Giant Bombcast 935: Dark Cloud 3

Oh, I'm sleepy. Dan's like, ha ha, Mike's sleepy. And I was like, er, er, er, er, how dare you call me out for being sleepy. Dan's like, I want the people who saw the Mario movie to talk about that. And I was like, yeah, it's, you know, whatever. It's the Mario movie. Dan said, we should talk about video games. Dan had a video game where he typed something. Isn't that interesting? I was like, yeah, it's kind of interesting. I'm not gonna get involved in this conversation about the typing video game. And then Dan said, Mike, you did something. Oh, it's my turn to talk. So I talked about a Virtua Fighter for a little bit. Then Dan said I could go to the bathroom. And I did that. I switched my calendar and it had a mini mouse with a bumblebee on it. I'm like, that's nice. I can't believe I didn't switch that until just now. We're already a week into April. That's my bet. That's on me. Jeff wanted to talk about the video game news. And, uh, Quantum Dream is maybe not gonna make a Star Wars game after all. And the Mario movie made a lot of money. So that was nice. And then Dan was like, oh, do you guys need to take a break? And I'm like, I gotta pee a little bit. But like everyone else doesn't want to take a break. So that's okay. We can just go into the next thing there. And that's when Jeff showed us the video game ad and it was like two words. And he's like, this one's pretty easy. And we had no idea. He was disappointing us. Then I remembered about. Then Jeff said that he thought it was a port of. And I'm like, that's not right. That's not right. I just picked it up and that's incorrect. This came up before that. So, yeah, yeah. So another grub. And then I was like, uh, then there's, yeah. And then I was like, emails, Mike, you gotta read super chats. I'm like, oh crap, my name was said again. I have to do something. Then I actually clicked the button where I got signed out. So, so Jeff came in and he read the super chats instead. And I think that's what's happening right now. Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, April 7th, 2020. Hey, you brilliant. Welcome to the giant bombcast episode 935. I am your host, Jan Achela, for video viewers out there. Do not be alarmed by the yellow bean and the sunglasses. I'm not taking a heel turn. I've not turned evil and evil doppelgangers not taking over my persons. I am just simply trying to fist fight a migraine and my destiny. And it seems like the world as well. I shouldn't be yelling, but uh, I'm the captain of the ship, Jeff Grubb. Oh, I'm very happy to be here, Jan. I'm also not feeling tip top, but I think relative to many people on this podcast, I'm doing really well. So I'm just not going to say anything else. That's right, we're all falling apart at the seams. Pax may have done a number on us, but speaking about together at the seams, he is bursting at the seams with rage dedicated towards Oates businesses. Ian Riker. Who can say which Oates business has wronged me yet again and whose Oates code you should not use. But yeah, Jan, we're all struggling today, Jan. You got the migraine Grubb. You're not tip top shape. I had to go to the dentist today again. I'm having some severe tooth pain and everything. So things are rough there. And Mikey had to get up at noon. It's tough for everyone out there, guys. Our own prints of darkness. I want to be Oat of Crum. I'm laughing at Mike shaking his head more than anything else. Our own. Our own prints of darkness. Jeff back. Lars out on assignment. But don't worry. He's he's festering in the corner. He stuck on the escalator of bad assery. The bad boy of games media. Mike Menade. Look, I'm sorry. I don't have an excuse. I don't know why I'm out of it. I don't have an excuse. All right. I was. I was up late playing video games. That's an excuse. The sleep just didn't really take for some reason, you know. I don't know why. I just kind of woke up and it's like, oh, looks like I hit my snooze button 30 times in my or 30 minutes in my sleep. That's always a bad sign. No time for my shower in the morning, which always helps wake me up missing the shower. That's a bad sign. I have to do that after this. I got no excuse. There's just tons of brain fog right now. No good. I'm not sick anymore. I can't blame on that. I was sick last week and then we're really busy this weekend because, you know, all the Easter stuff. So I don't know. I guess I'm just unrested. That's it. I'm just a little baby. You know, it's been a hot. This is Mikey's hard times promo. Yeah. Yeah. Mike Menade, can you hit me with a data? I guess I'm just a little sleepy data. Yeah. They're close enough. Close enough. They're not working for me. No notes. Boys, other than you know. No notes. No outs. Yes. Yes. Other than the world seemingly on fire and folks, hey, I know there is a lot happening in the world right now. There may be a lot happening in your own life right now. There sure is a lot of stuff happening to us right now, but we appreciate you spending time with us and we hope this hour, two hours to almost maybe three hours. Who knows? The heck long we'll go today will help distract you and be a little bit of reprieve from the fucking world on fire. Boys, otherwise, how are we doing? It was Easter. It was. We did. We did a one of them like little, hey, follow the trail. Go ahead. There's a bunch. There's some like bunny stickers, like their paws stickers put down on the ground. The kids went all around the house, found some cool Easter eggs and toys and stuff like that. Easter, a much bigger deal than I, whatever was for me as a kid. We would go get the eggs in the yard, but now we make a big deal out of it. I hadn't been here the last couple of years because I would go to pack. So coming back to my, oh yeah, there's all this setup. It was almost equivalent to like staying up late, getting Christmas setup, but it was a lot of fun. The kids had a good time. Hell yeah. I had Ryan and Becky from Outpost 31 Productions come here to fix up the alien day one on Sunday, day one of the restoration. We didn't realize it was Easter and then he showed up in search fixing up the alien. They're both wearing alien shirts and they're like, this is our religion. I'm like, oh, I found the right crew for this. This is awesome. They're coming in today. So you would say that your Xenomorph has risen. He's back. Yes. His wrists are fixed up. The latex is drying right now. They're coming back with some hydrating stuff to kind of like freshen up all that stuff. They're going to paint the head of glossy black like in the movie. It's fucking awesome. Yeah. They're really found the right crew. These people love horror movies. Yeah. Very cool. The alien butthole. Oh, come on. You should see the butthole on this thing is crazy right now. Oh, did Jim Carrey come out of it? Did Carrey come out of it? No, did Jim Carrey come out of it? Oh, no. I'm not impressed with your butthole in your house. I don't know if this butthole picture is going to show up. The butthole is like, they took the tail off. So this is the but that's latex drying on the butthole right now. Yeah. So the tail's on the ground over there. Yeah, guys, I think I got to go. You can handle the show without me, right? Yeah. All right. Let's all right. Let's go, everybody. Let's go, too. Welcome to the Butthole Zone, a new podcast from Giant Bomb. Oh, boy. I think even our bench team may be going through it as well. Boys, I think two of you may have actually participated in some gigantic festivities over the weekend and I'm not talking about Jesus or whatever. He's old news. I'm talking about the Mario movie. Yes. Yeah. I saw we haven't talked to each other about it at all yet. If I think I even texted him, it's it ignored me. I don't know if he ignored me because he texted me while I was in bed. I was sleeping. Yeah. Well, what if Mike Minotti. Midnight. Well, some people do. Some people are like the next day they text back to don't go well, that's just a wash but obviously you don't have many friends, maybe HD, but also this whole weekend I mostly spent wallpapering. So that's what I was doing. I'm like, I don't have time for Mike Minotti's silly aside. I know it's going to have opinions about this movie. What if I go do adult stuff? What if Minotti texted you first, you up question mark? No, then I would. Okay. I'm like something's up. I need to be there for. Can I ask a question? I've not seen the film, but I've seen a lot of reactions from people and they've been very polarized. I want to see which end of the needle you guys point more towards one end. A lot of my friends I talked about movies and stuff like that are like, oh, it is a bad movie. This is not a good movie. And then on the other hand, it's usually people with kids that are just like, the references to the joy. The kids loved it. So it's like one or the other is like, this movie sucks or like my kid laughed. So it's good. So like, where are you guys on it? I mean, I am I the only person that can hold two thoughts in their head at the same time? It's a bad movie that I had a good time at. Like, what am I supposed to do about this? Yeah, sure. What happened? Yeah. Like, you already know what this movie is, Daniel. It's going to like surprise you in some way. And maybe because it's so obvious what it is, it's it comes across worse than that first movie. There are definitely there are problems. There are some things done better, but like the no needle drop, bad music tracks thing. That's a lot better. That's what you said it was worse than the first one because the first one I thought was fine. I was in you guys and thought it was fine. I think it's maybe a little it's in some ways like the plus definitely more haphazard. It's like really kind of just it's nonsense. I don't blame, say, a movie critic who has no affinity for Mario for thinking that this is just absolute gibberish and having a bad time with it. I'll say this. There was definitely more like sounds in the theater pointing at references than ha ha ha what a genuinely funny joke in the movie. Is the Super Mario 2 stuff is that a substantial part of the movie? It's a scene. It's a good scene. It's one of the better scenes. It was fun and like stuff like that. It's like, you know, that's yeah, you know, they could have done more obvious things and I like the fact that they did a whole all the bosses from Mario 2 or in this casino scene. That's that's neat. That's fine. I will say the first half the movie I was like, oh no, they turned Yoshi into a minion that mellowed out a little bit. Yeah, but yeah, Fox McCloud's the best part of the movie. He's a great decent part of it. He's like a tertiary character like Donkey Kong last time almost. He's like a Hawkeye perhaps. A little bit. Yeah, actually for sure. Yeah, the kids did enjoy it. We came out of the movie. They were all talking about their favorite parts. The favorite parts like one was a reference. The other one was just like a funny joke that everyone laughed at. You could tell the kids were like, oh my God, I thought that was funny and everyone in this room laughed too. It's cool to be part of a group like thinking something's funny and they're kind of having that realization. So it's like, oh, it delivered what I went to the movie for, which was to see a bunch of Nintendo stuff, to be bright, colorful and have kind of a fast pace to it where they're going from one thing to the next. So it does go by pretty quick and it does. And it's exactly what I was expecting. And I just can tell that this movie doesn't have any sort of path pathos or tension or anything that I go to other movies for. Again, that's not why I showed up. That's not why I paid $100 for tickets for my family to go see this thing. We went to go see the colorful Mario character. Even like your average kids movie or family movie usually tries to be about something, you know, like a theme or a moral. And there's maybe like the slightest attempt at that or a gesture that something to do with family. It's not even like the first one. The first one was like we're brothers and we could see like see everything through together and like they're like willing to do like have a speech about that or whatever. This movie is kind of like, I don't know. Mario wants to have a girlfriend and maybe Luigi's still scared. Who knows? OK. All right. So I mean, there's none of this surprising to me. This is about what I would have expected from this. I mean, I was going to go when I was shocked. Like, oh, that was not what I was expecting. I definitely I definitely maybe have the opinion that it's not worth all the holla balloons that some people are kidding. Yeah, right. You know, the fall of cinema or that was the greatest thing ever. Right. Like, you know what it is. Maybe they don't. Yeah. I mean, I was what was the Mario the first Mario movie was that 91? I was a fucking. Oh, the live action was 93. The Bob Bobby Ross. And I'm 91. Oh, could be 91. Well, I was either seven or nine years old and I left and I told my dad it was the best movie I ever saw. So that was a fun time for me. So I can't be mad about like kids liking a movie. That's not the deepest best movie in the world. Like that's right. Whatever. But like it's funny because I was thinking about that and I'm like, that's that's the movie you get when you try to actually make a real movie based on Mario. Yeah. Right. Like those are the concessions you have to make to make it maybe make sense in a screenwriters world. Whereas this movie is like, what if we just don't really worry too much about why all this is happening or how it makes any sense or we just can't introduce Fox McCloud in our movie? Yeah, we can. And like I will say, like if I am looking at it and I step back a little bit, the original Super Mario Brothers movie from 1993, I think is way more important than these movies. And it's cool that like people had to figure out answers to those questions that no one at Nintendo ever asked themselves. And they had like set producers come up with ideas about how to bring these things to life. It's awesome that that happened and makes that more timeless in the long run than these movies ever will be. I wish we could live in a world where we got both frequently. I'm glad we got one at one point. And I'm glad we're getting these as well, because the kids are enjoying them. And then I hope that one day I could show them the weird Mario movie and they're like, yeah, just like objectively, this feels like it's cooler because there's so many interesting ideas actually in the movie. Yeah, I don't understand getting mad about this. Like as a Mario fan, I'm not particularly interested in seeing the movie. But like if it's a thing that makes kids into Mario in 2026 and then maybe they check out the games and stuff, that just seems like a positive to me. I think there's just like people are conflating a lot of the audience. People do hear like, oh, it's a kids movie. What do you expect? And that's not I don't think any of us are saying that. I'm just saying it's a kids movie. You should occasionally expect this in that. Yeah, like they will make bad stuff for kids, just like they've made bad stuff for adults. Like this is not indicating that people think kids can only like bad stuff. Obviously, that's we just know that's not true anymore. After years of Pixar, years of excellent Disney movies. Yeah. And we all this other stuff. They could do better. And I don't know if it's because of like they just don't have it or it's just like a dedication of like this is kind of sloppy. Want to throw out to them. Yeah. And I do think me and my theory, my pet theory is me and Moto's there showing up in like all these characters should always get along. And we don't need all this. Rod and Barry of the Star Trek Next Generation era for the Mario movie. Yes. I think he's kind of spoiling any chance for them to like take a take a cinematic reign to it or whatever. I think he's kind of getting in the way. Right. Who knows? I have no idea. It's a I think it's going to be interesting with that Zelda movie because and like this is going to sound condescending, but they're going to have to make a real movie with that. You know, there's no way that movie is going to be good. There's just no fun. I don't know. I think it's safe to assume it won't be. And if it surprises us, great. Yeah, absolutely. I think I'm ready to be pleasantly surprised by that. I want to believe. Yes. They're shooting where they shot the Hobbit. There's their their little footsteps are going to fit in the other little footsteps, guys. OK. I was like a little lame dude. No, he's got a sword. He's literally in a forest of children and a hook shot and abilities. Have you seen all have swords? You see Bilbo Baggins? That mother mother is stressed. He's got the coolest sword to have. I was like, well, I was blue. Yes. Oh, wait, I haven't seen the Hobbit. Well, the guys in the first row here are the rings have swords to the swords. I forgot the swords all the way down. I just walked in grass and talked for nine hours. Well, they do a lot of that. They also do that. Yeah. Yeah. Let's be clear. All right, gang. Well, before we talk about video games, Jeff, grab how can the folks at home support us here at giantbomb.com? 