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Did you crumb up wickham Nest PlayStation star? Both Cotton said,
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any CV do you like to think you would win
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in a fight between Batman and the Master Chick?
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Comics, case, movies, music, can TV.
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They're gonna tell you everything you need. Super Heroes are nothing,
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catch sharp back, They're gonna say the world, domcakes, comics, ks, movies, music,
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can TV.
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They're gonna tell you whether thing you need.
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Superheroesaur nothing, cat sharp back, They're gonna say the world.
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Do swear can cake?
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Swear can cake?
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Hey guys, yes, what's going on? You are listening to
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this weekend geek dot net. My name is Mike the Birdman,
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and happy holidays, however you choose to celebrate on this
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holiday Monday on both Canada and the United States. Like
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I said, my name is Mike, but I'm not alone
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as I'm enjoying some hot dog some potato salad from
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the lovely city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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Alex the producer staying inside with the first weekend where
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we had to put the R conditioner units in the
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living room where I'm recording right now. Is temperate is
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the best way to describe it. I would not be
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super comfortable in this without an extra fan on me.
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But the bedroom is crispy and nice because it is
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I think, with humidity thirty six degrees celsius today. So
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what's that somewhere in the nineties.
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I love that.
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In the stage, I would.
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Say very high eighties to low nineties off the top.
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Of my head. I'm actually in enjoying.
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Uh summary, it's between ninety and ninety six fahrenheit right
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now in this area, and for comparison, three days ago
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it was zero. It was freezing out. Yeah, it was
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like thirty. It was like thirty or thirty five degrees fahrenheit,
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and in the next two days it's going to drop
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down to about sixty fairenhet.
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I think it snowed last week, did it not? Or
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something day?
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It snowed on Tuesday or Wednesday, and then by Thursday
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Friday it was summer weather.
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Yeah, Like it was really like climate whiplash would would
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be a really good you describe it.
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We got the AC units in just in time for
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it to cool down again. But then it looks like
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things are going to level out starting next week and
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we're gonna have like regular twenty one, twenty two so
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that's like seventy five seventy six degrees something like standard.
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Like you might want a fan on at night time
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if you're somebody who likes to be a little cooler,
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but like you could totally sleep if you just had
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sheets on. You don't need to cover anything anymore. That's
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the kind of weather I like to see. But we
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already know. We know that, like by the time Summer
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Game Fest is here first week of June, like we're
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gonna start having what we used to consider our August weather.
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But for the last five years has been a summer
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of scalding hot weather.
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Yeah, it's been super unpredictable and like super strange. I mean,
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as of right now, I'm currently using. Actually, this is
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something we actually reviewed during our Holiday gift guide. I've
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got one of our Shark Ninja, this desktop fan that's
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USB powered, but it is incredibly powerful power and I
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just want to see if I can get the proper
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name on I thing without reckoning my desk, which it
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is a.
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Shark and I don't know if it's got the name
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of the unit on the side. I can't read it.
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But it was a desktop fan that we reviewed last
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year on the gift guide and honestly, it's gonna come
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in so.
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Helpful this summer. So as you're listening to today's show, me.
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Is it the Shark's flex breeze?
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Maybe? I think so.
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Yeah, because it's small, it's fairly compact. It was definitely
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one of the nicer products that we took.
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Of course, Yeah, I think it's what it is. There's
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a series of fans they have and it looks almost
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like a spotlight you'd use for Batman.
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Yes, yes, exactly, Yeah, and uh yeah, it's honestly probably
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one of the nicer things. I went to bed last
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night and Blair, my lovely wife, had said, hey, Mike,
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I know you're probably gonna get hot in here. We
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haven't put it in our air conditioning yet because we
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still want to barbecue, And uh.
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Yeah, I was like, oh, I woke up feeling so real.
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And if that sounds weird, it's because of the way
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you're set up is you use one of those portable
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ac like the ones that are on the ground, and
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you put it in your sliding door for your your apartment. Yeah,
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that's why it's like, because somebody's gonna be like, why
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can't you barbecue? With an air conditioner in the window.
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It's because your window, quote unquote is your screen door.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, So as you listen to this episode today
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on Holiday Monday, this is going to be a review
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show for this week, mostly because me and alex I
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said we're going to be taking most of this week off. However, though,
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that being said, small programming announcement. So, my wife, as
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you all know, currently is a teacher, and unfortunately, due
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to some scheduling issues, we have to work the day
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of the Game Awards.
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I also have something that.
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Day as well, Canadian Game Awards.
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Yes, the Canadian Game Awards, which are going to be
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held in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convenment Center. However, though,
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due to the fact that these are being live streamed
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on Twitch and YouTube, I believe we're going to be
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covering it the following day, so kind of like how
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we would normally do with the Big Game Awards that
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Jeff hosts every December, We're going to do something like that.
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So you're getting to award show coverage in one year
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in credit pro sad that we can't go, but obviously
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Blair has to work and while I'm just getting used
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to traveling for the first time on my own. It's
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not safe for me to be outside of the city
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without having somebody with me that can help me should
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a medical event arise. We're working towards more in yeah independence.
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Though, and in my case, you know, I would be
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forced to take the train because there isn't you know,
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buses really the same way that there used to be
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now that for our American listeners, Greyhound doesn't exist in
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Canada anymore, and they were the last bus carrier, so
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it used to be we had regular rides all day,
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all night running to and from Toronto from where we lived.
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It was actually pretty accessible, and then right before the
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pandemic they shut down completely. There is no buses. We do, however,
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have a train system, but that train system basically ends
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at five or six pm on a weekday and it's
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only every like there's only like two or three rides
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in the whole day, and it would end before the
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last bust or last y last train home is before
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this event starts. So it would basically necessitate on the
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last minute notice finding arrangements on staying there. All the
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stuff that would that is out of pocket more than
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we were expecting to come up with for myself. That
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being said, plans are hopefully fingers crossed for next year
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for us to be able to attend, possibly both of
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us or some format, because in my particular case, the
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talk is, you know, fingers crossed as long as they
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don't screw it up. Is to have extended commuter service
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where the trains would be running on weekdays all the
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way till midnight, every hour back and forth from where
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I live. If that's the case, that makes it a
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lot easier because then there's no worry about getting back
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in time or you know, potentially being stranded and having
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to sleep in a park, which I would rather not do.
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Yeah, Like, I mean, it's gonna be ex to take
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take a look at the Canadian Game Awards Share, especially
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with having Mark Muir and Jennifer Hale as host. I
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actually messaged Mark last week saying, hey, man, I'm probably
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gonna be there.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing you that.
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Unfortunately Blair had to work, so Mark right now is
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at dream Haack in Atlanta with some of my friends
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down in the Atlanta area helping my good friend cost Deaf,
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formerly of Team Caliber TK went by to go say
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hi to Commander Shepherd. I know he's got a bunch
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of people over at the old TK house.
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This weekend, so that's kind of cool.
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But yeah, so today's episode that you're going to hear
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is going to be a review episode, mostly with Alex.
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I did contribute some Transformer stuff, maybe some others not,
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depending on what I've got done currently. I am working
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on some RPG stuff as I have some stuff from
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Warner Brothers Home Entertainment. I recently got Wuthering Heights, I
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got The Bride, and I got speed Racer.
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I've seen one out of these. I've seen one out
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of three movies here.
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I got some stuff coming up from Modifius, hopefully I'm
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working on. There's the solo version of the Fallout role
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playing game called Wasteland Wanderer. I also have some additional
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stuff for the Fallout role playing game.
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Also.
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I contacted these guys a while ago, and I just
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haven't had a chance to dig into their stuff. But
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they're a group called event Here and I found out
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about them through a dungeon tuber called world builder Bob,
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and they have some incredibly interesting books that are more
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meant for more of the fantasy role playing game side
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of things, So if you want help designing dungeons or
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interesting monster stuff like that. Plus, I've got just a
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bunch of older books I've been wanting to take a
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look at.
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For a while.
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I should have some more stuff from Star Trek Adventures
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books that I did not work on I should be
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able to review, hopefully in the next little bit. Trying
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to go what else, Oh, I'm working through Pragmata now,
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hopefully we'll have that during as sort of like a
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bonus episode during Summer Games Fest, if not, maybe a
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little bit after as like kind of extended content, because
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Alex gushed about it and I thought, from what I've seen,
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it's pretty neat.
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We did an inditial review, but we talked and said, hey,
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this is probably something that warrants a longer prototype discussion.
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Not necessarily like super deep, needy greedy, but like it'll
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be interesting to see a couple different perspectives on it.
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Well, yeah, because like one of the reasons I'm glad
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you suggested that for us to pursue as a topic.
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You don't see a lot of games that are not
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attached to large ip or I've been in development for
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like ten or fifteen years or whatever it is, right,
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like something that is new, something is exciting. You've phrased
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it to me before in one of our private conversations,
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like it's like one of those games you'd see during
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the Xbox three sixty PS three era that would come
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out maybe during a sleepier time of the year.
