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speaker-0: His name is Dockey Darker! The one with all that game Bring him on in. Good morning, Doctor. Hey you do, mate.
speaker-1: Hey, good guys, how are we going?
speaker-2: Very, very good. It blows my mind that that's us singing that, Nick. And just had this weird out of body moment where I was listening to the song being like, Geez, that's cool. ⁓ we sang that, didn't we?
speaker-0: Yeah, we did that.
speaker-2: Let him
speaker-1: Parody. Hashtag parody.
speaker-0: Yes, it's all fun and games here. Doxta Pocopia. Yes. What's going on?
speaker-1: Mate, I love this game so much. I I think ⁓ it was the surprise hit for Nintendo. I I think w we spoke about it before it came out and I was like, Yeah, I'm sort of excited for it. I I mean it meh. ⁓ but then when it came out it it just surprised me in every single way and it surprised a lot of people because it's now sold five million copies. for
speaker-2: Well, Narrative two for the for the everyman. Like like we're talking five million copies. What what I mean, is that ⁓ what's the rate of success there? Like how do we how do we measure that?
speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ I guess it's just based on let's see. Call of Duty, how much does Call of Duty sell?
speaker-2: Sorry, I don't mean to put you on the spot there. I just think I'm I'm curious about it because it's to me when someone says, Hey, we sold three million copies of that, but that could be nothing.
speaker-0: In record sales, is it like hitting platinum?
speaker-1: guess so, yeah, I guess that's a really good way of putting it. ⁓ it's basically Sabrina Carpenter. Okay. Right. So Yeah, it's not quite Taylor Swift, but it's not far off. Yeah, okay. Right. Call of Duty's Taylor Swift. Yeah. And then ⁓ and then Pacopia is more like Sabrina Carpenter, who we love also. Gotcha. ⁓ anyway, so they've dropped the new DLC expansion pack for it as well. ⁓ they're taking you underwater with a bunch of new Pokemon, and it is incredible. It's definitely worth checking out. If you haven't made it through the full game yet, like the the main game, I suggest getting that done first so you can jump into these expansions. It's so much fun.
speaker-0: Are we expecting more continuous updates with this game or are they looking at a Pacopia two perhaps?
speaker-1: Look, I would imagine that they would be pumping as much expansion out for this as possible ⁓ for the for the near future. It is I I wonder whether or not it caught them by surprise as well. Because it's not a mainstream Pokemon game. Non-mainstream Pokemon games tend to suck. Yeah. ⁓ and yeah, I think it's a real surprise that this one has actually become
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-1: ⁓ like we say five million, what does it mean? It's actually turned into a system seller. They've released a ⁓ a version of the console that comes with the game and and it is selling systems. So for yeah, for they started the year with a with issues about ⁓ system sales and now there's no problem since po since Pocopia came out. Right. Yeah, right. She sells systems.
speaker-2: Rainer Carpenter.
speaker-1: ⁓ speaking of ⁓ Pokemon and ⁓ and ⁓ of course Game Freak didn't make this one, but they were busy making something else. The game called Beast of Reincarnation. We're talking a bit about it here on the show, but mate, I've been playing it and it is meh.
speaker-0: that's
speaker-2: That's a shame.
speaker-1: Yeah, look forward to this. I was really looking forward to it. And look, I base my reviews on on recommend, highly recommend, or don't recommend. I don't tend to give it a ⁓ a number. And I do recommend it because I think sometimes we can put too high expectations on games. And sometimes a seven is actually a really good game. Sure. ⁓ and it has a lot of replayability. The thing is though, it looks like Like it it's made me wonder whether or not the Pokemon games have never evolved because Game Freak are actually terrible. Right?
speaker-0: They just don't know what they're doing.
