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Hello, hello! Welcome to a novel console, a podcast that we try to release weekly where we talk about books, games, food, and stuff that caught our attention during the week.
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Unfortunately, it is just me today, so it's just gonna be uh a lot of video game stuff, but it's good video game stuff.
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Caredin is off at Dragon Con, so we'll probably have a uh an episode about it next week of her telling us everything that happened at Dragon Con, how it went.
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I know that she's looking at some penises today, because uh she's going to a kilt, uh blower kilt party where some lady has a blower, like a uh a leaf blower, and there's a bunch of dudes in kilts on stage, and she's just blowing up their skirts.
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And anyways, um that's fun.
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Uh, I am home alone for the weekend with the pooches.
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Uh, little one is looking all the shovel like she always does.
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Uh, podcast producer Strider is uh not too happy because it's thundering outside, so he's just moping around a little bit, but he'll get over it.
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Um, so yeah, I I decided to play a couple of games, talk about them.
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I was thinking about just doing a full-fledged episode, bringing somebody on to talk about some sort of topic.
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Um, and the topic was probably gonna be Onimusha, uh, since it released Friday.
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Um, but uh I asked Thrak.
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He's like, I don't care, I'm not doing it.
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It's like, all right, there goes my only options.
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Um, but then one of my friends, Kiko, was like, the Final Fantasy demo is really fucking good after I told him the demo was out, which it came out at some point last week.
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And uh I decided to give the demo a try.
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I also have uh review keys for a game called let me see if I can find it here real quick.
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Come on.
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Uh the game is called Isle of Reveries, so I'll be talking about Isle of Reveries.
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Um uh the way a little pick behind the curtain, the way that I'm doing it, right?
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I am recording after I beat each thing.
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I am obviously not gonna beat Onimusha, but I'm probably just gonna play as much as I can of it today.
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Uh record something either today or tomorrow morning, and then uh tomorrow night or Monday morning, I will record everything about Al of Reverie because I'm probably just gonna beat the entire game in one go.
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It's about six hours long, and uh the cool part is that I have two extra keys for Owl of Reverie, one for Xbox and one for I believe PS4.
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So if you want one of those keys, uh just stay till the end of the show and I'll let you know how to get one of those keys for free so you can enjoy a cool little uh Zelda-like.
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I don't know if it's cool yet because I haven't played it, but it does look pretty cool.
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Anyways, uh let's get started with Final Fantasy Resonance.
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So Final Fantasy Resonance is uh the new Final Fantasy that's coming out later this year.
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I believe it comes out in October.
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Uh it is HD2D.
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I know some of you listeners don't like HD2D.
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Um, I think HD2D is pretty cool.
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I loved Live Alive, the remake, uh, which was an HD2D.
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Uh I like the way Octopath looks.
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I I like uh what was it?
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Uh Star Ocean, the second story R, uh, which uh you guys on Patreon voted for Backlog of Doom a few years ago when it won and I beat it, and it was just fantastic.
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I I decapitated this Donkey Kong, and now I can't put his bed head back.
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This is awesome.
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Um, but yeah, I like the art style.
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Uh so Final Fantasy Resonance, I believe, as far as what my friend Kiko has told me, because I'm I I know I played a little bit of it, but I really didn't care too much because you know, mobile game.
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Um, it is uh they took the story of the mobile game, the characters of the mobile game, and they're releasing it as a full Final Fantasy release on uh modern platforms.
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I believe it's coming to Xbox, PS5, Switch.
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I played the demo on the Switch 2, and it is about three to five hours long, depending on how you put your time into it.
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I basically started it yesterday, put in about four hours into it, woke up this morning, finished it off, and now I'm here talking about it.
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Uh, it takes you through the entire first chapter, so it introduces a lot of concepts for the story, like the spirits, uh visions, I think is what they're called, which are heroes from previous Final Fantasy games that you get to summon, and they have kind of affinities that work better depending on who you pair them with.
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For example, you have characters that are breakers, so if you have spirits that are breakers, like Cloud Strife, and you pair him with a character that has the breaker personality or the breaker job, uh, then they'll work a whole lot better than if you were to pair a healer with a breaker.
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Um, you have healer characters, of course, so you have healer spirits, uh, you have commando spirits, which are just for dealing non-stop heavy damage.
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Uh, I believe Sentinel is another one.
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Sentinel is basically damage plus protection.
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Um, and and you get to pair these uh I'm just gonna call them spirits because I don't really remember the name and I'm too lazy to look up what they are actually called.
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Um, this is all off the top of my head, which is you know awesome podcasting.
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Uh, but yeah, you get to pair them up.
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Uh and as you level up, your spirits like they give you buffs, so you'll have like plus five to speed, and that's a permanent thing that your character just keeps afterwards, and uh plus five to whatever, and you get this new ability specifically for this spirit while it's attached to this character, it it's pretty cool.
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I I really enjoyed that.
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Um, going back to the HD2D, I really like the way the game looks.
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Um, I feel that the world is one of the better HD2D detailed worlds that have been done for these kind of games.
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Um it's very it it gives you that impression that it's vast, and then you have like the sprite characters there.
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I feel like if they were to scale the sprites back a little bit and make them look more uh Final Fantasy VI Chrono Trigger-ish than what they do because they kind of look they're they're sprites, but they're also kind of uh I don't want to say realistic, but kind of realistic looking.
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Um, I feel like it would work more having that contrast of super colorful characters against you know a realistic 3D world.
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Um I I don't I don't know, it might just be me saying shit for the sake of saying shit, but that's that's the way I feel about the way it looks, because sometimes you can't really tell the details on the characters' faces or when they do close-ups, they look kind of fucking weird, which is strange.
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I don't I don't I don't like that sometimes.
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Um, but other than that, uh, I think the rest of the game looks fantastic.
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Um, like in other Final Fantasy games, you get to uh swap weapons and upgrade your equipment and all that, and I really, really, really wish that the weapons were also cosmetics.
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Because um you have your starting sword, and find a character has the starting sword.
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I would love for the swords to change during combat.
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You know, they did it in Final Fantasy VII, they did it in Tactics, they did it in 8, 9, 10, all the other fucking Final Fantasies that have come out since then.
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Um, you've been able to see the weapons that the characters are holding be different than the weapons uh that's assigned or or part of the the character design.
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Um, I really like the character reigns, which is the main character's weapon design, um, but I don't like that it doesn't change.
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So throughout the demo, I think I got like three or four different swords for him, and it just stayed the same, it just upped his stats, which fine, whatever, but I also like the visual of it.
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Um, I am a sucker for uh different armor sets, different weapon sets, um, except for in Cenoblade.
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I don't like the way the character armors look in Cenoblade, they look pretty terrible.
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Um, but but yeah, I I had an amazing time with this game.
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Um I enjoyed it a lot.
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I am honestly going to say that this might be my front runner for game of the year when it comes out.
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Nothing else that has come out this year has really impressed me.
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Um, definitely not uh Resident Evil, not Pragmata.
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Uh, as much as I love Star Fox and the remake, that is not gonna be my game of the year, no matter what.
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I don't I don't think it's even gonna be in my top five.
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But then again, I I look at my list of games and I'm like, none of these deserve to be in a top five.
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Grand Theft Auto is 100% not gonna be my game of the year because what the fuck?
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And it's so overbloated, so not for me.
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Um there's a lot that I that this game is doing that I want, you know, it has classic turn-based RPG, it has a good uh challenge level to it, it has a good progression system.
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You know, I feel like I'm leveling what I need to level up and not when I'm done grinding for a long time.
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Um, it also lets you tackle some things even when you're not ready, like there's a fight against an ogre, um, which the game wants you to be at least level 15 or 16 to take it on.
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And I took it on when I was like level 10, and it was pretty tough, but I got through it.
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It was it was pretty a pretty good fight.
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Um, so the game lets you do that, and I I liked it.
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Um, the it another cool thing that the game does is whenever you go into like a new dungeon or something, it'll tell you what level is recommended for the area that you're going into.
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So closer to the end of the demo, you gotta go into a tower, and the tower's like, you should be level 11, and I'm already like level 17 going into the the tower.
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So the the boss at the end of the tower was like nothing, destroyed that boss, didn't touch me once, just basically took her out in two turns.
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Um, so that the game does that, it it gives you that ability to be insanely overpowered.
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Um, and it also does this really cool thing where you can use as much magic as you want, and obviously your magic meter depletes, but it doesn't feel like you're ever going to run out of the magic meter if you keep an eye on it.
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Um, it it I don't know how to explain it.
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I feel like other Final Fantasies, you know, you have to conserve your magic because you know it's your magic.
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You need it.
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Um, you're gonna need it for something tough, tougher.
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So use items, use your weapons, use your special skills.
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Um not this game.
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This game's like, go ahead, pop off king, uh, queen, uh sire, uh majesty.
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Uh but yeah, that I I think that's that's really cool.
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I feel like the game is is very well balanced.
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And another thing that I really like going back to the the spirits or the the divisions or whatever, is that they kind of work like the spirits worked in um Fire Emblem Engage, where they were with you and they just boosted you and had their own special unique attacks.
