Pokemon Pokopia Is a MUST BUY - Gamescast Plays

Be like me and head to factormeals.com slash kindoffunny50off and use code kindoffunny50off to get 50% off and free breakfast for a year. Eat like a pro this month with Factor. If you want to get our shows ad-free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com slash kindoffunny. What's up, everybody? Honey, welcome to A Kind of Funny Games Cast Plays for Pokemon Pocopia. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Christmas in March, Joey Noel. Hello. It's here. It's finally here. Finally, you can experience this game along with us. I love that so many of you have been jumping into Pocopia. My feeds are filled with people in there. You've started convincing your friends to buy Switches and play it. Lots of money is being wasted, and we love this. I'm so sorry. I'm still trying to talk myself out of going to the Nintendo store today. Why? because I should play more video games at my desk. I'll have to leave even earlier to go to the Nintendo store, but they got the Dittos. They got the Dittos. Oh, because all the ones that are different Pokemon. Go get a Squirtle Ditto. The Alolan Vulpix one is so cute. Sure. Of course, Pokemon Pocopia is out today. You can catch our review over on the Kind of Funny Games cast from Monday, but the streaming embargo is up because it's out. You can play it and you can do it. So Joey and I thought we would jump into our games, maybe after the ad break, jump into Joey's. See how we're vibing and go from there. No promises. But before I even go, we have to make a lot of things clear, all right? A lot of things. So like 35 plus hours played of this game for me. I love this game. As I was talking about in Games Daily today with Mikey, I have to settle in that Pocopia is a marathon and not a sprint. Yeah. You are in the first biome with me. We're going to do spoiler free. Obviously, I can't control if somebody says something, but like spoiler free, This first area still looks like trash. It's messed up, it's still totally screwed up. I'll walk you through what's going on on it, but I don't wanna be judged for having a messy area. Okay? Is it pristine? No, my opening area is so disastrous, nobody has a house. Okay, great, okay, okay. Just beds everywhere. So right now, we're just buried, buried, burrowed into a wall over here. Well, first off, hey, Sub, this is my ditto. Named him Ben, because we started it with Benny, of course, every Ben character eventually kind of starts to look like me. And so when I found, hey, that I had a nerdy outfit I was able to locate, I was like, well clearly I gotta start rocking that. I do have several other ones, of course, as you play this game and you go and start unlocking different areas and different, they're collectible based. You find notes and you get different outfits based on that. So I've collected quite a few, but I do try to stay in the nerdy outfit, because I feel like it's the most me, if you will. I got this chair that kind of looks like a Mizzou Tiger chair. I was wondering, I was like, did you decorate it find it like that. No, this is how it is. I can't, I can't, I can't, you gotta love that. It feels like it needs to be in your house. Notice you don't have a bed. No, why would I? This falls into the Animal Crossing thing, you know, in Animal Crossing, I made it very normal and then I saw people doing exciting things and I was like, oh, and they used to give me shit because I had a bathroom. Like, why did you build a bathroom? I'm like, I don't know. It's a house. I'm like, so unnoticed. Why are there so many bathroom things in the game if you don't want me to make a bathroom? So Animal Crossing, oh, sorry, For Pocopia, right, you gotta make the Pokemon happy. And you have to put the Pokemon places to make them happy. So yeah, I just drilled into this wall at one point. That's so interesting. And I was like, let's just make a big space that I can, you have to put down three pieces of furniture for a Pokemon to come live in the house you build. So I did that. If you're thinking houses, to build them, all you need is this foundation level around the floor and a door. So you do this little bit and slam a door on it, they count that as a house. Doesn't even need a ceiling. You'll see in maybe some of my other places, I just have the foundations in that. So that I could put- You kept telling me that, but I was like, I could not like wrap my head around it. Wrap what I was just talking about? Yeah. So then you do that, you throw down three pieces of furniture, you can put them in there, and they're happy enough to live there, and then you can start doing their own things. Which is nice when you're like resource light at the beginning. Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is the first section of the game for Pokemon, Pocopoeia. So interesting to see where everybody else like is building and doing it. Yeah, so- Because the maps are the same. So exactly, yeah. Everybody starts with the same biomes, right? and then we tear it apart. When you start up Pocopia, you will start off in this cave where you meet Professor Tangrowth over there that we just saw waving at us. His stuff's over here. He gives you a little rundown of like, I don't know what's going on, but nobody's here. What do we do? And then you come out and start your journey into this world. And again, as Joey's saying, off to the races on what you kind of want to do with it from there. So you can see what I have done. I do have my first gigantic house here ready to go. So I'm pretty stoked. Oh, you saved it for us. How exciting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So of course, Timber's here, you know, there you go, dinner. The Leafs house all done, you gotta check it out, it's super awesome. Here comes the big reveal, drum roll please. Not me neither. Oh, this looks cute. Yeah, I'll put some stairs in front of it, obviously. Before this, on this wood platform, I had a very similar, I just tossed in a foundation and we're able to go. But now I have this beautiful house that again, I'll have to put some stuff inside of, so that I can tell, hey Pokemon, why don't you come live here and be happy, but you see. Ooh, this is like a multi-room kind of thing. Right, like they- Ooh, an upstairs. I haven't built one of these yet. And that's the thing. I don't know how many people I can put in this house, but I'm pretty sure I can put a lot, which is nice. How many do you have in yours? Wasn't it four or five? I think it's four or five over there, right? Yeah, but I'll talk. Let's see. I don't know if I plan for it. I got a bed. You make fun of me, but again, I'm just going to toss the bed down. Make these Pokemon happy. All right, now have a chair with me. Got some stuff. Got a table. Okay, I think I'll be okay. Here, toss down the plain chest. There we go. Once you get the little jingle jangler, you're like, okay, cool, I can do this. Then we can pull out and see who we got. I went upstairs. Nice to have two levels. I know. Very peculiar. Very interesting. I'm sure the people who are going to create, create, create out there, the psychos, the people I'll be watching and Instagram favoriting. I know. The people that use those sidewalls to build rooms within the room. I'm always just so impressed. I only put four people in this house. So yeah, like. That's so interesting. Charizard, I knew that. Sorry. Number one Pokemon fan. Ben's been running today. We've been doing a lot of play set stuff where Ben is playing Pocopia with Legos. Oh, fun. So Charmander is there. Today, Jen built Charmander a volcano to live in. So I got Charmander on the mind. Got my boy Squirtle over there. Is he into this or is it like a little too slow? It's not really a ton of engaging gameplay, I guess. My son is amazing. And for even being a four year old, understands concepts bigger, such as what an embargo is. And that daddy needs to play this game without him. So it was like, we had a good couple nights there with it. Like Friday was the first day with it, right? And it was like, perfect, here, come play this. And we did it. And it was like, I think we played a bit on Saturday, or maybe it was like he woke up Saturday and I'd already moved on. And I was like, listen, I got to review this. I got to keep moving. And he was like, oh, okay. And so he hasn't been, let me see it, let me do it, let me blah, blah, blah. And also the fact that during the week, video games are usually a treat. So it's like he hasn't had that much, he hasn't actually played that many games at home to really be like, oh, wait, why am I not playing Pocopia? So we'll see now that the gloves are off. if he wants to be in it more, or if he's just like, oh cool, it's kind of gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because I guess it wouldn't be... It's doing chores, so I don't know if that's a fun thing. I mean, this is the fun thing, right? Of getting... Of running around with stuff. Let's put down the habitats and get Pokemon to appear. He was obviously super stoked that Eevee would eventually show up and how to get her to go do that. Yes, you