speaker-2: We've been wanting a full like open world Pokemon game where you can roam around and sort of get get that same feel, right? Begging for it and it poses the question why haven't they done it? Why
speaker-1: They're just not capable. I think, you know, it's not a bad game. That's the problem. Like it's just meh. Like it's just it's not like it's not good. It's not bad. It is, it's okay to play. I I really thought the premise was interesting with the the girl and her dog and the the world being taken over by plants and these plant entities. But I feel like there's 70 games on a list somewhere that's done it better. And so it's not quite. And the level of say a secura or you know, all those sorts of the souls likes and it's it's almost it's it's a soulless souls like Yeah so worth playing if if you've if you're looking for a game at the moment and it's on Game Pass, which is a great way to experience it because you can play it for essentially your subscription cost. Yeah. I always get caught out, I say play it for free. It's not technically free, but it's yeah but
speaker-2: ⁓ yeah. What do you think lets it down the most? Like that's the one sort of gr grinding issue you think that could have improved it?
speaker-1: I think the fact that it's just not quite great at anything. Right. It does everything okay, but nothing brilliantly. Like shadows, things like that look okay. The world looks okay. ⁓ the gameplay y you know, when you play a great Souls like there's a weight to the game. And I I it's not really a Souls like I don't know why I'm considering like comparing it to that, but I it
speaker-2: It sort of marketed that. Yeah.
speaker-1: So there's there's weight to you the the swing of your sword and the impact to the the the enemy and the and the running and the jumping, you feel the weight of the character and this you just sort of don't Yeah, right? Yeah
speaker-2: Whoa. When you keep dying.
speaker-1: The impact, yeah. ⁓ but yeah, it's not yeah, it's not terrible.
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It's just it just lacks that that that polish, I think.
speaker-0: Interesting. Cool. Hey, can we talk about Battlefield as well? ⁓ 'cause they're also doing some add ons. Yeah.
speaker-1: Battlefield Six has got the most interesting collaboration I think I've seen in a ⁓ in a shooter for a long time. Probably since Sabrina Carpenter was on Fortnite. They've teamed up with ⁓ Top Gun, the movies, and they're introducing Top Gun to Battlefield Six in an upcoming expansion. There's a cinematic trailer that's out, it looks amazing. And I mean, it's such a a a normal and and obvious link. Yeah. To add Top Gun to something like Battlefield Six. So you'll be able to play as ⁓ Lieutenant Bradley Rooster Bradshaw, who was played by Miles Teller in the ⁓ in the Maverick movie. So yeah, pretty cool.
speaker-2: D the the battlefield ⁓ what do I say, ⁓ viewership or the the battlefield users dropped off a little bit there, ⁓ didn't it? I believe ⁓ Yeah, it started very strong and then it dropped off significantly. ⁓ my question is do you think this will bring people back to it?
speaker-1: Yeah, it started really strong. ⁓ definitely. Yeah. I think ⁓ just the success of that film franchise. I mean it's only two films really, but it's ⁓ it's such a massive iconic film series. Yeah. And ⁓ and I think for once, like a lot of these games like Call of Duty did a team up with Nicki Minaj. Like it just they don't make any sense. This one makes sense and Battlefield Six players like things that make sense. Yeah. They like they like the the realism of the game, the
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-1: the feeling of being in combat, whereas they don't like the gimmicky crap that some of the others come up with. And I think that's the the key for this game.
speaker-2: It's like when Ghost Recon Wildlands did the Predator expansion. Right. And that made complete sense. Yeah. Yeah. Out in the jungle, isolated, all your gadgets and stuff. It was very, very cool. So yeah, I agree with you. Stop putting pop stars into shooters.
speaker-1: Yeah, right. Yeah, sometimes they just jump the shark. Like it's it's l yeah. But no, I think this is a really good fit for Battlefield six. ⁓ I'm looking forward to jumping into that.
speaker-0: Is this gonna be a battle pass thing or is this gonna be a one time purchase ⁓ situation?
speaker-1: I think it's part of your battle pass. But don't quote me. Don't quote me. I'm not a battlefield expert.
speaker-0: I know everyone's doing their own battle pass now and you can get your Sabrina Carpenters and Snoop Dogg so that'll be that'll be good to delve back into the Battlefield universe and also ⁓ universe that we're all pretty excited to get into again, Kingdom Hearts.
speaker-1: This is pretty exciting. I mean, I know Marcus isn't particularly excited for Kingdom Hearts Four, so maybe we'll talk about that a bit.
