Full Transcript for TWIG - Road Rash - Wing Commander - Ultima - Ring Foundry - Zelda Ocarina Of Time Switch 2!

this. 38 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:59.360 It has quite possibly the worst default control scheme I've 39 00:02:59.460 --> 00:03:03.740 ever seen in a game, maybe ever. And I was 40 00:03:03.939 --> 00:03:07.039 baffled by it. And I'm only going to say this, 41 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:09.659 like the game itself is good and it's a solid release. 42 00:03:10.150 --> 00:03:11.689 I think it's actually pretty fun. You might want to 43 00:03:11.710 --> 00:03:14.569 check it out. Link in the description for you. The 44 00:03:14.610 --> 00:03:16.830 race game, it's one that not everybody has played, at 45 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:19.990 least in my parts of the world. But you can 46 00:03:20.030 --> 00:03:21.889 see that it's made with love, it's passionate, it's a 47 00:03:21.930 --> 00:03:28.080 fun racer. But the acceleration button, as well as the 48 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:33.740 confirmation button, on a regular control scheme, it is either 49 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:35.560 on a switch, it would be like the A button, 50 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:40.289 which is the far right button, or on an Xbox 51 00:03:40.590 --> 00:03:44.990 or a PlayStation, it would be the X button or 52 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:47.969 the A button, which is usually at or the cross button, 53 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:50.439 which is at the bottom of your, your right side 54 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:56.199 of your controller. This, it's confirmation button is the Y 55 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.759 button on, on the switch, uh, which would be, uh, 56 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:05.240 like your square or your, uh, uh, I guess, yeah, 57 00:04:05.259 --> 00:04:09.930 like the square or your, what was Y or X, 58 00:04:10.229 --> 00:04:12.530 whatever it is. The top left button on the front 59 00:04:12.550 --> 00:04:15.870 face is an odd spot to have your accelerant. It's 60 00:04:15.909 --> 00:04:19.110 the exact opposite of any game ever that had any 61 00:04:19.129 --> 00:04:21.970 good design. It's almost a crime against humanity to have 62 00:04:22.009 --> 00:04:23.370 it there. You have to go in and check it out. 63 00:04:23.910 --> 00:04:25.310 And even if you can't change it in the game, 64 00:04:25.350 --> 00:04:27.240 you can remap it at the console level if you 65 00:04:27.250 --> 00:04:30.060 really wanted to. But it was baffling to me that 66 00:04:30.100 --> 00:04:34.180 that's how it's defaulted to. I've never encountered that ever before. 67 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.199 I don't know why. That's not to downplay and say 68 00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:40.519 the game is bad. It's just that it's an odd choice. 69 00:04:40.670 --> 00:04:43.759 Very odd. But fun game, worth checking out. I definitely 70 00:04:43.790 --> 00:04:46.209 would think it's worth your time. That's my first impressions 71 00:04:46.250 --> 00:04:50.810 of it, at least so far. I have also had 72 00:04:50.829 --> 00:04:55.550 the chance to check out Bao Bao's Cozy Cleaning Services. Now, 73 00:04:55.670 --> 00:05:02.040 this

is a game where pixel art, you're playing as pandas, 74 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:09.279 panda bears, and it's like Pixel Cleaning's Power Wash Simulator game. 75 00:05:09.740 --> 00:05:11.689 It's basically like a power watch simulator, but you're playing 76 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:15.290 as a, as a cute pixel art panda bear cleaning 77 00:05:15.350 --> 00:05:18.269 up areas and filling up water. It's a very cozy game. 78 00:05:18.310 --> 00:05:21.370 It's very fun. It's very Zen, very relaxing. If you 79 00:05:21.389 --> 00:05:24.389 have a very stressful day, it's worth checking out for sure. 80 00:05:24.870 --> 00:05:26.470 The other couple of things I've had a chance to 81 00:05:26.509 --> 00:05:33.329 look at is, uh, I have been sent physical additions of, uh, uh, ratatan, uh, 82 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.199 as well as, and it's dog man back in action. 83 00:05:36.649 --> 00:05:41.750 for Switch 2 and Switch respectively. So I'm checking them 84 00:05:41.829 --> 00:05:44.470 out to see how they feel. The Switch 2 version 85 00:05:44.490 --> 00:05:47.370 of Redditan is all on the cart. It's not a 86 00:05:47.389 --> 00:05:50.370 game key card, which is always good. So I'll throw 87 00:05:50.389 --> 00:05:52.129 it out on the socials because I've already reviewed those 88 00:05:52.170 --> 00:05:55.279 games previously when it comes to the actual games. They're 89 00:05:55.300 --> 00:05:58.480 both good games, and it's nice to see something physical 90 00:05:58.579 --> 00:06:00.139 and check it out and see how it works that way. 91 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:03.240 So I'll link in the description for the games, and 92 00:06:03.259 --> 00:06:05.500 I will also show it on socials because it's always 93 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:08.199 nice that You know, keeping physical alive is pretty much 94 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.579 something that only Nintendo is doing right now, at least 95 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.689 as of this recording. So those are just some of 96 00:06:13.709 --> 00:06:15.350 the indies that I've had a chance to look at 97 00:06:15.389 --> 00:06:17.750 and play. And it's been pretty fun. As far as 98 00:06:17.810 --> 00:06:22.029 stuff within the show, I have two reviews. One review 99 00:06:22.089 --> 00:06:24.439 is actually more of a collection of things that have 100 00:06:24.459 --> 00:06:32.290 come out. EA has surprisingly launched Steam versions. of all 101 00:06:32.310 --> 00:06:34.370 of the Ultima games. And that might have something to 102 00:06:34.389 --> 00:06:36.269 do with some of the rights being changed around because 103 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:39.139 Richard Garriott, I believe is taking back the IP rights 104 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:42.339 to his, uh, uh, to his brand and franchise. I 105 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:43.939 don't know how all the legal stuff works in the 106 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:45.600 back end, but in 2027, he gets the rights back. 107 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.620 So they have never been on Switch as far

as, 108 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.800 or sorry, Switch on Steam, as far as I know. Uh, 109 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.019 and then they also put out, uh, brand new restored 110 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:56.860 editions of Wing Commander and a bunch of other games. So, 111 00:06:58.389 --> 00:07:00.850 discussion sort of as a collective whole of my impressions 112 00:07:00.889 --> 00:07:02.769 so far. I'll probably do another review later on as 113 00:07:02.829 --> 00:07:04.250 I get a chance to play more and more of them. 114 00:07:05.329 --> 00:07:09.160 And then I also have a review of Nintendo's The 115 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.839 Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, the Switch 2 remake. 116 00:07:13.060 --> 00:07:15.339 And then Birdman has a review in here. I think 117 00:07:15.379 --> 00:07:18.579 it's of a ring of some sort. So that'll be 118 00:07:18.620 --> 00:07:21.639 something interesting. So those are our three reviews coming up here. 119 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.480 I'll come back at the end to give an update 120 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:26.259 on programming, what's coming very soon to the site, and 121 00:07:26.310 --> 00:07:30.560 just give some housekeeping and explanations as to why some 122 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.019 of our branding and stuff looks different. So stay tuned 123 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.879 to the end. I'll be back right after these pretty 124 00:07:35.899 --> 00:07:39.899 cool reviews from a very diverse amount of companies. I'll 125 00:07:39.939 --> 00:07:42.459 say that. So we'll be back a little bit later 126 00:07:42.550 --> 00:07:46.329 right here at ThisWeekInGeek.net. It warms my heart to see 127 00:07:46.350 --> 00:07:47.209 you again, Colonel. 128 00:08:07.470 --> 00:08:08.360 Thank you. 129 00:08:50.669 --> 00:08:53.490 Well hello Alex the producer here and this is something 130 00:08:53.570 --> 00:08:57.629 I was not expecting to come across my desk or 131 00:08:57.669 --> 00:09:02.509 my email and that is our friends at EA did 132 00:09:02.580 --> 00:09:08.519 a surprise launch of 25 PC classics on Steam that 133 00:09:08.539 --> 00:09:11.039 had never been on the platform before. They had been 134 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:15.279 either on their own platforms or in some cases famously 135 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.639 on GOG but not on Steam and then there's been 136 00:09:18.659 --> 00:09:22.139 some updates here but including seven anniversary editions. This is 137 00:09:22.210 --> 00:09:26.669 the big surprise for Road Rash and the Wing Commander series. 138 00:09:28.009 --> 00:09:30.669 I had interestingly been talking to family and friends about 139 00:09:30.710 --> 00:09:33.889 it because I had noticed that, like, Wing Commander had 140 00:09:33.929 --> 00:09:36.649 been put out on GOG years ago. Lots of cool goodies, 141 00:09:37.110 --> 00:09:40.309 but obviously all the Star Citizen stuff related to the 142 00:09:40.370 --> 00:09:43.990 successor series from the same creators and how that's been