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And it just might hit announced in twenty twenty, released
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in twenty twenty six, but feels firmly twenty and eleven.
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And that's not a bad thing because those games, No,
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that's what you discover, your un your undiscovered gems. It's like, hey,
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this game didn't get a lot of attention, but it's
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really cool.
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It feels like something you would have seen teased, not
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at like E three oh six, but like E three
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oh seven the first year in they would have teased
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it and then it would have been like, oh, this
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is taking a while to come out, and then like
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twenty ten, twenty eleven, it would have come out. Like
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this feels like something ripped right from the Mass Effect
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two era.
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Yeah, And that's what I think is really exciting is
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when you get different developers taking a chance on unproven
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ip and not everything will land.
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And proven unique gameplay styles which you haven't seen action
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or RPGs. RPGs. He's seen expand a little bit with
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like Expedition thirty three, but like the action genre has
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not had a truly.
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Take maybe control. Maybe.
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Yeah, this is such a different feeling like gameplay loop
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that you know, we'll get into it when we do
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our big form discussion, but like this feels like a
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weird unique case. And I think didn't they already announced
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it's like six million sold or something.
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And that's really awesome, especially for something I feel like
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people are burned out on legacy IP. And again, we'll
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get into this when we talk about this in a
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couple of weeks, but it's like I need something different.
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I need something as much as I love games like
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Resident Evil or whatever.
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Sorry, it's it's sold two million copies. They've officially said
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since launch it was six million. Four I believe the
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latest Resident Evil.
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Okay, yeah, but say Resident Evil nine fantastic game.
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it this year and they still have. So this is
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like the second or third major release this year for them,
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and they still have that reimagining or I don't think
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it's a it's not a sequel, it's a reimagining of
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Vannie Musha coming out.
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Yeah, and that'll be pretty cool.
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And I see that's kind of a nice transition point
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because we often talk about what we've been doing or
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playing during this past week. For me here in Gwelph,
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it's been busy. It is election season here in gwelf
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so I'm started doing my rounds.
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I might be working with Adam A.
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Donaldson of you here on Loose Cannon, might be doing
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some stuff with him. I'm just kind of keeping an
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eye on things, having some conversations around town, doing my
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best to just, you know, be a good informed, civic
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participation type person. But I've also been kind of taking
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it easy. I do have some homework I've been kind
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of working through that. I recently just submitted my first assignment.
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I will admit probably should have done that about two
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weeks ago. But I was in Toronto sosuming and I
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started playing some stuff in my backlog, because that's one
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thing me and Alex do during the summer is we
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start going through older stuff. And I started playing through
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Dragon Ball z Cakarat. I started playing for some of
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the DLC and it was really sad, Alex.
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I looked at my safe file date and I was like.
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Oh, the last time I played this was twenty twenty,
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oh man. And that's kind of something that's kind of sad,
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because sometimes I'll have these really games I'm really excited about,
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and I just don't go back for a really long time,
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and I'm always afraid I'm gonna get lost.
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So I finally for.
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Four. Yeah, but I only say that we were all hyped.
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You bought it for me, and you bought me a copy,
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you bought yourself a copy, and then we didn't touch
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it forever, and I only touched it this year, after
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like two or three years. And then I said, and
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I said, you know what, after this many years, wait
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because I think in the fall, we're getting that remake.
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So it's I mean, that was gonna be one of
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my big summer games. And I'm like, you know what
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got they.
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Got our money. I'll help you pick a different summer
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game that I think you'll like. I'll pick something out
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that also can be done fairly quickly. What I should
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do is I should pick you like two or three
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games that take you ten hours or less each.
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I think this summer because it keeps going on sale,
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and it's on sale right now on the Switch too,
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and I'm purposely curating a Switch collection. I think I
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may finally just sit down and just do all the life.
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Life is Strangers. Here is two weeks.
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You can't play anything that involves a gun just playing.
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I would suggest that as well, simply because it's something
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that you can sit down with Blair and be like, Blair,
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sit with me. And there are parts that's like watching
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a really good TV show, and then there's parts where
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you're walking around and you could like you could do
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the critical path or you could just go around and
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like investigate all the little secrets, do some rewinding, get
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the best answers for things, do whatever, and she can
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actually like help you point out if there's some puzzles.
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There's not really many in those games. Some of the
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side games have a little more, but like it's an
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experience that you two could do together where it's not
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just you going shooty shooty, shooty, blowy uppy. And I
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could see it intriguing her because it's obviously a big
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enough series that way that they're making a TV show, right,
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And let's be honest, The TV show is probably targeting women. Yeah,
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it's just based like and I don't mean that like
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boys aren't gonna like get I mean I just get
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the feeling that that they're going after the women that
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like supernatural mystery stuff. That's that's the market. The market
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is that with a little bit of X Files and
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a little bit of of like they sprinkle in like
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Native American, you know, mysticism and do it.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to doing that. This week, I
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finally dug into in a serious effort Resident Evil seven
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Bio Hazards that's been available through PlayStation Plus for years.
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I'm thinking, you know what, fuck it, let's just do
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it because I needed something to scratch that Resident Evil itch.
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And it's kind of interesting because now I'm seeing how
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gameplay has evolved from Resident Evil seven to the sections
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that Grace plays and Resident Evil nine. And I don't
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dislike the Ethan Winter's character, but Grace would kick his ass.
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That's just my opinion, although I'm probably wrong because I
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haven't beaten the game yet, but it's it's an interesting
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experience and I'm kind of glad that I'm going for
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some of the dls.
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Is the bad one is it five that people hate?
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No? Five was okay? Six? Six was over bloated.
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Is that the racist one?
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No, that's five.
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Five was where you were in Africa with Sheva looking
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for the projective.
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Remember I said I say racist in quotes because it
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wasn't intentional. It was more of a Japanese Japanese developers
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didn't really understand how it would look to colonial colony countries, Like, yeah,
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they they didn't traditionally like it's it's one of those
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things where they overlooked it, like we're trying to make
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a game for an international audience, but they didn't consider
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that maybe people of African descent would see this as problematic.
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How yeah, handle well, yeah, because like Chris Redfield is
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a Caucasian man going around with shooting up African villages.
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Now do have a partner, Sheva who is African, Yes,
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but she's been but she's been absent from the series
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since two thousand and.
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I just remember, not being a player myself, that there
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was a big hubbub. Basically in America there was backlash
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and then in like places like South Africa where apartheid
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had been an issue, it was like it was not intentional.
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It was just insensitive by ignorance.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah.
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I mean like when you're in resonable for in fighting
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people in the Spanish countryside, that's not great either. And
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I think the bagggs are called galandros, and I think
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that may be kind of a weird.
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I remember, for lack of a like lack of a
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nicer term. I remember at the time the issue the
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only issue. Everybody loved the gameplay. I didn't play it,
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but I already loved it, talked about it. The only
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concern was that some people felt like all they did
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was substitute the word gypsy for said word. Yeah like
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that and that you know, growing up, we didn't think
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any of it. You know, my my brother's wife is Romanian.
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She's like that word for the people, it's not okay.
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I'm like really, she's like, yeah, if you're in part
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of Europe, like that is a very contentious word with
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like ultranationalists, as well as like xenophobia, you know, for
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the travelers, and it's like it's a whole bundle of
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you know, sticks. I don't want to get involved in, right,
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And I can see why like that was and again,
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it was one of those situations where you have people
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that don't know the culture and then they're just like that.
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I wouldn't doubt that that in their head, they were
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just that was some term that they would have called
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them and then they just had to change it. But
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I think since then they've changed a lot of like
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the scope, especially since Residenteval Village Onward has been developed
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for the West first and then for the local market,
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and whereas it always capcom prior to like twenty nineteen
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was developed for Japan first and then make it for
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the world.
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The other game I've been playing, I haven't played a
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lot of it in last week, unfortunately, just because I
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just haven't had time. But I was playing Invincible Versus,
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which is the new fighting game based on the Invincible universe.
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And pardon me, my team currently is duplicate.
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Fuck uh.
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Shit uh the guy from the Gi' character I'm shit.
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That's gonna drive me crazy, Cecil.
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And I'm trying to decide whether I want to play
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with Mark Slash Invincible or whether I want to do
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someone like Rexplode or something like that. Like I'm trying
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to keep my team non standard. It's like a tag
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team fighter.
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Is battle Beast in it, yes, and he hits like
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a truck. Just just play as Michael Dorn. Just do it.
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Honestly, it's such a good game.
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I think when some of some of the DLC characters
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come out, it'll get a lot better.
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It does have a little ways.
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To go in terms of its online coding, because a
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lot of people are calling it like a button masher,
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which is good because it's easy to learn but really
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hard to master. Even right now, I've got this weird
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thing where I'm like, do I want to play on
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a controller?
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Because it is very controller friendly.
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But if I play on a stick, I have to
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think about my inputs. If I remap the buttons to
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what feels comfortable to me, I'm thinking about what I'm doing.