speaker-2: I'm just yeah, I I I have a a huge affinity for the Kingdom Hearts world. I find that it ⁓ the charm of it dropped off a little
bit from the third one and more about the the combat itself. Right. It still has the heart, it still has all the Disney characters, whatever. I think they lost their way when they lost their licensing to have Final Fantasy characters in there.
speaker-1: Yeah, okay. Right, okay, yeah.
speaker-0: Well without art it's just kingdom. Yeah.
speaker-1: Right? You're so right. ⁓ I do love like I love the concept of the key sword, but I've never really played a Kingdom Hearts game. I've never jumped into an and had a go at it. It's just not okay. ⁓ but what ⁓ what I am excited about is the fact that they're turning it into an anime series and it's coming to Disney Plus. I think that's really cool. I love it when they cross over like that. I think the Arcane series did it really well when the the League of Legends did Arcane.
speaker-0: you didn't flip your keyboard just then and go, you know what, I'm glad you don't like any
speaker-1: I'm out of here. Sometimes it's better just to ignore him and
speaker-2: Super antagonistic today.
speaker-1: So ⁓ so what do how do you feel about the Kingdom Hearts anime series?
speaker-2: I'm excited. I think that sounds great. Yeah. There's so much lore around it. Here we go. There's a lot of lore around it. It'll be a lot of fun to delve into. ⁓ it'd be n nice to watch and just sit back and and view view it, you know, objectively for what it is. Yeah. I'm just my criticism's back to where the games are sort of the franchise is moving in that direction. But yeah.
speaker-1: Yeah, look I think it's one of those things too, don't judge a game before you've played it. Like a lot of people out there are are are watching these trailers that have been released for Kingdom Hearts four and ⁓ and cr and and don't love what they see, but the reality is it's not out yet. We'll play it, we'll see, and then try it and and give it a go. I saw some footage during the week of of the Mickey Mouse elements of the game. Yeah. And and that seemed to get a positive reaction because that was one thing they didn't show In that initial trailer, they didn't show any Disney characters being used. So yeah I ⁓ I think that'll you know that might improve things a bit. ⁓ I want to finish up this week though by a big shout out to a ⁓ Aussie developer who's doing big things at the moment. ⁓ it's an Aussie dev called Dark Dark Goose. Like, is there more Australian a name than that? And I think, you know, we we we should probably highlight Aussie devs a lot more because
speaker-2: Lava.
speaker-1: ⁓ we're we're pulling out some great games from this country and they're all award-winning. ⁓ this one here is just a lot of fun. It's have you guys played those games where you've got balls and they drop down and hit the pins and then they're I think they call it pig pachinko. so then yeah, the ball drops down and you and you get a score at the end. ⁓ this is that, but it's it's basically a roguelite. So ⁓ as you play
speaker-2: So almost like
speaker-1: You unlock extra things that you can add to your pegs on the board to create more score and it might be like a sprinkler system or or s or other things. It's it's neon ⁓ like a neon explosion of a game. It looks right. It's it's called hyper drop. ⁓ and it's available on Steam at the moment. I think it's available for like seven dollars. And I look I would highly recommend it. Very addictive. It'll interrupt your productivity for your work day if you've got it on your Steam Deck. Right. ⁓ But yeah, just a lot of fun. And I think you know it's a lot more I'm starting to play a lot more games like this, I think, recently. ⁓ since I started getting into blackjacket and other things like that that are just sort of just pick up yeah, you can pick up any time and play ⁓ You don't have to get involved in the story. And I think this is a really good example of that. So check it out. Hyper drop and it's from Aussie Dev, Dark Dark Goose, and ⁓ big shout out to them this week.
speaker-0: Bilatro. Sounds great. ⁓ check that one out and also check out the multiplay podcast, which ⁓ gets a regular update from Doki Darko and at chilifm.com.au. The regular article and ⁓ review comes out from Doki Darko himself. Doki, thank you very much for the chat this week and we'll catch up next week.
speaker-1: Sounds great, guys. Talk to you then.