have to be smelting. I'm gonna grab all this out of there, I think. You have the big smelter. Ah, yeah, well, come on now. Have you decided that this is like your main hub for building and storing things, or what is your plan? Yes, but it won't be permanent, I don't think. Maybe it will be. I'm eventually gonna build something for all of this. I felt, I feel like, you know, there's such a utilitarian part of Pocopia, where you start and it is about unlocking the next thing and doing the next thing, you know what I mean? So it's about shoving them and getting the Pokemon centers up and running. So, Pokemon Center has to be here, correct? Yeah. I just want to make sure, yeah, that was already here, and obviously when you get to the other levels, they're gonna be there too. PokeMart, I was able to put where I wanted, and everything else, but it was like, alright, well if I'm right here and I'm doing it, I'm gonna build this here. But yeah, now I've kind of settled on, this is where I built all my initial Pokemon habitats. And so you still see lots of people are here. I made these little leaf huts just to shove people in. So now it really is that idea of like, okay, okay, if we're gonna make this into a town and I'm gonna make more houses like this, more cottages, this is gonna be the vibe for this place, cottages, right? Then it really does come down to, all right, let's get everybody out of these things over there to where they need to be. Bulldoze all of this, maybe have some flowers. Fix all the pathways and stuff like that. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like, this is what I'm talking about today on Games Daily of the marathon bit, where it's like, okay, I love this game and I have now beaten it, in quotes, you know, in Credits of Roll, we reviewed it. I have to move on to other reviews, even though I just want to sit here and pour time and time and time into it. So my thought really is going to be that I'm gonna now take it biome by biome and just sit. And like, so it'll be like everlasting gobstopper here of let's get section number one to where I'm like, you know what, I'm happy with that and then move on to the next thing. But again, with them like, you know, next week dropping the first activity of three exclusive Pokemon, I wonder how active it's going to be to get me back in and get me off where I normally am. So it's not just in biome one, right? Because if you were to click, I mean minor spoilers for names I guess, but it's out there already, right? Like you have all your homes that you can then jump to, right? So the four biomes they give you in the game and then your area that is your playground, which of course I need to be smaller than that. Yeah. So yeah, there's a lot going on and I need to slow play it and that's just not who I am. You know that I'm the binge player. So it's like, I really think step number one is going to be, let's get all the Pokemon into homes. Let's get homes built and let's figure that out what that's going to look like. Because again, I like the idea of coming in. Over here we have the ocean, right? The wide open ocean of like, okay. Wide open spaces. We're going to make big mistakes. Where you can kind of come in as the town comes here and you come up here and it just opens up into Pokemon Center. I probably, even like that, you know, I want this to be dead on straight. kind of like Washington Monument, like the mall kind of thing. So I would imagine that I'm going to go here and just go straight through and smash out to the water on that side. But again, I'm talking about a lot of time, a lot of effort. It's like, I don't need to do it all right now. I don't need to do it all right now, Joe. I know, but you could. I could. I could ignore everything and do this all right now. There's so much space, too, because there's the other two sides and back. Or do you want everybody in front and front? Ladies, gentlemen, and NB. Yeah, so one of the things I've talked about about this game is how many games in one I think it is, but then also how large it is. So again, as I just showed you, right, we're in Withered Wasteland, you see the map over there on the left. When you look over here again, now there's four versions, all different biomes, right? But even that said, like, come with me. All right, just go with me on a walk. We're going on a tour. This is again where we set up base camp, we had a great time or whatever. Then, you know, I did my Minecraft-y ways and smashed through this wall over here. And then you just open up and it's like another, even better town. Where it's like, oh shit, and they already had the thing up here so I could get electricity going. And it's like, oh no. You know what I mean? Oh no, this is what I thought was the, it's kind of like a Futurama, when Frye stays in Bender's apartment and then Bender opens the closet, but it turns out that's the real apartment. Oh yeah. So it's like, oh no, where it's like, I have all this stuff over here to play with on this side. Or you jump over there, I think, I don't know if, I'm so unfamiliar with this side even, right? Yeah. Because I'm on the other side, I'm going to fix this water. Oh, yeah, you got to do this. Well, I did it, but I don't know what it's like. Then we got, you know, you're mining into this section over here. Oh, I haven't knocked down that gate yet. Oh, yeah, I can do that. I didn't have the right. I don't have the food, I guess, in the right there. Yeah. Like, this cuts over here and you go. But, like, this is the thing where it's like, I feel like there's, there is so much of this game that is unexplored. and it's so crazy to think about the hundreds of hours of content that are here. Yeah. We talked about Jordan, talked to Jordan on the review of like, what was it, 130 hours, 120 hours? He put up his thing today, it's 130 hours. Like, it's crazy to look at that number and realize again, you're going to have so much more if you like this stuff and you want to commit to this stuff. Like, I think there's so much more here than Animal Crossing and that's not me knocking Animal Crossing, I love Animal Crossing, but when we're sitting here talking about what you're really about to get into. Like even this, again, I've played so many, I missed this, I didn't do any of this. I didn't come through here, right? That's crazy. The story of this thing, so good. So good. I haven't finished it yet. I told you already I cried. Yeah. Yeah, you were here for it. Jesus Christ, the ending of it, so amazing. I texted Jen yesterday, or Slack, or whatever, and I was like, I'm crying at the end of Pokemon, she's like, oh my God, what happened? And I wrote like, listen, I don't want, I can, I'll tell you when we're together tonight because I won't do justice. Made her cry telling her about it. Oh my gosh. You know what I mean? Granted, we're big softies or whatever, but like this game is so fucking cool and so fucking special and there's so much to do. Oh, god damn it. Yeah, go get them, Ditto. Yeah, I need to go back and read a lot of these things because oftentimes I'm like on a mission and you see one of them, it's like, get out of here. I think it's so interesting too because so much of this world also reminds me of Donkey Kong Bonanza in terms of like, you can just endlessly pound and get cold. Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. There's no real limit. I mean, there are limits, but not really in terms of like what you can't go through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To like tunnel through everything, which was like the thing that got me stuck on Bonanza. of like, what do you mean there's endless gold and this is gonna break my brain. This is bad for me, yeah. Yeah, the ability of what this game is and how it works. I powered up cut, right? Again. It doesn't have to be punch. So much stuff I've done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Powers up leafage. It's just one of those my casually carrying the food I need. Yeah. Again, I wish I could carry more stuff. You can carry a lot, but I wish I had access to everything. There's a few different things that like, not quality of life, because I think it's all good in the hood, but like, just little stuff like that that I would love to do. Yeah, I would love if all the boxes were connected. Yeah, that's my biggest one, I think, because it's just annoying of like, okay, where did I leave? And again, back to what I'm talking about with, all right, cool, I'm gonna commit to this area. That means I'm gonna go to all those other ones and bring everything to me. of like, okay, cool, let's get this set up the way I want it to be where it's actually just focused on this world. Yeah, that's what I'm doing right now, but I have my home base set up in another, not this world. So did you keep one home base or did you move all over the place? I had home bases everywhere and then it was driving me nuts that I couldn't figure out where anything was. It was like, I know that I have a pencil cup somewhere and where did I put the step stool? And so I went through and moved a bunch of my stuff yesterday just because I couldn't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore! Yeah. There was one thing where I was trying to get my habitats all done, and I was like, I can't find it. You were like, do the, oh, I want you to show me the printer thing because I couldn't figure it out. Oh, sure. Let me do this real quick. Yeah. And so then I was like, forget it, I'm done. I'm bringing all my stuff together. You had enough? Yep. Not doing this again. But yeah, it's been very fun. In a waterfall here, one of the powers you will unlock. Perfect, now I got the water. Oh, you gotta get out. It's one of those, you know, I thought this was fixed a long time. All the little things where you're like, I would assume that this is how it's set up. Clearly it's not. Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. So I actually just do this myself, right? Because I need the water up. I'm trying to break it down. That's not what I'm going to do. Oh, you need to bring the... Yep, bring the water up all the way around than down. I was going to say, I always have sand. Again, something I meant to call it in the review that I don't think I actually think, for as big as it is, being able to stack 99 or whatever is so nice in terms of like, oh cool, okay, you can put this all where you need it to be. Yeah. I feel like even though I was upgrading my stuff, um, like my backpack and stuff pretty often, I was surprised at how often I didn't have to deal with unloading and loading. Yeah, totally, totally. But, because they all, yeah, having four pages of inventory is uh also very generous at like the max upgrade level why does this hate you no i mean it's doing it right what is your so is your next plane of attack to like get your town set up are you trying to, and that, because I feel like mine is, I want to get all of the habitats set up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my plan of attack, personally. My town is my setup, yeah. Okay. But that's the thing is, I know how this is going to go, is that I'm going to get distracted. Yeah. And that's what's been the best part and worst part of reviewing it, right, is just like, well, what about the shiny thing there? What about that? Just getting pulled from one direction to the other, to the other, to the other, where it's like, I really do want to fill out the Pokedex I really do want to build out that town So inevitably I know I to come over here and then get into all right where am I putting all these Pokemon Like I should be working again when you throw open your Pokedex itself and look into your habitats, right? It shows you what habitats you've found and then, yeah, if you've registered a Pokemon off of it. So, you see... I love that the green circles tell you if they're done right off the date. The green one tells you you're done and then you click on this one, right? And it's like, okay, I still need to go over there and get that one grayed out guy that nobody can tell you who he is. Same thing here, right? Where it's like, okay, you gotta go build these and make that. So it's clear that I could go do so much more work with it and get out there and then really fill out, of course, the overall Pokedex here. It's crazy. Oh, you have so many more than I do. Yeah. Well, I think it's because, you know, I'm so, I'm like a little psychotic about when I see the, oh, I should run over there and go, okay. Yeah. Ooh, hold on. Yeah. And then... There's a mystery gift out. I forgot how to do mystery gifts. You go in here right into this. Where's the one we did for the online thing when we were trying that out? No, I think you have to go to the center. Poker center, you're right. We'll do that and I'll show you a thing. There's a ditto mat. Bath mat or format or whatever to go get. They were talking about today in the article. So anyways, yeah, my idea is to really, really double down on making this look nice. And I say just this section. and really focus on this, and then probably go to that other section, unless I figure out like, okay cool, that section's already got cool shit going on, which I love, so it's like, okay cool, now I need to figure out where am I putting this, where is my actual workspace, how do I wanna hide all that stuff? Yeah. Oh, I wonder too, I don't think I ever turn my review server off, that's gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a problem for me. We won't go into how to do that on camera. That would get me in trouble, I'm sure. Can you not just check Mystery Gifts with that? But I think it's still pinging the review kind of servers or whatever, right? Yeah, yeah, so I gotta go do that. But if you are playing everybody, Mystery Gifts, go there. You can get it with it how you want it. Okay, let's show you inside the Poke Center. Eventually, when you open the Pokemon Center here, you have a whole bunch of different things. First off, new items every day from whoever's here. You have to have somebody who can work the cash register. You come in here. You might say, well, what do you trade for currency and all this stuff. I think it's very cute. I like it too. You don't have currency in the game, instead you just trade items. So you come in here and you need 2,000 points basically. So you come in and go, okay well, what could I trade you for points? And you see that one of my barrels here is 300, a piece of twine's 10. What I usually use is honey. Oh. 100 a pop, and I don't know about you, but I'm swimming in honey. Yeah. You build all the habitats, you get so much honey. You can take honey to Vespiquen, right, and trade her three jars of honey per item she has every day. She has exclusive items that you get there or whatever, but you can only do that certain amount for a day, so there'd be so many days I had like 40 jars of honey in a jar or whatever here. I just get put in a box. Over here, of course, you can come here and heal your Pokemon like you would with Nurse Joy. Of course, you are a Pokemon, so you rest and fill in all the bars you're using for cut, for punch, for smash, or whatever, because if you notice, yeah, your PP is refilled. But you see that bar above rock smash down there in the lower right. But one of the things I think is cool is this. So you have this 3D printer here, right? In games like Animal Crossing, you might go visit somebody's island or see something and think that's really cool. And they have to wait for the store to have that item. With this one, you can go in here and take photos of things you liked. For instance, I like this stained glass window. So I took a photo of that, right? You come in now with the photo you've taken. And when you're using your camera, it tells you what your stained glass window upper. It shows you what you're doing. Oh, got it, got it, got it. So then you take it, then you come over here, and you use Poke Metal. You go, okay, 3D print me one off of this. It says, oh, yes, and gives you the item. That is fucking awesome. That's incredible. If you want to talk about, like, really a, hey, what are we doing here to be different than a million of the other Animal Crossing, cozy game sims, whatever. Like, that's such a nice way. Now, you know, Poka Metal there might sound like a hefty price. It's not. You're swimming in it. Where do you get it? The mines. The mines have it. I was like, why can I not remember? The Poka Metal, they have gold. They have silver. They have the mysterious blocks. I don't even know what you do with. Oh, the sparkly blocks. Yeah, exactly. Those are so fun. That's the house that I want to live in. I want to build it out of the sparkly blocks. I had seen it earlier. I think a lot of chats are coming through. We're not having a chance. Please keep asking the same questions if I don't get to it. People were asking about, like, is there a post game? The post game is the game and is continuing to make habitats for Pokemon and fix up your towns. Because you're not catching everybody and building all the habitats before. Yeah, unless you're crazy. Yeah, you could do that. I don't know what Jordan Midler did, that's psycho. But yeah, you can go and do that. That's the post game. But as I said on KFGD today, no spoilers. I think they set up the post game so well. It's not changing, but they give you context for why you'd still do it. I was like, oh, that's very nice. I like that. I like that. Of course, we're talking about what you're doing in this game. You build the habitats to get the Pokemon to pop out, to be there, to then have, you know, various different reasons to be here. We've talked about it before. We should do one. You know, Drifloon will take me to the dream island that I can go plunder for resources. When you are doing stuff, you want, like, obviously, fire Pokemon, right? Like our friend Charmander. because, of course, you can come here and say, hey, Charmander, you know what? Oh, yeah, I was going to say, hold on. I have squishy clay. I need you to make bricks so I can leave the squishy clay with Charmander who will breathe fire on it, make me 20 bricks that I can then use for other stuff. It's the same thing for, yeah. When you go and put up these environments, like