143 00:09:44.009 --> 00:09:50.509 sort of a weird behemoth of a fundraiser, like, Money sync, 144 00:09:50.590 --> 00:09:53.720 time sync development. Some parts look interesting. That's a whole 145 00:09:53.779 --> 00:09:56.210 world to get into at some point, I guess, to discuss. 146 00:09:56.250 --> 00:10:01.059 But I had never really. gone and played the Wing 147 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.740 Commander series. I think I had one of them on 148 00:10:02.779 --> 00:10:06.980 GOG at one point. Maybe there was a couple on 149 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.139 there that had gotten as packages or gotten as deals way, 150 00:10:11.210 --> 00:10:14.009 way back. And I was like, these look cool. I 151 00:10:14.029 --> 00:10:16.570 want to see the CG. But they don't always play 152 00:10:16.610 --> 00:10:19.629 the greatest unless they're GOG certified to play on modern games. 153 00:10:20.029 --> 00:10:20.350 Hardware. 154 00:10:20.750 --> 00:10:21.929 Sometimes it can be a bit of a pain to 155 00:10:21.970 --> 00:10:24.529 get some of these things to work. And as for 156 00:10:24.610 --> 00:10:28.649 like Ultima, I had, I think Ultima 4, I had 157 00:10:29.389 --> 00:10:31.509 gotten for like a dollar on GOG at some point. 158 00:10:31.990 --> 00:10:33.409 But I was like, you know, it's been a while 159 00:10:33.509 --> 00:10:37.000 since any of these have had any updates or releases 160 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.740 or any guarantees that they'll work on modern hardware. In 161 00:10:40.779 --> 00:10:43.320 many cases, things that run on DOSBox, they'll work, but 162 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.620 they're kind of, it can be iffy if they haven't 163 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:49.610 been updated, especially as we're now multiple windows additions like 164 00:10:49.809 --> 00:10:53.399 we've gone from like windows like vista windows 8 or 165 00:10:53.409 --> 00:10:54.840 whatever it was when some of these games were put 166 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.820 on the service to you know we're at windows 10 167 00:10:57.820 --> 00:11:02.279 windows 11 so on and so forth so it's interesting 168 00:11:02.299 --> 00:11:03.519 and then i saw this pop up and i went 169 00:11:03.580 --> 00:11:09.210 what so uh our friends there sent over uh copies 170 00:11:09.529 --> 00:11:13.289 of ultima 1 through 9 and ultima underworld 1 and 171 00:11:13.309 --> 00:11:16.450 ultima underworld 2 to check out on steam because again 172 00:11:16.710 --> 00:11:18.669 had never been put on that platform before and i 173 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:21.909 went cool so at some point we'll probably do some 174 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:26.539 playthroughs i've never played them i played like uh played 175 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:30.600 quest of the avatar uh which is the fourth game 176 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:35.340 and ultimate three exodus the nes jrpg sort of ports 177 00:11:35.379 --> 00:11:36.919 of them i played back in the day and they 178 00:11:36.940 --> 00:11:39.659 are rough uh and then i have played a little 179 00:11:39.730 --> 00:11:42.629 bit of false prophet the sixth one back in the 180 00:11:42.649 --> 00:11:46.070 day on pce but I've never played them. So that 181 00:11:46.129 --> 00:11:48.549 might be something interesting to go through, play them, see 182 00:11:48.590 --> 00:11:50.000 how they, how they work on that. But the fact 183 00:11:50.029 --> 00:11:52.740 that it's on Steam, it's great. This is something that 184 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.799 I believe part of the reason for this without knowing 185 00:11:56.860 --> 00:12:00.000 exactly is I know Richard Garriott, Lord British has, is 186 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:03.279 getting the rights back to his franchise IP at some point. 187 00:12:03.299 --> 00:12:05.409 I don't know how all the details work, but it 188 00:12:05.450 --> 00:12:07.710 had been reported that in 2027, he's getting the rights 189 00:12:07.769 --> 00:12:10.009 back to it. I don't know what that means for 190 00:12:10.049 --> 00:12:11.990 how they can release it. So now is kind of 191 00:12:12.009 --> 00:12:13.950 the time for them to release these games. If they're 192 00:12:13.990 --> 00:12:16.590 going to, I think they're, uh, which is awesome. So 193 00:12:16.610 --> 00:12:20.289 we'll check out those out, but, uh, also, uh, ones 194 00:12:20.330 --> 00:12:23.149 that were brought over to steam that were like regular 195 00:12:23.190 --> 00:12:27.139 additions are a theme hospital crusader, no remorse and crusader, 196 00:12:27.179 --> 00:12:30.259 no regret, uh, which again had also been available on 197 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:35.080 GOG for a while. Um, but the big interesting ones 198 00:12:35.100 --> 00:12:38.220 are the wing commander ones. So like wing commander, uh, 199 00:12:38.289 --> 00:12:47.639 privateer academy, um, Those have all been ported or put 200 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:51.299 on Steam. And same thing, they're on GOG, they're updated 201 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:57.600 and working. But the big interesting ones here are Privateer 2, 202 00:12:58.570 --> 00:13:04.730 Commander Prophecy, and then Wing Commander 1, 2, 3, and 203 00:13:04.730 --> 00:13:07.870 4 have all been given, as well as Road Rash 204 00:13:07.909 --> 00:13:11.179 has been given an anniversary edition. Those are from a 205 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:14.059 larger project that has apparently been going on for several 206 00:13:14.100 --> 00:13:18.840 years now where they found archival footage, all the original 207 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.919 raw video capture footage for the FMV sequences and stuff 208 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.539 for all these games, including Road Rash, where they were 209 00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:29.259 on all these different formats. It was like Betacam Masters, 210 00:13:29.299 --> 00:13:32.690 which is like the higher-end tape recorder that you would 211 00:13:32.710 --> 00:13:37.090 see newsrooms using. Betacam is different. Beta was the home 212 00:13:37.110 --> 00:13:40.789 video format.

which was slightly better video quality than VHS, 213 00:13:41.529 --> 00:13:45.200 but Betacam was the professional version, which was significantly higher quality. 214 00:13:45.659 --> 00:13:48.320 A lot of TV channels, and that would use those 215 00:13:48.379 --> 00:13:50.759 as their master tapes for TV shows when they would 216 00:13:50.779 --> 00:13:53.820 get copies sent to their station. Like they're meant to 217 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.669 be broadcast masters. They were of much higher quality. Betacam, 218 00:13:57.710 --> 00:14:01.789 some VHS assets, but Betacam assets, D1 and D2 assets. 219 00:14:01.870 --> 00:14:05.500 D1 and D2, if you at all are familiar with D1, 220 00:14:06.220 --> 00:14:08.320 It was the format that was used, the digital format 221 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:10.850 that was used, uh, for in the nineties, all the 222 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.129 way into the mid to late two thousands on some 223 00:14:13.149 --> 00:14:17.230 TV stations, uh, for standard def video. Uh, and it 224 00:14:17.289 --> 00:14:21.789 was like the highest quality tape ever existed without going 225 00:14:21.830 --> 00:14:24.850 to film and filming and then scanning and yada, yada. They, 226 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:28.769 these were really, really good quality. Like we're talking way 227 00:14:28.820 --> 00:14:33.259 higher quality, like the bit rate for it. If you 228 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:36.090 wanted to do a comparison. is like the bit rate, 229 00:14:36.110 --> 00:14:38.690 like the high data rate that you would see for 230 00:14:38.769 --> 00:14:42.080 like a 4k movie now, but at a much, much, 231 00:14:42.269 --> 00:14:45.419 much smaller resolution, you know, four ADP or 40, it 232 00:14:45.460 --> 00:14:49.840 would be progressive. So before ADP for that format. So the, 233 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:52.620 the bits that you get per pixel, meaning like how 234 00:14:52.659 --> 00:14:55.759 much raw video information that could be stored per pixel 235 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.990 was like five or 10 times as much as a DVD. 236 00:15:00.389 --> 00:15:03.370 Like we're talking massive amounts, like every detail retained, no, 237 00:15:04.389 --> 00:15:09.990 no graininess, no blur, no pixelation or artifacting. It would 238 00:15:10.029 --> 00:15:14.620 be the absolute best quality you could possibly have. And 239 00:15:14.629 --> 00:15:16.440 that's what you would use as your master tapes that 240 00:15:16.460 --> 00:15:18.960 you would then, you would take that format, the D1, 241 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.379 some stations could actually broadcast it, but you would take 242 00:15:21.419 --> 00:15:23.980 that D1 format usually and then dub it down to 243 00:15:24.019 --> 00:15:27.519 Betamax or Betacam or another digital format that could be 244 00:15:27.580 --> 00:15:28.919 used at a station or it would be like the 245 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:32.940 master copy of raw data. You've probably heard of it 246 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.779 from like the reboot thing that mainframe had where they 247 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.600 found the tapes and they're digitizing them to get the 248 00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:43.289 proper quality where there's no aliasing or more effects or 249 00:15:43.690 --> 00:15:47.929 weird video artifacting or anything that's sort of anything it's 250 00:15:47.950 --> 00:15:50.129 been hard to get those because there's very few places 251 00:15:50.149 --> 00:15:52.929 in the world that have working d1 let alone d2 252 00:15:52.990 --> 00:15:55.990 tapes d2 was the higher advanced little later on version 253 00:15:56.470 --> 00:16:00.639 before everything switched to using pure digital on hard drives 254 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:05.009 that we use now It was basically the highest quality 255 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:10.419 format you could have on a tape medium for digital 256 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:15.919 storage at a time when large hard drives and solid-state 257 00:16:15.940 --> 00:16:19.019 storage was very expensive. It didn't even exist. You could 258 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.820 fit gigabytes and gigabytes and gigabytes and gigabytes of data 259 00:16:22.250 --> 00:16:24.190 on these tape drives, but you couldn't do it any 260 00:16:24.210 --> 00:16:27.710 other way. So very few places have the ability to 261 00:16:27.750 --> 00:16:29.450 do it. They found a place that could do it 262 00:16:29.470 --> 00:16:32.210 in the States. which is probably at a much higher 263 00:16:32.250 --> 00:16:35.250 cost or anything that it is like in Canada. As 264 00:16:35.289 --> 00:16:38.809 far as we know, the people that are remastering reboot 265 00:16:38.870 --> 00:16:40.769 are the only people in all of Canada. And one 266 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:42.220 of the few people in the world that can even 267 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:46.320 do this, this sort of restoration or digitization of original 268 00:16:46.340 --> 00:16:49.740 tapes like that. It's becoming that rare. So there's one 269 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.200 in like the States and there's like one here and 270 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:54.340 there might be one in Europe somewhere. And that's pretty 271 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.600 much it right now of the known world. So again, 272 00:16:59.169 --> 00:17:02.490 they found all these archival stuff in their vault, uh, 273 00:17:02.590 --> 00:17:05.119 all these tapes and also some like 16 millimeter film 274 00:17:05.150 --> 00:17:07.940 reels of certain things for, for some of the footage 275 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:11.000 raw stuff without special effects. Well, they spent the last 276 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.440 four years cataloging it, scanning it all in, uh, doing 277 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.019 some scaling to 4k or scanning it at 4k or 278 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.180 doing some, uh, filtering to make sure it looked at 279 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.829 re-editing it to have the cut scenes for everything match up. 280 00:17:24.839 -->