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So, like Cloud has electric and water, and a couple other uh buff and debuff moves that you can use, which were were really freaking cool.
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Uh, the warrior of light from Final Fantasy I, you know, uh has obviously light attacks, has lightning and stones, plus a couple other abilities, and you know, it kind of gives you the option to build out your characters to be what you want them to be.
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Like obviously, you want to pair a commando with a commando, but if you pair your commando with a healer, you know, you'll have your abilities from your commando, plus also you'll have healing and spirit attacks, uh holy attacks, um which is really cool.
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So I I really did enjoy the demo.
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Uh, I I thought it was a great time.
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Like, I I've I was into it the entire time I was playing.
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I went to bed last night and I was just thinking about it, having a hard time falling asleep, just thinking about the demo.
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I woke up, first thing I did was get some food in me and then just start playing and finish it.
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And it's it was great, it was very, very good.
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I really, really enjoyed the the demo.
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I'm very excited for the full release.
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Um, it's probably gonna be a as soon as it releases, I'm gonna go straight into it and not you know play anything else.
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Drop, probably drop whatever I'm playing, honestly, when it comes out.
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Um, I would love, love, 100% love to get a review key for the game because holy shit it's so good.
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Um, I I I think I I I might try to figure out who to contact to beg for a review key because holy shit it's so good.
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Um but uh it's free right now.
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The demo is 100% free.
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Um I don't think there's ever been an issue where you've had to pay for a demo ever.
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I don't know why I'm saying that, but um the the demo is everywhere, it's on PlayStation, on Xbox, on Switch.
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So go ahead and download it, try it out.
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It's it's good.
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The story is is serviceable.
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Um basically, six elemental knights want to destroy the crystals, and your party is tasked with stopping them.
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Um there is a lot of DNA from every other Final Fantasy, it kind of feels like a best of Final Fantasies compilations.
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Like I was playing and I was texting my buddy Kiko, and I was like, dude, this is Final Fantasy VI, like a lot of this is Final Fantasy VI.
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He's like, No, it's every other Final Fantasy.
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There's a lot of nine in there, there's ten in there, there's you know, earlier ones, and like this is wild.
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This is crazy that they've they understand what makes the other Final Fantasy so special, and they're able to put it into this game.
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Um I I don't know how to explain, like this is something that you have to experience for yourself, play and see, and I I guarantee you're gonna have a great time if you're a Final Fantasy fan.
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Like, who knew that the most fun I've had this year playing a game would be playing a game about what we've been asking Square to do all along, right?
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Like, just stop and listen.
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This is not what I want, and it wouldn't surprise me if this is one of the best-selling Final Fantasy games of all time.
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Um so that being said, there are, like I said, a couple of things that annoy me.
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Uh the cosmetics kind of annoying because of me liking seeing uh cosmetic changes.
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Um, the other one is the uh transitions.
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Whenever when you're fighting, right, it has like the break system from uh Octopath where you can break a character uh an enemy's stance and then you can just wail on them and just pile on damage like crazy.
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Um at the end of beating down an enemy after you break them, it gives you the option of using one of your souls, your spirits, to do a special attack or heal the party or whatever.
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And at least for the warrior of light, there's a transition.
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It goes through a black screen and it just looks awful.
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It looks like the the quality from the game looking so crisp and amazing, just like tanks, it like shits itself, and then it's just like kind of fussy, hazy uh looking FMV, not not FMV, uh um CG video.
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FMV might might work for it too.
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Um and it it just looks wrong, it looks bad, it looks bad, it looks bad.
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Um, I asked Gigos, like, dude, is this happening for you too?
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And he's like, Yeah, I'm playing on PS5 and it's happening too.
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So it looks like it's in across all the consoles type of thing, it's not just uh a switch thing.
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Um, I also didn't like that the characters I'm playing the game in English.
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I don't know if there's a way to swap it over to Japanese.
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I I didn't look, honestly, because I really enjoy the voice acting.
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I think the voice acting is very good in this game.
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I feel like all of the characters' voices are spot on for what the characters look like.
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Um there's no one character that gives off the Barrett as being done by Robert Downey Jr.
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and Tropic Thunder kind of feeling.
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Um they all feel right, so I'm keeping it in English because it all sounds perfect to me.
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Um, but whenever you do the special abilities with your spirits, um the voices are in Japanese.
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I'm not sure if there's an English voice actor for every main character of Final Fantasy.
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If there isn't, fine, use the Japanese, but for the ones that there are, it would be better to use the English voice, in my opinion.
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Because Cloud sounds weird.
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I don't like the way cloud sounds um at all in Japanese.
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Like at the end of his special attacks, he says nothing personal in Japanese, and it sounds so fucking weird because I'm used to seeing his face and see hearing uh his English voice coming out of it.
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Um and and the way that his face is looking, like all dead and stoic and whatever doesn't look right with the Japanese words coming out of it.
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Something that you have to experience for yourself, I guess.
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I because I I don't know how to explain it in a better way.
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But I think I think this this is like I said, it's fantastic.
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I think this might be my contender for game of the year.
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Um I'm definitely buying it the day it comes out, and I am going to just blaze through the entire game because it is so cool.
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Um yeah, yeah, give it a try.
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It's free.
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Uh all you get to waste is five oh excuse me, five hours of your life playing something amazing.
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I mean, you you can you waste five hours of your life of your life going to work to make money for somebody that doesn't know you exist.
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Um so playing Final Fantasy for your enjoyment for five hours, I think that's a lot better.
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It's a great trade-off.
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So yeah.
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Um, so I am gonna go away and I'll be back in what seems like a second or two to you guys, but it's actually tomorrow for me, and I am gonna go play Oni Musha, so I'll talk to you in a sec.
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It has been a second for you guys.
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I don't know how long it's actually been.
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Has it been a second?
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I don't know.
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Doesn't matter.
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Anyways, it's the next day for me.
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It's Sunday morning, it is 10 39 a.m.
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and I am sitting down to talk about Oni Musha.
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I played it last night, um, and uh I have a couple of things to say.
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I'm probably not gonna go a lot into it because uh there's really not much to say.
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The game is fine, it's you know, uh hack and slash, uh best thing I can compare it to would be Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yote with puzzles that remind me of the 2016 God of War.
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So not very good puzzles that make sense.
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I don't I don't know how to explain that part.
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Um I I don't I hate those puzzles personally.
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I Dislike them.
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I feel like they stopped the story from continuing.
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They just put like a roadblock in front of you that you need to solve for no reason at all.
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Let me just continue instead of having to traverse this little area and explore it so that I can solve this tiny little puzzle so I can continue on my journey.
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I will say, however, that uh you do have map uh maps to explore.
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Um so like in the first area that you go to, the first uh shrine that you have to go clear out, um there's a map kind of like Resident Evil where you can explore, find treasures, open up special areas and stuff, and uh if I'm not mistaken, you're able to go back to them later on in the game.
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I only play like maybe four or five hours of it last night.
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Um but onimusha.
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Aken slash action adventure game developed by Capcom.
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Um you play as Miyamoto Musashi instead of Samonosuke Akechi.
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So if I call uh Miyamoto Samonosuke at some point my bad, uh that is just who I correlate to Onimusha because it is the character that I played as the most while I was playing Onimusha 1 and 3.
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And two was actually pretty good.
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I should replay those games at some point, anyways.
00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:24.559
Um, yeah, it it's it's a game, it's it's an action adventure hacking slash.
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Uh it's tiny, tiny, tiny bit souls-like, you know, you collect your souls.
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I haven't died yet, so I'm guessing that if you die, you go back and you lose your souls and you have to get them.
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I don't I don't know.
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Um, so you have this gauntlet that you get uh for story reasons that sucks up souls of the monsters that you killed the Genma, uh, which are just other like samurai sword wielding type monsters that you fight.
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Um and and base basically that's it.
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That that's all I have to say about the game.
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There's really not a lot to say.
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It's a fun game.
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Um it looks kind of weird sometimes, like the the cutscenes, the cutscenes look amazing, but then you go into in-game cutscenes of characters just talking at each other and it just looks weird as hell.
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I don't know if this is the game that I wanted when I heard a new Ony Musha was coming out.
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I didn't even try the demo, honestly.
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I'm not a big demo tryer.
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Um, so I feel like they're they're just a huge tease, and then you're like, I need this game, and then the game comes out and you completely forget about it.
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And by the time you get to the to the actual game, you completely forgot everything that happened in the demo, so you have to start all over again, and then everything just feels re-threaded, and it just it I don't know.
00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:54.880
I don't like demos in that way, but I will say the game is pretty fun.
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Um, the the combat is pretty good, you know.
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It it feels like they put a lot of soul into the combat.
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Um, you have your sword, uh a bow that you get eventually, and you do have some Oni weapons, uh like a couple of daggers that you can use for like extra damage and for staggering enemies, because the game does have like the the stagger mechanics from like uh Sekiro or any other game with a staggering mechanic, like uh the the Star Wars uh Jedi games.
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So you can stagger the enemies by deflecting their attacks, by parrying at the correct moment, and then you get if you manage to break enough of their staggers, like if you have a couple of enemies with their their poise or whatever broken, you can chain attacks, you know, one after the other.