you saw me reveal the house over there. Yesterday, I brought over like seven different Pokemon to build that house, and some of them had very specific reasons to be there. That's why it's, you know, you want a diverse selection of Pokemon here to go do it, let alone keep them happy to raise the level, which is a different part of the game, but we'll get there in a second. Because I'm still trying to tell you the number of games that are in it. So obviously making the Pokemon appear, so you collect the Pokemon, using them to go do stuff over there and build out. Then you have the Pokemon Center PC here, right, where you jump in and you have your challenges, where you go, okay, do all sorts of stuff, which is as simple as collect sticks, gather twine, these are the dailies, but then you come down here, right, and it's like, okay, go find Pokemon, build stuff, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. That gives you the points that you see up there in the top right that you can then go to the shop. You have daily items here that are here only. I gotta get that Pop Art chair, I'll tell you that right now. That ain't getting by me, that looks great. Pop Art bed I have, yada, yada, yada, round pillar recipe, I try to buy all the recipes just so I have them and I can always craft them if I want to. Super Chat, not able to catch this live, but I wanted to ask Greg his top five favorite, Oh, favorite, oh, if my top five Pokemons have changed after this list, I will die for Ditto now. I love fucking Ditto. I thought he was a creep before, a big old weirdo. I love this little guy so goddamn much. That's so cute. So much right now. And also, you know, doing this one and starting Leaf Green, new respect for Squirtle. You know, I've always respected him as an OG, but I was never an OG player, so it's like I don't know much about it. Anyways, here's the rest of the stuff that goes on. Yes, there's a lot of stuff for building. I was gonna say I might still have one here. You also have these that are permanent upgrades to your peepee, so you can have more. There's also item inventory upgrades and stuff like that. You also see like, there's stuff that's locked behind levels. I'll show you when we get out of here, and of course, you can come here by a big cottage or a leaf house, all the different building sets that I have. City house, I think, is my favorite. But it's like, I wanna keep the biome separate. You know what I mean? I accidentally built some leaf stuff in not the leaf place. Oh no. What are you going to do? I'm leaving it there. Maybe at some point. You're like, I ain't got time for this. Maybe at some point I'll do the move relocation thing. I haven't done that at all. Yeah, me neither. I'm sure that's going to annoy me. Why? I just wish I could pick it up and move it. I get it. But Animal Crossing kind of did a nice thing, remember, where it was like, oh, you've rolled credits. Now you can paint and do stuff on the floors and whatever. I like that a little bit. I also, I guess I haven't tried bringing Pokemon from other biomes to live in different ones. Yeah, I haven't either. They followed me over, right? And I was like, okay, cool. You can do that. I would like to have all my faves together, maybe. So you see environment level up there. Five is like the story-based one where Tangrow wants you to get that before you really go on. But you know, you can move on at your whim, whenever you want to run it. So you see how the Pokemon are feeling today, what they're doing. Obviously the idea is that I'm supposed to go up to them and ask them, how are you doing? What, here, go over here. Eh. I say, hey. Onyx, what's up, man? Wait, I just changed my outfit. Before you came here, I was still a sailor. And I was like, I don't want to be a sailor. It was just whatever. You ask them what their comfort level is. They want a decoration, right? And so then I take a decoration to their house and that makes them happy and it goes up and then the environment level goes up. You know, when we first started doing this, and even, you know, like I was telling you before, you know, it's, the stories really get them to five or whatever for like, you know, what Tangrowth wants for a major quest. But then on the daily items, there's usually one locked behind level 20. You're like, God damn, all right, so there's a lot. There's a lot to do in this game, right? Like I need to go do. Yeah. I'm taking the shot that I have the decoration in here. I often do have a decoration. I know, I feel like you always end up with like something on one of the pages. Something weird, right? What are you doing with all your CDs? I hate that I don't have like a good. I give them to DJ Rotom. But he can only have five. I know, I know. So then as you can see, I'm just sitting on a bunch. A bunch hanging out here. Like I don't know what to do with this. I usually have a wreath on me, but not today, so. Not today, tragic. We'll be back, we'll make him happy. Milso with a Y says, is there storage in this game like Animal Crossing? There's storage in this game like Animal Crossing with the chests. Storage like your home where you can just go in and drop shit? No, there is not that. You can also just drop shit on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll switch it up. It's so interesting to see what things you have that I don't have yet. Oh yeah? Again, I feel like it was, I know how much, I actually don't know how much interior decorating is gonna speak to me in this game. That's never my thing for Animal Crossing or like any sim game. Yeah. With the Animal Crossing update in the hotel rooms, it did inspire me to be like, oh, this is fun. And so I went and did Happy Home and started really screwing around with all that. But then of course I knew that this was gonna come and then here we are. So, but with the amount of houses, I really don't know if I'm gonna get into the weeds of doing it, I'm way more interested in making the outside of everything look good. I agree, and there's not like a ton of furniture that I'm like in love with. Yeah. So obviously there's like a lot to play if your stuff is locked behind level 20. Yeah. So I'm hoping that that's a part of it that they'll keep expanding, and I imagine they will with like the events and stuff that they have planned, but. I don't feel particularly inspired and there's not like a huge range, especially compared to how many you have to set up. Yeah. As you play the game, you dig out very Animal Crossing, you ask fossils and artifacts that you have to come show the professor here. He'll then tell you what human artifacts you found. Mystic water. Can we go see your PokeMart when you're done? You can, I'm gonna tell you I'm disappointed. I still don't have anybody working there. Oh. And it's one of those of like, I threw that down thinking that was going to be a big like, oh. Thing. I'm gonna do this and it'll all populate like the Pokemon Center did. And it didn't. And I'm like, oh, and I was in the middle of the review. I asked Midler like, what's going on? He's like, well you have to have somebody who has the merchant or trade skill. And I was like, I get that. And I don't know if it was this smart. that might've been the other one. But one of the people I had had the cash register on them. So I don't understand it, but I think it's just, I need more Pokemon. I need somebody, but it's, we'll run in there, but it's just barren. There was nothing in there, which was a bummer. But again, when I found out it wasn't what I needed because I was looking for a very specific item. And he's like, that's not even where you get that. I'm like, oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, I mean, I haven't even moved the table from the habitat, you know, I'm just- You're just throwing stuff down. I'm just throwing stuff down, but I think, yeah, it's still, yeah, nobody's in here. He's there, but he's not, like, there's nothing going on, right? I think he's just trapped. Interesting. That's so weird. Guess we'll find out. I know, we'll have to wait and see how it goes, yeah. I assume it would just have the counter with items. Yeah, that's what it's supposed to be. When I was talking to me, this one over here doesn't have electricity. I was like, oh, maybe that's part of it. But again, one of the other ones, I put electricity over by it and didn't do it. Yeah. I was like, huh, huh. But again, I was like, I don't have time to worry about that. It's a review. Yeah. The electricity thing is what makes my biomes like truly a disaster. Oh, really? Poles everywhere. Yeah, yeah. So, like, they have electricity. Did I have it? Oh, it was the other one we saw over there. Let's jump to the second biome. We'll go to Bleach Beach. You can see it. I find the electricity so ugly. Yeah, it's not cute. I was hoping we would get a, oh, here you go. This is how it's going to beam wirelessly or put the wires underground. It's like, nope, you just have these giant fucking poles. They're not even cute. No, I agree 100%. I would like to see them fix that. There is a bit of the rustic charm to it because of course, what the fuck do Pokemon know about running electricity? Like I get that, but it's like- Yeah, that's very much the- In the world we just came from, I'm very much like, I don't care. Like Bleak Beach story-wise, you have to go and get- Oh, Pokemon. There's a Pokemon in that trash can, everybody. Let's go find them. Who are you? Are you? Who are you? Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. How many different Pokemon are in the game? Oof. Who knows, yeah? I don't know. I have no idea. Yeah, I already had, you know, Trubbish, so I guess I don't know what I was expecting here. It was coming out of the trash, but there it is. What was the trash? Out of the decks. You know, you look at specialties here, recycling and litter and stuff that they can do for you, right? if you can hand them stuff. Do I have... I thought I might even have waste paper on me. Looks like a note. No, shit. Oh, no, there it is, I have 22 of them. Ooh. You have a cubone yet? No, I saw what I need to get him, but I haven't done it yet. Make some paper. Missing Link says, It's crazy how many systems are in the game. It's so much more complex than I thought it would be. 100%. Which is why during that Pokemon Presents, me and Tim reacted to, I was like, this might be the game's worst show. I was already playing at that point. I couldn't say it. I was like, this might be the game's worst showing. I'm like, this made it look, and I understand different audiences, but it made it look like such a kid's game. Where it's just like, wow. I would look at that and be like, I'm not playing that. But I understand that I've been up to date on everything everywhere. As you saw when I came here, I unlock challenges just because I don't fully get, they tried to explain in the very beginning, but I think it is that every PC has its own thing, but I think in terms of challenges, but I think they're tracking things you do outside of just your, it's very like, it wants you to go check in everywhere. Here you'll see I have everybody, I'm still short, these two guys, so I need to make more Pokemon habitats. Well, scroll over to them, because you don't need, or you don't need specific ones, I think, I think if you have anybody with those two. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Oh, do you not have anybody with those two? I don't have anybody with those specialties on this world. Oh, interesting. In this biome. Could you bring the other ones over? Maybe, but again, it's that thing where it's like, I have other polka centers open, so it's just like I haven't worried about it. This one very much, I don't know if it'll impress you, but I've worried about refixing all the roads here. That is. All the bridges were fucked up here, and I was like, I hate this. I hate that just hitting it once breaks it, and there's no way to fix it without taking it out and putting it back in. That's just annoying to me personally, but. Oh, we got another building to review. Oh, there's a new person. Lots happening in my world, everybody. I love this fucking game. Just if it hasn't been clear, I love this fucking game so much. I'm so interested in what the multiplayer's gonna be too. Yeah, we can try it. We could. We could do that. Chat, if you wanna boot up yours too. Well, we probably can't, because we probably both have to be out of the reviews. I could pop it out and fix the server thing real quick just so nobody sees what I'm doing. There you go. And see, here's another one I don't fully get, right? That, I'm sorry, what was that? Oh, yeah. These ones build with furniture. Did you notice that? Yeah. What's up with that? The other houses I do. I think it's, is it not based on size? But the big one I just built, right? Nothing, I guess. I guess. Go back here. New Pokemon. Who are you? Iroga. Is the way to undo that thing? It's in that document I sent you. I think it's the exact same way, we just enter in a different word. Okay. But I don't even remember what the same way means. I was like, I couldn't tell you. You hold some buttons if it were a certain. Yes. Complicated. Why you gotta go make a thing so good? Dean says Greg have you played much more FireRed or LeafGreen or has that been on the side because of Pocopi and other reviews Sorry if I missed it No you have not missed anyone else asking that question I have seen it on the subreddit and the Patreon Gregway questions I seen it too No, sadly, I played LeafGreen with Tim on launch day, and then was right back to playing as much Pocopi as possible for review, and now I am on to Crimson Desert for review. So, sadly, this is the job. It's an amazing job that I love. Thank you for giving it to me. But no, I have not had time to get back to that. I still want to. Loved it, but I imagine at this point I probably I would say I probably restarted I probably understand where I'm at in terms of doing it, but so I'd want to do oh here. We got a quiz Let's raise our friendships here. Here goes What's Zubat's most favorite thing hard stuff or nice breezes? He flies Kevin Yelson are from the other room. I would agree with the hard stuff or nice breezes is the question though I'm gonna say nice breezes he flies That's right. I guess you can tell these things. I guess you can't I guess you can tell these things Huh? Yeah, I can. Here's your prize for doing such a good job. What did I get? And our friendship went up I got a carrot. Love a good carrot There's Breeze yeah Oh, he could see through it. You're thinking too hard. I appreciate that answer. I understand what you're saying Who we got? I'm getting this Pokedex filled out, folks. It's happening. Tut, tut. Oh, he likes the tuts. Blaster Goblin says, I have yet to hear someone explain exactly what you do in this game. Is it Animal Crossing? Does it have quests? What the hell is this game? Did you just walk in? I've been explaining the whole thing, Blaster Goblin. What do you mean? You don't understand. There's a storyline here of you coming and then making, trying to bring Pokemon back to the world. And of course the professor thinks that if you help bring the Pokemon back to the world and the Pokemon help rebuild the world, the humans who are missing will come back. Where are the humans? You'll have to play to find out. Yes, there are quests. There are like individual Pokemon quests. There are like world or biome quests. And then there are some like bigger things that kind of are just general big game things, which I have not finished yet. Marnell says, there's a story question mark? There is a story and it made me cry. I just love Ditto so much now. I know, I was really hard on the character style, but it's grown on me. Yeah, me too. I was watching people react to it. I was like, oh, I remember this feeling that way. I forgot why we originally came here. We came here to complain about the power lines. Oh yeah. See these things, I just, I don't look at that as ugly. It's like, you know, it's like the sunset here, which I never noticed until Jen called out. Like, the sunset's so ugly. San Francisco, the sunset district. Oh, got it. Because of the thousands of power lines. And I'm like, as soon as she did that, I was like, why did you make me see that? Yeah, you can't unsee it. I've lived here for a decade plus. I've never noticed that from living in the sunset. And you've now ruined it, where every time I look down the road, I just see line, line, line, line, line. What gameplay is better, Pocopi or Dreamlight Valley? Great question, Joey can answer. They're different. I think that there are, I mean, Dreamlight Valley has a much wider array of items and stuff like that. I think it's more fun there. I don't love the quests as much as I like them in here. I think because with the expansions all coming together, sometimes the story feels like a little bit more broken up and it's hard to catch up on everything. 