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But we're going to make it happen. I don't want to announce any specific dates, but the wheels are turning for. They'll be turning. They're turning. I get it. The wheels are rolling, rolling, not on the river, but on the highways. Hopefully not on the river. Let's try to steer clear of that. Yeah, I don't know how to swim, guys. Because the Great Giant Bomb Road trip is happening. It's it's probably 99 percent sure happening. This summer's plans. Jan's going to see the Midwest. Oh, we got plans. We got Jan's. I think there's an overunder for how many times I'm going to say, I'm going to turn this van around. If these guys don't settle down, I'm going to go to full dad mode. Meat raffle. It's going to be awesome. And then, you know, Chuck being Chuck added an interesting layer at the beginning of the road trip that maybe it's going to be a little bit of a different trip for Dan, Chuck and I before we get the road. That one night, the first night. Yeah. Oh, right. OK, that. Yes. And you could do the whole planes, trains and automobiles. Thanks, Jan, between all the stuff you're doing this summer. Oh, we're not we're not allowed to stay at Backlar's house. So we're going to we're going to rough it. Yeah. Jan. That's right. You know, we'll just say it now. Dan sleeping in their backyard. We could set up a tent. Dan, Chuck and I. And I think we convinced the will, even though we lives in Jersey. Yeah, we'll could just sleep in his bed that night. But he's a trooper. We're going to go camping for the first night. And oh, yes. Are you worried that something's going to go wrong on the camping night and it's just going to derail the whole trip? Because I can be great. All right. You're all about to see how much I sleep on road trips because I'm thinking, drama me. No, I'm actually very excited about that. That will roll when he just could. You've talked about driving to Disney with like you just lay in the back sleeping with your CPAP. Is that what we're dealing with on the road? Probably. Oh, I love that. I will fuck with you. Can't say it like that. I'm going to fart in your CPAP. I've not actually got the CPAP. You whole fires can hear me snore. I don't give a shit. OK, sweet. God, Dan is going to put vodka in your CPAP reservoir. Man, what would happen? No, no. The fine work. You know what? Jack asked, it was an inspiration to us all. Steve Oh was reckless by injecting himself with the IV of vodka. We have grown. We're smarter. We're wiser. So we'll put vodka in a CPAP. Yes. We'll just inhale it, not inject. Yes. All right. Yeah, maybe we don't do that. I'm so concerned. God, I saw someone. The things I'm hearing. And I just we had like a two hour meeting. I'm just over here like and everything's like, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. I was going to say it. It was floating. It was floating around. You were like, wait, probably I could do this. Like, what if we just what if we just crashed at fans houses? No. What? Andy Russers have been doing this for fucking decades. It's about a four. All right. Before we get to video games, gang, just a couple quick programming reminders for those premium folks out there. We're going to have a new episode of Nine Lives of Mr. Mustafa Fleas happen. And after the bomb cast, Grubb, I saw the clip that is of today's episode. I don't I can't believe that's the episode that the folks are on so much has happened for you, myself, right. Chuck. Right. I was looking at that, too. I had the same thought. It's like, OK, the fact that they're just getting to this joke that I do remember that feels like forever ago. So yes, there is plenty of an adventure. So Mr. Mustafa, you see have to come. Yes. Yes. Tomorrow, the blight continues. Dan, how are you feeling about reembarking on Space Ace? It's only 40 minutes left. I've heard it's only 40 minutes away. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to take breaks with this. I I memory is my biggest adversary with this run, because you do have to remember very specifically where to jump, where to stand with all the auto scrolling and all that. I think it'll come back to me, but I think every level at least one or two like, oh, fuck right that. OK, OK, we do I stand left here. There's going to be a quick relearning process for every level, I think. But yeah, I think it'll click into place much faster each time, even after this extended break. Yes. Yes. Yeah. No, I'm I'm I'm I'm looking forward. I'm looking forward to conquering this game. Yes. And then it's done. So every step towards that is a plus for me. So yes, I will do that. But before that tomorrow, before Blight Club leaves the space station, gang, Turbo, Sean and I have dusted off the gym. We've put our own wallpaper up across the gym floors as well. The ceilings. We've done so much to the bathroom because Pokemon Monday Night Combat relaunches tomorrow, gang. Sean and I are going to check out Pokemon Champions because tomorrow is day one. So we're going to just, you know, see what shenanigans we shanjanigans we can get up to. Yeah, there. Oh, it's a launch look. Well, no, we don't get to meet Dan. You have third content meeting. You're like, oh, then maybe for a knocking comes out, we can do a launch look. And then you cut yourself like, oh, whatever it's called. I mean, it's the placeholder. I can all use the placeholder vernacular. Yeah, that's fine. Folks, you can realize what you did. You were like, oh, hey, listen, you start Mitch check and we're all good. You know, I'm on for Mitch check. I love it. Yeah, that's another bomb on incentive was the Pokemon Night Combat and there's another one maybe in the works with it with Mike and and Grubb coming up in the near future. But yeah, just to reassure everyone, you know, hit all those incentives in October is extremely important to all of us. We are going to make good on every single one of those. And they're all very in the works. So stay tuned. A lot of fun stuff coming up on that front. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Pokin Monday Night Combat is going to be on Wednesday tomorrow. Sean and I are going to assess the schedule and see Neil down a definitive day to put that on its Pokemon Day Night Combat. So it doesn't have to be on a Monday day. You know, that's that's the type of Lucy Goosiness that can happen here at Giant Bomb. Again, unfortunately, the hottest gaming and the hottest dating show is going to have to be postponed due to scheduling stuff going on. So we will be having a Discord Town Hall for all of our premium members out there. If you're a premium member hop in a Discord, you got cues, you got questions, holler at your boys. You can ask virtually anything and everything and be please be ready to talk on a microphone. And then we got UPF as huge, but also getting this Saturday. The community is embarking on their own endurance run. That's right. We're going to be hosting on the website. Giant Bomb dot com slash endurance schedule T B a gang. I'm ready to talk about video games a few or always do it. Speaking, you know, I'm already donning the yellow beanie and I'm kind of leaning into into the toxicity because last UPF, our dear friend, Samantha Kalman, showed up, hung out with us and showed off her new game that is still in the early days. But we checked it out. We checked out versus hyperkinetic aerial joust gang. You know, it's still early stages, you know, of everything. But kind of I kind of felt myself liking it too much. Oh, we could tell because you were being a minister, everyone with you. Yes, evil Jan is not a thing that just unleashes randomly. Absolutely got unleashed on everyone on that stream by you. And it was it was scary to see. For folks that don't know or haven't seen UPF yet versus hyperkinetic aerial joust, kind of a wipeout looking game, but not a racing game per se. It is a jousting style game. The mode we checked out, it was 2 v 2, two ships going against each other in opposite directions, circling around an infinite loop. And you would just have to unleash a blade and that blade would take out your opponent. And the neat thing that I think should be in more games, whatever genre, even if it's a puzzle game, just give me slow down. Give me that which time that bullet time happening. Tekken thing. Yeah, I mean, it's yeah, everyone has their association. When mine's burnout revenge, like, I mean, I'm just trying to have that same association. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. But very fun time. I suggest you go check out the UPF. And I think if you join the free Patreon, you'll get access to it. That is versus hyperkinetic aerial joust. Speaking about jousting. And actually, speaking about that UPF, sorry, my brain is melting actively. I feel it leaking out of my ears. Dan Reichert, on that same UPF, you showed us a fun little word game. Glifika. Oh, I'm a sucker for any game where typing is your weapon. As much as I don't keyboard and mouse for anything, I get I get real hyped up for a game where you're just typing as the only method of input. Typing the dead and a few others have done it. This one is typing roguelite survival, I believe, is how they pitched it. And it's great when you just see like three words describing a game and you're like, man, that sounds like my shit. I'm going to try it. And then it's exactly what you wanted and more. I think it's technically early access. But yeah, you're just like a dot at the center of the screen. Like, look at that. It's very minimalistic, almost like sound shapes, ask art style. And enemies are coming in from all angles. Like, imagine like a vampire survivors, but you're not moving. And they have a word above them. And you type it to shoot projectiles at them and kill them. Some have shields, some shoot their own projectiles that have words that you have to like type to counteract. And you are leveling up, you are getting turrets, you are getting like Tesla mines. You're getting giant spinning saw blades that chop up the enemies and words and things like that, you know, elemental damage, some really clever boss fights and everything. So yeah, it's just one of those games where it's just your fingers never leave the keyboard, even like when you're leveling up and stuff, you choose, you know, which upgrade you're doing by typing the word at the bottom. And yeah, you're just it's there's no way to not pay constant attention and be like super locked in all the time with this game. You have to be. And every time I'm done, it's like you feel like chemicals in your brain. We're just going insane for however long you're playing it. And got an endless mode. So if you're really good at typing, that's probably a real fun leaderboard situation there. It tracks like your words per minute over time and stuff like that. So if anything I'm saying sounds appealing to you at all, check out Glifka. It's it's fun. I did play some some of it. I was immediately was like, yep, I get it. I like this so much. And I want to like just sit down and really spend a long time with it because I'm like, I can play it for 10 minutes here. The took those trials. They go on for how long would you say each trial? There is a like actual timer at the top. I want to say, OK, maybe five minutes each. It could be more. Yeah, it's a little bit of a boss fight at the end. And yeah, like fun stuff where it's like, OK, there's two floating enemies here for a boss. And it's like, I think that one's called Gemini. And the gimmick with them is every once in a while, they will heal each other to the maximum of the healthiest one. So that way, like you don't just want to like go after one and take him down because you'll to the max. Wow, that sounds like a word or a boss. OK, yeah. Yeah, like that. That's what I was thinking. And so yeah, you got to bounce back and forth quite a bit. And there's a Cerberus where it's like three different heads. You got to attack. There's one that scrambles the letters of all the words and that was nasty. It's got clever stuff. Yeah, it's really good. And zoning. One more. Zoning feels like an important thing as well, because you're not only targeting enemies, you're triggering off like these different abilities, like this like missile hammer of dawn kind of thing. There's like a meteor shower one. Yeah, I got an upgrade there where it's like, OK, if on the left side of the screen, there's a place where if I type this word, I'm going to trigger a meteor shower. And that's got a huge radius. It's like, well, I know that area of the screen is pretty taken care of while the meteors are coming down so I can focus over here on the right side of the screen. Yeah, yeah, really clever stuff like that. Lovely, fantastic. Something that Mike Minotti and I checked out. Quick look with the director and a very dear special friend is now on the website. We checked out people of note. Dan, I'm going to say this now. This is the most on you game in the world. That's what I've heard. Yes. Yeah. For folks that don't know, this is a JRPG. It's a turn based RPG, but it is all about musicals. They have like the Claire obscure, the Paper Mario style of like timing based combat where even if you're doing your basic attack, you have to like sync it up to like the little rhythm based pip and you do more damage, less damage, depending on the timing nature of it. Your abilities are also tied to that. And, you know, do need to say this off the tippy top. We have a dear special friend that is a prominent character in the game. But that being said, I'm actually having a lot of fun in this. I'm like, maybe, no, I'm like, I finished the first full complete world that they dump you in after the initial tutorial area. And I'm having a good time with it. The RPG nature of it, I think is really well done, where you can wind up finding specific abilities that already feel kind of broken, even in like the early world of it, where it's like, OK, I can see these synergies popping off now. And in the same way where Claire obscure in mid to late game, the like timing of it would kind of feel very complicated to pull off every time. It already feels that way in a good way in the early stages of people of note. And because it's all rhythm based, it for some reason in my head is clicking a little bit easier to hit onto the beat versus Claire obscure. Whereas just watching the little pips to shrink down. The other bit that I think is might go under appreciated in people of note is I really do like the puzzles. And we talked to the director and the director straight up said, like, hey, if you don't want to encounter any of the the the battles or the puzzles, you can completely turn them off if you just want to go through and try and encounter the story. That being said, I have enjoyed the puzzles and the puzzles are ranging from like stage world puzzles to platforming light platforming tile based ones and for the theater kids out there, this is our game. Everybody. This is finally the the Venn diagram of JRPGs in musicals has just become one again. We haven't felt this represented since Final Fantasy 10 to and and the music at least the first two songs that you come across in the game. Fantastic title card reveal, by the way, I think it popped Mike really hard. Yes, I love a late title drop for sure. You know, you talk about the musical nature of it and watching you play it for a while. It's like, oh, because yeah, you're in this world and it's like you're at a club and maybe there's techno or K-pop, blah, blah, blah. But then, you know, there was a part where there was basically just a cut scene and it got very Broadway musical there for a bit. I'm like, oh, that's that's what I want. Yeah, yeah, give me this kind of one day more Les Mis style. Everybody's