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Uh not attack, uh finishing moves.
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Um that that looks pretty cool.
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I really like that part.
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Um there's a lot of flair and uh to the game, right?
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So uh so far it it seems like there's substance and it feels like it the substance will keep getting deeper and growing more as I continue playing the game, which I'm probably going to because it's it's actually pretty entertaining, it's pretty fun.
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But um the the flare it it's just crazy.
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Like you start off the game with Miyamoto waking up uh under a bridge.
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Somebody was kicking dead bodies into a river, and he wakes up, he goes and challenges the lead of a school, beats him, then he gets chased by all the students from the school.
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Uh uh everybody starts dying.
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Then uh Miyamoto gets attacked by Genma, then he goes to hell, he comes back.
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Uh the the Genmar eating him uh while he's waking up from coming back from hell.
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It's it's crazy.
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Like the the the amount of I don't know if it's I wouldn't call it shocking because I know that Resident Evil has some deaths that are kind of like, oh, that's shocking, but this one's like constant death and constant killing, at least in this first few hours that I've played, and I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:17.680
Like this story has stakes.
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Um the these people are in danger.
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Um, and then after you beat, I'm I'm sorry I'm going all over the place.
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I really don't have like a structure, and I I woke up a little bit ago, um, I just want to get this recorded because I really need to get to the next game, but I wanted to talk about this uh because I bought the game and I I think it deserves at least a talking about to something.
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Anyways, um uh where was I going?
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Oh, so after you beat the first stage, right?
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Um, you go back to I'm guessing this is gonna be your hub, like this little town in Tokyo, and the your quote unquote mentor is like go see all these rifts where the Gemma are coming from, and you kind of have like this little pseudo-open world-ish area to go explore and fight Genma, complete little quests from people, and uh the quests are easy.
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It's like, oh, I'm being I'm being chased, help me.
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So you go, you stop the monsters, and they're like, Thank you, here's a gift, and then they go away.
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Um, at least as far as I've played, that's what the uh the quests are looking like, which it's fine.
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Um but it the the town is pretty interesting.
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There's like areas that you can you know uh platform through, uh, which the platforming isn't crazy, like you go up ladders, collect an item, jump off a building or something.
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Um I I like the game so far.
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I wouldn't go as to say as it's the gonna be a game of the year.
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It's definitely uh honestly, the bit that I played last night, I enjoyed it a whole lot more than I did Resident Evil 9.
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Um, I don't think Resident Evil 9 is a bad game, but I also don't think it's a good game.
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So I think this one might be better.
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Um this one so far, it's really enjoyable.
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And honestly, if I'm if I'm being 100% honest, I kind of just want to jump back into it and keep playing it for the rest of the day.
00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:31.519
Uh because it does have style, it does have some substance, and and I find the story pretty interesting, right?
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You have demons are wanting to come home to Earth, and uh you're a protector, and you have to clear these dungeons out so that the gate that seals the demons in hell stay in hell.
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Um you know, which is just basic story.
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It's a it but the characters around it are kind of interest interesting, you know.
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Miyamoto's interesting, he's funny.
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Um, not only is he funny, he's he's just a swordsman, he just like fights uh everybody else, all the characters around them are pretty interesting.
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Um, you know, the Gemma have I don't want to say personalities, but they talk, they they do interact with Miyamoto.
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Um there's there's a part where you kind of like break into this house and there's a bunch of Gemma like in the backyard, and the Gemma's like, we're being attacked, and Miyamoto's like, wait, you're the ones attacking our world.
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Like, what's going on?
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So it's pretty, it's pretty funny that way.
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Um I I would say honestly, just try the demo out.
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Um, honestly, I'm guessing the demo ends before the point where I'm at right now because I heard a lot of people say, I played the demo, it wasn't for me.
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I don't think this is gonna be great.
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I I don't and honestly, as I was playing it those first few hours, I was like, uh the only thing keeping me going is not only that I paid money for this, is that the story is kind of interesting.
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And then once I got to that first whole area where you get to uh clear out the first uh dungeon or whatever, uh then it started getting pretty interesting.
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But I don't know, maybe I'll have like a full review later on when I finish the game, if I I decide to, but so far my first impressions for this for this game are I don't know.
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It's fine.
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It's a fine game.
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.440
Um it it I feel like it's much better than Resident Evil 9.
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.960
Um I don't know if it's as good as Pragmata.
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I like Pragmata, but I don't I I I don't know.
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I think it might be better than Pragmata, the whole fighting robots in space.
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.680
Uh I I like the space parts, I don't like the robots part from Pragmata.
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.319
Um I d I don't like fighting robots.
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It's just it feels soulless.
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It feels like there's there's nothing there.
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Like there's no weight to it.
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There's there's just I don't know.
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I don't like fighting robots.
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Anyways, yeah, uh Onimusha, uh way of the sword.
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Check it out if you feel like it.
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There's a demo.
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Um it it's it's pretty interesting.
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Um I'm gonna keep going, hopefully.
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.880
Uh, but now it's time for Isles of Reverie.
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So let's talk about Isle of Reveries.
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Isle of Reveries is a little Zelda-like, kind of like Links to the Past.
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Uh in modern consoles, it it has that old school Game Boy look to it, which I absolutely love.
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I I think the game looks absolutely beautiful.
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:38.720
Um I look at the screenshots, and the screenshots are look weird.
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They don't make give the game the the justice or the respect it deserves, but the game in motion looks great.
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.680
It looks it looks it looks great, it looks so good.
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Um, like I said, it looks like uh Zelda, the old school Zelda on the Game Boy, Game Boy Color with the uh Oracle games.
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Um so I've put about I want to say four to six hours into it so far, and uh I am probably not gonna do a full-blown review.
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I'm gonna do first impressions of this game, and uh let's go ahead and and talk about it.
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Um so you're playing as a pilgrim, uh doing a pilgrimage to the skybound Isle of Reveries.
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Uh rumor has it that when you get to the island, you can make a wish, your wish gets granted.
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And uh basically that's what the entire story premise is.
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But turns out once you get up there, everything's been corrupted, so now you have to forsake your wish and fix everything, or you know, fall and become another casualty of society.
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Um the dun it has a bunch of dungeons, apparently it has around uh four to five dungeons and uh a couple extra uh mini dungeons for you to do.
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And in those dungeons, like in Zelda, you get an ability that you can use to uh progress further inside the dungeon.
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Um and you get heart containers, you fight bosses, you fight a mid-boss that creates a little warp point to the area where you need to go.
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Um, I I beat the first dungeon.
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I am currently on the boss fight of the second dungeon.
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Um, I don't think I have enough heart containers, so I should probably venture out into the world and pick up as many hard containers as I can.
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.920
Uh, because right now I only have the standard four, because you you get one after you defeat a boss.
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And uh I'm having a very tough time with the uh second boss.
00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:03.280
Um, so speaking of the bosses, let's just talk about them real quick.
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Um, they have patterns that you have to follow.
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:16.880
For example, the first boss um is just in the middle of the room, the room throwing stuff at you, spawning enemies, and there's four lanterns that you need to light.
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So you light the lanterns, you hit it, it drops its head, you grab the head, you throw it against the floor, you do that three times, the boss dies.
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:29.280
Uh, but in between each one, what it does changes, right?
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So in the first uh pattern, it just summons like little hands to attack you, throws its attacks, you do the thing, attack them, hurt them, then uh I believe uh it uh spawns fire-spewing enemies, and then you have to copy the fire-spewing enemies, use them to light the other torches.
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Um because you get this fairy uh halfway through the first dungeon that lets you copy certain items, so you can copy statues, you can copy uh arrow shooting enemies, stuff like that.
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So it it makes everything have a little bit of depth to it, where in games like Zelda you wouldn't really see death like that.
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And I I really like it.
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:24.559
I I only have like one major complaint with the game, um, and it's it's the jump mechanic.
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Um, you have a jump from the get-go, and it is mapped to your shoulder button, to your uh right bumper button, your your top one, your R1 on PlayStation, and uh you use it to jump over little pits.
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Some dungeons are just I feel like they're just coated in these pits, so you have to jump over the pits.
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Um once you jump over them, uh you can continue, obviously.
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But uh if you get too close to the edge before jumping, you're just stuck in an animation of trying to get out, and you don't really get out, you kind of just fall anyways, and every time you fall, you receive damage, which I find wow, I find that very annoying because I cannot tell you how many times I've died because I've just fallen into a pit and haven't been able to I've I like I didn't react fast enough to jump before I got into the edge of the pit.
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Like I feel like there's something there, like there's a little issue right there where you either can't jump out fast enough, or your timing is wrong, or your distance is wrong.
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:41.920
Like I feel like the the jumping itself needs like a little bit of a float to it, or maybe make it a higher jump.
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Because I I feel like if they would have given the jump uh height a lot more height than it has, it could be used as a dodge mechanic.
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:59.920
Um, you don't have a roll for dodging, um, you have just the jump, and I feel like either a roll or the jump would help a lot with some enemies.
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I feel like if I had either one of those, the boss in the second dungeon would be a whole lot easier to fight.
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.679
But there's so much to like about this game.
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.280
Um specifically at the beginning, you get a lamp, right?