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I'm a better player. But now I've introduced a new
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learning curve to myself because if it's on controller, okay,
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here's how you actually you're like super move.
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But if I do it.
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Clearly designed for sticks in mind.
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It's adaptable.
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And that's what I like about it because I can
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see that I really want this to be good at
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like NAE, though they could be awesome?
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Is the is the Avatar one out?
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And already no that one will be freaking I'm I
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like the Avatar world, but I'm not steeped in its lore.
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But when I saw the fighting games, well guess I'm
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picking Kora again.
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Both of these games, though, have a real uphill battle
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that they're going out in the same year that Tocon's coming.
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Yeah, like it's gonna be The fighting game community has
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eaten awesome.
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Very awesome. But I would imagine the devs of both
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of these games are panicking because they'll they'll launch with
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okay players. But if Tocon takes off, like takes off big,
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you know, it could do one of two things. It
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could bring more people just into the whole fighting gaming
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sphere altogether, or it could sap everybody away and also
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pull people away from from tech In, from uh, from
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Mark of the Worlds or whatever, and from Street Fighter,
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And it might like that's really the make or break
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game right now, where you can determine if the community
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will grow in new users that younger people playing, or
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is there a cap is there like three million players
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worldwide period, and then they're just all fighting for user share.
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Yeah, I mean, I hope it'll be a good year
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where everybody can find what makes their Experience Special.
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Ideally you'd hope that like there'd be like two or
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three million new players brought in by Tokon then then
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play Token and go hey, what else is new? And
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then they go see these two games.
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Yeah, like it's gonna be a good year.
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However, I have rambled on enough, so before we close out,
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Alex and you're gonna take us out of here, what
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have you been playing?
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What have you been doing?
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And you have any idea what reviews are going to
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be coming up in this show today?
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Sure, I have, as you said, gone back into the
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classic catalog. I've been monthly as the game pass copy
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of the Final Fantasy pixel Reymasters come out, gone and
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played a Final Fantasy pix Roo Master with all the
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boosts on, just to sort of make my way through.
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I'm not trying to platinum or get all the trophies
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for them, because I've already got platinums for that on
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the PlayStation when I purchased them, but I realized, I'm like,
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wait a minute, playing them on the PC. The PC
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version is cloud saves that also worked for the Xbox,
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so I'll have completed saves for basically every platform, every
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platform except for I guess Steam, and I was like, okay,
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So I've been doing that basically the first week of
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the month when they come out, I play that for
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a day or two and get my way through it,
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and they're usually pretty quick. But now that we're at
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Final Fantasy five, I forgot that it's a larger game
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than four. So it still took eight hours, even on
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like you know, with like fast forward on the for
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the auto battles and boost modes and all that. And
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if I remember correctly, I think Final Fantasy six when
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that comes probably this coming month, it's probably twice that
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it's probably gonna take sixteen hours to beat because it's
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a forty hour game without boosts on. So yeah, I've
489
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been playing that. I did a few games for review
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that I gotta double check if when they're coming out.
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Not this week, but next week. I'll have reviews of
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some indie stuff like table Flip Simulator as well as
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a Story of Seasons game. But as far as this
494
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week's concerned, I should have my review of star Bites out,
495
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which was a new retro sort of inspired like like
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PS one Slash, Dreamcast aerographics term based RPG that was
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It was pretty interesting I'll again, I'll have a full
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review of that. Beyond that, I've also been playing a
499
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few other indie titles, a lot of movies I've been watching. Man.
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I had some stuff from Visual Vengeance, which is a
501
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company that puts out blu rays of like nineties movies
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that were like shot on video, you know, shot on
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shitdeos type stuff. So like some weird horror stuff, some
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weird sort of comedy action stuff, a bunch of them.
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So I've got like a stack of them I'm going
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through and I'm deciding which ones to review and which
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ones to not. But I've had that stuff going. As
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far as other stuff I've played just sort of for me,
509
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I've been going through the game Pass stuff because I
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do have game Pass on PC and I have played
511
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oh probably I think more on my PC than I
512
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have on other consoles in a while. I've played Mixtape
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when that came out. That's about a three hour game,
514
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so if you have game Pass, it's worth checking out.
515
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It's more of an experience. I see people complaining there's
516
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not a lot of gameplay. There's like skateboarding in it,
517
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and then there's a few other things, and it's yeah,
518
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it's you're basically doing an interactive experience that's all based
519
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:38.480
in like the nineties basically, and it's got some good aspects.
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It's got some aspects that maybe could have been flashed
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out better, but what with game pass and it's only
522
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three hours, it's worth trying anyway. Regardless. Beyond that, I've
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played a few other small titles, but nothing of note
524
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that I wanted to say. All the big stuff. It
525
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seems to sort of being held off. We are still
526
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waiting on a request. We might be getting below seven
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if we do. If we do, it's PC only, I
528
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guarantee that that's so, So I'll if we do, I'll
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do it, because I think that has some pretty hefty requirements.
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Yeah, I'm buying, so I've already committed.
531
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Yeah, they're showing enough. I think to get a sixty
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fps mode you have to have a PS five pro.
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I don't think it has a sixty fps on console otherwise.
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And also the switch to version has been pushed like
535
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several months, so that tells me that it's having some
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issues maintaining frame rate probably. And you know, they they said, hey,
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if you'd like to put in a request, request or open,
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and I went a week before it's out. That tells
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me that you're gonna have to have a BFPC to
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run it. But again, if we do get a review copy,
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I'll let you know, and I'll you know if it's
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a you know, if you're gonna have to break the
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bank to play it, or if it's worth waiting till
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maybe it's console or maybe even has a few patches out,
545
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Because this is going to be a game. I think
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that Iowa is going to be doing a lot of
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patches for that. They want this to sell well, and
548
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.200
they wanted to tell well before GTA six comes out, right,
549
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because how many other like cinematically high quality games are
550
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coming this year? Right, it's this, the Control sequel and
551
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then GTA. As far as we know, unless something pops
552
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up at Summer game Fest that has a random drop
553
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:21.759
in like the summer or fall, we pretty much know
554
00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:23.839
the game plan for these Triple A games this year.
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There's not that many unless Final Fantasy decides to drop,
556
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but there's been rumors that that's been pushed till April
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or May of next year, so who knows, but we
558
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will see. I've also been planning the covers we're going
559
00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.079
to be doing for Summer Game Fest. They were late
560
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putting out a lot of the schedule for when the
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events actually are taking place, which was a little concerning
562
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to me because in past years, by the first week
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of May, Jeff's already had like everything already ready to
564
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.720
go on his website, and until this morning, there was
565
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literally nothing but the main show listed, which not always
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a good thing when you consider that a lot of
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people have to plan these things out for coverage like
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weeks in advance. So I think GTA six dude has
569
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again messed with the schedules of everything.
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Oh yeah, it's gonna be a wild year.
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Yeah. So I'll say this, it looks like there's an
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indie showcase on the twenty first this week. I'll be
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at least making notes from that. I probably won't do
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a show directly on that right away, but maybe when
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I do a pre show sort of like here's our
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game plan. I always do like a prototype on you know,
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Summer Game Fest. Here's our predictions, here's what's coming, that
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sort of thing. I'll see if Ken is available and
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we'll probably do something there and I'll maybe include the
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stuff that happens in May. But there is supposed to
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be probably another Japanese Indie showcase. It's not the eight
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hour slog that I used to have to go three
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years ago. But I don't know when that is yet
584
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because I don't think it's been announced. But this week
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we've got that six to one Indie Showcase, and then
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as of June itself, it looks like they're all being
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They're not as spread out as they used to be,
588
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so it's better. So like Thursday the fourth is the
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Latin American Game Show, Then there's the women led Games
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one that's at you know, I think five pm our time.
591
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Then Friday is the big stuff. They have the Accessibility one,
592
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which is for the disabled gamers that we always like
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to cover. That's happening in the morning, and then in
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the evening is Summer Game Fest, you know, five to
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six or seven, and then there's the Day of the
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Devs that happens right after the next day is Wholesome
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Direct and Future Game Show, and then the next day
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on the Sunday is Xbox and PC And that's all
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that's been announced so far. There's usually one or two others,
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and then we really don't know until Nintendo does a
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general Direct, which usually is either right before or right after,
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and then Sony stayed to play right before right after.
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So I think this year, unlike past years where it
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took up like the whole month of June, I think
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really the main stuff is going to be somewhere between
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the fourth and my guess would be the ninth or tenth,
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So it's not going to be too bad.
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Yeah, so it should be a fairly good time.
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As for summer programming, we are currently working through getting
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a bunch of stuff recorded. I'm working with the Loose
611
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Cannon guys. Me, Alex and Aaron have recorded some stuff.
612
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We're going to be recording some stuff during the month
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of June, so you always have something to look forward
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to during the summer, because we're gonna start taking our
615
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vacation from July first, and we will be coming back
616
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on September second, the week of September second. But you
617
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should have content. At least, you'll always have Earth versus Soup.
