about, like,
00:56:27
Speaker
how the end of the year ah Nintendo Switch wrap-up recap thing. I think, yeah, this is going to be the one for January, probably February as well. Right. ah My top. So playing a lot of that, um I actually played two demos, and they were both exceptional for completely
Game Demos Review
00:56:48
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different reasons. this is this is These are both really cool.
00:56:51
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um The first one I played was called Dungeon Antiqua 2. um It is indeed a sequel. It is a, it's basically a Final Fantasy, like Final Fantasy 2, Final Fantasy 3, like right as it's getting onto the SNES. Sure. And it's creative, but it is crazy old school. It is like old school. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's old school in all the right ways. Yeah.
00:57:24
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but it also has an upgrade in terms of, you know modern ah playability. ah Like there are a bunch of classes, ah you unlock classes, there are different challenges you can do to unlock them. And in the in the demo, you can even you even find out ah how to unlock like the archer class. It's mostly just fighting, but it's it's really cool. But the thing I think that really drove this one home is the music.
00:57:53
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on It is really well written chiptune, classic Nintendo style, like Japanese role playing game style chiptune music. it right i It's just so well done. It's fully original.
00:58:14
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But you'd swear God that they lifted it from game. From something. Yeah. Yes. It's just it's just so it just it really, really puts you in that space. And as someone who who.
00:58:29
Speaker
played those games when they came out you know it right it it brought a level of nostalgia there uh that is real difficult i think to get and i think the music is a huge part of that uh having said that i don't think that means that that people who didn't play in that age won't enjoy this right definitely worth uh like sending it to i'm sending it to willow right now i think they would like it Yeah, it's, it's, it's, the demo is terrific. It shows you what you can do.
00:59:00
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um Loved it. Absolutely loved it. um After that, I played the demo for a game called Parasite Mutant. um Love the title. yes it's a Yes, and it is it this is a kind of Resident Evil-like, but somehow more anime.
00:59:22
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ah some A little more over the top. It's got kind of a cyberpunk ah atmosphere and world. ah You're fighting these ah kind of demonic entities.
00:59:37
Speaker
It plays like a classic Resident Evil game ah yeah in the sense that it's got the fixed camera ah sort of thing. It's got... um Oh, God. i I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it right now. You know what it is?
00:59:53
Speaker
It's ah it's ah Parasite Eve. Yes, yes, exactly. Exactly. and And it's got it's got those kind of puzzles. It's got all that. But it's and I don't know if I never played Parasite Eve, but I don't know if this is how it works. But the combat is it is turn. It's not turn based. It's weird. It is kind of turn based, but it's not when you get to a fight, you have to stay within the parameters of the room. But you're on a timer. Your attacks are on a timer. And so you can't so you can't keep hitting.
01:00:26
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uh you've got to wait for the bar to go up to a certain level and in the meantime you've got to dodge and and and make yourself scarce and you fight you can fight with a you know with a gun but you've also got a goddamn like cyber ninja blade that you can use um and and you have like psychic powers that you can charge up and it is Incredibly fun to play.
01:00:52
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It's super fun. It's it's outstanding. um And then when you look at like the trailers for it and the screen caps and stuff, it's got that horny anime kind of vibe. I mean, the main character ah literally looks like the style. It literally looks like Parasite Eve's style. Yeah.
01:01:14
Speaker
style Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's so much fun to play. The demo is great and it keeps going like it was like an hour, hour 15. She has like the same exact haircut as really. main character from poor eve Yeah.
01:01:30
Speaker
yeah With a name like Parasite Mutant, i't they're not they're not exactly trying to hide their influences. They're drifting too far are from their... No. no um I put this one on my wish list ah immediately after I finished it. this this it we don't I don't know when it's... It doesn't say when it'll be coming out. It's just coming soon right now. um But this will be...
01:01:53
Speaker
a game I will be playing the full version of. It is just, it was so satisfying and fun and strange. And I, i liked it. i liked it a lot. ah So Parasite Mutant, Dungeon Antiqua 2, both demos, both worth playing.
01:02:12
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ah it's it just, i've never I've never had two demos back to back that were just this level of success, in my opinion. ah it's It's terrific. um I'm still playing Road to Empress. I think im about halfway through the storyline. I like just passed Chapter 8. I think there are 16 chapters, something like that.
01:02:33
Speaker
um So I think i'm about halfway done with that. I just started Still Wakes the Deep. And I do have thoughts of that, but I'm going to save it ah for next week when I finished ah the game.
01:02:45
Speaker
I will say that it is retroactively going in my game of a year list ah for was it 2024? 2024. Yeah. Yeah, that is i i I am absolutely retroactively putting that in my game. It is it is outstanding.
01:03:03
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It is so well written. ah The dialogue and the the acting is exceptional. The atmosphere is great. Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's Chinese rooms best game.
01:03:15
Speaker
Like that's, that's, that's all there is to it. It's as simple as that. That's including, uh, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2. Yes. Yes. Well, which I have not, which, which I have i have not bought. I have not bought. I haven't played Bloodlines 2. I know it's, it's, uh, it was disappointing to a lot of people, but it also is more of, uh, apparently it's more of, um, but what's the, what's the, the game that Arcane made? ah Dishonored. It's more like a Dishonored game rather than oh um
01:03:50
Speaker
rather than like an RPG like the original one was. so The first one was like a really immersive RPG where you could play in so in like all kinds of different ways. And from yeah what I have heard, ah this is this is a little more...
01:04:07
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um Linear, streamlined, all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. i i It's Vampire The Masquerade, so I want to play it. I i am not going to spend $60 on it. I'm just not. So I'm going to wait for it. When it's on a deep discount, I'll be there. but Yeah. Yeah. Nice, heavy discount. I'll give it a shot. ah But in the meantime, I think I'm going to leave that one alone. But yeah, next week after I finished, I'll have more to say about ah Still Wakes the Deep. But holy shit.
01:04:35
Speaker
Very, very fucking good. ah So, yeah. so that's me. Awesome. um Yeah. So thanks everybody for listening, for watching. If you saw my camera cutting in and out, that's because i don't know what the fuck to do with this goddamn piece of shit camera software. Elgato, making exceptional stuff there. Elgato, really crushing it. Woo! Crushing it. Good job, Elgato.
01:05:01
Speaker
God damn it. Jesus Christ. Fucking piece of shit. No. And you know what's funny is the camera looks good when it's working, but then the software is like, I don't know, maybe I should just send the the fucking screen out to the feed.
01:05:17
Speaker
um You know what? Honestly, that is my internet. My internet is yeah great when it works but it works. And then it's just like, I'm going to stop for a few minutes.
01:05:29
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yeah yeah For like a really solid chunk of time. yeah and And it feels longer, of course, because you're waiting for it to turn back on. But it's long.
01:05:40
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So, yeah. So, holy shit yeah technology, right? Holy shit technology. But, yeah, that'll do it for ah tonight. And in the immortal words of hanna Hannah Einbender, ah go birds, fuck ice, free Palestine.