00:17:28.130 Cause this was the raw unedited footage. And again, what 281 00:17:28.170 --> 00:17:31.519 they've done along with, uh, working with different people in 282 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.339 like the modding community, uh, to bring in, to do 283 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.700 like widescreen modifications to games so that they can work 284 00:17:37.740 --> 00:17:42.460 in widescreen or have clear, crisper graphics modifications to gameplay 285 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:45.049 elements to make, to fix bugs, all this stuff, basically 286 00:17:45.170 --> 00:17:48.250 ultimate additions, or in this case, anniversary additions of things 287 00:17:48.289 --> 00:17:53.069 like road rash 30th anniversary, uh, wing commander 35th anniversary, uh, 288 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:58.670 the wing commander two, uh, is a 35th anniversary, a 289 00:17:58.769 --> 00:18:00.970 Wing Commander 3, Heart of the Tiger is a 30th, 290 00:18:01.410 --> 00:18:05.730 Wing Commander 4 is a 30th anniversary, Wing Commander Prophecy, 30th, 291 00:18:05.890 --> 00:18:10.559 and Privateer 2, 30th anniversary edition. All these have massive upgrades. 292 00:18:10.980 --> 00:18:14.299 You can see on their websites and everywhere that the 293 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.740 video looks like it's filmed on film, like modern day 294 00:18:17.819 --> 00:18:22.119 high bit rate, and they've integrated it perfectly. This is 295 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.519 a whole different ballgame when it comes to FMV and 296 00:18:24.619 --> 00:18:28.180 cut scenes in games. And the file size is there 297 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.380 to boot. This is no joke. A lot of these 298 00:18:30.420 --> 00:18:33.380 games were multiple discs. They were like four or five CDs, 299 00:18:33.420 --> 00:18:34.680 but a lot of them share certain data. It was 300 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.420 just the videos. So that where they might've been somewhere 301 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.319 between one and two or one and three gigabytes total 302 00:18:40.700 --> 00:18:43.400 for some of these games, they're now upwards of 20 303 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:47.869 or 25 gigabytes, like a modern video game. Because the one, 304 00:18:47.930 --> 00:18:50.069 the assets for the games themselves have gotten a little larger, 305 00:18:50.109 --> 00:18:52.390 but that's minuscule in amount. It's maybe a gigabyte or 306 00:18:52.430 --> 00:18:56.710 two of game data. It's the high quality high bit 307 00:18:56.769 --> 00:19:00.519 rate pristine video that's been fully integrated into the games 308 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:02.880 and it looks great from what i've been playing so 309 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:04.839 far as my first impressions i'm going to jump in 310 00:19:04.859 --> 00:19:06.779 and do more i'm going to have to stream these 311 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:08.500 record these put these out on our youtube channel other 312 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.819 things because this is the definitive way to play and 313 00:19:12.339 -->

00:19:14.980 what's cool is i've got these on steam the one 314 00:19:15.029 --> 00:19:17.430 or two games that i've had previously from them on 315 00:19:17.490 --> 00:19:21.789 gog they automatically upgraded to have this version So anybody 316 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:24.569 that had the previous versions of these games that weren't 317 00:19:24.609 --> 00:19:29.849 anniversary editions got the anniversary editions on GOG automatically upgraded 318 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:32.369 so you have both versions you can play. And there's 319 00:19:32.410 --> 00:19:34.950 even some extra assets on the GOG versions like some 320 00:19:34.990 --> 00:19:37.289 making of and some bonus things that are just in 321 00:19:37.329 --> 00:19:40.309 these editions that are extra than what you had in 322 00:19:40.349 --> 00:19:43.809 the original sets. Awesome that they did that. It's very good, 323 00:19:43.869 --> 00:19:49.039 very consumer-friendly, and I feel like this is the best 324 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.140 time to jump into any of these titles, and obviously 325 00:19:51.500 --> 00:19:54.000 having another platform to play Ultimate games on, meaning that 326 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:55.460 they had to test it to make sure it works 327 00:19:55.500 --> 00:19:56.319 on modern PCs. 328 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:57.119 Great. 329 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:59.420 So you've got all the Ultimate games, you've got a 330 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.660 bunch of the Wing Commander games, and Road Rash, and interestingly, 331 00:20:02.700 --> 00:20:04.400 Road Rash is the one I've played the most so far. 332 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.410 Road Rash is the first time that it's been recoded 333 00:20:07.430 --> 00:20:10.700 and to work properly at 60 FPS. It was a 334 00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:13.779 30 FPS game. Like it was coded locked to that 335 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.299 when it was targeted platform was the 3DO originally. Well, 336 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:19.920 now it's got, they've gone in from scratch, recoded it. 337 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.329 It's not like it's sped up. It's actually made to 338 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.609 function at proper 60 FPS, making it the definitive road 339 00:20:25.650 --> 00:20:28.789 rash game version forever, at least in my mind. So 340 00:20:29.170 --> 00:20:30.829 I'll put links in the description for many of these 341 00:20:30.849 --> 00:20:33.369 that you can check out on both, uh, GOG and steam. 342 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:36.259 worth checking out. Thanks to EA for sending these over. 343 00:20:36.299 --> 00:20:37.500 I'm going to have to dig into more of these 344 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.299 later on and probably do some gameplay videos and all 345 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:43.720 that fun stuff with it. Well worth your time. There's 346 00:20:43.740 --> 00:20:44.900 going to be something in here for everybody. 347 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:48.960 Hey guys, this is Mike the Birdman here. Once again, 348 00:20:49.009 --> 00:20:50.960 I'm here to talk to you about something rather unique. 349 00:20:51.029 --> 00:20:55.410 So I love to browse Instagram. I love to browse Etsy. 350 00:20:55.430 --> 00:21:01.329 I love supporting artisans where I can. And recently I Um, 351 00:21:01.690 --> 00:21:06.289 I was watching the television show lanterns, which aired its finale, uh, 352 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:10.269 earlier last month. And I loved that show. Big fan 353 00:21:10.769 --> 00:21:13.450 of Jon Stewart. I've always been a green lantern fan. 354 00:21:14.390 --> 00:21:16.980 And I was kind of figuring out, well, what if 355 00:21:17.059 --> 00:21:21.140 I wanted some jewelry inspired by that? For those of 356 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.890 you that have been longtime fans of the show. If 357 00:21:23.910 --> 00:21:26.490 you remember, when I started college all the way back 358 00:21:26.589 --> 00:21:29.970 in 2006, I used to wear a Green Lantern ring. 359 00:21:30.750 --> 00:21:34.279 And that ring served me for many years. Unfortunately, it 360 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.500 got warped. It got dented. And as my weight fluctuated 361 00:21:38.539 --> 00:21:44.140 with my fingers, it was unable to support my hand anymore. 362 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:45.160 And I just couldn't wear it anymore. 363 00:21:45.869 --> 00:21:49.750 So I went on a hunt. I sort of contacted 364 00:21:49.769 --> 00:21:51.829 the guardians of the universe. And I'm thinking, you know what? 365 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:58.299 bring forth the best ring you could. And I found 366 00:21:58.339 --> 00:22:03.119 an artist, uh, the ring foundry on Instagram. And I 367 00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:07.099 checked out one of their rings on there. And this 368 00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:12.400 ring is so cool. I got the rustic willpower, which 369 00:22:12.619 --> 00:22:18.119 looks very cool, very much inspired by lanterns. And this 370 00:22:18.220 --> 00:22:21.369 ring is made out of brass. It's a hand polished 371 00:22:21.410 --> 00:22:26.690 to a mirror, uh, It's cast in sterling silver. And 372 00:22:26.730 --> 00:22:30.609 it also has this jewelry quality resin on it, which 373 00:22:30.690 --> 00:22:32.349 really makes it stand out. And one thing that I 374 00:22:32.390 --> 00:22:36.150 didn't know about this till my wife noticed it, we 375 00:22:36.190 --> 00:22:39.440 were out and about and she says, Mike, your ring's glowing. 376 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:42.160 I'm like, what are you talking about? And it turns 377 00:22:42.220 --> 00:22:44.480 out there's a reactive piece of my ring. I completely 378 00:22:44.539 --> 00:22:49.000 forgot about this, that my ring will glow under ultraviolet light. 379 00:22:49.059 --> 00:22:51.859 So when I'm literally outside in the daylight, because I'm 380 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.650 out in my wheelchair all the time, My ring glows, 381 00:22:55.670 --> 00:22:57.450 and when I get home, it still carries enough of 382 00:22:57.470 --> 00:23:02.279 the residual charge.