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You'll always have something from the Loose Cannon catalog and
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we'll see what happens from there.
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There'll be you know, sporadic like last summer. We'll do
621
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if we have a bunch of reviews that have come in.
622
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We'll do a couple of them throughout the summer for
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bundling that and then say with the prototype, there's usually
624
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a live or very recent show that we do for
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Opening Night Live and Games Calm near the end of summer,
626
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sort of as kind of like a soft launch of
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when we come back from break because it's usually like
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right at the end of summer when we do that.
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Yeah, So anyway, guys, we are going to get out
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of here. This is going to be launching into the
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review show for this holiday Monday. So hopefully guys you
632
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will have a safe and happy holiday. Go eat some
633
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hot dogs, go get some potato salad, and just have
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yourself a wonderful day. If you happen to be off work,
635
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enjoy your day. If you happen to be working today,
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hopefully your boss decided to take it easy on you,
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and we will be back next week right here on
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this week in geek dot Net.
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Hold on, something's coming.
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Go on without me. City still needs people to protect it. Please,
641
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:55.880
why don't we play a game together. I'm taking you down?
642
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:19.119
Got you no grab the ring? Proved your worth one?
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I paid you entitled little snuts. Better believe you were gritted.
644
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:41.199
Well. Here is a game that I have been waiting
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for for a couple of years. I believe I initially
646
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:48.800
saw this on my radar. Was it at the Japanese
647
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Indie or Asian Indie showcases for before Summer Game Fest?
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00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:57.719
Maybe two years ago, maybe three years ago, Off the
649
00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:59.119
top of my head, I don't remember, but that's where
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I initially saw this and went, hey, guys, And I
651
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.920
think I highlighted it in some one of the trailer
652
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:06.800
compilations I made for the rest of the team, or
653
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.239
maybe in some of our Discord groups and friends that
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I sent to. But that's right, Star Bites is here,
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and I had a chance to check it out early.
656
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I received, you know, and this is from a developer,
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a Kina Games Company Limited, and I received an early
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review code from our friends over at nas America or
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PlayStation five. It is also available on Switch, switch to
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Xbox Series X and S as well as PC. And this,
661
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.719
I'll say this upfront. I'm not somebody who does like
662
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:47.000
a ton of like trophy chasing, trophy hunting, air achievement, worring,
663
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whatever you want to call it, but I can tell
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you this, in playing the game, I did a complete playthrough,
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and I did platinum it. It's one of the few
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that I've done for review that I've been able to
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platinum before the game actually officially comes out, and that's
668
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because they were pretty confident with this in that I
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can say I had it for a review about a
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month early, which is usually a telltale sign that a
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game is gold and ready to go with very few
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issues ahead of time. And I can say that's the
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case here. Now, there may be some day one patches
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that I didn't appear with or that might change your
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experience as of this recording. You know, I didn't see
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what there was one available just yet, but I also
677
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didn't encounter any major crashes or any issues that way.
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There's voice acting in this game. There it's in on console.
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There is English and Japanese available as far as the
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spoken voices. If you're playing it on PC, it also
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adds Korean to it, so I guess the Korean didn't
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get you know, approved or reported or whatever to consoles.
683
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And as far as text languages to read things in
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on console, you have the options of English, French, Japanese.
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The French is there obviously for the Canadian North American release,
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because if you're releasing something physically or even digitally in Canada,
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it's required, whereas I don't think you're required to have
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French spoken languages, just has to be playable in French.
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So if you're wondering why that's the case here, and
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if you're playing it on PC, though, your language options
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for text are English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese.
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So interestingly enough, the only way if you're somebody who
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is a French native speaker to play it completely in French,
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at least at launch is if you're playing it on
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console and you get the console version, you'll be able
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to play it in French. So just a fun little
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fact there that might change as things go on. But regardless,
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the voice acting, I played it in English and I
699
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can say the voice acting is top notch. We're talking
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the quality of voice acting and directing in it is
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at the same level that you'd think from a much
702
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bigger title like this is firmly a double A title.
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If they think it's triple A, it's not. It's a
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high end double A title of an indie studio that
705
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has put out a really fun, concise game that can
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be beaten in depending on how your play style is
707
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somewhere from like twenty thirty hours. I would say probably
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in that range, and depending on the difficulty that you're
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playing it at as well. Changing difficulty makes enemies harder
710
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in that, but it doesn't, you know, necessarily change like
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there's nothing that's locked out story wise, so you can feel,
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you know, okay to play it on normal or an
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easier setting. If you're playing it on easy, it's still
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going to get hard when you get to certain parts
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of the game, Like there is difficulty spikes. I found
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playing it normal or easy. It just depends on how
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much do you want to do like bullet spongy sort
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of it. It's a little bit spongier on the heart
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of difficulties. So if that's more of a concern, you
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want to take a little bit more of an easier,
721
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breezier take on it than play it on the easier setting. Okay.
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So what is Starbites. It is an RPG traditional turn
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based game. You explore a ravaged desert planet called Bitter.
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You play as as the main character. She's a young
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salvager who wants to get off the planet. But there's
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things of keeping her there potentially debt as well as
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just circumstantial things. You're stuck on this planet. There's mysteries
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to solve and uncover. You have other friends that go
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out and salvage parts and stuff. You do like odd
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jobs to basically make enough money to leave the planet.
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You have these junkie mecha that you have built up
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that serve as your main combat vehicles. And then you
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have like skill trees you can you know, as you
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level up, you can level up skill trees. You can
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go back and refund the points at no cost to
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yourself to give yourself different skill tree updates. Eventually, if
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you go far enough of the game, you're likely to
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fill up most of the skill tree completely on your
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own if you get to a high enough level, and
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there's options for breaking enemies guards, which then lets you
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do more damage. There's bosses that have certain patterns you
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have to beat or avoid. Think like Final Fantasy six,
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where you know certain times don't attack the enemy or
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their retaliate, or there's certain bosses that you have to
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follow a pattern or not do certain things or they'll
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do a massive counter attack. I found maybe three bosses
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were of the almost unfair variety where there was a
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little bit of random number generation to you know, I
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had to play like five or six times till I
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just happened to get the right order of you know,
751
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luck to be able to beat them. That stuff that
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are little hiccups that you find in indie studios and that.
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But it was only a couple instances where I was like, ah,
754
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come on, and then I had to like really hunker
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down and figure out not just a pattern, but figure
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out that there was some random number generation involved in
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in my luck, at least in the turn quality. Beyond that,
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there is a few central city bases that you go
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to that you can travel between. There is quick travel.
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I found one glitch, one major issue that I hope
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is patched out, and that was after a certain point
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of the game. I will not do any spoilers. This
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is a spoiler free show that there was a point
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where if I fast traveled to a certain area, it
765
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would soft lock my game and I would it would
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never load the area, and I'm like, this doesn't make
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any sense. And luckily I had a save before that point,
768
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and there was an auto save that was before that point,
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and I loaded that up. It was fine, and I thought, well,
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maybe if I got a little farther in the game,
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maybe I can quick travel there. I get quick travel
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to a couple places other than this one spot. When
773
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I tried to quick travel to this one spot from
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a certain point of the game on where it just
775
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would not let me do it. It would soft lock it
776
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completely and it would sit there. I left it one
777
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day to go cook lunch and for like an hour
778
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it was still stuck at the loading screen. So I
779
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was like, Nah, Okay, that part's broken. Maybe that'll get
780
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fixed before launch. And if it's not, that's a bug
781
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report that I can't I guess can be reported. But again,
782
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I was playing a pre release build. I don't think
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that there's any major clitches to be fixed, but that
784
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might be something that was slightly overlooked. There was one
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other side mission that I accepted and could not complete
786
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because things would not load for it. Luckily, that side
787
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mission and none of them really. The side missions are
788
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tied to trophies other than like doing a certain amount
789
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of them, but like I did every one except for
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one of them, and I had already received the trophy
791
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for doing as many as I could, so that was fine.
792
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Some of the trophies are attached to like observing certain
793
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items later in the game, like going into an area
794
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and reading something, And I found that was kind of
795
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funny that there's like five or six of them that
796
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are attached to that. It's like, oh, they just sort
797
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of filled up the lore with some of these trophies.
798
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But again, that's just the rookie stuff that you see
799
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happen with indie studios, and that's if I'm really really
800
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trying to nitpick, I can say this. The characters have
801
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lots of personality and spunk. Every character is unique and
802
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:56.800
well put together. The music is pretty good. There's not
803
00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:00.000
a huge score, but everything that's in this, even though
804
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:03.960
it's looped, sounds great. The story is fun and feels
805
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:07.519
like an anime Saturday Morning cartoon. The characters are all
806
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:12.320
well voice acted. The visual presentation was good. I feel
807
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that this probably scales quite well to like the Nintendo
808
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.239
Switch platforms as well as if you're playing on like
809
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a Steam Deck or something. The requirements if you're playing
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in on PC are not crazy, and the minimum requirements
811
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essentially are a third generation Intel Core. We're on generation
812
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thirteen or fourteen now, and then the same with the
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rise in three one series. Basically, if you have a
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computer with a processor from the last ten years, it
815
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likely works for the CPU and a GPU as a
816
00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:46.719
GTX ten fifty AKAA ten year old entry level video
817
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card likely works. You could probably get away with if
818
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you have a modern Intel Ultra like you know, modern
819
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laptop or whatever that happens to have like integrated graphics.