going to say their piece in musical form about where they are in the story at the moment. That's the good stuff. Yeah, Kayla out there, I think you would really, really like this game because it has the capacity to be a very tough JRPG, because you could just crank up the difficulty and there are music. There's musical numbers in this. She's just a half sister in case anyone's wondering. The musical side, though, is where it comes from. Both of you guys share that, of course. Yes, yes, I know. Hi, Kayla. Jan, so you're obviously the vibes are working for you, like the sort of what it's going for in terms of presentation. You are saying that you're having fun playing it, though, right? Not that you can like to like pull those two things apart. Obviously, one leads to the other, but you're like, it's just a fun game to play on top of that. Yeah, it's a fun game to play. And, you know, I've talked on this podcast where I've been searching for like an RPG to play. And, you know, the the answers and suggestions that people have given me are like upwards to like 30 to 50 hour journeys, where I don't quite want to invest that much time. I kind of want to like turn my brain off and engage in turn based combat in a way that can be satisfying. But also, if I do need to turn my brain off, I can just kind of sink into that autopilot mode. And because it is the like timing based combat and it is only timing based combat in the offensive side, there's no defense portion of it at all where you're dodging or anything. That is enough to kind of like keep me engaged. And if I am just like tuning out of the game, it'll lock me back in when they drop a new musical number. And also the director here, I think him and I are cut from very similar cloths because all of the puns in the game just make me giggle and go. That was stupid. And then if I were to drop similar puns, I know I would get booze in the chat. Parentheses positive. Yeah, that's what you're going for when you're dropping a pun, though. Let's be clear. OK, then last thing in terms of musical stylings, is it a variety? Is it is there like, oh, they're they're obviously inspired by Sondheim or something like that? Like, is there like is it obvious? The first two numbers in particular feel very greatest showman ask. OK, oh, yeah. So very like bombastic, loud, not gang vocals, because that's in like a different genres of music, but layered melodies on top of each other. I'm a sucker. You pop the halo with that. I am a sucker when characters will start. It's not just a duet, but it's multiple characters singing their own songs on top of each other. My one day more effect, the one day more effects. Exactly. We initially met the villain of yeah, the main villain of the game in a smaller cut scene. And then when he popped off into his solo, Mike lost the shit because I think he kind of sounded like the evil priest from Hunchback of Notre Dame. Oh, it was definitely really a Frollo time. Yes. I like the villain a lot. I was like, oh, that guy, he's a cool guy. I mean, he's probably not a cool guy. It's probably like terrible. I think being horny is evil in a sin like the right, which, you know, we all know. Of course, it's just true. This is right. Right. But I was like, oh, yeah, the villain was good. He kind of he kind of reminded me of JP from Street Fighter Five, but better. Interesting. Sex, Street Fighter Six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, the old guy at the cane. Right. Although that guy reminds me of the people from Claire Obscure. So yeah, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. He has a little Renault. Oh, yeah. Right. Renoir. Renoir. Yeah. Renoir. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. The French will love it when you say that. Wow. Yeah. Renoir. Isn't it? That's triangle. There we go. Thank you. I didn't I didn't quite know what you were doing at first. That's from Gayle Perry. Triangio. Muto. So they got to know what their death is. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. But by the way, by the way, I told the English story at a first birthday at a pub when I got to the punchline, I got excited. It screamed English, probably too loud in the in the bar. Amazing. Oh, no. Representing us well, Mike. But, you know, to answer, Mike, he's or Mike, continue, Mike, he's thought about diversified music genres. It drops you into like a small town that has Japanese and K-pop influences. And then the next world is kind of like a dad, but rock type of world. So it feels like they are kind of hopping and bopping around to different genres of music. In terms of the music numbers, I think they are going to be pretty diversified as well. Tune in for the quick look also so you can hear Mikey Belt one day more and a little bit of memories. It was very, very moving. And it is out now, the quick look. He X, right? And you guys put that up. Yeah. The quick look is out now. And so is the game. It's out on everything. So if anything, we've said in Tice's, you at all. And also, if you're a theater nerd, this one's for us gang. Finally, finally, we have a musical video game. There have been multiple musical video games since then, of course, but this one, specifically, I remember before Christmas, Boogie Boogie's Revenge or whatever on the PlayStation 2. Guitar Man. Yes. Yes, Guitar Man. I didn't want to say this because we had the director of the game there with us. But, yo, there are going to be some thirsty ass mother fuckers because of this game, because some of the character designs not just as the main protagonist, but of all the other people. If people got a little bit too weird, fawning over, let's say, K-pop demon hunter characters, they're going to do the same exact thing over here. Anyway, that is the confusion of life. That is the paradox. It is OK to be attracted to a video game character or an animated character. That is the paradox, just like Darwin's paradox has been happening and Jeff Grubb has been exploring. I have been playing Darwin's paradox. I'm trying to know if I know the answer to your question, whether or not I'm attracted to this octopus. Yeah, sure. He's a handsome octopus. I like this game. It is from Konami publishing it, and then it's a developer that they're working on. It's kind of one of those things they did with. Were they the ones that did deliver at all costs? Konami published that. Yes, right. So similar thing here where the Konami spotted a game they liked. They took it under under their wing and they published it as a Konami game. And that was part of what I was interested in. I was also just I like the look of it. It kind of had an Abe's Odyssey style to it. I thought yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And playing it and playing it, I would say, yeah, that's kind of what they're going for here in terms of not necessarily how it feels, but the way it presents itself, where you are solving platforming puzzles as this character. They can go around and grab things and move things in the environment. And there's some physics on top of that to make the puzzles feel weighty. You know, it's so it's not going to be it's not Mario Brothers. I want to try to give an example of like what to expect from it. Like the one of the early puzzle sections that kind of went on for a bit longer than I was expecting to the point where I was like, oh, this is just what the game is going to be. It's going to be these sections like this. There it's almost a stealth section. You get dropped back into the water after exploring the land a little bit. And there's like a sewer system you get into and the sewer system has a bunch of rats and the rats are chasing you. And if the rats touch you, you're basically dead. So you have to avoid them and you can get in the light a little bit. But very quickly, it's like, oh, no, you need to. Jump into this chemical glowing waste to cover yourself in it. And then the rats won't mess with you while you're covered in it. And so you have to like run from one section to the next in this in the sewer system before the glowy stuff washes off of the octopus. So you're just trying to like get from one point to the next. And then there occasionally you'll get to a point where it's like, oh, there's a barrel in the way. I need to figure out how to get out of the way before this stuff runs off. So you're kind of solving puzzles under a little bit of a time crunch. And that that seems to be the loop of the game where you're doing stuff like that through a section. Then once it's over, you kind of get the next gimmick and you're doing that. And I thought it was pretty well designed overall. It's not going to blow anyone away. And I definitely like playing it more than I like to play in Abe's Odyssey and all those games, but it has that spirit there as well. So if you're looking for something along this line, it's a little bit of a thinking platform. Yeah, it should have that. They definitely have the two thousands Jimmy Neutron Nickelodeon eyes going on with the look of the game as well. And that presentation works as well, where they do get a little bit cinematic with the in-betweeners where you're like you're going from one level to the next. And it's like, OK, we're going to show off kind of what to expect from this new land. And they'll zoom in close to the character and the character animates well and looks really expressive and the world looks really nice. And then it runs great on the Steam Deck, because then you're just kind of controlling the 2D plane of a 3D game. So yeah, I I think it's neat. It's definitely worth trying if you have some interest in what I described. And then I think it might be on one of those platforms. It might be on PlayStation Plus or something like that, I think. Grab, where do you land on Stealth Sections in a 2D game? I mean, there's some games that like when they build themselves around that concept being a 2D stealth game like Mark of the Ninja. That's one of my favorite games. I love Mark of the Ninja. And then other games where it's like they'll introduce that. I think any time I can hide in a doorway in the background of a 2D level where it's like, oh, here's a closet and you can sort of like like curl around the closet, hide in the shadow and the character walks past you. I like that. That feels cool. Anything more than that. It's it's usually probably a bit much. Do you want to play in that Terminator 2D? No fate. I did. Yes. There's that one sequence where the T-1000 is chasing you in a very much. It's exactly what you described. Like Sarah Connery, like ducking into the closet. Cool. Yeah, I think that I think there was a part where at the end of the game where they did something like that and it was like a little bit more challenging. I was like, OK, this is a little cheap now. But up until that point, I was enjoying that. I mean, that game that that game was pretty good. Yeah, there was I checked out Darn's Paradox during a preview for in during GDC and the stealth segments kind of bugged me. But maybe I just don't wind up liking them when they're in a 2D plane versus 3D. Anyway, moving along, going from the sea to the space. Mike Minotti, you've checked out Marvel cosmic invasion. Yeah, just over this holiday weekend, my girlfriend's visiting. I was like, all right, I actually rarely play games on my couch in the living room on like at Xbox or PlayStation anymore. What's something we could play pretty quickly here and have some fun? And just going through Game Pass, I saw Marvel cosmic invasion. This is that beat them up from tribute games. The people who did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shredder's Revenge. This came out last year like I played the demo of it. And then I was like, yeah, once that comes out, I'll get around to it. And I never did. This was a good opportunity just to go play through the whole thing with my girlfriend for an evening. It was a really fun way to spend that evening, right? Just a really good pixel art, very nice visuals all around, very punchy combat. Beat them up stuff felt good. I like the tax system. So you're picking two characters. So you're going to swap in between it. You can call one in the middle of a combo or swap in the middle of a combo to extend it. And each character has a different thing too. So they're not just pallet swaps or like, especially in these old beat them up. Like, you know, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, they're all basically the same, a little bit different. We like the old X-Men Arcade game. Like everybody has like the one power, but otherwise very similar here. It's like, OK, nothing. We can throw the shield. Yes, like in kind of uppercut anti air thing or as an iron man could just straight up fly and shoot the repulsor blast, but they have to recharge over time. So stuff like that is is cool. I like how the levels encourage you to swap up the characters as well by having like the canonical characters for the level. And it's like, OK, so I wasn't going to use this character, but now this this level is expecting me to do that. So I'll swap over to them and then you can get a bonus. I think if you do certain things in the stage with them. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they do that. But they also like like your characters level up and so they get like perks for, you know, when you play with them. So there's a bit of like, well, now this character is stronger. I feel like I should just keep playing as them. So I felt a little dissent, de-incentivized to swap characters, I guess, which was maybe a little bit of a bummer to me. So I did just kind of stay with Captain America and Iron Man the whole time. You know, you know, you straight up like are unlocking characters. Yeah. And the Silver Surfer. While you're playing the game. So I guess like I understand you want to have that progression system of parties like maybe didn't. And I bet if I had just swapped anyways, I would have been fine. I wouldn't have noticed. Yeah. But in my mind, I was like, but this character has a plus boat of self. And it says I have a new passive skill. I don't know what that passive skill is. But I have it. It's what it is. I think like what got me over the hump is like, oh, if I do these certain challenges with these characters, I'll get extra upgrades and stuff like that. So it's like, I might as well try to maximize it. And then, yeah, it's it's either I did get to a point playing by myself where there was a couple of levels that I had to do a couple of times to be able to beat them. And I was like, OK, so I'm leveling up these characters now and they'll be ready for the rest of the game. I'll go over to these characters and kind of do the same thing with them. I do really enjoy this game for the sheer fact that they have cosmic ghost writer in it. Sure. That's really, yeah. Really, yeah, it looks great. And they do some good pools of the characters that always the most obvious thing like it's Bader Ray Bill instead of Thor. Right. Yeah. There's even some like I like there was a lady show up with a sword. Now I was just like, is that magic or whatever? Who I only know about recently because of Marvel rivals and Toakon. Some other person that I don't even know. OK, it I will say it's kind of hard for me to feel much. I guess just to feel much with Marvel stuff anymore. I just I just feel so kind of like overwhelmed by it and just desensitized to it. And I'm having that little bit of talk on where it's like, I don't know who they could show in talk on where I think, oh, yeah, I guess it'd be Cyclops for you, Jan. That would be it. That would be the biggest pop for me at this point. Otherwise, I just don't know how much I would care. The game has some of the problems that a lot of these games have. What's like, I've been fighting the same kind of enemies for a long time here. Haven't I? You know, some of that just comes with the genre. It will say it's interesting. I did like this game. It's funny how, you know, I thought this would be the big beat em up last year and then it was actually Absalom, which I think is even from the same publisher. In fact, I remember at Summer Game Fest at their booth, they had Marvel Cosmic Division, then they had Absalom there. I was like, oh, what's that? Oh, it looks like a golden axe. That's neat. Anywho. Uh-huh. And that ended up kind of being the more impactful game. We should do a tier list of the modern beat em ups. We can pick one game, be like, this is when they started and. Oh, yeah. I