Now, this is something I've actually had 383 00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:05.279 happen to me a few times. I was at a 384 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:10.200 local gaming convention probably about a week or two ago, 385 00:23:10.819 --> 00:23:13.380 and I was out there with Damien, my co-host from 386 00:23:13.420 --> 00:23:18.480 The Spellbook, and I was in line at the university, 387 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:20.819 which is where this place was held, the University of Guelph, 388 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:25.019 and I was in line at the pizza place. And 389 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:28.099 this kid stops me dead in my tracks. Like he 390 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:31.089 touches my arm. He's like, yo, where did you get that? 391 00:23:31.690 --> 00:23:33.509 And I was like, what are you talking about? And 392 00:23:33.529 --> 00:23:35.569 he points at my green lantern ring and he's like, 393 00:23:35.710 --> 00:23:38.970 oh my God, that's so cool. So I showed him 394 00:23:39.029 --> 00:23:41.630 the Instagram. I said, the ring foundry. And he's like, 395 00:23:41.789 --> 00:23:43.759 how does it fit? How does it feel? And I'm thinking, 396 00:23:43.779 --> 00:23:45.720 you know what? This probably isn't the smartest move on 397 00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:47.640 my behalf, but I'm going to assume he's not going 398 00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:50.619 to run. So I handed him my ring. I'm like, here, 399 00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:54.440 feel the weight of it. And it looks so cool. 400 00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:57.200 cool and one of the things that I was speaking 401 00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:59.940 with from the artist over at the ring foundry this 402 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:02.980 guy has experience in doing this for years and he's 403 00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:06.400 kind of picked up the ergonomic techniques for making these 404 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:09.400 rings really comfortable to wear and I can honestly tell 405 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:12.450 you I've had this ring since probably the middle of 406 00:24:12.549 --> 00:24:16.910 September and I've been wearing it daily since then there's 407 00:24:16.930 --> 00:24:20.730 been like maybe two or three days where my fingers 408 00:24:20.769 --> 00:24:23.509 were swollen just due to salt and I tend to 409 00:24:23.549 --> 00:24:26.319 retain a little bit of fluid Um, where I couldn't 410 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:31.680 wear it, but ultimately this thing is so comfortable. And 411 00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:34.440 if you go to the ring foundries, Instagram, these things 412 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.259 are selling out fast. Like he's sending them out in 413 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.740 batches as much as he possibly can. But really this 414 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.369 is easily one of the nicest pieces of artisan made 415 00:24:45.450 --> 00:24:49.589 jewelry I've ever owned. And considering the ring I used 416 00:24:49.630 --> 00:24:54.470 to have, um, back in college, this one blows it 417 00:24:54.869 --> 00:24:57.329 out of the water. And I can't help but think of, 418 00:24:57.930 --> 00:25:03.720 there's a weird comparison to Moe Sislak from The Simpsons. 419 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:06.859 He's like, wow, that makes little Debbie look like a 420 00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:09.519 pile of puke. I guess the other ring was like 421 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:13.019 factory made in some like assembly line in some other country. 422 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:15.279 And it just wasn't very good. But when I look 423 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:20.289 at something that's actually handmade and really captures the essence 424 00:25:20.329 --> 00:25:24.650 of what you want, The Rustic Willpower Ring makes me 425 00:25:24.849 --> 00:25:30.759 feel like in brightest day, in blackest night, that I 426 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:32.960 can make a difference. And just the fact that I 427 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:38.059 get stopped on the street and in public constantly, truly 428 00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:40.440 I am shining in Green Lantern's light. So once again, 429 00:25:40.460 --> 00:25:42.559 if you want to check out this, this is from 430 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.849 The Ring Foundry. You can find them on Instagram. The 431 00:25:45.910 --> 00:25:48.329 power of my ring is called The Rustic Willpower Ring. 432 00:25:48.910 --> 00:25:50.619 I think you should check it out. It's probably one 433 00:25:50.630 --> 00:25:53.339 of the coolest things I've owned in a number of years. 434 00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:04.420 It would seem I have but a little time left. 435 00:26:05.970 --> 00:26:10.349 I will entrust everything to the child. Ah! 436 00:26:36.230 --> 00:26:46.599 It's been some time, child. When you truly face me, you. 437 00:26:46.460 --> 00:26:57.519 Will regret ever drawing that sword of yours. Here only, 438 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:02.750 Princess Zelda's fate and the fate of all Hyrule rests 439 00:27:02.789 --> 00:27:13.089 in your hands. 440 00:27:13.509 --> 00:27:18.019 Alex, the producer here and our friends at Nintendo Canada 441 00:27:18.170 --> 00:27:22.720 sent us a review code for The Legend of Zelda 442 00:27:23.299 --> 00:27:27.170 Ocarina of Time, the remake for Nintendo Switch 2 I 443 00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:30.509 received it on the day of release, and I thought, oh, 444 00:27:30.690 --> 00:27:32.970 I'll need probably about a week, maybe a week and 445 00:27:32.990 --> 00:27:35.589 a half to do the review. Because, you know, I 446 00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:39.990 usually pace myself. I got fully absorbed. I had a 447 00:27:40.069 --> 00:27:42.150 few days where I had nothing else planned to do. 448 00:27:42.210 --> 00:27:45.329 I was actually going to be, like, pet sitting for 449 00:27:45.349 --> 00:27:47.789 my mother on one or two of the days. And 450 00:27:47.809 --> 00:27:50.150 I thought, I'll take the Switch 2 with me. I 451 00:27:50.190 --> 00:27:52.410 can do that. I'll play a few hours and let go. 452 00:27:52.779 --> 00:27:52.990 Nope. 453 00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:53.099 Nope. 454

00:27:53.970 --> 00:27:56.390 I basically spent four days playing the game off and 455 00:27:56.450 --> 00:27:58.829 on doing emails and other stuff too. But like I 456 00:27:58.849 --> 00:28:02.769 basically did four days of, of, of nonstop Zelda. And 457 00:28:03.490 --> 00:28:06.380 this is interesting because I could give a bit of 458 00:28:06.430 --> 00:28:09.319 a backstory here at the beginning for my experience with 459 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:14.200 Zelda as a franchise, uh, before reviewing stuff for this weekend, 460 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.019 I didn't play a lot of Zelda games. Uh, I 461 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.480 had sort of fallen off. I was into them, but 462 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:22.680 I was always like turn-based RPG guy, Mario guy. It's 463 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:24.869 sort of my, my, You know, bread and butter was 464 00:28:24.900 --> 00:28:31.390 like Mario platformers, turn-based RPGs. But I've expanded to do 465 00:28:31.450 --> 00:28:33.569 more and more stuff. And my background as a kid, 466 00:28:34.250 --> 00:28:37.789 I had Zelda 1, the original Zelda. I think I 467 00:28:37.849 --> 00:28:39.369 used the Game Genie most of the time when I 468 00:28:39.390 --> 00:28:41.750 was very little playing with it because the game came 469 00:28:41.809 --> 00:28:43.549 out like a couple years before, a year or so 470 00:28:43.609 --> 00:28:47.880 before I was born. But early 90s, like 91, 92, 471 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.720 we got our Nintendo. We were always a few years 472 00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:54.430 behind until I got older with new consoles. And I 473 00:28:54.470 --> 00:28:56.150 played it a fair bit. I remember my dad playing 474 00:28:56.190 --> 00:28:58.329 it a bit. There was a, uh, somebody had like 475 00:28:58.349 --> 00:29:01.480 the manual and they put like guide or drill things. 476 00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.779 And I, I think I had a Nintendo tip book, 477 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.640 not from Nintendo, like an unauthorized book of tips for 478 00:29:06.660 --> 00:29:08.279 a whole bunch of games. And I would read in there, 479 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:10.119 like they would tell you where to go and do 480 00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:12.670 certain things. And we had a game genie and I, 481 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:14.500 I think I beat the game with the game genie 482 00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:17.890 once I beat the game once or twice on my own. Uh, 483 00:29:17.990 --> 00:29:20.650 Zelda two, to be honest, did not like, even though 484 00:29:20.670 --> 00:29:22.509 it was more RPG, like I didn't like the side scrolling. 485 00:29:22.529 --> 00:29:27.220 It was too difficult for me, especially as a kid. Um, Zelda, uh, 486 00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:30.940 link to the past. That's my secret shame in that 487 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.380 I've only ever gotten halfway through that game. And they 488 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.670 were initial, like when I owned it on the super Nintendo, 489 00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:38.549