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Doing a quick little shimmy shake here on the old Nintendo Switch. Show the entry so I can spell what I'm doing here. You know what I mean? Yeah, sometimes with the passwords, you just go in blind and you hope that you press the right buttons in the right way. Evan G says, oh, that's not the right person. sorry Evan G, Ken Jr. Have either of you played the DQ Builder series? I have. Shockingly, I have. And I've talked about it, and the Vita, and yada, yada. I don't remember it well. But I remember playing it, enjoying enough of it, blah, blah. And if somebody asked the other day if I had ever played it, it was like, not condescending, but kind of condescending. And I was like, I'm just going to Google it. It turns out, yeah, there's a Gamescast review. That's me, Tim, and Colin. And I was like, oh, so we did cover this enough that I... You played it, played it. Well, it's because it's one of those funny things right where... Why is this just a black screen? No, it's doing a sling, right? You have to turn it off. There it is. No, I already did that. I already did that. I was at a black screen rebooting Pokopia. There was a... This is such a deep cut that nobody would know. Tim and I did a gig at GameStop Managers Expo. And Nick and Colin were there too. but it was that one of the things Tim and I did specifically was like one year we ran their live stream or whatever and another year we did like breakout rooms. Yeah, me and Tim did the breakout room. Maybe it was the same year, it doesn't matter. We did a breakout room for Square Enix and so what it was is that like six times over two days, so like six, it's twelve total. We would do the presentation and talk about all their games and there was like a script and a presentation And one of them was this rant I did every time about Dragon Quest builders coming to Vita. And so before I knew Dragon Quest as a player now, because I play it and enjoy it, the Dragon Quest song I knew from Dragon Quest builders being pumped into this one thing while I told GameStop. Ooh, somebody else is there. GameStop managers nonstop is outrageous of what was happening. That's such a funny connection. Who are we going to get? Someone good, someone wet? Oh! Someone wet. They're in the water! You're right, I understand, it's just a funny way to say it. I don't consider Meryl wet, but I don't actually know anything about Pokemon, so. You live in the water, you gotta be wet. You know, water, fairy type. I guess so. The oil filled's hail functions as a buoy, so it's fine, even rivers and strong currents. All right, you wanna try multiplayer, Jo? Yeah. Do you wanna, what do you wanna do? You wanna come to my island? You wanna go do a thing over there? You wanna, what do we do? I'll come to your, let's see what coming to your island looks like. We're coming to America! And actually, yeah. Oh, no, I can do it. We're coming to America! Well, I wanna, now I wanna get my free ditto rug, too, before I forget. Also so interested, because I got Meryl what feels like really early, so I wonder if they spawn in specific, specific ways. Look at this. Obviously by the biomes and the habitats, but I wonder if it's RNG for who spawns first. Okay. Yeah, loading in. I think this is one of my, oh no, I think the third biome is my favorite. I like aspects of the fourth one, but I really hate other aspects of it. Mmm. Ooh. I have a lucky day. That's exciting. Okay. Sorry, I'm also getting my rug. No, you do the right thing. Folks at home, if you want to come join, there'll be two extra spots. So as long as you let Joey get in first, which with the delay should be easy enough, as long as Joey's ready when I do it, come on and join us. Come hang out with us. Is it a friend online? The code? Yeah. Inviting others to visit your world. You can invite other players in your town to show a boss. Other players can also help you develop your town. How do you want to connect? Online connect. We could have done local, but it's more fun for you to jump in if you wanna come jump in. Display the link code, yes. Players, yes. Start in the right. Spectator mode I'm not worried about, but I can't touch it, so here we go. Here comes your code, Jo. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. We're gonna do online for the first time. Because I'm interested in what I would be able to do if it's like Animal Crossing or not. There you go, mm9w53. Um, like can I harvest stuff? Can I use my ditto powers? On your island, how does this work? I'm interested right now. Joey's coming to visit, great. So closing the connection kicks you out. Like if I hit B, what's gonna happen? Okay, okay, great, great. I'm on my way to Bleak Beach. Somebody earlier asked if you're more drawn to play this or Leaf Green when you have spare time. There she is! It's me! Hello! I like that I get to run around like the kids in weapons. Finally get to use all these little emojis. Oh yeah. That's a great question. Ooh, I can order stuff from your shops. Oh, that's cool. That's real good. I feel like I'm more drawn to play this because I've already sunk so much time in it. There's so much still to do. Leafgreen I like, but I've also played several Pokemon at this point. So it's like, it's a fun throwback to what it is now, but I mean, I'd rather play Wind and Waves and I also always can double back and do Scarlet and fill out my decks and yada, yada, yada. there's a million things I could go do. There's also something to be said about like the zeitgeist of the new game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is just a little bit more fun, especially as everybody's discovering stuff and playing, and I'm sure people are unlocking cool things that I didn't know existed. Yeah. Now, can you get it in your bag? No. Interesting. So then bringing multiplayer over is just hanging. We're just running around. Huh. Well, that's not as fun. I guess I can talk to your Pokemon, but I don't know. That doesn't really do anything. Oh, invite Pokemon you meet while visiting other players' towns, and they might come and visit your town one day. I guess if you had Pokemon that I really wanted, I could come invite them. I don't remember who I have and I don't have. I don't think I have you. Come hang out with me next time. Hold on, Joe, come take a photo of me. Oh. Oh, that's better. I don't know how to change my expression. Yeah, I don't know how you do it. Maybe that. Perfect. There we go. We're killing it. We crushed it, everybody. Good timing. Okay, well, that's not as exciting. Yeah, this kind of sucks, though. It's like, I mean, I thought we were gonna get to keep building and doing stuff. Let's try doing a cloud island. I set one of those up a long time ago. Ooh, okay. Here. What happens if I close the connection? I think you just keep me out, right? Wow, yeah. The host is about to close the connection. Please finish whatever you might be doing. But I can't even do anything. You know, running around seeing things. Yeah. All right. Cool. And then the same thing for you, everybody. I'm gonna open this up. You can, I have a kind of funny island that we named that I've never done anything on. If you come and join us, feel free to come and join us. Yeah. Get ready to jump. I am. They play Cloud Islands. I'm still getting kicked out. Oh, you're still getting kicked out? Oh wait. Cause I don't know what it's gonna do right away. Okay. Coming to America. That's not what I wanna do. You gotta go to the PC room. It's okay, it should be on your Pokedex, I agree. Sometimes I just forget. There's so many buttons. Yeah, 100%. Go to a previously visited club. There you go, kind of funny, order, Ben. Okay, we have three visitors. You are the other, would you like to change this ending? No, depart with the current settings. Can you confirm the address, link, PC, got it. Here we go to the cloud, let's see what this is all about. Duke says, would you recommend this game as a good reason to get a Switch 2? Buying a system for any one game is silly. That's a lot of money for anything. However, I adore my Switch 2. I've only been playing my Switch 2 this year, as you all know, it's been a joke slash a real thing. I love this fucking thing. So I think you are eventually going to get a Switch 2. I'm always worried it might cost more money as the world continues to be the world. So I would definitely say, hey, oh, this a little, this Pokedex, oh, oh, oh. Oh, that's kind of fun. Okay, oh, yes, ditto, thank you. Let me go in here and then Joe and share the island. There you go, 9XLPNGY9. Love it. Everybody feel free to join us if you're here. You're eventually going to get one. It might be more money, and I think I would never buy a system, with the exception of when I bought an SNES just for Mario World, to buy just one game. This game's fucking awesome. So, like, yes, I think you are well within reason to buy this and start your Switch world, your Switch journey with it. And hold on. Shops on cloud items. You can also buy items from a cloud PC. Though purchase items can't be brought back to your world. You'll still remember any recipe you learned so you can craft those items even if you leave. Okay. Seems kind of foolish. Yeah, especially if you have any interest in wind and waves, is that what it's called? Yeah. Or like something down the line that you know you're gonna buy one. It's always the juggling act, right, of like, well, what if they, you know. A special, yeah. Better battery, this, that, the other, X, Y, and Z, like I get all that. Or like I'll always be sad that I didn't buy the Animal Crossing Switch one. I was just, we already had it. I know, I was like, it's not a responsible thing to buy. I was so close multiple times. I know. I'm glad I did it. I got kicked out again. I already went through. Can you bring it back? I'd also might have timed out because I forgot to press confirm. Dude, the amount of times this game, like are you really, really sure? I'm like, yeah, do the thing I asked you to do. Whoopsies. There you go, nine XL, P-N-G-Y nine. P-N-G-Y nine. Mark and Gass. That's not the, oh, that's the address, not the link code, though. Oh, all right, you ready? Yeah. X5DF52, sorry everybody, we're learning together. X5D. D. F52. F52, I was like, why are there not enough spaces? Mark and Gass says, Greg, as you played Resident Evil 9 on the Switch, are you gonna try other