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And you think, oh, it's a lamp you can see in the dark, you can use it to light fires, whatever.
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You can also use it to attack.
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So the first few enemies that you fight, you just burned them to death.
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Um, and I also like the the like I said, the presentation, it's kind of like a Game Boy cut game, and uh I find it really cool that every time you kill an enemy, like a little ghost pops out of them.
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Kind of like in Pikmin.
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So I think I think that's very cool.
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I think the music is really awesome.
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:48.960
Um, it's kind of chiptune-ish, uh, kind of like Shovel Knight or uh Scott Pilgrim.
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Um, so the that that theme during the beginning of the game while you're playing throughout that first dungeon, um, it it's pretty freaking cool.
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Um, the so the lamp uh works on a regenerative meter, so that meter as you use it goes down and it then it just comes back up automatically on its own.
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And uh I I wrote on my notes, I have a feeling that uh other items are gonna work this way too.
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Basically, every single item that you find works like that.
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So you're at at some point, I don't know if I was supposed to get to that point.
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.840
Uh I found a leaf that creates tornadoes.
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.559
Um that uses the meter.
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:38.000
There's a gauntlet, uh, not a uh a claw that you can shoot kind of like a hook shot that uses the meter too.
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That one's very useful.
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You can just kill enemies in one hit from far away um and grab their items that they drop because they also drop like hearts and uh parts that you can use because there's a little bit of a town building element to the game where you can build like a post office, um uh uh uh I think something was called like Well of Ordeals or something like that.
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:05.679
So you can build a couple of different structures throughout this little town that you run into.
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:16.559
Um, because there's a bunch of pilgrims living up there, and as you're playing, you find the spirits of these pilgrims and you can restore them with the fairy that accompanies you.
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Um, but yeah, you have maps, you have compasses, keys, and everything inside the dungeons, just like you would in any other uh dungeon.
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Um, particularly the first dungeon to me was pretty cool.
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.599
Um it was a lot larger than I was expecting.
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:41.039
I feel like these dungeons and the overworld itself is a lot, a lot larger than I was expecting.
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:49.280
So it kind of felt a little bit overwhelming, and the map is just like squares like the the Zelda one was.
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:52.800
Uh I I don't think the map is great.
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I don't think it's very good, I don't think it's very helpful.
00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.760
Um, if there's a way to place markers on it, I haven't found it.
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:01.440
I also really didn't look.
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:09.039
Um, so I feel like if it doesn't, if it has it awesome, if it doesn't, then it it should probably have that.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:17.760
I feel like the jump should be fixed as well, unless there's an item later on that will help you with the jump, especially since you're playing as a little owl boy.
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:26.000
Um owls fly, so you know you might want your owl to have a little bit of a hover.
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:40.639
Um so the i I I find it pretty cool uh that the little fairy uh that accompanies you purifies people and it can also copy items for you to use.
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.679
Um yeah, I I'm I'm having a uh a good time with the game.
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:50.320
I feel I I got stuck a couple of times, right?
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:55.199
So this game came out on the fourth, so it came out a couple of days ago as of recording.
00:41:55.440 --> 00:42:00.719
So I feel like there's a lot of uh bugs that still need to be ironed out.
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:16.639
Um, I did see some people posting on different social media platforms that the game completely bugged out, they couldn't find or fix uh one specific thing that they needed to progress further into a dungeon, which is kind of big.
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:23.519
Um, at that point that I saw the video, the person was probably like four hours in, so they would have had to have started over the whole game.
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:32.239
But it's what it is, it's growing paints of having a brand new game uh coming out, but I feel like this game is a lot of fun.
00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:36.000
Um, it is it is very puzzle heavy.
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:39.360
Um, the combat so far is okay.
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.079
Um, everything is basically puzzle heavy.
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:46.960
I'm not crazy into puzzles.
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:56.400
Um but I feel like for this kind of game it works, uh, being so limited and so small and con uh constricted.
00:42:56.559 --> 00:43:14.559
Um you can't really I don't know, like like you can't really create a very in-depth combat system, so you have to rely on something else to make a game like this be playable and and be enjoyable, and uh puzzles are gonna have to be it.
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And honestly, they're good.
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:19.360
I I feel like the dungeons are very big.
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:27.119
I I feel like they could be scaled down a little bit, at least so far what I've played, but that's not stopping me from having a great time.
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:33.119
Um, I'm also gonna go back and and keep playing this game because I'm I'm enjoying it so far.
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I'm probably tomorrow at some point, I'm just gonna go get out of the the second dungeon, explore the world a little bit more, try to find more heart containers so I can go back and take down that boss.
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Because uh the the way that the boss works is you use the claw to pull him towards you, you hurt him, he goes back, gets into his armor, he swipes at you, you grab him, pull him out of his armor, hit him, then he goes.
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Starts strafing left and right, shooting his projectiles at you, and uh you have to grab them, pull them, hit him.
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You know, but it's it's how it goes.
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And uh honestly, I I I'm getting my ass beat because the game does kind of like this little thing, this thing that I that I I find kind of annoying that Souls games do, and it's the bus run.
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You'll run from your safe point or your spawn point or whatever towards the boss, and there's just enemies and obstacles and stuff that can hurt you before you get there.
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Um, the the game does that, and I I kind of find that annoying, but it's whatever.
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Um, there's also a potion system where you can craft new potions and stuff to uh raise your health and all that.
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It's it's Zelda.
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Come on, it's Zelda.
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So everything you're thinking about Zelda, that's it.
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Um I will say that it does have a darker story uh than Zelda.
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You know, people are crazy wanting to have their wishes fulfilled.
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Um so they they are willing to sacrifice their their thing.
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Like one character you run into, he's like, I can't wait to get out of this forest so I can get my wish fulfilled.
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And your character's mute, so he doesn't talk.
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Um, the the character you're talking to goes like, oh, I really got to get out of this fog because it's making you delirious, telling me that this isn't what it is.
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So um I'm I'm enjoying it.
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I'm very I'm enjoying it a lot.
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I'm enjoying the story, I'm enjoying the gameplay, all of that.
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Um, there are a couple of notes here from the game.press uh page.
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Uh it says, make a pilgrimage skybound to the Isle of Reveries, where any wish can be granted.
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Conquer mysterious dungeons, solve puzzles, and explore vast world overworld in this retro-inspired adventure.
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And where they say vast, it is vast.
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Uh, I I I think I was like at least like half an hour just exploring the overworld before I stumbled into uh the the dungeon that I had to go to.
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It's crazy.
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Take control of an hour, owl named Leaf, as they make a pilgrimage skybound to the Forsaken Isle of Reveries, where it is said that any wish can be granted.
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Players will fight through six mysterious dungeons, each with their own unique themes and puzzles, and meet charming anthropomorphic characters along the way in this retro-inspired adventure.
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Use your fairy companion's magic to duplicate and spawn a variety of objects in the world and discover how they interact with your robust set of items to solve head scratching puzzles.
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And when they say head scratching, oh my god, some of them are obtuse.
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Some of them are like, oh boy.
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Uh explore a vast overworld and conquer dungeons.
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Eight different biomes in the overworld, six different dungeons, each with their own unique themes, mechanics, and key items.
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Copy and spawn objects, use Leaf's fairy companion to copy a spawn of myriad objects using the them to fight puzzles and fight terrifying enemies.
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Forge a community, construct various buildings for the and forge a township.
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Characters that Leaf saves throughout the game will move to the township, offering new quests and stories.
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So this game is thick, it is pretty dense, and uh I'm I'm all for it.
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Um I got three keys for this game.
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Uh so I got one for Xbox uh Series X, and I got one for regular Xbox and one for uh PlayStation 4.
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So obviously the one for Xbox One will work on Series X, and the one for PlayStation 4 will work on PlayStation 5.
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So how do you win one of these keys?
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Easy.
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Shoot me an email.
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Uh first person to shoot me an email, just tell me which one you want, either Xbox or PlayStation 4, and I'll give you the key.
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And then the second person, well, you're kind of stuck with the with the second key.
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Um if you only have PlayStation, I'm so sorry.
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If you only have Xbox and you don't have PlayStation, I'm so sorry.
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But yeah, um, Island Reverese is great.
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So far, I'm really enjoying it, and uh, I'm pretty sure that anybody else that plays it will enjoy it too, especially if you're a huge fan of the old Zelda style games.
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Um, but that's it for today's episode.
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Uh Caredin should be back uh tomorrow Monday at some point, and she's gonna tell me all about Dragon Con.
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And unfortunately, she did not get to see any wieners.
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Um, but I want to thank Game.press again for their review keys for Isle of Reveries, and uh I hope that all of you had a great time listening to me ramble on incoherently about games that I played over the past two days.
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And uh I thank you all for being part of the Patreon that keeps the lights on, keeps the podcast chugging along, and uh we have a couple of fun things over there.
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So if you want to go over and check them out, you're you're more than welcome to.
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Um two bucks a month if you feel like it, but you don't have to.
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So yeah, uh, if you have any video games you're looking to sell, let me know.
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You can email me at anovelconsole at gmail.com or at consoleandstuff at gmo.com and tell me what you got, what you're selling, and uh hopefully we can work something out.