I would get to like the halfway point and then 490 00:29:38.970 --> 00:29:40.579 it would drop off. I would never, actually beat it 491 00:29:41.299 --> 00:29:43.799 and i know i should but i also feel like 492 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:45.599 the second i start to play this if i do 493 00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:47.740 it for a stream i'll start playing it or something 494 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.440 because i you know i physically i own it but 495 00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:53.359 i feel like if i do it i i start 496 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.279 as i start or get part way through they'll announce 497 00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:57.740 a remake or something i'll be like ah i want 498 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:00.589 to play that version instead So I'm sort of holding off. 499 00:30:00.609 --> 00:30:03.410 That's a similar reason as to why I have not 500 00:30:03.509 --> 00:30:06.730 actually dug into my copies that I own of StarTropics 501 00:30:06.730 --> 00:30:09.589 1 and Zoda's Revenge StarTropics 2. Because I got partway 502 00:30:09.630 --> 00:30:11.910 through the first game initially and then the game wouldn't 503 00:30:11.950 --> 00:30:13.789 work anymore on my system way back in the day. 504 00:30:14.329 --> 00:30:15.569 And I'm like, oh, I'll play it when they do 505 00:30:15.589 --> 00:30:18.390 a remake or something. And there's just nothing. They've forgotten 506 00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:22.099 that series. But anyway, I played the Game Boy game, 507 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.099 Link's Awakening. I beat that probably two, three times on 508 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.380 the Game Boy as a kid. And then when I 509 00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:32.619 got a review copy of the remake for the Switch, 510 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.019 I played that and loved it. And then I would 511 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:39.099 say other Zelda games throughout the years, I can mention, like, 512 00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:43.269 I never played Twilight Princess. I never played Wind Waker. 513 00:30:43.309 --> 00:30:46.109 My brother did. He played all the Zelda games. He 514 00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:48.250 was way more into that when he was growing up 515 00:30:48.269 --> 00:30:51.930 than I was. Skyward Sword I didn't play until I 516 00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:56.329 got a review copy for the remaster of it. I 517 00:30:56.390 --> 00:31:01.269 never played... Oh, and, and breath of the wild and 518 00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:04.069 tears of the kingdom. I haven't gotten very far, like, 519 00:31:04.450 --> 00:31:07.190 like fully deep into, I played enough to do my 520 00:31:07.230 --> 00:31:10.509 impressions of that because they're not my style of game. 521 00:31:11.089 --> 00:31:13.559 I am not somebody who really like, I could totally 522 00:31:13.619 --> 00:31:16.079 go through it and beat it. So, but like I played, 523 00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:19.180 I played them, did enough to get my impressions out 524 00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:22.619 for reviews. Uh, and then like my brother is big 525 00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:24.319 into those games. So he would play them and I, 526 00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.119 you know, sometimes he'd come over to visit and I'd 527 00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:27.960 be like, Hey, show me how far you are. Let 528 00:31:28.009 --> 00:31:30.279 me see what you're doing. And I know other people 529 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:32.680 on the Twig crew and friends and family love those games, 530 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:35.680 but they're not like the ones that kind of pull 531 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:39.339 me in because I'm interested in them, but I don't 532 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.980 like things that have like a, I don't like building 533 00:31:43.029 --> 00:31:45.789 things in games that much that unless it's like specifically 534 00:31:45.829 --> 00:31:50.549 like a SimCity game, I don't like having stamina meters 535 00:31:50.789 --> 00:31:53.630 almost in any game at all. And I don't like 536 00:31:53.710 --> 00:31:57.289 things for the most part, where there is a durability 537 00:31:57.329 --> 00:31:59.529 of weapons and items. I just don't, it's just, it's 538 00:31:59.569 --> 00:32:02.009 not something that appeals to me. Uh, the open world, 539 00:32:02.029 --> 00:32:04.910 that's beautiful. And it's amazing. And especially when I got 540 00:32:04.930 --> 00:32:08.160 a chance to check out the switch to, uh, ports 541 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.480 upgrade additions for that. It looks great. Plays great. And 542 00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:13.640 that might pull me in to do more. Uh, and 543 00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:16.140 then the other more recent Zelda game where you play 544 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:18.609 as Zelda, that's pretty fun. I have to get farther. 545 00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:20.410 I'm going to do a full playthrough of that again, 546 00:32:20.430 --> 00:32:22.450 now that it's gotten an update that makes it work 547 00:32:22.490 --> 00:32:25.700 better on the switch to, uh, but, See, that's sort 548 00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:27.339 of just giving you the background, but the one I 549 00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:30.180 just didn't mention so far, uh, oh, and I didn't 550 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.339 play a lot of like the other game of ones. 551 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:33.980 I played like Oracle of seasons a little bit. I 552 00:32:34.049 --> 00:32:36.670 think I didn't play ages and I didn't do spirit 553 00:32:36.710 --> 00:32:38.789 tracks or the other DS. I was not playing those 554 00:32:38.829 --> 00:32:42.630 at that time. Um, the one I didn't mention obviously 555 00:32:42.650 --> 00:32:45.400 was Ocarina of time. Now Ocarina of time came out. 556 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:48.519 I did not get it when it initially came out. 557 00:32:48.579 --> 00:32:50.900 I got it about six, seven months later. a friend 558 00:32:51.509 --> 00:32:53.930 got it and then another friend's got it. Well, his 559 00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:56.769 mother got his mom was a big gamer. Like, like that, 560 00:32:56.789 --> 00:32:58.970

which when that wasn't as common in the mid to 561 00:32:59.009 --> 00:33:01.730 late nineties, a mom in her forties and fifties being 562 00:33:01.750 --> 00:33:04.049 a big gamer and big RPG gamer. I, in fact, 563 00:33:04.089 --> 00:33:07.009 I borrowed a lot of my JRPGs from her. My 564 00:33:07.109 --> 00:33:12.190 friend didn't play RPGs. He played mostly like, like Mario, 565 00:33:12.210 --> 00:33:14.519 that sort of stuff. But his mom played all the 566 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:17.819 RPGs and eventually I started getting RPGs that were different 567 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:19.759 than hers and we would swap them. So like, I 568 00:33:19.779 --> 00:33:23.769 would go hang out with my buddy, play games, play 569 00:33:23.789 --> 00:33:27.230 like big Sky Troopers on the Super Nintendo, or we'd 570 00:33:27.269 --> 00:33:29.910 even do like SimCity and stuff, or we'd play Mario 571 00:33:29.990 --> 00:33:32.690 and some fighting games. And then before I'd go home, 572 00:33:33.009 --> 00:33:36.920 I'd go across the house to his mom, and I'd 573 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:39.019 pick out a game that I wanted to borrow, borrow 574 00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:40.980 it for a week or two, and then trade her. 575 00:33:41.339 --> 00:33:43.059 She could play one of my RPGs for a couple 576 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:44.759 of weeks until we beat it. So we were like 577 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.119 RPG buddies, which was awesome to have a friend, a 578 00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:51.710 mom that was into that stuff. Uh, and one of 579 00:33:51.730 --> 00:33:53.170 the things that she was good at, she loved the 580 00:33:53.190 --> 00:33:56.150 Zelda games. So she had it and I watched her 581 00:33:56.170 --> 00:33:59.170 play that. Then I eventually got the game, uh, and 582 00:33:59.190 --> 00:34:01.910 I was playing through it, working my way through it. Uh, 583 00:34:02.150 --> 00:34:05.890 and I got like really, really stuck at the water temple, 584 00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:09.440 which is when I think as a kid looking back, 585 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:12.000 I think everybody had trouble with the water temple back then, 586 00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:17.309 especially kids. It was disorienting, hard to figure out. especially 587 00:34:17.349 --> 00:34:19.170 I was 11 when the game 10 or 11, when 588 00:34:19.190 --> 00:34:21.670 the game came out, uh, it was hard to figure 589 00:34:21.690 --> 00:34:24.349 out where to, what to do, where to go get oriented. Uh, 590 00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:28.570 it was blurry and, and the frame rate was bad 591 00:34:28.610 --> 00:34:30.809 and all this. And I just couldn't do it. I 592 00:34:30.849 --> 00:34:34.510 was stuck for, I swear hours, hours and hours and 593 00:34:34.530 --> 00:34:36.670 couldn't figure it out. So I had to go, all right, 594 00:34:36.690 --> 00:34:39.469 that's it. I'm going to pop my game out, go 595 00:34:39.590 --> 00:34:42.110 over to my friend's house. And I asked his mom, 596 00:34:42.139 --> 00:34:44.219 can you help me with this? And she beat the 597 00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:47.090 water temple for me. Cause she had recently just done it, 598 00:34:47.699 --> 00:34:49.480 handed it back. And then I did, I think one 599 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:54.619 more temple. And I think I got to in the game. 600 00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:57.039 It was either the shadow temple. I think it was 601 00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.539 shadow temple. And I, I think I gave up. I 602 00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:01.329 wasn't able to do it anymore. It was, it was 603 00:35:01.349 --> 00:35:02.730 getting too difficult for me as a kid. And I, 604 00:35:03.170 --> 00:35:06.150 at that point, I think I moved on to playing 605 00:35:06.190 --> 00:35:08.750 final fantasy and like seven or eight or something. And 606 00:35:08.789 --> 00:35:11.710 then from there, I, I didn't play as much N64 607 00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:13.690 from then on until like smash brothers came out and 608 00:35:13.710 --> 00:35:16.320 played that. But like the, At that point, the N64 609 00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:20.780 became my brother's system and I was playing PS1 almost exclusively. 610 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.280 And I never did go back. I didn't play the 611 00:35:24.780 --> 00:35:26.139 one that came out. It was at 3DS where they 612 00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:29.460 did a version of this. So I only saw the 613 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.619 ending of the original game visiting a different friend whose 614 00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:34.739 older brother was five years older and he was just 615 00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:37.130 beating it. And I watched him beat Ganon at the 616 00:35:37.210 --> 00:35:38.929 end and I was like, oh, this is cool. So 617 00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:41.010 I have memories of the end of the game, but 618 00:35:41.110 --> 00:35:43.309 not because I beat it. Like there's a whole gap 619 00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:46.289 in the game that I didn't play. Uh, so it 620 00:35:46.329 --> 00:35:48.050 was interesting going into this and I'm like, let's see 621 00:35:48.090 --> 00:35:50.699 how this plays. So I can say it's one of 622 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:53.820 the best looking games of this generation, not just on 623 00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:57.039 the Switch 2. This is something that has to be 624 00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.460 distinct is that Nintendo has games they put out that 625 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:03.469 are obviously, you know, quote unquote AAA games, but they 626 00:36:03.670 --> 00:36:08.590 aren't necessarily AAA in the presentation, the graphics, everything when 627 00:36:08.670 --> 00:36:13.280 compared to other contemporaries on significantly more powerful systems. That's 628 00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.289 just how it's always been with them since like the 629 00:36:16.329 --> 00:36:18.789 GameCube had stuff that was on par with a lot 630 00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:21.530 of others, but they didn't never did like photorealistic games 631 00:36:21.550 --> 00:36:23.409 or anything,