820
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But it's like the Intel you know, uh, you know,
821
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Battle major, Intel XD Core. Some of them, like the
822
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really modern integrated graphics would probably play this just fine.
823
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But the recommended is again third generation mid range stuff
824
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eight or sixteen megs of RAM or sorry, sixteen gigabytes RAM.
825
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That's about standard and at ten to sixty is the minium.
826
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So you most people should be able to play this,
827
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you know, with relatively ease and no issue. Very good.
828
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I do think that there will be likely a day
829
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one patch when you see this, so install that and
830
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.920
any little glitches should probably be cleared up. I can't
831
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.760
wait to see what a Kina Games has coming next,
832
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:41.920
because this is a really really good, you know output.
833
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.920
I think that that they did well. There are games
834
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with higher budgets than this that don't get either. English
835
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voice acting or get good voice acting, and I'm really
836
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.719
happy they did because that is what really made the
837
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.639
difference here. And I do think this is a great RPG.
838
00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:59.559
This could this could be somebody's entry into JRPG style
839
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.320
games and based games. I think that this is good.
840
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.800
It says it's raded for teen. Ultimately, I do think kids,
841
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if you're like Tanner up, would probably be fine with it.
842
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:10.239
But that's just my personal opinion. I think it's worth
843
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:11.880
checking out. I'll put a link in the description so
844
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you can't Alex the producer here. And here's something fun.
845
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Our friends at film Chest Media Group sent over Dark
846
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Film Mysteries for a three disc DVD film Noir Collector
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00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:27.000
set for us to check out. Now. This is the
848
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:29.280
first time we've actually reviewed something from film Chests in
849
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:31.719
a while. They used to send out a lot of
850
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:34.559
cool stuff that they haven't done quite as much recently.
851
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.920
But I'm always happy to see when a new release
852
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comes from them because they put a lot of time, effort,
853
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and care into their releases when they do put them up.
854
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And if you go back several years with us, we've
855
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been reviewing a lot of their stuff, including previous Dark
856
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Film mystery sets, and for those that don't know what
857
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.360
they are is they are collections of like film noir
858
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movies from you know anywhere, ranking back like you know,
859
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:08.679
early thirties to like mid to late sixties usually and
860
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:11.559
this case is no different. There's movies ranging from nineteen
861
00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:13.800
thirty three to nineteen sixty four, all black and white,
862
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.760
all in the four x three aspect ratio, which tends
863
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.079
to still look pretty good on DVD. For a long time,
864
00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:23.800
you know, we were always saying, hey, you know, everything
865
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.280
should be on blue ray. Nowadays, certain movies have a
866
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:31.960
certain charm when watched, you know, on DVD, especially if
867
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like nobody really has like a CRT anymore, but maybe
868
00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:37.280
you have one in your basement, you have like a
869
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:40.000
like a movie viewing room or like some people have
870
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:41.480
even done it where like they've set up like a
871
00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:44.119
VHS room. In the case of like my mom, she
872
00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:47.800
has a you know, a quote unquote dumb TV. She's
873
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:51.039
got a thirty two inch h TENDDPTV from RCA, but
874
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.760
it's it's one of those Chinese rebranded things where like
875
00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.920
it's just got RCA's name on it. One of those
876
00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:58.639
ones you could find on like Black Friday or or
877
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Christmas deals for like hundred bucks, you know, seven or
878
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:04.440
eight years ago. One of those things. She has that
879
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.960
sort of set up in her one spare bedroom, which
880
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:10.239
when she feels like watching movies, that's where she watches.
881
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:12.920
And she has a VHS machine that was I think
882
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.119
My Brothers from twenty years ago. She's got that hooked
883
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:18.440
up and that's how she watches older movies. She likes
884
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:21.000
watching them in there. And we have a DVD player,
885
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:23.119
not a blue ray player, a DVD player hooked up
886
00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:27.119
in her room there with it set properly to display
887
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movies in the four x three aspect ratio on that TV,
888
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you know, so bars on the side. And that's how
889
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.400
she chooses to watch older stuff, basically if it's from
890
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before the modern digital era, so like if a movie's
891
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from two thousand and five or earlier, that's how she
892
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prefers to watch. And I know it's like counterintuitive you'd
893
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.760
think when it comes to VHS and that, but I
894
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:49.639
told her about this. I said, hey, you know, I've
895
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.480
got this dark film mystery set. Would you like to
896
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:56.000
watch some of this stuff? So that's that's kind of
897
00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:58.760
what we did. And I picked you know, there's three
898
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discs here, there's four movies per you know, per disc,
899
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so they run it about three hundred and fifty minutes,
900
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which is about the max you're gonna want to get
901
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:12.559
on a dual layer disc. Now, you can get by
902
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with this, like I said, with you know, if it
903
00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:18.199
was these were color pictures, you start to really notice
904
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pixelation or like more patterns or other compression artifacts when
905
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.159
you try to compress that much time onto a DVD.
906
00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.360
Advantages when you do that with a full screen disc,
907
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:39.239
there is less pixels used up by the data, meaning
908
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you generally have a better pixel per pixel bitrycount. It's technical,
909
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:46.880
YadA YadA. But also being in black and white helps
910
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.079
even more because there's the only thing you might slightly
911
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.119
lose is it's a little softer than it would be
912
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:56.039
if you watch something like this on Blu ray or
913
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four K or but it retains the detail of the
914
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:04.880
color grading of like like the grayscale grading quite well.
915
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.280
So this is pretty much the best you can expect
916
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.800
on this format. The only thing I'll say before going
917
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into like a little more details is you know, in
918
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the future, and I've said this, you know, I said
919
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this to film just a few years ago, as well
920
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:19.639
as some of the other companies that we get, you know,
921
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catalog releases from that do multidisc sets like this. I would, personally,
922
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and I've heard from some of our listeners too, they
923
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:31.519
would prefer if you know what you have on three
924
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discs here, you'd have twelve movies. It would almost be
925
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served better, you know, because three dual layer discs equals
926
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roughly twenty one gigabytes of data. It would be served
927
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better to the public on a Blu ray disc, a
928
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single layer twenty five gig Blu ray disc with all
929
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of these movies in four ADP, because that is a
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format that Blu ray is. It's part of the standard.
931
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:56.679
Because you could use a better quality codec than MPEG
932
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two that could use the standard AVC codec that is
933
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what blue rays usually still use, and they could be
934
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put on there in progressive scan mode instead of interlaced
935
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at slightly higher quality, and you could have every movie
936
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on there. I have some releases usually from Germany and
937
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some international ones, and there's in the anime community. We
938
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get releases sometimes from other companies that where they do that,
939
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they'll put TV shows and it'll say SD on BD
940
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so standard DEF on Blu ray disc and for those releases,
941
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I think for preservations perspective, for people, it's better because
942
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those discs don't get it scratched. But you know, I
943
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think the weighing in on the options here. The reason
944
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a lot of times companies go with DVD is just
945
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every Blue ray player is backwards compatible. But it's getting
946
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to the point now that I know that a lot
947
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of these movies are. The market is a lot of
948
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times older people or people that are like film noir
949
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:50.920
buffs like myself. But the older people, you know, they
950
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:53.679
have older sets. It's getting to a point where it's
951
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hard to find a DVD player a decent good DVD
952
00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:00.960
player still, So if you're buying a replacement player for
953
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your grandparents or your parents, it's likely a Blu ray player.
954
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So that's why my suggestion would be maybe moving forward
955
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is if you did to release more of these, my
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only criticism is maybe put them out on a single
957
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layer Blu ray disc and marketed as standard DEF SDBD.
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So put that way, you could fit the twelve movies
959
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on one disc. You can still as a retail charge
960
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the same price, maybe even a few bucks more. Maybe
961
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five bucks more for being on the premium of that disc,
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but I think that would be ideal for most people
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00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:33.480
moving forward in the collector community because it is still
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easy to get anything that plays Blu rays, it's getting
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harder to find a dedicated DVD player. But with that aside,
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I want to just mention that I didn't watch all
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twelve for this review. I picked out one from each
968
00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:47.880
disc just to make sure the discs were all mastered
969
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and working well. I picked a Borderline on the disc
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on the first disc that was a pretty fun, fun release.
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On the second disc, I picked The Saint Louis Bankrob
972
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that was great and again picture quality was adequate what
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00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:07.440
I would expect from this. And on the third disc,
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I picked a Dishonored Lady, which is the first release
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on there. Other movies included are The Big Combo, The Chase,
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The Second Woman, Too Late for Tears, The Naked Kiss,
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Please Murder Me, The Kennel Murder, The Man with the
978
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Golden Arm, and The Man Who Cheated Himself. They're all
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in the range of somewhere between seventy ish minutes or
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so and about ninety to one hundred minutes. So the
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fact that they're lower in length of film length as well.