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So yeah, uh Caredon texted me and she says, Pretty sure this couple is breaking up on the dance floor.
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Dragon Con has been awful.
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You guys are gonna hear everything next week, and it's gonna be terrible.
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So that's it for now.
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Goodbye, everyone.
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Hello, hello! Welcome to a novel console, a podcast that we try to release weekly where we talk about books, games, food, and stuff that caught our attention during the week.
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Unfortunately, it is just me today, so it's just gonna be uh a lot of video game stuff, but it's good video game stuff.
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Caredin is off at Dragon Con, so we'll probably have a uh an episode about it next week of her telling us everything that happened at Dragon Con, how it went.
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I know that she's looking at some penises today, because uh she's going to a kilt, uh blower kilt party where some lady has a blower, like a uh a leaf blower, and there's a bunch of dudes in kilts on stage, and she's just blowing up their skirts.
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And anyways, um that's fun.
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Uh, I am home alone for the weekend with the pooches.
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Uh, little one is looking all the shovel like she always does.
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Uh, podcast producer Strider is uh not too happy because it's thundering outside, so he's just moping around a little bit, but he'll get over it.
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Um, so yeah, I I decided to play a couple of games, talk about them.
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I was thinking about just doing a full-fledged episode, bringing somebody on to talk about some sort of topic.
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Um, and the topic was probably gonna be Onimusha, uh, since it released Friday.
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Um, but uh I asked Thrak.
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He's like, I don't care, I'm not doing it.
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It's like, all right, there goes my only options.
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Um, but then one of my friends, Kiko, was like, the Final Fantasy demo is really fucking good after I told him the demo was out, which it came out at some point last week.
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And uh I decided to give the demo a try.
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I also have uh review keys for a game called let me see if I can find it here real quick.
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Come on.
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Uh the game is called Isle of Reveries, so I'll be talking about Isle of Reveries.
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Um uh the way a little pick behind the curtain, the way that I'm doing it, right?
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I am recording after I beat each thing.
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I am obviously not gonna beat Onimusha, but I'm probably just gonna play as much as I can of it today.
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Uh record something either today or tomorrow morning, and then uh tomorrow night or Monday morning, I will record everything about Al of Reverie because I'm probably just gonna beat the entire game in one go.
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It's about six hours long, and uh the cool part is that I have two extra keys for Owl of Reverie, one for Xbox and one for I believe PS4.
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So if you want one of those keys, uh just stay till the end of the show and I'll let you know how to get one of those keys for free so you can enjoy a cool little uh Zelda-like.
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I don't know if it's cool yet because I haven't played it, but it does look pretty cool.
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Anyways, uh let's get started with Final Fantasy Resonance.
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So Final Fantasy Resonance is uh the new Final Fantasy that's coming out later this year.
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I believe it comes out in October.
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Uh it is HD2D.
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I know some of you listeners don't like HD2D.
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Um, I think HD2D is pretty cool.
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I loved Live Alive, the remake, uh, which was an HD2D.
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Uh I like the way Octopath looks.
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I I like uh what was it?
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Uh Star Ocean, the second story R, uh, which uh you guys on Patreon voted for Backlog of Doom a few years ago when it won and I beat it, and it was just fantastic.
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I I decapitated this Donkey Kong, and now I can't put his bed head back.
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This is awesome.
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Um, but yeah, I like the art style.
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Uh so Final Fantasy Resonance, I believe, as far as what my friend Kiko has told me, because I'm I I know I played a little bit of it, but I really didn't care too much because you know, mobile game.
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Um, it is uh they took the story of the mobile game, the characters of the mobile game, and they're releasing it as a full Final Fantasy release on uh modern platforms.
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I believe it's coming to Xbox, PS5, Switch.
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I played the demo on the Switch 2, and it is about three to five hours long, depending on how you put your time into it.
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I basically started it yesterday, put in about four hours into it, woke up this morning, finished it off, and now I'm here talking about it.
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Uh, it takes you through the entire first chapter, so it introduces a lot of concepts for the story, like the spirits, uh visions, I think is what they're called, which are heroes from previous Final Fantasy games that you get to summon, and they have kind of affinities that work better depending on who you pair them with.
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For example, you have characters that are breakers, so if you have spirits that are breakers, like Cloud Strife, and you pair him with a character that has the breaker personality or the breaker job, uh, then they'll work a whole lot better than if you were to pair a healer with a breaker.
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Um, you have healer characters, of course, so you have healer spirits, uh, you have commando spirits, which are just for dealing non-stop heavy damage.
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Uh, I believe Sentinel is another one.
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Sentinel is basically damage plus protection.
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Um, and and you get to pair these uh I'm just gonna call them spirits because I don't really remember the name and I'm too lazy to look up what they are actually called.
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Um, this is all off the top of my head, which is you know awesome podcasting.
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Uh, but yeah, you get to pair them up.
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Uh and as you level up, your spirits like they give you buffs, so you'll have like plus five to speed, and that's a permanent thing that your character just keeps afterwards, and uh plus five to whatever, and you get this new ability specifically for this spirit while it's attached to this character, it it's pretty cool.
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I I really enjoyed that.
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Um, going back to the HD2D, I really like the way the game looks.
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Um, I feel that the world is one of the better HD2D detailed worlds that have been done for these kind of games.
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Um it's very it it gives you that impression that it's vast, and then you have like the sprite characters there.
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I feel like if they were to scale the sprites back a little bit and make them look more uh Final Fantasy VI Chrono Trigger-ish than what they do because they kind of look they're they're sprites, but they're also kind of uh I don't want to say realistic, but kind of realistic looking.
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Um, I feel like it would work more having that contrast of super colorful characters against you know a realistic 3D world.
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Um I I don't I don't know, it might just be me saying shit for the sake of saying shit, but that's that's the way I feel about the way it looks, because sometimes you can't really tell the details on the characters' faces or when they do close-ups, they look kind of fucking weird, which is strange.
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I don't I don't I don't like that sometimes.
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Um, but other than that, uh, I think the rest of the game looks fantastic.
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Um, like in other Final Fantasy games, you get to uh swap weapons and upgrade your equipment and all that, and I really, really, really wish that the weapons were also cosmetics.
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Because um you have your starting sword, and find a character has the starting sword.
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I would love for the swords to change during combat.
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You know, they did it in Final Fantasy VII, they did it in Tactics, they did it in 8, 9, 10, all the other fucking Final Fantasies that have come out since then.
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Um, you've been able to see the weapons that the characters are holding be different than the weapons uh that's assigned or or part of the the character design.
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Um, I really like the character reigns, which is the main character's weapon design, um, but I don't like that it doesn't change.
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So throughout the demo, I think I got like three or four different swords for him, and it just stayed the same, it just upped his stats, which fine, whatever, but I also like the visual of it.
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Um, I am a sucker for uh different armor sets, different weapon sets, um, except for in Cenoblade.
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I don't like the way the character armors look in Cenoblade, they look pretty terrible.
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Um, but but yeah, I I had an amazing time with this game.
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Um I enjoyed it a lot.
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I am honestly going to say that this might be my front runner for game of the year when it comes out.
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Nothing else that has come out this year has really impressed me.
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Um, definitely not uh Resident Evil, not Pragmata.
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Uh, as much as I love Star Fox and the remake, that is not gonna be my game of the year, no matter what.
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I don't I don't think it's even gonna be in my top five.
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But then again, I I look at my list of games and I'm like, none of these deserve to be in a top five.
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Grand Theft Auto is 100% not gonna be my game of the year because what the fuck?
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And it's so overbloated, so not for me.
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Um there's a lot that I that this game is doing that I want, you know, it has classic turn-based RPG, it has a good uh challenge level to it, it has a good progression system.
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You know, I feel like I'm leveling what I need to level up and not when I'm done grinding for a long time.
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Um, it also lets you tackle some things even when you're not ready, like there's a fight against an ogre, um, which the game wants you to be at least level 15 or 16 to take it on.
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And I took it on when I was like level 10, and it was pretty tough, but I got through it.
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It was it was pretty a pretty good fight.
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Um, so the game lets you do that, and I I liked it.
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Um, the it another cool thing that the game does is whenever you go into like a new dungeon or something, it'll tell you what level is recommended for the area that you're going into.
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So closer to the end of the demo, you gotta go into a tower, and the tower's like, you should be level 11, and I'm already like level 17 going into the the tower.
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So the the boss at the end of the tower was like nothing, destroyed that boss, didn't touch me once, just basically took her out in two turns.
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Um, so that the game does that, it it gives you that ability to be insanely overpowered.
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Um, and it also does this really cool thing where you can use as much magic as you want, and obviously your magic meter depletes, but it doesn't feel like you're ever going to run out of the magic meter if you keep an eye on it.
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Um, it it I don't know how to explain it.
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I feel like other Final Fantasies, you know, you have to conserve your magic because you know it's your magic.
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You need it.
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Um, you're gonna need it for something tough, tougher.
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So use items, use your weapons, use your special skills.
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Um not this game.
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This game's like, go ahead, pop off king, uh, queen, uh sire, uh majesty.
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Uh but yeah, that I I think that's that's really cool.