but they never did like the highest end 632 00:36:23.449 --> 00:36:26.860 fidelity really since the N64 era. That was the last 633 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.219 time that they were competitive at that level. Just the 634 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.199 design of the hardware. It's always been about the feeling, 635 00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:34.659 the gameplay, that sort of thing. And they look great 636 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:37.380 within their own systems. This is something I can say 637 00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:39.510 that looks great no matter what system, like if it 638 00:36:39.590 --> 00:36:42.289 wasn't on a Nintendo platform, You could say this is 639 00:36:42.309 --> 00:36:45.730 some of the best visuals available in a fantasy game ever. 640 00:36:46.530 --> 00:36:48.570 It's that much of an upgrade over a lot of 641 00:36:48.610 --> 00:36:51.130 other stuff that they've put out, which is fantastic. There's 642 00:36:51.150 --> 00:36:54.889 still anti-aliasing issues because they don't use anti-aliasing. There is 643 00:36:54.969 --> 00:36:58.559 some shimmering effects on like very things that come into distance. 644 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:02.019 But when you're up close seeing things, cut scenes, there's 645 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:06.599 voice acting. It's all top notch. There's no frame rate dips. 646 00:37:06.739 --> 00:37:08.860 I didn't encounter a single frame drop. It was 60 647 00:37:08.860 --> 00:37:11.309 FPS the whole time. to the point that i didn't 648 00:37:11.550 --> 00:37:14.570 even notice that there was perfect frame rate because it 649 00:37:14.610 --> 00:37:17.110 was so perfect usually i make notes of things like 650 00:37:17.210 --> 00:37:19.409 oh performance in this spot was a little spot no 651 00:37:19.869 --> 00:37:21.909 i had no problems with this i completed the game 652 00:37:21.929 --> 00:37:25.880 um you know for i'm not gonna can't really spoil 653 00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:28.380 anything it's a straight up uh remake right so it's 654 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:31.980 basically beat for beat there is a uh some elaboration 655 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:33.980 in the dialogue to flesh it out a little more 656 00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:37.059 make it a little more naturalistic and Uh, there's, if 657 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.260 there's any quips I would have, uh, from, I have 658 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.340 some friends and family that are playing it that they 659 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:42.960 wish there was a little more guidance to some of 660 00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:45.099 the things of what to do, because if they're more 661 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.719 used to the, the more modern Zeldas, it's a little 662 00:37:47.739 --> 00:37:49.969 more handholding in that aspect. You can either go straight 663 00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:52.489 or you can wander to stuff in here. It's a 664 00:37:52.570 --> 00:37:54.789 little more vague, but I was able to muddle my 665 00:37:54.809 --> 00:37:56.090 way through most of it. I only

had to look 666 00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:58.030 up a guide on a couple little parts. I'd looked 667 00:37:58.090 --> 00:38:00.050 up how to do the, the quest chain for bigger 668 00:38:00.090 --> 00:38:02.750 and sword. Cause I never did that in the original, uh, 669 00:38:02.809 --> 00:38:03.630 my original playthrough. 670 00:38:03.650 --> 00:38:03.719 And. 671 00:38:05.889 --> 00:38:08.630 I did look up a tip or two on one 672 00:38:08.650 --> 00:38:10.409 of the bosses. I was like, what should I do here? 673 00:38:10.449 --> 00:38:12.570 Just because I don't want to get stuck. But that 674 00:38:12.969 --> 00:38:15.150 was pretty much it. You're able to figure out most 675 00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:19.909 of it. My 1990s gaming puzzle brain kicked in and 676 00:38:19.949 --> 00:38:21.889 I figured out pretty much how to do almost everything 677 00:38:22.530 --> 00:38:25.190 on one try. And I did, it was about 30 hours, 678 00:38:25.409 --> 00:38:27.829 give or take an hour or two for a full playthrough. 679 00:38:27.849 --> 00:38:29.469 The only thing I was missing at the end is 680 00:38:30.010 --> 00:38:32.349 I didn't get every heart piece. So I was a 681 00:38:32.389 --> 00:38:34.920 few hearts short of a full, you know, full two 682 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:39.320 rows of hearts. I did not get the final optional 683 00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:43.179 glass bottle because I didn't want to do the mission 684 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:44.559 for that. It just didn't feel like it because I 685 00:38:44.579 --> 00:38:47.579 was good enough as it was. I also didn't get 686 00:38:47.619 --> 00:38:50.860 the golden scale, which is from fishing. I did not 687 00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:52.699 like the fishing minigame. I didn't like it in the 688 00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:55.820 90s and I didn't like it now. That's the weakest 689 00:38:55.889 --> 00:38:57.780 thing in this game is fishing. It just has been. 690 00:38:58.889 --> 00:39:00.949 You'd have to fundamentally change what's there and they didn't 691 00:39:00.969 --> 00:39:03.119 want to keep it as close as they could. And 692 00:39:03.139 --> 00:39:05.300 that's only to let you dive a little deeper. It 693 00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:07.159 only helps you in one or two spots. It's not 694 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.300 essential to the story or tapestry or anything in here. 695 00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:14.239 And as you complete main missions and side missions, slowly 696 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.179 the tapestry fills in when you press the select or 697 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:19.179 the minus button. You can look at it and you'll 698 00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:20.929 see it fill in. And I filled in the whole thing, 699 00:39:20.969 --> 00:39:23.550 meaning that none of those little things that I didn't get, uh, 700 00:39:23.610 --> 00:39:27.690 you know, really affect anything. I didn't get all the skull, uh, tokens, 701 00:39:27.710 --> 00:39:31.090 the skull tokens. I got like 72 or 73 out 702 00:39:31.110 --> 00:39:33.530 of a hundred. And when you get a hundred, you 703 00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:36.280 free the one guy and all it does is make 704 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:37.500 it so that every time you enter the house, you 705 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.260 can get 200 rubies. It gives you unlimited money. But 706 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:41.739 at that point, there's nothing to buy at that point. 707 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.760 You're basically maxed out. So it's, it's just something to 708 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:48.019 hold over from the previous versions of the game, a 709 00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:52.070 little updates here and there. Um, some of the items 710 00:39:52.130 --> 00:39:53.849 do different things. There was an item you could get 711 00:39:53.889 --> 00:39:58.260 from the, the, the skull family where it would, uh, 712 00:39:58.940 --> 00:40:01.980 it would help you detect secret grottoes and passageways in 713 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.539 an area that has been switched to help you detect 714 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:09.320 other skull tokens that you can get. And that's very helpful. 715 00:40:09.429 --> 00:40:12.030 It also changes to a brooch and the, the lens 716 00:40:12.050 --> 00:40:14.869 of truth is no longer like a magnifying lens. It's goggles. 717 00:40:14.909 --> 00:40:17.329 You put on all of the items that you equip 718 00:40:17.789 --> 00:40:21.030 show up on links body, which is awesome. It's finely detailed, 719 00:40:21.070 --> 00:40:25.519 looks great. And having the jump button added is good. 720 00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:27.739 People that are playing it a lot, that played it 721 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.980 a lot, are having some issues with muscle memory falling 722 00:40:31.019 --> 00:40:32.719 off of ledges or not pressing at the right time. 723 00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:34.980 I don't have that issue because I have not played 724 00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:39.429 this game since 1998 or 1999. So that was no 725 00:40:39.469 --> 00:40:42.250 issue for me. Also, I will tell you this, hot tips. 726 00:40:42.750 --> 00:40:46.030 I don't like motion aiming. You might, mileage might vary. 727 00:40:46.409 --> 00:40:47.969 I believe it's off by default, but I made sure 728 00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:50.510 that it was off. If you want some hot tips 729 00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:53.909 on certain things, you can turn on the connecting thing 730 00:40:53.929 --> 00:40:56.289 that lets you connect to the Nintendo Switch app that 731 00:40:56.329 --> 00:40:59.130 will give you some tips back and forth. The other 732 00:40:59.210 --> 00:41:05.800 thing is default for jump is the X button. That 733 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.260 is a crime against humanity. That's an affront to God. 734 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.139 And I don't get why it's there in that position, 735 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:18.519 but good Lord, that is not a good position for that. 736 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:21.940 And I think the people at Nintendo Japan knew because 737