games like Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Pragmata on the Switch. Baxter's coming, they beat you already, Joey. Great question. Monster Hunter Stories, I did play the demo on Switch 2. If I pick that back up, I would play here. But I don't think I'm going to. Like the demo, I was like, okay, this isn't exactly what I'm looking for, and I'm so into this, and then the other games that are coming are coming so quickly that I just don't think I have time for that JRPG in my life. And then- It's nice that it doesn't give you like a loading screen. Yeah, because no game should Animal Crossing. No other, no other multiplayer game does that Animal Crossing. You know what I mean? As much as we love the scenic view of the islands, it's a major, hurt off sucks. Don't do that. And so then Pragmata, one of the things about Animal Crossing in the re, I'm sorry, the things about Resident Evil were that, We went and got to do demos of that. Oh sorry you taking a photo hold on Let me get a yeah let me do a celebrate pose there for you I making biome or I making captives Yeah, we gotta get this Pokedex, you know what I mean? Yeah. Anyways, we had previews with Resident Evil where Bless was like, yo, this looked awesome. Pragmata, am I wrong? Did Bless play it on Switch? And he wasn't impressed with it. So I'm more hesitant then to be like, yeah, I'm gonna do that there. That feels like maybe one I do either on my PlayStation or on my, is it Xbox Play anywhere? I still do that, so whatever. Yeah, I don't, I'm still, I don't know what I'll do for Pragmata. But I am open to it if it runs well, sure. Are you gonna, Shadow Trickster, are you gonna play mixtape on Switch? Absolutely the fuck not. That trailer did not look good on Switch. Ooh, yeah. That's a bad song. Um. Solid performance says more, okay. Bebelfeeder says, I've seen comparisons to Minecraft. Is there any combat? No. No, no combat. Which I like personally, that's not what I'm looking for out of it. Yeah, it's definitely not survival. I know Pokemon's battling, so you can make an argument for it being there, but that's not a lot. Yeah. No, just let me live my island life and not be scared of getting blown up by a creeper Yeah. Killed by a skeleton. No thank you. Do I have? Okay, I do have all my habitats here. Very good. Well, let's see. I wanna catch them. Flowers. Kristoff says, why are any of you playing third party games on Switch. Well, I again just played Resident Evil on Switch and it was awesome. And it was so nice to take it back and forth from the bedroom to the TV to the office to the wherever I was playing. That was great. Granted, yes, I could do that with my ROG ally as well. But as you know, sometimes things aren't optimized for the ROG ally. And so you have a problem. Yeah, I haven't really played too much on my Switch. Other than Tiny Bookshop. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, I played that on PC. Is this your life from here on out, Jo? Yeah, it's definitely the thing that I'm picking up every night. I think at least until... Well, I still have to finish the game. But at this point, I'm not even really focused on that as much as catching everything. And right now, it's putting together all the habitats. habitats and trying to source all the items because some of them are very specific. And there's a couple of things that I've only been able to find like one place. So if you can't remember where that is, especially like early in the game when I wasn't really paying attention to that. Sure, you didn't even know. Yeah, like why would I need to remember where this like very specific mirror is? Yeah, yeah. So now I'm kind of trying to double back and find those things and just keeping them in a little chest so I can finish all of those. I think that's kind of some of my fun. And then once I have those, then I have at least the ability to catch all the Pokemon and then I start worrying about moving people out of habitats and how it is. I have a lot of work ahead of me. That's all I know. We all do. We all do. Yeah, this is gonna be a game worth checking in on like in six months, what have we all done? Yeah. What are you doing? Let alone again, the excitement of them supporting it with events. I really did not expect them to be like, oh, we're doing these limited run, limited time Pokemon events where you can go get the certain Pokemon out of it. Damn, that's really cool. Yeah, I assumed we were gonna get as much support as we got for Animal Crossing, which was not much. Yeah. Though I guess the first year they did. Yeah, it's like you had the events of it, but even those didn't feel alive. I don't know. No. Who wanted Bunny Day? Nobody wanted Bunny Day. Eggs everywhere. He's probably back, isn't he? I haven't checked in. I know winter's over. Oh, that's actually a reason for me not to log in. KCJSmile says, How's the soundtrack? Very chill. It has that, I think there's more vibes here, but in that first world, it was very Minecraft-y, and it was me falling asleep at times, too, and I'm just like, damn, this is putting me down, because it is just a, let's go chillax game. I always play mine on mute, because I'm usually watching something. And you never played it on TV, right? You played it on GitHub the whole way. Yeah, I never dock my Switch. Which we thank you for, is that we usually dock it kind of funny, but. It's fine, you guys bought me a new charger so that I could leave everything here, and I'll take it, that's all I really need. Jfree says, will this fill the animal crossing shaped hole while I wait? Yes, 100%. For sure. I don't, it'll be interesting to see how long it takes to like do everything, the like 100% completionist run. Cause I will say there's like not that much, like there is an end game for this in a way that like- What, having all the habitats? Yeah. Yeah, okay, I see what you mean. Like, well I guess- If they keep adding Pokemon. Yeah. That would be like the, you know, that. You could always decorate and change some stuff. I don't know. Yeah. I was like, I guess it's the same thing with Animal Crossing where you get to a point where there's not a whole lot else to do. Unless you decide you wanna redecorate or something. But I think that there's a long ways until I have to worry about that. Yeah, 100 percent, right. Because there's just so many things to do. And again, it'll be interesting to see if they've learned that lesson from Animal Crossing. Yeah. Like, oh, well, people will stay here forever if we give them more and more stuff. I wonder about DLC and what else. It seems like it would be not that hard to keep new items coming in. Yeah. On the store and stuff like that too. This area is much bigger than I thought it would be. I don't know why. This island thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's outrageously big. But again, it's interesting of, what are you doing? You know, Mike was asking me this today on the show. I'm like, well, what do we do here? I guess, yeah, like, if I discover people over here, I'll fill out my Pokedex. Even though they won't be in my world, which is interesting, right? Because that'd be an easy, easy way to, if we were all committed to really going through and nailing this. Yeah. Get your Pokemon that way. I wonder if one person finds it, if it unlocks for everybody on this area? I would think so, right? Oh, but there is the cloud Pokedex. So it's only for... I guess they are on lock here. That is a bummer. Well, I guess... I was gonna say, it would be fun to just come here and like mine shit, but I guess that's what the dream islands are for. Yeah, yeah. Something I always forget about. Do you go to the Dream Islands a lot for stuff or no? A lot, no, but again, I think that's such a specific, okay, now that I'm into, I wanna go create this stuff. So if you didn't know everybody, these dolls here you can collect in game, but you can get them here obviously too. You can't take them with you. But you put this down and then you can call Driflood, who will then take you to a dream island based on one of these. It will tell you what resources are over there before you go. So you could lay down all five of these, for instance, go up and be like, well, I'm really looking for iron ore. Find one that says iron ore. Then you could go off, get the iron ore, come back, deposit it, and then all day long go back and forth for no fee or anything like that. So it's this way, yeah, to go off and really get what you need and want out of your building thing. And since I haven't been building like that, I haven't had to worry about it. I'm gonna have to do that for gold and Pokometal. This weekend I feel like is gonna be my go-to. I'm also not one that has like a vision for like building out an island like this from scratch. Yeah. I don't know that this would to me a ton, other than yeah, using it to catch Pokemon. Lunchbox in the chat says, Pokemon Pocopia is 100 bucks here in Canada. Would you count it as a worthwhile purchase at that price? Mileage varies for each and every one of you on what you value and what you make, yada, yada, yada, and all that stuff. For