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I feel like the game is is very well balanced.
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And another thing that I really like going back to the the spirits or the the divisions or whatever, is that they kind of work like the spirits worked in um Fire Emblem Engage, where they were with you and they just boosted you and had their own special unique attacks.
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So, like Cloud has electric and water, and a couple other uh buff and debuff moves that you can use, which were were really freaking cool.
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Uh, the warrior of light from Final Fantasy I, you know, uh has obviously light attacks, has lightning and stones, plus a couple other abilities, and you know, it kind of gives you the option to build out your characters to be what you want them to be.
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Like obviously, you want to pair a commando with a commando, but if you pair your commando with a healer, you know, you'll have your abilities from your commando, plus also you'll have healing and spirit attacks, uh holy attacks, um which is really cool.
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So I I really did enjoy the demo.
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Uh, I I thought it was a great time.
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Like, I I've I was into it the entire time I was playing.
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I went to bed last night and I was just thinking about it, having a hard time falling asleep, just thinking about the demo.
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I woke up, first thing I did was get some food in me and then just start playing and finish it.
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And it's it was great, it was very, very good.
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I really, really enjoyed the the demo.
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I'm very excited for the full release.
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Um, it's probably gonna be a as soon as it releases, I'm gonna go straight into it and not you know play anything else.
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Drop, probably drop whatever I'm playing, honestly, when it comes out.
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Um, I would love, love, 100% love to get a review key for the game because holy shit it's so good.
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Um, I I I think I I I might try to figure out who to contact to beg for a review key because holy shit it's so good.
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Um but uh it's free right now.
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The demo is 100% free.
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Um I don't think there's ever been an issue where you've had to pay for a demo ever.
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I don't know why I'm saying that, but um the the demo is everywhere, it's on PlayStation, on Xbox, on Switch.
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So go ahead and download it, try it out.
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It's it's good.
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The story is is serviceable.
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Um basically, six elemental knights want to destroy the crystals, and your party is tasked with stopping them.
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Um there is a lot of DNA from every other Final Fantasy, it kind of feels like a best of Final Fantasies compilations.
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Like I was playing and I was texting my buddy Kiko, and I was like, dude, this is Final Fantasy VI, like a lot of this is Final Fantasy VI.
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He's like, No, it's every other Final Fantasy.
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There's a lot of nine in there, there's ten in there, there's you know, earlier ones, and like this is wild.
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This is crazy that they've they understand what makes the other Final Fantasy so special, and they're able to put it into this game.
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Um I I don't know how to explain, like this is something that you have to experience for yourself, play and see, and I I guarantee you're gonna have a great time if you're a Final Fantasy fan.
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Like, who knew that the most fun I've had this year playing a game would be playing a game about what we've been asking Square to do all along, right?
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Like, just stop and listen.
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This is not what I want, and it wouldn't surprise me if this is one of the best-selling Final Fantasy games of all time.
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Um so that being said, there are, like I said, a couple of things that annoy me.
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Uh the cosmetics kind of annoying because of me liking seeing uh cosmetic changes.
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Um, the other one is the uh transitions.
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Whenever when you're fighting, right, it has like the break system from uh Octopath where you can break a character uh an enemy's stance and then you can just wail on them and just pile on damage like crazy.
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Um at the end of beating down an enemy after you break them, it gives you the option of using one of your souls, your spirits, to do a special attack or heal the party or whatever.
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And at least for the warrior of light, there's a transition.
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It goes through a black screen and it just looks awful.
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It looks like the the quality from the game looking so crisp and amazing, just like tanks, it like shits itself, and then it's just like kind of fussy, hazy uh looking FMV, not not FMV, uh um CG video.
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FMV might might work for it too.
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Um and it it just looks wrong, it looks bad, it looks bad, it looks bad.
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Um, I asked Gigos, like, dude, is this happening for you too?
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And he's like, Yeah, I'm playing on PS5 and it's happening too.
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So it looks like it's in across all the consoles type of thing, it's not just uh a switch thing.
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Um, I also didn't like that the characters I'm playing the game in English.
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I don't know if there's a way to swap it over to Japanese.
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I I didn't look, honestly, because I really enjoy the voice acting.
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I think the voice acting is very good in this game.
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I feel like all of the characters' voices are spot on for what the characters look like.
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Um there's no one character that gives off the Barrett as being done by Robert Downey Jr.
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and Tropic Thunder kind of feeling.
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Um they all feel right, so I'm keeping it in English because it all sounds perfect to me.
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Um, but whenever you do the special abilities with your spirits, um the voices are in Japanese.
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I'm not sure if there's an English voice actor for every main character of Final Fantasy.
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If there isn't, fine, use the Japanese, but for the ones that there are, it would be better to use the English voice, in my opinion.
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Because Cloud sounds weird.
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I don't like the way cloud sounds um at all in Japanese.
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Like at the end of his special attacks, he says nothing personal in Japanese, and it sounds so fucking weird because I'm used to seeing his face and see hearing uh his English voice coming out of it.
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Um and and the way that his face is looking, like all dead and stoic and whatever doesn't look right with the Japanese words coming out of it.
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Something that you have to experience for yourself, I guess.
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I because I I don't know how to explain it in a better way.
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But I think I think this this is like I said, it's fantastic.
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I think this might be my contender for game of the year.
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Um I'm definitely buying it the day it comes out, and I am going to just blaze through the entire game because it is so cool.
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Um yeah, yeah, give it a try.
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It's free.
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Uh all you get to waste is five oh excuse me, five hours of your life playing something amazing.
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I mean, you you can you waste five hours of your life of your life going to work to make money for somebody that doesn't know you exist.
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Um so playing Final Fantasy for your enjoyment for five hours, I think that's a lot better.
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It's a great trade-off.
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So yeah.
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Um, so I am gonna go away and I'll be back in what seems like a second or two to you guys, but it's actually tomorrow for me, and I am gonna go play Oni Musha, so I'll talk to you in a sec.
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It has been a second for you guys.
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I don't know how long it's actually been.
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Has it been a second?
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I don't know.
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Doesn't matter.
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Anyways, it's the next day for me.
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It's Sunday morning, it is 10 39 a.m.
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and I am sitting down to talk about Oni Musha.
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I played it last night, um, and uh I have a couple of things to say.
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I'm probably not gonna go a lot into it because uh there's really not much to say.
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The game is fine, it's you know, uh hack and slash, uh best thing I can compare it to would be Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yote with puzzles that remind me of the 2016 God of War.
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So not very good puzzles that make sense.
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I don't I don't know how to explain that part.
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Um I I don't I hate those puzzles personally.
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I Dislike them.
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I feel like they stopped the story from continuing.
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They just put like a roadblock in front of you that you need to solve for no reason at all.
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Let me just continue instead of having to traverse this little area and explore it so that I can solve this tiny little puzzle so I can continue on my journey.
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I will say, however, that uh you do have map uh maps to explore.
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Um so like in the first area that you go to, the first uh shrine that you have to go clear out, um there's a map kind of like Resident Evil where you can explore, find treasures, open up special areas and stuff, and uh if I'm not mistaken, you're able to go back to them later on in the game.
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I only play like maybe four or five hours of it last night.
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Um but onimusha.
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Aken slash action adventure game developed by Capcom.
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Um you play as Miyamoto Musashi instead of Samonosuke Akechi.
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So if I call uh Miyamoto Samonosuke at some point my bad, uh that is just who I correlate to Onimusha because it is the character that I played as the most while I was playing Onimusha 1 and 3.
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And two was actually pretty good.
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I should replay those games at some point, anyways.
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Um, yeah, it it's it's a game, it's it's an action adventure hacking slash.
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Uh it's tiny, tiny, tiny bit souls-like, you know, you collect your souls.
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I haven't died yet, so I'm guessing that if you die, you go back and you lose your souls and you have to get them.
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I don't I don't know.
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Um, so you have this gauntlet that you get uh for story reasons that sucks up souls of the monsters that you killed the Genma, uh, which are just other like samurai sword wielding type monsters that you fight.
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Um and and base basically that's it.
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That that's all I have to say about the game.
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There's really not a lot to say.
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It's a fun game.
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Um it looks kind of weird sometimes, like the the cutscenes, the cutscenes look amazing, but then you go into in-game cutscenes of characters just talking at each other and it just looks weird as hell.
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I don't know if this is the game that I wanted when I heard a new Ony Musha was coming out.
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I didn't even try the demo, honestly.
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I'm not a big demo tryer.
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Um, so I feel like they're they're just a huge tease, and then you're like, I need this game, and then the game comes out and you completely forget about it.
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And by the time you get to the to the actual game, you completely forgot everything that happened in the demo, so you have to start all over again, and then everything just feels re-threaded, and it just it I don't know.
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I don't like demos in that way, but I will say the game is pretty fun.
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Um, the the combat is pretty good, you know.
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It it feels like they put a lot of soul into the combat.
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Um, you have your sword, uh a bow that you get eventually, and you do have some Oni weapons, uh like a couple of daggers that you can use for like extra damage and for staggering enemies, because the game does have like the the stagger mechanics from like uh Sekiro or any other game with a staggering mechanic, like uh the the Star Wars uh Jedi games.