think it's like Castle Crashers, the beginning of that. Oh, maybe Castle Crashers is like, yeah, the beginning. Maybe. That was almost like a separate smaller revival with that. Scott Pilgrim game back then. It was like more of something newer that started around Street of Rachel. Baby River City Girls 1. Oh, yeah. That'd be good. Yeah, because it feels like there's they started leaning into a little bit more depth in the combat at least. Yeah, depth in the combat, depth in the replayability. Yes, absolutely. I mean, Street of Rachel, Street of Rage 4's Rogue mode, Rogue Light mode is fantastic. Oh, this is the key idea of what to do here. And then I obviously Absalom took that and ran with it. I'm a big Scott Pilgrim mark. I still, even though the game came out maybe a month or so ago, we still want to do a quick look for it because that game is doing some interesting things. Specifically, if you were tuned into the whole story of Scott Pilgrim, there was that Netflix show that came out that kind of twisted the story around, which was a fun, neat look at the universe. The game does a very similar thing that I want more folks to see. Also, give us more on a managuchi music. And that's not normally my Jimmy Jam, but tracks were hot. OK, I do want to check out that Scott Pilgrim stuff. That's also tribute games. So oh, yeah, they've been they've been doing a lot. And just please just give them the substance after after all this. It has to be right. It has to happen eventually. Right. You won't do it. Yeah, come on, Drake, I'll get you a diet code. I mean, speaking about games with multiple characters in them, Mike, you have continued your adventures through Resident Evil Zero. I beat it, Jan. I beat Resident Evil Zero. I did it, which yeah, feels good. It always seems like a controversial game. And I'm like, ready to be a Resident Evil Zero defender now. Oh, come on. I want to play about. Yeah, but then when I ranked it in the series, I'm like, it goes on the bottom. Fully on the bottom of the series. And I haven't played like six, right? So, you know, like it's in like that tier with Resident Evil three remake Resident Evil five for me. Our games, I like five of those. Now, it's five has issues. Five is really fun, but it has it has certain issues. Yes, of course. Kind of like this game where I think it was fun. It looks great because it just looks like Resident Evil one remake. It's some of the stuff that I was worried about that people complain about a lot. Like the way the inventory works, you don't have the item boxes. You just drop items on the ground. You have to deal with it. I'm like, that that wasn't too bad. Yeah, it's, you know, inventory management. It's slightly less convenient than it is in some of the other games. But you have two characters between them. You can kind of figure that inventory out. It's OK. You'll get there. I've got a question from the chat, Mike. I think for you from team Kayla. Is Resident Evil Zero worse than two remake? I don't believe it. Yes, I think I think I think even Kayla. Oh, I don't know, because this game wasn't very scary. And that often seems to be your issue with what makes it the worst. The bad ones are the scary ones. Yeah, right. So there were some scary moments in the beginning, but most Resident Evil games kind of mellow out on that as time goes by. Some of the other things I heard about like, oh, the enemies are sort of annoying and they're very bullet spongy. That was true. But I liked the having the two characters and song songs on the puzzle with them. The puzzles in general I relatively enjoyed. I liked both characters, bad boy Billy with his tribal arm tattoos and Rebecca Chambers. It was a good crew. I am it struggles just with that comparison to Resident Evil One remake because the environments you start off on that train. And that's all I knew about this game. In my mind, this game may have taken place entirely on train. I do that as well. And to be clear, that's what I want from this game. I want this game to be on a train and have pre-rendered backgrounds like Resident Evil remake on the game and look awesome. That's what I want. Like, you're on the train for like two hours in the beginning. And it is the best part of the game. I get why it's maybe hard to keep that up for long because it's a train. I just got to, you know, the up the train, you got down the train. You just maybe, you know, two levels and then you could go up on the top of the train. Part of me wishes they could have extended that a little bit because then the next areas you're basically in Spencer Mansion light. It's like the umbrella research area and it's OK. And then you're in some cathedral and then you're in another underground research facility, something, something. Of course, Resident Evil, we know. Yeah. Right. Right. So it's if they could have kept that train with that sort of, you know, elegant, oriental express look that that was very striking. And then after that, the game kind of loses on having its own visual identity, even though the pre-runner background still look amazing. All right. So incredibly attractive game. But yeah, it loses a little something. So it's a good time. I'm really glad that I played it. I'd be very curious to see what they do with it with a remake. And I hope when they remake it, they don't just turn it into Resident Evil 2 remake. I hope they find a way to make the whole you're controlling two characters thing work and maybe be a little bit less cumbersome, maybe even make it a co-op game. Yeah. Yeah. At some point, you got the remake Resident Evil 5 in this, so maybe work on those co-op mechanics for both of them. That'd be a good time. That'd be smart. Yeah. I really do like the idea of us doing a baton pass with the different campaigns for RE6. Because you can't just say these things, Jan. You know what you have to do at some point then. Because I am like Mike Six is something I never checked out because of the gigantic vomiting on it from the from games media. Other people from the team in chat elsewhere, Discord, or they're just beginning to panic. I see Will say no, just no. All right. So I think we're right, Dan. We have to do it. I mean, Kayla and I had the intention of going through it because we had a fun time playing five co-op and then we did one of the four campaigns in both me and Kayla were like, oh, this is not. We can't keep going with this. This is awful. It's so fucking bad. And I say it for myself because I put it below Residual Zero and then I can be like, Residual Zero is good. People are toots me to it. It's not the worst Resident Evil game. Yeah, you need that. You need to be able to say that part. That's crucial. So yeah. Right. Got. How would we figure out who does what campaign? That'd be a fun little exercise. Roll dice or roll dice or maybe a community vote. Maybe they'll know which one's the worst and they could punish us. I think I did whichever one was in a graveyard. I think that's the Chris one. And then there's one that starts with like a political thing with like the president turning into a zombie. I think that's one. That's Leon. I think so. I think I've actually done two of the four campaigns. Once when it came out, once with Kayla, I would have to take the other one then. I will eventually play through all of the six campaigns over the course of like 15 years. Oh, I would want to do one with Mike, where I secretly install mods. So he has to play as John Halo. Oh, God. Your character is 10 percent smaller. There we start. You are going to have so much anger on your face when you see this horse and you fall in love with how little he is. Oh, he's stuck in geometry. I can't believe it. Mike, it's going to remind you of one of the best parts of Parks and Rec. Little Sebastian. All right. I love Little Sebastian, but that's a real horse. Nobody modded that horse. I guess maybe evolution. Yeah, no, humans definitely did. Yes, genetics totally modded. Breeding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God, that's a good name for an episode. Modded that horse writing that down. Mike Minotti, to cap off the video game talk, you have checked out on the Switch Two Virtual Fighter Five Revo World Stage for Nintendo Switch Two. We should play. Yeah, it's funny because, like, you know, the Switch Two could play the new Resident Evil game well. And yet when I play this fighting game from 2006 on my Switch Two, I'm like, wow, this is crazy. Virtual Fighter Five on my Switch Two, and it looks great. Right. It's a fucking PS3 game. We've everything has come to Nintendo, but for some reason in my mind, I'm still like, I'm playing a virtual fighter game on my Nintendo console. Bro, right, because I was such a Sega kid and, you know, I love virtual fighter. I had I had Virtual Fighter one and two on my Saturn. I even got the Virtual Fighter one remix disc that they mailed to Saturn owners because the original port was so bad. You could VF kids. I did have VF kids and I like VF kids. I don't want to play everyone. I was like, everyone. I was like, I was a terrible thing that they did. I was like, I don't know that giant head. It was funny. Come on, live a little. Yeah, Virtual Fighter Five was a good video game. And this is a very good way of playing that video game. You know, especially you could spend so much time in this game just kind of picking a character and trying to learn everything, even though the game is like a three button game where you got punch, kick and block. There's so much nuance to that. And then there are some characters who are way more technical than others. Like, you know, there's like the luchador, right? And what's going on with that? Or it could just be Jeffery and do my wrestling moves and my grapples. And that feels really good as well. I did not. I did not really even bother trying the online stuff. And maybe I should have. But in my mind, I was like, that's probably not going to work. I'm also not that interested in seeing what people who have played two thousand times more of Virtual Fighter Five than me are going to do to me online. I know how 20 years work. Do you know if they do the whole like weird arxist lobby system or is it just straight up matchmaking in this? I don't know. I didn't really mess around. I'm like, part of me thinks the original heads. I think one of the Reavos had something like that or one. There's been so many versions of five. Yeah. I tell you what, it was it was Virtual Fighter Three, I think, where it's like the who's the main character, Jackie or something like that. Kara. Yeah, someone like he was like spinning and his jacket was spinning around his back. And it was like, oh, material physics have come to video games. This is the most realistic thing I've ever seen. And it's just been in my head ever since. I need to to bring something up. It's one of my favorite tropes for a character to wear a jacket on their shoulders over them and not like sleeves through. But like the requiem guy. Yes. Yes. Exactly like the requiem dude. But it never looks cool in real life. It just seems not convenient. Yeah, it seems like it's always going to be sliding off and you look like a dope. And it doesn't seem like it would actually keep you warm, which is the function on part of a jacket. I've tried it so many times and I can't do it. I'm sorry, my continuing one with Virtual Fighter. I'm sorry, so many in chats like we should play all four campaigns of Resident Evil 6 at the same time. No. Oh, my God. We race. We race. Yeah. Isn't there a campaign that's just one character? Yeah, there's an Ada Walk campaign that is just the one character. It could be Jeff by himself. No, no. No, no. The whole day. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, OK, if we're gimmicking it up, suddenly it sounds like a pretty good idea. Apparently, you can't still play that one in co-op. It is a OK. I was a player who's just a generic agent. Incredible. Let's go. I put the Ada Walk campaign. She's like, I feel kind of bad about all the genocide. It's OK, because I'm hot. Mike, how do you know about my internal dialogue this whole time? There you go. I like that spider, by the way, that push spider was cute. She got it for Easter. Yeah. OK, good, good. Yeah, yeah, Virtual Fighter 5. So good video game playing it on Switch. That's fun. I'm excited for a see what that new Street Fighter Street Fighter Virtual Fighter is going to be all about. Very exciting. We should check out some of this Virtual Fighter on UPF this week. Oh, yeah, I would play some Virtual Fighter. I would do that, too. Sure. You're looking for an excuse to play that online with you guys. Yeah, I don't want to go on matchmaking. I want to play with you guys. And this is this is the version that came out on Steam last year. Yeah, totally. Virtual Fighter 5. It's available there. Switch places. Mike, we're going to play a quick game. You cannot participate because you are more well versed in at least Virtual Fighter, I'm assuming Grub, Dan, we're going to go back and forth. Name as many Virtual Fighter Fighter characters as we can. They're all. Grub. I mean, took my one. OK, so Virtual Fighter characters. All right, I will say Jackie. Akira. Oh, you're doing too. OK, Ryu, Rio, the ninja. Oh, yeah. OK. Oh, Jeffrey. That I died to have no more. Sarah. Oh, yeah. The Hornet, the car. That's Megamix. You lose. OK, fine. I'll see myself out. You guys have a good rest of the podcast. You forgot about Wolf, damn it. Oh, yeah, Wolf. Yeah, Wolf. Right. I like Wolf a lot, actually. Yeah, Wolf is sick as hell. All right, folks. Where's Wolf from? He's got red hair. And yeah, so Rio is in Dutt or Alive. Dutt or Alive. Yeah, you're just qualified. OK. OK, Wolf. Wolf could be a Nacho Libre situation, you know, where they had certain familial lineage, but it was also raised in a specific location. Anyway, folks, we're going to go take a quick bricky break, and we will be back with the news right after this. Let's just cry. Thank you. I think the natural conclusion is eventually we're doing a panel and Dan couldn't be there for some reason. And then we open up the panel to questions from the audience and a man walks up and introduces himself as Walter Crunk. And it's Dan and makeup. And at that point, so we already can't trust anything on Reddit. I want to be able to not trust anyone I ever meet. Like this could be Dan Riker. You can trust it now because fucking I heard Walter Crunk got banned. There are serious discussions with the mod team about Walter Crunk and they banned him. Wow. That's on my team. That's a great job. We have a lot of mods. Well done. Right. If you navigate the various parts that giant bomb is on the internet, specifically the discord, you will see have seen a discussion about it. Oh, my God. Incredible. Man, everyone's discussing Walter Crunk. All right, let's get on to the. My autobiography. Star Wars Eclipse development is quote very slow going development on that game, you know, which is the Quantic Dream game, which is not supposed to be like a typical Quantic Dream game. It's going to be an action adventure. First got announced in 2021 and it is apparently proceeding very slowly with very little progress over a month's sources indicate the game is still looking to be years off from completion. The company NetEase, which as a reminder, I think acquired Quantic Dream a few years ago has been hesitant to invest in expanding the development team. So this sounds like another one of those issues where NetEase acquired a studio or started a new studio like they did with the RGG guy who was like, OK, I'm going to go to NetEase and make something. And now he's made that game and NetEase is like, oh, we don't care about this anymore. So you could put it out if you want, but we're not going to we're not going to spend on marketing or anything like that or even do the publishing. So it yeah. And this game was always going to take a long time. I remember back in 2021 and 2022 being like, yeah, I don't think this game comes out until 2027, according to people that are telling me what they know. And now we're coming up on that next year. And it sounds like it won't even be ready at that point. This was always one that was weird. But do you guys think we ever see Quantic Dream's Star Wars eclipse? We've seen. Mikey, go ahead. I mean, so Quantic Dream and release the game this year, by the way, is in that while that spellcasters. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. That came out so it became an early access for 26. It is like. Just under 700 seen reviews at mixed. So that games that's just not going to happen. That game's not going to be a thing. So they're going to lose money on that. I think I read. I think I saw somewhere. I don't know. Maze's case that they were hoping to finance or fund the Star Wars game with the money from spellcasters. Yes, that's not going to happen. This does not seem like it's going to be a real video game. Yeah. And we've already seen so many Star Wars movies and games get announced. They'll have a trailer or a little teaser and then nothing will ever happen with them. And I think it's another one of those. And like, you know, the word is a lot of work has been done on this game. And so, you know, yeah, it's got a few years left, but they've completed a lot of stuff. So that's one of the issues is they kind of need to hire up to work on other stuff they haven't done yet. And the people who could do the other stuff, well, they've already done a lot of their work. That does not mean that's like, oh, well, they've already done so much work, so they're just going to see it through. No, they could easily still just cancel this game and it never sees the light of day. We've seen that, like you said, Jan, a number of times with similarly scoped out Star Wars games specifically. So and I can't say that there are many folks clamoring for a quantic dreams Star Wars game as well. Yeah. I mean, especially like, do you guys remember the details about its setting and everything? Is that high Republic stuff? That's the high Republic stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, which, you know, like they've kind of stopped and started up again a little bit. There was they like reintroduced a new comic line that still takes place in the high Republic, but that never quite hit the way that they were trying to get it to hit. So like who's going to like you said, Jan, who's asking for this game, but specifically who's asking this game set in the high Republic? Like, I like some of the high Republic stuff and that's not what I'm showing up to Star Wars games for. So it's always been in a weird place. I don't feel like it's any more real today than it was in 2021. It's Star Wars is also just such a funky place. Like I. Yeah. Everyone's talking about Mandalorian and Grogu, dude. What's going to happen with that? Like, is that like it's it's going to fizzle out like, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I saw a trailer for it and then I don't know. I love that first season of Mando. I love Pedro. Yeah. But I felt nothing watching that trailer. I mean, it's like you got to keep watching the second season of Boba Fett or whatever and all this other stuff. And I did. Yeah. I mean, I watched some of it, but it's like every every ounce of it I watched, maybe less interested in whatever this movie was going to be. And now it's now it's here. Whatever. I still can't think about the time when they go like, Mandalorian needs a new ship to replace his RV in the sky that blew up. How about a two seater, not a starfighter for a baby? You'll live in this. Yes, we're a space. Where do they go to the bathroom? Who cares? I did initially pop for that until I thought about the logistics. Yeah, that that is that they were. It's like, I'm always thinking about where do they go to the bathroom in space? So yeah, I couldn't I couldn't get on board with it. All right, let's keep going here. Sony D list hundreds more PS5 and PS4 games, including Jesus Simulator. Sony is escalating its efforts to clean up the PlayStation Store by delisting thousands of low quality or deceptive games with the catalogs of publishers like Welding Bite, Go Game Console Publisher and VRC Forge recently wiped. They removed titles like Jesus Simulator, Watermelon Fruits Puzzle and titles to to entitled I'm sorry, and titles intended to confuse consumers such as I am busy digging a hole, which is a clear knockoff of another game. The one of the things people are saying is, oh, AI has made it very simple for these companies to make even more of these knockoff games very quickly. And people will make a mistake and purchase them. I listen, these games are so low quality. It's like, if you want to get them off your store, I don't blame you. I still think the better solution would be like, just let people get refunds. If they don't like the game that they bought like within the first two hours, just do exactly what Steam does and let people one click, get a refund. But Sony still won't do that. So it is a problem that they have these deceptive games on their store. It's more of a problem, I should say. It would still be a problem for a lot of people who feel like it clogs up the store shelves, makes it hard to find stuff, which it certainly does. But yeah, you know, cleaning up their store from a lot of this junk is probably going to be one of the solutions here. But you guys expect Sony to eventually make it possible for people to get an easy refund? What was the last what was the last game that launched poorly that they had to offer refunds? Was it cyberpunk? I mean, there's a hard to refunds. Yeah, but it might have. Right, because they shut that game down pretty quickly. Yeah, mine side was a mine side was another one. Yeah, yeah. Because that was because it was sabotage, though. Of course, it was. Well, we're going to find out in that DLC. They're going to have the proof and you're all going to feel like fools. Wait, what does it come out? I don't know. I'm so excited for that. That's on the show. We need to check it out. We will definitely be checking that out as soon as it happens, for sure. But that what that did happen last week, Binds Eye said that they're going to have DLC for their game that explains who and why the sabotage behind Binds Eye happened. Not just explain, Grub. It's going to provide proof. It's going to provide names. It's going to name names. I can't do that. Names, guys. Yeah, I don't think you can do that. Mike's right. I mean, legally, that's a problem. You can, but your lawyers are going to be killing themselves since you feel like we've got to get out of here. We can't do this job anymore, please. Is is is he the espionage? Is he the sabotage? He's been working for a rock star this entire time. Yeah. You know, this has the. He would know that. Mine's, I think, has the energy of like when a wrestler gets me to. And then it's like, oh, you're all going to feel like idiots. Here's my two hour YouTube explanation showing all my text messages and naming all the names like it has that energy to it. Yes. It feels like, you know, naming names. Yeah, like an EC three type of deal. You're going to control their narrative. Yeah. Yeah, it's so we're looking forward to that. We'll see what that looks like. I just continue to be baffled by everything happening with Mind's Eye, for sure. All right, PlayStation Studios removes nearly all PC references from its website. So they still have not come out as Sony and said that thing that Jason Shrier said we're doing, we're not going to port all of our big games, big single player games to PC anymore. We're not doing that anymore. Yay. They haven't said that publicly, but they are clearly moving in that direction as a lot of their references in their SDK and all kinds of other stuff. They're the references on their terms of service references on the store that say PC, they've dropped that stuff. So they're de-emphasizing it at the very least. I can imagine it's probably going to be challenging for them to communicate it a little bit because they don't want to make it seem like they're never going to release anything on the PC ever again because the multiplayer live service games will still be coming to PC. So it's just a specific set of games. But yeah, it does feel like that is really happening. So recent games that goes to the Ote and Soros are just coming up soon. Those are the first two to get marked as those won't be coming to PC. There is no plans to do that. So that era is over for now. And I guess how do you guys feel about that? And do you expect the change to continue to stick? It seems silly. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bummer. I mean, at this point, my PC is more powerful than my base PlayStation 5. And I'm not playing a PlayStation 5 Pro anything soon. You know, even something like a Soros, if I played that, I bet I'd like to play that game with mouse to keyboard. That is the game mostly about pointing and shooting at things largely. Yeah, it's a bummer to see that we're moving in that direction. I guess I kind of get it from their perspective. Like, why aren't we shoring up? Why aren't we really emphasizing the fact that we are a console company? Why are we dabbling in this PC space that, you know, that's a world where suddenly PlayStation isn't special. They are incredibly special in the console space. So I get again, investing there a little bit. I'm not going to be shocked to work back over here at some point in five years, 10 years, whatever, right? Places against being on PC more regularly again. I'm thinking less than that. I'm thinking three. Yeah. On the other side of the PS6, like, yeah, very quickly, like some of those launch games might show up on PC like a year later, right? I could see that happening. Yeah, depending on how I don't even want to say the words PlayStation 6 launch goes. But if that goes poorly or if availability, people's ability to even buy them is poor, then they're going to need to still sell the software so I could see them pivoting and being like, oh, you know, we're back on PC. Yeah, yeah. And I'll say a lot of people in the chat are echoing that exact same sentiment. I think that's the general consensus here is like once they get to the PS6, they'll reintroduce it at that point. It's, you know, it may take a little bit of time, but they will. All right. Speaking of PS6, report claims that the PS6 handheld will be more powerful than the Xbox Series S when it launches in terms of just raw performance and then anything involving ray tracing, it will be much, much better at performing. The PS6 handheld goes along with, you know, a standard PS6 and maybe a PS6S, a less powerful PS6 as well. All those things have been in various forms of reports about the next generation from Sony. But hearing like a general profile of how powerful this thing will be, does that get you guys more excited, prepare you more for a much higher price? I want a handheld PlayStation 6 for sure. Like that would be the most exciting for me, but it will come down to is this thing $800, $900? How expensive is it going to be? Yeah, there's just so many other questions. Yeah, the idea of having a really powerful PlayStation portable console, that'd be good. I would I would like that. It gets weird because like, you know, how many pillars of portable is I'm going to have? I'm going to have the switch. I need to have my PC portable and I need to have my PlayStation portable thing and all these things are costing $700, $800, $900 now. It's like choices are going to have to start being made. Maybe two out of three. Yeah, maybe maybe one out of three or none. But boy, being a three out of three household, that's going to be tough. Yeah, great. Especially doesn't help when like every time I see a new friend post about the AYN Thor, I'm like, I should have bought that. I should have grabbed that. And I'm feeling the foam of that. Yep. And the stuff is just going to keep going up in price. So it's like, yes, stuff like that. You kind of want to act and then do feel left out and you're like, oh, I didn't have to spend that money. I'm glad I saved that money. And then a week later, you get the desire again, and now it's $100 more expensive. All right, let's see here. Level five vision 2026 will be a stream that's happening soon to show off what level five the developer is working on. This is happening in April 10th at 6 a.m. Pacific Time, 8 a.m. That's not it can't be right. Sixth day in Pacific Time, I'll say 9 a.m. Eastern. That makes more sense. The stream, which will feature level five president and CEO, Akira Hino, is expected to provide updates, do trailers and release date windows for upcoming games like Deca Police and a zoom 11 are E and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam. Professor Layton and New World of Steam is what I'm looking forward to. That got announced a few years ago. We haven't heard much about it since. It does feel like it's time for that. And then Deca Police, and that's been in the works for forever. Yeah, I still don't really know what it is. I feel like I heard that name forever ago. Yeah, they've been working on it for a very long time. So it'd be nice to like, oh, these things are real and are coming soon. That would be exciting. But you know, none of this matters because gang, the streets, there's heat on the street. It's not just me this time. We're all clamoring for dark cloud three. Where is dark cloud three? Many people are asking this. Thank you, Dan. Yeah. Yeah. What's the last time Level Five made one of their like really big RPGs, though? That's something they were able to do a lot in the PS3 area. You know, could I too, as a PS4 game? But that was probably like 2018, though. That was probably even quite some time ago. Since then, I think they made fantasy life. I, which I don't know if that's exactly what Mike is getting at, because that's I mean, it's a big game. It is a big game. Yeah. New York City 2 is 2018. How about that? And then, yes, what's this Megaton series? A fantasy life in Izuma. Yeah. Yeah, they haven't made a big RPG in a big. There are. I guess fantasy life by that's something. It's a good game. Yeah. You can't make a dark cloud three on top of whatever is doing that. Right. Yeah. Man, shafts of the Jean Dark or the Ark for the PSP game was underappreciated banger. I know, I can't believe like the start of level five. They were like, dark cloud, dark cloud two. Then somehow we're making Dragon Quest eight. What? How that? Well, look, geez, he's had an incredible run on the PS. Then they get real Galaxy, John the Ark, then me after that, say, Professor Layton. And then we first saw what Night Chronicles. We all thought that was going to be a very big deal. That was like here. That was like the one of the early PlayStation three tech. Yeah. Looked amazing. It turned out to mostly be a bullshit. I also still kind of want to go and play Dark Knight. Why be White Knight Chronicles one and two at some point? There's a White Knight Chronicles, too. With you, Mikey. Let's be a 60 Metacritic. What? What is this? They also had the game that was most like the closest to overtaking Pokemon as like the big thing in Japan with Yo-Kai Watch. Right. That was massive. It was so huge for like five, six, seven years. And then to me, it felt like I fell off the planet. I bet it's still popular. It seems like it kind of like, yeah, that was since COVID. It seems there hasn't been a new Yo-Kai watch. So yeah, it looks like here's the thing. There's the thing. It's in the name. Nintendo doesn't want to listen to me. Valve doesn't want to listen to me. There you go, Jan. I'm on the streets and the steps of PlayStation. Yo, Jan, please give me a goddamn watch. Anyway, give a Yo-Kai watch. All right. The Super Mario Brothers movie, the Galaxy movie becomes or the series becomes the only animated movie series to open globally at more than three hundred and fifty million dollars twice. Both the Super Mario Brothers movie did it and the Super Mario Galaxy movie did that as well. This past weekend, the Super Mario Galaxy movie made three hundred and seventy two point five million dollars globally. That puts it just behind what the Super Mario Brothers movie did three years ago at three hundred and eighty seven point eight million. So just a touch off there, but that is a ton of money. It is just unequivocally massively successful. Yeah, this is what everyone involved was hoping for, that they could replicate the success of the first movie again. And it ensures that they will begin reinvesting in this stuff across the board and you're going to get a lot more Mario movies, obviously. But I like now it's like, oh, full gear into taking all these properties and make it a bunch of other a bunch of other Nintendo related animated stuff. Probably at elimination, Mike and Grubb, you know, you too. I've seen the movie. Did it seem like they positioned a character like Fox McLeod in a way that he could successfully have his own