me, Greg Miller, if I did not work here even, I would say yes. I think again, we're talking about, I'm 35 hours in plus now, credits rolled, and all I wanna do is play this, and there is so much more to do. I think when we talk about games and where you're gonna burn out and get blah, blah, blah, like there's a lot of different conversations there and everybody's different, and I'm not trying to take away from that. Like, I just can't foresee a world where I don't easily put 100 hours into this. And that's coming back, obviously, you know how hectic our schedules are for playing other games. Like coming back, whatever, but like, yeah, like I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna be playing this game, so it really is. This is like, for sure, my persistent game. Yeah, always keep it on your Switch. Be ready to go. But again, if that's not you for some reason, if that's not what you wanna do, I get it. And it's also like, how big of a Pokemon fan are you? Like if you're kind of meh on it, then I might not find it as enjoyable. But as someone who doesn't really care about Pokemon and has never played like a mainline game, I have a lot of fun with it. Got a Pokemon. Ooh. And it does make me excited to play Wind and Waves, which I think I'm gonna play. Have you ever done a regular Pokemon? No? Only Snap. Hell yeah, Joe. But, well, and I think the aesthetic of it is like very fun and way more my vibe than any of the recent ones that have come out. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Give me all the island goodness. You got me with Animal Crossing, you know? Yep. Well, I was asking Tim the other day on the stream, why is everything island themed? You know what I mean? Like, come on. He's like, have you ever been to Hawaii? I'm like, no, he's like, that's why. You've never been to Hawaii? Never been to Hawaii. We talked about it a lot. We have so many direct flights from us. I know. No, it's easy to do. I just never did it. Got to add it to the fam vacation list. You know, instead, Ben picked New York. We're going to New York. You gave him, like, did you give him carte blanche? Yeah. And he picked New York. He picked New York. That's when you're taking care of it. No, I know. I just didn't know that that was Ben motivated. Oh, yeah. We're like, where do you want to go for spring break, Ben? and like, you know, let him pick it. He's like, New York. I want to see the Ghostbusters firehouse in Spider-Man. We're like, all right, let's go. That's going to be so fun. Yeah, it's going to be crazy. I've never, I've never gone to New York for fun. I've gone for work, obviously, a bunch. And like, I've had fun, but I've never gone with like, wake up, have a cup of coffee. What are we doing? Where are we going? We start putting all the museums down and like, making Ben, making, but like, I think this started when we were watching Home Alone. Oh. For, obviously Lost in New York. For Christmas. And it was like, what if we did that? And it was like, we started making the Google Maps list of all the places to go and things to see. Joey, I swear to God. What? It's like clockwork that whenever I get to the final corner, I run out of pieces. You know what I mean? Like, what the hell? How does that happen? It's a gift that you have. I know, man. I don't know if you find New York so fun. Yeah, April, that should be a good time. I still got to hit up Agent M. I want to get a tour for him. I've been, obviously, of Marvel, HQ, all that jazz. I'll have a great time. Jen, not somewhat. No, I'm kidding. I'll be with you. Have a great time. Oh, he will. And I think Katie's going to be gone, so I think it'll be Wesley too. I'll just get to be buds. That's so funny that he wants to go. Like, am I surprised that your son wants to go to the Ghostbusters house? No, not at all. But I do think it's funny that it was a defining thing. We're jumping rope as a group, everybody. Let's lock in. Well, not super coordinated. Screen capture there. Oh, I got four piles of stardust. Nice. Have you figured out what to do with that? I want to say I remember recipe coming up, but I don't. Because I have some of it, but I have not. I didn't know if it was like a get there. Sure, sure, sure. Kind of thing. End game. A truck. Now I will point out that this Gamescast play has just turned into a stream. I will acknowledge this is the editorial product. We're supposed to keep talking, but we're just having a great time. You know what I mean? It's been a long time. Joey and I have not been able to play this together. We have not been able to play with you, the audience. We have people from the audience playing with us right now, so I don't want a lot of people giving me crap about it, all right, I'm just having a good time. We put it up on the feeds, we did a really good job at the beginning, if I do say so myself, and then eventually when we get to the multiplayer part, maybe. That's when we drifted off of it, we just started playing, having fun. Ooh, can we do this, we can do that, we can jump rope together, all right, all right, yeah, sure. I want to, oh, maybe I'll go down here. Jumps04 says, this will be Greg's most played game of the year easily. Yeah, probably. I think this will be the one I come back to over and over again with Skate on the wane. We'll see how long that's around and whatever, but like, yeah. You think you're going to put more hours into this than GTA? Yeah, I think yes, based strictly on how much time we have with it, right? Where it's like, if it was, okay, cool, you know, GTA's coming out next month, then maybe there's a different conversation there. but right now with like, okay it's just us, and this, and this will be with me on every flight now, you figure, like. Yeah. Yeah, did anybody pick this up for Fantasy Critic? I'm sure someone did, right? Yes, but I could not tell you off the top of my head who has it. Hmm. I'm. You can check. I'm still surprised. Tim did, Tim did, says Nitro. Even off the clock, him getting some points. Well, he might have done it earlier than that. I can't remember. I don't remember. Oh, like if he properly drafted it. Yeah, I don't think it was like at the last minute he came through and got it. Oh yeah, because he was actually, Nick was answering, Solaris, did anyone draft this? So I think it might have been at the draft, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, Pokemon. Which, you know, good for him. We did not know at this point if this was gonna work out. Yeah. Because that was before even Nobody played it. Yeah, it was just a weird trailer. I don't want to stop, but we should start winding down. I know. I gotta go play other things too. I gotta talk myself out of going to a fucking Nintendo store. And I'm not going to. I'm going. It's a losing battle, but I'm like, I gotta start looking at timetables for what I'm doing. I think they got a new Meta Knight Amiibo Oh man, I gotta add to Ben's collection. I can't believe how many times I go to the Nintendo store. It's crazy. When it opened, it was like, oh, that's a cool thing to have in San Francisco. And I'm like, I'm there all the time. Is that like a common weekend excursion for the Millers? Yeah, common enough where it's like, yeah, we're gonna go over there and see what's up. Union Square is so nice. There's just so much going on. It is nice. Nice to see some of the city coming back. Yep, for sure, for sure. I know, I guess, yeah, I've only been the one time, but I don't really, yeah, I don't really, I'm not on that side of the city that often. Yeah, I mean, that's the one part about it where it's like, it's really, I'm going there for that. Yeah, not a lot else to do over there. I thought about it where I was like, well, we'll be down there for GDC next week, so maybe I can play it out that way. I'm not going to make it. There'll be other things going on, too. Yeah. That is exciting for GDC. Oh. I feel like it always sneaks up on me. Yeah. You and me both. Ladies, gentlemen, and bees, that's Pokemon Pocopia, your Kind of Funny Games cast plays. Joey and I love it. We think you will, too, if you like these kind of games. Of course, the full review is up over on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games podcast services around the globe. Uncle Jordan, Jordan Midler, the big man from VGC, comes on through, of course. to share his thoughts and opinions after 120-some hours. Joey are on there. We all gave it nines. Yeah. And yeah, after crying yesterday, beating it, rolling credits, can only tell you, god dang, what a game. Thank you for watching. Thanks for everybody who came and joined our island here. Of course, you are still going to have the keys to it, so keep on building. We hope you enjoy this. This closes out our programming day for today. If you are listening or watching later, maybe on a podcast service, go check out the Gamescast, where we, of course, previewed Mouse P.I. for hire. Go check out Games Daily, where we talk about all the stuff coming to Pocopia, the references to the new Pokemon game in Pocopia, and so much more. For now, until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.