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So you can stagger the enemies by deflecting their attacks, by parrying at the correct moment, and then you get if you manage to break enough of their staggers, like if you have a couple of enemies with their their poise or whatever broken, you can chain attacks, you know, one after the other.
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Uh not attack, uh finishing moves.
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Um that that looks pretty cool.
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I really like that part.
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Um there's a lot of flair and uh to the game, right?
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So uh so far it it seems like there's substance and it feels like it the substance will keep getting deeper and growing more as I continue playing the game, which I'm probably going to because it's it's actually pretty entertaining, it's pretty fun.
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But um the the flare it it's just crazy.
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Like you start off the game with Miyamoto waking up uh under a bridge.
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Somebody was kicking dead bodies into a river, and he wakes up, he goes and challenges the lead of a school, beats him, then he gets chased by all the students from the school.
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Uh uh everybody starts dying.
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Then uh Miyamoto gets attacked by Genma, then he goes to hell, he comes back.
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Uh the the Genmar eating him uh while he's waking up from coming back from hell.
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It's it's crazy.
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Like the the the amount of I don't know if it's I wouldn't call it shocking because I know that Resident Evil has some deaths that are kind of like, oh, that's shocking, but this one's like constant death and constant killing, at least in this first few hours that I've played, and I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
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Like this story has stakes.
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Um the these people are in danger.
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Um, and then after you beat, I'm I'm sorry I'm going all over the place.
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I really don't have like a structure, and I I woke up a little bit ago, um, I just want to get this recorded because I really need to get to the next game, but I wanted to talk about this uh because I bought the game and I I think it deserves at least a talking about to something.
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Anyways, um uh where was I going?
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Oh, so after you beat the first stage, right?
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Um, you go back to I'm guessing this is gonna be your hub, like this little town in Tokyo, and the your quote unquote mentor is like go see all these rifts where the Gemma are coming from, and you kind of have like this little pseudo-open world-ish area to go explore and fight Genma, complete little quests from people, and uh the quests are easy.
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It's like, oh, I'm being I'm being chased, help me.
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So you go, you stop the monsters, and they're like, Thank you, here's a gift, and then they go away.
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Um, at least as far as I've played, that's what the uh the quests are looking like, which it's fine.
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Um but it the the town is pretty interesting.
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There's like areas that you can you know uh platform through, uh, which the platforming isn't crazy, like you go up ladders, collect an item, jump off a building or something.
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Um I I like the game so far.
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I wouldn't go as to say as it's the gonna be a game of the year.
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It's definitely uh honestly, the bit that I played last night, I enjoyed it a whole lot more than I did Resident Evil 9.
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Um, I don't think Resident Evil 9 is a bad game, but I also don't think it's a good game.
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So I think this one might be better.
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Um this one so far, it's really enjoyable.
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And honestly, if I'm if I'm being 100% honest, I kind of just want to jump back into it and keep playing it for the rest of the day.
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Uh because it does have style, it does have some substance, and and I find the story pretty interesting, right?
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You have demons are wanting to come home to Earth, and uh you're a protector, and you have to clear these dungeons out so that the gate that seals the demons in hell stay in hell.
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Um you know, which is just basic story.
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It's a it but the characters around it are kind of interest interesting, you know.
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Miyamoto's interesting, he's funny.
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Um, not only is he funny, he's he's just a swordsman, he just like fights uh everybody else, all the characters around them are pretty interesting.
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Um, you know, the Gemma have I don't want to say personalities, but they talk, they they do interact with Miyamoto.
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Um there's there's a part where you kind of like break into this house and there's a bunch of Gemma like in the backyard, and the Gemma's like, we're being attacked, and Miyamoto's like, wait, you're the ones attacking our world.
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Like, what's going on?
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So it's pretty, it's pretty funny that way.
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Um I I would say honestly, just try the demo out.
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Um, honestly, I'm guessing the demo ends before the point where I'm at right now because I heard a lot of people say, I played the demo, it wasn't for me.
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I don't think this is gonna be great.
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I I don't and honestly, as I was playing it those first few hours, I was like, uh the only thing keeping me going is not only that I paid money for this, is that the story is kind of interesting.
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And then once I got to that first whole area where you get to uh clear out the first uh dungeon or whatever, uh then it started getting pretty interesting.
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But I don't know, maybe I'll have like a full review later on when I finish the game, if I I decide to, but so far my first impressions for this for this game are I don't know.
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It's fine.
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It's a fine game.
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Um it it I feel like it's much better than Resident Evil 9.
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Um I don't know if it's as good as Pragmata.
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I like Pragmata, but I don't I I I don't know.
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I think it might be better than Pragmata, the whole fighting robots in space.
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Uh I I like the space parts, I don't like the robots part from Pragmata.
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Um I d I don't like fighting robots.
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It's just it feels soulless.
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It feels like there's there's nothing there.
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Like there's no weight to it.
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There's there's just I don't know.
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I don't like fighting robots.
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Anyways, yeah, uh Onimusha, uh way of the sword.
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Check it out if you feel like it.
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There's a demo.
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Um it it's it's pretty interesting.
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Um I'm gonna keep going, hopefully.
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.880
Uh, but now it's time for Isles of Reverie.
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So let's talk about Isle of Reveries.
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Isle of Reveries is a little Zelda-like, kind of like Links to the Past.
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Uh in modern consoles, it it has that old school Game Boy look to it, which I absolutely love.
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I I think the game looks absolutely beautiful.
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Um I look at the screenshots, and the screenshots are look weird.
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They don't make give the game the the justice or the respect it deserves, but the game in motion looks great.
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It looks it looks it looks great, it looks so good.
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Um, like I said, it looks like uh Zelda, the old school Zelda on the Game Boy, Game Boy Color with the uh Oracle games.
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Um so I've put about I want to say four to six hours into it so far, and uh I am probably not gonna do a full-blown review.
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I'm gonna do first impressions of this game, and uh let's go ahead and and talk about it.
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Um so you're playing as a pilgrim, uh doing a pilgrimage to the skybound Isle of Reveries.
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Uh rumor has it that when you get to the island, you can make a wish, your wish gets granted.
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And uh basically that's what the entire story premise is.
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But turns out once you get up there, everything's been corrupted, so now you have to forsake your wish and fix everything, or you know, fall and become another casualty of society.
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Um the dun it has a bunch of dungeons, apparently it has around uh four to five dungeons and uh a couple extra uh mini dungeons for you to do.
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And in those dungeons, like in Zelda, you get an ability that you can use to uh progress further inside the dungeon.
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Um and you get heart containers, you fight bosses, you fight a mid-boss that creates a little warp point to the area where you need to go.
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Um, I I beat the first dungeon.
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I am currently on the boss fight of the second dungeon.
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Um, I don't think I have enough heart containers, so I should probably venture out into the world and pick up as many hard containers as I can.
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Uh, because right now I only have the standard four, because you you get one after you defeat a boss.
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And uh I'm having a very tough time with the uh second boss.
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Um, so speaking of the bosses, let's just talk about them real quick.
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Um, they have patterns that you have to follow.
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For example, the first boss um is just in the middle of the room, the room throwing stuff at you, spawning enemies, and there's four lanterns that you need to light.
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So you light the lanterns, you hit it, it drops its head, you grab the head, you throw it against the floor, you do that three times, the boss dies.
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:29.280
Uh, but in between each one, what it does changes, right?
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So in the first uh pattern, it just summons like little hands to attack you, throws its attacks, you do the thing, attack them, hurt them, then uh I believe uh it uh spawns fire-spewing enemies, and then you have to copy the fire-spewing enemies, use them to light the other torches.
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Um because you get this fairy uh halfway through the first dungeon that lets you copy certain items, so you can copy statues, you can copy uh arrow shooting enemies, stuff like that.
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So it it makes everything have a little bit of depth to it, where in games like Zelda you wouldn't really see death like that.
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And I I really like it.
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I I only have like one major complaint with the game, um, and it's it's the jump mechanic.
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Um, you have a jump from the get-go, and it is mapped to your shoulder button, to your uh right bumper button, your your top one, your R1 on PlayStation, and uh you use it to jump over little pits.
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Some dungeons are just I feel like they're just coated in these pits, so you have to jump over the pits.
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Um once you jump over them, uh you can continue, obviously.
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But uh if you get too close to the edge before jumping, you're just stuck in an animation of trying to get out, and you don't really get out, you kind of just fall anyways, and every time you fall, you receive damage, which I find wow, I find that very annoying because I cannot tell you how many times I've died because I've just fallen into a pit and haven't been able to I've I like I didn't react fast enough to jump before I got into the edge of the pit.
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Like I feel like there's something there, like there's a little issue right there where you either can't jump out fast enough, or your timing is wrong, or your distance is wrong.
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Like I feel like the the jumping itself needs like a little bit of a float to it, or maybe make it a higher jump.
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Because I I feel like if they would have given the jump uh height a lot more height than it has, it could be used as a dodge mechanic.
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Um, you don't have a roll for dodging, um, you have just the jump, and I feel like either a roll or the jump would help a lot with some enemies.
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I feel like if I had either one of those, the boss in the second dungeon would be a whole lot easier to fight.