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It helps with the bitrate on here. Pretty good insert
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it says right on the front. Includes it says episode synopsis.
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They're not episodes, they're movies, so it should have said,
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you know, movie synopsis on there. But that's just probably
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a carryover from printing when they do their TV show releases.
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So it's over seventeen hours of really cool stuff that
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you can watch on here. As far as what else included,
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it's in a good quality DVD case. It's not one
990
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of those like cheapy, brittle ones you see nowadays. But
991
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it does have like a little insert like I said,
992
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with with synopsis for each movie, so you can at
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least know what you're getting yourself into when you choose
994
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to watch something. These are the kind of cool releases
995
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:23.639
that are good for you know, having a bunch of these,
996
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you know, collecting, like you know, Dark Film Mysteries one, two, three,
997
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:28.599
and now four, keeping them on the shelf for a
998
00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.400
rainy day you have, you know, make yourself a grill
999
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cheese sandwich, makes some you know coffee or cocoa or
1000
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:38.559
something when it's raining or blizzarding or bad weather out
1001
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:41.960
there and you want something just nostalgic and fun to
1002
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.760
put on, because back in the day people used to
1003
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:46.440
do stuff like that with Turner classic movies. People don't
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00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:50.119
really have cable anymore. Everything's gone to either streaming or
1005
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into the collector market like this, And I do think
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that this is a pretty reasonable set to pick up.
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I think that seventeen hours as an MSRP A twenty
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bucks US, you're basically at this point when you start
1009
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:04.599
adding it up your head, you're like, it's just slightly
1010
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.079
over a dollar per hour of entertay. But it's pretty
1011
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:09.480
much a no brainer honestly for me. I like it.
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00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:11.119
I'll put a link at the description of where you
1013
00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:13.760
can buy it. I think it's well worth your time.
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00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:18.039
I love these old school noirs that in many cases,
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00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:20.840
you know, weren't getting released previously on their own. They
1016
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:22.639
might not have been able to release them on their own,
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00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.880
so having them in a big collection like this totally
1018
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:28.320
makes it worth it. Yeahlex the producer here, and I'm
1019
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.039
doing just a sort of quickie roundup of some of
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00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:33.679
the indie titles that I've been playing for review as
1021
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sort of like a first impressions review where they wouldn't
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necessarily have found a place in our pussy schedule to
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00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.559
fit with full length reviews individually on our programming. So
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I want to just sort of go a little rapid
1025
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fire over some of the cool things I've been playing,
1026
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one of which is Monster Crown Sin Eater. I played
1027
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:58.199
this on the Nintendo Switch and it's a pretty interesting title.
1028
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:03.400
I've enjoyed it so far Visually. It sort of piques
1029
00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:08.360
my interest in that it's obviously going for a Pokemon
1030
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.039
esque you know, with higher visual fidelity graphics sort of style.
1031
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.360
Pretty fun title. It's been released in other platforms before,
1032
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and now it's it's got a Switch version as well
1033
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.920
as I think there's a physical copycoming. Something to keep
1034
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:23.000
your eye on if you're a fan of games like that.
1035
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Definitely worth checking out. I've also been playing Blueprints, which
1036
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was a Game of the Year contender in the past.
1037
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:34.039
I can totally see why I know that this has
1038
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been available. It was on like game Pass for a while.
1039
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:41.400
This is a review essentially of the switch to version,
1040
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:45.920
which I can say that port works perfectly, flawless, scales
1041
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:50.159
well both in handheld and in doc mode. The graphics
1042
00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:55.000
obviously lend themselves to being well optimized for the platform,
1043
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:57.280
so you know, not before I could say other than like,
1044
00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:59.079
it's one of the best games released of the last
1045
00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:01.239
few years, one of the best needs for sure, and
1046
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:03.599
now it has a really good quality switch to port,
1047
00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:07.280
so worth checking out for sure. The next one I
1048
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:11.480
wanted to mention that I've been playing is a Scullful Skulp. Yeah,
1049
00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:17.800
Tungue Twister has Scott Fuld Moonless Night. This one wasn't
1050
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:21.239
really for me. I wasn't a big fan of the
1051
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:24.960
graphical style used in it, but that is more of
1052
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:30.159
a personal aesthetics issue that I have. I prefer my
1053
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.000
graphics to be of a certain polish. It has a
1054
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:38.519
charm to it. It's like halfway between the graphics you
1055
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:42.760
see on on like one of those like moving survival,
1056
00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:46.519
Vampire survivor sort of things, and uh and a more
1057
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:52.840
like RPG maker esque aesthetic. It's hard. It has a
1058
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:57.400
you know, a pretty interesting gameplay loop to it. Again,
1059
00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:00.559
not necessarily for me, but don't let that scourage you,
1060
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:02.800
because I think if you watch like a trailer or
1061
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:04.719
something for it, you might get a kick out of it.
1062
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:06.719
It's just not something I would personally highlight as one
1063
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:08.639
of my favorites of the year, not that I was
1064
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:12.559
overly disappointed. I went in with like pretty much no
1065
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:16.159
expectations for it. I'm just saying that it's not going
1066
00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:19.000
to warrant for me a full review. But if you
1067
00:57:19.159 --> 00:57:21.599
like these sorts of games, these are the games you
1068
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:23.480
kind of like. This is on switch, I can say
1069
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:27.000
that performance wise, I think the reason why I'm not
1070
00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:31.000
doing a full review on this one is it had
1071
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:34.360
a loading times on my switch too, like which you
1072
00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:38.360
know it's internally on the SSD, the internal SSD, and
1073
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.199
when you pooted it up to the main menu, I
1074
00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:42.480
counted like twenty seconds where it was like loading and
1075
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.920
I'm like to load, what the graphics weren't there, Like,
1076
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:48.400
they're not the kind of things that were required loading.
1077
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.480
So it feels to me a little unoptimized, unfortunately, but
1078
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.320
maybe with patches it'll do better. But that was just
1079
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:56.239
how I felt on that. It's just my thoughts of that.
1080
00:57:56.440 --> 00:58:00.599
So that's pretty much it for the indie and smaller
1081
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:03.280
titles that I just wanted to give a quick highlight
1082
00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:05.400
to on the show here before they get lost in
1083
00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:07.679
the shuffle with all the other bigger titles coming out.
1084
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I'll put links in the description if you're interested in
1085
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:12.519
any of them, because again, take everything that I say
1086
00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:14.480
with a grain of salt. I do think that there's
1087
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:15.559
something here for everyone.
1088
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:18.239
Hey guys, this is Mike the byrd Man here once again.
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00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:22.159
I'm here to talk to you about another exciting Transformers
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00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:24.920
product we were sent to take a look at from
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00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:28.199
our good friends over at Hasbro. I'm talking about the
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00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:32.519
Transformers Age of the Primes Maximal Big Convoy. This is
1093
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:36.159
a Leader class figure that was originally featured and I
1094
00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:38.719
want to say Beast Wars Neo. So this is the
1095
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:43.119
Japanese Beast Wars series that we never got. But surprisingly
1096
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:48.079
they've been producing figures from this series. We have the
1097
00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:52.360
Tasmania Kid. We have Magmatron, which is a real surprise.
1098
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:57.360
We have Leo Convoy in multiple different color variations and redecos.
1099
00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:01.920
And Big Convoy is sort of the Wooly Mammoth aka
1100
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:07.400
Manny from Ice Age looking guy who is yet another
1101
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.920
holder of the Matrix if you will.
1102
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:13.159
He comes with a couple of different accessories.
1103
00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:16.239
He comes with a couple of missiles that do not fire,
1104
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:18.280
unlike the original Japanese toy.
1105
00:59:18.679 --> 00:59:20.320
He comes with a blaster.
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00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:23.599
A couple of tusks that can be positioned as like
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00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:28.119
different sort of armaments. He's known in the continuity as
1108
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:29.679
the one man Army.
1109
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.119
I don't disagree with that.
1110
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:35.280
He has a capability when he gets posed to use
1111
00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:37.440
his shoulder pads like these giant missile launchers.
1112
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:39.880
He has like these maces that are.
1113
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:41.440
Kind of built into his arms, so kind of like
1114
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:46.719
Optimus Primal was in the original Kenner Days, and it's
1115
00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:51.519
a pretty nice looking figure at the leader class size point.
1116
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:55.559
What really impresses me about this is he does have
1117
00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:59.840
the capacity rather to have his entire backpiece, so he's
1118
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:01.639
not quite a shell former, but.
1119
01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:03.920
That turns into his big cannon.
1120
01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:05.599
And I think that maybe the canonical name if you
1121
01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:09.599
pardon the pun there, and it's kind of like this
1122
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:14.800
big honkin gun that literally is formed out of his back.