spin off movie just based off of the movie character alone? Yeah, yeah. And they're so even with Star Fox popping off like this and being like the movie puts over Star Fox big, right? Yes. So there's going to be interest. There's probably going to be a new game, even then I'm still like, are they really going to like make a Star Fox movie? I hope so. Might be more likely he shows up and stuff. It's like that Hawkeye thing, Jen, who'll show up on our movies. Maybe at one point get a limited run series on something Peacock. I don't know what that is. Is Daredevil the better comparison in terms of like Mario? I think I've had like a lot of shows. Maybe, maybe, I don't know. We'll see because it definitely is a highlight of the film. And I'm curious where all that goes. I mean, I'm kind of curious what exactly the third one is going to look like now because they really do hold very little back here. Of course, it's Mario. There is still a ton that they can do, especially now that the far Star Fox gate is open, you could just be like, I'm peeking choosing this one. There are also tickets. I don't know. Yeah, the post credits character, which I won't say who it is, but it's very similar to how they do stuff with Sonic where it's like, OK, the next movie is going to be about this character. It's like the first one with Yoshi and it's like the implication of that character is like, OK, I bet some other ones that are often related to that character will show up and it could be the new threats and stuff like that. So you could see where they go to just keep this going. It's going to be the same thing. A lot of references with just a new set of villains each time, basically. And this time was Bowser Jr. It'll be someone else next time. They could keep that going for a while. But I do I want to see what it looks like when they do begin working on something like maybe a Star Fox. I don't know if that's going to happen. They're probably going to try Donkey Kong first, see how that goes, and then take it from there. And if that does well, maybe we do get something involving the Star Fox in theaters. I want to see what's the Guardians of the Galaxy moment, right? Where it's a Nintendo franchise that the average person doesn't know about. And it's movie was a giant hit. Yes, it's a hit. All right, you know, tropics. I was thinking kid Icarus, actually. All right, let's like Paul Tano a lot. That's for sure. Yeah, let's get these last couple of stories. Stated Decay's three's 2020 Announce Trailer was just a concept. Studio Head says basically said in 2020, when they announced that game, it was just a word document and nothing else. But they had a trailer announced it back in 2020. Now it is the year 2026. And for the first time, it sounds like the game is going to be playable to people. They're going to show up with a a beta or an alpha. I think it's an alpha in May. So people are going to be able to play this game, Stated Decay three. Wake up your Brad Shoemakers. Tell them it's time to go back to Stated Decay. So the game is real, surprisingly. It's not one of those ones that got caught up in the Microsoft calling. So they'll actually release that game. I'm a little surprised that it made it through, but I'm glad it did. I have a soft spot for Stated Decay. It's a systems based game and I like those. Yeah, I didn't realize how strong of an audience that this game has. People that are into it are extremely into it. Mike Maharty is one of them. It is a very unique game. Yeah, our co-op, that is the type of thing that would be fun to kind of mess around with. Sure. Yeah. I would try. I don't think I've played a second of a Stated Decay before. So, yeah, I guess I should try one out. It's very much about like emergent storytelling, getting these characters. They have their own background and then that makes them behave in a certain way. And you try to get them to do things and like, oh, I didn't account for the fact that he's actually a dick and I shouldn't have done that. And then you kind of tell these stories and I like that concept. I just have never been able to fully click with one yet. It's the emerging stuff in the systems that does it for me where it's, you know, normally I'm not big into zombie stuff, but this one has its own hook that like got me to look past that and really enjoy it. I have a small specific friend group that is very much into this kind of like post-apocalyptic zombie world and this day's gone. Any of the Walking Dead games will appeal to them because it's like, yeah, I'm a tough guy. I could survive the zombie apocalypse. I think that this is still somehow appealing to those people while being kind of its own thing that people who just are there for systems can show up for. So, yeah, I'm also not super into zombies. So it's like, I think that's one of the things to push me away. It's like, I like this idea maybe in a different way, but you can see why the apocalypse works so well for it. It's funny because that same group of friends isn't into anything like dead rising at all. Like, dead rising is like too goofy versus the... These zombies shouldn't be laughed at. It's sad. Yeah. They used to have brains. I don't know if they think it's sad, but they think it's serious. It's time to take these zombies seriously. Dead inside. Speaking of taking people seriously, the Mass Effect TV show will reportedly be rewritten to appeal to, quote, non-gamers. Report. Yeah, I don't know. Report claims Amazon's head of global TV, Peter Friedlander, who has now become the last word at Amazon by looking at scripts and be like, I approve or I don't approve. He didn't approve of the Mass Effect scripts, which is going to start filming soon. It's like very close to switching over to production. Good sign. They don't have the scripts ready. Yeah. Yeah, he said, no, go back and make it appeal to non-gamers. And I still don't really know what that means. I've seen people like hypothesize that, oh, they made it to appeal to fans of Mass Effect. And if you're not a fan of Mass Effect, you won't recognize this character. And it's too inside for people who already are familiar with all the lore. That's like, well, that would be, I think that would be dumb if that's the way they were doing things. But that's not what it says. It says non-gamers, not non-mass effect fans. Right. Because like, like obviously, you know, like fall out and the last of us, the reason why they were big successful TV shows, because they did attract an audience outside of just that core fans of those video games. But it seems like they did that by just being really good adaptations of the video game thing and making the feelings of the video games. Right. Making those people happy. And then it's just so good and well done that other people discover it. Because, you know, if you go the other way, the end up with a halo thing where, oh, we're going to appeal to the normies and make, we're going to, we know how to make this more interesting and cinematic. Mastercheeks. Yeah, yeah. You know, well, you can't just have a character who doesn't show his face a bunch of times like, come on, then you really lose that core audience. It's concerning here because Bass Effect has very dedicated fans. And if they turn, if they turn on this thing, there's no hope. You have to have them on board with this. Do you think they, the original script may have been too science and sci-fi heavy that they thought it may not be unpalatable to the normal? It's impossible to, like, it could be that. But, you know, it could just be like, what's a garros? That's an alien, right? Like, I don't know. We just don't know what their issue is. Yeah, there's a strong possibility that this Mass Effect show will not have that many aliens in it. Which, boy, I mean, that's that was part of what was so cool about Mass Effect. When I first played it, it's like, you know, with a Star Trek, all the aliens just have to be people with the forehead ridge because it's TV and it's cheap. On a video game, you don't have to do that. And some of the aliens will look a bit more humanoid than others. But you couldn't really get a Rex in a TV show with decent, you know, visual effects. And now that we're still here and we're going to make this show, I'm still kind of like, how are you going to do that? And how are you going to make Garrison Rex look right? That's the other thing is that's described as a premium genre drama, like a like our pricey, excuse me, pricey drama. So they're going to spend a lot of money on this thing. And Amazon has spent like a billion dollars on their Lord of the Rings show and all this other stuff. And apparently it's important to Bezos to have these big premium shows. So they're probably going to spend a lot of money on this thing. Hopefully that goes a long way. Yeah. Unless like the original script was just very poorly written. This this right. Bode super well. I yeah, I don't know. I don't think it just needs to be appealing to people who like good shows. I think that's what they should do. And yeah, by being honest to the games, sure, they should. They can't fumble this one. This is kind of like one of the remaining big golden goose in terms of a video game property that could be a TV show. This is the one everybody wants. Yeah, you could see how it could work, but it could just as easily not work. I don't know. What about all the like, you know, 20 times they've super duper confirmed that the Metal Gear Solid movie is in the works and they've green litters script and. And that's in the works. It's basically in production. Yeah. And it's done for it every fucking time. The Bioshock movie is right behind it. Yeah. Oh my. Yeah. I mean, you know, a successful or I haven't seen it myself, but the Exit 8 movie was apparently really well received based off of the highest rated video game movie of all time or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe you lean into the zaniness of the property you're adapting. Yeah, definitely. I think they they're learning the wrong lessons if they're running away from the video game stuff by being like, oh, any sort of reference to a video game can't be in here because yeah, fallout very much worked on those on that level and it went a long way to making people more excited about the actual TV show. All right. That does it for the headlines. Jan, I'm handing this show back over to you. Folks, we're going to take a quick break and be back with the emails and super chats if we got any right after this. These are the emails. Emails. Bombcastgiantbomb.com is the email address to send your emails to right in about any and everything. We've been getting inundated with hella emails. I specifically made a note to myself to mention it here. We've gotten some weird emails. Good. Hell yeah. Good. I love that. Some of them make it onto the show. Some of them don't. I still appreciate you sending your emails too. And hey, you know, if anyone going through a rough time, we assure you that we over here at GBHQ are here for you to make sure that we help you get through the day. First email comes from Paul. This morning I got an email from Mike Minotti with a code for being a premium member. Parentheses, thanks. And I felt excited that my friend was writing to me. I've never met any of you and live on the other side of the world. Australia. When was the last time you got excited about a message from a friend who doesn't know you exist? Paul. Boy. Boy, that's pretty specific. Yeah. A friend doesn't know you exist. What? I've got it in there, but you don't know they exist, but they got it, but they message you and that's a pretty hard combo. I think they don't know you exist is the way you say it. That might be a super special, fun feeling that just you experience there, but I'm happy for you for it. I guess what? I know you exist now, so it'll never happen again. Wow. Oh, no. Folks in chatter. Oh, Kenny G. Kenny G. Yeah. Absolutely. That's a good one. Oh, I guess. That's true, actually. Never mind. You're not special. Logan Roy for me. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Why am I blind? There's Brian Cox. Yeah. Yeah. Brian Cox. Um, I can't think of one specifically. Yeah, me neither. I mean, maybe learning that like a celebrity listens or listen to any of the podcasts at one point that that always gets me going. Find out like John Super, I patch Wolf is a fan and H bomber guy is a fan. I'm like, oh, oh, shit. I got a tie in the ship a bit. Yeah. Right. Um, me like definitely like meeting some people at a at like Paxford's like, oh, yeah, that's just Dan Olson. And yeah, yeah, that's cool to see him. He has no idea I exist for sure. Yeah. I, uh, I thought it was funny the time Jose Canseco thought I was dead. I just posted the tweet and the chat. Jose Canseco somehow thought I died and tweeted a rest in peace to me and tagged me. Um, if he does still live the day that comes that you do die, I'm going to make sure that he's the one that announces. Please do. So, oh, no, I'm sorry. I'll do that for you. Tag me. He says, I'm sorry to hear Dan is dead. I didn't know a good, strange little man. Rest in peace, buddy. Hug for you. Just miss you, man. Miss you, brother. A good, strange little man is incredible. And right now, title of your memoir. Yeah. Uh, all right. Rob writes in, Hey, Bomborados, I'm visiting Chicago for a week later this year and want to soak in some food options that are part of the giant bomb lore. I live in Denmark where restaurants are annoyingly classy. So I want to get into the grease zone. Yeah. Just don't go to a portillo's or else you're a filthy kind of funny fan instead. Sure. You can't allow that. Don't be a best friend. Well, uh, be a worst friend. Exactly. A giant bomb worst friend. Yeah. Welcome. Uh, clear. I was going to say, no, no, no, enemies, giant bomb, sworn enemies. Yes. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Clearly I will order a Jets pizza on day one, but what other giant bomb canonical restaurant should I try to give me some good old Americana? Red Lobster, cheesecake factory, give me your go-to top five. Thanks and love everything you do. Launch look for life. Rob. I mean, giant bomb cannon, there was that entire, the packs that I spent the entire time at the Buffalo Wild Wings to the point where they gave me the like manager jersey and a name tag and I had control of the remote control in the restaurant. I still have the jersey. Actually, that was my referee jersey. Um, yeah. So, yeah, Buffalo Wild Wings. Those are going away. So if you can find one, go to one, I guess. Yeah. Not doing too well. Really? Oh, they're great. Yeah. Um, Taco Bell. I mean, I, I, Cheesecake Factory, you kind of have to see it to believe it. I think actually that one I maybe would try to do. There was a Margaritaville in Chicago. Ooh, Margaritaville. That's a good shout. Yeah. Specifically for this iteration of GB. Right. But, but if you're in Chicago, you should get some actual Chicago pizza. If you go to the touristy one like Giordano's or... Giordano's is good. It's... Giordano's is fantastic. It's, it's worth having Giordano's if you're a tourist. Yes, 100%. Do that. That was a little... You will find it incredibly American. Yeah. I find it obnoxious when people turn their nose down and something that's like if Giordano's is good pizza, yes, it's tourist stuff, but it's like a good deep dish pizza. It's a chain. Yeah, whatever. Get over it. Yeah. If you're a tourist, be excited about being a tourist. There's a reason that stuff is the tourist stuff usually. Chat really wants you to go to a rainforest cafe. I have to let you know. Which I guess is pretty canoccal. Just I won't tell you what you got to do there. But you have to tell you. Do you think anyone ever has been inspired by that story and did that at a rainforest cafe? I don't tell you what if you have. Don't tell me. Don't tell us. But no one's ever done that. We're in a weird email era right now. That'd be too weird for email. Yeah, that's actually too much. Guys, I already go through so much like psychic damage listening to all of the voicemails every week. Do not do this to me with. I thought you were saying listen to us. No, no, no, no. I'm part of this mess. Also, you have to go to a gas station and get hot dogs. And get a roller to Keto. Let's go to a quick trip. Get the roller to Keto's. They're great. Cheats. Um, Taco Bell, I think. Dan, you mentioned. Oh, go to a top. Oh, go to an RPC. You see it hard. He's just off. Get like one beef and cheddar. Right. That or just like go inside and just like, you know, like rub the counter and like bless up to it. You know, right. The beef and cheddar boys were here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's going on. Yes. Yeah. Sure. Yes. Um, what is the food that backlar likes that he can also eat? Does he like food? I don't know if he likes food anymore. Chicken. He likes. He likes chicken. He likes chicken. Oh, he likes chicken. Oh, he likes chicken. Oh, he likes chicken. Oh, he likes chicken. He likes chicken. He does. He likes chicken. He gets a glum in his eye when he thinks of chicken parm. Yeah. Uh, that man loves a dirty martini. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go get a dirty martini in his honor. Uh, extra olives, please. Uh, all right. Travis and Fargo writes in with five questions every week. I choose one of them. I chose the fifth one this week. What skill do you naturally lack, but have worked the most to improve? Hmm. Uh, I mean, I used to be almost cripplingly shy and actually bleeding on. Same. What? Didn't really get over that until almost after college, really, even. Even during college, I wasn't, you know, doing anything too crazy there. So yeah, just like actually going out, learning to be comfortable, being around people and being myself and developing social skill things like that. You know, that stuff doesn't always come naturally, necessarily, but kind of just work on it. And, uh, you saw it was like once you were eating your front, the mirror being like, how are you? Oh, no, not that. Oh, my name is what you're like, but you just go out there and you talk to people, you hang out with people and just develop that stuff. Yeah. Same with me. I was super, super shy and it was college that did it for me. And more importantly, alcohol, uh, that, that helped quite a bit. Uh, um, uh, running is when I was just not, I told the story recently about like having to call the mile in gym class because I was the one that was taking, we'll just put down 15 minutes and like fast forward to like the half marathon training and stuff. And that's not something that came naturally at all. And I just had to learn and learn through mistakes and injuries and stuff like that, which I'm still kind of working on. So, yeah, this year's going good. Yeah. Mine's like just being willing to not bother people, but feel like I'm not bothering people by, by asking them for something or, or getting their attention or something like that. It's like, oh, it's like, ah, they, there's no way they're going to want to put up with me and I just have to like get over that. Realize most people do not care. I just got to recognize that even my time is valuable. So is theirs, but I can bring value to them if I'm bothering them even. I haven't necessarily improved on this skill at all, but on the Filipino skill tree, there's two specific things that I'm lacking in. One of them, basketball prowess. Terrible, isn't it? Uh, the second one, exactly that grub singing. It's a, an Olympic sport in the Philippines. Um, and I, unfortunately, my parents didn't spec in that skill tree. Instead they give me Catholic guilt. Um, extra. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were like, you know what? He needs a plus four in this. Um, and I've tried so hard to sing well. Got so far. And, and you know, I've been told maybe my ceiling or maybe my like bottom, uh, my floor is someone's ceiling, but gang, I just, I'm going to let y'all know. The second I can start to sing very well, I'm going to be so fucking insufferable. All right. Oh, that'd be fun. Great. It's going to be built in all the time. I would never do that. No. Never. Never. Yeah. Come on. Uh, oh, no, I was singing. All right. Last email of the show, and we do get a lot of these everyone. So I'm doing my best to sort through them, read most of them. Uh, I'll try and forward some of them. If you have kind words to say for a specific member of the crew, uh, there's a couple that actually pertain to Mr. Backlar, but he's not here today. Uh, last email. Hello, G.B. parentheses. Gorgeous boys. Got a question for the bombcast. I'm moving from my hometown of Perth, Western Australia to London, UK at the end of April. My partners always wanted to live there. At 27, we felt that now was a good time to give it a go. I'm going to be keeping my current video editing job and working remotely. And we've already found a place to live. That said, I'm a bit nervous about the loneliness and isolation of being in a whole new country, especially when I won't necessarily have a place to go and meet people though. Besides the obvious stuff, you guys have any nuggets of wisdom for a first time mover. I mean, it's just a, you know, you just got to jump in the water thing. I mean, I've done it so many times across the country and every time, you know, I wouldn't take any of them back. No regrets. And like, and you can also leave if a place doesn't click with you. Like I, I've liked every place I've lived except for San Francisco. And that's why I got that idea. I've liked every place I've lived except for San Francisco. And that's why I got the fuck out of there after two years. So like, you know, if you go to London and it's not for you, go somewhere else. But give it a shot. Give it an honest try. You know, you'll probably find things to love. You'll find things to miss about home. But, you know, hopefully you're in a position where you can travel. Like I always go back to Kansas, New York, places I've lived that I enjoyed. But yeah, nothing's permanent. It's true. Yeah. I think it's right. Just start, just start doing stuff. Get up, like get on the Facebook communities, the reddits, the, the better for your neighborhood and stuff like that. Just see what people are saying and, and become a part of the community. And then if that, if it's not your vibe at that point, you know, you tried it, you did some cool stuff, you will almost certainly probably make friends and have cool experiences and that's all part of it. So yeah, go for it. A difficult thing because you will be continuing to work remotely is just finding the motivation to go outside. And I'm a big advocate for clock the fuck out at some point during the day. Like Grubb said, go find some type of community and that could be even in a coffee shop that could be in a local dive bar, a local sporting stuff. I'm sure it could be a local gang of vigrant cats. Exactly. Roman the street with them buying. Yeah. Actually volunteering is also a major thing. So, you know, if you are a cat person, a dog person, maybe go volunteer on the weekends at a shelter that could help out and help you introduce you to other folks that you may mesh and vibe with. And then you're going to London. There's going to be plenty of resources and shit to do out there. It's like, yeah, it's not like when I moved to like Danbury, Connecticut, that can be a little tricky because like even someone is social and outgoing as me and everything, it's like, I'm in Danbury, Connecticut. I looked, I tried. There was not a lot to do. But London, London is going to be great for that. Yeah. I mean, also two very great suggestions here. I mean, if you like, you're into games, you know, you email this podcast. If you're into tabletop stuff, I'm sure there's like a board game shop out there that you can meet people, maybe play magic if you're into magic or other table, table, top stuff with. And I love Will's suggestion. Join an improv class. I am dead set. I think everyone, no matter what your career aspirations are, should at some point in their life, take an acting class or an improv class because it just gets you out of your shell and you know, you're moving there with a partner, but then you'll wind up befriending a bunch of people that just want to bang each other. And that's just fun to witness. That is great. Yeah. That's what that's what it's all about. Yeah. Yeah. Before we get to YouTube super chats, we were, this is the third time we've had this segment pop up. Jeff Grubb, I want to guess that ad. That's right, everybody. We're going to do the game show within a podcast. Guess that ad. It's Jeff Grubb's most famous game show where I show you an image from a magazine ad from the past. You tell me what the game is. I have to this time in case this goes by pretty fast because I there's a chance you guys just get it right away. I'm turning off. I should. Yes. Yeah. Turn chat off. I am putting it in our chat here, but you guys can also see it on the stream. Oh, fuck. Okay. So I'm going to describe it real quick for the audio listeners. Right now I'm just showing a very small segment of the ad. It is a bubble that has someone saying, blow me exclamation point. And that's all I have so far. Is it a Kirby? This is not a Kirby. All right. For some reason, the image is failing to load for me. Is it tied to the NES? I don't think so. I don't think it would. I'm going to say no. Blow. Is it a bust a move? Just based off your description. Blow. It is not bust a move. It's a bubble. Oh, bobble thing. It is not bubble, bubble. I'm guessing this adds between 1995 and 2000. Let me look at the corner. It's a yes. That was you're right. That's like peak blow me suck it era. Yes. Yeah. Where it keeps it all blowing. Blow. Blow. I try to think it was a DS game that you blown to them. Like no, not if it's 95 to 2000. That's right. You're right. I'm laying in 64. And I'm trying to. April 1997. There you go, guys. April 97. This comes from an issue of ultra game players. Oh, OK. That's PS one. That could be 64 Saturn possibly. So definitely that 32 64 bit era. Um, it's not bubble. Boy, boy, I thought God damn puzzle. Bobble was my best bet. I'm going to get that. I think we'll still do still do the second one. I think the second one will actually be easier. So I'm getting a picture of that right now for you guys. And I'll put that in there in a second. All right. So let me see here. You guys have guessed a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Well, it's the platform. Yeah. Let me see. Let me double double double check. Make sure I say the right platform. Balloons. This actually is a Windows version, but the series is on a lot. The series is on a lot of platforms. OK. Windows release. I guess. No, he doesn't blow anything. It is. This is not guess. Just think about vibes. All right. I'm going to see. Let me get this other one here. Oh, so it's confusing. Below me. I was trying to like a balloon. Any information. All right. For a candle. See here. For you guys. And I'll put this in the thing a second. Here is a second thought. Or a text bubble. It says your toast. This time the color of that background on that text bubble is green. Balls 3D. This is not balls 3D. Is there a character that's there's that candle guy and beating the beast. So they're beating the. He wouldn't say. That would be. Way before this. You wouldn't. Blow. Not with this font either. No. Your toast. Like what is going on with the. Someone on fire. There's a there's a fire. There's a breath. There's an air thing going on here. Wait. Is it a clay fighter. I was wondering. It is not. I was thinking that because there is that ad where me and Mr. Frosty is blowing out the Mortal Kombat candles. That's why I was thinking. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. OK. Now. It's not. It's not. Boogerman. Shit. No. Boogerman. I think. Is this. Over. A pick and flick adventure. Not a blow and suck. Is this. You're over thinking it. Early for twisted metal. I don't remember the time. Just a metal one was like 95. This is not twisted metal. Or over. It is a multiplayer game. Mario Party. It is. PC version. Not. Oh it's when. It's when. Yeah. Of course not. Windows version. Multiplayer. Online multiplayer. It might have online but this would have been pretty early for that. That would not have been the focus. It's certainly a couch co-op game. No. No couch multiplayer. None of these. Worms. Is it a worms. It is not worms. Bomberman. Even though none of these deal with bombs. It is. Bomberman. He did it everybody. It's a atomic Bomberman. What is a. Bomberman. Okay. I'm gonna get the full ad for you guys. I had a toy Bomberman the PC. Shit I should have known this. That game was good. Yeah it was the PC one they made it was cool. Yeah. No. Atomic Bomberman I think is the PC port for like Saturn Bomberman. Is how I understood it to be. Okay let me see here. That game is good. Man. Okay so I got a picture of this one. I think it's while you thought we were gonna get that from this blow me bubble. I got. There is. You did. Did anyone in chat get it. I bet they got it right away. You said we needed a backup because it might be too easy. Listen a character just saying blow me just soundly blowing up. I just figured you guys could get it right away. Okay got it. Hang on let me post this one here to our I'm gonna have to post it in content planning it's on my phone real quick. Bomberman disappears. Some folks they get it apparently. Man man I'm the nostalgic for atomic Bomberman holy shit. All right let me describe the second one real quick while I post this to you guys I'll send the image to you in a second. I'll just go ahead and put it on here. It is it's kind of horrifying it is a bunch of skin and there are several mouths with different colored tongues sticking out of the mouth. It is the Game Boy Pocket. Pocket. Okay. Yes but very close yes Game Boy Pocket. Before you even posted the image to us. Yes before I posted the image. Yep. Here you go. Jesus Christ. Yep I remember that. That's terrifying. Yeah that's right. That's right. Game Boy Pocket. There you go. Yep yep yep. All right well done that that was guess that game add or whatever we call it. Thanks for playing everybody. Grub Gasser I believe. Grub Gasser there you thank you for playing Grub Gasser. We'll be back with a new one next time. Back to you Jen. Fantastic we're gonna go play a quick game of hot potato because I'm gonna pass this back over to Mike Minotti to hit me with some YouTube super chats if we have any. We do and I'm gonna load them up right after I log back into YouTube because I accidentally signed out. Oh gosh I gotta get a verification code texted to me so I can log back in. This is going fantastic. Hold. All right now come on let's see who's gonna do it. Yeah you do. Well okay do it but be prepared. I was gonna ask you guys how do we feel about people who use our super chat thing for self promotion. That's. You could do it this time but this is the last time. How about that. Sure. Yeah. That's that fair Mike. That sounds very yes. No yeah I got cute cute you found you found a loophole there but we will not allow again go ahead Jeff Simon from Saskatchewan there's got to be a Blake Club worthy game that Jeff has to play that with that light gun of his right by you Billy has sections box art is incredible. I do have a setup. I can do that. Geez I did. Gosh I was at some point watching somebody play something they described as the worst light gun game ever. Because yeah. Yeah. So that's a shit like even that. Screen yeah. I will say. That it sounds like it was very unpleasant for Will to watch along because of all like the light gun flashing that happens. A lot of it. Yeah. I there I can with there's a solution for that when you guys are watching this long I could send you the OBS feed that is going to take out a lot of that flashing. So pretty pretty good tech there. Zombie pouring. Oh no evil Jan killed business Dracula Jerf. What can I say you know. And you as the podcast goes further along Jan you're looking cooler and cooler. It's so fucking moco baby. Hell yeah. He almost certainly isn't wearing pants right now guys I'm so worried. I'm not happy. Martin Hollis Grubb said games will never get prettier than Doom 2016. I didn't say that so they don't need to get prettier. Another podcast said design won't surpass Witcher 3. What do you see as being the next jump. We're going back to light guns. Light guns are back. OK. Connect is back. I mean they're better. Look I know I'm not going to really probably be that into it but there better be something about Grand Theft Auto 6 that's impressive. Yeah I want improvement to the intelligence of enemy characters and characters you interact with and I don't I know they're all going to be like AI now but I just I like the idea of the stuff being programmed and having emergent stuff that happened from a human programmed algorithm or something like that. I want improvements to just logic and things to happen because I interact with a character and they want to go do something and had ramifications. I forgot to talk about this during the game segment. I checked out Marathon. I'm trying to do the whole Rook thing. Yeah. That came as so much fucking swag. It does. Yeah. We maybe need to at least stream it one more time on this. I would do that. Definitely. I would do that game. Fuck it. Bugs. Anyway. All right. I still don't know how grub to your point to how impressed I was in Medal of Honor for PlayStation one that you throw a grenade and some of the enemies would take off their helmet and like jump on it. Oh my god. Yeah. It's crazy. And I just and I just want that stuff to be OK. Can we extrapolate on that with these more powerful CPUs that can do all of this reasoning? Hopefully yes. That would be great. All right. From big fresh 37 Dan now that you don't hate Pokemon anymore. What would you ever give give a try to legends ZA it's not turn based. I don't think I ever hated Pokemon and I just never I would say like it was interesting necessarily. Ah. I don't know. I don't think anything out of that one. Dan. I think people were talking with the Arceus was that the one that's the sequel to Arceus right. Yeah. Correct. I people were talking big about that one or the Breath of the Wild Pokemon. All right. I'll try it and it just did the fucking thing where it's like I felt it was like two hours of me talking to idiots in a town and I didn't do anything. Sure. I'm good. Yeah. So it's OK. Now I like things. Yeah. Yeah. Again that's never been for him. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a snap holocaust. Stadium. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh games. Yeah. For sure. Martin Hollis is back says also the Mario movie is bad but my five year old loved it. Yeah. I definitely had a similar experience. I liked all the huge parts. Yeah. It's just like how you know kids like the minion movies right. These are these are the movies by the minions people right. Yeah. Exactly. Flobo Tron says to celebrate the start of a sparrigus season thick crust pizza with sliced ham asparagus and sauce hollandaise plus cheese tomato base of course. Yay or nay. So they laid it out. The crispy slice of a lot of sparrigas hollandaise sauce which is the cheese tomato base is what they're saying. I would try it. I would try it. I don't hate that stuff. Yeah. I don't like hollandaise. It's fine. No. Oh hollandaise is OK but a Bernay sauce. Which is holiday adjacent. Oh that's the shit. A good Bernay sauce. It's got that. It's got that like I don't know. There's something about that almost tastes a little marshmallow eat to me which sounds crazy but I love it. From Jeremy Hervey. I think that's right. If you guys come to Indianapolis I will give you a dozen of the best chocolate chip cookies you've ever had. Is that a threat. I mean I'll just the kind of threats I love right there. I don't like to look at the road trip map. Indianapolis. We could easily dip down there. No that's a dip down. That would add a lot of time. It's a dip down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean if you kind of like begin to swell yeah. It's a lot. OK. Yeah. It's I veto it. OK. There we go. All right. Well we should we should not have given him veto power over the road trip. He's going to just cancel the whole thing. Yeah. We haven't announced exactly like where people will be able to hang out with us. There are some details in the works. We're moving putting stuff together to maybe have a community meet up. So we'll let you know. Yeah. There's as we know more. Obviously it's a road trip. There's going to be a lot of places we stop and stay and go have drinks and dinner and stuff at. But there is one specific thing I'm working on as far as like a actual real deal community meet up situation. So stay tuned on that. But it's coming together quickly. All right. Let's see here from Amy Winehouse of Leaves. A while ago y'all were complaining about no ski games. Hear me out. Baby steps but L one controls left ski held two controls left pull. Same for R one R two. Fuck. I know I love this idea. I would love this. Any game where you could control all the limbs on a character. That's I love that so much. Yeah. So give that to me. Reb Valentine is probably one of my favorite people in games media. Right. She's great. Yeah. I highly suggest folks go check out the article that came out last week about baby steps fans think that that game might be a covert uncharted sequel. It's uncharted five. Look how the people have spoken. Reb is great. But I got to say there's something I saw pop up in the last couple days were one Yelix Alex Perry great games media fella a friend of mine made a post about Ocarina of Time. I don't remember if you said it was mid or he said something along those things like oh is this blue sky a safe space where I can say that Ocarina of Time is mid or something like that. And she was one of them in the games media space that was like oh yeah. Yeah. She agreed. She just played that a little bit ago. Yeah. In the last couple months. Jesse Vitale said the same thing. I know I know people are just disappointed me left and right here. There's no comment. I know I know. Chat of the Wild says the new season of the Zelda podcast is live tingle. There you go. There's you got in there and at a fair rate too. That's what it's. Yeah. Zombie porin says how does Dan feel knowing he's friends with the famous preeminent Mario expert Ben Hansen. No one in Minneapolis knows more about Mario and Nintendo. Oh man. Don't want to put some of Ben's messages on the spot that he's told me about Mario. It's pretty funny. He's the guy doing the local news rounds as the Mario expert. He was on Game Mess Mornings and he was trying to get me to be like that. Mario wonder right. And I'm like no I like that game and I forgot just how much of a I don't get Mario guy he is. So yeah. Yeah. OK. I'll just have to think of something higher profile to be a Mario expert on. So I'll get him. Dan is pathetic. You're not going to be able to figure out anything. Vivrin says why is Bakal are the bad guy in a zombie movie and it's dib that has to take him down. Dan is dibs pet zombie in all of this by the way. Oh man that actually super tracks. That's great. What was the first part. Why is Bakal are the bad guy in a zombie movie and it's dib that has to take him down because he doesn't like anything. Oh OK. And then like dib is plucky enough that like no I see the good in the world still pop up. Yeah it's kind of like back. Lars the big boss and he's it's kind of solid snake. Yeah back back. I accidentally created the zombies with his son and a 3D printer accident or something. Yeah. The 3D printed a zombie and then it affected other people. Pax East his own woke Gabba Gullboy who said hi at the show says idea for a karaoke slash musical game feature. Le Mitch. Do you guys remember when we were leaving dinner in Jersey that one night. I think it was last year and he was just belting. I was like a back and forth like singing to himself and back thing. I think it was from Le Mizz wasn't it Mike. It was a confrontation. I was doing both sides of confrontation. Right. Like man like me can never change. Man like you can never change. No. Two four six oh one. My duties to the law. You have the rights. OK. I would be two four six oh one. Now the wheel has turned around. Jean Valjean is nothing now dare you speak to me of crime and the price you had to pay. Every man is born of sin. Every man must choose his way. You know nothing. I was a bear. I was born inside a jail. I was born with scum like you. I am from the gutter too. And then the other character just read dialogue. All right. Right. That is the other the other character. He does a different thing during all of that which I will indulge myself in. Here's the thing I was telling Mike before he got going in that car ride. I know the other character and it's more impactful as a duet as it's written. And then Mike just kept going. I've been looking for somebody to do it with her so I told you twice now. The I don't think the people realize how much of a no off switch guy Mike is. It's incredible. Like we took a break between the news and the games. Mike you didn't even realize this. We were all talking about like there's some logistics actually about the road trip and I was bringing up like OK check the discord Jan and grub check this out. So we're talking about like oh what do you think about this this this Mike doesn't have his headphones on so he doesn't know we're having this conversation. He's got his Disney calendar in the back and he's changing them up. He's just yelling and we can pick up on it. Oh it's Minnie Mouse. My oh it's a Minnie Mouse. It's like trying to have a business talk. I am still staggered from the idea that Mike's singing seven stands as was him not indulging himself. I know. I'm like what does that look like. Think of me. What you will. Do you think I'm smart. Remember when he was tired. Right. Oh no this is what happens when he gets more tired. Stop it. You need to smile. He's searching in. From macro perilla they say what are the chances we can get minimalist small logo merch. I'd love more clothing that I could wear to work. For now I'll buy the kind of funny merch. Wow. Do that. I'm like what. Do that. Like I know I see what you're doing there and it works. Yeah. It's going to be a new merch drop suit or a buddy. I'll try to include some. Yeah. I just mean that GB logo. Yeah. Something that doesn't have a picture of or the word bomb in it. I get it. That being said. The golf shirt does have a picture of a golf ball instead and that's pretty pretty small. Yeah. That being said I have seen folks clamoring for the OG red giant bomb block letter hoodie again. We're going to see if we can bring it back. We can do that. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to try. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We just want to make sure we get as good of a hoodie as we did for that one because it was just that one has lasted so long. Primo. I don't I want to do right by it. Make sure we don't don't make sure our partner comes through. So yeah. We'll do what we can there. But but yeah. All right. Last couple of super chats here from me guess I fell asleep. What did I miss. All right Mike start the podcast over. No. No. I tell everything that happened. Oh I'm sleepy. Dan's like haha Mike's sleepy. And I was like how dare you call me out for being sleepy. Dan's like I want the people saw the Mario movie to talk about that. I'm like yeah it's you know whatever it's the Mario movie. So we should talk about video games. Dan had a video game where he typed something. Isn't that interesting. I was like yeah it's kind of interesting. I'm not going to get involved in this conversation. Typing video games. And then I said Mike you decide like oh it's my turn to talk. So I talked about a Virtua Fighter for a little bit. And then Jan said I could go to the bathroom and I did that. I switched my calendar and it had a mini mouse with a bumble bee on it. I'm like that's nice. I can't believe I didn't switch that until just now. We're already a week into April. That's my bed. That's on me. Jeff wanted to talk about the video game news. And a chronic dream is maybe not going to make a Star Wars game after all. And the Mario movie made a lot of money. So that was nice. And then Jan was like oh you guys need to take a break. And I'm like I got to be a little bit but like everyone else doesn't want to take a break. So that's OK. We can just go into the next thing there. And that's that's when Jeff showed us the video game ad and it was like two words. And he's like this one's pretty easy. No we had no idea. We disappointed us. Then I remembered about Atomic Bomberman. Then Jeff said that he thought it was a port of Saturn Bomberman. And I'm like that's not right. That's not right. I looked it up and that's incorrect. This came up before that. Oh really. Yeah. Yeah. So another another grub. Yeah. And then I was like emails Mike you got to read super chats. I was like oh crap my name was said again. I have to do something. Then actually click the button where I got signed out. So those are Jeff came in and he read the super chats instead. And I think that's what's happening right now. Sean can you do me the biggest favor and cut that out and put that at the very beginning of the podcast. Yeah. Right after it happens. It's a premium only. John wants to know is Pokemon tonight combat going to be open to all. It's just like Wu Tang baby it's for the kids. It's for the kids. That's what we're saying. Yes. Absolutely. That is all the super chats. Jan once again back to you. Mike what just happened. I think the show's almost over. Yes that's correct. Boys what do we got going on for the rest of this week. Game this morning is popping off Wednesday Thursday Friday right. Correct Amundo dude. That's right. Speed about Pokemon Monday night combat. Sean and I are dusting off the gym to check out the launch day. Perhaps looking at the launch of Pokemon champions with Pokemon Monday night combat. We're going to nail down a specific day that's going to work best for the both of us. And after that Dan heads back to space our own space ace in the lightning round blink and you'll miss it. 40 minutes left. 40 minutes left baby. We got voicemail dump truck popping off on Thursday as well. And then for premium members out there we will not have marry me Tomodachi due to scheduling errors we will instead have a discord town hall if your premium member come in go hang out go go hang out by the water cooler will bring muffins. And then Friday to end the week on professional Fridays most likely will be popping off with a grab bag. If there's anything that's been popping off that you want us to take a look at and you think would work well in a UPF just holler at your boys. But after this after the giant bomb cast is wrapped a new episode of nine lives of Mr. Mustafa fleas just for you premium people out there and speak about premium people for the folks that still need to be convinced you want to taste you want to taste of all the stuff we've been cooking up in the premium kitchen. There is a poll out on YouTube and as well as Blue Sky for which video we will unlock for you folks at home. Let's see. I I'm gonna it's my bold predictions here that I think the Irish who wants to be who wants to be a millionaire may win that poll. It is a banger of an all timer episode. Yes. Incredible. It's a good wit bam. That's right. That's what they're calling it. The titter wit bam. That's what the kids on the streets are calling it. That's right. That's right. Boys anything else popping off. Oh, oh, I would be remiss if I forgot and I almost did this Saturday. The community is embarking. They're hitting the streets for a community endurance run. More info to come. A schedule will be announced soon, but you can go to giant bomb dot com slash endurance and you will be able to view those streams from there. Hang out. We got a lovely community that loves helping other people. So help them help other people. Boys anything else going on this week? No, I don't think so. I think you covered it. Hey, you know what? I'm John. Jesse Vitelli's mom watched the packs East. Well, true. So why haven't you? That is true. And why isn't your mom? Come on, everybody. Get your mom. And why can't you tell me find a nice girl at one of these things? We listen. The next one could be setting up. Just tell me correct me if that is the most mom comment. Of course, guys. What are these things? What is in games and just like seeing a pack? What the fuck is this thing? I don't remember. Vitelli often makes his way out to Pax West, right? But Pax East next year. What if we have a speed dating panel? Yep. And we've come up to for a member and it's just for Vitelli. Like we don't tell. We don't tell Vitelli. It's just for Vitelli. We do the dating thing. Two words like you got the dividers up and everything. Yeah, all the questions. I'll host it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah, I can do that. All right. Folks at home. That about does it for this week's episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. He's been Dan. He's been Jeff. He's been Mike. Shout out to Sean for editing this show. Shout out to Will. Shout out to Chuck. Shout out to Jeff Beclaw who's out on assignment today. I've been Jan. We love you. Good boy.