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But there's so much to like about this game.
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Um specifically at the beginning, you get a lamp, right?
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And you think, oh, it's a lamp you can see in the dark, you can use it to light fires, whatever.
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You can also use it to attack.
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So the first few enemies that you fight, you just burned them to death.
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Um, and I also like the the like I said, the presentation, it's kind of like a Game Boy cut game, and uh I find it really cool that every time you kill an enemy, like a little ghost pops out of them.
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Kind of like in Pikmin.
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So I think I think that's very cool.
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I think the music is really awesome.
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Um, it's kind of chiptune-ish, uh, kind of like Shovel Knight or uh Scott Pilgrim.
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Um, so the that that theme during the beginning of the game while you're playing throughout that first dungeon, um, it it's pretty freaking cool.
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Um, the so the lamp uh works on a regenerative meter, so that meter as you use it goes down and it then it just comes back up automatically on its own.
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And uh I I wrote on my notes, I have a feeling that uh other items are gonna work this way too.
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Basically, every single item that you find works like that.
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So you're at at some point, I don't know if I was supposed to get to that point.
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Uh I found a leaf that creates tornadoes.
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Um that uses the meter.
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There's a gauntlet, uh, not a uh a claw that you can shoot kind of like a hook shot that uses the meter too.
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That one's very useful.
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You can just kill enemies in one hit from far away um and grab their items that they drop because they also drop like hearts and uh parts that you can use because there's a little bit of a town building element to the game where you can build like a post office, um uh uh uh I think something was called like Well of Ordeals or something like that.
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So you can build a couple of different structures throughout this little town that you run into.
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Um, because there's a bunch of pilgrims living up there, and as you're playing, you find the spirits of these pilgrims and you can restore them with the fairy that accompanies you.
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Um, but yeah, you have maps, you have compasses, keys, and everything inside the dungeons, just like you would in any other uh dungeon.
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Um, particularly the first dungeon to me was pretty cool.
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Um it was a lot larger than I was expecting.
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I feel like these dungeons and the overworld itself is a lot, a lot larger than I was expecting.
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So it kind of felt a little bit overwhelming, and the map is just like squares like the the Zelda one was.
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Uh I I don't think the map is great.
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I don't think it's very good, I don't think it's very helpful.
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Um, if there's a way to place markers on it, I haven't found it.
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I also really didn't look.
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Um, so I feel like if it doesn't, if it has it awesome, if it doesn't, then it it should probably have that.
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I feel like the jump should be fixed as well, unless there's an item later on that will help you with the jump, especially since you're playing as a little owl boy.
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Um owls fly, so you know you might want your owl to have a little bit of a hover.
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Um so the i I I find it pretty cool uh that the little fairy uh that accompanies you purifies people and it can also copy items for you to use.
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Um yeah, I I'm I'm having a uh a good time with the game.
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I feel I I got stuck a couple of times, right?
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So this game came out on the fourth, so it came out a couple of days ago as of recording.
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So I feel like there's a lot of uh bugs that still need to be ironed out.
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Um, I did see some people posting on different social media platforms that the game completely bugged out, they couldn't find or fix uh one specific thing that they needed to progress further into a dungeon, which is kind of big.
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Um, at that point that I saw the video, the person was probably like four hours in, so they would have had to have started over the whole game.
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But it's what it is, it's growing paints of having a brand new game uh coming out, but I feel like this game is a lot of fun.
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Um, it is it is very puzzle heavy.
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Um, the combat so far is okay.
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Um, everything is basically puzzle heavy.
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I'm not crazy into puzzles.
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Um but I feel like for this kind of game it works, uh, being so limited and so small and con uh constricted.
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Um you can't really I don't know, like like you can't really create a very in-depth combat system, so you have to rely on something else to make a game like this be playable and and be enjoyable, and uh puzzles are gonna have to be it.
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And honestly, they're good.
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I I feel like the dungeons are very big.
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I I feel like they could be scaled down a little bit, at least so far what I've played, but that's not stopping me from having a great time.
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Um, I'm also gonna go back and and keep playing this game because I'm I'm enjoying it so far.
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I'm probably tomorrow at some point, I'm just gonna go get out of the the second dungeon, explore the world a little bit more, try to find more heart containers so I can go back and take down that boss.
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Because uh the the way that the boss works is you use the claw to pull him towards you, you hurt him, he goes back, gets into his armor, he swipes at you, you grab him, pull him out of his armor, hit him, then he goes.
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Starts strafing left and right, shooting his projectiles at you, and uh you have to grab them, pull them, hit him.
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You know, but it's it's how it goes.
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And uh honestly, I I I'm getting my ass beat because the game does kind of like this little thing, this thing that I that I I find kind of annoying that Souls games do, and it's the bus run.
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You'll run from your safe point or your spawn point or whatever towards the boss, and there's just enemies and obstacles and stuff that can hurt you before you get there.
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Um, the the game does that, and I I kind of find that annoying, but it's whatever.
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Um, there's also a potion system where you can craft new potions and stuff to uh raise your health and all that.
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It's it's Zelda.
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Come on, it's Zelda.
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So everything you're thinking about Zelda, that's it.
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Um I will say that it does have a darker story uh than Zelda.
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You know, people are crazy wanting to have their wishes fulfilled.
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Um so they they are willing to sacrifice their their thing.
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Like one character you run into, he's like, I can't wait to get out of this forest so I can get my wish fulfilled.
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And your character's mute, so he doesn't talk.
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Um, the the character you're talking to goes like, oh, I really got to get out of this fog because it's making you delirious, telling me that this isn't what it is.
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So um I'm I'm enjoying it.
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I'm very I'm enjoying it a lot.
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I'm enjoying the story, I'm enjoying the gameplay, all of that.
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Um, there are a couple of notes here from the game.press uh page.
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Uh it says, make a pilgrimage skybound to the Isle of Reveries, where any wish can be granted.
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Conquer mysterious dungeons, solve puzzles, and explore vast world overworld in this retro-inspired adventure.
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And where they say vast, it is vast.
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Uh, I I I think I was like at least like half an hour just exploring the overworld before I stumbled into uh the the dungeon that I had to go to.
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It's crazy.
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Take control of an hour, owl named Leaf, as they make a pilgrimage skybound to the Forsaken Isle of Reveries, where it is said that any wish can be granted.
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Players will fight through six mysterious dungeons, each with their own unique themes and puzzles, and meet charming anthropomorphic characters along the way in this retro-inspired adventure.
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Use your fairy companion's magic to duplicate and spawn a variety of objects in the world and discover how they interact with your robust set of items to solve head scratching puzzles.
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And when they say head scratching, oh my god, some of them are obtuse.
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Some of them are like, oh boy.
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Uh explore a vast overworld and conquer dungeons.
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Eight different biomes in the overworld, six different dungeons, each with their own unique themes, mechanics, and key items.
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Copy and spawn objects, use Leaf's fairy companion to copy a spawn of myriad objects using the them to fight puzzles and fight terrifying enemies.
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Forge a community, construct various buildings for the and forge a township.
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Characters that Leaf saves throughout the game will move to the township, offering new quests and stories.
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So this game is thick, it is pretty dense, and uh I'm I'm all for it.
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Um I got three keys for this game.
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Uh so I got one for Xbox uh Series X, and I got one for regular Xbox and one for uh PlayStation 4.
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:57.920
So obviously the one for Xbox One will work on Series X, and the one for PlayStation 4 will work on PlayStation 5.
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So how do you win one of these keys?
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Easy.
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Shoot me an email.
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Uh first person to shoot me an email, just tell me which one you want, either Xbox or PlayStation 4, and I'll give you the key.
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And then the second person, well, you're kind of stuck with the with the second key.
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Um if you only have PlayStation, I'm so sorry.
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If you only have Xbox and you don't have PlayStation, I'm so sorry.
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But yeah, um, Island Reverese is great.
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So far, I'm really enjoying it, and uh, I'm pretty sure that anybody else that plays it will enjoy it too, especially if you're a huge fan of the old Zelda style games.
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.719
Um, but that's it for today's episode.
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Uh Caredin should be back uh tomorrow Monday at some point, and she's gonna tell me all about Dragon Con.
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And unfortunately, she did not get to see any wieners.
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Um, but I want to thank Game.press again for their review keys for Isle of Reveries, and uh I hope that all of you had a great time listening to me ramble on incoherently about games that I played over the past two days.
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And uh I thank you all for being part of the Patreon that keeps the lights on, keeps the podcast chugging along, and uh we have a couple of fun things over there.
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.360
So if you want to go over and check them out, you're you're more than welcome to.
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Um two bucks a month if you feel like it, but you don't have to.
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So yeah, uh, if you have any video games you're looking to sell, let me know.
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You can email me at anovelconsole at gmail.com or at consoleandstuff at gmo.com and tell me what you got, what you're selling, and uh hopefully we can work something out.
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:51.119
So yeah, uh Caredon texted me and she says, Pretty sure this couple is breaking up on the dance floor.
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Dragon Con has been awful.
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You guys are gonna hear everything next week, and it's gonna be terrible.
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So that's it for now.
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Goodbye, everyone.