1123
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:17.280
But he also has, like I said, the aforementioned missile pods.
1124
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:21.480
He's got like a blaster. His robot mode posability, I'm
1125
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:23.559
a pretty big fan of I think it looks pretty good.
1126
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:26.880
I think he displays great in robot mode.
1127
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:29.679
If he's a little unwieldly just.
1128
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:32.840
Because of the way that his back piece attaches, which
1129
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:34.800
is his big cannon. It's a lot better if you
1130
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:39.079
actually display that and have him hold the cannons as
1131
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:42.599
if he was firing it, which you can do fairly easily.
1132
01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:47.079
I would say you can also display him where he
1133
01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:49.880
has the cannon out of his face, and that's something
1134
01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:52.039
you want to do. That's something the original toy could do. Again,
1135
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:54.480
I had to look up some reference pictures for this.
1136
01:00:56.079 --> 01:00:59.320
That's certainly a thing, having your gun turned into your
1137
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:03.639
face locked down from Age of Extinction, and this guy
1138
01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:05.840
did it first in the nineties, so there's that.
1139
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:10.199
I guess robot mode is the strongest point.
1140
01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:15.800
But display wise, I think he looks the best in
1141
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:20.719
his woly mammoth. However, that does come with a big asterix.
1142
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:24.119
It's not very posable, which is really unfortunate. Now his
1143
01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:27.400
trunk does move, his ears moved. Like I said, he
1144
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:33.639
looks great in either mode. He displays wonderfully, but in
1145
01:01:33.800 --> 01:01:37.239
terms of what he can do in his alt mode,
1146
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:43.960
it's severely limiting. So if you had a Beast Wars Neo.
1147
01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:46.960
Display, I might suggest you.
1148
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.079
Display them in their alt modes. I think they look
1149
01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:56.639
really strong together. I can't say I'm surprised this is
1150
01:01:56.719 --> 01:02:00.079
offered at the leader class price point, just because they're
1151
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.400
are a lot of accessories and he is a rather
1152
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:07.480
big and pretty solid figure all things considered. However, where
1153
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:12.000
would I recommend this for the casual person, Well, for
1154
01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:15.199
the casual fan. If you want a different looking Optimist,
1155
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:17.760
I don't think you're gonna find a better one than
1156
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:20.639
this one, at least currently at kind of.
1157
01:02:20.679 --> 01:02:23.280
Retail we've got like the Devastation Optimist.
1158
01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:25.880
Maybe you can still find some Leo convoys out there,
1159
01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:30.519
maybe the Titan Optimist if you're into that one, which
1160
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:32.480
I think has a lot of play value for a kid.
1161
01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:37.119
For fans of Beat stores, this is absolutely a no brainer.
1162
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.280
It looks great, he displays wonderfully. It would be nice
1163
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.400
if we get Magma Boss down the road the Auto
1164
01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:46.960
or sorry, the Maximal Combiner that was made up of
1165
01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:49.519
like Prowl and I can't remember the other characters, but
1166
01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:53.000
I remember Prowl was definitely kind of one of them. Yeah,
1167
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:55.159
I mean, it's a pretty great figure in either way
1168
01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:58.119
it displays. I just wish it had more posability in
1169
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:01.880
its alt mode. But no, all figures are created equal.
1170
01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:05.239
But if you've ever wanted to search for Angma Energy
1171
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.880
and I think that's how you pronounce it or fight
1172
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.079
the evil Predacons and Magmatron, well, then you should probably
1173
01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:15.760
let Big Convoy lead the way for you. Once again,
1174
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:18.480
that has been my review of Transformers Age of the
1175
01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:21.400
Primes Maximal Big Convoy.
1176
01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:26.119
Our friends over at in End Games have sent a
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01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:30.760
review copy of our Type Dimensions three for review on
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01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.360
the Nintendo Switch to. This game is also available and
1179
01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:38.599
Switch one, as well as PlayStation five, Xbox pretty much
1180
01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:41.800
every platform you can think of. I will say this
1181
01:03:41.880 --> 01:03:44.119
preference this has been some time in the making. I
1182
01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.679
know that I've been pushed back a little bit here
1183
01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:51.159
and there, and the physical edition has been moved to August.
1184
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:55.000
A lot of that has to do with global manufacturing,
1185
01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:01.360
logistics constraints, issues of manufacturing go into it in a
1186
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.199
full fled show we should probably do at some point,
1187
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:06.840
which we've you know, hinting up left and right. It's
1188
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:09.199
not just a RAM and chip shortage out there. It's
1189
01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:13.599
also manufacturing issues due to due to global events, you know,
1190
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:19.280
wars in Russia, wars in the Middle East, Chinese manufacturing constraints,
1191
01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:23.199
global tariffs and all that crazy stuff. That really has
1192
01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:25.519
been a pain obviously on the consumer. But at the
1193
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:29.079
manufacturing side. Everybody at these companies, especially smaller companies that
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can't you know, they're not a Sony, they're not a
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Microsoft or you know, a Nintendo where they can leverage,
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you know, saying hey, let's manufacture you know, ten million
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units because they figure, oh, we might not sell it
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all right away, but the money will save on you know,
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economies of scale will help with a smaller company like this,
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and this can be quite a pain. So you know,
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rest assured you're going to get your physical addition if
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you've pre ordered it, and if you're you know, somebody
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who has pre order in the past. They said that
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there's gonna be an opportunity to request a complimentary digital
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access key, basically allowing people to start five days ahead
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of launch. And there's platform specific details, YadA YadA. If
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you've you know, purchased it or pre ordered it through
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them directly, maybe check out your point of contact there,
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whatever story you purchased from and see how that works.
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That being said, I have had a chance obviously to
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play the digital copy. It plays great. It's if you've
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know our type, you know our type, and the dimensions
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games have been like you know, enhanced remakes, remastered, all
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that sort of stuff, bringing all those games in the
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past to like modern standards. We've reviewed the first two
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in the series here. It's going back a few years now.
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I think that they started doing these, so it's nice
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seeing it come out. Performs well, audio is sync perfectly,
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the music matches what you'd want. The feel is there,
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the atmosphere, the visuals are there. I didn't encounter any
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major frame rate issues or crashes or glitches or anything
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to that extent. The difficulty is hard if the hard
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type games are not easy cakewalks. There's some options there
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to like you know, it makes some slight adjustments to
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your own settings and that, but there is no there's
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no easy win mode with these games. But the challenge
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is there to be conquered, and it's also one of
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the games that you feel you can conquer. Nothing feels
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punishing for the sake of being punishing. It feels like
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you can learn patterns, get better, and move forward without
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it being too like oppressive or anything. Sometimes that's where
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the balance falls apart in these games is where it
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can feel like you're never going to get better. Not
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the case here. You will get better. It's just going
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to take a little bit and you know, there'd be
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a little bit of frustration, maybe take a break, come back,
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but again, it's hard, but not punishing. That's the best
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way I can describe it. It's also very well put together.
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I think it's a great game. If you like shooters,
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you know shooters, this is gonna be probably one for you.
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If you've you know, played the previous ones in the franchise,
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obviously it's a no brainer. Can you jump in as
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a completely new player. Absolutely, there's nothing that says you
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can't start with this and then go back and play
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others in the franchise. So that's my recommendation. I'll put
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a link in the description where you can check it
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out for yourself. I think it's great and if you're
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waiting for the physical edition, just know it's gonna come
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later this summer.
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I'm trying to make it easy.
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Damn it.
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I'm on vacation.
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Let's kick some funds.
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Are you getting this?
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Alex the producer here and I have a Triple Threat release.
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Well there's three separate releases, but I wanted to review
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them altogether because, as mentioned on I believe it was
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last week or maybe the week before his show, we've
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been receiving some cool new movies to check out for
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review from our friends at Visual Vengeance. That is the
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Visual Vengeance Collector series of interesting movies. We've covered over
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the last little bit a couple of nineties quote unquote classics,
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and I'll just say this, I have three here that
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are either coming out or are just out. Some of
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them just released, some of them are coming out as
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of this week, I think the same week, maybe the
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next following week. But the three movies here are Funguside,
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which has I'll say this, these three releases have some
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of the coolest covers ever. And these are Blu Rays
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or in the case of one of them, a Blu
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Ray slash CD Combo, and the other ones are Born
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In a Ninja Slash Commando, the Ninja double Feature, as
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well as The screet the Screaming. But the first one
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here is Funguside, and it's got a picture of a
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scanty clad woman on the front. Hand, it's like a
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hand drawn poster with giant mushrooms with teeth and knives
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going to attacker. They kind of look penile. But I'll
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say that here's how the best way to scribe it.
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I don't want to spoil any of these, but I'll
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give you a quick synopsis of them. I was like,
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if you're a big fan of like the shot on
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video the nineties, like the real low budget, like over
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the top, the stuff that you see covered a lot
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on things like red letter media stuff, then these are
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the kind of movies for you. And I'll say this.