00:41:22.500 --> 00:41:24.340 in the menu, when you go to options, there's an 738 00:41:24.409 --> 00:41:26.230 option that says switch jump button and it switches it 739 00:41:26.309 --> 00:41:29.010 to B and makes X the button to put away 740 00:41:29.050 --> 00:41:31.730 your weapons and items, which is how it should be. 741 00:41:31.750 --> 00:41:36.909 That's the, that's how it's how it should be. You know, good, 742 00:41:37.469 --> 00:41:42.090 good gravy. Like that, that is not that, that default 743 00:41:42.610 --> 00:41:46.590 X there is, is, oh, thank. God, it's, it's able 744 00:41:46.610 --> 00:41:48.349 to switch that because it makes things a lot easier. 745 00:41:48.369 --> 00:41:51.739 You can jump, run, roll, do act. It works just 746 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:55.099 great in that position. And then obviously having the second 747 00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:57.099 analog stick that you can use for the camera, instead 748 00:41:57.139 --> 00:42:00.360 of not having the ability to use a camera controls 749 00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:03.219 that in that same way, the free form free flowing 750 00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:07.059 is great visually. It's a feast on the eyes. Uh, 751 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.219 the atmosphere is great. The flow is great. It was 752 00:42:10.260 --> 00:42:12.710 from an era when there wasn't really open world, open world, 753 00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:15.989 there's open zones. And it's just the right distance. You 754 00:42:16.030 --> 00:42:19.309 don't feel too much. And again, about a 30-hour campaign 755 00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:22.420 to do everything. Probably 35 hours to do absolutely everything 756 00:42:22.460 --> 00:42:25.699 in the game. And there doesn't need to be multiple difficulties. 757 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:29.800 There's just one difficulty. That's how it is. It works fantastic. 758 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.530 I could see the difficulty being challenging enough for children. 759 00:42:34.269 --> 00:42:37.389 Not too challenging that it's going to be, you know, 760 00:42:37.650 --> 00:42:39.610 throw people off. You're not going to throw controllers across 761 00:42:39.650 --> 00:42:43.289 the room anymore with this. And something that you can 762 00:42:43.309 --> 00:42:46.389 play with your kids or adults and back and forth. 763 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:49.380 It's just great overall. There's a few jump scare scary 764 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.699 moments that I jumped at and went, ah, crap. But 765 00:42:52.739 --> 00:42:55.559 I found I was smiling the whole time while playing it. 766 00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.599 The only thing that I could see, other than little 767 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.559 flares and little slight alterations to modernize certain things in it, 768 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:08.710 like I said with the goggles and that, that they've changed, is... 769 00:43:09.219 --> 00:43:12.840 They have added the ability to sleep in each of 770 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.079 the towns. There'll be a bed you can sleep in 771 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:17.420 to get a free heal. You don't have to pay 772 00:43:17.460 --> 00:43:19.389 to get hearts or anything. You can sleep in the 773 00:43:19.429 --> 00:43:21.309 town and it heals you up. And then at a 774 00:43:21.329 --> 00:43:24.050 certain point in the game, you're able to sleep and 775 00:43:24.110 --> 00:43:27.150 enter a dream realm. And in the dream realm, you 776 00:43:27.190 --> 00:43:31.610 can talk to the Great Owl and that will let 777 00:43:31.650 --> 00:43:34.679 you see all of the enemies that you've beaten. Every 778 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.559 enemy that you've encountered and beaten will show up. They're 779 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:39.809 almost like a little amiibo. It looks like a little statuesque, 780 00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:41.519 and it will give you stats on them. And it 781 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:43.500 even gives you tips on how to beat them, what 782 00:43:43.539 --> 00:43:46.440 weapons you can use. And then it shows, it has 783 00:43:46.500 --> 00:43:49.920 them from common to uncommon in rows, going back to 784 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.610 all the bosses. And you can enter like a roguelite 785 00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:55.289 mode where you can face off on a few rounds 786 00:43:55.369 --> 00:44:00.989 against certain enemies. And the idea is you beat, you 787 00:44:01.090 --> 00:44:04.010 start with like three hearts and like no items beat 788 00:44:04.050 --> 00:44:07.190 around and then you get uh you get to choose 789 00:44:07.230 --> 00:44:09.570 like i could spend some points to get or rupees 790 00:44:09.590 --> 00:44:13.909 to get more hearts like more cart containers or get 791 00:44:14.030 --> 00:44:16.550 items that i can use in battle to heal and 792 00:44:16.929 --> 00:44:18.909 the idea is it gets progressively harder as you sort 793 00:44:18.929 --> 00:44:21.050 of level up and then you beat that mode and 794 00:44:21.070 --> 00:44:23.489 you you get a reward for it and it once 795 00:44:23.510 --> 00:44:27.170 you beat the game uh it will take your most 796 00:44:27.269 --> 00:44:30.650 recent auto save that what happens so don't do anything 797 00:44:30.690 --> 00:44:32.699 right away but It'll take that autosave and it adds 798 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:34.679 like a little Triforce symbol in the corner of it, 799 00:44:34.699 --> 00:44:37.219 which is like the save complete. It throws you back 800 00:44:37.260 --> 00:44:39.400 in an auto thing right before the final boss of 801 00:44:39.420 --> 00:44:42.500 the game. And then I made a manual save right then. 802 00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:44.199 You only get one manual save, but you have a 803 00:44:44.300 --> 00:44:48.260 series of rotating autosaves. I made the manual save and 804 00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:50.550 it added that Triforce thing there. And then I went 805 00:44:50.610 --> 00:44:53.409 to a town, went to sleep. And even like the 806 00:44:53.469 --> 00:44:56.250 boss of the game

shows up in that where you 807 00:44:56.269 --> 00:44:58.570 can get hot tips on how to beat them. But 808 00:44:58.630 --> 00:45:02.010 also it then puts like a gold statue there. that 809 00:45:02.170 --> 00:45:05.289 is a boss rush mode to play 10 of the 810 00:45:05.349 --> 00:45:08.539 hardest bosses in the game in a row in that mode. Uh, 811 00:45:08.630 --> 00:45:10.989 I haven't done that yet. I will maybe do it. 812 00:45:10.989 --> 00:45:13.190 I'll see. I don't know what the reward is, if any, 813 00:45:13.230 --> 00:45:15.829 for doing it, but it'll be interesting to see. Uh, 814 00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:17.909 very fun. I saw some people saying there's no master 815 00:45:17.949 --> 00:45:20.090 quest stuff. I don't even know. Here's the thing. I 816 00:45:20.150 --> 00:45:23.170 am RPG nerd. Ask me about final fantasy. Ask me 817 00:45:23.210 --> 00:45:25.219 about dragon quest and stuff. I generally will know what's 818 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:27.739 going on. I know what I've heard of master quest. 819 00:45:27.820 --> 00:45:29.639 I don't even know what that is. I know it 820 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:33.630 was like something included in like, The GameCube version of something? 821 00:45:33.909 --> 00:45:36.409 I don't know. But if that gets added later or something, 822 00:45:36.449 --> 00:45:38.750 I don't know. Whatever it is, that's not there. But 823 00:45:38.789 --> 00:45:42.409 this seems like a complete, proper recreation of the original game. 824 00:45:42.829 --> 00:45:49.320 High-fidelity graphics, high-fidelity audio, very good controls, very tight, very 825 00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:51.300 easy to pick up and play. You might need a 826 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.420 guide for some things if you're not used to the 827 00:45:53.460 --> 00:45:55.460 way that games like this in the 90s were sort 828 00:45:55.500 --> 00:45:58.789 of done, for the way that they're storytelling. There's some 829 00:45:59.070 --> 00:46:00.989 aspects that could have been tightened up a slight bit 830 00:46:01.010 --> 00:46:04.550 for hints in there, back and forth. But it's very, 831 00:46:04.650 --> 00:46:07.289 very solid. And then they added the boss rush and 832 00:46:07.309 --> 00:46:09.690 the enemy viewing mode, that sort of thing. That's a 833 00:46:09.730 --> 00:46:11.670 little Easter egg, a little extra thing there that's fun. 834 00:46:11.989 --> 00:46:15.949 There's also things you can do, like if you use 835 00:46:15.969 --> 00:46:21.179 a slingshot when you're visiting Princess Zelda's children through the 836 00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.119 one window to the side, a guy will throw a 837 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:24.780 bomb at you if you get away from the window. 838 00:46:25.260 --> 00:46:28.900 But if you do it, near standing next to princess Zelda, 839 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.360 he will stop. He's like, I don't want to hurt 840 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.010 the princess. So there's a few little things like that. 841 00:46:33.050 --> 00:46:35.210 You can see in there. And I did one thing 842 00:46:35.309 --> 00:46:39.090 out of order. I, well, there's a sort of hinted 843 00:46:39.130 --> 00:46:42.050 intended order to do the shrines, but I did them 844 00:46:42.150 --> 00:46:44.070 out of slightly out of order. And I got, I 845 00:46:44.090 --> 00:46:47.599 got these, uh, the lens of truth ahead of time. 846 00:46:48.179 --> 00:46:50.500 And when doing so, when she talked to me, she goes, 847 00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:52.679 Oh wait, you've already got the item. 848 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:53.079 Wow. 849 00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:55.320 I'm impressed. Like you can get little things like that 850 00:46:55.340 --> 00:46:58.360 where they, They have accounted for you playing at things 851 00:46:58.380 --> 00:47:00.139 out of order, and it changes some of the dialogue 852 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.780 as to how things happen. And certain enemies and certain 853 00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:06.769 people react differently to you. Depending on the color of 854 00:47:06.929 --> 00:47:08.929 armor and things that you're wearing, they might look different 855 00:47:08.969 --> 00:47:11.130 as well. It's pretty cool. Stuff like that. So, yeah, 856 00:47:11.550 --> 00:47:13.250 very solid. It's a great game. 857 00:47:13.449 --> 00:47:13.889 Solid. 858 00:47:14.050 --> 00:47:16.929 One of the best games I've played in quite some time, 859 00:47:17.010 --> 00:47:19.650 even though it's a remake of it. It's not a 860 00:47:19.710 --> 00:47:22.849 film reimagining. It's a proper remake of one of the 861 00:47:22.909 --> 00:47:25.429 best games of all time. I'm actually happy that I've 862 00:47:25.489 --> 00:47:27.869 beaten it now completely for the first time. It was 863 00:47:27.909 --> 00:47:30.230 a source of secret shame that I only ever did 864 00:47:30.250 --> 00:47:32.789 about half of that game originally on the N64. But 865 00:47:32.849 --> 00:47:34.590 now I might have to go back and play the others. 866 00:47:34.630 --> 00:47:35.869 And it's like, I know I'm going to start them 867 00:47:35.889 --> 00:47:37.869 and they're going to remake them or do something new 868 00:47:37.909 --> 00:47:40.730 with them. So we'll see. But as of right now, 869 00:47:40.789 --> 00:47:43.429 this will make a great Christmas gift for pretty much anybody. 870 00:47:43.929 --> 00:47:46.510 Well worth it. I know my brother went and got 871 00:47:46.570 --> 00:47:50.179 the physical edition at our local EB Games and he 872 00:47:50.219 --> 00:47:52.360 got the slip cover that has the N64 cover on it. 873 00:47:52.630 --> 00:47:54.690 which is pretty sweet, and he's going to keep that 874 00:47:54.789 --> 00:47:57.929 on his gaming shelf as a display piece. I'm very 875 00:47:57.969 --> 00:47:59.730 happy with this. I'll put a link in the description. 876 00:47:59.829 --> 00:48:01.639 I think you should check it out pretty much right away. 877 00:48:02.070 --> 00:48:06.260 Those magnificent bastards! Color me