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It opens up. It says from the creator of the
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legendary suburban Skasquatch. Need I say more? Probably not. Basically
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it's from the writer director of Riff tracks and read
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the demeter favorite suburban Sasquatch as in one of the
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most infamous movies of the Internet. Comes this film. Basically,
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it's within a tranquil fordist for us. Five strangers meet
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and it's secluded bed and breakfast. But one of these
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guests happens to be a mad scientist who uses his
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vacation to accidentally create an army of killer mushrooms. Now
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unleashed on the other guests, and with the potty count
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quickly piling up, it's up to the survivors to arm
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themselves and fight back against these slaughtering shrooms in hopes
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of stopping them from World Domination. That's pretty much all
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you need to know. It's eighty five minutes ish depending
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you know, including credits in that it is region free.
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You can play this discout anywhere in the world, so
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there's no worry about region locking or anything. There is
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a director approved SD master from the original tape, elements
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obviously on tape shot on shidio, new commentary from the
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director and co writers. There is archival commentaries on here.
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There's two additional commentaries, which is always good. I love
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when they put a whole bunch of extras like that
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on there. There is the full riff tracks version of
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on the side right on there, so it's even better.
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Alternate opening credits and deleted scenes, some outtakes image galleries.
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Then there is some different trailers produced for the producer's trailer.
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The Visual Vengeance re released trailer, reversible sleeve, folded mini
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poster inside stick your own VHS sticker set for the
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first pressing that is purchased of this now. As of
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this recording is going to be available on May twenty six,
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so if you pre order it now you'll get that
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first pressing includes the sticker set as well as an
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O card. For the first pressing, as well as a
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grow your Own Killer mushroom seed packet for the first
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pressing only and optional English subtitles Pretty Sweet, nossme if
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you love that era of filming filmmaking. This Screaming is
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the other one of the other releases here. Basically, college
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student Bob Martin rents a room from the alluring Crystal Traum,
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which introduces him to her new age religion Crystal Netics
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sounds a little bit like Dianaic's done It anyway, Soon
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Bob's health and mindset dramatically improve, But when a detective
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reveals a string of mysterious deaths tied to the cult,
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Bob uncovers the chilling truth and must face the sleeve
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cloaked assassins, monsters and cults, cults, charismatic a leader gee,
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I wonder what they're implying here anyway. It does include
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the original score from by J. Wilfol on the CD
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and here, which is always awesome when they include stuff
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like that. So includes the CD sent on track score
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director commentary. There is a making of feature on here,
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composing information and video on the composing of the actual score.
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There is the Screaming Reborn directory mastered alternate version of
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the film on the disc, so a completely different cut,
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which is awesome too. There is a commentary on that
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cut as well. Image gallery original trailers, the Screaming Reborn trailer,
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more visual vengeance trailers, optional English subtitles, a folded mini
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poster if you get the first pressing of this if
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it's not sold, that where you're getting it from. It
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also includes the stick your Own VHS sticker set, reversible
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sleeve featuring VHS art and the O card as well
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as included. So pretty sweet there. And then for the
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final one I wanted to mention here in these three
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movies releasing around the same time is the Born and
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Ninja slash Commando the Ninja double feature, so shot on video,
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martial arts double feature. It's pure eighties you know, ninja
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chaos and sanity, the stuff you love to see. Born
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and Ninja uh is shot on video, you know, ridiculous,
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low budget fun, you know, chop sockey craziness involved. And
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then Commando the Ninja which is also known as an
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American Commando Ninja or also known as Silent Killers. It's
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basically a covert war over Germ warfarees and ninja blades
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and conspiracies and and just it's just the fun ninja
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stuff you think of from the eighties. They're st masters
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from the original tapes. They include commentaries on both video essays,
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image galleries, trailers, more optional subtitles, mini fold of the
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posters for verstable sleeves and if again, if you order
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the first pressings of these, you'll get the stick your
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own VHS sticker sets, o cards, and there's also a
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booklet with an essay by Ninja movie expert CJ in
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Lines and a Blu ray sieve featuring art by quotes
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the dude. Don't think it's any relation to the dude
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in bing Lebowski, but still pretty awesome. And you get
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a double feature on here depending on where you purchase
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from if you go to MVD shop. They're the distributor
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of this or one of the main distributors of this
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and publisher for Visual Vengeances release. As of when I'm
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looking at it right now, it's looking at about thirty
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five dollars Canadian down from the forty nine dollars MSRP
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on it, and there's about three hundred units available to
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ship from them directly. That would be the first printing. Now, obviously,
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if you go to any of your favorite home video
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retailers online has it, it's probably still going to be
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that first run, so you can get the little extras
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that come in it. A lot of cool stuff here.
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I'm happy to be getting the Visual Vengeance stuff because
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they're fun and wild. I hope that we get more
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of them to review in the future, but I wanted
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to make sure that we just covered those three because
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we're getting into a really busy season for us, and
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I wanted to make sure that you the listener could
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hear about this soon enough, because I'm not sure if
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it's something that's going to be necessarily on your radar otherwise.
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And you can get a chance to pick them up
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when they're in their first print run or even pre order,
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so you can get all the cool extras that only
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come with the first print runs of these. So that's
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it for right now. We're going to go back to
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the show, and I can't wait to see what else
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we got a chance to check out from Visual Vengeance
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in the future.
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Let's see if our old hook is focused can beat
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us in Ninja too.
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Let's go.
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Sooner we find the formula that sooner we can destroy it.
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Go get that out of a bit.
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We're making sacrifices to save other people from the results
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of your diabolical plot to Ninja knows.
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Fight for those two weeks to fight for themselves. This
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is only a winning martin.
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Those magnificent beats. Color me kookie, but something very odd
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is going on around here.
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You're not allowed to talk anymore, Paul. Right, we're back
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now at the end of the show. That's it for
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the week. This, depending on how many reviews we had
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ready to go, will be either a longer short show,
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but it's a long weekend again as we trek forward
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towards the inevitable onslaught of shows that we're going to
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have for Summer game Fest over the next few weeks.
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Berman and I should, with fingers crossed, be doing a
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full regular show with the news and weird news this
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upcoming week, but schedules might change as his health has
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taken a turn. As we were recording even he was
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feeling worse and he's like, Alex, maybe you take over
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the end of the show for me, and I went, yeah,
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let's do that, so we'll see. Hopefully he feels better
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and if not, We'll go with whatever comes. Should have
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more reviews ready to go for next week. We do have,
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as far as new programming on the website and on
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all of our podcast channels, a bunch of cool stuff
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coming up. I have a recording that I'm doing this
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week with Aaron. We're doing, actually, instead of doing a
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Future in Perfect, we're actually doing a loose cannon on
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an interesting movie that he's been trying to get us
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to do for quite some time now, actually, but weren't
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able to get all the boys together for it. But
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me and him are able to actually, you know, sit
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down and do it discussion on that. I'm not saying
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exactly what it is just yet, simply because I think
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we're going to keep it as an like a evergreen
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title that we can use over the next you know,
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a few weeks or so, or maybe during the summer break.
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But as far as like regular shows, what we've got
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coming up, we've already got scheduled, got a bunch of
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stuff ready to go. We have a New Earth versus
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soup this week on Brides of Blood from nineteen sixty eight.
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We've also got as long as Burnman isn't sick, We've
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got new episodes ready to go or should have them
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ready to go. For the spell Book, that'll be episode sixteen,
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and he should be recording seventeen or eighteen as well,
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so we'll have those over the next few weeks. We
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have a new Random Access Memories on Television Discoveries that's
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coming this week. We also have a Earth Versus Soup
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01:19:51.159 --> 01:19:54.720
the Vampire Ghost coming next week that's uh, you know,
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that's going to be interesting. That's nineteen forty five. And
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01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:02.760
then we've also got Future and Perfects on Supernova at Sunshine,
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new Loose Cannons ready to go, and then also the
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prototype stuff, so it's going to be pretty pretty stacked.
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I think starting next week we'll do a prototype on
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sort of our predictions for Summer Game Fest and what's
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coming up. There might also be Stony State of Plays
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or Nintendo showcases around that time, so we'll see where
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that goes. But the following week is where everything gets
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busy because we will have regular show, We'll have our
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Earth Versus Soups like we usually have. We'll also have Spellbook,
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01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:38.319
but then we shall have coverage of, if not before that,
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the Canadian Game Awards for the Prototype Special or maybe
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01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.600
even a twig special on that, and then it's probably
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01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.640
four or five prototypes covering all the different events that
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01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:52.159
are happening for summer game Vest. And then we sort
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of slow things down a little bit as we prepare
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the rest of June for our inevitable two month break
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over the summer where we're going to have plenty of
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shows pre recorded come out. But that's going to do
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it right here for this Week in geek dot Net.
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We'll talk to you guys next time when hopefully Birdman
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and I are both up well and ready to go,
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so we'll catch again next time right here on this
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Week in geek dot Net.
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At no point in your rambling incoherent response were you
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even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
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