kooky, but something very odd 878 00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:07.360 is going on around here. 879 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:08.920 You're not allowed to talk anymore. 880 00:48:09.179 --> 00:48:12.159 And that's going to do it for the show this week. 881 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.969 What do we have coming up? Well, we're back to 882 00:48:18.139 --> 00:48:21.530 our normal cadence when it comes to Shows Birdman is 883 00:48:21.610 --> 00:48:28.309 recording multiple episodes, actually, of the spell book. That's going 884 00:48:28.329 --> 00:48:29.809 to be one for this week. He's going to do 885 00:48:29.849 --> 00:48:32.989 some that are going to be like some evergreen stuff, 886 00:48:33.010 --> 00:48:34.659 I guess, during our holiday break that he's going to 887 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.199 have come out. But he's got stuff ready to go. 888 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.500 Earth vs. Soup this week is episode 333, Night Tide 889 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:50.460 from 1961. We also have this week as well. I 890 00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:53.260 think it's this week. Yes, this week as well. We 891 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.440 have a Random Access Memories or Twig Ram episode on 892 00:48:57.579 --> 00:49:02.460 underrated performances from great actors. So that's ready to go. 893 00:49:03.420 --> 00:49:08.530 We will be returning with more interesting stuff later. If 894 00:49:08.590 --> 00:49:11.090 you've been going to our website or seeing that our 895 00:49:11.090 --> 00:49:13.119 podcast art and stuff has changed, we were going to 896 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:17.369 do some like major announcements and stuff to coincide. It's 897 00:49:17.389 --> 00:49:20.369 been like six years since we had any branding changes 898 00:49:21.030 --> 00:49:23.469 to our logos and our pod art. We've mentioned it 899 00:49:23.489 --> 00:49:25.289 a little bit here and there, and we wanted to 900 00:49:25.309 --> 00:49:27.070 have a new website ready to go. And in the 901 00:49:27.110 --> 00:49:29.550 middle of like getting things ready, I got a call 902 00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:32.960 from Birdman saying, I think something's wrong with our website. 903 00:49:33.460 --> 00:49:36.159 And it was about a week or so, maybe two 904 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:40.579 weeks after there was the major security hack that, or 905 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:43.159 that was revealed for PHP and all the websites went 906 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:47.760 down for the government and yada, yada, yada. We weren't 907 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:49.940 going to be affected by it simply because we didn't 908 00:49:49.980 --> 00:49:53.309 have anything on our website to log into outside of 909 00:49:53.329 --> 00:49:56.090 like the backend. So it wasn't really vulnerable to the 910 00:49:56.110 --> 00:49:58.489 same kinds of attacks, but the hosts can be, they 911 00:49:58.530 --> 00:50:02.550 fixed their end or whatever, yada, yada. I thought everything 912 00:50:02.570 --> 00:50:06.639 was good, but Our website was

using, not the plugins 913 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:10.510 weren't bad, but like the base of the installation of 914 00:50:10.530 --> 00:50:13.309 everything we had running was at this point six years old. 915 00:50:13.849 --> 00:50:15.909 We had been getting security updates for it and everything, 916 00:50:15.989 --> 00:50:24.949 but things just stopped communicating properly and basically borked the installation. 917 00:50:25.190 --> 00:50:26.769 And I was like, I don't want to figure out 918 00:50:26.789 --> 00:50:29.070 what's wrong with this. I'm not like a full-blown webmaster. 919 00:50:29.090 --> 00:50:31.889 I'm not going to dig into it. And I was like, well, 920 00:50:31.929 --> 00:50:34.789 this forces the new website to just come live like 921 00:50:35.010 --> 00:50:37.409 right away. So we have a quick and dirty website up. 922 00:50:37.869 --> 00:50:42.869 It has what I would say is a plainer, more 923 00:50:43.530 --> 00:50:48.159 functional over fancy looking interface for the posts of all 924 00:50:48.179 --> 00:50:52.079 of our episodes. But I did find some modern plugins 925 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:54.880 that are secure that allow us to automate some of 926 00:50:54.900 --> 00:50:56.739 the backend stuff. Whereas it was a pain in the 927 00:50:56.760 --> 00:50:58.440 butt because we would have to post things on multiple 928 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.309 sites and nothing was automated. So, every episode we put 929 00:51:02.429 --> 00:51:04.170 out was about an hour to an hour and a 930 00:51:04.190 --> 00:51:06.230 half of work for me to get it ready to 931 00:51:06.269 --> 00:51:09.010 go on all of our platforms and stuff. Uh, cause 932 00:51:09.050 --> 00:51:11.909 nothing was connected because for the last six years, that 933 00:51:11.949 --> 00:51:14.730 was not really a way to do it. Uh, well 934 00:51:14.769 --> 00:51:18.050 now there is. So I basically have things ready to 935 00:51:18.070 --> 00:51:20.969 go on our pod host, schedule it for whenever. And 936 00:51:21.010 --> 00:51:24.250 when it goes live, our website updates automatically to have 937 00:51:24.309 --> 00:51:28.800 the same information, exactly the same, uh, which is, helping 938 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.840 a lot because there were issues with timing and blah, blah, blah. 939 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:35.809 So good. Also was that this was the right time 940 00:51:35.869 --> 00:51:38.190 to launch the new pod art for the new update 941 00:51:38.230 --> 00:51:41.409 that we, we did, which is cool. So all that's going, 942 00:51:41.469 --> 00:51:43.590 it's just, it's sort of just launched. We didn't do 943 00:51:43.630 --> 00:51:46.110 like any big fanfare for it this time. We might 944 00:51:46.150 --> 00:51:49.050 do something as we enter, you know, this is going 945 00:51:49.070 --> 00:51:51.989 to be your, what is this? It's going to be 946 00:51:52.030 --> 00:51:55.630 year 20 soon for the podcast next year. So we'll 947 00:51:55.650 --> 00:51:59.159 maybe do something special. We'll see how that goes. But yeah, 948 00:51:59.179 --> 00:52:01.570 that was a headache and more when I was trying 949 00:52:01.590 --> 00:52:03.510 to figure out what was wrong with the website and everything. 950 00:52:03.550 --> 00:52:07.670 But knock on wood, knocking on my skull, I think 951 00:52:07.750 --> 00:52:10.829 that it's working for now. Everything's working. We'll make a 952 00:52:10.849 --> 00:52:13.969 fancier site. Right now, we don't have the About Us 953 00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:18.289 contact us on the website yet because we will put 954 00:52:18.389 --> 00:52:21.070 in biographies, little bios and blurbs for all of our 955 00:52:21.110 --> 00:52:23.960 regular hosts because that, again, had not been updated in 956 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.900 six years. It's time to have something more uniform, ready 957 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:27.739 to go. we can pull up all of our socials 958 00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:30.320 and everything in there. So that is something I'll just 959 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.440 add as we go, but that's why it's, it's not 960 00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:35.760 there at the moment, but every one of our posts 961 00:52:35.820 --> 00:52:37.659 has how to contact the email. It's just not the 962 00:52:37.699 --> 00:52:41.349 direct for each person. We'll, we'll get that going, but yes, 963 00:52:42.289 --> 00:52:44.750 that's pretty much it. That's what's been going on right now. 964 00:52:45.289 --> 00:52:47.690 We've got some big games coming. I'm not sure if 965 00:52:47.730 --> 00:52:51.250 we're going to be reviewing GTA six, just timing wise. 966 00:52:51.309 --> 00:52:53.889 And if we get a review copy or not, but 967 00:52:54.050 --> 00:52:56.400 if we do, we will, if we don't, we, We won't. 968 00:52:57.420 --> 00:52:59.019 The game title is so big that we might not 969 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:00.780 need to. It just might be something we talk about 970 00:53:00.820 --> 00:53:03.170 on the news instead. We'll see. I'll get a chance 971 00:53:03.230 --> 00:53:05.090 probably to play it, at least either through friends or that. 972 00:53:05.150 --> 00:53:07.309 But we've got a lot of stuff on the go 973 00:53:07.489 --> 00:53:09.969 for us to review and look at anyway for smaller titles. 974 00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:12.829 So we may or may not get to that. I've 975 00:53:13.070 --> 00:53:15.320 got a bunch of stuff coming in the mail for 976 00:53:15.340 --> 00:53:19.519 a holiday gift guide consideration, as well as some cool 977 00:53:19.539 --> 00:53:21.809 movies and stuff to look at that. I wanted to 978 00:53:21.849 --> 00:53:23.630 get reviews in for this week, but I've been so 979 00:53:23.670 --> 00:53:25.869 busy since Halloween that I wasn't able to. So hopefully 980 00:53:25.889 --> 00:53:28.909 next week there'll be some movies to discuss and talk about, uh, 981 00:53:28.969 --> 00:53:31.010 where if Birdman is feeling up to it, we'll be 982 00:53:31.050 --> 00:53:34.219 together to record that. And, uh, we will go from there, 983 00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:40.079 but yeah, that plus holiday gift guides, uh, Black Friday deals, uh, 984 00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:43.900 some prototype stuff on predictions for the game awards, all 985 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.019 that kind of stuff. We've got some really neat stuff. Plus, uh, 986 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.150 there should be new episodes of, uh, uh, random access 987 00:53:52.170 --> 00:53:53.710 memories on top of the ones I talked about. Uh, 988 00:53:54.590 --> 00:53:57.829 there is new loose cannons. Uh, we should have a 989 00:53:57.929 --> 00:54:00.829 future imperfect or two ready to go soon. Lots of 990 00:54:00.849 --> 00:54:04.090 neat stuff. And the, uh, I gotta get a time 991 00:54:04.130 --> 00:54:07.940 to record that forgotten TV show pilot thing that I 992 00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:10.280 was going to do. We're going to do basically a 993 00:54:10.340 --> 00:54:14.119 show where we cover some really weird, obscure, totally forgotten 994 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.260 TV shows that didn't last more than a few episodes 995 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.500 or a season at most. And many cases they will 996 00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:22.780 be pretty obscure and, And I'm trying to track down 997 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:24.880 stuff and getting hosts together to watch some of these 998 00:54:24.900 --> 00:54:27.340 things with me and discuss. It'll be something fun laid 999 00:54:27.380 --> 00:54:30.050 back that we can do that compliments a lot of 1000 00:54:30.090 --> 00:54:34.010 our movie-centric coverage that we've been doing in podcasts. It's 1001 00:54:34.030 --> 00:54:36.670 been very movie-heavy the last few years. So, you know, 1002 00:54:36.710 --> 00:54:38.409 do something with TV. We'll see how that goes. But 1003 00:54:38.469 --> 00:54:41.250 that's it right now. We'll be back next week right 1004 00:54:41.289 --> 00:54:46.949 here at ThisWeekInGeek.net. 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